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Akihito Yoshitomi
is a Japanese manga artist from Miyazaki Prefecture, born in(5 September 1970) . His most known works are the series ''Eat-Man'', which consisted of 19 volumes, and ''Ray (manga), Ray'', which consisted of 7 volumes. ''Eat-Man'' and ''Blue Drop'' have been adapted into anime series. Yoshitomi has also worked on many one-shot (comics), one-shot manga with ''yuri (genre), yuri'' content. Works * (1991, 3 volumes) * (1993, 5 volumes) * ''Eat-Man'' (1996 – 2002, 19 volumes) * ''Ray (manga), Ray'' (2002 – 2005, 7 volumes) * ''Avenger (anime), Avenger'' (2003, manga adaptation) * (2004 – 2008) * ''Black Jack (manga), Black Jack'' - Yoshitomi Akihito edition (2005) * '' Ray+'' (2006, 1 volume) * '' Gate Runner'' (2006, 2 volumes) * (2009, 6 volumes) * (2009, 6 volumes) * (2010 – 2014, 2 volumes) * (2013 – 2017, 5 volumes) * (2015 – 2016) * ''Eat-Man, Eat-Man: The Main Dish'' (May 2014 – August 2019, 4 volumes) * (July 2018 – February 2019, 1 volume) * (Octob ...
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Manga Artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of '' Sailor Moon'', won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. A manga artist will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark the interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers. For example, there are contests which prospective manga artist may enter, sponsored by manga editors and publishers. This can also be accomplished through producing a one-shot. While sometimes a stand-alone manga, ...
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THEM Anime Reviews
THEM Anime Reviews, otherwise known as THEM or T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews, is an Anime, anime Review, review website that writes about current and past anime in any form, including Original video animation, OVAs and Original net animation, ONAs. The website offers reviews, editorial content and hosts Internet forum, forums. History THEM was founded in 1993 by Arizona State University Barrett, The Honors College, Honors College students as a school club for fans of science fiction and fantasy. It became an anime review website, named THEM Online, in 1996, and Carlos Ross, who later became one of the editors in chief of the website, became a writer in 1999. By 2007, Ross would be part of Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts & Science. In June 2000, the current domain name of the website was registered. At the time, the site was using ASU servers, which were later changed. In the first six years of the site, from 1996 to 2002, only one guest review was accepted and all "s ...
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Manga Artists From Miyazaki Prefecture
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Champion Red
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The Main Dish
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Balance Policy
is a science fiction manga series by Akihito Yoshitomi. It was originally planned as a six-page story, but was expanded as Yoshitomi saw potential to develop the setting further, and was serialized by Shōnen Gahōsha in 2010–2014 in their magazine ''Change H''; it has since been collected in two ''tankōbon'' volumes. A one-shot finale, , was published in 2016, and was collected in a volume together with Yoshitomi's series ''Lily System'' in 2019. The story is set in the near future in Japan after birth rates have declined significantly, and follows Kenji, who has been chosen to be part of a government initiative to counteract this with a feminization procedure making men able to give birth. Critics called the story emotionally resonant but considered its premise of forcibly having one's body altered questionable. Plot ''Balance Policy'' is set in Japan in a near future after birth rates have declined dramatically worldwide, particularly of girls. To counteract this, the ...
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Black Jack (manga)
is an episodic Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of the title character, doctor Black Jack. ''Black Jack'' consists of hundreds of short, self-contained stories that are typically about 20 pages long. Black Jack has also been animated into an OVA, two television series (directed by Satoshi Kuwahara and Tezuka's son Makoto Tezuka) and two films. ''Black Jack'' is Tezuka's second most famous manga, after ''Astro Boy''. In 1977, it won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. About.com's Deb Aoki lists ''Black Jack'' as the best "re-issue of previously released material" of 2008. Osamu Dezaki's anime film adaptation, ''Black Jack: The Movie'', won Best Animation Film at the 1996 Mainichi Film Awards. It has since then became Tezuka's second best selling manga with 45.64 million copies in circulation only in Japan. Plot Most of the stories involve Black Jack doing some good deed, for whic ...
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Miyazaki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Miyazaki Prefecture has a population of 1,073,054 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 7,735 km2 (2,986 sq mi). Miyazaki Prefecture borders Ōita Prefecture to the north, Kumamoto Prefecture to the northwest, and Kagoshima Prefecture to the southwest. Miyazaki is the capital and largest city of Miyazaki Prefecture, with other major cities including Miyakonojō, Nobeoka, and Hyūga. Miyazaki Prefecture is located in southeastern Kyūshū on Japan's Pacific coast, with its coastline extending from Nobeoka near the entrance to the Bungo Channel to Shibushi Bay in Kushima. History Historically, after the Meiji Restoration, Hyūga Province was renamed Miyazaki Prefecture. In Japan, Miyazaki Prefecture was first created in 1873 when Mimitsu Prefecture was merged with parts of Miyakonojō Prefecture. The first Miyazaki existed only until 1876 when it was merged (back) into Kagoshima Prefecture. Under publ ...
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Avenger (anime)
''Avenger'' (stylized as ''AVENGER'') is an anime series, produced by Bandai Visual and Bee Train, and directed by Koichi Mashimo. It is set on post-apocalyptic colonized Mars. The series premiered across Japan between 1 October 2003 and 24 December 2003 on the TV Tokyo network. It was later licensed for North American distribution by Bandai's distributive unit across the region, Bandai Entertainment. Plot The story is set on a colonized Mars at some unspecified point in the future. The majority of the human population is divided up into a number of small domed city-states. Those who live outside the domes in the harsh wildernesses of the planet are known as Barbaroi. Resources are scarce, and supplies are divided out between cities based on the outcome of gladiatorial battles between representative fighters from each. Adding to the problems of the colonists, no children have been born on Mars for a decade. The cause of the infertility is unknown, but people have turned ...
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