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Zombie-Loan
''Zombie-Loan'' (stylized as ''ZOMBIE-LOAN'') is a Japanese manga series created by Peach-Pit: Banri Sendo and Shibuko Ebara. It is published by Square Enix and is serialized in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine ''GFantasy''. The series is licensed in the United States by Yen Press. An anime adaptation produced by Xebec M2 was announced and started broadcast on the Japanese network TV Asahi on July 3, 2007. It contained a total of eleven episodes, with the final broadcast on September 11, 2007. Subsequent episodes 12 and 13 were released as part of the seventh volume of the DVD release in April 2008, but no official word for television broadcast has been made. The anime has been licensed by Discotek Media; they released the complete series on DVD on September 30, 2014. Plot Michiru Kita possesses the Shinigami Eyes, a power which allows her to see a person's closeness to death by seeing a ring around the person's neck. When a person is marked to die, a gray ring appears, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shito Tachibana
This article contains profiles and information for the characters of the anime and manga series ''Zombie-Loan''. Protagonists The story follows Michiru Kita when she witnesses Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana dealing with zombies at the school. After realizing what her "eyes" are seeing, she helps Chika and Shito search for zombies. After Chika and Shito save her life by taking on the debt of healing her, she accompanies them until they can repay their debt to the Z-loan Office. Michiru Kita : possesses Shinigami Eyes, which allows her to see a ring on a person's neck, indicating their impending death. She has hated her gift ever since she saw dark rings around her parents' necks, who died in an accident after the rings turned jet black. She now wears glasses that can subdue her gift, allowing her to live her life normally. Since the death of her parents, she has felt numb, living, but having no will to achieve anything or even care if she dies or not, an attitude whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chika Akatsuki
This article contains profiles and information for the characters of the anime and manga series ''Zombie-Loan''. Protagonists The story follows Michiru Kita when she witnesses Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana dealing with zombies at the school. After realizing what her "eyes" are seeing, she helps Chika and Shito search for zombies. After Chika and Shito save her life by taking on the debt of healing her, she accompanies them until they can repay their debt to the Z-loan Office. Michiru Kita : possesses Shinigami Eyes, which allows her to see a ring on a person's neck, indicating their impending death. She has hated her gift ever since she saw dark rings around her parents' necks, who died in an accident after the rings turned jet black. She now wears glasses that can subdue her gift, allowing her to live her life normally. Since the death of her parents, she has felt numb, living, but having no will to achieve anything or even care if she dies or not, an attitude whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiru Kita
This article contains profiles and information for the characters of the anime and manga series ''Zombie-Loan''. Protagonists The story follows Michiru Kita when she witnesses Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana dealing with zombies at the school. After realizing what her "eyes" are seeing, she helps Chika and Shito search for zombies. After Chika and Shito save her life by taking on the debt of healing her, she accompanies them until they can repay their debt to the Z-loan Office. Michiru Kita : possesses Shinigami Eyes, which allows her to see a ring on a person's neck, indicating their impending death. She has hated her gift ever since she saw dark rings around her parents' necks, who died in an accident after the rings turned jet black. She now wears glasses that can subdue her gift, allowing her to live her life normally. Since the death of her parents, she has felt numb, living, but having no will to achieve anything or even care if she dies or not, an attitude which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Nishimori
is a Japanese anime director, known for directing series such as ''Rumic Theater'', ''Gallery Fake'', ''Petopeto-san'', ''Hitohira'', ''Zombie-Loan'', and three ''Battle Spirits Battle Spirits is a two-player collectible card game (CCG) jointly developed by Bandai and Sunrise, Inc. and a franchise which also includes several anime series, manga serializations, and other merchandise like toys and video games. The game ...'' television series. Works References External links * Living people Anime directors People from Miyazaki Prefecture Osaka University of Arts alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Anime-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discotek Media
Discotek Media is an American entertainment company based in Altamonte Springs, Florida, focused on distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series. Formed in 2005, Discotek primarily focuses on licensing retro titles from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, a lot of them "license rescued" from other companies such as Funimation, Viz Media, ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Geneon, Manga Entertainment, etc. Their licenses include most of the ''Lupin the Third'' franchise (including the Hayao Miyazaki film ''The Castle of Cagliostro''), the first season of '' Digimon'', ''Fist of the North Star'', ''Sonic X'', '' Hajime no Ippo'', ''Urusei Yatsura'', ''Galaxy Express 999'', and ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'', as well as OVAs such as ''Giant Robo'' and ''Gunbuster'' and films such as ''Memories'' and ''Project A-ko''. The company has also acquired several recent titles and has collaborated with streaming service Crunchyroll on several releases including ''KonoSuba'', ''Kem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shijie (Daoism)
''Shijie'', ({{zh, t=屍解, s=尸解, p=Shijie, w=shih-chieh, l=corpse release) which has numerous translations such as liberation from the corpse and release by means of a corpse, is an esoteric Daoist technique for an adept to transform into a ''xian'' ("transcendent; immortal"), typically using some bureaucratic ruse to evade the netherworld administrative system of life and death registration. The many varieties of ''shijie'' range from deceitful cases, such as a person feigning death by substituting the corpse of their recently deceased grandfather as their own, to supernatural cases, such as (''jianjie'' 劍解, "sword liberation") using a ''waidan'' alchemical sword to temporarily create a corpse-simulacrum, which enables one to escape and assume a new identity. Terminology Shijie The Chinese term ''shījiě'' compounds the words ''shī'' (尸 or 屍, "corpse; body") and ''jiě'' (解, "separate; divide; cut apart"), and has been described as a "rather strange name" (Seid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mucc
is a Japanese visual kei rock band, formed in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1997. The classic line up of Tatsuro on vocals, Miya on guitar, Yukke on bass, and Satochi on drums was solidified in 1999 following the departure of original bassist Hiro. After 24 years, Satochi retired from the music business in October 2021, leaving Mucc a trio. They have released 16 studio albums, with 2020's '' Aku'' being their highest-charting. History Early years and releases (1997–2005) Mucc was formed in 1997 by guitarist Miya, vocalist Tatsuro (then called "Tattoo"), bassist Hiro, and drummer Satochi. High school students who had been friends since primary school. They had their first concert at the Shimamura Music store in Mito, Ibaraki on May 4. Satochi was only a support musician, but decided to officially join after the concert because of how much fun he had. Mucc was named after a character from the children's TV show '' Hirake! Ponkikki''. The band is also known by the nickname " 69" since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peach-Pit (manga Artist Duo)
is a female manga artist duo in Japan, made up of and . Their group name derives from the diner hangout Peach-Pit from the TV show ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. Although both have similar styles, with some artwork it is possible to identify which artist drew it. Both are known for their bishōjo styled works. The two of them grew up together and went to the same elementary school and have been best friends ever since. Both started as dōjinshi manga artists, but not as Peach-Pit. Then they were scouted by Dengeki Comic Gao!. In 2008, one of their manga, ''Shugo Chara!'', was awarded the Kodansha Manga Award for best children's manga. Shugo Chara was also turned later into an 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 Japane ... television series. Critical reception A review of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Sawano
is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, and Music Producer best known for his work on many anime series, video games, Japanese television drama, television dramas, and movies. His works include the Soundtrack, musical scores for ''Attack on Titan (TV series), Attack on Titan'', ''The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series), The Seven Deadly Sins'', ''Blue Exorcist'', ''Guilty Crown'', ''Kill la Kill'', ''Seraph of the End'', and ''Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn''. In addition to his role on the soundtrack, he also composes opening and ending theme songs for several series. Overall, he has already provided the music for over 100 visual media works. Sawano was nominated for the Newtype Anime Awards 11 times, winning 4 of the nominations. He has also won the Tokyo Anime Award three times, as well as two recent prizes at the Anime Trending Awards. He was represented by Legendoor between 2006 and 2017, and is currently represented by VV-ALKLINE. In 2014, he started a vocal proje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xebec (studio)
was a Japanese animation studio based in Kokubunji, Tokyo, founded by former Tatsunoko Production animators on May 1, 1995. They have worked on many popular series such as '' Fafner'', ''Martian Successor Nadesico'', ''Love Hina'', ''Shaman King'', ''To Love Ru'', ''Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs'', and '' Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202''. The company logotype is interesting in that it includes the International Phonetic Alphabet transcription: íːbek not of the Japanese pronunciation, but of a presumed "English" pronunciation. Closure On November 20, 2018, Xebec's parent company, IG Port, sold the studio to Sunrise after constant deficits that the subsidiary had in different years. On March 5, 2019, Sunrise announced that they established a new company, Sunrise Beyond, at Xebec's address, with Xebec's operations being transferred to it. Xebec ceased to exist as a business entity on May 31, 2019. Its post-production teams, which were not part of the sale to S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monthly GFantasy
is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its anthologies are home to some popular Square Enix manga series which were adapted into anime series, like ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', '' Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit'', ''Nabari no Ou'', ''Inu x Boku SS'', ''The Case Study of Vanitas'' and '' Soul Eater''. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as , and , which identify the anthology of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by omitting any or in the magazine name and inserting directly after the word ''Gangan''. Anthologies ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' (since 1991) is a monthly manga anthology that regularly has over 600 pages. ''Shōnen Gangan'' was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yen Press
Yen Press, LLC is an American manga and graphic novel publisher co-owned by Kadokawa Corporation and Hachette Book Group. It published ''Yen Plus'', a monthly comic anthology, between 2008 and 2013. In addition to translated material, Yen Press has published original series, most notably a manga adaptation of James Patterson's ''Maximum Ride'' and Svetlana Chmakova's '' Nightschool''. History Yen Press was founded in 2006 by former Borders Group buyer Kurt Hassler and DC Comics VP Rich Johnson. In July 2007, it was announced that Yen Press was to absorb ICEkunion, a Korean publisher that had been publishing manhwa in the United States. While the manga titles bearing ICEkunion's label would be continued to be sold in stores, subsequent printings would bear the Yen Press logo. Hassler assured fans, "We plan to pick up all the existing CEkuniontitles...We're going to continue everything, so fans shouldn't worry. None of these series are going to fall into a void." The first issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
