Asadora! Manga Author Naoki Urasawa Wins Lucca Comics Award For The Fourth Time

Naoki Urasawa’s bagged the Finest Collection award for Asadora! manga at Italy’s Lucca Comics Awards 2021 on Saturday. It turned out, Urasawa gained the identical award beforehand for Monster in 2004, Pluto in 2010, and Billy Bat in 2012.

The awards are a part of the yearly Lucca Comics & Video games conference in Lucca, Italy.

Urasawa began his manga profession in 1981 and made his skilled debut in 1983 with “Beta!”, which was printed in a particular problem of Golgo 13.

The thriller Monster (1994–2001) was his first to obtain worldwide acclaim and success, which continued with the science fiction thriller twentieth Century Boys (1999–2006). Monster additionally impressed a tv anime sequence in 2004-2005, and twentieth Century Boys impressed a live-action trilogy movie adaptation in 2008-2009.

Following the acclaimed Pluto (2003–2009), which is a re-imagining of Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka, certainly one of Urasawa’s greatest influences, he and Nagasaki created the thriller sequence Billy Bat (2008–2016).

After two quick sequence, a sequel to Grasp Keaton with Nagasaki and Mujirushi: The Signal of Desires, Urasawa started his at the moment ongoing Asadora! in 2018.

Moreover, his Yawara! A Modern Judo Woman manga impressed an anime sequence in 1989-1992, an anime movie in 1992, and an anime particular in 1996.

Shueisha to publish a brand new one-shot manga by Urasawa titled “Dr. Toguro Dokuro no Saigo” on this yr’s twenty third problem of Grand Bounce on Tuesday.

Supply: ANN