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Dirty Pair
is a series of Japanese light novels (the first one being a fix-up) written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions. The first stories that make up the first volume were first published on the '' S-F Magazine''. The franchise has been published in multiple formats, and adapted into various other media, resulting in eight novels and several shorter stories, a television series, two OVA series, two OVA features, a feature film, a number of graphic novels, and two short Japanese radio series. The 1985 television series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for that year. The stories take place in the years 2138–2143, by which time humanity has spread across some few thousand star systems. A corporation called the World Welfare Works Association (WWWA or 3WA) helps member systems of the United Galactica (UG) federation deal with various planetary-scale problems, for profit, by sending agents called " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coeurl
"Black Destroyer" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in '' Astounding SF'' in July 1939. It has been marked as the story that represents the start of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. "Black Destroyer" was combined with several other short stories to form the novel '' The Voyage of the Space Beagle''. It was claimed as an inspiration for the movie '' Alien'' and van Vogt collected an out-of-court settlement of $50,000 from 20th Century Fox. Plot summary A Coeurl, a large, intelligent, tentacled black cat-like animal, considers its near-future starvation as its food source of id-creatures has been hunted to extinction. Just as all seems lost, a spaceship lands near an abandoned Coeurl city and id-creatures pour out ("id" turns out to be its phosphorus-based nutrient). He quickly surmises they are a scientific expedition from another star, which excites him as he considers scientists to be unlikely to harm him. He approac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokuma Shoten
is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company's product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, manga and books. Companies that were part of Tokuma Shoten include Studio Ghibli, Daiei Film and the record label :ja:徳間ジャパンコミュニケーションズ, Tokuma Japan Communications. After the founder of the company, Yasuyoshi Tokuma died on September 20, 2000, an asset management occurred. Tokuma Shoten executed a corporate spin-off with Studio Ghibli, turning the company's anime division as a separate company again in 2005. Tokuma Shoten sold off Tokuma Japan Communications to Daiichi Kosho Company, Daiichi Kosho in October 2001, and Daiei Films was purchased by Kadokawa Corporation in November 2002. Since 2005, the company has streamlined itself to focus solely on the publication of print media and the airing of its adapted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Anime Grand Prix Winners
The is an annual Japanese anime awards giving to recognize the best in anime of the previous year, decided by the votes of readers of entertainment magazine ''Animage'', published by Tokuma Shoten since July 1978. The Anime Grand Prix started in 1979, and the first prize was announced at the January issue of 1980, generally announced at the next year's June issue every year. Title 20th Century 21st Century Episode (1979–2013) Director, Screenwriter and Character Designer (1979–1982) Character Voice acting Megumi Hayashibara won 12 times and Akira Kamiya won 11 times. In 1994, Megumi Ogata won the voice actress, the Male character (Kurama (YuYu Hakusho), Kurama) and the Female character (Sailor Uranus, Haruka Tenoh). Song Winner Most awarded studios The list below cites the most awarded studios based on the productions of these studios that won the award for Best Anime of the Year. See also * List of animation awards References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animage
is a Japanese anime and entertainment magazine published by Tokuma Shoten since July 1978. Notable works serialized in the magazine include Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Anime, Japanese ani ...'s manga '' Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' (1982—1994) and Saeko Himuro's novel '' Ocean Waves'' (1990–1992). History ''Animage'' was established in 1978 as the first magazine devoted to animation and comics aimed at a general public and not professionals. In 2007 the magazine started its online edition. Anime Grand Prix The Anime Grand Prix is the annual prize decided by the readers' votes to the anime of the year. The Anime Grand Prix started in 1979, and the first prize was announced at the issue 1980 January, generally announced at the next year's June issue e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original Video Animation
, abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and special episodes of a series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA series may be broadcast for promotional purposes. OVA titles were originally made available on VHS, later becoming more popular on LaserDisc and eventually DVD. Starting in 2008, the term OAD (original animation DVD) began to refer to DVD releases published bundled with their source-material manga. Format Like anime made for television broadcast, OVAs are divided into episodes. OVA media (tapes, laserdiscs or DVDs) usually contain just one episode each. Episode length varies from title to title: each episode may run from a few minutes to two hours or more. An OVA series can run anywhere from a single episode to dozens of episodes in length. Many anime series first appeared as OVAs, and later grow to become televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S-F Magazine
is a science fiction magazine published by Hayakawa Shobō in Japan. It was Japan’s first successful commercial science fiction magazine. History ''S-F Magazine'' was established in 1960. It began publication with the February 1960 issue, which appeared in bookshops in December 1959. The magazine was established by Masami Fukushima and was also first edited by him. He was the editor for nearly a decade, being succeeded by Masaru Mori in 1969. At first the magazine published translations of English language science fiction stories. Later, the magazine began publishing original fiction by Japanese authors. ''S-F Magazine'' was published on a monthly basis. It became a bimonthly publication from the April 2015 issue. Awards ''S-F Magazine'' has conducted where the magazine’s readers vote annually for best foreign short story, best Japanese short story and best illustrator from their issues in the previous year since 1989. It also held during 1962-1992 and resumed in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ( and ), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologies) in Japan (equivale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fix-up
A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from several short fiction stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published. The stories may be edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material, such as a frame story or other interstitial narration, is written for the new work. The term was coined by the science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt, who published several fix-ups of his own, including ''The Voyage of the Space Beagle'', but the practice (if not the term) also exists outside of science fiction. The use of the term in science fiction criticism was popularised by the first (1979) edition of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', edited by Peter Nicholls (writer), Peter Nicholls, which credited van Vogt with the term’s creation. The name “fix-up” comes from the changes that the author needs to make in the original texts, to make them fit together as though they were a novel. Foreshadowing of events from the later stories may be ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Novel
A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbreviation of "''raito noberu''" is or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words, and is published in the ''bunkobon'' format (ISO 216, A6, ). Light novels are subject to dense publishing schedules, with new installments being published in three-to-nine-month intervals. Light novels are very commonly illustrated in a manga artstyle, and are often adapted into manga and anime. Whilst most light novels are published only as books, some have their chapters first Serial (literature), serialized monthly in anthology magazines or via the internet as Web fiction#Web novel, web novels before being collected and compiled into book format, similar to how manga is published. Details Plots frequently involve roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Pair Flash
is an anime and manga franchise based on the light novel series by Haruka Takachiho. Although it is often said that these are younger versions of the original ''Lovely Angels'' Kei and Yuri, in truth this series is an alternate universe telling of ''Dirty Pair''. When Sunrise originally began the project, their idea was to make a sequel to the original ''Dirty Pair'' series, but Kyōko Tongū, the original voice actress for Kei, had long retired and moved to North America, and Saeko Shimazu, the voice of Yuri, refused to work with anyone but her original partner, forcing the project to be a remake of the original series instead. ''Dirty Pair Flash'' was first aired in North America on PBS San Jose station Superstation KTEH as the English-subtitled version and also on Showtime’s SHO Beyond channel as the English-dubbed version. The English version of ''Dirty Pair Flash'' was licensed by ADV Films. Plot summary Compared to the wealthy and affluent world of the origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Eden , formerly known as The Eden Project
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Project Eden or The Eden Project may refer to: * ''Project Eden'' (video game), a 2001 action-adventure video game *'' Dirty Pair: Project Eden'', a 1986 anime film *Eden Project, a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England *Eden (Irish musician) Jonathon Ng (born 23 December 1995), known professionally as Eden (stylised as EDEN), is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional model. He formerly operated as The Spab Project and later The Eden Project, an alia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
