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Terra Formars
is a Japanese manga series written by and illustrated by . It was originally serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Miracle Jump'' from January to December 2011, and was transferred to ''Weekly Young Jump'' in April 2012. Its chapters have been collected in 23 volumes as of July 2024. The story follows humanity's struggle against mutated humanoid cockroaches on Mars, leading to deadly expeditions and battles to save Earth from a mysterious virus and the invading creatures. In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media. A two-episode original video animation (OVA), abridging the Bugs 2 arc, was released in 2014, and an anime television series, covering the Annex 1 arc, was broadcast as well in that same year. A live action film adaptation directed by Takashi Miike was released in 2016. Plot In an attempt to colonize Mars, 21st century scientists are tasked with terraforming the planet. Their goal is to seed the planet with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tankōbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format. Manga typically contain a handful of chapters, and may collect multiple volumes as a series continues publication. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for of manga include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Magazine Comics, Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics, and Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion, Shōnen Champion Comics. Manga Increasingly after 1959, manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology list of manga magazines, manga magazines (such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or ''Weekly Shōnen Jump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nippon BS Broadcasting
() is a private satellite broadcasting station in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. It is an independent television station and is a subsidiary of Bic Camera. Its channel name is BS11 (''BS Eleven'') and was BS11 Digital until March 31, 2011. It was founded as on August 23, 1999, changed its name to Nippon BS Broadcasting on February 28, 2007, and high-definition television broadcasts commenced on December 1, 2007. BS11 gives high priority to news programs, sports, K-drama, TV Show, anime including late night anime and 3D television 3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopy, stereoscopic display, free viewpoint television, multi-view display, or any other form of 3D display. Most modern 3D te ... programs. [...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] |
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] |
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmospheric temperature ranges from and cosmic radiation is high. Mars retains some water, in the ground as well as thinly in the atmosphere, forming cirrus clouds, frost, larger polar regions of permafrost and ice caps (with seasonal snow), but no liquid surface water. Its surface gravity is roughly a third of Earth's or double that of the Moon. It is half as wide as Earth or twice the Moon, with a diameter of , and has a surface area the size of all the dry land of Earth. Fine dust is prevalent across the surface and the atmosphere, being picked up and spread at the low Martian gravity even by the weak wind of the tenuous atmosphere. The terrain of Mars roughly follows a north-south ... [...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] |
Terra Formars (film)
is a 2016 Japanese science fiction film directed by Takashi Miike and based on the manga series Terra Formars, of the same name by Yū Sasuga & Kenichi Tachibana. It was released in Japan on Friday, April 29, 2016. The film is set at the end of the 26th century, and depicts an attempted colonization of Mars. Humanity had previously released cockroaches on the planet, and the would-be colonists encounter resistance by giant anthropomorphic cockroaches. Plot In the 21st century, to combat overpopulation, Earth plans to colonization of Mars, colonize Mars. To terraforming of Mars, terraform the planet, the surface is seeded with moss to create a more tolerable atmosphere and surface temperature. Cockroaches were also introduced to spread the moss. 500 years later, in the year 2599, a crew is sent in the BUGS 2 to clear out the cockroaches. The crew is a group of misfits and criminals taking part in the mission in exchange for pardons. Entering the new atmosphere, the crew find t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takafumi Wada
is a Japanese composer, arranger, and music producer. He has provided the music for several anime series, television dramas, films, and video games. He is best known for his role on the soundtrack of '' The Seven Deadly Sins'', ''Seraph of the End'' and '' Highschool of the Dead''. Wada is the founder and current CEO of the music production company Dimension Cruise, established in 2006. He is also the founder of the music agency Beagle Kick. Biography Wada was born in Chiba Prefecture, in 1979. After he finished highschool, he went to Tokyo and later graduated from the Department of Composition at Tokyo College of Music. After that, he studied composition under the music teacher Kazuki Kuriyama, whom Wada would work with as an assistant on future projects. Wada's musician career started in 2002, with him primarily involved in video game soundtracks. In 2006, he founded Dimension Cruise, a music agency with the labels Dimension Cruise Records and As Vox Records. He began compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Aichi Broadcasting
Aichi Television Broadcasting Company, Ltd. (TVA; ), also referred to as , with the callsigns JOCI-DTV (channel 10) is a Japanese television station in Nagoya serving as the affiliate of the TX Network for the Aichi prefecture. TVA started broadcasting in 1983. Nikkei, Inc. is the biggest shareholder of TVA. Broadcasting Analog (as of 11/07/11 end date) JOCI-TV (1983/09/01-11/07/11) *Nagoya: Channel 25 *Toyohashi: Channel 52 Digital JOCI-DTV (2003/12/01) *Channel ID 10 *Nagoya: Channel 23 *Toyohashi: Channel 26 Programmes (times in JST) Now on air Past in Aichi Prefecture * Bakushō Chokuyunyū Benny Hill Show () - broadcasts The Benny Hill Show *Ōsu no Cosplay Monogatari () - features cosplayers in Nagoya * News and Wide Maiyū! () - local news program * Yattokame Tanteidan () - a comedy and mystery anime laid in Nagoya all over Japan ;Anime * Totsugeki! Pappara-tai () *Shin Hakkenden () * Cyborg Kuro-chan () * Gyōten Ningen Batseelor () * Tokyo Mew Mew () * Mermaid Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumeta Company
, known as from 2009 to 2017, is a Japanese animation studio An animation studio is a company producing animation, animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales ... formed in 1990. History Yumeta Company absorbed Hal Film Maker and changed its name to TYO Animations on July 1, 2009. On December 1, 2017, Memory Tech Holdings announced that they had acquired TYO Animations, and made it a subsidiary of Graphinica. They also announced that the company's name would revert to Yumeta Company. Works Television series OVAs/ONAs Films References External links * * {{Japanese animation studios Animation studios in Tokyo Japanese companies established in 1990 Japanese animation studios Mass media companies established in 1990 Kiyose, Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naruhisa Arakawa
is a Japanese screenwriter who primarily works on anime and tokusatsu Japanese television drama, dramas. He first served as a series' main writer for ''Blue Seed'' anime and the Kamen Rider Series revival ''Kamen Rider Kuuga''. Arakawa was the main series writer for the Super Sentai anniversary series ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'' where he is also credited as a lyricist for the ending theme song with Shoko Fujibayashi. He also wrote the lyrics to "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!", the first ending theme of ''Dragon Ball Z''. Anime Television series * series head writer denoted in bold * ''Doteraman'' (1986-1987) * ''High School! Kimengumi'' (1987) * ''Dragon Ball (TV series), Dragon Ball'' (1987) * ''Tsuide ni Tonchinkan'' (1988) * ''Gaki Deka'' (1989) * ''Idol Densetsu Eriko'' (1989-1990) * ''Madö King Granzört'' (1989-1990) * ''Kyatto Ninden Teyandee'' (1990) * ''Mitsume ga Tōru'' (1990-1991) * ''Magical Angel Sweet Mint'' (1990-1991) * ''Jankenman'' (1991-1992) *''Blue Seed'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Jump
is a Japanese biweekly seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha under their '' Jump'' line of magazines. Launched in November 2011 as a merging of '' Business Jump'' and '' Super Jump'', it carried over nine series from the former and three from the latter in addition to beginning new titles. History In July 2011, Shueisha announced they would be merging their seinen manga magazines '' Business Jump'' and '' Super Jump'' into a single biweekly magazine that fall. They cited the "changing environment for seinen manga and the changing tastes of readers" as their reason for the decision. Targeted at "liberated adults," ''Grand Jump'' is published twice a month in a black and white saddle-stapled format, each issue running about 300 pages. The initial series at launch included 8 serializations carried over from ''Business Jump'' as well as 3 from ''Super Jump'', with several new titles beginning. A monthly sister magazine called was also launched, serializing the remaining ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
