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Texhnolyze
''Texhnolyze'' (stylized as ''TEXHNOLYZE'') is a Japanese experimental film, experimental anime television series animated by Madhouse (company), Madhouse and directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, with screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka, with original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda. It was broadcast on Fuji TV, Fuji Television and Fuji Network System, its affiliates from April to September 2003. The story takes place in the vibrant yet dilapidated underground city of Lux. Denizens of Lux have come to call it "The City" and treat it as a sentient force. It focuses on Ichise, a stoic prize fighter who loses a leg and an arm to satisfy an enraged promoter; Onishi, a young but level-headed executive who has many enemies; and Ran, a little girl who has a very important gift that affects the entire city. As they struggle to accept the challenges that they are dealt, they bear witness to major events that determine the survival and fate of the city. Plot ''Texhno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Current
Anime Current was an anime television block running on G4 Canada, in which one series is broadcast from beginning to end. It was similar to Anime Unleashed, a former programming block on the American version of G4. It premiered on 6 November 2006 with R.O.D the TV. On 1 January 2007, G4techTV and Geneon Entertainment announced an exclusive deal in which Geneon titles would air on Anime Current. Previously, Geneon's first (and only) title that aired in Canada was ''Samurai Champloo'' on Razer's Kamikaze block. On 25 June 2007, the channel announced the lineup would include six series, first being, ''Serial Experiments Lain'', ''Texhnolyze'', ''Last Exile'', ''Tokyo Underground'', ''Ergo Proxy'', and ''Paranoia Agent''.{{Cite web , url=http://www.g4techtv.ca/aboutus/press/p_20070625_release.shtml , title=G4 TechTV Canada announces 6 new series for Anime Current , access-date=28 June 2007 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519022441/http://www.g4techtv.ca/aboutus/pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasuyuki Ueda
is a Japanese producer, who has worked on such projects as ''Serial Experiments Lain'' (a producer and story writer). He was a director for the ''Noel'' video game, worked on the ''Lain'' video game, and also on ''Wachenröder'' for the Sega Saturn. He first hired Yoshitoshi ABe, who would become a regular collaborator in the future on many other anime projects. Anime involved in *'' Phantom Quest Corp.'' (1994), Assistant Producer *''Hyper Doll'' (1995), Producer *''Magical Project S'' (1996), Assistant Producer *'' Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness'' (1997), Production Supporter *''Serial Experiments Lain'' (1998), Original Concept & Story, Producer *''Nazca'' (1998), Producer *''The Legend of Black Heaven'' (1999), Music Producer *''Amazing Nurse Nanako'' (1999), Producer *''NieA 7'' (2000), Producer *''Hellsing'' (2001), Executive Producer *''Haibane Renmei'' (2002), Producer *''Texhnolyze'' (2003), Producer *''Koi Kaze'' (2004), Producer *''Ergo Proxy ''Erg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshitoshi ABe
is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He first gained fame in his work on the avant-garde anime ''Serial Experiments Lain''. He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series ''NieA_7''. He is the creator of the dōjinshi ''Haibane Renmei'', which was also adapted into an anime. He is a colleague and friend of Chiaki J. Konaka, with whom he collaborated on the series ''Serial Experiments Lain'' and ''Texhnolyze''. He usually uses the romaji form of his name instead of the kanji, with the "B" in "ABe" capitalized, as a reminder of his early works, for which he used the pen name "AB". Abe first began his career as a teen in Tokyo who was first recognized as a graffiti artist, who regularly got into legal problems with his art. His concepts for all his later works are said to be inspired by this time of his life and has projected a dark theme into his anime character designs. He is known to be a fairly tech-savvy manga a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhouse (company)
is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1972 by ex– Mushi Pro staff, including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Madhouse has created and helped to produce many well-known shows, OVAs and films, starting with TV anime series ''Ace o Nerae!'' (produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha) in 1973, and including '' Wicked City'', ''Ninja Scroll'', ''Perfect Blue'', '' Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'', ''Trigun'', ''Di Gi Charat'', ''Black Lagoon'', '' Death Note'', '' Paprika'', ''Wolf Children, Parasyte: The Maxim'' and the first season of ''One-Punch Man''. Unlike other studios founded at this time such as AIC and J.C.Staff, their strength was and is primarily in TV shows and theatrical features. Expanding from the initial Mushi Pro staff, Madhouse recruited important directors such as Morio Asaka, Masayuki Kojima, and Satoshi Kon during the 1990s. Their staff roster expanded in the 2000s to include Mamoru Hosoda, Takeshi Koike, and Mitsuo Iso, as well as many younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Harwood
Victoria Claire Harwood is a British-born voice actress based in the United States. She works for anime roles at Geneon Entertainment/New Generation Pictures. Biography Harwood was born in Devon, England in 1961 to an English father and Armenian mother (Takouhi Avakian). She grew up from the age of two in Nicosia, Cyprus, where her mother's family had lived since 1936. She moved to London when she was 18. Harwood started her career as a dancer before moving into television. She appeared in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Bettina in 'The Accused' released in 1983. She trained at RADA and worked in theater in London and Europe before marrying film producer William Butler-Sloss. She moved to Hollywood with her husband and two sons, Arum and Roibhilin and continues to work in voice overs. Her best-known role is that of Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing and in The Last Remnant as Roeas. Harwood's first book, ''The Seamstress of Ourfa'', published in 2018, is the first in a trilogy beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shizuka Itō
is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She is represented by Ken Production. She won a "Best Actress in Supporting Roles" award at the 10th Seiyu Awards for her roles in ''Prison School'' and ''Sailor Moon Crystal''. She is well known for her anime voice roles as Hilda in ''Beelzebub'', Hinagiku Katsura in ''Hayate the Combat Butler'', and many others. She and fellow voice actress Hitomi Nabatame formed a voice acting unit called "Hitomi Nabatame and Shizuka Itō". Together they are known by the name , which is Japanese for "a single droplet". In 2012, she announced that she had gotten married. On April 30, 2020, Itō announced that she had gotten divorced. Filmography Television animation Original video animation (OVA) *'' Baldr Force Exe Resolution'' – Kaira Kirusten *''D-Frag!'' – Takao *'' Dogs: Bullets & Carnage'' – Naoto Fuyumine *'' Top wo Nerae 2!'' – Pacica Peska Pelcicum *'' I"s Pure'' – Iori Yoshizuki *'' Maria-sama ga Miteru 3rd Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Gross
Justin M. Gross is an American voice actor. Gross is best known as the voice of Arthas Menethil in ''Warcraft III'', Ryu Hayabusa in the ''Ninja Gaiden'' games, and Steve Rogers/Captain America in the ''Ultimate Avengers'' series. He has also voiced thousands of media projects such as television and radio commercials, show narrations, promos, websites and B2B videos. Gross currently resides in Grass Valley, California, where he works primarily from his home studio. He graduated from Sonoma State University. Filmography Voice roles Films *''Ultimate Avengers'' as Captain America *''Ultimate Avengers 2'' as Captain America Video games Dubbing roles Anime *'' Angel Tales'' as Goh *''DearS'' as Hironobu Nonaka *''Ikki Tousen'' as Genpo Saji *''Mermaid Forest'' as Yuta *''NieA 7'' as D.J. / Geronimo Hongo / Newscaster *''Paranoia Agent'' as Newscaster *'' R.O.D -The TV-'' as Chief *''Spirit of Wonder Scientific Boys Club'' as Jack *''Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko'' as Chief Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of drug culture, technology, and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction. Comics exploring cyberpunk themes began appearing as early as Judge Dredd, first published in 1977. Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel ''Neuromancer'' helped solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture. Other influential cyberpunk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Seitz
David Patrick Seitz (born March 17, 1978) is an American voice actor Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ..., Dubbing (filmmaking), ADR director and screenwriter, script writer known for his work for Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, NYAV Post, Studiopolis, Viz Media, Disney/Pixar, New Generation Pictures and Riot Games. He has provided voices for English versions of Japanese anime and video games, including over 100 projects since his initial foray into the voice-over industry in 2000 with the ''Amazing Nurse Nanako'' OVA. Biography Seitz began acting in plays at the age of fourteen when he tried out for and got into ''The King and I.'' He continued doing theater through high school and took acting and singing lessons. Prior to his current level of involvement i ... [...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] |
Hiroshi Tsuchida
is a Japanese voice actor and live-action actor affiliated with 81 Produce. He frequently dubs character voices from English-speaking films into Japanese for the local market. He is known for his role as Grisha Jaeger in ''Attack on Titan'' (2013-present). Filmography Anime television *''Naruto'' (2003) – Raido Namiashi *''One Piece'' (2004) – Capote *''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'' (2005) – Pana *''Honey and Clover'' (2005) – Kazushi Yamazaki *''The Wings of Rean'' (2005) – Rouri Yahan *''Buso Renkin'' (2006) – Kinjo *''Gintama'' (2007) – Marinosuke *''Skull Man'' (2007) – Skullman *'' Soul Eater'' (2008) – Masamune Nakatsukasa *''K-On!'' (2009) – Fuuma Monou *''Needless'' (2009) – Zakard *''Inazuma Eleven'' (2010) – Hidetoshi Nakata *'' Steins;Gate'' (2011) – John Titor *'' Bunny Drop'' (2011) – Daikichi Kawachi *''Attack on Titan'' (2013) – Grisha Yeager *'' Pocket Monsters: XY'' (2013) – Dr. Platane (Professor Sycamore) *''Buddy Complex'' (2014) – Dorz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychological Thriller
Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres. It is commonly used to describe literature or films that deal with psychological narratives in a thriller or thrilling setting. In terms of context and convention, it is a subgenre of the broader ranging thriller narrative structure,Dictionary.com, definitionpsychological thriller (definition) Accessed November 3, 2013, "...a suspenseful movie or book emphasizing the psychology of its characters rather than the plot; this subgenre of thriller movie or book – Example: In a psychological thriller, the characters are exposed to danger on a mental level rather than a physical one....", with similarities to Gothic and detective fiction in the sense of sometimes having a "dissolving sense of reality". It is often told through the viewpoint of psychologically stressed characters, revealing their distorted mental perceptions and focusing on the complex and often tortured relationships between obs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
