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Narue No Sekai
is a Japanese manga series by Tomohiro Marukawa. The series follows Kazuto Izuka, an alien girl named Narue Nanase and the trials and tribulations of the young couple as they get to know each other. The title is taken from A. E. van Vogt's ''The World of Null-A'' (Japanese title: 非Aの世界 ''Naru ē no Sekai''). The manga, spanning 12 volumes as of August 2011, is authored by Tomohiro Marukawa and published by Kadokawa Shoten since 2000. The manga was licensed in North America by the now-defunct CPM Manga. In 2014, the manga received the Seiun Award for Best Comic. An anime television series adaptation ran on MBS between April 4, 2003 and June 28, 2003. Central Park Media licensed and released it in a four-disc DVD collection in 2004 under their US Manga Corps label. Following the 2009 bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, ADV Films picked up the anime series for release on July 21, 2009. Following the closure of A.D. Vision, the series is now distributed by su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viki (website)
Rakuten Viki is an American video streaming website. It streams videos similar to other services, but also allows users to subtitle content available in 200 languages as well as provides original programming. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, it has offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea. The name Viki is a portmanteau of the words video and Wiki, drawing on the latter company's use of volunteers for content management. The company won the Crunchie award for best international start-up company in January 2011. History 2007–2012; Early history Viki was founded in 2007 by Razmig Hovaghimian, Changseong Ho and Jiwon Moon. Funding for the company originally came from Neoteny Labs, a Singapore start-up fund headed by Joichi Ito, and from the co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman. The company moved to Singapore in 2008 to take advantage of government backing and the city-state’s role as a pan-Asian hub. In December 2010, Viki exited the beta phase of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Fukuyama
is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He played Lelouch Lamperouge in ''Code Geass'', Koro-sensei in '' Assassination Classroom'', Ichimatsu in ''Osomatsu-san'', Yuta Togashi in ''Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions'', Kraft Lawrence in ''Spice and Wolf'', Hero in ''Maoyu'', Kimihiro Watanuki in '' xxxHOLiC'', Joker in ''Persona 5'' and Riku Riku is both a masculine Finnish given name and a unisex Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer * Riku Hahl (born 1980), Finnish NHL hockey player *, Japanese footballer *Riku Heini (born 1990), Finnis ... in '' Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon''. Filmography TV animation Original video animation (OVA) Original net animation (ONA) Live-Action Drama/Film Anime films Video games The Japanese vocal tracks for these characters also appear in the Chinese and Korean versions of the game. Drama CDs Live-action films Dubbing Discography Jun Fukuyama Persona Show PONY CANYON Fly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otaku
is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in ''Manga Burikko''. may be used as a pejorative with its negativity stemming from a stereotypical view of as social outcasts and the media's reporting on Tsutomu Miyazaki, "The Otaku Murderer", in 1989. According to studies published in 2013, the term has become less negative, and an increasing number of people now identify themselves as , both in Japan and elsewhere. Out of 137,734 teens surveyed in Japan in 2013, 42.2% self-identified as a type of . subculture is a central theme of various anime and manga works, documentaries and academic research. The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to what was then seen as inevitably becoming social outcasts. The subcu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie McGonnigal
James Campbell McGonnigal (born August 6, 1975 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American voice actor, producer, activist and director, who has worked for various companies such as 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, NYAV Post, DuArt Film and Video and Funimation. Biography As the founding Artistic Producer of The World AIDS Day Concerts and as a Founding Producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, McGonnigal presented the New York Premiere of Stephen Schwartz' ''Children of Eden'', the first major NY revisitation of Pippin starring Rosie O'Donnell, Laura Benanti, Michael Arden, and Ben Vereen, ''Snoopy The Musical'' (starring Tony Award-Winner Sutton Foster), ''The Secret Garden'' starring Laura Benanti, Will Chase, and Stephen Pasquale (named in top ten theatre events of 2005 by Playbill.com), Rags at Nokia Theatre Times Square (starring Lainie Kazan, Carolee Carmello, and Eden Espinosa), and the first major revival of the cult hit '' Runaways'' by Elizabeth Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisuke Sakaguchi
is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production. He is best known for his roles in '' Mobile Suit Victory Gundam'' as Üso Ewin, ''Gintama'' as Shinpachi Shimura, '' Clannad'' as Youhei Sunohara, '' Blood Blockade Battlefront ''as Leonardo Watch, '' Paprika'' as Kei Himuro, Atashinchi as Yuzuhiko Tachibana, Hyouka as Satoshi Fukube, ''Guilty Crown'' as Souta Tamadate, '' Persona 5'' as Yuki Mishima, ''Paranoia Agent'' as Lil' Slugger, '' Ragnarok The Animation'' as Roan, '' God Eater'' as Kōta Fujiki, and '' Fire Force'' as Viktor Licht. He was part of the voice actor unit E.M.U (Entertainment Music Unit) with fellow voice actors Hikaru Midorikawa, Hideo Ishikawa, Nobutoshi Hayashi and Ryōtarō Okiayu. Filmography Television animation ;1992 *'' Sailor Moon'' (Kyuusuke Sarashina, Neko) ;1993 *'' Mobile Suit Victory Gundam'' (Üso Ewin) *'' Ghost Sweeper Mikami'' (Male Student) ;1994 *''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' (Kiteretsu Kite (Young)) *'' Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headband
A headband is a clothing accessory worn in the hair or around the forehead, usually to hold hair away from the face or eyes. Headbands generally consist of a loop of elastic material or a horseshoe-shaped piece of flexible plastic or metal. They come in assorted shapes and sizes and are used for both fashion and practical or utilitarian purposes. In the UK, horseshoe-shaped headbands are sometimes called "Alice bands" after the headbands that Alice is often depicted wearing in ''Through the Looking-Glass''. History Greeks and Romans The beginning of headbands was no later than around 475 BC to 330 BC, with the ancient Greeks, who wore hair wreaths. The Greeks and Romans wore these pieces for very special occasions or an important event. Cultures such as the Etruscans and Romans started to decorate their wreaths with jewels made up of gold and silver. While wreaths are certainly a likely beginning of today's headbands, some believe that current day hair bands have slowl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Taylor
Kathleen Charlotte McInerney, also known by her stage name Veronica Taylor is an American voice actress known for her dubbing work in English-language adaptations of Japanese anime, in particular for voicing Ash Ketchum and his mother Delia in the ''Pokémon'' anime for its first eight seasons. Other voices she has done include Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun from ''Slayers'', Sailor Pluto from '' Sailor Moon'' and ''Sailor Moon Crystal'', Nico Robin in the 4Kids dub of ''One Piece'', April O'Neil in the 2003 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' series and has voiced video game characters like Cosmos from ''Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy'', ''Dissidia Final Fantasy'' and ''Dissidia Final Fantasy NT''. Additionally, using her real name, she is a narrator for various audio books, such as the fourth arc from the Warriors series. Early life Taylor wanted to act professionally since she was in her first play when she was five. She studied acting at The Catholic University of America and Brandeis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamiko Noto
> is a Japanese actress and singer. Some of her prominent anime roles include Kotomi Ichinose in ''Clannad'', Rin in ''Inuyasha'', Kotori Monou in '' X'', Aoi Kannazuki in ''Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel'', Durandal in ''Honkai Impact 3rd'', Haruka Nogizaka in ''Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu'', UMP9 in ''Girls' Frontline'', Fiel Nirvalen in ''No Game No Life'', Sawako Kuronuma in ''Kimi ni Todoke'', and Satellizer L. Bridget in ''Freezing''. Noto was nominated in the 1st Seiyu Awards for her work as Yakumo Tsukamoto in ''School Rumble'' and as Masane Amaha in ''Witchblade''. Noto has released several character songs and albums which have charted in Oricon and was a guest at the Otakon and Anime Expo conventions held in the United States. Biography Noto was born in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Baba Elementary School in Kanazawa City in 1992, she entered Kanazawa City Koshomachi Junior High School. In 1995, Noto entered Hokuriku Gakuin High School. After gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ufologist
Ufology ( ) is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors). While there are instances of government, private, and fringe science investigations of UFOs, ufology is generally regarded by skeptics and science educators as a canonical example of pseudoscience. Etymology Ufology is a neologism derived from ''UFO'' (a term apparently coined by Edward J. Ruppelt), and is derived from appending the acronym UFO with the suffix ''-logy'' (from the Ancient Greek ''λογία'' (''logiā'')). Early uses of ufology include an article in ''Fantastic Universe'' (1957) and a 1958 presentation for the UFO "research organization" The Planetary Center. Historical background The roots of ufology include the "mystery airships" of the late 1890s, the "foo fighters" reported by Allied airmen during World War II, the "ghost fliers" of Europe and North America during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains many anime and manga with information on the staff, cast, theme music, plot summaries, and user ratings. The website was founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, and operated the magazine ''Protoculture Addicts'' from 2005 to 2008. Based in Canada, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in four separate regions: the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. History The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing editor-in-chief Isaac Alexander. On June 30, 2002, Anime News N ... [...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] |
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