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Naoshi Komi
is a Japanese manga artist. His works have debuted in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine and its affiliates. In 2008, he released ''Double Arts'', which lasted for three ''tankōbon'' volumes. His best known and most widely circulated work, '' Nisekoi'', about a pair of high school students from rival gang families that are forced to be a couple, was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', and has spawned a wider media franchise, including an anime series and a live-action film. Biography Komi was born in Tsuno, Takaoka District in the Aichi Prefecture. Komi debuted in ''Akamaru Jump'' in 2007. He said the magazine is known for featuring many newcomers. His first serialized work in ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' was ''Double Arts''. Influences Komi has cited ''One Piece'' as one of his major influences. Works * ''Island'' (2007, ''Akamaru Jump'') * ''Koi no Kami-sama'' (2007, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'') * ''Williams'' (2007, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'') * ''Apple'' (2008, ''Young Magazine'') * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuno, Kōchi
270px, Shikoku karst landscape is a town located in Takaoka District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 5,127 and a population density of 26 persons per km².The total area of the town is . Geography Tsuno is located located in the mid-western part of Kochi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. The town is surrounded by the Shikoku Mountains and the landscape is steep, with about 90% occupied by forests, and the area ratio of agricultural land and residential land is low. In the Hayama area, the Shinjo River runs east and west in the central area, and in the Higashitsuno area are the headlands of the Shimanto River. Neighbouring municipalities Kōchi Prefecture * Susaki * Niyodogawa * Tosa * Sakawa * Ochi * Yusuhara * Shimanto Town Ehime Prefecture * Kumakōgen Climate Tsuno has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light snowfall. The average annual temperature in Tsuno is 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangaka
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of '' Sailor Moon'', won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. A manga artist will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark the interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers. For example, there are contests which prospective manga artist may enter, sponsored by manga editors and publishers. This can also be accomplished through producing a one-shot. While sometimes a stand-alone manga, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisekoi
is a Japanese romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ... manga series written and illustrated by Naoshi Komi. ''Nisekoi'' was first published as a One-shot (comics), one-shot manga in Shueisha's seasonal ''Jump NEXT!'' magazine before being Serial (literature), serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' in November 2011. Since November 26, 2012, ''Nisekoi'' has been published in English in Viz Media's digital magazine, ''Weekly Shonen Jump (American magazine), Weekly Shonen Jump''. As of October 2016, the series has been compiled in 25 ''tankōbon'' volumes in Japan, and is also being released in English in digital and print volumes by Viz Media. The manga has inspired a novel series, titled ''Nisekoi: Urabana'', written by Hajime Tanaka and published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Shōnen Jump
is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that run in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' are collected and published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under the ''Jump Comics'' imprint every two to three months. It is one of the longest-running manga magazines, with the first issue being released with a cover date of August 1, 1968. The magazine has sold over 7.5billion copies since 1968, making it the best-selling comic/manga magazine, ahead of competitors such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' and ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''. The mid-1980s to the mid-1990s represents the era when the magazine's circulation was at its highest, 6.53million copies per week, with a total readership of people in Japan. Throughout 2021, it had an average circulation of over copies per week. Many of the best-selling manga series or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tankōbon
is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ... term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or monthly List of manga magazines, manga anthology with other works before being published as volumes containing several chapters each. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Magazine Comics, and Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics. Japanese comics (manga) manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisekoi (film)
is a 2018 Japanese film adaptation of a manga series Nisekoi, of the same name by Naoshi Komi. It is directed by Hayato Kawai, distributed by Toho, and stars Kento Nakajima and Ayami Nakajo as Raku Ichijo and Chitoge Kirisaki respectively. It was released in Japan on December 21, 2018. The theme song of the film, KawaE by Yabai T-shirts Yasan. This Live-action movie was released across 294 theaters in Japan. Plot Raku Ichijo is in Secondary school, high school. He does not like violence and is studying to fulfil his aspiration to serve the public. Chitoge Kirisaki is a transfer student and new to the school. She accidentally knocks Raku down. Normally, that would be that; except each is respectively the son and daughter of local Yakuza gang members. There is going to be trouble unless they act as if they are going steady. It is not going to be easy because they dislike one another. Cast * Kento Nakajima as Raku Ichijo * Ayami Nakajo as Chitoge Kirisaki * Natsumi Ikema as Kosaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takaoka District, Kōchi
is a district located in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of the Shimanto merger but with 2003 population statistics, the district has an estimated population of 68,854 and a density of 45.1 persons per km2. The total area is 1,527.65 km2. Towns and villages * Nakatosa * Ochi * Sakawa * Shimanto * Tsuno *Yusuhara * Hidaka Geography As with the majority of Kochi, the terrain in Takaoka is mostly mountainous. The Shimanto River, that disperses further west in the Hata district, has its source in Tsuno. Transport Like most rural areas in Kochi, transport is limited for residents and visitors without private vehicles. The JR Dosan line that runs from Kochi passes through Hidaka, Sakawa and Kure (Nakatosa) on the way to Kubokawa (Shimanto Town). The other. Local buses do operate within areas of Takaoka, such as a regular but infrequent set of routes servicing Sakawa, Ochi and Niyodogawa. Mergers *On February 1, 2005 the villages of Hayama 260px, Morito Beach is a town locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akamaru Jump
Akamaru may refer to: *Akamaru (Naruto), Kiba Inuzuka's dog in the ''Naruto'' series *Akamaru Island, an island in the Gambier Islands *''Akamaru Jump'', a special edition of ''Shōnen Jump'' published thrice a year {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Piece
''One Piece'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled into 104 ''tankōbon'' volumes . The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. With his pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the deceased King of the Pirates Gol D. Roger's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next King of the Pirates. The manga spawned a media franchise, having been adapted into a festival film produced by Production I.G, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Additionally, Toei has developed fourteen animated feature films, one original video animation, and thirteen television specials. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Magazine
is a Japanese weekly anthology magazine published in Tokyo each Monday by Kodansha. The magazine was started on June 23, 1980 and is targeted at the adult male ( ''seinen'') demographic. It was published bimonthly (under the title ), on the second and fourth Mondays of every month, until switching to a weekly publication in 1989. The chapters of the series that run in ''Weekly Young Magazine'' are collected and published in tankōbon volumes under the "YoungKC" imprint every four months. The magazine usually features color photos of pinup girl on the cover and first few pages of each issue. Since December 9, 2009, Kodansha has published a monthly sister magazine, , a retitled makeover of their previous publication , which had published a total of 36 bimonthly issues during its existence. Series in publication There are currently 30 manga titles serialized in ''Weekly Young Magazine''. Out of them, '' Seven Shakespeares: Non Sanz Droict'', ''Kenka Kagyō'' and '' Nande Koko ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jump Square
, also written as , is a Japanese monthly '' shōnen'' manga magazine. Published by Shueisha, the magazine premiered on November 2, 2007 as a replacement for '' Monthly Shōnen Jump'', another manga anthology that Shueisha discontinued in June of that year. The magazine is a part of the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga titles serialized in the magazine are also published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under the '' Jump Comics SQ.'' imprint. Shueisha reported from their sales pole that readers of ''Jump Square'' tend to range from 15 to 34 years of age. The current (2015) editor-in-chief is Kôsuke Yahagi. History ''Jump SQ'', also called ''Jump Square'', was created as the replacement for Shueisha's canceled '' Monthly Shōnen Jump'' manga anthology. The title has three stated meanings: public square ("a plaza where comic lovers and talented artists and writers come together"), algebraic square (''Weekly Shōnen Jump''²), and "SQ = Supreme Quality" (referring to its "Supreme Qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruichi Furudate
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for creating ''Haikyu!!''. Biography Haruichi Furudate was born on March 7, 1983 in Karumai, Iwate. After graduating from high school, he attended in Miyagi Prefecture. In 2008, Furudate wrote the one-shot ''King Kid'', which won an honorable mention for the . In 2010, Furudate launched his first full series in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', ''Philosophy School, Yotsuya Sensei's Ghost Stories''. In the next year, Furudate wrote ''Haikyu!!'' starting as two one-shots that were published in ''Jump NEXT!'' and ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' in January 2011 and April 2011 respectively. The one-shots were later turned into a full series, which started serialization in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' on February 20, 2012. The series ended in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' on July 20, 2020. While the series was serializing, it was awarded the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the ''shōnen'' category and ranked in the top three manga series for the 2015 Sugoi Japan A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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