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A Certain Scientific Railgun (2009 TV Series)
The first season of the Japanese animated television series ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'', which is based on the manga of the same name, follows the third Level 5 esper in Academy City named Mikoto Misaka. Produced by J.C.Staff, the series was directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai from a series composition written by Seishi Minakami. Rina Satō stars as Misaka, the character she previously voiced from ''A Certain Magical Index'' (2008), alongside Satomi Arai, Aki Toyosaki, and Kanae Itō, with Atsushi Abe reprising his role as Toma Kamijo. In March 2009, an anime adaptation of Motoi Fuyukawa's manga series was announced, with Nagai and Minakami joining the staff in June. ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'' aired in Japan on October 2, 2009, consisting of twenty-four episodes, and concluded on March 9, 2010. A second season was announced in October 2012. __TOC__ Episode list Production Development and writing In March 2009, a flyer announced the anime television series adaptation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuroko Shirai
The following is a list of characters from ''A Certain Magical Index'' light novel, manga and anime series, and its side-story manga and anime series titled ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'' and ''A Certain Scientific Accelerator''. The series primarily takes place in Academy City, a city filled with students who strove to become powerful espers and were brought into conflict by the appearance of sorcerers. Central characters Toma Kamijo : is a first-year high school student and a Level 0 esper, yet has an ability called in which he uses his right hand to negate abilities whether they are magic or scientific. Upon meeting Index, Toma becomes involved in major events that take place in ''A Certain Magical Index'' franchise. With his frequent encounters with Mikoto Misaka, Toma has also been involved in major events in ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'' franchise. Mikoto Misaka : is one of the main heroines from the science side in ''A Certain Magical Index'', as well as the mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parallel Computing
Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has gained broader interest due to the physical constraints preventing frequency scaling.S.V. Adve ''et al.'' (November 2008)"Parallel Computing Research at Illinois: The UPCRC Agenda" (PDF). Parallel@Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The main techniques for these performance benefits—increased clock frequency and smarter but increasingly complex architectures—are now hitting the so-called power wall. The computer industry has accepted that future performance increases must largely come from increasing the number of processors (or cores) on a die, rather than m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synesthesia
Synesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes. Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme–color synesthesia or color–graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (''e.g.,'' 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may appear as a three-dimensional map (clockwise or counterclockwise). Synesthetic associations can occur in any combination and any number of senses or cognitive pathways. Little is known about how synesthesia develops. It has been suggested that synesthesia dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitumen
Asphalt, also known as bitumen (, ), is a sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum. It may be found in natural deposits or may be a refined product, and is classed as a pitch. Before the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used. Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org) The word is derived from the Ancient Greek ἄσφαλτος ''ásphaltos''. The largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world, estimated to contain 10 million tons, is the Pitch Lake located in La Brea in southwest Trinidad (Antilles island located on the northeastern coast of Venezuela), within the Siparia Regional Corporation. The primary use (70%) of asphalt is in road construction, where it is used as the glue or binder mixed with aggregate particles to create asphalt concrete. Its other main uses are for bituminous waterproofing products, including production of roofing felt and for sealing flat roofs. In material sciences and engineering, the terms "asphalt" an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenichi Yatagai
is a Japanese animation director. Anime involved in *''Bubblegum Crisis'': Director (episodes 1–2), Technical Director (episodes 1–2) *''Cardcaptor Sakura'': Episode Director (ep 66) *'' Dōjin Work'': Director, Storyboard (episodes 1, 3, 12) *'' El Hazard: The Wanderers'': Storyboard (Ep 24) *'' Leviathan The Last Defense'': Director, Storyboard (Opening; Ending; episode 1), Unit Director (Opening; Ending) *'' Megazone 23 Part III'': Director (episode 1) *'' Renkin 3-kyuu Magical? Pokahn'': Director, Storyboard (episodes 1–2, 6a, 7, 12a), Unit Director (episode 12a) *''Strike Witches'': Assistant Director *''Strike Witches 2'': Storyboard (episodes 3, 12), Episode Director (episode 12), Assistant Director *''Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow'': Episode Director (episode 1) *'' Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again'': Director, Storyboard (episode 1), Episode Director (episode 6) *'' Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OAV 2'': Director, Storyboard (episode 13) *''Tench ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graviton
In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical quantum of gravity, an elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction. There is no complete quantum field theory of gravitons due to an outstanding mathematical problem with renormalization in general relativity. In string theory, believed by some to be a consistent theory of quantum gravity, the graviton is a massless state of a fundamental string. If it exists, the graviton is expected to be massless because the gravitational force has a very long range, and appears to propagate at the speed of light. The graviton must be a spin-2 boson because the source of gravitation is the stress–energy tensor, a second-order tensor (compared with electromagnetism's spin-1 photon, the source of which is the four-current, a first-order tensor). Additionally, it can be shown that any massless spin-2 field would give rise to a force indistinguishable from gravitation, because a massless spin-2 field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideki Tachibana
is a Japanese writer and anime director. Works TV series * '' H2O: Footprints in the Sand'' (2008) (director) * '' Dragon Crisis!'' (2011) (director) * ''BlazBlue Alter Memory'' (2013) (director) * ''Chaos Dragon'' (2015) (chief director) * ''Armed Girl's Machiavellism'' (2017) (director) * '' Circlet Princess'' (2019) (director) * ''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?'' (2019–2022) (director) * '' The Honor Student at Magic High School'' (2021) (director) Original video animation * '' Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira'' (2011–2012) (director) * ''Alice in Borderland'' (2014–2015) (director) * ''Armed Girl's Machiavellism is a Japanese manga written by Yuya Kurokami and illustrated by Karuna Kanzaki. The series was serialized in Kadokawa's '' Monthly Shōnen Ace'' magazine from March 2014 to June 2022. An anime television series adaptation from the manga cre ...'' (2017) (director) References External links * * Anime directors Japanese wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyebrow
An eyebrow is an area of short hairs above each eye that follows the shape of the lower margin of the brow ridges of some mammals. In humans, eyebrows serve two main functions: first, communication through facial expression, and second, prevention of sweat, water, and other debris from falling down into the eye socket. It is common for people to modify their eyebrows by means of hair removal and makeup. Functions A number of theories have been proposed to explain the function of the eyebrow in humans. One approach suggests its main function is to prevent moisture (mostly sweat and rain) from flowing into the eye. Another theory holds that clearly visible eyebrows provided safety from predators when early hominid groups started sleeping on the ground. Recent research, however, suggests eyebrows in humans developed as a means of communication and that this is their primary function. Humans developed a smooth forehead with visible, hairy eyebrows capable of a wide range of movemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taser
A taser is an electroshock weapon used to incapacitate people, allowing them to be approached and handled in an unresisting and thus safe manner. It is sold by Axon, formerly TASER International. It fires two small barbed darts intended to puncture the skin and remain attached to the target, at . Their range extends from for non-Law Enforcement Tasers to for LE Tasers. The darts are connected to the main unit by thin insulated copper wire and deliver a modulated electric current designed to disrupt voluntary control of muscles, causing "neuromuscular incapacitation." The effects of a taser may only be localized pain or strong involuntary long muscle contractions, based on the mode of use and connectivity of the darts. Tasers are marketed as less-lethal, since the possibility of serious injury or death exists whenever the weapon is deployed. At least 49 people died in the US in 2018 after being shocked by police with a Taser. The first taser conducted energy weapon was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphrodisiac
An aphrodisiac is a substance that increases sexual desire, sexual attraction, sexual pleasure, or sexual behavior. Substances range from a variety of plants, spices, foods, and synthetic chemicals. Natural aphrodisiacs like cannabis or cocaine are classified into plant-based and non-plant-based substances. There are non-naturally-occurring aphrodisiacs like MDMA and methamphetamine. Aphrodisiacs can be classified by their type of effects (i.e., psychological or physiological). Aphrodisiacs that contain hallucinogenic properties like Bufotenin have psychological effects on a person that can increase sexual desire and sexual pleasure. Aphrodisiacs that contain smooth muscle relaxing properties like yohimbine have physiological effects on a person that can affect hormone levels and increase blood flow. It is possible that the aphrodisiac effect of a substance is due to the placebo effect. Other substances that impede on areas that aphrodisiacs aim to enhance are classified as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Ōnogi
is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist focusing on anime productions. Ōnogi attended Keio University in the same years as ''Macross'' character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto and creator Shōji Kawamori, both of whom he would first collaborate with in ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''. Filmography * ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' (1982), Scenario * '' The Super Dimension Century Orguss'' (1983), Script * ''Heavy Metal L-Gaim'' (1984), Script * ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' (1985), Script * '' Hey! Bunbuu'' (1985), Script * ''AD Police'' (1999), Script (ep 2, 5), Sci-Fi Adviser * '' Earth Girl Arjuna'' (2001), Series Composition, Script * '' The Daichis - Earth Defence Family'' (2001), Script (ep 0, 8, 11) * ''The Siamese - First Mission'' (2001), Scenario * '' Magical Witchland'' (2001), 2D Script Writer * ''RahXephon'' (2002), Screenplay (ep 14, 21–22, 26) * '' Heat Guy J'' (2002), Screenplay (ep 2, 6, 8, 11, 12) * '' Mobile Suit Gundam Seed'' (2002), Scenario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
