Asadora! Volume 3 / Naoki Urasawa ; translation & adaptation, John Werry ; touch-up art & lettering, Steve Dutro.

Title :

Asadora! Volume 3

Author:

Urasawa, Naoki, 1960-

Format:

Books

Summary:

"With the Olympics around the corner, the Japan Defense Forces have their hands full. So Jissoji enlists Asa and Kasuga's help to find, identify and deal with the mysterious creature that decimated Asa's hometown"--

Language:

English

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Audience:

Rated T+, older teen.

ISBN - ISSN:

9781974720118

197472011X

Physical Description:

173 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

General Note:

Reads from right to left.

Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN.

Chiefly illustrations.

Subject:

Girls -- Japan -- Fiction.

Girls -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Monsters -- Fiction.

Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Girls.

Monsters.

Japan -- Fiction.

Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Comics (Graphic works)

Fiction.

Historical comics.

Series:

Viz signature.

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Summary

A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won't quit.

In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom--and not a soul notices. When a typhoon hits Nagoya, Asa and her kidnapper must work together to survive. But there's more to her kidnapper and this storm than meets the eye.

With the Olympics around the corner, the Japan Defense Forces have their hands full. So Jissoji enlists Asa and Kasuga's help to find, identify and deal with the mysterious creature that decimated Asa's hometown.

Author Notes

Naoki Urasawa's career as a manga artist spans more than thirty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA!! in 1983 and hasn't stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa's oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy ( Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl ), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary ( Pineapple ARMY ; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story ( Monster ), a sci-fi adventure manga ( 20th Century Boys ), an art heist thriller ( Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams ), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka ( Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka ; co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys .

No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 2011 and 2013 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material--Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. Urasawa has also become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he teaches courses in, of course, manga.

Reviews (1)

Booklist Review

The third volume of Urasawa's latest superb spectacle begins to distinguish individual story lines while overlapping various subplots. It's 1964, five years since Japan's deadliest typhoon. Asa is as righteously spunky as ever, determined to expose what happened the morning after she witnessed what couldn't possibly exist. With 3 (of 11) siblings who survived, she's living in Tokyo with café owner Kinuyo, whose acerbic facade can't hide her utter devotion to the children who, though not her own, are as close as blood. Kasuga remains both Asa's protector and enabler, and he's about to drag her into a mysterious mission to keep the country safe when the rest of the world arrives in a week (!) for the 1964 Summer Olympics. Meanwhile, Asa's childhood friend, aspiring Olympian Shota, is still running . . . to deliver newspapers. Savior-to-be Asa suddenly has a bodyguard/chauffer who ferries her to officially meet Keiichi, the former science museum scholar dismissed for continuing the blasphemous research of his dead, unorthodox biologist mentor. Of course, his controversial images are all too familiar to Asa and Kasuga. Superbly entwining later-twentieth-century Japanese history with a colossal monster hunt in the making, Urasawa (translated, as the other volumes, by Werry) provokes and enthralls.