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Mahoromatic
is a Japanese manga series written by Bunjūrō Nakayama and illustrated by Bow Ditama. The series follows Mahoro, a female android former soldier who, driven by guilt from her actions during her combat days, decides to dedicate the rest of her life to serving the son of her late commander as a maid. Originally serialized by Wani Books in '' Comic Gum'' magazine between 1998 and 2004, it was also compiled into eight tankōbon volumes. An anime adaptation of ''Mahoromatic'' produced by studios Gainax and Shaft aired in Japan from October to December 2001, and was followed by a second season airing from September 2002 to January 2003. Characters Misato residence (CODE: V1046-R MAHORO) * :Mahoro is an android created by VESPER to fight an alien invasion by ''Saint'' during the 1980s. She is fast and immensely powerful, and is considered to be a formidable opponent by her enemies. :Being an android, she has a limited life span. At the beginning of the story, she has jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shouji Saeki
is a Japanese director, storyboard artist, writer, and animator known for directing and writing several series for studios Gainax and Shaft. Career Saeki began working as an in-between animator with Gainax, which was a role that carried on into the series' succeeding films '' Death & Rebirth'' and ''The End of Evangelion''. In 1998, the 25th episode of ''Cyber Team in Akihabara'' marked his first storyboard credit, and the following year marked his episode director debut and scriptwriting debut with ''Kare Kano'', where at-the-time fellow Gainax director Hiroyuki Imaishi described that the both of them had "learned our chops." In 2002, Saeki served as assistant director under Hiroyuki Yamaga for the second season of ''Mahoromatic'', ''Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful'', which marked his first work with Shaft. Following Mahoromatic, Saeki made his series directorial debut with the final Gainax/Shaft collaboration series (''This Ugly yet Beautiful World'' (2004) and ''He Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayako Kawasumi
is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is affectionately referred to by her fellow voice actors and fans as "", "","" and "". She is a skilled pianist as she has played the piano since childhood. She performed "...To You", the opening theme to ''Piano,'' and played pianists in the anime ''Piano'' and ''Nodame Cantabile. ''She is one of the most prolific and well-known voice actresses in Japan. Throughout her career, she has voiced plenty of iconic and famous characters, such as Akari Kamigishi (''To Heart''), Saber (''Fate/stay night''), Elie (''Rave Master''), Melfina (''Outlaw Star''), Nodame (''Nodame Cantabile''), Lafiel (''Crest of the Stars'' – ''Banner of the Stars''), Fuu (''Samurai Champloo''), Leina (''Queen's Blade''), Aoi Sakuraba (''Ai Yori Aoshi''), Mahoro (''Mahoromatic'') and Natsuki Mogi ('' Initial D''). Filmography Television animation 1997 *'' You're Under Arrest'' – Female officer (episode 33) 1998 *''Outlaw Star'' – Melfina *''B Bidaman Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Hoffman
Bridget Hoffman (born 1961/1962) is an American voice actress and ADR writer who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series, usually under an alias such as Ruby Marlowe. Prior to her involvement in anime, she had some on-screen acting roles in films and television including ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and other media produced by Sam Raimi. Some of her major voice roles are title characters such as Belldandy in '' Ah! My Goddess: The Movie'', Mizuho Kazami in '' Please Teacher!'', Mima Kirigoe in ''Perfect Blue'', and Lain Iwakura in '' Serial Experiments Lain''. She also voiced lead ensemble characters as Rune Venus in ''El Hazard'', Miaka Yuki in ''Fushigi Yûgi'', Raquel Casull in ''Scrapped Princess'', Fuu Hououji in ''Magic Knight Rayearth'', Shinobu Maehara in ''Love Hina'', Nia Teppelin in ''Gurren Lagann'', and Irisviel von Einzbern in '' Fate/Zero''. She served as the ADR director for the ''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaft (company)
Shaft (stylized as SHAFT; ja, 株式会社シャフト, Hepburn: ), also known as Shaft Animation Studio, is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Suginami, Tokyo, and founded in 1975. Since 2004, the studio's productions have been broadly influenced by director Akiyuki Shinbo, whose visual style and avant-garde cinematography are featured in works including ''Hidamari Sketch'' (2007), ''Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei'' (2007), the ''Monogatari'' series (2009–2019), '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' (2011), '' Nisekoi'' (2014), and '' March Comes In Like a Lion'' (2016). History 1975–1984: Early sub-contracting work Shaft was founded as a yūgen-gaisha on September 1, 1975, by ex-Mushi Production employee Hiroshi Wakao. Much of the company's early work was sub-contracting work for larger animation studios, which includes credits to cel painting and color coordination work, such as with ''Brave Raideen'' (1975–76), and occasionally credits as an assistant production studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsutoshi Kubota
is Japanese painter, color designer, producer, and the current president of Shaft. Career Kubota began his career in the anime industry as a cel painter for the 1981 film ''Furiten-kun'' as a sub-contractor with painting studio Shaft, which had been founded in 1975 by Hiroshi Wakao. The next year, he debuted as a color designer ''Hitotsuboshi-ke no Ultra Baasan'' (1982–1983). From then until 1995, Kubota mainly served as a cel painter, color specifier, clean-up inspector, and clean-up artist In 1995, Kubota moved up to production management, which began with Shaft's first original series: ''Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger''. The year after, Kubota and Shaft were approached by Triangle Staff and Ryūtarō Nakamura to produce the second episode of their '' Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring'' OVA series, which the studio and Kubota accepted the offer to. In 2000, he started serving as a producer for Shaft's own series. In 2004, Shaft-founder Hiroshi Wakao retired as presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Shimizu
is a Japanese voice actress and professional wrestler. She has a career as a singer, signed to Lantis. She has released 14 singles (including joint and character singles) and four albums. She covered Yumi Matsutoya's " Toki o Kakeru Shōjo" as the B-side of her first single "Angel Fish" in 2003. She is known to have a close relationship with Mai Nakahara, having collaborated in eight anime where most of the characters they voiced in together had close connections: ''DearS'', '' Kage Kara Mamoru!'', ''My-HiME'', ''My-Otome'', ''Please Twins!'', ''Sola'', ''Strawberry Panic!'' and the '' Lucky Star'' drama CD. Shimizu has worked sporadic professional wrestling matches since December 2013. Voice roles Anime television series 2001 *''Parappa The Rapper'', Baby Miran *''Mahoromatic'', Minawa Andou 2002 *'' Heat Guy J'', Monica Gabriel *'' Mahoromatic:Something More Beautiful'', Minawa Andou *'' Rizelmine'', Kurumi *''Shrine of the Morning Mist'', Yuzu Hieda 2003 *'' Croket!'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gainax
Gainax Co., Ltd. (stylized as GAINAX; ja, 株式会社ガイナックス, Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: ) is a Japanese anime studio famous for productions such as ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', ''Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Royal Space Force'', ''Gunbuster'', ''Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water'', ''Kare Kano'', ''FLCL'', ''Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi'', and ''Gurren Lagann'', which have garnered critical acclaim and commercial success. ''Evangelion'' has reportedly grossed over 150 billion yen, or approximately 1.2 billion. In a discussion at the 2006 Tekkoshocon, Matt Greenfield claimed that ''Evangelion'' had grossed over 2 billion; Takeda reiterated in 2002 that "It sold record numbers of laserdiscs in Japan, and the DVD is still selling well today", as well as for their association with award-winning anime director and studio co-founder Hideaki Anno. The company is headquartered in Koganei, Tokyo, Koganei, Tokyo. Until ''Neon Genesis Eva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Oliver
Tony Oliver is an American voice actor best known for voicing Rick Hunter from ''Robotech'', Lancer from ''Fate/stay night'', and Arsène Lupin III from ''Lupin the Third''. He helped produce the live action shows ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' and ''VR Troopers''. Filmography Anime Animation Live-action roles Film Video game roles Documentaries [Baidu] |
Wendee Lee
Wendee Lee is an American voice actress, writer, and director. Biography Lee studied dance and theater and later became a full-time dancer in her teens. According to her interview on the ''Magic Knight Rayearth'' DVDs, she started doing voices at school and got in trouble for it. Her first anime voice role was in Harmony Gold production ''Robotech'' in the 1980s, where she voiced Vanessa Leeds, one of the operators aboard the SDF-1 Macross. She also worked with Streamline on several anime productions including '' Dragon Ball''. She would continue dance and work part-time as a make-up artist, choreography and dance instruction. Career Lee's major voice roles in anime include Kei in the Pioneer dub of '' Akira'', Faye Valentine on '' Cowboy Bebop'', Myōjin Yahiko in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Takeru "T.K." Takaishi on ''Digimon Adventure'', Haruhi Suzumiya on ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'' and Konata Izumi on '' Lucky Star''. She has also worked as an ADR director on '' Blea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujiko Takimoto
is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. On February 2, 2014, she married fellow voice actor and her ''Mahoromatic'' co-star Hideki Ogihara. Filmography Anime *''Mahoujin Guru Guru'' (1994) (Nike) *'' Captain Tsubasa J'' (1994) (Sanae Nakazawa) *''Kiko-chan Smile'' (1996) (Masacado) *'' Hoshi no Kirby'' (2001) (Tokkori) *'' Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin (2018 series)'' (2018) (Fūsuke Suzuno) Unknown date *'' Bakuto Sengen Daigunder'' (Akira Akebono) *''B'TX'' (Gaku) *''Buzzer Beater'' (Hideyoshi) *''Bonobono'' (Chibisuke to Okera-kun) *'' Crayon Shin-chan'' (Nurse) *''Detective Conan'' (Makoto Kyogoku (young)) *''Gravitation'' (Suguru Fujisaki) *'' Go! Go! Itsutsugo Land'' (Kabuto Morino) *''Hell Teacher Nūbē'' (Meisuke Nueno (young)) *''Higurashi When They Cry'' (Suguru Okamura) *''Kujibiki Unbalance'' (2006 series) (Chihiro Enomoto) *''Inazuma Eleven'' (Rika Urabe, Fūsuke Suzuno/Gazel, Kimiyuki Nemuro/Nero) *''Lovely Complex'' (Seishirō "Seiko" Koto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Yamaga
is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film '' Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise'' (1987) at age 24, directing ''Mahoromatic'' (2001), ''Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi'' (2002), and an episode of ''Gurren Lagann'' (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for '' Gundam 0080'' (1989). He is portrayed by actor Tsuyoshi Muro in the 2014 TV Drama ''Aoi Honō'' based on the autobiographical manga by his fellow Osaka University of Arts alumnus Kazuhiko Shimamoto. Filmography References External links * Yamaga panelat FanimeCon FanimeCon is an annual four-day anime convention held during May at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California over Memorial Day weekend. Programming The convention typically offers an AMV contest, artist's alley, contest ... (with pictures) ** https://web.archive.org/web/20070807030003/http://www.fansview.com/2000a/02 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bow Ditama
is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, best known for the creation of the '' Kissxsis'' series. His first major commercial work was in collaboration with writer Bunjūrō Nakayama as the illustrator of ''Mahoromatic''. He has been active since 1990, and started his career making hentai dōjinshi. His first work was the series ''I like, because I like'' in the hentai manga magazine Dolphin Comics, starting in 1994. He has penned six hentai manga (one, ''Kibun Kibun'', being two volumes long and also adapted into an anime), and four general manga. He enjoys shōjo manga as well. Several of his series contain omorashi as a main element. List of works Hentai * ''I like, because I like'' (1995) Reprint: (2000) * ''Seinaru Gyouzui'' (1996) * ''nothing but...'' (1997) Reprint: (2000) * ''Kibun Kibun'' (1999–2001: 2 volumes) * ''Super Love Potion'' (2005) Other Manga * ''Mahoromatic'' (1999–2004: 8 volumes, art only) * ''Fight Ippatsu! Jūden-chan!! is a Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
