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Masami Kurumada
is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and magical boy. He is the founder of the manga studio Kurumada Productions or Kurumadapro for short. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as ''Ring ni Kakero'', '' Fūma no Kojirō'', ''Saint Seiya'' and '' B't X''. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and modern society's archetype of the ''true men''. The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and pursue to achieve courage and manhood perfection through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. He has won the best success award with ''Saint Seiya'' and the best inspiration award with ''Ring ni Kakero''. Profile Kurumada's first work was ''Otoko Raku'' , which earned him an award in a manga contest for aspiring manga artist, and became assistant to professional manga artists. Some time later, he debuted as a professional manga artist in 1974 with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsukishima
is a place located in Chūō, Tokyo, Japan, in the Sumida River estuary. It is a reclaimed land next to Tsukuda District. The land reclamation completed in 1892, using earth from the dredging work performed to create a shipping channel in Tokyo Bay. At this time, it was designated as industrial area in accordance with the Fukoku Kyōhei National Policy. Originally, Tsukuda Island was a tiny island at the river mouth. It was inhabited by a fishing community who migrated from Osaka in early 1600s. It has been said that the name (literally "moon island") was originally written using the characters 築島 which can also be read "Tsukishima" but mean "constructed island". It is currently known for its large number of restaurants serving the local specialty, monjayaki. Tsukishima Station is served by the Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line and the Toei Subway Ōedo Line. Education Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by Chuo City Board of Education. Zoned elementar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leiji Matsumoto
is a Japanese mangaka, creator of several anime and manga series. His wife Miyako Maki is also a manga artist. Early life Matsumoto was the middle child of a family of seven brothers, and, in his early childhood, Matsumoto was given a 35mm film projector by his father, and watched American cartoons during the Pacific War. During this time, he gained an interest in science fiction novels by authors Unno Juza and H. G. Wells. At 18, he moved to Tokyo, to become a ''mangaka''. Space opera Matsumoto is famous for his space operas such as ''Space Battleship Yamato'' and ''Galaxy Express 999''. His style is characterized by mythological and often tragic storylines with strong moral themes, noble heroes, feminine heroines, and a love of strange worlds and melancholy atmosphere. Career Matsumoto made his debut under his real name, Akira Matsumoto, in 1954 with ''Mitsubachi no bōken'' in the magazine ''Manga Shōnen''. Matsumoto had his big break with ''Otoko Oidon'', a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinnikuman
is a Japanese manga series created by the duo Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada, known as Yudetamago. It follows Suguru Kinniku, a superhero who must win a wrestling tournament to retain the title of prince of Planet Kinniku. Nakai and Takashi planned the series when they were attending high school originally as a parody to ''Ultraman''. The manga was originally published in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1979 to 1987, and was first adapted by Toei Animation into a 137-episode anime series broadcast on Nippon Television from 1983 to 1986. It restarted publication in 2011 in Shueisha's web magazine ''Shū Play News'', and has spawned spin-off manga and anime series, video games, anime films, and several ''Kinnikuman''-related merchandise. There is also a sequel, the manga that was serialized in ''Weekly Playboy'' between 1998 and 2004. It was published in North America by Viz Media under the title of ''Ultimate Muscle''. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yudetamago
is the pen name of the Japanese manga artists duo consisting of story writer Takashi Shimada and artist Yoshinori Nakai. They are best known for the popular manga ''Kinnikuman'', ''Ultimate Muscle'' (Kinnikuman Nisei), and ''Tatakae!! Ramenman''. Many English speaking fans abbreviate Yudetamago as "Yude" while discussing the different peculiarities of the duo. Takashi Shimada : Story Writer. Hometown: Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka. Birthdate: October 28, 1960. Recognizable Feature: Droopy Eyes. : A graduate of Hatushiba High School (Higashi-ku, Sakai), up until 1984 he went by the name . He frequently attends movie premieres, events, and interviews by himself and has the more exposure of the duo. These appearances have led to his being jokingly referred to as "The Non-Working Half of Yude". He claims to have been a naughty child in his younger days and that his favorite show was a TV Drama called ''Playgirl''. He loved to read and draw manga, and before he met Nakai he would often dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outlaws Of The Marsh
''Water Margin'' (''Shuihu zhuan'') is one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin, and is attributed to Shi Nai'an. It is also translated as ''Outlaws of the Marsh'' and ''All Men Are Brothers''. The story, which is set in the Northern Song dynasty (around 1120), tells of how a group of 108 outlaws gather at Mount Liang (or ''Liangshan'' Marsh) to rebel against the government. Later they are granted amnesty and enlisted by the government to resist the nomadic conquest of the Liao dynasty and other rebels. While the book's authorship is traditionally attributed to Shi Nai'an (1296–1372), the first external reference to the novel only appeared in 1524 during the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty, sparking a long-lasting academic debate on when it was actually written and which historical events the author had witnessed that inspired him to write the book. It is considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.Yenna Wu, "Full-Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Divine Comedy
The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: ''Inferno'', ''Purgatorio'', and '' Paradiso''. The narrative takes as its literal subject the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward, and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul's journey towards God, beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin (''Inferno''), followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ''Commedia'') and later christened by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His ''De vulgari eloquentia'' (''On Eloquence in the Vernacular'') was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as '' The New Life'' (1295) and ''Divine Comedy'' helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuteru Yokoyama
was a Japanese manga artist born in Suma Ward of Kobe City in Hyōgo Prefecture. His personal name was originally spelled , with the same pronunciation. His works include ''Tetsujin 28-go'', ''Giant Robo'', ''Akakage'', ''Babel II'', ''Sally the Witch'', ''Princess Comet'', and adaptations of the Chinese classics ''Water Margin'' and ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. Early life Yokoyama spent his boyhood during World War II and was evacuated to Tottori with his family. He graduated from Kobe municipal Ota junior high school and went on to the Kobe municipal Suma high school. Osamu Tezuka's "Metropolis" made a deep impression on Yokoyama who wished to become a manga artist in earnest and so he contributed his works to a comic book in his high school days. He entered the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation after graduation from high school, but quit his job before five months passed because there was no time to draw a manga. He found a new job as a publicity department membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanpei Shirato
, known by the pen name , was a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as the realism of his drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He was considered a pioneer of the controversial ''gekiga'' genre of adult-oriented manga. The son of the Japanese proletarian painter Toki Okamoto, his dream to become an artist equal with his father started when he became a kamishibai artist. He is also known for his work published in the early issues of the manga anthology magazine ''Garo'' in 1964, which he began publishing so as to serialize his comic ''Kamui''. Early life Shirato was born in Tokyo, Japan. In Shirato's childhood his father was active in the proletarian culture movement, being one of the few people to be photographed with the tortured corpse of proletarian leader Takiji Kobayashi. As he grew up he experienced the rancor of the war years, and it is said that these grim emotions come out in the nihilistic society portrayed in his work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Motomiya
Hiroshi Motomiya (, born June 25, 1947) is a Japanese manga artist. He is from Chiba Prefecture. Moto Kikaku ''Moto Kikaku'' (formerly ''Motomiya Kikaku'') is a group of Japanese manga artists, founded by Hiroshi Motomiya. They're best known in the West for the ''Strider Hiryu'' manga (published by Kadokawa Shoten), which was developed as a tie-in to Capcom's video game hit '' Strider''. The group had input in '' Strider 2'''s character designs, and the original manga's plot was adapted as the plot of the NES version. However, ''Strider'' was not the only Moto Kikaku property to be adapted. Capcom based four games on Motomiya's '' Tenchi wo Kurau'' series: ''Destiny of an Emperor'' and '' Destiny of an Emperor II'' for the NES, and ''Dynasty Wars'' and ''Warriors of Fate'' for the CPS-1. Moto Kikaku is credited whenever Strider Hiryu appears in a game. On the staff roll for the PC-Engine port of ''Warriors of Fate'', they share a "Special Thanks" credit on the same line w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Seiya Next Dimension
, also known as simply ''Next Dimension'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It is the canonical sequel to, while also serving as a prequel to the ''Saint Seiya'' manga by Kurumada. The main plot is set in the 18th century during the previous "Holy War" between the goddess Athena and the god Hades, and centres on the battles between each deity's warriors who are known as the Saints and the Specters respectively. It is published by Akita Shoten in the weekly magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' at irregular dates. It is also known by its alternate subtitle , which is used during publication to refer to the segments of the storyline set in the 20th century, as opposed to the ''Myth of Hades'' subtitle, which refers to the segments set in the 18th century. Unlike the original work, ''Next Dimension'' is published in full color in its volume compilations, with the printed chapters in the ''Shōnen Champion'' magazine originally published in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doujinshi
, also romanized as ', is the Japanese term for self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels. Part of a wider category of '' doujin'' (self-published) works, ''doujinshi'' are often derivative of existing works and created by amateurs, though some professional artists participate in order to publish material outside the regular industry. Groups of ''doujinshi'' artists refer to themselves as a . Several such groups actually consist of a single artist: they are sometimes called . Since the 1980s, the main method of distribution has been through regular ''doujinshi'' conventions, the largest of which is called Comiket (short for "Comic Market") held in the summer and winter in Tokyo's Big Sight. At the convention, over of ''doujinshi'' are bought, sold, and traded by attendees. ''Doujinshi'' creators who base their materials on other creators' works normally publish in small numbers to maintain a low profile so as to protect themselves against litigation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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