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Little Witch Academia
is a Japanese anime franchise created by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Trigger. The original short film, directed by Yoshinari and written by Masahiko Otsuka, was released in theaters in March 2013 as part of the Young Animator Training Project's Anime Mirai 2013 project, and was later streamed with English subtitles on YouTube from April 2013. A second short film partially funded through Kickstarter, ''Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade'', was released in October 2015. An anime television series aired in Japan between January and June 2017, with the first 13 episodes available on Netflix worldwide beginning in June 2017. The remaining 12 episodes of its first season was labeled as the show's second season and was made available on the platform in August 2017. Two manga series have been published by Shueisha. Story ''Little Witch Academia'' takes place at , a prestigious school for young girls training to become witches. Having been inspired by a witch named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming-of-age Story
In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age". Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers. The ''Bildungsroman'' is a specific subgenre of coming-of-age story. The plot points of coming of age stories are usually emotional changes within the character(s) in question. ''Bildungsroman'' In literary criticism, coming-of-age novels and ''Bildungsroman'' are sometimes interchangeable, but the former is usually a wider genre. The ''Bildungsroman'' (from the German words ''Bildung'', "education", alternatively "forming" and ''Roman'', "novel") is further characterized by a number of formal, topical, and thematic features. It focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansai Telecasting Corporation
JODX-DTV, virtual channel 8 ( UHF digital channel 17), branded as or , is the Kansai region key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS), operated by the . Kansai TV is a company affiliated in Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Group of Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Offices *the headquarters – 1-7, Ogimachi Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan *Tokyo Branch Office – Jiji Press Building, 15-8, Ginza Gochome, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan *Nagoya Branch Station – Telepia, 14-25, Higashi-Sakura Itchome, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Japan Advertising slogan *April, 1975: Stay tune, Channel 8. (チャンネルそのまま8チャンネル, Because Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. (MBS) were exchanged; more details on the exchange in its own articles.) *1994: Dash *1995 – March, 1997: Peechiku-Park Station (ピーチクパークステーション, Hachiemon, the mascot character of Kansai TV, was born.) *April, 1997–March 29, 2015 : Kante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumiko Orikasa
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. She has been the voice of Rukia Kuchiki in ''Bleach'', Meyrin Hawke in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny'', Chun-Li in ''Street Fighter'', Kanade Minamino/Cure Rhythm in '' Suite PreCure,'' Lotte Yanson in ''Little Witch Academia is a Japanese anime franchise created by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Trigger. The original short film, directed by Yoshinari and written by Masahiko Otsuka, was released in theaters in March 2013 as part of the Young Animator Trai ...'' and Riza Hawkeye in '' Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''. Filmography Anime series Unknown OVA/ONA Film/Movie Video Games Tokusatsu Dubbed Discography Singles Album References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Orikasa, Fumiko 1974 births Living people Anime singers Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Singers from Tokyo Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society voice actors Voice actresses from T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Mendez
Erica Mendez is an American voice actress who has voiced in English dubs for Funimation, Bang Zoom! and Studiopolis. She studied graphic design in college for three years prior to becoming a voice actress. Career Mendez's first major voice role was the titular character Pac-Man in the ''Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures'' video game, which was released in 2013. In 2014, Mendez starred as Aladdin in the '' Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic'' series and Ryuko Matoi in the English dub of '' Kill la Kill'', the latter of which was broadcast on the Toonami block on Adult Swim. Some of Mendez's other major roles include Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus in the Viz Media English dub of '' Sailor Moon'', Maki Harukawa in '' Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony'', Gon Freecss in the English dub of the 2011 anime adaptation of ''Hunter x Hunter'' and Retsuko in the English dub of Netflix anime series '' Aggretsuko'', Annie in the fighting game '' Skullgirls'', Kamisato Ayaka in ''Genshin Impact'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megumi Han
is a Japanese actress and voice actress employed by Atomic Monkey. She is the daughter of the voice actress Keiko Han. Career In 2008, after a general public call for the movie ''Sakura no Sono'', she made her debut as Satoshi Wada while studying at the Department of Drama at Nihon University College of Art. In 2011, she made her debut as a voice actress in the role of Airu Suzaki in ''Digimon Fusion, Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time''. Then she voiced the main character Gon Freecss in ''Hunter × Hunter (2011 TV series), Hunter × Hunter''. In the audition, she was unanimously chosen from over 100 participants. In 2014, she voiced Hime Shirayuki / Cure Princess in the TV anime ''HappinessCharge PreCure!'' Among her co-stars is Miki Hase, a classmate from her university. In 2017, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 11th Seiyu Awards. Outside of her voice acting career, she worked at Bandai. Filmography Animated television series Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, Kickstarter has received $6.6 billion in pledges from 21 million backers to fund 222,000 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, board games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects. People who back Kickstarter projects are offered tangible rewards or experiences in exchange for their pledges. This model traces its roots to subscription model of arts patronage, where artists would go directly to their audiences to fund their work. History Kickstarter launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler. ''The New York Times'' called Kickstarter "the people's NEA". ''Time'' named it one of the "Best Inventions of 2010" and "Best Websites of 2011". Kickstarter repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Animator Training Project
The is an annual project launched in 2010, and funded by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs in order to support training animators. The project culminates in a series of anime shorts produced by various animation studios each year called: *Project A, released in 2011 *, released in 2012–2015 *, released in 2016-2020 *, released since 2021 History The project was launched by Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) in 2010. The animation labor group received 214.5 million Japanese yen, yen (about US Dollar, US$2.27 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios to train young animators on-the-job during the year. One of the reasons for the support of the Agency for Cultural Affairs is the concern that more of the Japanese animation process is being outsourced overseas—thus leading to a decline in opportunities to teach animation techniques within Japan. In 2011 the Agency once agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Of Time
Chamber or the chamber may refer to: In government and organizations *Chamber of commerce, an organization of business owners to promote commercial interests *Legislative chamber, in politics *Debate chamber, the space or room that houses deliberative assemblies such as legislatures, parliaments, or councils. In media and entertainment *Chamber (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men *Chamber music, a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber * ''The Chamber'' (game show), a short-lived game show on FOX * ''The Chamber'' (novel), a suspense novel by John Grisham ** ''The Chamber'' (1996 film), based on the novel * ''The Chamber'' (2016 film), a survival film directed by Ben Parker * , a musical ensemble from Frankfurt, Germany-based around vocalist/guitarist Marcus Testory Other *Chamber (firearms), the portion of the barrel or firing cylinder in which the cartridge is inse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadokawa Corporation
, formerly is a Japanese media conglomerate that was created as a result of the merger of the original Kadokawa Corporation and Dwango Co., Ltd. on October 1, 2014. History The holding company known today as Kadokawa Corporation was originally founded in 1945 as Kadokawa Shoten, to "revitalize Japanese culture through publishing" in the postwar era. It was merged with Dwango Co., Ltd. to form Kadokawa Dwango on October 1, 2014, and became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Dwango. In February 2019, Kadokawa Dwango announced that Dwango would stop being their subsidiary to be a direct subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation in a reorganization of the company. This made Kadokawa Corporation the sole subsidiary of the holding company Kadokawa Dwango. On July 1, 2019, Kadokawa Dwango was reorganized again; only the publishing business remained in Kadokawa Corporation, and it was renamed Kadokawa Future Publishing, while Kadokawa Dwango itself became the second iteration of Kadokawa Corpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monthly Shōnen Ace
is a monthly shōnen manga magazine in Japan published by Kadokawa Shoten, started in 1994. Unlike the big shōnen weeklies with circulation figures in the millions, ''Ace'' is aimed at a less mainstream audience, and has a particular emphasis on anime tie-ins. Manga artists and series featured in ''Shōnen Ace'' * Katsu Aki ** ''The Vision of Escaflowne'' (shōnen version; shōjo version was serialized in ''Asuka Fantasy DX'') * Keiichi Arawi ** ''Nichijou'' * Clamp (manga artists), Clamp ** ''Angelic Layer'' * Nishiwaki Datto ** ''Fate/stay night'' * Sakae Esuno ** ''Hanako and the Terror of Allegory'' ** ''Future Diary'' ** ''Big Order'' * Kamui Fujiwara ** ''Kerberos Panzer Cop'' (story by Mamoru Oshii, previously ran in ''Combat Comic'' and ''Amazing Comics'') * Masaru Gotsubo ** ''Samurai Champloo'' * Ryūsuke Hamamoto ** ''Petit Eva: Evangelion@School, Petit Eva'' (original work by Gainax & khara inc.) * Yuichi Hasegawa **''Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam'' (story by Yoshiyu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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