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Manga Barcelona
Manga Barcelona, formerly known until 2018 as Saló del Manga de Barcelona ( es, Salón del Manga de Barcelona) is a Spanish anime and manga convention held annually in Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ..., and is the largest anime convention in Spain and the second largest in all Europe. Activities * World Cosplay Summit, Spain Preliminaries. * Cosplay and Karaoke competitions, European Cosplay Gathering (ECG) & EuroCosplay & WCS preliminaries. * Video Games. * Anime projections and conferences. * Matsuri and Japanese culture workshops. * Japanese cuisine. References Anime conventions in Spain Culture in Barcelona Recurring events established in 1995 1995 establishments in Catalonia Annual events in Catalonia Autumn events in Spain { ... [...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] |
Yuji Moriyama
is an anime character designer, animator, animation supervisor and director. He is a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association and a winner of the 4th Japan Animation Awards in the Animation Director category. Career Moriyama started helping out with in-between animation when he was a student at Kanto Daiichi High School. After graduating from high school, he joined Studio Musashi, which was recruiting staff through newspaper ads. His first work as an official in-betweener was for Toei Animation's ''Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace''. He then moved to Studio Cockpit, where he worked on ''Galaxy Express 999'', before moving on to NeoMedia. At NeoMedia, he worked on ''Invincible Robo Trider G7'' for Sunrise, ''Doraemon'' for Shin-Ei Animation, and ''Belle and Sebastian'' for Visual 80. With ''Invincible Robo Trider G7'', he was promoted from in-between to key animation. He left NeoMedia in 1982 to work as a freelancer, starting with ''Combat Mecha Xabungle'' and '' Acrobunch''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuo Yamada
, also known by the name NoB, is a Japanese singer. He is the former lead singer of the band Make-Up and a Project.R member. Overview With Make-Up, he recorded several songs for the anime ''Saint Seiya'', including the first opening song " Pegasus Fantasy" and the first ending song "Blue Forever". All songs were released in three albums ''Saint Seiya Hits I'' (which had the participation of Mitsuko Horie) and ''Saint Seiya '96 Song Collection''. In his solo career, he recorded the opening song for the ''Super Sentai'' series ''GoGo Sentai Boukenger'' and ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger''. He also recorded the song "Never", from the ''Saint Seiya'' anime-movie ''Heaven Chapter ~ Overture''. In 1998, he formed P.A.F. (stands for Patent Applied For, named after the PAF guitar pickups) with X Japan guitarist Pata. In about one years time they released: two albums, one mini album, one live album and two singles. In July 2007, he sang with Hironobu Kageyama, Masaaki Endoh, Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Range Murata
is a Japanese artist and designer (W artist), known for his unique style combining dieselpunk and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series ''Last Exile'' and '' Blue Submarine No. 6''. He began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games, including having done the illustrations and character design for the fighting game series made by Atlus, ''Power Instinct'' (''Goketsuji Ichizoku''). He has published more than a dozen books of his work, some of the most notable being ''rule'' and ''futurhythm''. He won the 2006 Seiun Award for "Best Artist of the Year". Works Anime * ''The Animatrix'' (''The Second Renaissance'') * '' Blue Submarine No. 6'' * ''Last Exile'' * '' Mardock Scramble'' (OVA version, canceled) * ''SoltyRei'' (Rose Anderson's bike design only) * '' Table and Fisherman'' * ''Shangri-La'' * '' Last Exile -Fam, The Silver Wing-'' * ''ID-0'' * '' BEM'' * ''BEM: Become Human'' * '' Cop Craft'' Video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Shigeyasu (written: 重保 or 重康) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese warrior *, Japanese general See also * Shigeyasu Station, a railway station in Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Kushida
, is a Japanese vocalist who is well known for his work in the soundtracks for anime and tokusatsu productions, most notably '' Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan'', ''Kinnikuman'', and ''Space Sheriff Gavan''. His nickname from his fans is . His real given name is . Discography Only opening and ending themes are included on this list. Anime television * * * * * * *"KA・BU・TO" (''Karasu Tengu Kabuto'' OP/1990) * * * * * * * * OVA * * *"Gods" (''New Getter Robo'' ED/2004) Tokusatsu ;'' Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan'' (1981) * * * ;''Space Sheriff Gavan'' (1982) * * ;''Space Sheriff Sharivan'' (1983) * * ;''Space Sheriff Shaider'' (1984) * * ;'' Birth of the 10th! Kamen Riders All Together!!'' (1984) * *"FORGET MEMORIES" (ED) ;''MegaBeast Investigator Juspion'' (1985) *"Chou Wakusei Sentou Hokan Daileon" ;''Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya'' (1988) * *"SHI-NO-BI '88" (ED) ;''The Mobile Cop Jiban'' (1989) * * ;''Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger'' (2001) * ;'' Ninpu Sentai Hurricaneger'' (2002) *WIND & THUNDE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BLOOD
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the circulatory system is also known as ''peripheral blood'', and the blood cells it carries, ''peripheral blood cells''. Blood is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves. Albumin is the main protein in plasma, and it functions to regulate the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood. The blood cells are mainly red blood cells (also called RBCs or erythrocytes), white blood cells (also called WBCs or leukocytes) and platelets (also called thrombocytes). The most abundant cells in vertebrate blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkey Punch
, known by the pen name , was a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series ''Lupin III''. Life and career Katō was born in Hamanaka, Hokkaido; he began drawing at a very young age, but did not draw manga until junior high school, when his manga strips were used in the school newspaper. After graduating, he moved to Tokyo to look for work and began going to a technical school for electronics, continuing to draw for fun. While working in a ''dōjinshi'' group with other artists, he was recruited by Futabasha and drew ''yonkoma''. He was an assistant to Naoki Tsuji on ''Zero-sen Hayato'' and ''Tiger Mask''. ''Lupin III'' made its debut on August 10, 1967, in the first issue of the magazine ''Weekly Manga Action''; the cover was also drawn by Monkey Punch. It went on to become an extremely popular and successful media franchise, spawning numerous manga, six animated television series, seven animated feature films, two live-action films, three OVAs, near-yearly television spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideshi Hino
Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 ''Hino Hideshi'', born April 19, 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include ''Hell Baby'', ''Hino Horrors'', and '' Panorama of Hell''. He also wrote and directed two entries in the ''Guinea Pig'' series of horror films: ''Flower of Flesh and Blood'' (1985), and '' Mermaid in a Manhole'' (1988). Biography Hideshi Hino was born in Qiqihar to Japanese immigrant workers in Japanese-occupied Northeast China just when Japan surrendered at the end of World War II to the invading Soviet forces. His family escaped to Japan fearing retribution from Chinese civilians, so his town gathered up everybody and started to make their move to the remaining internationally governed harbours. Hino has claimed that he was nearly killed en route to Japan by his fellow townspeople during the evacuation from China. Some of his manga have been based on his life and its events; for example, his grandfather was a Yakuza and his fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tachibana Higuchi
is a Japanese manga artist known for her works of ''Gakuen Alice'' and '' Portrait of M and N''. In year 1996, she first made her professional debut in ''Bessatsu Hana to Yume'' 5th issue, entitled . With an interview with Tokyopop she gave a detailed look on how she started as a manga artist: Her current completed work is ''Gakuen Alice''. Works * '' Swan Lake'' (1999, Hakusensha) * '' Portrait of M and N'' (2000–2002, serialized in ''Hana to Yume , also known as , is a semi-monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Hakusensha on the 5th and 20th of every month. The magazine is B5-size, and always comes with or free supplements, such as drama CDs, pencil boards (shitajiki), man ...'', Hakusensha) * (2003-2013, serialized in ''Hana to Yume'', Hakusensha) ** Kageki No Kuni No Alice (Alice in the Country of the Opera) (2016-2017, Hana To Yume) (3 volumes) * (2014, Hakusensha) * (2014, to be serialized in ''Hana to Yume'', Hakusensha)(3 volumes) *The Witch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atsuko Nakajima
is a Japanese animator, character designer, and illustrator. She is married to anime director and animator Tomohiro Hirata, with whom she also collaborated in the ''Trinity Blood'' anime (in which Nakajima was character designer and Hirata was director). Ms. Nakajima is strongly associated with the animated adaptations of the works of Rumiko Takahashi produced by Kitty Films, having worked as an animation director on ''Urusei Yatsura'', ''Ranma ½'' and ''Maison Ikkoku'' and as a character designer on ''Ranma ½''. Filmography * ''Cookin' Idol I! My! Mine!'' (TV): character designer * ''Fruits Basket'' (TV): genga artist * ''GetBackers'' (TV): animation director, character designer * ''Haunted Junction'' (TV): character designer * '' Jin Roh'': animator * ''Komi Can't Communicate'' (TV): character designer * ''Maison Ikkoku'' (TV): animation director * ''Maria-sama ga Miteru'' second season onward: character designer for the ED sequence, promotional pictures * ''Mon Colle Kni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
