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2011 In Anime
The events of 2011 in anime. Year in review Anime News Network's summarized the biggest events in the year in the industry as Aniplex's business plan. Theron Martin proposed this change in model to be alienating fans and predicted that it could cause backlash for the company. Carl Kimlinger highlighted the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The destruction caused by the earthquake and following tsunami disrupted and damaged a large portion of Japan, making it the most costly natural disaster in history. The Ishinomori Manga Museum was damaged and would re-open in late 2012, a year and a half after the disaster. Home video sales of anime DVDs in Japan between December 27, 2010 and June 26, 2011 were worth 19.6 billion yen, representing 18.8 of the DVD market; sales of Blu-ray Discs in the same period were worth 17.1 billion yen, representing 57% of the Blu-ray Disc market. Awards and praise The Tokyo Anime Award for best movie was awarded to '' From Up on Poppy Hill'', th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains many anime and manga with information on the staff, cast, theme music, plot summaries, and user ratings. The website was founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, and operated the magazine ''Protoculture Addicts'' from 2005 to 2008. Based in Canada, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in four separate regions: the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. History The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing editor-in-chief Isaac Alexander. On June 30, 2002, Anime News N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Beats!
''Angel Beats!'' is a 13-episode Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works and Aniplex and directed by Seiji Kishi. The story was originally conceived by Jun Maeda, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the music with the group Anant-Garde Eyes, with original character design by Na-Ga; both Maeda and Na-Ga are from the visual novel brand Key (company), Key, who produced such titles as ''Kanon (visual novel), Kanon'', ''Air (visual novel), Air'', and ''Clannad (visual novel), Clannad''. The anime aired in Japan between April 3 and June 26, 2010 on Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, CBC. An original video animation (OVA) episode was released in December 2010, and a second OVA was released in June 2015. The story takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront, an organization she leads which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuchika Kise
is a Japanese director, animator, and character designer. He started working in the anime industry in 1989 with '' Patlabor: The Movie''. In 2015, he made his directorial debut with '' Ghost in the Shell: Arise''. Biography Kazuchika Kise was born in Osaka on March 6, 1965. After graduating from High School, he joined AnimeR and studied under . Later, he joined Production I.G and was involved in his first project, '' Patlabor: The Movie''. Following the film's release, Kise continued to work with Production I.G and started directing series with '' Ghost in the Shell: Arise'' in 2013. In 2013, Kise did the character designs with Clamp for ''Blood-C'', which won the Reaper Award for best animation that year. In 2018, Kise designed the characters for ''Made in Abyss'', which won anime of the year at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in the same year. Works TV series * ''Blue Seed'' (1994–1998) (character designer) * ''Otogi Zoshi'' (2004–2005) (character designer) * '' xxxHolic'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuru Hongo
is a Japanese anime director of television and film. Hongo originally worked at Ajiado as an animator but moved to Shin-Ei Animation where he directed '' Crayon Shin-chan''. He left in 1996 and went on to direct ''Immortal Grand Prix'', ''Outlaw Star'', ''Reideen'', ''Shamanic Princess'', and ''The Candidate for Goddess''. He also directed and wrote the screenplay for the feature film '' Sakura Wars: The Movie''. Hongo is a native of Tokyo but grew up in Niigata Prefecture. Filmography (as director) * ''Ascendance of a Bookworm'' * '' Battle Spirits: Shōnen Toppa Bashin'' * ''Chimpui'' * '' Crayon Shin-chan'' * '' Deltora Quest'' * ''Gunma-chan'' * ''Immortal Grand Prix'' * ''Kasumin'' * ''Kyoro-chan'' * ''Mainichi Kaasan'' * '' Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On'' * ''Outlaw Star'' * ''Pilot Candidate'' * ''Reideen'' * '' Sakura Wars: The Movie'' * ''Shamanic Princess'' * ''Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!'' * ''Spirit of Wonder'' * '' Tenkai Knights'' * ''World Trigger , also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobita And The Steel Troops
is a 1986 Japanese animated science fiction action-adventure film based on the seventh volume of the same name of the ''Doraemon Long Stories'' series. The original plot was written by Fujiko F. Fujio. Alternate titles include ''The Platoon of Iron Men,'' or ''The Robot Army.'' The film pays homage to many anime series featuring giant robots or " mecha", most notably Gundam and Mazinger. It is the seventh Doraemon film. An English dub was produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video as Doraemon - Nobita Tetsujinheiden. This film was later remade in 3D. Plot The movie begins at the playground with Suneo showing off Micross, his new radio-controlled toy robot. Jealous, Nobita runs back home and begs Doraemon to build him a giant robot to upstage Suneo. Doraemon refuses and they argue, causing him to storm off to the North Pole using his Anywhere Door. Nobita soon follows after and discovers a bowling ball-like mechanical orb that can summon parts for a gia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobita And The New Steel Troops—Winged Angels
is a fictional character in the '' Doraemon'' anime and manga series created by Fujiko Fujio, the pen name of writing team Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko. He is also the main character in The Doraemons (special version). Known as Sidney, Specky, Nobi Nobi and Noby, in some of the English localizations of the anime, Nobita is usually depicted as an academically elementary school student in Tokyo's Nerima Ward and the only child of Nobisuke and Tamako Nobi, who is perpetually looked after by the series' title character, a robotic cat from the future sent back in time by Nobita's descendant. Along with Doraemon, Nobita is considered to be one of the most popular and widely recognizable manga characters due to the series' popularity, which extends beyond its native Japan. Characteristics Nobita's characterization depicts him as a lazy and flawed person, including but not limited to a lack of physical co-ordination or athletic talent, predisposition to laziness, reluctance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Animator Training Project
The is an annual project launched in 2010, and funded by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs in order to support training animators. The project culminates in a series of anime shorts produced by various animation studios each year called: *Project A, released in 2011 *, released in 2012–2015 *, released in 2016-2020 *, released since 2021 History The project was launched by Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) in 2010. The animation labor group received 214.5 million Japanese yen, yen (about US Dollar, US$2.27 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios to train young animators on-the-job during the year. One of the reasons for the support of the Agency for Cultural Affairs is the concern that more of the Japanese animation process is being outsourced overseas—thus leading to a decline in opportunities to teach animation techniques within Japan. In 2011 the Agency once agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satelight
is a Japanese animation studio. Aside from several stand-alone projects, the studio is well known for producing the '' Aquarion'' and '' Symphogear'' franchises, as well as later installments of the ''Macross'' franchise. The company's Representative Director is Michiaki Satō. Noted anime director and creator Shōji Kawamori is a Special Adviser at the studio. The name Satelight consists of ''S'' for Sapporo, ''A'' for Animate, ''T'' for Technology and ''E'' for Entertainment. History The studio was founded in late 1995, in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, their first project being ''Bit the Cupid'', the world's first fully digitally-animated television series. In 1996, the studio's next project was producing the CG animation for Group TAC's '' Īhatōbu Gensō: Kenji no Haru''. It soon established a production studio in 1998 in Suginami, Tokyo. The studio soon produced their first television series, Kawamori's '' Chikyū Shōjo Arjuna'', in 2001. In 2006, the studio changed its headquart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōji Kawamori
is a Japanese anime creator and producer, screenwriter, visual artist, and mecha designer. He is best known for creating the ''Macross'' mecha anime franchise and the ''Diaclone'' toyline, which were in turn the basis for the ''Robotech'' and ''Transformers'' franchises, respectively. He is also known for creating ''The Vision of Escaflowne'' anime series. He pioneered several innovative concepts in his works, such as transforming mecha (including the VF-1 Valkyrie in ''Macross'' and Optimus Prime in ''Transformers'') and virtual idols (including Lynn Minmay and Sharon Apple in the ''Macross'' franchise). His work has had a significant impact on popular culture, both in Japan and internationally. Personal life Shoji Kawamori was born in Toyama, Japan in 1960. Later in his youth he attended Keio University in the late seventies and in the same years as ''Macross'' screenwriter Hiroshi Ōnogi and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, where they became friends and founded a ''Mob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wings Of Goodbye''
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōwa Monogatari
is a 2011 Japanese anime film and television series about the Yamazaki family, who live in Tokyo during Shōwa 39 (1964), the same year Tokyo hosts the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho .... The film, directed by Masahiro Murakami, was released in Japan on January 29, 2011. The series had its broadcast run between April and July 2011. Plot Characters Episode list References External links * * 2011 anime films 2011 films Anime series Works set in factories {{anime-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Wars
is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, produced by Madhouse, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji and Ayumu Saitō. The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student, Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a self-aware, sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done, and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further chaos. After producing '' The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'', Madhouse was asked to produce something new. Hosoda and writer Satoko Okudera created a story about a social network and a stranger's connection with strange family. The real-life city of Ueda was chosen as the setting for ''Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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