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mobile phone [Visitor] in response to: "Quick Japan" Naoki Urasawa interview, part 2

mobile phone [Visitor] — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:31:37 +0000

Now this is cool. Personally, I had always thought of the man as an artistic genius, so it's interesting to see his process, and how he sort of "fell" into the position of comic artist.

In my opinion, Talent will show itself in one way or another, whether it'd be through happy accident or through hard work.

dkliu1 [Visitor] in response to: "Quick Japan" Naoki Urasawa interview, part 2

dkliu1 [Visitor] — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:28:53 +0000

I have been an Urasawa fan since Dec '08 when I read 20th Century Boy. Currently reading Monster.

Thank you so much for translating this interview!
Eagerly awaiting the next entry...

gottsuiiyan [Member] in response to: "Quick Japan" Naoki Urasawa interview, part 2

gottsuiiyan [Member] — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:42:52 +0000

Thanks for the comments, you guys.
And you're welcome.

It's nice to know that people are reading this.
Before I could read Japanese I was always looking for info in English on the Japanese stuff I liked, so I'm glad to be in a position to help deliver some.

This might be the information age, but the world isn't globalized and instantly multilingual yet.
(good thing, too, because if that happend there would be little need for translators! haha)

By the way, this interview will be posted in 6 parts, and parts 3 to 6 are all double the size of part 2.

I'll get part 3 up as soon as I can.

Santi [Visitor] in response to: "Quick Japan" Naoki Urasawa interview, part 2

Santi [Visitor] — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:00:08 +0000

Thanks a bunch gottsu!! haha

I knew a thing or two about Urasawa background but this helps me understand his work a lot better

I'm also intrested on dabura's background you should make a manga man i would definetely checked it out haha

looking foward to part 3

dabura [Visitor] in response to: "Quick Japan" Naoki Urasawa interview, part 2

dabura [Visitor] — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:36:56 +0000

Thanks gottsu!!

Wow this is amazing, Urasawa's background has some simmilarities with mine.

As a kid I was good at drawing, everybody used to say it. Around age 13 I got into DBZ, that was probable the first anime I ever saw (apart from transformers). At that time I started to discover more anime, like Naruto, Hellsing, One Piece, Kenshin and many more. When Naruto got into fillers I read the manga. That lead to more manga.

At the time when dbz first aired I was interested in the drawings, so I copied them. But for about 2 years now I've been seriously studying anatomy. I chose economics over art school, cause I thought the art education was too wide over here in the Netherlands (painting, sculpture, art history, etc). Since I only was interested in the human figure and manga, it seemed pointless. So, I am now in my final year of my economics study.