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Stitch!
is a Japanese anime television series. It is a spin-off of Disney's ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise, serving as the franchise's second television series after '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. The anime series aired in Japan from October 2008 to June 2011, later receiving additional television specials in 2012 and 2015. It features a Japanese girl named Yuna Kamihara, who takes the place of Lilo Pelekai as the best friend of the titular Stitch, and is set on a fictional island in the Ryukyus off the shore of Okinawa called Izayoi for its first two seasons, replacing Kauai, Hawaii, then moving to a fictional Okinawan city called New Town for its third season. The first arc of the series, which serves as the first season outside Japan, was produced by Madhouse and aired from October 8, 2008, to March 25, 2009, with a post-season special on June 26, 2009, also known as "Stitch Day" in reference to Stitch's experiment number (626). A second arc of the original series, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin-Ei Animation
is a Japanese animation studio owned by TV Asahi and founded in Tokyo in 1965 as A Production by Daikichirō Kusube, who was previously an animator for Toei Animation. History Shin-Ei Animation's history begins in December 1965 as by Daikichirō Kusube who was then a former animator at Toei Animation. Disgruntled by the rigid hierarchy prevalent in Toei Animation he, and a couple of his colleagues, formed A Production, and immediately got into a partnership with the newly-formed Tokyo Movie, under the condition that Kusube would remain independent. For ten years, A Production served as Tokyo Movie's primary subcontractor for animation as well as co-production. In 1976, after Tokyo Movie founded Telecom Animation Film, they offered Kusube to lead the division. However, knowing that he would lose his independence, he refused, cut all ties with Tokyo Movie and restructured his company to . Shin-Ei Animation is best known as the animation studio behind two anime series, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cattle Call (company)
Cattle Call Inc. is a Japanese game developer based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was established by former staff of Data East, Data East Corporation and is engaged in developing original console games as well as co-developing and porting games for other game companies. The company is known for developing the (partially) Japan-exclusive ''Metal Max (series), Metal Max'' series and the 3DS role-playing games ''The Legend of Legacy'' and its sequel, ''The Alliance Alive''. History In 1998, Data East Corporation, a Japanese video game and electronic engineering company based in Tokyo, withdrew entirely from the arcade industry and reported a total debt estimated at ¥3.3 billion. The company then filed for reorganization in the following year and stopped making video games altogether. As a result of the corporate reorganization, some of the staff from the company formed Cattle Call Inc. to continue developing video games. Games developed by Cattle Call PlayStation 2 Nintendo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Winfield
Jesse Morris Winfield (né Borgeson; born March 8, 1961) is an American novelist, self-help author, television writer, voice actor, and magazine editor who is a founding member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company. His books include: ''What Would Shakespeare Do'' (2000) and ''My Name Is Will'' (2008). He wrote for and served as an executive producer of a number of animated television series, including ''Teacher's Pet'' and '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. He also served as the voice actor for Jumba Jookiba in the latter series' franchise in the English versions of the anime ''Stitch!'' and the Chinese animated series ''Stitch & Ai'', the latter being his last animated television work to date. According to his personal LinkedIn profile, he currently works as a freelance editor for ''American Road'' magazine. Early life Jess Winfield was born Jess Borgeson, and changed his surname to Winfield in 1993 after marrying his wife, Sandra Thomson; his works prior to 1993 refer to him under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masao Maruyama (film Producer)
is a Japanese anime producer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Madhouse, as well as the founder of MAPPA and Studio M2 animation studios. He is the current Chairman of MAPPA and President of Studio M2 and Board member of N LITE Japan. Maruyama has been involved in the Japanese animation business for more than 50 years. He has worked with many well-known and up-and-coming animators, established several animation production companies, worked on dozens of series, films, planned and produced various works. Maruyama is one of the most experienced producers in the Japanese animation industry, and has given opportunities to individuals who went on to become accomplished directors in their own right. Among the talents he picked up were Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Hosoda, and Sunao Katabuchi. He also gave Masaaki Yuasa and Mitsuo Iso the chance to direct an animated television series early in their directing careers. He also gave Mamoru Hosoda, who was thinking of returning to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhouse (company)
is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1972 by ex–Mushi Pro staff, including Masao Maruyama (film producer), Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Madhouse has created and helped to produce many well-known shows, OVAs and films, starting with TV anime series ''Ace o Nerae!'' (produced by TMS Entertainment, Tokyo Movie Shinsha) in 1973, and including ''Wicked City (1987 film), Wicked City'', ''Ninja Scroll'', ''Perfect Blue'', ''Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'', ''Trigun'', ''Di Gi Charat'', ''Black Lagoon (TV series), Black Lagoon'', ''Death Note'', ''Paprika (2006 film), Paprika'', ''Wolf Children, Parasyte, Parasyte: The Maxim'', the One-Punch Man season 1, first season of ''One-Punch Man'', the Hunter × Hunter (2011 TV series), second adaptation of ''Hunter × Hunter'', ''Overlord (novel series), Overlord'', and ''Frieren, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End''. Unlike other studios founded at this time such as Anime International Company, AIC and J.C.Staff, their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōtarō Nakagawa
is a Japanese composer and arranger. He is noted for composing the soundtracks for several anime series, including the Gorō Taniguchi-directed productions '' s-CRY-ed'', '' Planetes'', '' Gun Sword'', and ''Code Geass''. He provided the music for many of the ''Kamen Rider'' and ''Super Sentai The is a Japanese superhero team media franchise consisting of television series and films produced by Toei Company and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi. The shows are of the '' tokusatsu'' genre, featuring live action characters and colorfu ...'' ''tokusatsu'' shows and films. Works Anime ''Tokusatsu'' Drama References External links Official agency profile * Kotaro Nakagawaprofile at Oricon {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakagawa, Kotaro 1969 births Anime composers Japanese composers Japanese film score composers Japanese male film score composers Japanese music arrangers Living people Tokyo University of the Arts alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takayuki Nakamura
is a Japanese video game music composer and musician, who worked at Sega from 1989 to 1996 and contributed to games such as '' OutRunners'' and the ''Virtua Fighter'' series. After leaving in 1996, he joined Dream Factory and composed for ''Tobal 2'' and ''Ehrgeiz''. He founded the music production company Brainstorm Co. Ltd. in 1999, where he has most notably worked on the ''Lumines'' series and '' Rodea the Sky Soldier''. Biography Nakamura was raised in a household that actively listened to music. During elementary school, he recorded songs from the radio and make his own mix tapes. After becoming a middle school student, he started to play the guitar, being inspired by artists such as Toto and Van Halen. During his high school years he got into jazz artists such as Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, and Sadao Watanabe. He started a T-Square cover band with friends at college; as he was studying business, he did not get any musical education, but still wanted to pursue a career i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Simone
Jamie Simone is an American voice director and producer, best known for directing ''Naruto'', ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Tiger & Bunny''. He is the owner of the recording studio Studiopolis. In 2012, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program" for ''Transformers: Prime'', which he took over from Susan Blu. Filmography Anime * ''Naruto'' – Akamaru * ''Naruto: Shippuden'' – Akamaru Film * ''Bleach: Hell Verse'' – Bleach: Hell Verse#New characters, Garogai * ''Dino Time'' – Additional Voices * ''Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow'' – Additional Voices * ''Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire'' – Izumo Kamizuki * ''Sky Blue (film), Sky Blue'' – Dispatcher Video games * ''Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2'' – Akamaru * ''Naruto: Path of a Ninja 2'' – Akamaru * ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (series), Naruto: Ultimate Ninja'' – Waraji * ''Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles'' – Akamaru Voice director * ''24: The Game'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōji Yonemura
is a Japanese writer from Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known mainly for his work in anime and tokusatsu. After having graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, he worked as a freelance writer in Arakawa, Tokyo, Arakawa and would attend various film festivals. Then, he studied under jp:柏原寛司, Hiroshi Kashiwabara and others at a scenario course sponsored by the jp:日本シナリオ作家協会, Japan Writers Guild. Awarded as winner of the 7th Otomo Shoji Award for scenario in 1994. Television * Series head writer denoted in bold Anime * ''List of Lupin III television specials, Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao’s Treasure'' (1995) * ''Bonobono#1995 TV series, Bonobono'' (1995) * ''Saint Tail'' (1995-1996) * ''Anpanman'' (1995-present) * ''Wankorobee'' (1996-1997) * ''Lupin III: Walther P-38/Island of Assassins'' (1997) * ''Manmaru the Ninja Penguin'' (1997-1998) * ''Berserk (1997 TV series), Berserk'' (1997-1998) * ''Pokémon (anime), Pokémon'' (1997-2002) * ''Bomberman B-Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7mate
7mate is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010. The channel contains sport and regular programs aimed primarily to a male audience, with programming drawn from a combination of new shows, American network shows and other shows previously aired on its sister channels Seven, 7two and 7flix. Due to the rebroadcast of 7HD on 10 May 2016, 7mate was reduced to a standard definition broadcast in Melbourne and Adelaide. Sydney, Brisbane and Perth instead received a HD simulcast of 7mate until December 2016, with breakaway programming used from that point to broadcast AFL matches in HD while keeping 7HD as the primary channel simulcast. History The channel began airing as a separate channel on 25 September 2010, replacing 7HD as the Seven Network's only high-definition channel. The channel's first program was the 2010 AFL Grand Final, which was simulcast with an SD broadcast on the Seven Network. Follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Interactive Studios
Disney Interactive Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher owned by The Walt Disney Company through Disney Interactive. Prior to its closure in 2016, it developed and distributed multi-platform video games and interactive entertainment worldwide. Most of the games released by Disney Interactive Studios were typically tie-in products to existing character franchises. On May 10, 2016, as a result of the discontinuation of its '' Disney Infinity'' series, Disney shut down Disney Interactive Studios, and exited the first-party home console game development business in order to focus on third-party development of home console video games through other developers. However, it continues to release games for iOS and Android mobile devices under its own label, Disney Mobile. Disney Electronic Content is a spiritual successor to the company. History 1988–1994: Walt Disney Computer Software Disney established its own in house gaming unit, Walt Disney Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
