When Urasawa visited Shogakukan to apply for a business job, he decided to bring some manga he had drawn out of curiosity. An editor from "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" did not give him the time of day, but the head editor of "Big Comic Original" happened to walk by and felt the work was better suited for "Big Comic Spirits", and took Urasawa to their editorial department. He ended up submitting manga for their 1982 New Manga Artist Award, which his unpublished work "Return" won. It was only then that he thought about becoming a professional manga artist.