Naoki

I also sometimes had trouble believing in Naoki as so handsome, since his face can change between panels and his chin is incredibly sharp.

Itazura Na Kiss Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading 2009

I have more faith in Naoki Urasawa, though, for two reasons: The work of a single creator is a different kettle of fish from a collaborative, assembly-line American superhero comic.

20th Century Boys Book 5 » Manga Worth Reading 2009

Manga | This chart comparing the characters in Naoki Urasawa's Pluto to their counterparts in Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy story "The Greatest Robot on Earth" is pretty great. [via Faith Erin Hicks and Johanna Draper Carlson]

Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

I had this whole section mapped out about how, even though Swallowing has a lot of problems, you can see a lot of its ideas put to better use in Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, but then I realized that if one started writing about the ways Urasawa repurposes Tezuka (really, really well, I hasten to note), it would be a five-parter.

Glug 2009

Whatever it is, Kotoko’s every attempt to impress the aloof Naoki seems to create chaos in Naoki’s life, and the cracks in his cool, robot-like facade begin to show.

Results, rewards, Re: 2009

Manga | I really like this post by David Brothers about the character Atom in Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka. [4thletter!]

Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

I had this whole section mapped out about how, even though Swallowing has a lot of problems, you can see a lot of its ideas put to better use in Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, but then I realized that if one started writing about the ways Urasawa repurposes Tezuka (really, really well, I hasten to note), it would be a five-parter.

November « 2009 « Precocious Curmudgeon 2009

I had this whole section mapped out about how, even though Swallowing has a lot of problems, you can see a lot of its ideas put to better use in Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, but then I realized that if one started writing about the ways Urasawa repurposes Tezuka (really, really well, I hasten to note), it would be a five-parter.

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She tried to call Naoki, only to discover that she lost her cellphone.

Anime Nano! 2008

Despite earlier assertions from Tepco that the steel containment vessels surrounding the reactors were undamaged in either of the two earlier explosions, Naoki Kumagai, an official at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency Nisa, said: "It's impossible to say whether there has or has not been damage."

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