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Naoki Urasawa's Asadora!, Yawara!, Jigoro!, 20th Century Boys, Sneeze, Mujirushi Manga Get Digital Releases
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Naoki Urasawa announced on Tuesday that his Asadora!, Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl, Jigoro!, 20th Century Boys, 21st Century Boys, Sneeze: Naoki Urasawa Story Collection, and Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams manga are getting digital releases. A website opened for his digital manga, which are currently only available on Japanese electronic bookstores.
Urasawa's Monster manga and Egaite Egaite Egakimakuru guidebook will get digital releases at the end of February. More works will become available digitally following those releases.
Urasawa has been drawing manga since 1981. Viz Media has published Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, 21st Century Boys, Monster, and Pluto manga. Monster inspired a television anime series in 2004-2005, and 20th Century Boys inspired a live-action trilogy film adaptation in 2008-2009. Additionally, his Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl manga inspired an anime series in 1989-1992, an anime film in 1992, and an anime special in 1996. An anime project based on Pluto is in the works.
Viz Media also published all of Urasawa, Hokusei Katushika, and Takashi Nagasaki's Master Keaton manga. The series inspired a television anime adaptation in 1998, and an original video anime (OVA) continuation in 2004.
Urasawa's Mujirushi - Le signe des rêves (The Sign of Dreams) manga ended in February 2018. He launched the Asadora! manga in October 2018. Viz Media is releasing the manga in English.
Shueisha published a new one-shot manga by Urasawa titled "Dr. Toguro Dokuro no Saigo" in this year's 23rd issue of Grand Jump on November 2.
