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Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
is a 2019 Japanese animated action fantasy film based on the ''Pretty Cure'' franchise created by Izumi Todo. The film is directed by Yukio Kaizawa, written by Isao Murayama, and produced by Toei Animation. The film was released on March 16, 2019. Marking the twelfth entry to the ''Pretty Cure All Stars'' crossover film series, the ''Star Twinkle PreCure'' team joins ''Hug! Pretty Cure'' and ''Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode'' teams as they explore the planet that originated the Miracle Lights. Plot The ''Star Twinkle PreCure'' team: Hikaru, Lala, Elena and Kaguya are stargazing through their telescope, but they are transported to outer space by a bird-like creature named Piton, whom used his Miracle Light to brought them here. The light also brings ''Hug! Pretty Cure'' team: Hana, Saaya, Homare, Emiru and Lulu, as well as ''Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode'' team: Ichika, Himari, Aoi, Yukari and Akira. Not long after, the dark cloud catches up and tries to attack Piton, but ''Hug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Etsuko Kozakura
, better known by her stage name , is a Japanese voice actress from Mizuho. She was formerly with Ohsawa Jimusho, but now heads her own agency called Little Portal with husband Jin Domon. Some of her major roles are Ryo-Ohki in the ''Tenchi Muyo'' series, Yoriko Nikaidou in '' You're Under Arrest!'', Coquelicot in ''Sakura Wars'', Piplup in ''Pokémon'', Tamama in ''Sgt. Frog'', and Yōhei Yamada in ''Chi's Sweet Home''. In video games, she is the voice of Omochao The ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game franchise began in 1991 with the game ''Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game), Sonic the Hedgehog'' for the Sega Genesis, which pitted a blue anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic the Hedgeh ... in the ''List of Sonic the Hedgehog video games, Sonic'' series and of Jibanyan in the ''Yo-kai Watch'' series. Filmography Anime Film Video games Overseas dubbing Discography Drama audio recordings Awards References Further reading * Nakagami, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossover (fiction)
A crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story. They can arise from legal agreements between the relevant copyright holders, unofficial efforts by fans, or common corporate ownership. Background Official Crossovers often occur in an official capacity in order for the intellectual property rights holders to reap the financial reward of combining two or more popular, established properties. In other cases, the crossover can serve to introduce a new concept derivative of an older one. Crossovers generally occur between properties owned by a single holder, but they can, more rarely, involve properties from different holders, provided that the inherent legal obstacles can be overcome. They may also involve using characters that have passed into the public domain with those concurrently under copyright protection. A crossover story may try to explain its own reason for the crossov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretty Cure All Stars
or ''PreCure All Stars'' is a series of Japanese anime films produced by Toei Animation based on Izumi Todo's ''Pretty Cure'' anime television franchise. Each movie features a storyline which crosses over characters from all the ''Pretty Cure'' anime series to date. As of October 2020, there are currently 12 main films in the series, ''All Stars'' movies are generally released shortly after the premiere of a new ''Pretty Cure'' television series. The most recent Pretty Cure team at the time of release generally has the largest involvement with the movie's plot. In the opening scenes of each movie, a running gag occurs, in which the most recent Pretty Cure team bump into older teams by accident. On top of that, all fairies of all Pretty Cure teams know each other as friends. With the exception of ''Singing with Everyone Miraculous Magic'', each movie to date utilizes Miracle Lights, which are small flashlights handed out to audience members during screenings, with the finale e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Film
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Prevalent elements include fairies, angels, mermaids, witches, monsters, wizards, unicorns, dragons, talking animals, ogres, elves, trolls, white magic, gnomes, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, demons, dwarves, giants, goblins, anthropomorphic or magical objects, familiars, curses and other enchantments, worlds involving magic, and the Middle Ages. Subgenres Several sub-categories of fantasy films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in fantasy literature, are somewhat fluid. The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are High Fantasy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Film
Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life-threatening situations, a dangerous villain, or a pursuit which usually concludes in victory for the hero. Advancements in computer-generated imagery (CGI) have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences and other visual effects that required the efforts of professional stunt crews in the past. However, reactions to action films containing significant amounts of CGI have been mixed, as some films use CGI to create unrealistic, highly unbelievable events. While action has long been a recurring component in films, the "action film" genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. This genre is closely associated with the thriller film, thriller and adventure film, adventure genres and ma ... [...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] |
Toei Company
() (also styled TOEI) is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution and video game developer and publishing company. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan (all but two of them operated by its subsidiary, T-Joy), studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a shareholder in several television companies. It is notable for creating animated programming known as anime, and live action dramas known as tokusatsu which use special visual effects. It also creates historical dramas (jidaigeki). Outside Japan, it is known as the controlling shareholder of Toei Animation and the owner of the '' Kamen Rider'' and ''Super Sentai'' franchises. Toei is one of the four members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is therefore one of Japan's Big Four film studios. The name "Toei" is derived from the company's former name . History Toei's predecessor, the , was incorporated in 1938. It was founded by Keita Goto, CEO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toei Animation
() is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It has produced numerous series, including ''Sally the Witch,'' ''GeGeGe no Kitarō,'' ''Mazinger Z'', ''Galaxy Express 999'', ''Cutie Honey'', ''Dr. Slump'', ''Dragon Ball (TV series), Dragon Ball'', ''Saint Seiya'', ''Sailor Moon (TV series), Sailor Moon'', ''Slam Dunk (manga), Slam Dunk'', ''Digimon'', ''One Piece (TV series), One Piece'', ''Toriko'', ''World Trigger'', ''The Transformers (TV series), The Transformers'' (between 1984–1990, including several Japanese exclusive productions) and the ''Pretty Cure'' series. History The studio was founded by animators Kenzō Masaoka and Zenjirō Yamamoto in 1948 as . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was renamed , doing business as Toei Animation Co., Ltd. outside Japan. In 1998, the Japanese name was renamed to Toei Animation. It has created a number of TV series and movies and adapted Japanese comics as animated series, many popular w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asami Tachibana
is a Japanese composer, Arrangement, arranger, pianist and Record producer, music producer. She has provided the music for several anime series, Japanese television drama, television dramas and video games. She is best known for composing the soundtrack for ''Darling in the Franxx'', as well as for co-composing the scores for ''Seraph of the End'' and ''Haikyu!!''. Biography Tachibana was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1987. She began playing piano from an early age. Later, she learned other Musical instrument, instruments by joining music clubs at school, playing Horn (instrument), horn in junior high school and double bass in high school. After school, she decided to devote herself to music, studying composition and arrangement diligently. In 2011, alongside Yutaka Yamada, Tachibana made her debut as a composer in the television series ''HUNTER - Women After Reward Money''. Since then, she has been involved in many soundtrack works, several of which with composer Yuki Haya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Hayashi (composer)
is a Japanese composer and arranger best known for his work on the soundtracks for television dramas, anime, and films. His notable works include ''Triangle'' (in collaboration with Hiroyuki Sawano), ''Zettai Reido'', ''Diabolik Lovers'', ''Asa ga Kita'', ''Haikyū!!'' and ''My Hero Academia''. Biography Hayashi was born in Kyoto, Japan. He used to be an athlete for Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics and then he became fascinated by background score when selecting gymnastics floor music. Although he had no experience in producing music before, he started learning to compose himself during college years. He sold one of his pieces for 5000 yen to junior players as their gymnastics background music, and progressively more orders came after other teams heard his works. After graduation, he became an apprentice of Hideo Kobayashi to learn beatmaking and meanwhile, he also began making background music for dancesport. He then joined the music agency Legendoor in 2009 with his first major work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Yoshino
is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with Sigma Seven. On leading roles, he played Yoshimori Sumimura in ''Kekkaishi'', Yuji Kagura in ''Tona-Gura!'', Takumi Nishijō in ''Chaos;Head'', Yusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki in ''Sket Dance'', Meow in ''Space Dandy'', Favaro in '' Rage of Bahamut: Genesis'' and Galina in ''Yatterman Night''. On supporting roles, he played Bernard Firestar in ''Divergence Eve'', Chrome in ''Cluster Edge'', Debito in ''La storia della Arcana Famiglia'', Natsuki Minami in ''Minami-ke'', Allelujah Haptism in ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00'', Yuto Kido in ''Inazuma Eleven'', Rin Hirakoba in ''The Prince of Tennis'', Kenichi Saruyama in ''To Love Ru'', Hajime Iwaizumi in ''Haikyuu!!'', Houka Inumuta in '' Kill la Kill'', Hizashi Yamada in ''My Hero Academia'' and Yasutumo Arakita in ''Yowamushi Pedal''. On August 3, 2021, it was announced that Yoshino had tested positive for COVID-19. Filmography Animation Film Live action Video games Drama re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
