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Gintama°
The episodes from the anime television series are based on the ''Gin Tama'' manga by Hideaki Sorachi. The series premiered in TV Tokyo on April 8, 2015. It is a sequel to the Gintama anime series which has been on hiatus since 2013. The studio making the new season is Bandai Namco Pictures, BN Pictures, a new subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. Chizuru Miyawaki is directing the new season with previous season's director Yoichi Fujita supervising. The series continues the story of eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his apprentice, Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl named Kagura and their work as freelancers, who do odd jobs in order to pay the rent, which usually goes unpaid anyway. Eight pieces of theme music are used: four opening themes and four ending themes. The first opening theme is "DAYxDAY" by BLUE ENCOUNT and the first ending theme is "DESTINY", performed by Negoto. The second opening theme is "Pride Kakumei" by CHiCO with HoneyWorks and the second ending theme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gintama
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from December 2003 to September 2018, later in '' Jump Giga'' from December 2018 to February 2019, and finished on the ''Gintama'' app, where it ran from May to June 2019. Its chapters were collected in 77 volumes. Set in Edo, which has been conquered by aliens named Amanto, the plot follows samurai Gintoki Sakata, who works as a freelancer in his self-established store, "Yorozuya", alongside his friends Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura, offering a wide range of services to handle various tasks and odd jobs. Sorachi added the science fiction setting to develop characters to his liking after his editor suggested doing a historical series. The series has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) by Sunrise and was featured at Jump Festa 2006 Anime Tour in 2005. This was followed by a full 367-episode anime te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gin Tama
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi. It was serialized in Shueisha's Shōnen manga, manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from December 2003 to September 2018, later in ''Jump Giga'' from December 2018 to February 2019, and finished on the ''Gintama'' app, where it ran from May to June 2019. Its chapters were collected in 77 volumes. Set in Edo, which has been conquered by aliens named Amanto, the plot follows samurai Gintoki Sakata, who works as a freelancer in his self-established store, "Yorozuya", alongside his friends List of Gintama characters#Shinpachi Shimura, Shinpachi Shimura and List of Gintama characters#Kagura, Kagura, offering a wide range of services to handle various tasks and odd jobs. Sorachi added the science fiction setting to develop characters to his liking after his editor suggested doing a historical series. The series has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) by Sunrise (company), Sunri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gintoki Sakata
is a fictional character in the manga and anime franchise ''Gintama'' created by Hideaki Sorachi. Gintoki is the protagonist of the series and his name serves as part of the basis of the series' title. He is introduced as a former rebellion, rebel samurai who lives in a fictionalized version of 1860s Japan after being invaded and transformed by Fictional extraterrestrials, aliens. Gintoki once fought in the Joui (rebel) war until a tragic event where he was unable to protect what he was fighting for, leading to him instead establishing " (with literally meaning "worker of 10,000 jobs"), choosing to make a living as a freelancer for hire in Edo. Eventually, List of Gintama characters#Shinpachi Shimura, Shinpachi Shimura and List of Gintama characters#Kagura, Kagura choose to stay and work with him, forming a Family of choice, found family. Across the series, more details about Gintoki's past are revealed leading him to encounter former friends as enemies. As the main character, Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandai Namco Pictures
also known as BN Pictures and BNP, is a Japanese animation studio. It is a spinoff of Sunrise, a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Filmworks which is owned by Bandai Namco Holdings. The company was formed as a part of the medium-term management plan of Bandai Namco Holdings on restructuring itself. All the anime intellectual property and production divisions of Sunrise that target children and family were transferred to Bandai Namco Pictures. The company began its operations in April 2015. History On February 12, 2015, Bandai Namco Holdings announced plans to restructure itself through the usage of a three-year medium-management plan. The company sought to focus its resources on creating new intellectual properties (IPs) and marketable characters, and required faster planning and development time to satisfy these demands. Bandai Namco executives also believed it was necessary for its IP Creation content area to strengthen ties with its Toy and Hobby area, as it would lead to both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negoto
was a Japanese electronic rock band from Chiba Prefecture. Negoto formed in 2007 when the members were high school students. In 2008, the band won a special jury prize at the 1st which is a music festival features teen bands in Japan. The band debuted in 2010. They are best known for the 2010 hit song "Loop" reached number 3 in Billboard Japan Hot 100, the 2011 hit song "Charon" reached number 6 in Billboard Japan Hot 100 and the 2012 hit song "sharp ♯" (from the anime series ''Mobile Suit Gundam AGE'') reached number 11 in Billboard Japan Hot 100. The band's other anime theme contributions include ''Galilei Donna, Shimajiro to Kujira no Uta, Shimajirou to Kujira no Uta, and List of Gintama° episodes, Gintama°''. Last tour and disbandment On December 28, 2018, Negoto published a message on their official website stating that they will disband on July 20, 2019. They will embark on their last tour on May 28 and end on July 20. Members * – vocals, keyboards * – guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aqua Timez
Aqua Timez is a Japanese rock band signed to Epic Records. Overview Futoshi and OKP-Star met on with9.com in 2000 and attempted to start a band together. Unable to agree on the band's future, the two disbanded. In 2003, the current band members gathered and formed Aqua Timez. Their first independent music mini album, ''Sora Ippai ni Kanaderu Inori'', was released in August 2005. In 2006, the group were signed to Epic Records Japan and released their second mini album, ''Nanairo no Rakugaki''. In the same year they released two singles, "Ketsui no Asa ni" and "Sen no Yoru o Koete", which were used as the theme music Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at ... in the animated films '' Brave Story'' and '' Bleach: Memories of Nobody'' respectively. Their music in the films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Corporate Data . TV Tokyo. Retrieved on June 21, 2010. It is owned and operated by itself a of the TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation, in turn controlled by Nikkei, Inc. It is headquartered in the [...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] |
Hideaki Sorachi
is the pen name of a Japanese manga artist, most well known for his manga ''Gintama,'' which began serialization in 2003 and ended in 2019. He has also written numerous one-shots, including ''Dandelion'', for which he won the Tenkaichi Honourable Mention Manga Award in 2002. Sorachi's distinctive sense of humour and writing style has been the subject of academic research papers.Lee, R. (2011). Romanticising Shinsengumi in Contemporary Japan. ''New Voices (Sydney, N.S.W.), 4'', 68–187. Jones, H. (2013). Manga Girls: Sex, Love, Comedy and Crime in Recent Boys’ Anime and Manga. In B. Steger & A. Koch (Eds.), ''Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge'' (pp. 23-82). Lit Verlag.Smith, A. (2020). ''What Do Manga Depict? Understanding Contemporary Japanese Comics and the Culture of Japan''. (27834637) octoral thesis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. As of February 2018, the ''Gintama'' manga has sold 55 million units ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandai Namco Holdings
(commonly known as and formerly Namco Bandai until 2015, also known as Bandai Namco Group,) is a Japanese mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 2005 by the merger of Namco and Bandai. The company specializes in toys, video games, video arcade, arcades, anime, restaurants, and amusement parks. They are also unofficially nicknamed as "Bamco" by some. The conglomerate is made up of: * Bandai, toy company; includes Bandai Spirits * Bandai Namco Entertainment, video game publisher; includes Bandai Namco Studios * , amusement machine developer and operator; includes * Bandai Namco Filmworks, film/anime production; includes Sunrise and Bandai Namco Pictures * Bandai Namco Music Live, film/anime and music production History On May 5, 2005, Namco, Namco Ltd. announced it was merging with Bandai, Bandai Co., Ltd. to form NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc. (株式会社バンダイナムコホールディングス), with stock transfer to be completed o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoichi Fujita
Yoichi may refer to: *Yōichi, Japanese given name *, district in Shiribeshi, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan *, town in Yoichi District *, a Japanese whisky distillery in the town *, train station in Yoichi District * also Yoichi is a masculine Japanese given name. ** , Japanese engineer **, Japanese actor **Yoichi Kaya, Japanese energy economist ** , famous Japanese ''samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...'' archer **, Japanese actor {{disambiguation, given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
