<Naoki Urasawa> "The manga world is in a transitional period" Why Japanese manga is "the strongest" (MANTANWEB) --Yahoo! News

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Naoki Urasawa who appears in "Naoki Urasawa's Manga neo" = Provided by NHK

Naoki Urasawa, a manga artist, will broadcast a new series of the NHK E-tele program "Naoki Urasawa's Manga neo", which is closely related to the production sites of manga artists, from March 2nd to 3 weeks. It started as "Naoki Urasawa's Manga" in 2014, and has been re-broadcasted as "Naoki Urasawa's Manga neo" from 2020. Tetsuya Chiba, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and 29 other manga artists have appeared. Mr. Urasawa says that he feels that "seeing the production site may change the reader's perception of manga considerably," and he himself once again realizes the charm of manga through the program. We asked Mr. Urasawa, who continues to be active on the front lines, about the future of the manga world. [Photo Feature] Behind the scenes where the masterpiece of "Mantsutsu" is born "Yowamushi Pedal" The author's precious production scenery

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In "Manga", the camera is in close contact with the manga artists' workplaces, and based on the precious images, Mr. Urasawa talks from the same manga artist's point of view and approaches the secret of the creation. In the new series, Wataru Watanabe of "Yowamushi Pedal", Yasuko Aoike of "From Eroica with Love" and "Odo of the Cologne City Police", and Hideki Arai of "From Miyamoto to You" are closely related to the production site. Mr. Watanabe will appear in the broadcast on March 2, Mr. Aoike will appear in the broadcast on the 9th, and Mr. Arai will appear in the broadcast on the 16th. Broadcast at 10 pm each day.

Mr. Urasawa said, "Since a manga artist draws in a single world, I have no idea how other people are doing it." There are many. The most impressive thing was Kazuhiro Fujita's "How to use white (correction fluid)" known as "Ushio & Tora". Mr. Fujita draws a line by putting a pen in it with almost no draft and putting white in it over and over again.

"If you apply such white, it will crack over time, so his manuscript will not change over time. It is almost a digital method to erase it many times. Mr. Fujita, if you do it digitally I wondered how easy it was. From the point of view of people who are doing analog, white has a limit, so I think that applying white once or twice is the limit of correction. In his case, I've applied it four or five times. I'm doing things that are easy with digital, using analog, and this fun is reflected in my work. "

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