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Gai Murakumo
This is a list of fictional characters featured in the Cosmic Era (CE) timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries. These characters appear in the ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'' anime television series, as well as in the manga and OVA spinoffs. Both series focus on the raging conflict between Naturals and Coordinators, the former being regular humans and the latter being genetically-enhanced ones. ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' begins when the neutral space colony Heliopolis is attacked by ZAFT, a military organization composed of Coordinators. Coordinator Kira Yamato pilots the mobile suit GAT-X105 Strike to protect his friends on the Naturals' ship ''Archangel'' from potential enemies as they head towards Earth. ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'' continues two years after ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and follows the teenager Shinn Asuka and his duties in ZAFT. Protagonists Kira Yamato is a first-generation Coordinator, who lives on the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Character (arts)
In fiction, a character (or speaker, in poetry) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a "fictional" versus "real" character may be made. Derived from the Ancient Greek word , the English word dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in '' Tom Jones'' by Henry Fielding in 1749. From this, the sense of "a part played by an actor" developed.Harrison (1998, 51-2) quotation: (Before this development, the term ''dramatis personae'', naturalized in English from Latin and meaning "masks of the drama," encapsulated the notion of characters from the literal aspect of masks.) Character, particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema, involves "the illusion of being a human person". In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helpi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Sheh
Stephanie Sheh is an American voice actress, ADR director, writer and producer who has worked for several major companies, including Cartoon Network and Sony. She is often involved with work in English dubs of anime, cartoons, video games and films. Her notable voice roles include Hinata Hyuga in the ''Naruto'' franchise, Orihime Inoue in '' Bleach'', Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon in the Viz Media redub of '' Sailor Moon'', Yui Hirasawa in ''K-On!'', Eureka in ''Eureka Seven'', ''Katana'' in DC Super Hero Girls, Mikuru Asahina in ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', Mona and Kat in ''WarioWare Gold'', Yui in ''Sword Art Online'', Illyasviel von Einzbern in ''Fate/stay night'', Mamimi Samejima in ''FLCL'', and Mitsuha Miyamizu in ''Your Name''. Career Sheh was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and was raised in Northern California. She spent much of her childhood in Taiwan, where half of her relatives still live and speak Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien. Sheh became interested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Diraison
Marc R. Diraison (born February 7, 1975) is an American voice actor, Dubbing (filmmaking), ADR director, and screenwriter, script writer who has worked for Bang Zoom! Entertainment, NYAV Post, 4Kids Entertainment and DuArt Film and Video. He is best known as the voice of List of Berserk characters#Guts, Guts in ''Berserk (manga), Berserk'' and Tokiomi Tohsaka in ''Fate/Zero.'' Filmography Anime Animation Films Video games References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diraison, Marc Living people People from California Actors from California American male voice actors American voice directors American male video game actors 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors 1975 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Kavadas
Andrew Kavadas is a Canadian actor who works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Career Kavadas has played several roles in anime, most notably Patrick Zala in ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED''. He also played Kate Beckinsale's character's father in '' Underworld: Evolution''. One of his best recognised roles outside anime also includes a depiction of Simon Belmont in '' Captain N: The Game Master'', stylized as an egotistic, narcissistic and (occasionally) cowardly vampire hunter. He also made several appearances on ''Stargate'', most notably as Olaf in Thor's Hammer (Stargate SG-1), and appeared alongside Katherine McNamara and Dove Cameron in Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls as Dr. Hysteria. Selected filmography Anime *''Death Note'' (Kyōsuke Higuchi) *''Dragon Ball Z'' (Ocean Dub) (Maraikoh) *''Human Crossing'' (Hiroshi Tsuruhashi) *''InuYasha'' (Nimenka Tree) *''Master Keaton'' (Edward Langley) *''Mobile Suit Gundam 00'' ( Alejandro Corner) *''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' (Patrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athrun Zala
is a fictional character from the Japanese science fiction anime television series ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and its sequel ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'', part of the Gundam franchise. In the former, Athrun Zala is introduced as a member from the military organization ZAFT, composed of genetically enhanced humans known as Coordinators. Participating in the war between Coordinators and regular humans, referred to as Naturals, Athrun discovered that his childhood friend Kira Yamato was a member of the Naturals' military organization, the Earth Alliance, despite being a Coordinator. Across the series, Athrun encounters Kira and, after almost killing him, Athrun starts questioning his own motives to participate in the war. Athrun returns in ''Gundam SEED Destiny'' participating in another war and is the protagonist of its compilation films. He is voiced in Japanese by Akira Ishida and in English by Sam Vincent in the Ocean dub and by Chris Hackney in the NYAV dub. Athrun has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshihiko Seki
is a Japanese actor, voice actor, singer and narrator. In June 2004, Seki was honored by the readers of Animage Magazine in the 26th Annual Reader's Poll, where he was ranked the 9th favorite voice actor, largely in recognition of his performance as Rau Le Creuset from '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED''. In August 2007 the Anime News Network called him one of the more prolific male voice actors with 215 roles credited to his name. Seki often voices characters who are very serious or easily agitated like Duo Maxwell in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', Iruka Umino in ''Naruto'', Kaien Shiba in ''Bleach'' and Genjo Sanzo in Saiyuki but he also plays deranged villains like Legato Bluesummers, Rau Le Creuset, Embryo and Muzan Kibutsuji. His most famous role is the Imagin Momotaros from '' Kamen Rider Den-O'', reprising the role numerous productions since then. In August 2020, he contracted COVID-19 and was hospitalized. He recovered and was discharged on August 14, 2020. Filmography Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandai
is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and Richmond, London. Bandai is a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings and is the parent company's core toy production division. From 1981 until 2001, Bandai produced video game consoles. Bandai was founded by World War II veteran Naoharu Yamashina as Bandai-Ya on July 5, 1950 as the corporate spin-off of a textile wholesaler. The company began as a distributor of metallic toys and rubber swimming rings, before moving to metal cars and aircraft models. It was renamed Bandai Co., Ltd. in 1961 and achieved considerable success with its action figures based on the anime ''Astro Boy''. History Origins and success with toys (1947–1968) In 1947, Naoharu Yamashina began working for a Kanazawa-based textile wholesaler. The eldest son to a rice retailer, Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
