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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 meet the eye.When Asa's mother goes into labor yet again, Asa runs off to find a doctor. But no one bats an eye when she doesn't return - not even as a storm approaches Nagoya. Forgotten yet again, Asa runs into a burglar and tries to stop him on her own, a decision that leads to an unlikely alliance.
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Naoki Urasawa (?? ?? Urasawa Naoki, born January 2, 1960 in Fuch?, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist and occasional 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.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by yves Tennevin from La Garde, France (Naoki Urasawa - Japan Expo 13- 2012-0706- P1410040) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) ], via Wikimedia Commons.
