Creator Spotlight: Naoki Urasawa

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MASTER KEATON GN VOL 01
Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS, Master Keaton uses his knowledge and combat training to uncover buried secrets, thwart would-be villains, and pursue the truth...
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 02
(W/A/CA) Takashi Nagasaki Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS, Master Keaton uses his knowledge and combat training to uncover buried secrets, thwart would-be villains, and pursue the truth?
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 03
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa By Naoki Urasawa Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS, Master Keaton uses his knowledge and combat training to uncover buried secrets, thwart would-be villains, and pursue the truth?
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 04
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS, Master Keaton uses his knowledge and combat training to uncover buried secrets, thwart would-be villains, and pursue the truth?
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 05
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Called 'half English' in Japan and 'half Japanese' in England, Mr. Keaton is a failed college lecturer but a successful insurance investigator? He doesn't seem to belong in any society, but with a sense of hope, he soldiers on as a maverick operative, traveling across the world and embarking on suspenseful adventures!
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 06
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Taichi Hiraga Keaton dreams of someday being the archaeologist who excavates the Danube Valley Civilization. Reality doesn't seem to be working in his favor, however, as being an insurance investigator keeps him busy and always in peril! With no rest in sight, what's in store for Master Keaton next? For older teen audiences.
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 07
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa When the wall that separated the East and West falls, the 20th century comes to an end and brings radical change to the world. During this turbulent time, Taichi Hiraga Keaton has difficulty finding a job in archaeology even though his long line of cases as an insurance investigator doesn't seem to end. As he navigates through dangerous adventures, Keaton encounters some bittersweet lives... For older teen audiences.
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MASTER KEATON GN VOL 08
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa A parent-child bond that deteriorates... A best friend's oath, betrayal and revenge... A man's recovery from self-destruction after being defeated by life... Taichi Hiraga Keaton continues to come across a myriad of different people in his unique job as an insurance investigator... For older teen audiences.
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 09
(W) Naoki Urasawa & Various (A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Constantly flying around England, Japan and Europe, Taichi Hiraga Keaton is one busy insurance investigator! With a gentle heart and an abundance of combat and survival skills gained from his days with the SAS, Keaton solves numerous difficult cases even while his love of archaeology calls to him... For older teen audiences.
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MASTER KEATON GN VOL 10
(W) Takashi Nagasaki (A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Taichi Hiraga Keaton is a busy insurance investigator who yearns to make a living as an archaeologist. Just how long does he have to continue working as an investigator? Keaton is uncertain of his future, but he does know that a string of difficult cases awaits him! For older teen audiences.
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 11
(W) Hokusei Katsushika, Takashi Nagasaki (A/CA) Naoki Urasawa After the Cold War draws a curtain over Europe and the economic bubble bursts in Japan during the late twentieth century, ace insurance investigator Taichi Hiraga Keaton brings his skills into full play? No matter how difficult the case, Keaton will not miss a clue! For older teen audiences.
MASTER KEATON GN VOL 12
(W) Hokusei Katsushika, Takashi Nagasaki (A) Naoki Urasawa 'If you have the willingness to learn, you can learn anywhere.' With this message from his old teacher in his heart, Taichi Hiraga Keaton finally lands in Romania, where ruins of the Danube civilization lie. Yet what awaits Keaton is a horrifying event that shocks the entire nation! For older teen audiences.
MONSTER TP VOL 01 PERFECT ED URASAWA
Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there's no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples' lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension. Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer's identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer's twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the 'Monster.'
MONSTER TP VOL 02 PERFECT ED URASAWA
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Dr.Tenma has fallen into a trap set by Johan and is now wanted by the police as a serial killer. While narrowly evading the police dragnet, Tenma pursues Johan in an attempt to prove his own innocence and prevent another murder, edging closer to the Monster by tracing his secret past. As the only person who knows what Johan is, Tenma searches for Nina, who has been captured by neo-Nazis. His investigation leads him to uncover a horrific fact: the ultra-rightists are conspiring to set Johan up as a second Adolf Hitler!
MONSTER TP VOL 03 PERFECT ED URASAWA
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Could Johan have a dual personality, like Jekyll and Hyde? Tenma calls on Dr. Gillen, an authority on criminal psychology, to psychoanalyze Johan. But Dr. Gillen secretly concludes that it is not Johan but Tenma who has committed all the serial murders. Dr. Gillen then tries to lure Tenma into various traps, intending to use him in his own experiments. Karl, a student at Munich University, visits a blind billionaire every week to read books to him as a way to pay for school. One day he encounters another young man named Johan who once did the same job for the billionaire. From that point on, strange events continue to befall Karl. Who is this young man named Johan? Is he the Johan that we know?
MONSTER TP VOL 05 PERFECT ED URASAWA
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa By Naoki Urasawa Synopsis 'Once upon a time, there lived a monster without a name. He wanted a name very badly. So one day he made up his mind to set out on a journey to find a name.' How could this strange Czech children's story have upset Johan so much? Does the book hold any clues to the mystery of Johan's birth? One mystery leads to another as events unfold. The border police spot Tenma when he tries to smuggle himself into the Czech Republic to look for Johan's mother. With the help of Grimmer, a freelance journalist, Tenma manages a narrow escape. Though the two men part without discussing what brought them together, Grimmer is also deeply interested in the same thing Tenma is looking for—511 Kinderheim, which once existed in East Germany. The story moves to the streets of Prague?
MONSTER TP VOL 06 PERFECT ED URASAWA
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Tenma learns that ten years ago, a woman lived in an old apartment house in downtown Prague with twin children, above a sign with three frogs. The neighbors also tell him about the Czech secret police and a questionable fire. Could the twins have been Johan and Anna? Meanwhile, Suk, a young detective in the Prague Police Department, meets a beautiful young woman named Anna in a bar. Suk also crosses paths with Tenma as a new terror looms over them. BKA chief inspector Lunge, now convinced of Johan's involvement in the serial murders, comes to Prague to find out what Johan really is. He learns that an agent of the Czech secret police created the strange picture book The Nameless Monster, which seems to have deeply affected Johan in his childhood. Lunge manages to locate the 'Red Rose Mansion' that inspired the author of the book. There, behind a thickly plastered wall, he discovers an old door and the true horrors that lay behind it! For older teen audiences.
MONSTER TP VOL 07 PERFECT ED URASAWA
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Although Eva bears an unfathomable hatred for Tenma, she is the only person who can testify as a witness to prove his innocence. She stubbornly refuses to do so until a discussion with Dr. Reichwein brings back old memories of her time with Tenma. With those thoughts come memories of three gunshots, and that it was Johan who Eva saw that night! Meanwhile the evil hand of Robert inches steadily closer to Eva with the intent to kill?
MONSTER TP VOL 08 PERFECT ED URASAWA
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately woven plot in this masterwork of suspense. For older teen audiences.
MONSTER TP VOL 09 PERFECT ED URASAWA
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa By Naoki Urasawa Synopsis 'Once upon a time, a monster in disguise lived in a peaceful little town in a peaceful little valley. The monster cut all ties to evil and began helping the people of the town. But one day, some devilish messengers came to visit. The town was suddenly enveloped in a miasma of fear, and the people began to kill each other. The messengers had come to the town with one goal in mind: to capture the monster named Franz Bonaparta! How can a real person become nothing more than fiction? By eliminating everyone who has ever known them, everyone who has ever known of their past-by becoming the only one in the world who knows of their existence. One man attempted to do this, trying to commit the perfect suicide. But he failed to wipe out all traces of his former life, and in this failure, he became the nameless Monster.' For older teen audiences.
MUJIRUSHI SIGN OF DREAMS GN URASAWA (C: 1-1-2)
(W/A/CA) Naoki Urasawa Kamoda will do anything to earn a quick buck, even if it means skipping out on his taxes to take his wife on a luxury cruise. But when a random tax audit bankrupts his family, Kamoda soon discovers his wife has taken that cruise after all-only without Kamoda or their daughter Kasumi. Desperate to provide, Kamoda invests in a scheme to mass-produce masks of controversial American presidential candidate Beverly Duncan. But a lackluster election kills their sales potential, burying Kamoda under a mountain of masks and debt. On the verge of despair, Kamoda discovers a sign that leads him to the Director, an art fanatic who vows he can make all of Kamoda and Kasumi's dreams come true. For older teen audiences.
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PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 01
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders--the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.
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PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 02
Atom, a boy robot whose sophisticated AI programming seamlessly blurs the distinction between man and machine, starts his own investigation into the serial murders of the great robots of the world. Every piece of the puzzle revealed indicates that the case is far more complex than anyone could have ever imagined.
PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 03
In this daring reinvention of 'The Greatest Robot on Earth' story arc from Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy series, the world is a place where humans and robots coexist. The lives of the seven great robots of the world--Atom, Mont Blanc, North No. 2, Brando, Hercules, Epsilon and Gesischt--are turned upside down into a virtual garden of terror filled with carnage and destruction. A killer is after them, but what exactly is his motive? The story intensifies when Pluto, the namesake of the lord of the underworld, makes his appearance in this finely crafted work of science fiction and suspense.
PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 04
The seven great robots of the world are being destroyed one after the other, and the former members of the politically charged Bora Survey Group are also being targeted.
PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 05
Deep into his investigation of the serial murders of the great robots of the world, Gesicht discovers the hatred that exists between man and robot. A new vision based on Astro Boy - 'The Greatest Robot on Earth'
PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 06
Pluto… Sahad… Goji… Abler… Mysterious figures somehow involved with the serial murders of the great robots of the world. Europol's top robot detective Gesicht has been put on the case, and he's mere steps away from discovering the horrifying truth behind the killer and his motives… Little does he realize that he's also steps away from discovering a horrifying truth of his own… Masterfully crafted science fiction and suspense at its best!
PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 07
Pluto has destroyed six out of the seven great robots of the world, and the pacifist robot Epsilon is the only one that remains. Will Epsilon, who refused to participate in the 39th Central Asian War, leave behind his war-orphaned charges to step onto the battlefield?
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PLUTO URASAWA X TEZUKA GN VOL 08 (OF 8)
Atom is back, and the fate of the earth is in his hands! Having escaped death's grasp, Atom now has all the answers to the unsolved mysteries around Pluto, Bora and more. Call out: Final Volume!
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