Naoki Urasawa

So, I found a comic art that does music!
Naoki Urasawa (Japanese: 浦沢 直樹 Hepburn: Urasawa Naoki, born January 2, 1960 in Fuchū, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist and musician. Urasawa is also a musician. 
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He started playing guitar in junior high school inspired by folk rock singer-songwriters Takuro Yoshida and Bob Dylan.[22] Under the stage name "Bob Lennon", he wrote and performed the song "Kenji no Uta" ("Kenji's Song)" that was on a CD included in the 2002 first pressing of volume 11 of 20th Century Boys.[23] He released his debut single "Tsuki ga Tottemo..." (月がとっても…) on June 4, 2008,[23] and his debut album Hanseiki no Otoko (半世紀の男, "Half Century Man") in 2009. In 2012 he performed a Japanese cover of Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country" and "Guta lala suda lala" from his series 20th Century Boys at the Japan Expo, and the following day he joined rock band Hemenway on stage.[12] Urasawa 's second album, Mannon (漫音) which he wrote and produced himself, was released in 2016.[22]
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Naoki Urasawa, the manga creator behind Yawara, Monster, and 20th Century Boys, has sold his first CD single as a rock musician on June 4. To promote the single "Tsuki ga Tottemo…," he will hold two live concerts on June 27 and 28 at the Tokyo Kinema Club. The CD single also contains the songs "Karasu" (Crow) and a live 1994 version of "Kanashimi no Hit Parade" (Sad Hit Parade). Although this is his first CD single, he (under the stage name "Bob Lennon") wrote, composed, sang, and played guitar and blues harp on a piece called "Kenji no Uta" ("Kenji's Song") for a CD extra on the first printing of 20th Century Boysvolume 11 in 2003. He is planning to release his first album in the fall of 2008.

The first movie in the live-action 20th Century Boys trilogy will open in Japan on August 30. Urasawa is also teaching about manga at the Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design in central Japan's Aichi Prefecture.

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