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Chuokoron Shinsha
is a Japanese publisher. It was established in 1886, under the name . In 1999, it was acquired by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, and its name was subsequently changed to Chūōkōron-shinsha. Profile The company publishes a wide variety of material, including numerous novels, books, manga and several magazines, including the famous literary magazine and . It also organizes a variety of prestigious literary awards and prizes across Japan, such as the renowned Chūōkōron Prize. Among the numerous novels published by the company include Hiroshi Mori's '' The Sky Crawler'' series, which was adapted into a 2008 anime film from director Mamoru Oshii. The company has also published numerous manga, including Keiji Nakazawa's famed ''Barefoot Gen'' series, Monkey Punch's famed ''Lupin III'' series, Keiko Takemiya's ''Hensōkyoku'', Riyoko Ikeda's noted works ''The Rose of Versailles'', ''Jotei Ekaterina'' and ''Ten no Hate Made: Poland Hishi'', Kaoru Kurimoto and Yumiko Igarash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yomiuri Shimbun
The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are the ''Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Chunichi Shimbun (Tokyo Shimbun)'' the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', and the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. It is headquartered in Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.' It is a newspaper that represents Tokyo and generally has a conservative orientation. It is one of Japan's leading newspapers, along with the Osaka-based liberal (Third way) Asahi Shimbun and the Nagoya-based Social democratic Chunichi Shimbun. It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony,The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings is the largest media conglomerate by revenue in Japan, while Sony is Japan's largest media con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Production I
Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a statistic, gross domestic product * Production line Arts, entertainment, and media Motion pictures * Production, film distributor of a company * Production, phase of filmmaking * Production, video production Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Production'' (album), by Mirwais, 2000 * Production, category of illusory magic trick * Production, phase of video games development * Production, Record producer's role * Production, theatrical performance Science and technology * Production, deployment environment where changes go "live" and users interact with it * Production (computer science), formal-grammar concept * Primary production, the production of new biomass by autotrophs in ecosystems * Productivity (ecology), the wider c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Publishing Companies In Tokyo
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is '' codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
is a Japanese animator, manga artist, and anime director. He is best known for being the character designer and animation director of the original ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' anime, which began in 1979. That same year, he began working as a manga artist, which had been his dream since childhood. His manga have been critically acclaimed and have won numerous awards. Early life Born 1947 in Engaru, Hokkaidō, Yasuhiko started to draw manga in third grade of elementary school. In high school, he learned the basics of Marxism from a teacher and was inspired by it. At the time, the world's focus was on the Vietnam War, a proxy war between the capitalist United States and socialist Soviet Union. Yasuhiko said seeing a superpower such as the US burn down a small country, naturally made him "anti-American". Additionally, he viewed Japan as complicit in the war by supporting the US through Yokota Air Base and Misawa Air Base, while claiming to have a pacifist constitution, something he called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violence Jack
is a Japanese manga, co-written and co-illustrated by Go Nagai since 1973, all the way to 2008. It has had several serializations and one-shot stories which have run in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Most of the stories have been compiled in around 38 tankōbon volumes, while a few of them have been published as special tankōbon or have yet to be published in that format. ''Violence Jack'' is credited with creating the post-apocalyptic manga and anime genre. A set of sagas from the manga were adapted in three independent OVAs released in 1986, 1988 and 1990. These OVAs have been released in the United States, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. In some of these countries, the contents of the OVAs have caused censorship issues, while in Australia the second OVA was banned altogether. The original manga reuses many concepts and characters from other works by Go Nagai. Characters Violence Jack This titular antihero is a complete mystery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Nagai
, better known by the pen name , is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with ''Meakashi Polikichi'', but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as ''Cutie Honey'', ''Devilman'' and ''Mazinger Z''. He is credited with creating the super robot genre and for designing the first mecha robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with ''Mazinger Z'',Mark Gilson, "A Brief History of Japanese Robophilia", ''Leonardo'' 31 (5), pp. 367–369 68 and for pioneering the magical girl genre with ''Cutie Honey'', the post-apocalyptic manga/anime genre with ''Violence Jack'', and the ecchi genre with ''Harenchi Gakuen''. In 2005, he became a Character Design professor at the Osaka University of Arts. He has been a member of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's nominating committee since 2009. Life Early life Go Nagai was born on September 6, 1945—in the Ishikawa Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sword Of Paros
is a 1986 shoujo historical fantasy manga composed of three volumes written by Kaoru Kurimoto, a science fiction author best known for ''Guin Saga'', and illustrated by Yumiko Igarashi, best known for ''Candy Candy''. The plot of ''The Sword of Paros'' is also strongly centred on the romance of the protagonists, one of whom, like Oscar in ''The Rose of Versailles , also known as ''Lady Oscar'' and ''La Rose de Versailles'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine ''Margaret'' from 1972 to 1973, while a revival of the ser ...'', is trying to pass as a man. Plot Far away and long ago in the kingdom of Paros, legend says that one can wield the sacred sword of the true ruler of Paros. According to this legend, in time of war, a single person will come forward, who can brandish this weapon and lead the country towards the future. This prophecy also asserts that the true ruler, who will carry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumiko Igarashi
is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for illustrating the manga series ''Candy Candy''. Career In 1968, as a third-year high school student at the Asahi Gaoka High School in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Igarashi made her debut in Shueisha's ''Ribon'' manga magazine with '' Shiroi Same no iru Shima''. She won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in 1977 as the artist of ''Candy Candy''. In the late 1990s, Igarashi became involved in a number of legal battles related to her intellectual property rights as an illustrator. Igarashi claimed that in series for which she was the illustrator, she should hold sole intellectual property rights to the portrayals of the characters, and not need the consent of her authors to license merchandise based on their likenesses. In a dispute over the ''Candy Candy'' character designs in 1999, the court ruled against Igarashi, stating that both she and writer Kyoko Mizuki held equal rights to the characters, and awarded Mizuki reparations equal to 3% royaltie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rose Of Versailles (manga)
, also called ''BeruBara'', is a shōjo manga series by Riyoko Ikeda published by Shueisha in '' Margaret'' from 1972 to 1973. It later was adapted into an anime, ''The Rose of Versailles''. The series was published on 21 May 1972, in the Shueisha ''Margaret'' magazine's 21st edition. Publication lasted 82 weeks. The series garnered much acclaim, and topped sales ranks regularly. The serialization of the manga finished in the autumn of 1973, with the publication of the last installment in the 52nd edition of the magazine. In 1983, the first two volumes of ''The Rose of Versailles'' were translated in English by Frederik L. Schodt for the purpose of teaching English to Japanese speakers and released in North America by the North American branch of Sanyusha. It has been licensed in French by Kana, in Spanish by Azake Ediciones, German by Carlsen, Italian by d-world, and in Chinese by Tong Li Publishing. Volume list Collected editions Compilations published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riyoko Ikeda
is a Japanese manga artist and singer. She is included in the Year 24 Group, by some, although her status as one of them has been debated due to a focus more on epic stories than the internal psychology of those mangaka. She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s, being best known for '' The Rose of Versailles''. Education Ikeda was a philosophy major and a member of the Democratic Youth League of Japan. She would later drop out. Career Ikeda began publishing manga in the magazine ''Kashihonya'' while studying philosophy. She debuted in 1967 with ''Bara Yashiki no Shōjo''. Ikeda has written and illustrated many shōjo manga, many of which are based on historical events, such as the French Revolution or the Russian Revolution. Her use of foreign settings and androgynous themes made '' The Rose of Versailles'' and ''Orpheus no Mado'' enormous successes. Her most famous manga is '' The Rose of Versailles'', also known as ''Lady Oscar'' in Europe. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiko Takemiya
is a Japanese manga artist and the former president of Kyoto Seika University. Career Keiko Takemiya (or Takemiya Keiko) is included in the Year 24 Group, a term coined by academics and critics to refer to a group of female authors in the early 1970s who helped transform manga (manga for girls) from being created primarily by male authors to being created by female authors. As part of this group, Takemiya pioneered a genre of manga about love between young men called ( "boy love"). In 1970, she published a short story titled '' Sanrūmu Nite'' ("In the Sunroom") in ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'', which is possibly the first manga ever published and contains the earliest known male–male kiss in manga. Takemiya cites her influences as being manga (manga for boys), the works of Shotaro Ishinomori, films, and documentaries. In 1972, after publishing , Takemiya traveled to Europe to learn more about life there as research for ("The Poem of Wind and Trees"). After that, she t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupin III
, also written as ''Lupin the Third'', ''Lupin the 3rd'', or ''Lupin the IIIrd'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Monkey Punch. It follows the endeavors of master thief Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of the book series by Maurice Leblanc. The Lupin III (manga), ''Lupin III'' manga, which first appeared in ''Weekly Manga Action'' on August 10, 1967, spawned a media franchise that includes numerous manga, two versions of an anime, animated Television pilot, pilot film, six animated television series, one spin-off animated television series, eleven theatrically released animated films, two live-action films, five Original video animation, OVA works, List of Lupin III television specials, twenty-seven animated television specials, two musicals, List of Lupin III soundtracks, many music CDs, and List of Lupin III video games, several video games. Many different companies have owned the English-language distributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
