Naoki Urasawa (Japanese: ?? ??, Hepburn: Urasawa Naoki, born January 2, 1960, in Fuchu, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist and musician.
He has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga, and has received the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once.
Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, praised Urasawa's Monster and proclaimed "Urasawa is a national treasure in Japan."