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Mai No Mahō To Katei No Hi
is a 2011 Japanese anime television special produced by P.A. Works which aired in the Toyama Prefecture of Japan on the local network, KNB, and other networks in February 2011. Toyama Governor Takakazu Ishii revealed the project during a press conference for the 2011 prefectural budget. The series centers on second-grader Mai Tatsumi who use magic to understand her family's feelings. The series was designed to raise public awareness about the importance of family bonds. Voices included Sumi Shimamoto as the mother, Yuki, and Mami Koyama as Hotaru, the grandmother. References External links ''Mai no Mahō to Katei no Hi''official website * ''Mai no Mahō to Katei no Hi''at IMDb.com IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ... * courtesy of Lantis 2011 anime OVAs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Horikawa
is the founder and President of P.A. Works Studio and the Operations Director for Bee Train Productions Inc. He was also formerly an employee with Production I.G and Tatsunoko Productions. In 2000 he founded P.A. Works and currently produces the works produced by the studio. Horikawa has also worked as a Production Manager and Production Assistant. Filmography *''Another'' (2012) (Producer and Planning) *''Hanasaku Iroha'' (2011) (Producer) *''Mai's Magic and Family Day'' (2011) (Producer) *''Bannō Yasai Ninninman'' (Producer) *''Angel Beats'' (2010) (Producer) *''Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva'' (2009) (Producer) *''Canaan'' (2009) (Producer) *''True Tears'' (2008) (Producer) *''Immortal Grand Prix'' (2005) (Production Desk for P.A. Works) *'' Wild Arms 3'' (2002) (Animation Producer) *''Medabots'' (1999) (Producer) *'' Wild Arms: Twilight Venom'' (1999) (Line Producer) *'' Popolocrois Story'' (1998) (Series Composition and Line Producer) *''Xenogears'' (1998) (Animat ... [...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] |
Lantis (company)
is a Japanese music label owned by Bandai Namco Music Live. Originally a company, it was established on November 26, 1999, and became a subsidiary of Bandai Visual in May 2006, itself a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In February 2018, it was announced Lantis would be merged with Bandai Visual into a new company called Bandai Namco Arts. The reorganizing took effect on April 1, 2018. Lantis only remains as a label from the new company. Lantis merger with Bandai Visual In February 2018, it was announced Bandai Visual would be merged with Lantis into a new branch of BNH, called Bandai Namco Music Live. The reorganizing took effect as of April 1. Bandai Visual remains only as a label of the new company. Sublabels Lantis is composed of five labels: * Lantis (main label, formerly distributed by King Records (Japan), King Records, currently self-distributed) * Glory Heaven (distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Japan) * Kiramune (self-distributed) * Purple One Star (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yomiuri Shimbun
The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are ''The Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Chunichi Shimbun'', the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', and the ''The Nikkei, Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. It is headquartered in Ōtemachi, Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.'' It is a newspaper that represents Tokyo and generally has a Conservatism, conservative orientation. It is one of Japan's leading newspapers, along with the Osaka-based Liberalism, liberal (Third Way) ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the Nagoya-based Social democracy, social democratic ''Chunichi Shimbun''. This newspaper is well known for its pro-American stance among major Japanese media. It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of #Yomiuri Group, The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony,The Yomiuri Shimbun H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asahi Shimbun
is a Japanese daily newspaper founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. The ''Asahi Shimbun'' is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan along with the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', the ''The Nikkei, Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' and ''Chunichi Shimbun''. The newspaper's circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and 1.33 million for its evening edition as of July 2021, was second behind that of the ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. By print circulation, it is the second List of newspapers in the world by circulation, largest newspaper in the world behind the ''Yomiuri'', though its digital size trails that of many global newspapers including ''The New York Times''. Its publisher, is a media conglomerate with its registered headquarters in Osaka. It is a privately held company, privately held family business with ownership and control remaining with the founding Murayama and Uen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitanihon Broadcasting
, also known as KNB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS). Their headquarters are located in Toyama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 993,848 (1 January 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the .... History With the promulgation of the Three Radio Laws, it was initially expected in 1948 that Toyama would be the target area of a radio station from Ishikawa as Hokuriku Cultural Broadcasting (the later Hokuriku Broadcasting Company). Teru Nakayama, editor-in-chief of the Kitanihon Shimbun, who felt a sense of crisis about this, advised the top management to apply for a license for a private radio station. At this time, no one listened, but this was the trigger that later led to the opening of Kitanihon Broadcasting. Kitanihon Broadca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 993,848 (1 January 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefecture to the south, Nagano Prefecture to the east, and Niigata Prefecture to the northeast. Toyama is the capital and largest city of Toyama Prefecture, with other major cities including Takaoka, Imizu, and Nanto. Toyama Prefecture is part of the historic Hokuriku region, and the majority of the prefecture's population lives on Toyama Bay, one of the largest bays in Japan. Toyama Prefecture is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea coast and has the advantage of cheap electricity from abundant hydroelectric resources. Toyama Prefecture contains the only known glaciers in East Asia outside of Russia, first recognized in 2012, and 30% of the prefecture's area is designated as national parks. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bee Train
, commonly referred to simply as Bee Train, is a Japanese animation studio founded by Kōichi Mashimo in 1997. Since their involvement with '' Noir'', '' .hack//Sign'', and '' Madlax'' (among other series) they have a strong following in the yuri fandom for being involved in series portraying strong female leads with speculatively ambiguous relationships. History The studio Bee Train was founded on June 5, 1997, by Kōichi Mashimo, who was previously a director at Tatsunoko Productions and the founder of Mashimo Jimusho, a small freelance staff working for other studios. Originally, Bee Train was a subsidiary of Production I.G along with Xebec but in February 2006, it ended its relationship and became independent. Koichi Mashimo's goal when he founded Bee Train was to create a "hospital for animators", an animation studio interested in nurturing young talents and artistic quality of production rather than in corporate strategies and profit. This studio-as-hospital approach w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōtarō Suga
(December 31, 1972March 19, 2015) was a Japanese screenwriter. He was famous for writing multiple anime series, most notably ''Darker than Black''. Biography Suga was born in Tokyo, Japan. He worked in multiple series from Production I.G, including ''Blood+'' and '' Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex''. Suga recalls having problems with the latter's characters, most notably Motoko Kusanagi in regards to how their personalities work. Director Kenji Kamiyama often relied on Suga's work when working for such series. Despite the series' futuristic setting, Suga claimed that he aimed to give the audience modern themes to see in the anime. Suga, the most important writer in the 2007 ''Darker than Black'' series, handles high concept and main plot related arc, with Hei on the spotlight. With Suga's control of the last few arcs, with the Doll selling as example, the stories starts to converge, and the ending is designed by Suga. For the 2010 original video animations '' Darker tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eufonius
Eufonius is a Japanese progressive pop rock music group which debuted on October 11, 2003 with the release of their first album ''Eufonius'' which was also an independent release. The band has produced songs for various anime and video games, such as '' Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl'', '' Himawari!'', ''Noein'', ''True Tears'', ''Yosuga no Sora'', '' Kokoro Connect'', ''Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica'' and visual novels like Key's ''Clannad'' and Favorite's ''Irotoridori no Sekai''. The band is composed of two primary members, Riya—who provided vocals and the majority of the lyrics—and Hajime Kikuchi—who plays the keyboard and handles composition, arrangement, and sometimes the lyrics. The third member is Masashi Ōkubo, who is a supporting member of the group. They have released 17 studio albums as of June 2016, and have provided their talents in compilation albums and original soundtracks as well. Eufonius has hosted an Internet radio show called ''Frequency-e'' since May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
is a Japanese voice actor from Hokkaido affiliated with the talent agency I'm Enterprise. Honored at the 6th Seiyu Awards for Best New Actor in 2012 and the 10th Seiyu Awards for Best Lead Actor in 2016, he is best known for being the voice of Kirito from ''Sword Art Online'', Inosuke Hashibira from '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Fūtarō Uesugi from ''The Quintessential Quintuplets'', Sora from '' No Game No Life'', Sōma Yukihira in '' Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma'', Bell Cranel from ''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?'', Hajime Aoyagi from '' Yowamushi Pedal'', Betelgeuse Romanée-Conti from '' Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World'', Xiao from ''Genshin Impact'', Mechamaru Ultimate from ''Jujutsu Kaisen'', ''Helios'' from the 2021 reboot of the ''Sailor Moon'' series, '' Sailor Moon Eternal'', '' Vash the Stampede'' from the 2023 reboot of the ''Trigun'' series, '' Trigun Stampede'', and Daniel Harper from '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
