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Dangaioh
is a Japanese anime OVA series produced and animated by AIC and Artmic and released in Japan in 1987. Dangaioh featured character designs by creator Toshiki Hirano, mechanical designs by Shoji Kawamori, and animation direction by Masami Ōbari. Plot Brought together by the mysterious Dr. Tarsan, four powerful psychic warriors Mia Alice, Lamba Nom, Pai Thunder, and Roll Kran can unite four powerful planes to form Dangaioh—the most powerful weapon in the universe. Using their combined psionic force, the Dangaioh team alone can stop the bloody tyranny of Captain Galimos and Gil Berg. The team hopes their psychogenic wave will be strong enough to destroy Galimos's evil henchman, the notorious Gil Berg, who has sworn by the taking of his right eye to utterly destroy the Dangaioh Team. Along with the threat of Gil Berg, the Dangaioh Team must also avoid falling foul of Galimos's trickery, which finds weakness in their forgotten pasts. Characters Main characters ; : :A youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiki Hirano
is a Japanese anime director, animator, and character designer. His wife is a fellow animator and manga artist Narumi Kakinouchi. Some of his works have appeared in the adult manga magazine '' Lemon People''. He is representative of Toshiki Hirano Office Ltd. Career While still a student at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, Hirano began drawing in-betweens for Toei Doga. After working at Studio No.1, Bebo led by Tomonori Kogawa, Studio Io led by himself, Artland led by Noboru Ishiguro, and AIC led by Tōru Miura, he is now the representative of Toshiki Hirano Office Ltd. In 1982, while working at Artland, Hirano worked as a character animation director on the TV animation series ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', which was well received for the female characters' charm and attracted attention from anime fans. Following the theatrical animation '' Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' released in 1984, he was selected as a character designer for the OVA ''Megazone 23'' produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shō Aikawa (screenwriter)
is a Japanese screenwriter. Active in various fields (and credited through various pseudonyms) since he was 17 years old, the most popular works he has helmed have been in anime and tokusatsu: '' Dangaioh'', ''Angel Cop'', '' Ultraman: Towards the Future'', ''Martian Successor Nadesico'', ''Love Hina'', ''The Twelve Kingdoms'', ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', ''Kamen Rider Blade'', ''GoGo Sentai Boukenger'' and ''Concrete Revolutio''. Most of his anime work has been in adaptations which, when he is the main writer, feature significant deviations from the source materials' trajectory. Among those based on original concepts, 7 titles were conceived, wholly or partly, by him; he also had one manga he had written adapted to animation. Works Works that are derivatives of titles Aikawa also worked on in other mediums are in bold. Anime , style="text-align:left", , - , rowspan="2", 1987 , scope="row" style="text-align:left", , , , , , #4, #5 , } , style="text-align:left", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshihiro Hirano
is a Japanese anime director, animator, and character designer. His wife is a fellow animator and manga artist Narumi Kakinouchi. Some of his works have appeared in the adult manga magazine ''Lemon People''. He is representative of Toshiki Hirano Office Ltd. Career While still a student at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, Hirano began drawing in-betweens for Toei Doga. After working at Studio No.1, Bebo led by Tomonori Kogawa, Studio Io led by himself, Artland led by Noboru Ishiguro, and AIC led by Tōru Miura, he is now the representative of Toshiki Hirano Office Ltd. In 1982, while working at Artland, Hirano worked as a character animation director on the TV animation series ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', which was well received for the female characters' charm and attracted attention from anime fans. Following the theatrical animation '' Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' released in 1984, he was selected as a character designer for the OVA ''Megazone 23'' produced by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Glen
Edward Glen (sometimes credited as Eddie Glen) is a Canadian actor, who has appeared in and provided voices in films, television shows and video games. He is best known for voicing Thomas the Tank Engine in the 2000 film '' Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. Since 1998, he has been the voiceover of YTV. Career Glen began his acting career in 1986 in various theatre productions in Canada and in the United Kingdom, where he still continues to act in theatre to this day. Outside of acting in theatre, he also works extensively as a voice actor in various anime and animated television shows and films, such as '' Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight'', ''Dangaioh'', '' Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh'', ''Gunnm'', '' Patlabor: The Movie'' and its sequel, '' Blazing Dragons'', ''Flying Rhino Junior High'', ' Undergrads'', ''Angela Anaconda'', ''Rescue Heroes'', '' Rescue Heroes: The Movie'' and '' RoboRoach''. In 2000, Glen became the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine in Britt Allcroft's fantasy fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Aono
was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Asahikawa, Hokkaidō. He was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. He graduated from Hokkaidō Asahikawa Higashi High School. Career Aono was most known for the roles of Shiro Sanada (Space Battleship Yamato), Rihaku ( Fist of the North Star), Nurarihyon ('' GeGeGe no Kitaro''), Piccolo Daimao and Kami-sama (''Dragon Ball''), Kumahachi Kumada (''Kiteretsu Daihyakka''), Dakuan ('' Ninja Scroll''), Gen Fu ('' Dead or Alive''), Deathsaurus ('' Transformers: Victory''), Jinpachi Mishima (Demon form) ('' Tekken 5/Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection'') and Tomozō Sakura ('' Chibi Maruko-chan''). In the live action field, Aono was the official dubbing artist of Joe Pesci and Christopher Lloyd. Aono was also known to appear in the first ten ''One Piece'' movies. He is also known to gamers as the voice of the diabolical Dr. Wily in the PlayStation-era Mega Man games, and Colonel Roy Campbell of the Metal Gear games. Ao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Kamiya
is a Japanese voice actor. He played several notable roles in Japanese manga and anime television series, including Kenshiro in '' Fist of the North Star'', Ryo Saeba in '' City Hunter'' and Shutaro Mendo in '' Urusei Yatsura''. In mecha anime, he voiced Ryoma Nagare in '' Getter Robo'', Akira Hibiki in ''Brave Raideen'', Sanshirō Tsuwabuki in '' Gaiking'', Roy Focker in '' The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', and Sincline in '' Beast King GoLion''. Biography Early life Kamiya was born in Yokohama. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shiba Commercial High School and became a freelancer after being affiliated with Theatre Echo, Aoni Production, Production Baobab, Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society and Ups. Kamiya then founded Saeba Shoji, a talent agency. Background His father ran a furniture manufacturing factory, but it suddenly closed and his parents divorced. After that, Kamiya's mother raised him and his brother. As a result of his mother's search ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime International Company
, often abbreviated as AIC is a Japanese animation studio founded on June 15, 1982 and located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. On December 10, 2015, AIC RIGHTS Co., Ltd was established through a company split, in which AIC Rights received the transfer of some of the copyrights owned by Anime International Company. Their notable works include series such as '' Tenchi Muyo!'', ''Bubblegum Crisis'', ''El Hazard'', and several adaptations of the manga '' Oh My Goddess!''. AIC had eight sub-studios within itself, named: "AIC ASTA" (2003, formerly: "AIC A.S.T.A."), "AIC Build" (2010), "AIC Classic" (2010), "AIC Digital" (1997), "AIC Frontier" (June, 2012), "AIC PLUS+" (2006), "AIC Spirits" (2003) and "AIC Takarazuka" (2006). History In June 2006, a partnership was started with NTU for the development of the CACANI system, a software used as a tool in the animation process to generate fills between keyframes. In September 2010, Oizumi Corporation acquired 95% of the studio from the ACA-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Matsui
is a Japanese voice actress and narrator from Hakodate, Hokkaido. Matsui was a member of Production Baobab for 20 years before becoming a freelancer. Matsui is most notable for the roles of Uru Chie in '' High School! Kimengumi'', Rem Ayanokōji in '' Dream Hunter Rem'', Katsumi Liqueur in ''Silent Möbius'', Chiyoko Wato in ''The Three-Eyed One'', Runrun in '' Mahōjin Guru Guru'', Rabby in '' Gall Force Eternal Story'', Roux Louka in '' Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ'', Dorothy Catalonia in '' Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', Azusa Shiratori in ''Ranma ½'', Miyako Todaiji in ''Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne'', and Sonoko Suzuki in ''Detective Conan''. Filmography TV series ;1980s * '' Cat's Eye'' (1983) – Biron * ''Attacker You!'' (1984) – Nami Hayase * ''Chikkun Takkun'' (1984) – Mukko * ''Persia, the Magic Fairy'' (1984) – Theresa * '' High School! Kimengumi'' (1985) – Uru Chie * '' Sherlock Hound'' (1985) – Nicol * '' Dancouga'' (1985) – Shirley McGovern * ''Doteraman'' (1986) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayumi Shō
is a Japanese voice actress. She formerly worked at Aoni Production and is now a director at Kekke Corporation. She is married to voice actor Keiichi Nanba. Filmography Television animation *''Adventures of the Little Koala'' (1984) (Mimi) *''High School! Kimengumi'' (1985) (Kiri Ichidou) *''Dragon Ball'' (1986) (Chi-Chi) *''Maison Ikkoku'' (1986) (Ikuko Otonashi) *''Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ'' (1986) ( Haro and Qum) *''Lady!!'' (1987) (Mary Wavebury) *''Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari'' (1987) (Beth March) *''Kimagure Orange Road'' (1987) (Kumiko Oda) *''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' (1988) (Miyoko Nonoka (1st voice)) *'' Oishinbo'' (1988) (Yūko Kurita) *''Dragon Ball Z'' (1989) (Chi-Chi (1st voice)) *'' Konjiki no Gash Bell!!'' (2003) (Sherry's Mother) *''Futari wa Pretty Cure'' (2004) (Rie Misumi) *'' Welcome to the N.H.K.'' (2006) (Satou Shizue) *''Love Com'' (2007) (Umibozu's wife) OVA *''Fight! Iczer One'' (1985) (Nagisa Kanou) *''Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God'' (1985) (Sayuri Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenichi Ogata (voice Actor)
is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Fukuoka Prefecture. Some of his most notable projects have been '' Ranma ½'' as Genma Saotome, '' Mahōjin Guru Guru'' as Kita Kita Oyaji, ''Detective Conan'' as Professor Hiroshi Agasa, '' Atashin'chi'' as Father, ''Inuyasha'' as Myōga, '' Kirby: Right Back at Ya!'' as King Dedede, and the '' Ganbare Goemon'' series as Ebisumaru, Boxy & Boat Captain in the '' You're Under Arrest'' manga, television and film, respectively. The work in which he voiced the most characters was in the '' Super Robot Wars'' series. He used to work at Aoni Production and now is working at Umikaze. Biography Kenichi Ogata was born on March 29, 1942.Doi, Hitoshi"Ogata Kenichi" ''Seiyuu Database''. October 1, 2010. After graduating junior high school, Ogata studied cooking, and then went to high school, where he aimed to be a comedy performer, and worked for some theatrical companies. His voice acting debut was in '' Mazinger Z'', and has been voice acting sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Barry
Toni Barry (born June 26, 1961) is a British voice actress. She is also known to fans of the television show ''Press Gang'' as Spike's American girlfriend Zoe. Selected filmography *''Project A-ko'' - Asa *'' Dangaioh'' - Dira (uncredited) *'' Gall Force: Earth Chapter'' - Sandy Newman *'' Mystery of Mamo'' - Fujiko Mine *'' Bye-Bye Liberty Crisis'' - Fujiko Mine *'' Legend of the Four Kings'' - Matsuri Toba (UK English dub only) *''Roujin Z'' - Haruko *'' Dominion: Tank Police'' - Leona Osaki *'' X'' - Karen Kasumi *'' Space Channel 5: Part 2'' (video game) - Pine *''Press Gang'' - Zoe (series 3, 1991) *'' Patlabor: The Movie'' - Noa Izumi *'' Patlabor 2: The Movie'' - Noa Izumi *''Moomin'' - Snork Maiden, Little My *'' Lapitch the Little Shoemaker'' - Various Voices *''Teletubbies'' - Voice Trumpets, Talking Flowers Announcer, and Counter (American dubbed version) *''Labyrinth'' - Stepmother (uncredited) *'' Tears Before Bedtime'' - Debbie *'' A House in the Hils'' - Susie * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masami Ōbari
is a noted Japanese anime director, animation director and mecha and character designer. Biography After graduating from high school in 1985, Masami Obari began his career when he joined the animation studio Ashi Production, where he worked on shows such as ''Special Armored Battalion Dorvack'', ''Transformers'' (outsourced by Toei Animation to them sometimes), and '' Star Musketeer Bismarck''. Soon after, at the age of 19, he got his first major break when he landed the role of mecha designer on ''Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God''. Not too long after, at the young age of 21, he was given his first directorial role by directing episodes 5 and 6 of the ''Bubblegum Crisis'' OVA series. He also made three Fatal Fury OVAs from December 23, 1992, to July 16, 1994. In 1993, he founded Studio G-1 with fellow animators Kazuto Nakazawa, Masahiro Yamane, Takehiro Nakayama, and Atsuko Ishida, to whom Masami Obari was married, but from whom he is now divorced. Studio G-1 was later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |