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Tomoyuki Itamura
is a Japanese director, animator, and storyboard artist. He joined OLM in 2002 as an in-between animator and left in 2007 to join Shaft. Itamura took over the ''Monogatari'' series from Tatsuya Oishi as his television directorial debut with ''Nisemonogatari''. With Akiyuki Shinbo, Itamura directed all subsequent televised installments until he left the studio following ''Owarimonogatari II''. Career Itamura joined OLM in 2002, and he first served as an in-between animator on the studio's ''Pokémon Chronicles'' television series. In 2006, he storyboarded two episodes of ''Ray the Animation'', and the following year left the studio, where he then joined Shaft. That year, he debuted as an episode director with the 3rd episode of ''Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei'', and in 2008 debuted as a project director under the chief direction of Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese animator, director, writer, and storyboard artist. Best known for his works with Shaft (company), Shaft, he has attai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utawarerumono
is a Japanese adult tactical role-playing visual novel developed by Leaf, which released in April 2002 for Microsoft Windows. It was ported to the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. In releases subsequent to the initial 2002 version, it is known by its more specific title . The game was highly successful in Japan and has since been adapted into a wide variety of other media, including several anime series, drama CDs, and Internet radio programs, and manga. A sequel for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita titled '' Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception'' was released in Japan in September 2015, and worldwide in May 2017. The final chapter of the trilogy, titled '' Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth'', was released in Japan in September 2016, and worldwide a year later. These second and third games were ported to Microsoft Windows in January 2020, and a PC port of the remake of the first followed in January 2021. A s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Yase
is a Japanese director and storyboard artist. He joined Satelight in 2005 as a production manager. In 2010, Yase joined Shaft as an episode director, and made his series directorial debut with '' Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb''. Career Yase began his career in the anime industry as a production manager with Satelight in 2005. He became an episode director with the studio and eventually left by the end of 2009. In 2010, he joined Shaft and directed two episodes of the Akiyuki Shinbo series ''And Yet the Town Moves , abbreviated as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro. The manga ran in the monthly magazine '' Young King OURs'' from March 2005 to October 2016, and was collected into sixteen bound volumes. The series ...''. In 2012, under the chief direction of Shinbo, Yase debuted as a series director with '' Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb'', and the following year directed ''Onimonogatari'' and ''Koimonogatari'' (the final two arcs of ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
is a Japanese animator. He worked as an in-between animator at Studio Giants. In 2004, he joined Shaft, where he worked as a director for 11 years. In 2015, he went freelance. Career Tatsuwa joined the sub-contracting animation firm Studio Giants in 2000, where he mostly worked as a sub-contractor to Xebec. He joined Shaft in 2004. In 2007, he received his first job as a storyboard artist, and worked as an assistant director for several of Shinbo's series in 2008. 2011 saw Tatsuwa's debut as a series director with Shaft with the original video animation series ''Katte ni Kaizō'' under the chief direction of Shinbo. Tatsuwa would direct two more series with Shaft, and assist Shinbo once more, before leaving the studio in 2015. Tatsuwa became associated with studio Passione in 2018, where he first acted as chief unit director for ''Citrus''. Style Although only a key animator at the time of its production, which was soon after he had joined Shaft, director Shin Oonuma commonl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ground Control To Psychoelectric Girl
is a Japanese light novel series written by Hitoma Iruma, with illustrations by Buriki. The series includes eight novels released between January 2009 and April 2011, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation was serialized in ASCII Media Works's ''Dengeki G's Magazine''. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Shaft aired in Japan between April and July 2011, with an original video animation episode released in February 2012. Plot Makoto Niwa transfers to a new school and moves in with his aunt, Meme Tōwa. He is confused when he meets his first cousin, Erio, because he thought his aunt lived alone. Erio, who claims she is an extraterrestrial lifeform, does not attend school and wraps herself in a futon. Surprised by his cousin's eccentricity, he needs time to adapt to the tumultuous new life that has been sprung onto him. Characters ; : : Makoto is a second-year high school student and the protagonist of the story, who transfers into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Yet The Town Moves
, abbreviated as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro. The manga ran in the monthly magazine '' Young King OURs'' from March 2005 to October 2016, and was collected into sixteen bound volumes. The series follows the exploits of whiny Hotori Arashiyama, her friends, family, neighbors, shopkeepers and colleagues at the local maid café. The slice of life format is occasionally interspersed with stories dealing with aliens, ghosts and the paranormal. An anime television series adaptation by Shaft was broadcast from October to December 2010. The manga was first licensed by Crunchyroll; in 2020 it was also licensed by Manga Planet with the name ''SoreMachi: And Yet the Town Moves''. In 2018, ''And Yet the Town Moves'' won the 49th Seiun Award for the Best Comic category, as well as the Excellence Award at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2013. Plot Hotori Arashiyama is a high school girl who works part-time as a waitress at Seaside co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arakawa Under The Bridge
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. The manga was first serialized in the ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Young Gangan'' from December 2004 to July 2015. An anime television series adaptation consisting of 26 episodes in total by Shaft was broadcast in Japan from April to December 2010 on TV Tokyo. Plot Set in Arakawa, Tokyo, the series tells the story of Kou Ichinomiya, a man who has accomplished everything by himself. Ever since he was little, his father has taught him one rule: to never be indebted to another person. One day he is attacked by child bullies in the bridge, they remove his pants and attach them high up in the bridge archer, in trying to retrieve them, he falls into the Arakawa River and almost drowns. A girl by the name of Nino rescues him and, in return, he owes her his life. Unable to accept the fact that he is indebted to her, he asks her about a way for him to repay her. In the end, she tells him to love her, beginning Kou' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Holic
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minari Endō, the author of ''Dazzle''. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine ''Monthly Comic Alive'' on June 27, 2006, and is published by Media Factory. The manga was initially licensed by Tokyopop in North America and picked up by One Peace Books in 2016 after Tokyopop lost the license in 2011. It has also been released digitally by BookWalker, Kadokawa's online digital shopfront. The first anime adaptation animated by Shaft aired in Japan between January and March 2009. A second anime season, ''Maria†Holic: Alive'', premiered on April 8, 2011. Both seasons of the anime series have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks. Plot ''Maria†Holic'' revolves around a high school girl named Kanako Miyamae, who due to a childhood incident is scared of boys and breaks out in hives if a boy touches her. During her second year of high school, she enrolls in an all-girls school hoping to find a female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidamari Sketch
is a Japanese ''yonkoma'' manga series written and illustrated by Ume Aoki, centering around a group of young female art students, and following their daily lives as close friends and neighbors at the nearby Hidamari Apartments. The manga has been serialized in Houbunsha's monthly ''seinen'' magazine ''Manga Time Kirara Carat'' since April 2004, with its chapters collected in ten ''tankōbon'' volumes as of March 2020. Since 2008, Yen Press has licensed an English translation of the series in North America under the title ''Sunshine Sketch''. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Shaft aired in Japan between January and March 2007. It was followed by three sequels: ''Hidamari Sketch × 365'', a 13-episode season between July and September 2008; ''Hidamari Sketch × Hoshimittsu'', a 12-episode season between January and March 2010; and ''Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb'', a 12-episode season between October and December 2012. Two special episodes for each of the first three sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukihiro Miyamoto
, occasionally nicknamed Otokomatsuri, is a Japanese animator and director. He started at animation studio Vega Entertainment, and later joined Shaft. He is best known for directing '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' and its subsequent film trilogy alongside Akiyuki Shinbo, the latter trilogy which subsequently garnered ¥2 billion, making it a box-office success. Career Miyamoto joined the anime industry in 2002 as a production manager and assistant episode director for Vega Entertainment on their adaptation of Leiji Matsumoto's ''Gun Frontier'' manga series. In 2003 and 2004, he debuted as an episode director and storyboard artist with '' F-Zero: GP Legend'', and began doing outsource work with Vega for Madhouse in 2004. For the next 3 years, he served with Madhouse, most prominent as an episode director for '' Monster'', and then in 2006 joined studio Shaft. At Shaft, he quickly became a prominent director alongside Akiyuki Shinbo, Shin Oonuma, and Tatsuya Oishi. In 2008, he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fairy Tale Of The Two
''Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two'' is a Japanese two-part Eroge, adult visual novel series by Minori (company), Minori for Microsoft Windows, Windows Personal computer, PCs. The first game in the series, ''Ef: The First Tale'', was released on December 22, 2006, and the second game, ''Ef: The Latter Tale'', was released on May 30, 2008. The opening video for the game was animated by Makoto Shinkai, and a majority of the music was produced by Tenmon (composer), Tenmon, who has worked in the past with Shinkai and Minori. Female character design was by Naru Nanao of ''Da Capo (visual novel), Da Capo'' fame, while male character design was by 2C Galore. Before the release of ''Ef: The First Tale'', a manga based on the overall story was serialized between 2005 and 2015 starting in ''Dengeki Comic Gao'', but later transferred to ''Dengeki Daioh''. In addition, a light novel was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's ''Comptiq'' from July 2006 to July 2008. A 12-episode anime adaptation ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
