Asadora! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits since October 2018, with its chapters published in eight tankōbon volumes as of December 2023. It has been licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media.
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Asa
Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor, Takashi Nagasaki. Urasawa has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has won numerous awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho called him "the greatest storyteller of our time", while Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz proclaimed Urasawa to be a national treasure in Japan. By December 2021, his various works had over 140 million copies in circulation worldwide, making him one of the best-selling authors of all time.
Naoki Urasawa at the 2012 Japan Expo, Paris
Urasawa and Masao Maruyama at Japan Expo 2012
An illustration by Urasawa depicting many characters from his oeuvre. Critics have praised his characters for their facial expressions and for being independently recognizable.
Urasawa performing live at the 2012 Japan Expo.
