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Gungrave (TV Series)
is a Japanese anime television series based on the video game of the same name, created by Yasuhiro Nightow. The series follows Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowell as they rise through the ranks of the Millennion crime syndicate. It was produced and animated by Madhouse, directed by Toshiyuki Tsuru, written by Yōsuke Kuroda, with music composed by Tsuneo Imahori. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2003 to March 2004, totaling twenty-six episodes. The series was first licensed in North America by Geneon EntertainmentAX2003 - Pioneer Acquisitions . Anime News Network. July 5, 2003. 2009-12-23. and later by . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction or science fiction, but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has multiple subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, and legal thrillers. Most crime drama focuses on crime investigation and does not feature the courtroom. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre. History The '' One Thousand and One Nights'' (''Arabian Nights'') contains the earliest known examples of crime fiction. One example of a story of this genre is the medieval Arabic tale of "The Three Apples", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Current
Anime Current was an anime television block running on G4 Canada, in which one series is broadcast from beginning to end. It was similar to Anime Unleashed, a former programming block on the American version of G4. It premiered on 6 November 2006 with R.O.D the TV. On 1 January 2007, G4techTV and Geneon Entertainment announced an exclusive deal in which Geneon titles would air on Anime Current. Previously, Geneon's first (and only) title that aired in Canada was ''Samurai Champloo'' on Razer's Kamikaze block. On 25 June 2007, the channel announced the lineup would include six series, first being, ''Serial Experiments Lain'', ''Texhnolyze'', ''Last Exile'', ''Tokyo Underground'', ''Ergo Proxy'', and ''Paranoia Agent''.{{Cite web , url=http://www.g4techtv.ca/aboutus/press/p_20070625_release.shtml , title=G4 TechTV Canada announces 6 new series for Anime Current , access-date=28 June 2007 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519022441/http://www.g4techtv.ca/aboutus/pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuko Inoue
is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator. She has been part of the singing groups DoCo and Goddess Family Club. She is the founder and manager of her voice-acting company, Office Anemone. Inoue tends to play the " perfect girlfriend" or "motherly" role in many series, but has also played more sultry and provocative roles. Biography Inoue's vocal roles are usually female characters characterized as dignified, reserved, beautiful, kind, regal, mature or domestic. For example, Belldandy, a goddess who is kind, compassionate and skilled at domestic tasks. Kasumi Tendo is an older sister who has taken over domestic duties after the death of her mother, and who acts as a counterbalance to the more rambunctious members of her family. Notably, both Kasumi and Belldandy are almost parallels of each other due to their roles as domestics in a home which could explode into chaos at any moment. She also plays Rune Venus in ''El-Hazard'', a princess and leader of her country; as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Oliver
Tony Oliver is an American voice actor best known for voicing Rick Hunter from '' Robotech'', Lancer from ''Fate/stay night'', and Arsène Lupin III from '' Lupin the Third''. He helped produce the live action shows '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' and '' VR Troopers''. Filmography Anime Animation Live-action roles Film Video game roles Documentaries [Baidu] |
Kenji Hamada
is a Japanese voice actor from Fukuoka, Japan who is an affiliate of Mausu Promotion. On adult works, he goes under the alias of . Personal life In 1996, Hamada enrolled at Ezaki Production school. Since 1998, he has been affiliated with Mausu Promotion. He has admitted that he has been a heavy smoker since high school, but as of 2014 he has quit smoking. Hamada has been married to fellow voice actress Junko Takeuchi since 2006 with whom he has two children. Filmography Television animation ;1998 *''Fancy Lala'' – Nishiyama ;1999 *'' Devil Lady'' – Arito *''Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure'' – Toshihiko Izawa ;2000 *'' Saiyuki'' – Silver-haired Demon ;2001 *'' Geneshaft'' – Mario Musicanova *''Star Ocean EX'' – "La" ;2002 *'' Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution'' – Akane's Manager (ep 7) *'' Duel Masters'' – Kirifuda's Father *''Heat Guy J'' – Blood ;2003 *''Gungrave'' – Harry MacDowel (Teen) *'' Green Green'' – Taizou Tenjin *'' Mujin Wakusei Survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsutomu Isobe
is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He is the best known dubbing roles for Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Chow Yun-fat, Peter Weller, Tim Allen, Sean Bean, Choi Min-sik, Stringfellow Hawke (Airwolf) and many more. His daughter is actress and he is married to , an actress employed by Haiyuza Theatre Company. Biography After graduating from junior college, Isobe joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company in 1972, where he gained experience on stage under director Koreya Senda, mainly in Shakespeare's plays, which were well received. Later, he played the role of Shishiōin, the nemesis of the main character, Kirigakure Saizō, in NHK's drama ''Fūjin no Mon''. Since then, he has played roles in many stage, television, animation, and film productions in both period and contemporary dramas, and left Haiyuza in 1989. ''Kramer vs. Kramer'' was his debut as a voice actor, and he was the main voice of Stringfellow Hawke, the protagonist of Airwolf, as well as Harrison Ford, Mel G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Thornton
Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and script writer working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese anime shows. Career His major roles include Brandon Heat in ''Gungrave'', Hotohori in '' Fushigi Yūgi'', Klein in ''Sword Art Online'', Jin in ''Samurai Champloo'', Hajime Saito in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Jet Link in ''Cyborg 009'', Don Patch in ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'', Ensign Nogami in '' The Cockpit'' and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the popular anime series ''Bleach'' alongside Wendee Lee and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Number VII Organization XIII member Saïx in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series and Shadow the Hedgehog (since 2010) and Orbot (since 2008) in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series. In early February 1989, he also appeared as a contestant on the game show '' Classic Concentration''. Personal life Thornton is married to Julie Nesbitt. Together they have two children. Filmography Anime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomokazu Seki
is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He has previously worked with Haikyō. He is honorary president of and affiliated with Atomic Monkey and the chairman of theater company HeroHero Q. He is a special lecturer at Japan Newart College. Career Seki landed his first role in 1993 anime '' Mobile Suit Victory Gundam'' as Tomache Massarik. Some of his most notable roles include Shinichi Chiaki from '' Nodame Cantabile'', Gilgamesh from '' Fate/stay night'', Rob Lucci from ''One Piece'', '' Gundam'' characters Domon Kasshu and Yzak Joule (from '' G Gundam'', '' Gundam Seed'' Gundam Seed Destiny, respectively), Kyo Sohma from '' Fruits Basket'', Whisper from '' Yo-kai Watch'', Kanji Tatsumi from ''Persona 4'', Shinya Kogami from '' Psycho-Pass'', Ichiro Miyata from ''Hajime no Ippo'', Haru Glory from '' Rave Master'', Toya Kinomoto ( Sakura Kinomoto's older brother) from ''Cardcaptor Sakura'', Van Fanel from ''The Vision of Escaflowne'', Suneo Honekawa in ''Doraemon'', Chichiri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Grave (Gungrave)
, born , is the protagonist of Red Entertainment's action third-person shooter series ''Gungrave''. Formerly a trusted member of the Millennion's Family who was killed by his best friend Harry McDowell, Brandon was revived as part of a result of experiments. '' Gungrave'' opens shortly after his resurrection, fifteen years after his death. Grave is a silent protagonist, receiving his mission and carrying it out without a word. He has reappeared in the multiple sequels ''Gungrave'' has had, where he faces new enemies alongside allies. The character has also appeared in the crossover game '' Chaos Wars'' and Madhouse's anime adaptation of the first game. Beyond the Grave was created by manga artist Yasuhiro Nightow when staff members from Red Entertainment requested his help with the idea of ''Gungrave''. Nightow chose Grave to be silent based on his preferences with video games and felt that his design became too difficult to animate. Across the sequels, the staff in charge of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneon Entertainment
(abbreviated as NBCUEJ) is a Japanese music, anime, and home entertainment production and distribution enterprise headquartered in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. It is primarily involved in the production and distribution of anime within Japan. The company was founded in March 1981 by Pioneer Corporation as LaserDisc Corporation, a LaserDisc player production company. In 1989, the company was renamed Pioneer LDC, Inc. as it branched into the anime, music, and film industries, and later Geneon Entertainment Inc. (after being acquired by Dentsu in 2003). In 2008, Geneon merged with Universal Pictures Japan to form Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan, LLC; in 2013, the company changed its name to the current NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan. Some of the well-known anime series the company has produced are ''A Certain Magical Index'', ''The Heroic Legend of Arslan'', '' Danganronpa: The Animation'', ''Golden Kamuy'', and ''Seraph of the End'' among many others. Their North American b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Syndicate
Organized crime (or organised crime) is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally thought of as a form of illegal business, some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups, rebel forces, and separatists, are politically motivated. Many criminal organizations rely on fear or terror to achieve their goals or aims as well as to maintain control within the organization and may adopt tactics commonly used by authoritarian regimes to maintain power. Some forms of organized crime simply exist to cater towards demand of illegal goods in a state or to facilitate trade of goods and services that may have been banned by a state (such as illegal drugs or firearms). Sometimes, criminal organizations force people to do business with them, such as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for "protection". Street gangs may often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasuhiro Nightow
is a Japanese manga artist. His major work '' Trigun'' was adapted into an anime series and film. He also designed the characters for the video game and anime series ''Gungrave'', and has been working on the manga '' Blood Blockade Battlefront''. Biography Nightow was born in Yokohama, and moved to Yokosuka when he was in elementary school, and spent his junior high and high school years in Shizuoka. His first exposure to comics was through Fujio Akatsuka's '' Tensai Bakabon'', and he was also influenced by the comics of Leiji Matsumoto such as ''Yamato'', ''Harlock'' and ''999''. He also was drawn to the work done in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' which included artists Rumiko Takahashi and Fujihiko Hosono. Regarding "new wave" artists, he liked Katsuhiro Otomo from ''Sayonara Nippon'', and Fumiko Takano. He studied social science and then majored in media studies at Housei University. While there, he drew manga as a hobby, and made some '' dojinshi''. After graduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
