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Haikyu!!
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from February 2012 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 45 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The story follows Shoyo Hinata, a boy determined to become a great volleyball player despite his small stature. An anime television series adaptation produced by Production I.G, aired on MBS from April 2014 to September 2014, with 25 episodes. A second season aired from October 2015 to March 2016, with 25 episodes. A third season aired from October 2016 to December 2016, with 10 episodes. A fourth season was announced during the Jump Festa '19 and was released in two cours; the first 13-episode cour aired from January to April 2020, and the second 12-episode cour aired from October to December 2020. The anime film series titled ''Haikyu!! Final'', has been announced, which serves as the finale of the series. In North Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoyo Hinata
is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the manga series ''Haikyu!!'' created by Haruichi Furudate. Shoyo is a high school student who wishes to become like the "Little Giant," a former Karasuno High School student and volleyball club member. To achieve his dream, he decides to join Karasuno, but to join the volleyball team he and Tobio Kageyama, a previous volleyball match opponent, must overcome their rivalry and work together. In the ''Haikyu!!'' anime adaptation, he is voiced by Ayumu Murase in Japanese and Bryson Baugus in English. Concept and creation In the one shot of ''Haikyu!!!'', Kageyama was the protagonist and Hinata his teammate. However, in the manga, Furudate chose a short boy as the main character in order to draw a '' shonen'' manga. In an interview with ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', Furudate stated that the development of Hinata dropping out of a major game because he had a fever was decided early on to show that Hinata could not survive only with his impul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asami Tachibana
is a Japanese composer, Arrangement, arranger, pianist and Record producer, music producer. She has provided the music for several anime series, Japanese television drama, television dramas and video games. She is best known for composing the soundtrack for ''Darling in the Franxx'', as well as for co-composing the scores for ''Seraph of the End'' and ''Haikyu!!''. Biography Tachibana was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1987. She began playing piano from an early age. Later, she learned other Musical instrument, instruments by joining music clubs at school, playing Horn (instrument), horn in junior high school and double bass in high school. After school, she decided to devote herself to music, studying composition and arrangement diligently. In 2011, alongside Yutaka Yamada, Tachibana made her debut as a composer in the television series ''HUNTER - Women After Reward Money''. Since then, she has been involved in many soundtrack works, several of which with composer Yuki Haya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruichi Furudate
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for creating ''Haikyu!!''. Biography Haruichi Furudate was born on March 7, 1983 in Karumai, Iwate. After graduating from high school, he attended in Miyagi Prefecture. In 2008, Furudate wrote the one-shot ''King Kid'', which won an honorable mention for the . In 2010, Furudate launched his first full series in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', ''Philosophy School, Yotsuya Sensei's Ghost Stories''. In the next year, Furudate wrote ''Haikyu!!'' starting as two one-shots that were published in ''Jump NEXT!'' and ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' in January 2011 and April 2011 respectively. The one-shots were later turned into a full series, which started serialization in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' on February 20, 2012. The series ended in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' on July 20, 2020. While the series was serializing, it was awarded the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the ''shōnen'' category and ranked in the top three manga series for the 2015 Sugoi Japan A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Hayashi (composer)
is a Japanese composer and arranger best known for his work on the soundtracks for television dramas, anime, and films. His notable works include ''Triangle'' (in collaboration with Hiroyuki Sawano), ''Zettai Reido'', ''Diabolik Lovers'', ''Asa ga Kita'', ''Haikyū!!'' and ''My Hero Academia''. Biography Hayashi was born in Kyoto, Japan. He used to be an athlete for Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics and then he became fascinated by background score when selecting gymnastics floor music. Although he had no experience in producing music before, he started learning to compose himself during college years. He sold one of his pieces for 5000 yen to junior players as their gymnastics background music, and progressively more orders came after other teams heard his works. After graduation, he became an apprentice of Hideo Kobayashi to learn beatmaking and meanwhile, he also began making background music for dancesport. He then joined the music agency Legendoor in 2009 with his first major work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taku Kishimoto
is a Japanese anime screenwriter. After leaving Studio Ghibli, he was put in charge of screenwriting for '' Bunny Drop''. Following its completion, he has worked on several series, some of which are ''Haikyu!!'', '' Erased'', and the remake of ''Fruits Basket''. Biography Taku Kishimoto was born in Hyōgo Prefecture. After graduating from Chiba University with a master's degree, Kishimoto worked as an editor for . After leaving Cyzo, Kishimoto worked for Studio Ghibli. At one point, he tried to get the role of head screenwriter for ''Arrietty'', but he was ultimately not chosen by Hayao Miyazaki. After leaving Studio Ghibli, he was granted the position of head screenwriter for '' Bunny Drop''. In 2016, he did the screenwriting for ''Joker Game'' and '' Erased'', both of which were nominated for anime of the year at the first Crunchyroll Anime Awards. ''Erased'' also won the award for best drama. In the ''Newtype'' magazine's awards in the same year, ''Joker Game'' won the Nogizak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medialink
Medialink Group Limited is a content distributor and licensor based in Kowloon, Hong Kong specializing in the distribution of Japanese anime and brand licensing. Its offices are located at Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Registered from Hong Kong Companies Registry, Medialink was founded as Medialink International Limited by Lovinia Chiu in March 1994. In 2018, co-founders Lovinia and Noletta Chiu integrated Medialink Entertainment and Medialink Animation International into the Medialink Group, which was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2019. Anime distribution Medialink Entertainment handles the content acquisition and distribution of Japanese anime in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The company does not directly release its own properties, but instead selects some anime titles for release on home video through its distribution partners such as Asia Video Publishing in Hong Kong, CaiChang International Mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the programme at the Atlanta 1996. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōnen Jump+
is a Japanese online magazine for manga created by Shueisha, spin-off from its ''Jump'' line of magazines. Launched on September 22, 2014, the magazine operates as a free mobile app and website. The magazine serializes original titles and titles from other Shueisha manga magazines, and also carries digital editions of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. Notable titles serialized in ''Shōnen Jump+'' include '' Fire Punch'', ''World's End Harem'', ''Astra Lost in Space'', '' Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku'', ''Spy × Family'', '' Kaiju No. 8'' and '' Dandadan''. Outside of Japan, Shueisha releases the original manga from the platform on ''Manga Plus''. Starting in 2023, every new manga series launched on ''Shōnen Jump+'' will receive a simultaneous English release on ''Manga Plus''. History Pre-launch Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' reached a peak weekly circulation of 6.53 million copies in the 1990s, though its readership has since steadily declined as a result of the broader decline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viz Media
VIZ Media LLC is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is owned by Japanese publishing conglomerates Shueisha and Shogakukan, as well as Japanese production company Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro). In 2017, Viz Media was the largest publisher of graphic novels in the United States, with a 23% share of the market. In 2020, Viz Media saw a 70% growth in the U.S. market, in line with a 43% increase in overall manga sales in the United States the same year. Early history Seiji Horibuchi, originally from Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku, Japan, moved to California, United States in 1975. After living in the suburbs for almost two years, he moved to San Francisco, where he started a business exporting American cultural items to Japan, and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tankōbon
is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ... term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or monthly List of manga magazines, manga anthology with other works before being published as volumes containing several chapters each. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Magazine Comics, and Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics. Japanese comics (manga) manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animax Asia
Animax is the pay television channel in Asia owned by KC Global Media Asia which broadcasts Japanese language anime and Simulcast anime, anime programming through English-language feeds in Southeast Asia (formerly including Brunei), South Asia (except India), and East Asia. It is the first television channel in Asia dedicated to anime, and was initially launched in Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia in January 2004,Sony Pictures Entertainment to Launch Animax Asia', Press Release, SPE, 29 October 2003, Anime News Network. Animax cooperate the distributors to acquire content popular anime series such as Muse Communication, Medialink, Mighty Media and Crunchyroll. The channel was formerly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, but was sold to KC Global Media Entertainment on January 1, 2020. History On December 17, 2015, Animax Asia announced that it will begin broadcasting in high definition ( HD), with high definition channel will be a simulcast with its standard definition ( SD) chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan News Network
The , or JNN, is a Japanese commercial television network run by TBS Television. The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news bulletins to its regional affiliates, and news exchange between the stations. Its member stations also broadcast non-news programs originating from TBS Television. It also operates the 24-hour satellite and cable news channel TBS News JORX-DTV, branded as is the flagship station of the Japan News Network (JNN), owned-and-operated by , a subsidiary of JNN's owner, TBS Holdings. It operates in the Kantō region and broadcasts its content nationally through TBS-JNN Network .... Japan News Network stations Bold indicates founding members Former stations Bold indicates former primary affiliate References External links Official Site 24-hour television news channels in Japan Television channels and stations established in 1959 {{japan-corp-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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