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Knack Productions
, formerly known as or simply until August 2008, is a Japanese anime and film production company. History Knack Productions was founded on September 25, 1967, by a group of former employees of Toei Animation and Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production, including illustrator Seiichi Hayashi, animator/director Sadao Tsukioka, former Mushi producer Sakuro Koyanagi, and Seiichi Nishino, who would become the principal planner of most of the studio's works. From its early days the studio concentrated on TV production. The studio's first work, the TV series ''Granny Mischief'' (''Ijiwaru Baasan''), based on a manga by Sazae-san creator Machiko Hasegawa), premiered in 1970. In the late 1980s the company moved away from TV production and into OVA, finding success in the growing market for soft-core direct-to-video pornography anime. Since the late 1990s, Knack (renamed ICHI Corporation in August 2008) has focused chiefly on live-action production. The company's most recent animation work, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slight Fever Syndrome , a locality in Sweden
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Slight or slights may refer to: * A snub or an insult, an intentional discourtesy * Slighting, the deliberate destruction of a fortification to reduce its value Arts and entertainment * ''Slights'' (novel) (2009), a horror novel by Kaaron Warren * "Slight", a song from the 2002 hip hop album ''Circle'' by Boom Bip and Doseone People * Aaron Slight (born 1966), former professional motorcycle road racer * * * George Henry Slight (1859–1934), Scottish engineer * Jim Slight (1855–1930), Australian cricketer * John Slight, Scottish lawn bowler * Other * Slights, Michigan, a ghost town in Blair Township, Grand Traverse County See also * Sleight (other) * Slite Slite is a locality situated in Gotland Municipality, Gotland County, on the island of Gotland, Sweden with 1,500 inhabitants in 2014. Geography Slite is situated on the northern east coast of Gotland. The town is divided by the Sjuströmmar in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granny Mischief
Granny is a term and nickname for a grandmother, a female grandparent, and may refer to: Characters * Granny (Beverly Hillbillies character), a character on ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' television series, played by Irene Ryan * Granny (Looney Tunes), a ''Looney Tunes'' character * Granny Goodness, a Superman villainess * George "Granny" Grantham, a character from the Stephen King novella '' Blockade Billy'' * Granny character created by cartoonist Buck Brown for ''Playboy'' Fictional works * ''Granny'' (film), a 2003 Russian drama film * ''Granny'' or ''GrannyX'', a 1997 adventure video game * ''The Granny'', a 1995 American horror comedy film * ''Granny'', a spin-off from the ''Cuddles and Dimples'' strip in the British Dandy comic * ''Granny'', a 1994 novel by Anthony Horowitz People * Granny Alston or Hallam Newton Egerton Alston (1908–1985), English cricketer * Grantland Rice (1880–1954), American sportswriter * Granny D or Doris Haddock (1910–2010), American polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chargeman Ken!
is a science fiction anime series created by Tetsuji Suzukawa and Eiji Tanaka and animated by Knack Productions (now ICHI Corporation) and Tama Production. It was directed by Noboru Miura and written by Masaaki Wakuda, Toyohiro Andō and Yoshio Tamado, with the characters designed by Tanaka. A total of 65 episodes were broadcast in syndication in various networks (it was broadcast in the Kantō region on TBS) from April 1 to June 28, 1974, in 10-minute slots from 5:30 to 5:40 PM, Monday through Friday. Each episode of the series is a self-contained story. Discotek Media currently licenses the series outside Japan. Plot The story takes place in the year 2074, in a futuristic city where science has developed by leaps and bounds, and the Duralian aliens are planning to invade Earth. 10-year-old Ken Izumi disguises himself as Chargeman and struggles to protect the Earth from the threat of the Duralians. Characters Izumi family ; :voiced by Setsuko Takemoto : The protagonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybot Robotchi
, known in the United States as ''Robby the Rascal'', is a 39-episode anime television series created by Ken Ishikawa and produced by Knack animation studio. The series aired on TV Tokyo in Japan from October 1982 to June 1983. The series featured contributions from Tetsuro Amino as a storyboard artist and Masayuki Kojima as an episode director. A feature-length English-dubbed version comprising several episodes edited together into a movie, titled ''Robby the Rascal'', was produced by Jim Terry's ('' Force Five'') Kidpix Productions and released on home video in the United States in 1985. (The same American distributors had previously adapted the same animation studio's 1979–1980 TV series '' Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'', which used much of the same production team, into a similar feature-length work titled ''Ninja the Wonder Boy''.) However, the English version deleted much of the risque humor that, while not uncommon in children's animation in Japan, would be considered una ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga Sarutobi Sasuke
is a 24-episode anime series about the young Sarutobi Sasuke, a legendary ninja. It was first aired from October 9, 1979, to April 29, 1980, on Tokyo Channel 12 (now TV Tokyo), and was later dubbed in several languages. The whole 24-episode run was aired in many European and Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ... countries. It is best known to the American fans as ''Ninja, The Wonder Boy'': a highly edited, highly condensed feature-length version of this series. This version, dubbed in English, was produced by Jim Terry Productions of '' Force Five'' fame. The names of several characters were changed, with Sarutobi Sasuke becoming "Duke Hayakawa", his female companion Sakura being changed to "Blossom", and the villain Devilman became "Dragon". Plot Set in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attacker You!
is a 1984 Japanese manga series by Jun Makimura and Shizuo Koizumi published by Kodansha. An anime series, consisting of 58 episodes of 24 minutes each, was produced by Knack Productions and broadcast by TV Tokyo from April 13, 1984, to June 21, 1985. The DVD version was released in Japan on August 20, 2004. The ''Attacker You!'' anime, despite mediocre ratings in Japan, achieved a strong level of popularity in several European countries, including Italy (''Mila e Shiro, due cuori nella pallavolo''), France (''Jeanne et Serge''), Spain (called both ''Dos fuera de serie'' and ''Juana y Sergio''), Portugal (''Joana e Sérgio, O Desafio dos Anjos'') and Poland (''Pojedynek Aniołów''). The anime has been rerun several times in Italy since its original broadcast there, and the manga was also released in Italy. As of summer 2020, no incarnation of the anime has been licensed in North America. Plot ''Attacker You!'' is the story of an ambitious and energetic thirteen-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of The Little Prince (TV Series)
''The Adventures of the Little Prince'' is an anime series based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Made by the animation studio Knack Productions, the series, originally titled , aired in Japan on the TV Asahi network from July 1978 to March 1979. Dubbed into English, the series premiered in the United States in 1985 on Nickelodeon and was rerun through June 1, 1985 to December 29, 1989. It was also broadcast on TVOntario throughout the 1980s beginning in 1985, a station that would later pick up the dub of the 2010 French adaptation. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, of ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' fame, was involved in this series as a director. In total, there were 26 episodes aired in English, with 39 episodes made for the original Japanese run. Discotek Media picked up the North American license for the anime in 2017. In May and December of that same year, Discotek Media has uploaded a Japanese language (with English subtitles) of the first episode on YouTube, and all 39 episodes of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Chuck Monogatari
is a Japanese anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ... television series consisting of 26 episodes. It was followed by '' Shin Don Chuck Monogatari''. It was directed by Kazuyuki Okaseko and Kouzo Takagaki and first broadcast on Tokyo Channel 12 in 1975. Plot References External links * * 1975 anime television series debuts TV Tokyo original programming Fictional beavers Anthropomorphic beavers Children's television series about talking animals Knack Productions {{anime-tv-series-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Shun'ichi Yukimuro (雪室 俊一 ''Yukimuro Shun'ichi'', born January 11, 1941, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese screenwriter for anime television series. Yukimuro has had a career spanning four decades and written over 3,000 anime television series scenarios, including episodes of many classic series produced by the Toei Animation studio. After attending a school for screenwriters, Yukimuro won an award for a television drama titled ''Chikagorono Wakai Yatsu''. He soon began to focus on writing for anime television series; his first was ''Yokocho Seigitai (Justice Guardian)'' in 1964. Among the anime series for which Yukimuro wrote scenarios include ''Kimba the White Lion'', ''Sally, the Witch'', ''Gegege no Kitaro'', ''Sazae-san'', ''Tomorrow's Joe'', ''Himitsu no Akko-chan'', ''Babel II'', ''Majokko Megu-chan'', ''Dr. Slump'', ''Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken, Honey Honey'', ''The Kabocha Wine'', ''Dragon Ball (franchise), Dragon Ball'', ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masayuki Kojima
is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, and director, best known for directing the acclaimed anime series ''Monster (manga), Monster'' and ''Made in Abyss''. He was born on March 11, 1961, in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan. Career Kojima first got his start in the animation business in the 1980s, where he worked primarily project-to-project for a number of different companies, including Knack Productions and Tatsunoko Production. During this time, his involvement was in television products mostly as an episode director. After joining Madhouse (company), Madhouse in the 1990s, he took part in dozens of productions as an animator, as well as helming several TV series, two films, a theatrical short, and a TV special. He has since left the studio and joined Kinema Citrus in 2011. Style Since coming to work for Madhouse (company), Madhouse, Kojima has been primarily a drama director, and one who specializes in lengthy series. He has directed two adaptations of Naoki Urasawa's manga, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
