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Haikyu!!
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly ShÅnen Jump'' from February 2012 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 45 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 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 to December 2016, with 10 episodes. A fourth season was released in two split cours from January to December 2020, with 25 episodes. The anime film series titled ''Haikyu!! Final'' will be released in two parts, which serves as the finale of the series; the first part titled '' Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle'', was released in February 2024, and the second and final part titled ''Haikyu!! vs. The Little Gia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle
is a 2024 Japanese animated sports film written and directed by Susumu Mitsunaka and produced by Production I.G. Based on Haruichi Furudate's manga series ''Haikyu!!'', it is a direct sequel to the anime television series. The film stars Ayumu Murase, Kaito Ishikawa, Yuki Kaji, and Yuichi Nakamura as part of an ensemble cast. ''Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle'' was released by Toho in Japan on February 16, 2024. In the United States, it was released on May 30, 2024, by Crunchyroll through Sony Pictures Releasing. The film grossed over billion in Japan, making it the second highest-grossing Japanese film of 2024. A sequel, ''Haikyu!! vs. The Little Giant'', has been announced. Premise Karasuno High School and Nekoma High School face each other in an official match for the first time ever, in the third round of the Spring Nationals. It means Karasuno and Nekoma's long-standing dream, The Dumpster Battle, a battle between the crows and the wildcats, is about to begin. After num ... [...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 was his teammate. However, in the manga, Furudate chose Hinata as the main character in order to draw a ''shÅnen'' manga. In an interview with ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', Furudate stated that the development of Hinata dropping out of a major game due to his fever was decided early on to show that Hinata could not survive only with his impulses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asami Tachibana
is a Japanese composer, arranger, pianist, and music producer. She has provided the music for several anime series, 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. She began playing piano from an early age. Later, she learned other instruments by joining music clubs at school, playing horn in junior high school and double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ... 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 telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruichi Furudate
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for creating '' Haikyu!!'', a volleyball-centric manga that has become one of the best-selling manga series of all time, having also been adapted into a number of anime series and films. 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 ShÅnen 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 ShÅnen Jump'' in January 2011 and April 2011 respectively. The one-shots were later turned into a full series, which started serialization in ''Weekly ShÅnen Jump'' on February 20, 2012. The series ended in ''Weekly ShÅnen Jump'' on July 20, 2020. While the seri ... [...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 anime, television series, 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 ... [...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 Kishimoto was born in HyÅgo 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 Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viz Media
Viz Media, LLC is an American entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California, focused on publishing manga, and distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series. The company was founded in 1986 as Viz, LLC. In 2005, Viz and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current Viz Media, which is owned by Japanese publishing conglomerates Shueisha and Shogakukan, as well as Japanese production company Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro). In 2017, Viz Media was the largest publisher of graphic novels in the United States in the bookstore market, with a 23% share of the market. History Founding 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 became a writer of cultural information. He also became interested in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TankÅbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format. Manga typically contain a handful of chapters, and may collect multiple volumes as a series continues publication. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for of manga include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly ShÅnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly ShÅnen Magazine, ShÅnen Magazine Comics, Shogakukan's ShÅnen Sunday Comics, and Akita Shotenâs Weekly ShÅnen Champion, ShÅnen Champion Comics. Manga Increasingly after 1959, manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology list of manga magazines, manga magazines (such as ''Weekly ShÅnen Magazine'' or ''Weekly ShÅnen Jump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madman Entertainment
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd., also known as Madman Films, stylized as MADMAN, is an Australian film and television production, distribution, entertainment, and rights management company headquartered in East Melbourne, Victoria, specialising in feature films, documentaries and television series across theatrical and home entertainment formats in Australia and New Zealand. History Early history Madman Entertainment was founded in 1996 by Tim Anderson and Paul Wiegard as a mail order business specialising in imported anime titles, after following the success of Manga Entertainment in the United States and the United Kingdom. Originally selling titles on VHS, the company became the second Australian distributor to author DVDs in-house, with the 1995 film ''Ghost in the Shell'' being their first DVD release. In 1998, Madman began distributing anime to television outlets, with '' Neon Genesis Evangelion'' airing on SBS TV. Madman manages the distribution of live-action titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MBS TV
JOOY-DTV (channel 4), branded as or (formerly known as from 1959 to 2011), is a Japanese television station serving as the Kansai region key station of the Japan News Network, owned-and-operated by a subsidiary of MBS Media Holdings with its studios being based in the Kita-ku ward of Osaka. From its sign on in 1959 to 2021, MBS operated as a unified broadcaster, with its radio and television operations being intact until 2017 when a major restructuring caused the operations to be held under the second incarnation of MBS. In 2021, the radio division was spun-off as a separate wholly-owned subsidiary. Overview MBS is a core station of the Japan News Network (JNN), with TBS TV as its key station. MBS is a member of the "Five Company Federation" (comprising it, TBS, HBC, CBC and RKB) and is also a major shareholder of TBS Holdings. It distributes G-Guide EPG data, and used to distribute analog G-Guide program data to Tokushima Prefecture, where the only commercial TV stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan News Network
The Japan News Network (JNN; ) is a Japanese commercial television network run by TBS Television, owned by TBS Holdings (which is a part of the Mitsui Group '' keiretsu'' and highly cooperating with the '' Mainichi Shimbun'' despite the lack of the latter's shareholding in TBS Holdings). The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news bulletins to its regional affiliates, and news exchange between the stations. Its affiliate stations also broadcast non-news programs originating from TBS Television. Founded on 1 August 1959, JNN is made up of 28 full-time affiliates. It also operates the 24-hour satellite and cable news channel TBS News and the FAST Channel TBS NEWS DIG. History Initial news exchange agreement In 1956, when there were only four commercial television stations in Japan ( Nippon Television, Tokyo Radio and Television (hereinafter referred to as KRT), Osaka Television Broadcasting, and Chubu Nippon Broadcasting), the tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
