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Ikuko Itoh
is a Japanese animator, character designer, illustrator and animation director best known for her work on ''Sailor Moon'' and as the creator of ''Princess Tutu''. Career Ikuko Itoh graduated at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, and started working as key animator and animation director for various series and movies in 1980s. From 1992 to 1994, she was recognized from her work as an animation director for various episodes of ''Sailor Moon'' (''Sailor Moon'' and '' Sailor Moon R''). After ''R'' had ended, Itoh took over Kazuko Tadano's role as a character designer from '' Sailor Moon S'' in 1994 till the end of '' Sailor Moon SuperS'' in 1995. After ''Sailor Moon'', she character designed for ''Fushigi Mahou Fun Fun Pharmacy'' and '' Magic User's Club'' in late 1990s. In 2002, she created and character designed ''Princess Tutu'', a ballet fairy tale anime that is inspired from ''The Ugly Duckling'' and ''Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibaraki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefecture to the northwest, Saitama Prefecture to the southwest, Chiba Prefecture to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Mito, the capital, is the largest city in Ibaraki Prefecture. Other major cities include Tsukuba, Hitachi, and Hitachinaka. Ibaraki Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast to the northeast of Tokyo, and is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Ibaraki Prefecture features Lake Kasumigaura, the second-largest lake in Japan; the Tone River, Japan's second-longest river and largest drainage basin; and Mount Tsukuba, one of the most famous mountains in Japan. Ibaraki Prefecture is also home to Kairaku-en, one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, and is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living For The Day After Tomorrow
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by J-ta Yamada. The manga was serialized in Mag Garden's magazine ''Comic Blade Masamune'' between March 3, 2005 and June 15, 2007; five bound volumes were released in Japan. The manga was adapted into an anime series produced by J.C.Staff, which aired in Japan between October and December 2006. The story is about a young girl who grows older into an adult, and an adult woman who becomes younger, turning into a child. The anime is licensed by Sentai Filmworks, and a complete series boxset was distributed by Section23 Films on DVD on April 13, 2010. Plot ''Asatte no Hōkō'' follows the lives of Karada Iokawa, a young girl who is set to join junior high school after summer is over, and Shōko Nogami, a young woman who has just returned from studying abroad, who also happens to be the former girlfriend of Karada's older brother. The day Shōko returns, she is dragged by Karada to the beach with her brother and a couple of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Recipe Of Gourmet Food
Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controversial, depending on the content or nature of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the motivation for secrecy. Secrecy by government entities is often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation; excessive revelation of information on individuals can conflict with virtues of privacy and confidentiality. It is often contrasted with social transparency. Secrecy can exist in a number of different ways: encoding or encryption (where mathematical and technical strategies are used to hide messages), true secrecy (where restrictions are put upon those who take part of the message, such as through government security classification) and obfuscation, where secrets are hidden in plain sight behind complex idiosyncrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chopper's Kingdom On The Island Of Strange Animals
Since the premiere of the anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's ''One Piece'' manga in 1999, Toei Animation has produced fifteen feature films based on the franchise traditionally released during the Japanese school spring break since 2000. Four of the films were originally shown as double features alongside other Toei film productions and thus have a running time below feature length (between 30 and 56 minutes). The first three films were shown at the and the eleventh was released as part of ''Jump Heroes Film''. The films generally use original storylines, but some adapt story arcs from the manga directly. With the release of films ten, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, tie-in story arcs of the TV series were aired concurrently. Additionally, three of these films have had special featurette shorts, showcasing the characters engaged in various activities unrelated to the series. They were shown dancing in ''Jango's Dance Carnival'' with ''Clockwork Island Adventure''; playing soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
