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Norifusa Mita
is a Japanese manga artist born in 1958 from Iwate Prefecture. He is best known for ''Dragon Zakura'' for which he received the 29th Kodansha Manga Award. ''Dragon Zakura'' has been adapted to live-action television series in Japan and South Korea, its spin-off series ''Angel Bank'' received live-action television adaptation as well. His manga ''Investor Z'' was adapted into live-action television series in 2018 and ''The Great War of Archimedes'' was adapted into a film in 2019. Works *''Eiji's Tailor'' (''Big Comic Original Zōkan'', Shogakukan) * (''Manga Goraku Next'', Nihon Bungeisha) * (''Monthly Afternoon'', Kodansha) *''Boys of Summer'' (''Big Comic Spirits'', Shogakukan) * (''Weekly Playboy'', Shueisha) * (''Weekly Manga Goraku'', Nihon Bungeisha) * (''Evening'', Kodansha) * (''Weekly Young Magazine'', Kodansha) * (''Weekly Morning'', Kodansha) ** (''Weekly Morning'', Kodansha) * (''Big Comic Superior'', Shogakukan) * ('' Super Jump'', Shueisha) * (''Weekly Per Golf'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitakami, Iwate
is a Cities of Japan, city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 92,311, and a population density of 210 persons per km2 in 37,085 households. The total area of the city is . The city is famous for the sakura that bloom in Tenshochi Park. Geography Kitakami is located in south-central Iwate Prefecture, in the Kitakami River valley, approximately 45 kilometers south of the prefectural capital of Morioka, and 490 kilometers north of Tokyo. The city is at the confluence of the Kitakami River and the Waga River and has an altitude ranging from 50 to 200 meters above sea level, rising to 400 meters in the east. Neighboring municipalities Iwate Prefecture *Hanamaki, Iwate, Hanamaki *Ōshū, Iwate, Ōshū *Nishiwaga, Iwate, Nishiwaga *Kanegasaki, Iwate, Kanegasaki Climate Kitakami has a humid subtropical climate, humid climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by mild summers and cold winters. The average annual temperature in Kitakami is 10.5&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Playboy
, also known as or ''WPB'', is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966. Although the magazine publishes a variety of news and special interest articles, columns, celebrity interviews, and manga, it is considered an Pornographic magazine, adult magazine. The target demographic is men, and each issue features several nude pictorials of female models. This magazine is not a regional edition of the American ''Playboy'' magazine; the Japanese edition of that magazine was published as ''Monthly Playboy'' (''MPB'') by Shueisha until its cancellation in January 2009. Manga in ''WPB'' * ''Circuit no Ōkami II: Modena no Tsurugi'' by Satoshi Ikezawa * ''Lady Snowblood (manga), Lady Snowblood'' (修羅雪姫) by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura * ''Modena no Ken'' (モデナの剣) by Satoshi Ikezawa * ''My Favorite Carrera'' (彼女のカレラ) by Kia Asamiya * ''Ore no Sora'' (俺の空) by Hiroshi Motomiya * ''Polo Shirt and Upper Cut'' by Norifusa Mita * ''The First P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1958 Births
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United F.C., Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investor Z
An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest). Through this allocated capital most of the time the investor purchases some species of property. Types of investments include equity, debt, securities, real estate, infrastructure, currency, commodity, token, derivatives such as put and call options, futures, forwards, etc. This definition makes no distinction between the investors in the primary and secondary markets. That is, someone who provides a business with capital and someone who buys a stock are both investors. An investor who owns stock is a shareholder. Types of investors There are two types of investors: retail investors and institutional investors. Retail investor * Individual investors (including trusts on behalf of individuals, and umbrella companies formed by two or more to pool investment funds) * Angel investors (individuals and groups) * Sweat equity investor Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gakken
is a Japanese publishing company founded in 1947 by Hideto Furuoka, which also produces educational toys. Their annual sales is reported at ¥ 90 billion ($789 million US). Gakken publishes educational books and magazines and produces other education-related products. For nursery school age children and their caretakers, they produce items such as child care and nursing guides. For school children, they publish text books, encyclopedias, and science books. Gakken also publishes educational magazines for high school students, as well as school guides for all levels. Gakken also provides products for playrooms, study rooms, computer rooms and science rooms. Gakken also publishes general family-oriented and gender-oriented magazines in sports, music, art, history, animation, cooking, and puzzles. History Gakken is perhaps originally known for producing Denshi blocks and packaging them within electronic toy kits such as the Gakken EX-System, as far back as the 1970s. One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Jump
, was a biweekly manga anthology published by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. Released in Japan on December 20, 1986, the magazine provided serialized chapters of various seinen manga series. The manga series were published under the Jump Comics Deluxe imprint. History The magazine started as a special issue of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' (WJ) on December 20, 1986. It later got split into its own independent bi-monthly manga anthology. It was primarily drama manga and was intended for young adult males in their early years of college. Super Jump manga artists were normally Shōnen artists from ''Weekly Jump'', or were supported by another shōnen magazine. Some ''Weekly Jump'' series moved with ''Super Jump's'' split, due to their higher age level (e.g. '' Cobra''). Very rarely Weekly Jump handed a series over to Weekly Young Jump. If it was, the manga had a much more mature audience. Shueisha (publisher of Super Jump and other Jump anthologies) was worried that i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Comic Superior
is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since July 1, 1987 by Shogakukan in Japan. Its target audience is somewhere between the audience for ''Big Comic Original'' and ''Big Comic Spirits''. The magazine has published works by a number of well-known manga artists, including Ryoichi Ikegami, Mochiru Hoshisato, Yū Koyama, Yūji Aoki, Fumi Saimon, Norifusa Mita, George Akiyama, and Buronson. ''Superior'' was originally a special issue of ''Big Comic Original'', published twice monthly on the 1st and 15th. However, since it was selling just as well as the main three magazines (''Big Comic'', ''Big Comic Original'', and ''Big Comic Spirits''), it began to be released every other week. It is currently released twice monthly on the second and fourth Fridays. As of 2015, ''Superior'' has a reported circulation of 115,334 for each issue. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Morning
is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It debuted in 1982 as . The digital edition of the magazine is titled . In 2006 a spin-off magazine called was launched (formerly bimonthly), featuring stories like ''Saint ''☆''Young Men'', under the supervision of editor-in-chief Eijiro Shimada, who was simultaneously deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly ''Morning''. Currently running manga series Manga artists and series featured in ''Weekly Morning'' *'' Billy Bat'' by Naoki Urasawa *''Be Free!'' by Tatsuya Egawa *''Cesare'' by Fuyumi Soryo *''CITY'' by Keiichi Arawi *'' Complex Age'' by Yui Sakuma *''Dera Cinema'' by Hoshino Yasushi *''Devil Lady'' by Go Nagai *''Dragon Zakura'' by Norifusa Mita *''Drops of God'' by Shin Kibayashi *'' Enomoto: New Elements that Shake the World'' by King Gonta *'' Golden Lucky'' by Shunji Enomoto *'' Gon'' by Masashi Tanaka *''Gurazeni'' by Yūji Moritaka and Keiji Adachi *''Hataraki Man'' by Moyoco Anno *'' Hataraku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly 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] |
Evening (magazine)
is a bi-weekly Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at adult men. It is printed in black and white on newsprint and saddle-stapled in B5 format, and retails for 380 yen. Circulation was reported by the Japan Magazine Publishers Association at 115,617 copies in 2015. The magazine will end publication on February 28, 2023, and some titles currently being serialized in the magazine will be moved to Kodansha's ''Comic Days'' website. Currently running manga series Series running every issue Manga artists and series featured in ''Evening'' * Hiroki Endo **''All Rounder Meguru'' * Masayuki Ishikawa ** '' Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' *Akira Hiramoto **''RaW Hero'' * Shinji Makari (story) and Shuu Akana (art) **''Yugo'' * Norifusa Mita ** ''Scout Seishirō'' ** ''Tōmei Axle'' * Takayuki Mizushina ** ''Lovely Muco'' * Kentarō Okamoto ** ''Sanzoku Diary'' * Hiroya Oku ** ''Inuyashiki'' * Yuzo Takada ** ''Captain Alice'' * Masayuki Takano ** '' Blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Manga Goraku
is a Japanese weekly manga magazine published since 1968 by Nihon Bungeisha which targets a demographic of adult men. The magazine is published every Friday. Serialized works Listed alphabetically by title. *''69 Denashi'' (Yasuhito Yamamoto) *''Ad Boy'' (Makoto Niwano) *''Aisu Otoko - Iceman'' (Mio Murao) *''Akane Toyori'' (Shun Sekiguchi) *'' Angel: the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed'' (U-Jin) *''Angel: the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed season 2'' (U-Jin) *''Ari Jigoku'' (Toshiyuki Itakura) *''Asakusabito'' (Masaharu Nabeshima) *''Baddoman - Akutarou'' (Yukio Tamai) *'' Bakumeshi!'' (Shigeru Tsuchiyama) *''Bonkura'' (Tsuru Moriyama) *''Cement Boy'' (Shigeru Okamura) *''Chloe no Ryuugi'' (Daisuke Imai) *''Dai-46-dai: Natsume Kirou Emon - Kouryuu no Mimi Hatsugenhen'' (Masaharu Nabeshima, Arimasa Oosawa) *''Danjiru Matsuri'' (Sayumi Sakuragi) *''Dark'' (Keigo Izuki, Seisaku Kanou) *''Datsugoku Doctor Inochiya Enma'' (Jun Tomizawa) *''Densha Doori Iccho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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