Urasawa Naoki no Manben (Naoki Urasawa's Manga Exertions) is a TV Documentary airing on NHK Educational TV. It follows acclaimed mangaka Naoki Urasawa (creator of 20th Century Boys and Monster) as he sets out to break new ground for manga even further than he already has. In an attempt to educate viewers about manga and preserve the intricate craftsmanship and process of Japanese artists on video for future generations, he invites a manga artist to have their workplace filmed for a couple of days, so as to display them in the process of crafting chapters for their current serializations. After the footage has been shot, Urasawa meets with the artist and they discuss the footage, talking about the artist's workplace and workflow, the difficulties involved in the mangaka lifestyle, their reasons for drawing manga in the first place, and their perspective on the current industry and their own work.
Japanese study overview
Urasawa Naoki no Manben is a Japanese drama of 2,841 characters, with 467 unique words and 361 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 467 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
This title is too short to reliably find similar media.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 描くto draw×32
- 感情emotion×11
- 人物person×9
- 清盛Kiyomori×9
- 作品work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition)×8
- 表情facial expression×8
- 目eye×8
- 年year×7
- 下描きrough sketch used as a guideline for a picture×7
- 葛藤conflict×6
- 生み出すto create×6
- 物語story×5
- 大作large-scale work×5
- 義経Yoshitsune×5
- ペン入れinking a pencil sketch×4
- 漫画cartoon×5
- 世界the world×5
- 執筆writing×5
- 漫画家cartoonist×4
- 登場人物character (in a play, novel, film, etc.)×4