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Fish In The Trap
is a three-volume Japanese yaoi manga that follows the relationship between a high school swim team captain and his young admirer. It was created by Ranma Nekokichi, and the OVA prequel offers a beforehand look into the characters' lives and relationships with each other. The manga is licensed in Russia by Comics Factory. Plot The series begins when a five-year-old boy named Matsui Takahiro is playing with his friend Teru and his dog; suddenly, they both notice a blue-haired young man staring at them named Yuuji. Matsui doesn't know him but is surprised to hear Yuuji say, "I want a dog" before leaving the scene. Many years later Matsui is now a teenager and is seen hanging out with his best friend Eiichi Yoshino, then after watching a high school swimming competition, he falls in love with the swim captain and decides, upon entering his freshman year of high school, to take up swimming. The two eventually become involved in a relationship. However, the swim captain's old gang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranma Nekokichi
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Ranma may refer to: * ''Ranma ½'', a Japanese manga series ** Ranma Saotome, the title character in the ''Ranma ½'' media franchise * Ranma (architectural), a type of transom found in traditional Japanese architecture See also * Ramna Thana, a location in Bangladesh * Ranna (other) Ranna may refer to: *Ranna, a subdivision of the town Auerbach in der Oberpfalz in Bavaria, Germany * Ranna, Estonia, a village in the former municipality Pala Parish, Estonia * Ranna (Danube), a river of Bavaria, Germany and of Upper Austria, trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takehito Koyasu
is a Japanese voice actor from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.Doi, Hitoshi"Koyasu Takehito" ''Seiyuu Database''. January 3, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2011. He is affiliated with and representative of T's Factory, a voice acting agency he founded in October 1998.「子安武人、野中政宏、安井邦彦 スーパートークバトル'97」《ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ'97 〜オフィシャルコレクション〜》, Shinseisha, September 27, 1997, page 26 His son is , a fellow voice actor. Koyasu has taken over many of the characters played by Kaneto Shiozawa after his death. Career When Koyasu was in junior high school, he, as an aspiring screen actor himself, was such a movie buff that he would watch movies every day without going to school. By chance, he saw the scene before Tetsurō Hoshino's departure in '' Adieu Galaxy Express 999'' where a group of nameless soldiers take him on the 999 and send him on his way, and was impressed by it. This sparked hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Anime And Manga
Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to: Common meanings * Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings * Romance languages, a subgroup of the Italic languages ** Romance studies, an academic discipline studying the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language Places * Romance, Arkansas, U.S. * Romance, Missouri, U.S. * Romance, West Virginia U.S. * Romance, Wisconsin, U.S. Arts, entertainment, and media Film * Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists ** Romantic comedy ** Romantic thriller * ''Romance'' (1920 film), silent film, directed by Chester Withey * ''Romance'' (1930 film), starring Greta Garbo * ''Romance'' (1936 film), an Austrian film starring Carl Esmond * ''Romance'' (1983 film), a Bollywood film produced and directed by Ramanand Sagar * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hentai Anime And Manga
Hentai is anime and manga pornography. A loanword from Japanese, the original term ( ) does not describe a genre of media, but rather an abnormal sexual desire or act, as an abbreviation of . In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exist in a variety of media, including artwork and video games (commonly known as ''eroge''). The development of hentai has been influenced by Japanese cultural and historical attitudes toward sexuality. Hentai works, which are often self-published, form a significant portion of the market for '' doujin'' works, including ''doujinshi''. Numerous subgenres exist depicting a variety of sexual acts and relationships, as well as novel fetishes. Terminology ''Hentai'' is a kanji compound of (; 'change' or 'weird') and (; 'appearance' or 'condition'), and means "metamorphosis" or "transformation". In sexual contexts, it carries additional meanings of "perversion" or "abnormality", especially when used as an adjective; in these uses, it is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Anime And Manga
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ''Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' rather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Anime OVAs
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1993 Manga
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The Anime Encyclopedia
''The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917'' is a 2001 encyclopedia written by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy. It was published in 2001 by Stone Bridge Press in the United States, and a "revised and expanded" edition was released in 2006. In the United Kingdom, it was published by Titan Books. The third edition was released on 3 March 2015 with the subtitle of ''A Century of Japanese Animation''. It gives an overview of most of the famous anime works since 1917. Reception Anime News Network's George Phillips commends the encyclopaedia for "In-depth analysis of several major series, and discussions on hundreds of anime series rarely (if ever) heard of in the West" but criticises it for titles that "aren't listed under the names you suspect; can be quite confusing at first". Animation World Network's Fred Patten comments on the book being "300 pages larger; a 40% expansion" in its "Revised and Expanded" edition compared to the original volume. He commen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen McCarthy
Helen McCarthy (born 27 February 1951) is the British author of such anime reference books as ''500 Manga Heroes and Villains'', ''Anime!'', ''The Anime Movie Guide'' and ''Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation''. She is the co-author of ''The Erotic Anime Movie Guide'' and the exhaustive ''The Anime Encyclopedia'' with Jonathan Clements. She also designs needlework and textile art. Background McCarthy was the first English-speaking author to write a book about anime, in addition to being "the first person in the United Kingdom to run an anime programme at a convention, start a dedicated anime newsletter, and edit a dedicated anime magazine." In 1991, she founded ''Anime UK'' magazine, and in 1992 became one of the principal contributors to ''Super Play'', an SNES title with a heavy anime and manga bias. ''Anime UK'' became ''Anime FX'' after a change of backer and closed at the end of 1996. Andy Frain of Manga Entertainment, then the most influential anime distributor i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Clements
Jonathan Michael Clements (born 9 July 1971) is a British author and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shi Huang, as well as monthly opinion columns for '' Neo'' magazine. He is also the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas. Background Clements speaks both Chinese and Japanese, and many of his works relate to East Asia. He wrote his Master's degree at the University of Stirling on manga and anime exports, predicting the rise of several trends in the international industry including back-to-front printing, direct American investment in anime, and the proliferation of attempts to substitute non-Japanese products. Subsequently, he translated over 70 anime and manga works for British distributors, and worked as a voice director and actor. He wrote his PhD at the University of Wales on the industrial history of Japanese animation, later published by the British Film Institute as ''Anime: A History''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuya Iwanaga (voice Actor)
is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with maxmix. Filmography Television animation *''Genji Tsūshin Agedama'' (1991) (Suzuki) *''Aoki Densetsu Shoot!'' (1994) (Sawaguchi, Katsuhisa Takahashi) *''Tottemo! Luckyman'' (1994) (Superstarman) *''Jura Tripper'' (1995) (O-Taku) *''Fushigi Yûgi'' (1995) (Tomite) *''Romeo's Blue Skies'' (1995) (Benalibo Marco) *''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' (1995) (Kensuke Aida) *'' El-Hazard'' (1995) (Makoto Mizuhara) *''Wild Knights Gulkeeva'' (1995) (Shinjou Touya) *''Slayers'' (1995) (Hallas Ryzu) *'' H2'' (1996) (Tetsu Sagawa) *''Virtua Fighter'' (1996) (Lion Rafale) *''Chūka Ichiban!'' (1997) (Tan Sanche) *''Fancy Lala'' (1998) (Imaichi) *''Gasaraki'' (1998) (Jun Kitazawa) *''Princess Nine'' (1998) (Seishiro Natsume) *'' St. Luminous Mission High School'' (1998) (Kaihei Kijima) *''Haré+Guu'' (2001) (Wiggle) *'' s-CRY-ed'' (2001) ( Asuka Tachibana) *''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'' (2001) (Marik Ishtar) *''Crush Gear Turbo'' (2002) (Sean Firestone) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuo Tobita
is a Japanese voice actor and narrator from Ibaraki Prefecture. He is represented by Arts Vision. He is most known for the roles of Kamille Bidan (''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam''), Albert Heinrich/004 (''Cyborg 009'' (2001)), and Sueo Maruo (''Chibi Maruko-chan''). His debut role is Bob in the 1982 anime television series ''Cybot Robotchi''. He has also voiced many characters for the story CDs in ''Sound Horizon''. Filmography Television animation ;1982 *''Cybot Robotchi'' (Bob) ;1983 *''Captain Tsubasa'' (Ken Wakashimazu) ;1985 *''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' (Kamille Bidan) ;1986 *''Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ'' (Kamille Bidan) ;1987 *'' Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari (Little Women)'' (Theodore "Laurie" Laurence) ;1991 *''Goldfish Warning!'' (Aoi) ;1993 *''Mobile Suit Victory Gundam'' (Mathis Walker) ;1994 *''Mobile Fighter G Gundam'' (Ulube Ishikawa) ;1995 *''Fushigi Yūgi'' (Tomo) ;1996 *''Rurouni Kenshin'' (Takeda Kanryū) ;2001 *''Cyborg 009'' (Albert Heinrich/004) *''Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
