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Yuji Moriyama
is an anime character designer, animator, animation supervisor and director. He is a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association and a winner of the 4th Japan Animation Awards in the Animation Director category. Career Moriyama started helping out with in-between animation when he was a student at Kanto Daiichi High School. After graduating from high school, he joined Studio Musashi, which was recruiting staff through newspaper ads. His first work as an official in-betweener was for Toei Animation's ''Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace''. He then moved to Studio Cockpit, where he worked on ''Galaxy Express 999'', before moving on to NeoMedia. At NeoMedia, he worked on ''Invincible Robo Trider G7'' for Sunrise, ''Doraemon'' for Shin-Ei Animation, and ''Belle and Sebastian'' for Visual 80. With ''Invincible Robo Trider G7'', he was promoted from in-between to key animation. He left NeoMedia in 1982 to work as a freelancer, starting with ''Combat Mecha Xabungle'' and '' Acrobunch''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maison Ikkoku
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic Spirits'' from 1980 to 1987, with the chapters collected into 15 ''tankōbon'' volumes. ''Maison Ikkoku'' is a romantic comedy involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo. The story focuses primarily on the gradually developing relationships between Yusaku Godai, a poor student down on his luck, and Kyoko Otonashi, a young, recently widowed boarding house manager. The manga was adapted into a ninety-six-episode anime television series created by Studio Deen that ran on Fuji TV from March 1986 to March 1988. A ''Final Chapter'' movie, three original video animations (OVAs), and a music special were also produced, with a live-action film made by Toei in 1986. A live-action TV special aired in May 2007 on TV Asahi, with a finale aired in July 2008. Both the manga and anime have been released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agent Aika
''Agent Aika'' (stylized and known simply as ''AIKa'' in Japan) is a Japanese OVA series animated by Studio Fantasia and directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima. The series follows Aika Sumeragi, a salvager for hire who gets caught up in a plot for world domination. The series was released in Japan from 1997 to 1999. The anime was initially licensed by Central Park Media, but was later licensed by Bandai Entertainment. The series is well known for its copious amounts of fan service, specifically the camera angles on panties of the many female characters that populate the show. On April 25, 2007, the first volume of the three-part prequel OVA '' AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission'', detailing Aika's time when she was 16 years old, was released in Japan. A remastered version of the original series was released also, along with a special live-action edition of ''Agent Aika''. In 2009, the sequel OVA '' AIKa ZERO'' with 19-year-old Aika was released. Plot Following a catastrophic earthquake twe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventures Of Kotetsu
is a manga series written and illustrated by Minoru Tachikawa. The series was adapted into a two-episode OVA series by Daia in 1996. It was licensed by ADV Films. Characters ; / : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : Eroge A eroge and sequel to the anime titled ''Kotetsu no Daibouken'' was released on April 19, 1996 for the PC-9800 The , commonly shortened to PC-98 or , is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 to 2000. The platform established NEC's dominance in the Japanese personal computer market, and, by 1999, more th ... by T2 Co., Ltd, a former subsidiary of KSS. References External links * 1992 manga 1996 anime OVAs 1997 anime OVAs ADV Films Manga series Samurai in anime and manga Wanimagazine manga OVAs based on manga Seinen manga {{manga-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Emblem
is a fantasy tactical role-playing game franchise developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. First produced and published for the Famicom in 1990, the series currently consists of sixteen core entries and five spinoffs. Gameplay revolves around the tactical movement of characters across grid-based environments, while incorporating a story and characters similar to traditional role-playing video games. A notable aspect of gameplay is the permanent death of characters in battle, removing them from the rest of the game when they are defeated. In newer games, from '' Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem'' onwards, players get to choose between Classic Mode, in which fallen characters remain dead, or Casual Mode, in which fallen characters are revived for the next battle. The series title refers to the "Fire Emblem", a recurring element in the series that is usually portrayed as a royal weapon or shield representing the power of war and dragons. The development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compiler (anime)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kia Asamiya. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's magazine ''Monthly Afternoon''. The manga was adapted into a three-part anime original video animation that was licensed in the North America by ADV Films. The opening theme is called "I Was Born to fall in Love" and the end theme is called "Full Up Mind", both by Masami Okui is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Itami, Hyōgo. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer. From almost the very beginning of her career, Masami has sung themes for anime television and movies. She .... As well as the soundtrack, a single of the opening theme and three image albums - ''Compiler'', ''Assembler'' and ''Interpreter'' - were released. Plot ''Compiler'' (as in a source code compiler) features two girls, Compiler and Assembler, who arrived on earth from 2-D cyberspace to play a "game" in which they will delete the real world an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
801 T
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yuzo Takada. It was serialized in ''Weekly Manga Action'' for only three issues in 1991, with the three published stories later compiled in a single volume collection in December 1997. The story begins when genius inventor Kyusaku Natsume transplants the brain of a cat found by his son Ryunosuke on Christmas Eve, into a schoolgirl android that he created and subsequently stole from his former employer, Mishima Heavy Industries (owned by his estranged wife and Ryunosuke's mother, Akiko Natsume). The result, Nuku Nuku (also known as Atsuko Natsume), is a ''nekomusume'' or cat girl. The manga was licensed by ADV Manga and published as a single volume on August 24, 2004. ''Cat Girl Nuku Nuku'' has been adapted into two OVA series and one anime television series. All three anime adaptations were also licensed in North America by ADV Films. An English language version of the OVA was released by Crusader Video in the United King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madara (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written by Eiji Ōtsuka and illustrated by Shou Tajima. Originally published from 1987 to 1994, it is set in a mythological era in Japan and tells the story of Madara, a goodhearted teenage boy who uses fantastic prosthetic limbs called "gimmicks" and a legendary sword to fight his own father, the evil overlord Miroku. The franchise has also spawned video games and a two-part OVA. Media Anime A two-episode OVA directed by Yuji Moriyama was released in 1991. Video games The Famicom video game ''Mōryō Senki MADARA'' was a Konami 1990 release that was never localized. It was large for its time at 4 megabits, and used the "VRC6" sound enhancement mapper chip that was also used in ''Akumajō Densetsu'', the Japanese version of '' Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse''. It differed from the ''Final Fantasy'' and ''Dragon Quest'' RPGs of the time in that it had movement around battlefields rather than stationary turn-by-turn movements. An orches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honō No Tenkōsei
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It was serialized in the Shogakukan manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from 1983 to 1985. ''Honō no Tenkōsei'' was adapted into a two-episode original video animation (OVA) anime series in 1991 by Gainax. A live-action series, titled ''Blazing Transfer Students'', premiered on Netflix in 2017. Plot Noboru Takizawa transfers to a school where all disputes are settled through fighting. He quickly runs afoul of the school bully, Saburō Ibuki, who has a boxing match with "God's Hall Monitor", Kōichi Jōnouchi, to determine who will date the lovely Yukari. Takizawa is enraptured with Yukari, and decides to intervene in the fight which Ibuki won by bending the rules. Takizawa loses the fight in the first OVA to Ibuki's deadly finishing punch, but in the second OVA Takizawa develops his own finishing punch and eventually wins the day. Characters ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : (credited as Schoolboy A) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project A-Ko
is a 1986 Japanese action comedy science fiction anime film that had several sequels and a spin-off. This film focuses on a happy-go-lucky 16-year-old red-haired, sailor-suited teenage schoolgirl, A-ko Magami, who goes on her magical adventure from high school to outer space as she struggles to finish her homework, rescue her friend C-ko, and save the Earth from an evil alien invasion. This series references a number of other works of anime from the 1970s and 1980s, such as ''Macross'', ''Fist of the North Star'' and ''Gundam''. Plot An alien space craft crashes into Graviton City, wiping out the entire population and leaving a massive crater where the city is rebuilt. Students A-ko Magami, a perky, fun-loving red-haired, sailor-suited teenage girl, and her best friend C-ko Kotobuki, a bubbly, carefree optimist, enter a new year of school as transfer students at the all-girls Graviton High School. Although A-ko possesses superhuman speed and strength, she considers herself an av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cream Lemon
is an early hentai series. The first ''Cream Lemon'' OVA was released in August 1984, though ''Cream Lemon'' was not the first hentai OVA. The first was ''Lolita Anime'', released earlier in February 1984. Related to ''Cream Lemon'' is the ''Project A-ko'' franchise, which was meant to be the third installment of ''Cream Lemon'' but changed during production to be a mainstream film. The only remaining indication is the bath scene with B-ko. Adult entertainment company Excalibur Films dubbed, edited, and released in English five ''Cream Lemon'' OVAs as parts two and three of their three-volume ''Brothers Grime X-Rated Cartoons'' series in 1987 and 1989. In 1987, Brazilian distributor Everest Video licensed the series and released much of it on VHS, in uncensored form. Plot ''Cream Lemon'' is a collection of sometimes surreal stories having different settings and situations, with genres including fantasy, comedy, suspense, sci-fi, action, drama, mecha, magical girl, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
