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Pretty Cure
, also known as and ''PC'', is a Japanese magical girl anime franchise created by Izumi Todo and Bandai and produced by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Asatsu-DK, Toei Animation and Bandai. Each series revolves around a group of magical girls known as Pretty Cures who battle against evil forces. Starting in February 2004 with ''Futari wa Pretty Cure'', the franchise has seen many anime series, spanning over 850 episodes to date, as well as spawning movies, manga, toys, and video games. Its most recent iteration, ''Delicious Party Pretty Cure'', began airing in February 2022 as part of TV Asahi's Sunday morning children's television block. As of January 2022, three series have received English adaptations. Overview Each series focuses on a group of teenage girls who are granted special items that allow them to transform into legendary warriors known as the ''Pretty Cure.'' With the assistance of creatures known as fairies, the Pretty Cure use their magical powers and enhanced stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futari Wa Pretty Cure
, known as simply ''Pretty Cure'' outside Japan, is a Japanese magical girl anime series produced by Toei Animation and broadcast across Japan on ANN for 97 episodes. It is the first series in the ''Pretty Cure'' metaseries created by Izumi Todo. The first season, directed by Daisuke Nishio, aired between February 1, 2004 and January 30, 2005, in the same timeslot as Izumi Todo's previous work Ashita no Nadja. It received an adapted English-dubbed version, which aired in Canada in March 2009. A second season, , or simply ''Max Heart'', aired in Japan between February 6, 2005, and January 29, 2006. It was then succeeded by ''Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star''. Two ''Max Heart'' movies were released on April 16, 2005, and December 10, 2005, respectively. The series' main motif is yin and yang. Plot ''Futari wa Pretty Cure'' revolves around two girls, Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro, who encounter the Garden of Light's Mipple and Mepple, who give them the power to tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumi Todo
, credited with creating series like ''Ojamajo Doremi'' and ''Pretty Cure'', is a collective pen name used by Toei Animation television producers when contributing to their various anime series. Pseudonyms used in a similar manner include Hajime Yatate from Sunrise and Saburo Yatsude for Toei Company's anime and tokusatsu television productions. The use of the pen name began with ''Ojamajo Doremi''. The name comes from "Tōei Dōga (the former name of Toei Animation), Ōizumi Studio" (written in Japanese as 東映動画大泉スタジオ). Credited series Television *''Ojamajo Doremi'' (1999-2003, 2019-2020) **''Ojamajo Doremi'' (1999-2000) **'' Ojamajo Doremi ♯'' (2000-2001) **''Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi'' (2001-2002) **''Ojamajo Doremi Dokkān!'' (2002-2003) ** ''Ojamajo Doremi: Owarai Gekijō'' (2019-2020) *''Shinzo'' (2000) *''Pipo Papo Patrol-kun'' (2000-2001) *''Ashita no Nadja'' (2003-2004) *''Pretty Cure'' (2004-present) **''Futari wa Pretty Cure'' (2004-2005) **''Futari w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Productions
Ocean Productions, Inc., is a Canadian media production and voice acting company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that is part of the Ocean Group of businesses. Ocean Group is involved in intellectual property acquisition and development, co-production and the creation of English versions of animation for worldwide distribution. The Group also works with global toy companies and producers to create and distribute animation properties in conjunction with game development as well as licensing and merchandising programs. Ocean Media Inc. creates world master versions of programming to promote intellectual properties on a global basis. The company's productions are recorded at Ocean Studios (originally known as Ocean Sound) in Vancouver and Blue Water Studios in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta. History Founded by Ken Morrison and Dave Thomas in the early 1970s, the company, then known as Ocean Sound, originally started as a North Vancouver-based music recording studio. Musicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EOne
Entertainment One Ltd., trading as eOne, is an American-owned Canadian multinational entertainment company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the company is primarily involved in the acquisition, distribution, and production of films and television series. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange before it was acquired by Hasbro on December 30, 2019. History Establishment The company has its origins in the music distributor Records on Wheels Limited (which was established in 1970), and the music retail chain CD Plus. The chain was in the process of acquiring other companies to bolster its wholesale operations in music and home video, leading to its purchase of ROW in 2001. Its vice president of operations, Darren Throop, had joined the company after CD Plus acquired his Halifax-based record store chain Urban Sound Exchange. The combined company later became known as ROW Entertainment, with Throop as president and CEO. The company listed itself on the Toronto Stock Excha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toei Animation Inc
Toei Animation Inc. (abbreviated as TAI, or sometimes just Toei Animation USA or Toei LATAM depending on the territory) is an American licensing and distributor based in Los Angeles. It is Toei Animation's American sister company. It holds partnerships with TV channels, DVD distributors, and streaming websites. History Due to Toei Animation's decision to start distributing the series directly since 2003 with the establishment of Toei Animation Europe based in Paris, Toei Animation Inc. based in Los Angeles was founded in 2004. In 2005, the Toei Animation licenses that were distributed by Cloverway Inc. were transferred to Toei Animation Inc. for requirement, leaving Cloverway alone with the licenses of the other Japanese producers with which it intermediated. As a consequence of this, there has been a chain of irregularities, such as the loss of master tapes of many series, with the Latin American versions being the most affected for this change in distribution. Anime Distribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh Pretty Cure!
or ''Fresh PreCure!'', is a Japanese magical girl anime series and the sixth in the ''Pretty Cure'' metaseries by Izumi Todo, featuring the fourth generation of Cures. Produced by Toei Animation, the series was directed by Junji Shimizu ('' Jigoku Sensei Nube The Movie'') and written by Atsushi Maekawa (''Bakugan Battle Brawlers'', ''Jewelpet''). Character designs were created by Hisashi Kagawa (''Saikano'', ''Bomberman Jetters'', ''Phantom Thief Jeanne''). The series aired on TV Asahi's ANN network between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010, replacing '' Yes! PreCure 5 Go Go!'' in its initial time slot, and was succeeded by '' HeartCatch PreCure!''. Fresh Pretty Cure marks the franchise's first ever expansion outside its target-audience demographic of young girls, as well as the first to introduce CG-animated end credits focused on dance routines. The series' main topics involve traditional playing-card suits, fruits and clovers - which are symbols that are associated w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakayoshi
is a monthly ''shōjo'' manga magazine published by Kodansha in Japan. First issued in December 1954, it is a long-running magazine with over 60 years of manga publication history. Notable titles serialized in Nakayoshi include ''Princess Knight'', ''Candy Candy'', ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon'' and ''Cardcaptor Sakura''. The target demographic for ''Nakayoshi'' (like '' Ribon'' and '' Ciao'') is teenage girls. Roughly the size of a phone book (hence the term "phone book manga"), the magazine generally comes with ''furoku'', or small gifts, such as pop-out figures, games, small bags, posters, stickers, and so on. The ''furoku'' is an attempt to encourage girls to buy their own copies of the magazine rather than just share with a friend. It is one of the best-selling ''shōjo'' manga magazines, having sold over 400million copies since 1978. In the mid-1990s, ''Nakayoshi'' retailed for 400 yen and had an average of 448 pages. The estimated average circulation of ''Nakayoshi'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodansha
is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' and ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine'', as well as the more literary magazines ''Gunzō'', ''Shūkan Gendai'', and the Japanese dictionary ''Nihongo Daijiten''. Kodansha was founded by Seiji Noma in 1910, and members of his family continue as its owners either directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation. History Seiji Noma founded Kodansha in 1910 as a spin-off of the ''Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai'' (, "Greater Japan Oratorical Society") and produced the literary magazine ''Yūben'' () as its first publication. The name ''Kodansha'' (taken from ''Kōdan Club'' (), a now-defunct magazine published by the company) originated in 1911 when the publisher formally merged with the ''Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai''. The company has used its current legal name since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futago Kamikita
and , born August 11 in Kōchi Prefecture, are two Japanese manga artists and character designers, twin sisters, who work together under the pseudonym of . They are best known for the manga versions of the ''Pretty Cure'' franchise. Their previous pen names include , and . Biography The Kamikita twins started drawing at a young age, influenced by their mother, passionate about painting. Later on, they attended the University of Tokyo. As animators and designers in Hiroshi Sasagawa's studio, in 1989 they won the '' Shueisha Akatsuka Award'' with ''RED HOT'', published in the special winter issue of Shōnen Jump. From 2002 to 2004, they drew the paper version of ''Akubi Girl'', and then they started adapting ''Pretty Cure'', serialized in Nakayoshi, of which they also realized short sticker stories throughout the years. In 2006, the Kamikita twins participated in designing the monsters of ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX''. 2006 was also the year of . In January 2008, the joined the staff of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony through a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian media, including Japanese anime. Founded in 2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley, graduates, Crunchyroll's distribution channel and partnership program delivers content to over 100million registered users worldwide. Crunchyroll was a subsidiary of AT&T's Otter Media, and from 2016 to 2018, the company partnered with Funimation, which would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll in 2021. Crunchyroll has offices in San Francisco, Culver City, Dallas, New York City, Melbourne, Tokyo, Paris, Roubaix, Berlin, Chișinău, Lausanne, and London, and is a member of The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA). "Crunchyroll-Hime", also known as "Hime", is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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