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Del Rey Manga
Del Rey Manga was the manga-publishing imprint of Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books, which in turn is part of Random House, the publishing division of Bertelsmann. History Del Rey Manga was formed as part of a cross-publishing relationship with Japanese publisher Kodansha. Some of the Del Rey titles, such as ''Tsubasa Chronicle'' and '' xxxHolic'', are published in the United Kingdom by Tanoshimi. Tricia Narwani, the editor of Del Rey, stated that "Del Rey finds most of its talent through conventions and existing professional contacts". In October 2010, Kodansha and Random House announced that the US division of Kodansha, Kodansha USA, will take over publishing over all Del Rey Manga titles as well as their own manga, starting on December 1. Random House will act as the sales and marketing distributor. Titles Del Rey made its debut in May 2004 with four manga titles: * '' Mobile Suit Gundam Seed'' (''Kidō Senshi Gundam SEED'') - by Masatsugu Iwase * ''Negima! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delray
Delray is the name of several communities in the United States of America: *Delray, Georgia *Delray, Detroit, Michigan *Delray, Texas *Delray, West Virginia *Delray Beach, Florida *Delray Gardens, Florida *Delray Shores, Florida ;See also * Battle of Molino del Rey, inspiration for the name Delray of Detroit, in turn inspiration for the name Delray Beach, Florida * Del Ray (other) * Del Rey (other) * Chevrolet Delray {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book Resources
''Comic Book Resources'', also known by the initialism CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book–related news and discussion. History Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland created to discuss DC Comics' then-new mini-series of the same name. Comic Book Resources features columns written by industry professionals that have included Robert Kirkman, Gail Simone, and Mark Millar. Other columns are published by comic book historians and critics such as George Khoury and Timothy Callahan. In April 2016, Comic Book Resources was sold to Valnet Inc., a Montreal-based company based known for its acquisition and ownership of media properties including Screen Rant. The site was relaunched as CBR.com on August 23, 2016, with the blogs integrated into the site. The company has also hosted a YouTube channel since 2008, with 3.97 million subscribers as of December 21, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akimine Kamijyo
is the pen name of a Japanese manga artist. Her works include ''Samurai Deeper Kyo'', ''Shirogane no Karasu'' (also known as ''Silver Crow'') which started on May 30, 2007, in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', and her most recent work '' Code:Breaker'', which was completed in 2013. She started ''Kobayashi Shounen to Futei no Kaijin'' in 2017, as she planned from November 2016. She has also written ''doujinshi'' under the pen name Meika Hatagashira (伯明華). She worked as Rumiko Takahashi's assistant for two months. Then Haruko Kashiwagi's assistant. Works * (1999–2006, serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...) * (2007–2008, serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', Kodansha) * (2008-2013, serialized in ''Weekly Shōn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaker
Breaker may refer to: Objects * A breaking wave on water, or a "breaker", a shallow over which waves break * Circuit breaker, an electrical overload switch * Breaker (hydraulic), a percussion hammer attached to an excavator People * Breaker Morant (1864-1902), Anglo-Australian folk hero, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal nicknamed "The Breaker" * Daniel Breaker (born 1980), American actor and comedian * Ronald Breaker, American biochemist and Yale professor * Someone who performs B-boying, also known as breakdancing Places * Breaker Mountain, Canada * Mount Breaker, Graham Land, Antarctica * Breaker Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica * Breaker Reef, Hong Kong, an uninhabited island Arts and entertainment * ''The Breaker'' (film), a 1974 documentary about Breaker Morant * ''Breaker'' (Accept album), 1981 * ''Breaker'' (For Today album), 2010 * ''Breaker'' (Vary Lumar album), 2014 * ''The Breaker'' (album), by Little Big Town, 2017 * ''The Breaker'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh! Great
, known professionally as Oh! great, is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga series ''Tenjho Tenge'' (1997–2010) and ''Air Gear'' (2002–2012). In 2006, ''Air Gear'' earned him the Kodansha Manga Award in the '' shōnen'' category. Career Oh! great's favorite manga as a child included ''Fist of the North Star'' and ''Ring ni Kakero''. While working as a salaryman, Oh! great acquired debt playing pachinko and entered a manga contest for the award money. He made his debut in Byakuya-Shobo's adult magazine ''Manga Hot Milk'' in 1995 with a manga called ''September Kiss''. His pen name "Oh! great" is a play on words. His real name, written in Japanese order (family name before given name), is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great", ''ōgurēto'' . Oh! great also created the pornographic series ''Silky Whip'', which was his first work published outside Japan by Eros Comix. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Gear
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Oh! great, serialized in Kodansha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from November 2002 to May 2012, with its chapters collected in thirty-seven ''tankōbon'' volumes. ''Air Gear'' revolves around the life of Itsuki Minami "Ikki or Crow", also known as "Baby Face", "Lil (and Little) Crow", and his friends. The story follows their use of Air Gear, an in-universe invention derived from inline skates. Initial sections of the plot carries out the introduction of characters that eventually join Ikki. As the story progresses, it focuses on their roles as Storm Riders and their quest to be on the top of the Trophaeum Tower, the pinnacle that all Storm Riders hope to reach. ''Air Gear'' was adapted into a twenty-five episode anime television series by Toei Animation, which aired on TV Tokyo from April to September 2006. A 3-episode original video animation (OVA), titled ''Air Gear: Break on the Sky'', produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Asakura
is a Japanese manga artist. She took her pen name from one of the title characters in ''Gatchaman'' and made her debut in 1995 with ''Punky Cake Junkie'', which was published in the magazine ''Bessatsu Friend DX Juliet''. She is best known for ''A Perfect Day for Love Letters'', for which she received the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga, and ''Knock Your Heart Out!''. ''A Perfect Day for Love Letters'' was adapted as a live-action movie and has been licensed in English by Del Rey Manga. Known for her unique, edgy style and storytelling, George Asakura crosses over between the everyday and the fantastic, the hilarious and bittersweet. Her past works include ''Shōnen Shōjo Romance'', ''Bara Ga Saita'', ''Suimitsuto No Yoru'', ''Happy End'' (published by Kodansha), ''Heart wo Uchinomese'', '' Piece of Cake'', ''Karaoke Baka Ichidai'' (published by Shodensha), '' Heibon Punch'' (published by Shogakukan), '' Oboreru Knife'' ("The Drowning Knife", published by Kodansha), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Perfect Day For Love Letters
is a Japanese manga short story series written and illustrated by George Asakura. Each story depicts a relationship that revolves around the use of love letters. The stories were originally published by Kodansha in the '' shōjo'' (aimed at teenage girls) manga magazine ''Bessatsu Friend'', and collected in two bound volumes. ''A Perfect Day for Love Letters'' received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga along with '' Oi Piitan!!'' by Risa Itou in 2005. A live action film adaptation premiered in Japan on December 4, 2004. It was also adapted into a Japanese television drama in 2014. Manga In Japan, Kodansha published both ''tankōbon'' volumes in March 2001 ( and ). The series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Del Rey Manga. The first published in June 2005 () and the second in November 2005 (). Reception Anime News Network Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clamp (manga Artists)
Clamp (stylized as CLAMP) is an all-female Japanese Mangaka, manga artist group, consisting of leader and writer Nanase Ohkawa (born in Osaka), and three artists whose roles shift for each series: Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi (all born in Kyoto). Clamp was first formed in the mid-1980s as an eleven-member group creating ''dōjinshi'' (self-published Fan labor, fan works), and began creating original manga in 1987. By the time the group made its mainstream publishing debut with ''RG Veda'' in 1989, it was reduced to seven members; three more members left in 1993, leaving the four current members of the group. Notable works by Clamp include ''X (manga), X'' (1992), ''Magic Knight Rayearth'' (1993), ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' (1996) and its sequel ''Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card'' (2016), ''Chobits'' (2000), and ''xxxHolic'' and ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'' (both 2003). Various series by the group cross-reference each other, and characters reappear in multiple works by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reservoir Chronicle
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building any number of retaining walls or levees. In other contexts, "reservoirs" may refer to storage spaces for various fluids; they may hold liquids or gasses, including hydrocarbons. ''Tank reservoirs'' store these in ground-level, elevated, or buried tanks. Tank reservoirs for water are also called cisterns. Most underground reservoirs are used to store liquids, principally either water or petroleum. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley, and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Akamatsu
is a Japanese manga artist and politician who has served since 2022 as a member of the House of Councillors. He made his professional manga debut in 1993, and is best known as the author of ''Love Hina'' (1998–2001) and ''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'' (2003–2012), both serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine''; a sequel to ''Negima!'', ''UQ Holder!'', was serialized from 2013 to 2022. In 2011, Akamatsu founded J-Comi (now Manga Library Z), a free digital distributor of out-of-print manga. Akamatsu has been a managing director of the Japan Cartoonists Association since 2018, and is a vocal advocate for protecting freedom of expression in manga and anime from expansions in censorship and copyright law. In the 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election, he won a seat as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party in the national proportional representation block on a free expression platform, becoming the first manga creator in the National Diet. Early life Ken Akamatsu w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negima! Magister Negi Magi
''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from February 2003 to March 2012, with its chapters collected into 38 ''tankōbon'' volumes. ''Negima!'' was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series produced by Xebec that was broadcast on TV Tokyo from January to June 2005. A second 26-episode series produced by Shaft titled ''Negima!?'', which is alternate retelling, was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2006 to March 2007. In addition, four different sets of original video animations, an anime film and a live-action television series have also been produced. In North America, the manga was licensed for English language release by Del Rey Manga and later by Kodansha USA. In the UK the first sixteen volumes were published by Tanoshimi. Both anime and the second OVAs were licensed by Funimation. Sentai Filmworks re-licensed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
