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Ultra Galaxy
is the first season of its series that is the 21st entry in the Tsuburaya Productions' long-running Ultra Series. It is an adaption of the video game ''Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS''. The show first aired on December 1, 2007 and concluded on February 23, 2008. On December 20, 2008, the second season titled premiered. ''Ultra Galaxy'' was the first Ultra Series to be shown as a pay-per-view service. On July 25, 2017, Toku announced that the series (along with its second season) would air in the United States on its channel with English subtitles beginning August 31, 2017. 50 years after the extinction of monsters, humanity had finally advanced to outer space. The crews of Space Pendragon were tasked to investigate Planet Boris after communications on that planet were mysteriously halted. Arriving on the planet, the crew was astonished to find it inhabited by monsters, with every nearby city destroyed. While forced to wait for reinforcements, the crew must solve the myste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokusatsu
is a Japanese term for live action film or television drama that makes heavy use of practical special effects. ''Tokusatsu'' entertainment mainly refers to science fiction, war, fantasy, or horror media featuring such technology but is sometimes dubbed a genre itself. The most popular subgenres of include '' kaiju'' such as the ''Godzilla'' and ''Gamera'' series; superhero such as the '' Kamen Rider'' and '' Metal Hero'' series; and mecha like ''Giant Robo'' and '' Super Robot Red Baron''. Some television programs combine several of these subgenres, for example the ''Ultraman'' and '' Super Sentai'' series. is one of the most popular forms of Japanese entertainment, but only a small proportion of films and television programs are widely known outside of Japan. Nevertheless, certain properties have attained popularity outside of Japan; ''Godzilla'' is featured in popular American-made movies, and the ''Super Sentai Series'' was adapted into the ''Power Rangers'' series and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toku (TV Network)
Toku (stylized in all capital letters) is an American pay television network and streaming service owned by Olympusat and dedicated to broadcasting anime and East Asian programming. Launched on December 31, 2015, replacing Funimation Channel, after Funimation ended their partnership with Olympusat. Tristan Leostar is the content aggregator for the network. History As Funimation Channel Funimation Channel started out as a syndicated block on Colours TV, one of OlympuSAT's affiliate networks. Programs during this era were ''Dragon Ball'', ''Negima!'', ''Kodocha'', '' The Slayers'', ''Blue Gender'', ''Kiddy Grade'', ''Fruits Basket'', ''Case Closed'' and ''YuYu Hakusho''. The block was later discontinued in favor of a more successful expansion on subscription television. On May 1, 2008, Funimation Channel became a 24-hour English-dubbed anime subscription network; the second of its kind in North America (following A.D. Vision's Anime Network). Olympusat was chosen as the excl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Japanese Television Series Endings
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 numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Japanese Television Series Debuts
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified broadcasting holding company itself a subsidiary of Nikkei, Inc., serving as the flagship station of the TX Network.." TV Tokyo. Retrieved on June 21, 2010. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specialising in anime. History TV Tokyo was established by the Japan Science Foundation in 1951 and started broadcasting, as on April 12, 1964. It took its name from its VHF frequency channel 12. It almost went bankrupt in 1968; on 1 July that year, a limited liability company, Tokyo Channel 12 Production was established with the help of the '' Nikkei'' and Mainichi Broadcasting System. In 1969 the ''Nikkei'' and MBS signed a memorandum of understanding which stipulates that Tokyo Channel 12 should share programs with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideki Tama
The Japanese anime television series ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' has an extensive cast of characters that were created by Gainax. The show's protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo Ikari, Gendo recruits him to the shadowy organization Nerv to pilot a giant, bio-machine mecha named "Evangelion (mecha), Evangelion", which goes into combat with beings known as "List of Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Angels". The character designs were drawn by artist Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, who designed each character to easily be identified from its silhouette. The personalities were based on that of Hideaki Anno, the show's director and main scriptwriter. Many of the heroes in the second half of the series suffer trauma or physical violence, exacerbating their anxieties and fears, and the episodes give ample space to their inner monologues, with which they question the meanings of their actions and lives. This narrative choice culminates in the two final episodes, whose na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoshi Yamamoto
is an illustrator for the ''Pokémon Adventures'' manga who took over from Mato starting with volume 10 in 2001. Yamamoto has also illustrated for the Pokémon Trading Card Game The , abbreviated as ''PTCG'' or ''Pokémon TCG'', is a collectible card game developed by Creatures Inc. based on the ''Pokémon'' franchise. It was first published in October 1996 by Media Factory in Japan. In the US, it was first published b .... References External links * 山本サトシ(@satoshi_swalot) - Twitter (in Japanese) Living people Manga artists 1965 births Inkpot Award winners {{manga-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazunori Yokoo
is a Japanese actor. OVA * Ultra Seven - Operation: Solar Energy ( Eleking) * Ultra Seven - The Ground of the Earthlings (Alien Metron) * Ultra Seven - Lost Memory * Ultra Seven - Glory and Legend Films * 2003 - Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle * 2008 - Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers( King Gesura) TV * 1999 - Booska! Booska!!(Booska) * 2001 - Ultraman Cosmos * 2006 - Bio Planet WoO(WoO) * 2006 - Ultraman Mebius is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. It is the 20th TV series and 40th anniversary production in the Ultra Series, which first began in 1966. It premiered on the Tokyo Broadcasting Sys ... * 2007 - Ultra Galaxy: Daikaijyu Battle( Gomora) * 2008 - Ultra Galaxy Daikaijyu Battle: Never Ending Odyssey(Gomora) References External links * Japanese male film actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayu Gamo
Mayu may refer to: * Mayu (given name), a feminine Japanese given name * Mayu (river), a river of Burma * Mayu Frontier District, a former administrative zone of Burma * Mayu Island (妈屿), Shantou, China * Mayu, Jinzhou, Hebei (马于镇), a town in southwestern Hebei, China * Mayu, Rui'an (马屿镇), a town in Rui'an, Zhejiang, China * Mayu Peninsula Mayu may refer to: * Mayu (given name), a feminine Japanese given name * Mayu (river), a river of Burma * Mayu Frontier District, a former administrative zone of Burma * Mayu Island Mayu Island is a strategically located island in Shantou, Gu ..., a mountain range in Myanmar * Meyab, Razavi Khorasan, village in Iran, also known as Mayu {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayu (Disambiguation) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman (character)
is a fictional superhero who debuted in the pilot episode to his 1966 TV series of the same name, entitled "The Birth of Ultraman". He is the first ''tokusatsu'' hero launched by the ''Ultra Series'' and by extension, Tsuburaya Productions. His appearance in the entertainment world helped spawn the ''Kyodai'' Hero genre with countless shows such as '' Godman'' and '' Iron King''. Ultraman first appeared as the title character alongside his human host Shin Hayata in the 1966 Japanese television series, ''Ultraman'' which ran for 39 episodes. Following ''Ultraman's'' success, Tsuburaya created another Kyodai hero series still as part of their Ultra Series project, ''Ultraseven''. While both series shared the same genre with very similar heroes, there was originally no relationship between the two. It was not until ''The Return of Ultraman'' was created four years later in 1971 that both Ultraman and Ultra Seven came together into the same story. This event cemented Tsuburaya Prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiichi Hasegawa
is a Japanese screenwriter from Atami, Japan. History After graduating from Nihon University's Art Department with a degree in film studies, Hasegawa made his debut as an assistant director with the unreleased film ''Kuchita Teoshiguruma''. After participating in the later half of the series ''Taiyō ni Hoero!'', he moved to the art department to work on props and decorations, and participated in many films, including '' Gamera: Guardian of the Universe'' and '' Gamera 2: Attack of Legion''. Hasegawa began writing for television in the 1990s and has been a writer for almost every ''Ultraman'' series produced since Tiga up to the first season of Ginga. Since first beginning his work on the Ultraman franchise with the 1996 series '' Ultraman Tiga'', Hasegawa has gone on to write more material for the franchise than any other writer. He has been directly involved with the creation of every title Ultraman character up to Mebius as well as having had a major role in selecting actors ... [...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] |
