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J. Michael Tatum
J. Michael Tatum is an American voice actor, ADR director and script writer working for Funimation/OkraTron 5000 And Bang Zoom! Entertainment who provides voices for a number of English versions of Japanese anime series and video games. Biography In 2005, Tatum ran into Funimation ADR director Christopher Bevins, who cast him as Rikichi in ''Samurai 7''. Tatum has been cast in several notable roles, including Kyoya Ootori in ''Ouran High School Host Club'', Sebastian Michaelis in ''Black Butler'', Tomoe in ''Kamisama Kiss'', France in '' Hetalia: Axis Powers'', Erwin Smith in ''Attack on Titan'', Okabe Rintaro in '' Steins;Gate'', Eneru in ''One Piece'', Tenya Iida in ''My Hero Academia'' and Rei Ryuugazaki in '' Free! – Eternal Summer''. From January 2010 to January 2014, he hosted ''That Anime Show'' podcasts with friend and co-worker Terri Doty and ADR Engineer Stephen Hoff. At the Florida Supercon 2015 panel, when he was asked what was his inspiration to go into voic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKinney, Texas
McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. The U.S. Census Bureau listed McKinney as the nation's fastest-growing city from 2000 to 2003 and again in 2006, among cities with more than 50,000 people. In 2007, it was ranked second-fastest-growing among cities with more than 100,000 people and in 2008 as third-fastest. In the 2010 census, the city's population was 131,117, making it Texas's 19th-most populous city. The population estimate produced by the city as of 2019 was 199,177, which made it Texas's 16th most populous city. In 2020, its population was 195,308. As of May 2017, McKinney was the third-fastest-growing city in the United States. History On March 24, 1849, William Davis, who owned where McKinney now stands, donated for the townsite. Ten years later, McKinney incorporated, and in 1913, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rintaro Okabe
is a fictional character in the ''Science Adventure'' series, first appearing as the player character of 5pb. and Nitroplus's visual novel game '' Steins;Gate'' (2009). Okabe is a self-proclaimed mad scientist who often goes by the pseudonym Kyouma Hououin. He is also nicknamed Okarin by Shiina Mayuri. He is the founder of what he calls the "Future Gadget Laboratory" in Akihabara, where he spends most of his time and has dubbed himself Lab Member No. 001. As he experiments with time travel, he learns that he is the only one who possesses the ability to determine changes between different timelines, which he dubs "Reading Steiner". He is 18 years old and a first-year student at Tokyo Denki University. Okabe is voiced by Mamoru Miyano in Japanese and J. Michael Tatum in English. Critical response to Okabe has been positive due to his traits as a scientist and his darker characterization in '' Steins;Gate 0''. In 2011, Rintaro Okabe won the 1st Newtype Anime Awards for the Best Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speed Grapher
''Speed Grapher'' (stylized as ''SPEED GRAPHER'') is a 2005 anime series produced by Gonzo. The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005 on TV Asahi. It tells the story of former war photographer, Tatsumi Saiga and his quest to save Kagura Tennōzu from Chōji Suitengu and the members of a fetish club, the Roppongi Club. In 2006, the series was licensed for release in North America by Funimation and aired on the Independent Film Channel between March 7 and August 15, 2008. The series was adapted into a manga by Tomozo. Originally serialized by MediaWorks in '' Monthly Dengeki Comic GAO!'', it was released to three ''tankōbon'' between September 2005 and September 2006. The manga series was then licensed to Chuang Yi, who released the three volumes in English and Chinese in Singapore, and later to Tokyopop, who released the first two volumes in North America in September and December 2008. A light novel was also created and was written by Minoru Niki. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reservoir Chronicle
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building any number of retaining walls or levees. In other contexts, "reservoirs" may refer to storage spaces for various fluids; they may hold liquids or gasses, including hydrocarbons. ''Tank reservoirs'' store these in ground-level, elevated, or buried tanks. Tank reservoirs for water are also called cisterns. Most underground reservoirs are used to store liquids, principally either water or petroleum. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley, and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Initial D
is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The story focuses on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes and rarely in cities or urban areas, and with the drifting racing style emphasized in particular. Professional race car driver and pioneer of drifting Keiichi Tsuchiya helped with editorial supervision. The story is centered on the prefecture of Gunma, more specifically on several mountains in the Kantō region and in their surrounding cities and towns. Although some of the names of the locations the characters race in have been fictionalized, all of the locations in the series are based on actual locations in Japan. ''Initial D'' has been adapted into several anime television and original video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Marchi
Jamie Lynn Marchi (; born October 8, 1977) is an American voice actress, ADR director and script writer who works for Funimation, and Sentai Filmworks. She has provided a number of voices for English-language versions of anime and video games. She is known for her role as Masane Amaha in ''Witchblade'', Mari Ohara in ''Love Live! Sunshine!!'', Mimi in '' Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne'', Mitsuko Kongo in ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'', Charlotte E. Yeager in ''Strike Witches'', Haruna Saotome in ''Negima!'', Rias Gremory in ''High School DxD'' and Panty Anarchy in ''Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt''. Early life Marchi was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Susan Kay Hester (née Taylor, born 1951). Her stepfather, Michael Hester (1957–2016), worked as a bio-medical engineer. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in theater, and started her professional acting career in 2000. Career Marchi got her start in voice acting in ''Fruits Basket as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Godzilla
is a 2016 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, with a screenplay by Anno and visual effects by Higuchi. Produced by Toho Pictures and Cine Bazar and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the 31st film in the ''Godzilla'' franchise, the 29th film produced by Toho, Toho's third reboot of the franchise, and the first film in the franchise's Reiwa era. It is the first reboot of a ''tokusatsu'' series to be adapted by Anno and Higuchi, followed by ''Shin Ultraman'' and '' Shin Kamen Rider''. The film stars Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, and Satomi Ishihara. In the film, politicians struggle with bureaucratic red tape in order to deal with the sudden appearance of a giant monster that evolves whenever it is attacked. In December 2014, Toho announced plans for a new domestic ''Godzilla'' film. Anno and Higuchi were announced as the directors in March 2015. Principal photography began in September 2015 and ended in October 2015. Inspiration for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Doty
Terri Doty is an American voice actress, voice director, and ADR writer known for her voice work in English dubs of Japanese anime shows produced by Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Career In anime, Doty is known for her work as Moriko Morioka in ''Recovery of an MMO Junkie'', Kyoko Machi in ''Interviews with Monster Girls'', Kirara Hazama from the '' Assassination Classroom'' series, and Chutaro Kumo in ''Laughing under the Clouds''. That Anime Show On January 16, 2010, Doty teamed up with J. Michael Tatum, and Stephen Hoff to start ''That Anime Show'', a podcast that interviews fellow voice actors and members of the English anime dub industry. The podcast ran for 54 episodes with its final episode released on January 19, 2014. Personal life Doty was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a father of English descent and a mother of Mexican descent. She is married to voice director, producer, and audio engineer Stephen Hoff, who works for Christopher Sabat Christopher Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free! (anime)
''Free!'' is a Japanese anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation and Animation Do. The series is loosely based on the light novel, , written by Kōji Ōji, which received an honorable mention in the second Kyoto Animation Award contest in 2011 and was published in July 2013. The first season titled, ''Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club'' for international distribution, aired in Japan in 2013; and the second season titled, ''Free! - Eternal Summer'', aired in 2014. A third season of the anime series titled, ''Free! - Dive to the Future'', aired in 2018. Hiroko Utsumi directed the first two seasons, while season three was directed by Eisaku Kawanami. Prior to season three, several films depict events preceding, including and following the events of seasons one and two. The film ''High Speed! Free! Starting Days'', released in December 2015, and depicts events from volume two of the series' prequel light novel, ''High Speed!'' A film trilogy was released in 2017 with the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Hero Academia
is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into 36 ''tankōbon'' volumes as of October 2022. Set in a world where superpowers (called "Quirks") have become commonplace, the story follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy who was born without a Quirk but still dreams of becoming a superhero himself. He is scouted by All Might, Japan's greatest hero, who bestows his Quirk to Midoriya after recognizing his potential, and helps to enroll him in a prestigious high school for superheroes in training. The manga spawned a media franchise, having inspired numerous spin-off manga, such as '' My Hero Academia: Smash!!'', '' My Hero Academia: Vigilantes'' and '' My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions''. The series has expanded into light novels, stage plays, and various types of merchandise and media such as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of My Hero Academia Characters
The ''My Hero Academia'' manga and anime series features a vast world with an extensive cast of characters created by Kōhei Horikoshi. The series takes place in a fictional world where more than 80% of the global population possesses some form of Superpower (ability), superpower, commonly referred to as a "Quirk". The advent of these abilities has given rise to not only pro heroes, but also the threat of villains. U.A. High School students is a top ranking hero academy and considered as a prestigious high school for hero training in Japan. It is located at the top of forested hill in Musutafu, Japan. There are four courses that the students can study in core subjects, which includes: Hero, General, Support and Management Course. Students who didn't make the cut in the Hero Course are included in the General Course. However, they can still be transferred by scoring a possible passing grade through hero instructors, after an opportunity to gain attention during the Sports Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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