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Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger
is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television series, the 45th entry in Toei's long-running ''Super Sentai'' series, and the second produced in the Reiwa era. Additionally, it commemorates the 45th anniversary of the ''Super Sentai'' franchise and is the second special anniversary series following ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger''. The show succeeded '' Mashin Sentai Kiramager'', joining '' Kamen Rider Saber'', and later, ''Kamen Rider Revice'' in the Super Hero Time line-up on TV Asahi on March 7, 2021. The show's name comes from the titular team's catchphrase, . A direct sequel, titled '' Avataro Sentai Donbrothers'', aired following the finale. Plot One month ago, a strange phenomenon suddenly fused the human world with the parallel world of Kikaitopia, who had previously conquered and sealed off various universes, including those of the previous 44 Super Sentai. Despite this, humans and Kikainoids quickly get along and live peacefully together. In the present, however, their lives are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tokusatsu
is a Japanese term for live-action films or television programs that make heavy use of practical special effects. Credited to special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, ''tokusatsu'' mainly refers to science fiction film, science fiction, War film, war, fantasy film, fantasy, or Horror film, horror media featuring such technology but is also occasionally dubbed a genre itself. Its contemporary use originated in the Mass media in Japan, Japanese mass media around 1958 to explain special effects in an easy-to-understand manner and was popularized during the ":ja:第一次怪獣ブーム, first monster boom" (1966–1968). Prior to the monster boom, it was known in Japan as or shortened . Subgenres of include ''kaiju'' such as the ''Godzilla (film series), Godzilla'' and ''Gamera'' series; superhero such as the ''Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider'' and ''Metal Hero Series, Metal Hero'' series; Kyodai Hero, ''Kyodai'' Hero like ''Ultra Series, Ultraman, and Gridman the Hyper Agent, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Misato Fukuen
is a Japanese actress and voice actress affiliated with StarCrew. Her real name is . She has also performed activities as a singer under the name of MIRI. Filmography TV anime Original net animation Original video animation *'' To Love Ru'' – Golden Darkness *'' To Love Ru Darkness'' – Golden Darkness *'' Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin'' – Fraw Bow Theatrical animation Tokusatsu *'' Ultraman Z'' (2020) – Kanegon *'' Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger'' (2021) – Secchan *'' Kamen Rider Gotchard'' (2023) – Hopper1 Video games *'' Rosario + Vampire: Tanabata's Miss Yokai Academy'' () – Kurumu Kurono *'' Street Fighter IV'' () – Sakura Kasugano *'' Star Ocean: The Last Hope'' () – Reimi Saionji *'' Rosario + Vampire Capu2: The Rhapsody of Love and Dreams'' () – Kurumu Kurono *'' Tokimeki Memorial 4'' () – Miyako Okura *'' Super Street Fighter IV'' () – Sakura Kasugano *'' Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition'' () – Sakura Kasugano *'' Super Street Fight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
is a certified broadcasting holding company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Until March 31, 2018, it was a unified radio and television broadcaster serving in the Kansai region. On April 1, 2018, its radio and television broadcasting divisions were spun off into two subsidiaries, with taking over the radio broadcasting business, and took over television broadcasting. History Radio In 1948, when the Asahi Shimbun set up a committee for a private radio station in Tokyo, the name ABC was decided upon to be the name of the station. Asahi Broadcasting requested licenses in December 1949 to both Tokyo and Osaka, but in December 1950, the original company merged with Tokyo Broadcasting (Dentsu), Yomiuri Broadcasting and Radio Nippon (funded by Mainichi Shimbun) to create Radio Tokyo (JOKR, KRT, now TBS). In 1951, the ABC plan was revived for a new radio station in Osaka. The new Asahi Broadcasting Corporation was founded in Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka on March 15, 1951, with Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
All-Nippon News Network
All-Nippon News Network (ANN; ) is a Japanese commercial television network run by TV Asahi Corporation (TV Asahi) in Tokyo, which is controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company. 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 TV Asahi. Founded on 1 January 1970, and formalised on 1 April 1974, ANN is made up of 26 affiliates, including two stations that are double- or triple-affiliated with rival networks. Between 1989 and 2013, it also operated the 24-hour satellite and cable news channel Asahi Newstar. List of affiliates Stations are listed mostly in Japanese order of prefectures which is mirrored in ISO 3166-2:JP, with exceptions for the Kantō region, Aichi-Gifu- Mie, Kansai region (except Mie) and Okayama- Kagawa, which form single wide broadcasting markets respectively. Areas wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Greater Tokyo Area
The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan (including Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Chiba Prefecture, Chiba, Gunma Prefecture, Gunma, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ibaraki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa, Saitama Prefecture, Saitama, and Tochigi Prefecture, Tochigi) as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi Prefecture, Yamanashi of the neighboring Chūbu region. In Japanese language, Japanese, it is referred to by various terms, one of the most common being . As of 2016, the United Nations estimates the total population at 38,140,000. It covers an area of approximately 13,500 square kilometre, km2 (5,200 mi2), giving it a population density of 2,642 people/km2. It is the second-largest single metropolitan area in the world in terms of built-up or urban function landmass at 8,547 km2 (3,300 mi2), behind only the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area at 11,642 km2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chumei Watanabe
, born , (August 19, 1925 – June 23, 2022) was a Japanese film score and television score composer. He worked on various ''tokusatsu'' shows and mecha anime Mecha, also known as giant robot or simply robot, is a genre of anime and manga that feature mecha in battle. The genre is broken down into two subcategories; " super robot", featuring super-sized, implausible robots, and " real robot", where .... Personal life His son, Toshiyuki Watanabe, is a musician and composer, who also has scored films and anime series and his granddaughter Mako Watanabe is part of the idol duo Namakopuri where she goes under the stage name, . He died on June 23, 2022, at the age of 96. Awards For his work on anime, Watanabe received an Award of Merit at the 8th Tokyo Anime Awards and an Animation Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Japan Movie Critics Awards. References External links * * 1925 births 2022 deaths Japanese film score composers Japanese male film score compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Takeshi Tsuruno
is a Japanese actor, tarento, and musician. Early life Tsuruno is originally from Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture. Career Tsuruno is known for his roles as Shin Asuka/Ultraman Dyna in ''Ultraman Dyna'' and as the leader of the musical units Shuchishin and Aladdin. As a member of Shuchishin and Aladdin, he appears regularly on the variety show ''Quiz! Hexagon II''. Tsuruno is currently represented with Ohta Production. Personal life Tsuruno married his former stylist in 2003. They have two sons named an unnamed son (born June 6, 2016) and three daughters named , , and . He named his albums after his daughters, and after recording his first album and before the birth of his third daughter he mused naming an album after his son such that it was called . Filmography TV dramas Discography Albums Singles Personal life Tsuruno is a Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Goblin (voice Actor)
A goblin is a small, grotesque, monstrous humanoid creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures. First attested in stories from the Middle Ages, they are ascribed conflicting abilities, temperaments, and appearances depending on the story and country of origin, ranging from mischievous household spirits to malicious, bestial thieves. They often have magical abilities similar to a fairy or demon, such as the ability to shapeshift. Similar creatures include brownies, dwarves, duendes, gnomes, imps, leprechauns, and kobolds, but it is also commonly used as a blanket term for all small, fay creatures. The term is sometimes expanded to include goblin-like creatures of other cultures, such as the pukwudgie, dokkaebi, or ifrit. Etymology Alternative spellings include ''gobblin'', ''gobeline'', ''gobling'', ''goblyn'', ''goblino'', and ''gobbelin''. The term "goblette" has been used to refer to female goblins. The word ''goblin'' is first recorded in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Masaya Fukunishi
is a Japanese voice actor from Nara Prefecture, affiliated with Ken Production. He won the 2012 Best Anime Scenario Award at Seiyu Koshien and was part of the 3rd 2014. He starred as Ken Ryūgūji in ''Tokyo Revengers'' and Gege in ''Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger'', succeeding Tatsuhisa Suzuki in these roles following the latter's career hiatus. In 2023, he was cast as Kafka Hibino, the titular protagonist of ''Kaiju No. 8''. Biography Masaya Fukunishi, a native of Nara Prefecture, was born on 24 February 1995. While in elementary school, he decided to be a voice actor, and he as a teenager did some stage work. In 2012, he won the Best Anime Scenario Award at Seiyu Koshien. In 2014, he was selected in the Voice Actor Category at the 3rd . He was educated at School Duo. After voicing a reporter in the 2015 ONA '' Isobe Isobē Monogatari'', he began voicing anime characters in 2017, including in ''Case Closed'', ''Made in Abyss'', ''Banana Fish'', ''Cells at Work!'', '' JoJo's Bizarre A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tatsuhisa Suzuki
is a Japanese voice actor and singer. A former lead vocalist of Oldcodex, he used his stage name Ta_2. Biography '' Shūkan Bunshun'' reported that Suzuki was engaged to Lisa in May 2019. In January 2020, they announced their marriage. On April 25, 2023, they announced the birth of their first child on Instagram. On August 4, 2021, Suzuki went on hiatus due to poor health, following a report published on July 30 by ''Shūkan Bunshun'' alleging that he had an extramarital affair with a female co-worker. Suzuki had also possibly violated a non-disclosure agreement during the affair regarding music he and Oldcodex had been working on for other anime series. On August 30, 2021, Suzuki released a statement apologizing for careless behavior. Suzuki withdrew from '' Ultraman''. He was also recast in '' Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger'', the CD bonuses for the game adaptation of '' My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!'', '' Pokémon Journeys: The Series'', '' Alchemy Stars'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kenji Nomura
is a Japanese voice actor from Okayama Prefecture affiliated with Aoni Production. Known for playing characters large in size, he has starring roles in anime shows, including Mitsunori Kugayama in ''Genshiken'', Chairman Harabote in '' Kinnikuman: Ultimate Muscle'', Lorenzo in '' Ristorante Paradiso'', and Gilles de Rais in '' Drifters''. He also voices in a bunch of supporting roles in anime series including '' Battle Spirits'', '' First Love Limited'', '' Jormungand'', '' Kanokon'', ''Valkyria Chronicles'', '' Yes! PreCure5'', and '' Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's''. He voices several villain characters in ''One Piece''. Filmography Television animation ;1996 *''Detective Conan'' (Mamoru Onitsura, Hiroki Oi, Andre Camel (episode 1072-onwards)) ;1997 *''Kindaichi Case Files'' (Mikihiko Wakaouji) *'' Yume no Crayon Oukoku'' (Prime Minister Chameleon) ;1999 *'' Cybuster'' (Izaki) *''Ojamajo Doremi'' (Akira Fujiwara) *''One Piece'' (Kuromarimo, Braham, Bobby Funk, Jack) ;2001 *''Baki the Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
