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Garo (TV Series)
, sometimes referred to as , is a Japanese tokusatsu television series broadcast on TV Tokyo and TX Network, its affiliates from October 7, 2005, to March 31, 2006, lasting 25 episodes (with one additional "Overview" special, summarizing the events of episodes 1 through 13, aired before episode 14). The series was created and directed by Keita Amemiya ''(Kamen Rider ZO'', ''Zeiram'') with supporting direction from Makoto Yokoyama (''Power Rangers'') and Kengo Kaji (Uzumaki (film), ''Uzumaki''). The creature designer was Yasushi Nirasawa, known for his later work as the designer of the Worms and the Imagin for respectively ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'' and ''Kamen Rider Den-O, Den-O'', as well as for his work designing the Undeads from ''Kamen Rider Blade''. Since 2007, the show has also been aired in other countries such as Italy (on MTV Italy, MTV), Malaysia (on 8TV (Malaysia), 8TV), and Spain (on :es:Buzz, Canal Buzz). The show's HD remastered version was broadcast on TV Tokyo startin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokusatsu
is a Japanese term for live-action films or television programs that make heavy use of practical special effects. Credited to special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, ''tokusatsu'' mainly refers to science fiction film, science fiction, War film, war, fantasy film, fantasy, or Horror film, horror media featuring such technology but is also occasionally dubbed a genre itself. Its contemporary use originated in the Mass media in Japan, Japanese mass media around 1958 to explain special effects in an easy-to-understand manner and was popularized during the ":ja:第一次怪獣ブーム, first monster boom" (1966–1968). Prior to the monster boom, it was known in Japan as or shortened . Subgenres of include ''kaiju'' such as the ''Godzilla (film series), Godzilla'' and ''Gamera'' series; superhero such as the ''Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider'' and ''Metal Hero Series, Metal Hero'' series; Kyodai Hero, ''Kyodai'' Hero like ''Ultra Series, Ultraman, and Gridman the Hyper Agent, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uzumaki (film)
is a 2000 Japanese supernatural horror film based on the manga of the same name by Junji Ito. The feature film directorial debut of Higuchinsky, it stars Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki and Shin Eun-kyung. The film takes place in a town plagued by a mysterious curse involving spirals. As the film was produced while the manga was still being written and released, it departs from the story of the original work and features a different ending. The film was backed by the company Omega Micott, who released it in Japan on a double bill with '' Tomie: Replay'', another film based on a manga by Ito. Simultaneously, ''Uzumaki'' received a limited release in the American city of San Francisco. It received mixed reviews from critics. Plot High school student Kirie Goshima's first glimpse that something is awry in the small town of Kurouzu-cho comes when her boyfriend Shuichi Saito's father begins to film the corkscrew patterns on a snail; he is also in the process of making a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror (Garo)
are fictional monsters and the antagonists in the Japanese tokusatsu series '' Garo''. Fictional history The Horrors are demons that originate from a . The usual variety of Horrors, called are grotesque black-winged skeletal demons that enter the human world, drawn by their primary "food" of human malice and darkness. They use Inga gates, objects tainted by darkness from either playing a role in a naturally accumulated atrocity like mass murder or an unresolved traumatic experience. There are also Inga gates that are created by someone infusing the object with dark energies. Regardless, all Inga gates are usually activated when person with inner darkness approaches them, with the emerging Horror turning that person or any other living thing nearby into a host body. From there, either taking over the host or forming a symbiosis to act out the host's dark desires, the Horror "evolves" into a unique form based on the gate they emerged from with personal tastes and feeding habits. N ... [...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 the United States, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in five separate regions: the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and India. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. The region includes Middle America (Americas), Middle America (comprising the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico) and Northern America. North America covers an area of about , representing approximately 16.5% of Earth's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. , North America's population was estimated as over 592 million people in list of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metaseries
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word ''franchise'' as "something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time." Transmedia franchise A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through diversity can extend the commercial profitability of the franchise and create strong feelings of identity and ownership in its consumers. Those large groups of dedicated consumers create the franchise's fandom, which is the community of fans that indulge in many of its media and are committed to interacting with and keeping up with other consumers. Large franchis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8TV (Malaysia)
Metropolitan TV Sdn Bhd, operating as 8TV (), is a Malaysian Chinese-language free-to-air television network focused on the Chinese community of Malaysia. It is owned and operated by Media Prima. The channel formerly existed as MetroVision from 1 July 1995 until 1 November 1999 and was relaunched as 8TV on 8 January 2004. Its programming consists of mostly dramas, sitcoms and reality shows made in Chinese, either produced in Malaysia or imported from other countries. As of 2023, 8TV has captured 81% of its Chinese viewership according to a Nielsen survey. History As MetroVision Plans for a fourth channel or television station were revealed in August 1989. It was set to be called "TV4" and planned to launch in January 1990 with initial coverage limited to the Klang Valley. One of its applicants, Melewar Group Berhad, stated that the channel would air entertainment and sports programs. The new channel was intended to be "another step towards diversifying sources of hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Italy
MTV is an Italian pay television network, owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA. History Prior to the launch of a 24-hour Italian speaking MTV, MTV viewers in Italy received the pan-European version of MTV Europe, MTV. Regionalization of MTV in Europe began in March 1997 with the launch of a German-speaking MTV, followed by a UK branded channel in July of the same year. The Italian channel officially launched in London in September 1997, when its transmissions also entered into the television programming of DeeJay TV, Rete A. In 2000, MTV Italy moved to TMC2 (acquired by Telecom Italia and formerly known as Videomusic) becoming a standalone channel the following year and getting more and more like every other "big" network in Italy, showing news, movie trailers and other things which would never have fit into the former schedules of the channel. The handover and the whole changing process was advertised with the name of "MTV Regeneration". The channel's operations moved from London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Blade
is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series. It is the fourteenth installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It aired on TV Asahi from January 25, 2004 to January 23, 2005. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. Along with the standard insect motif of the Kamen Rider series, ''Kamen Rider Blade'' also uses a playing card motif. Each Rider is assigned one of the suits from a deck of cards. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2004 Super Hero Time block with '' Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger''. ''Blade'' was later released on DVD by Toei. There were twelve volumes released with the first eleven having four episodes per DVD and the twelfth volume with five episodes. Story Ten thousand years ago, a massive battle known as the Battle Royal was fought by fifty-two Undead, each representing a species fighting for dominance over all others. The winner was the Human Undead, known as Category Two of Hearts, giving dominion of the Earth to humanity. In the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Den-O
is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008. Its lead actor Takeru Satoh is the first Kamen Rider Series lead born in the Heisei period of Japanese history. It aired on the Super Hero Time slot alongside ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger''. The series revolves around time travel, trains, and personalities. It follows Ryotaro Nogami, an unlucky young man who becomes Kamen Rider Den-O with the help of time-traveling Imagin (spirits from the future). The show combines elements of comedy, action, and drama with a focus on time manipulation and the relationship between Ryotaro and the Imagin. Along with the usual film adaptation that Heisei Kamen Rider series have released during the late summer of their broadcast run, ''Den-O'' had a second film released in the spring following its broadcast run whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
