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Mahō Sensei Negima!
''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from February 2003 to March 2012, with its chapters collected into 38 ''tankōbon'' volumes. ''Negima!'' was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series produced by Xebec that was broadcast on TV Tokyo from January to June 2005. A second 26-episode series produced by Shaft titled ''Negima!?'', which is alternate retelling, was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2006 to March 2007. In addition, four different sets of original video animations, an anime film and a live-action television series have also been produced. In North America, the manga was licensed for English language release by Del Rey Manga and later by Kodansha USA. In the UK the first sixteen volumes were published by Tanoshimi. Both anime and the second OVAs were licensed by Funimation. Sentai Filmworks re-licensed the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tankōbon
is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or monthly manga anthology with other works before being published as volumes containing several chapters each. Major publishing imprints for include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Comics, and Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics. Japanese comics (manga) manga came to be published in thick, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology manga magazines (such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or '' Weekly Shōnen Jump''). These anthologies often have hundreds of pages and dozens of individual series by multiple authors. They are printed on cheap newsprint and are considered disposable. Since the 1930s, though, comic strips had been compiled into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified broadcasting holding company itself a subsidiary of Nikkei, Inc., serving as the flagship station of the TX Network.." TV Tokyo. Retrieved on June 21, 2010. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specialising in anime. History TV Tokyo was established by the Japan Science Foundation in 1951 and started broadcasting, as on April 12, 1964. It took its name from its VHF frequency channel 12. It almost went bankrupt in 1968; on 1 July that year, a limited liability company, Tokyo Channel 12 Production was established with the help of the '' Nikkei'' and Mainichi Broadcasting System. In 1969 the ''Nikkei'' and MBS signed a memorandum of understanding which stipulates that Tokyo Channel 12 should share programs w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negiho
also known as ''Mahora Little Girls'', is a one volume spin-off manga from Negima, created by Ken Akamatsu and made into a manga by Yui. The manga originally ran in the magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from September 2010 to November 2011. The name Negiho or "Negiho (Ito) Bun" derives its name from the word "negi" the Japanese word for spring (green) onion. Plot Mahora Academy has just gotten a new teacher, Negi Springfield. Asuna, a preschooler at the academy, falls in love with him at first sight. Characters * Negi Springfield is a young adult teacher at Mahora Academy preschool. He is shown to be very caring of his students, helping them and watching out for them in their time of need. * Asuna Kagurazaka is a five-year-old preschooler who has a massive crush on her teacher Negi. She refers to him initially as Skinny onion. * Konoka Konoe is shown to be friendly towards Asuna, giving her advice on how to manage her crush on Negi. In chapter three she was thought to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negima!?
is an anime television series created by Shaft. It is an alternate retelling of the ''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'' series. Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, it aired from October 4, 2006 to March 28, 2007 in Japan. The anime was accompanied by a monthly manga series by Takuya Fujima called ''Negima!? neo''. Both series feature the same characters and locations. This new season aired on TV Tokyo's late afternoon time slot rather than on late nights, like the original anime series did. Plot A dark sinister tale befalls ten-year-old Negi Springfield and class 2-A. One year after Negi's arrival at Mahora, two representatives from the Magic Academy arrive at Mahora with the news of the disappearance of a mysterious artifact known as the Star Crystal. The Star Crystal holds a power that not even the Thousand Master could control. Even though the reason or the cause behind the Star Crystal's disappearance is a mystery, the effects of the artifact begin to envelop Negi and his studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UQ Holder!
''UQ Holder!'' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's '' Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 2013 to 2016 and later transferred to ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine'', where it was serialized from 2016 to 2022. Set several generations later in the world of his previous work '' Negima! Magister Negi Magi'', it follows the adventures of Tōta Konoe, a young boy who is transformed into a vampire and joins a secret society composed of immortal beings. Plot Tōta Konoe, the grandson of Negi Springfield, aspires to leave his village and live life in the city of Shin-Tokyo, which has a tower structure rising into space. When he is mortally wounded by a bounty hunter coming after his guardian Yukihime's life, he discovers that he has been made into an immortal vampire by Yukihime, a 700-year-old vampire mage Evangeline A.K. McDowell. Picking up another boy named Kuromaru along the way, they go to a place outside Shin-Tokyo where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōbun Shizuno
is a Japanese anime film and television director. Works Films *'' Legend of Toki'' (2008) *'' Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence'' (2011) *'' Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker'' (2012) *'' Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea'' (2013) *'' Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper'' (2014) *'' Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno'' (2015) *'' Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare'' (2016) *'' Detective Conan: Crimson Love Letter'' (2017) *'' Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters'' (2017) *'' Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle'' (2018) *'' Godzilla: The Planet Eater'' (2018) *'' My Tyrano: Together, Forever'' (2018) *'' Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Zetsubō no Yoake '' (2020) *''The Journey'' (2021) *'' Lupin the Third vs. Cat's Eye'' (2023) Television series *'' Samurai Girls'' (2010; credited under the pseudonym KOBUN) *'' Samurai Bride'' (2013; credited under the pseudonym KOBUN) *''Knights of Sidonia'' (2014)-season 1 *''Soul Buster ''Soul Buster'' (侍灵演 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoyuki Itamura
is a Japanese director, animator, and storyboard artist. He joined OLM in 2002 as an in-between animator and left in 2007 to join Shaft. Itamura took over the ''Monogatari'' series from Tatsuya Oishi as his television directorial debut with ''Nisemonogatari''. With Akiyuki Shinbo, Itamura directed all subsequent televised installments until he left the studio following ''Owarimonogatari II''. Career Itamura joined OLM in 2002, and he first served as an in-between animator on the studio's ''Pokémon Chronicles'' television series. In 2006, he storyboarded two episodes of ''Ray the Animation'', and the following year left the studio, where he then joined Shaft. That year, he debuted as an episode director with the 3rd episode of ''Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei'', and in 2008 debuted as a project director under the chief direction of Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese animator, director, writer, and storyboard artist. Best known for his works with Shaft, he has attained international r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukihiro Miyamoto
, occasionally nicknamed Otokomatsuri, is a Japanese animator and director. He started at animation studio Vega Entertainment, and later joined Shaft. He is best known for directing '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' and its subsequent film trilogy alongside Akiyuki Shinbo, the latter trilogy which subsequently garnered ¥2 billion, making it a box-office success. Career Miyamoto joined the anime industry in 2002 as a production manager and assistant episode director for Vega Entertainment on their adaptation of Leiji Matsumoto's ''Gun Frontier'' manga series. In 2003 and 2004, he debuted as an episode director and storyboard artist with '' F-Zero: GP Legend'', and began doing outsource work with Vega for Madhouse in 2004. For the next 3 years, he served with Madhouse, most prominent as an episode director for ''Monster'', and then in 2006 joined studio Shaft. At Shaft, he quickly became a prominent director alongside Akiyuki Shinbo, Shin Oonuma, and Tatsuya Oishi. In 2008, he deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaft (company)
Shaft (stylized as SHAFT; ja, 株式会社シャフト, Hepburn: ), also known as Shaft Animation Studio, is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Suginami, Tokyo, and founded in 1975. Since 2004, the studio's productions have been broadly influenced by director Akiyuki Shinbo, whose visual style and avant-garde cinematography are featured in works including '' Hidamari Sketch'' (2007), '' Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei'' (2007), the '' Monogatari'' series (2009–2019), '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' (2011), ''Nisekoi'' (2014), and '' March Comes In Like a Lion'' (2016). History 1975–1984: Early sub-contracting work Shaft was founded as a yūgen-gaisha on September 1, 1975, by ex-Mushi Production employee Hiroshi Wakao. Much of the company's early work was sub-contracting work for larger animation studios, which includes credits to cel painting and color coordination work, such as with ''Brave Raideen'' (1975–76), and occasionally credits as an assistant production st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Oonuma
is a Japanese anime director, animator, and storyboard artist. Oonuma's first employer in the anime industry was Office AO, but he is best known for his contributions to studios Shaft and Silver Link. Career Oonuma's first appearance in anime was as an in-between animator for '' Berserk)'' as a sub-contracting employee of Office AO. He continued working with Office AO, and in 2003 made his debut as an episode director on ''Nurse Me!'' and '' Triangle Hearts ~Sweet Songs Forever~'' under the series direction of Akiyuki Shinbo. The following year, he was invited alongside Tatsuya Oishi by Shinbo to join Shaft, and the three became known as Team Shinbo. According to Oonuma, Shinbo had invited him to Shaft due to Oonuma's understanding of digital compositing and processing, which he had showcased on ''Triangle Hearts''. Their first project with Shaft was '' Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase'', and Oonuma's liking of the "moe" aesthetic and "gal games" lead to him being particularly helpful to S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiyuki Shinbo
is a Japanese animator, director, writer, and storyboard artist. Best known for his works with Shaft, he has attained international recognition with the studio for his unique visual style and storytelling methods. Born in Koori, Fukushima Prefecture, Shinbo began his career in 1980s as an animator, and became known while at Studio One Pattern in the mid-to-late 1980s, which worked extensively as a subcontractor for Pierrot and Madhouse. In the early 1990s, Shinbo became a freelance creator and worked across multiple series at both studios as an episode director. He debuted as a series director with the J.C.Staff television series ''Metal Fighter Miku'' (1994), and over the next several years, Shinbo would develop his artistic directorial style and work with various industry creators as a freelance director and storyboard artist; his works from this time include ''The SoulTaker'' (2001), ''Le Portrait de Petit Cossette'' (2004), and ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' (2004). In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Broadcasting Corporation
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations ( AM/ FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public. It is one of the largest of South Africa's state-owned enterprises. Opposition politicians and civil society often criticise the SABC, accusing it of being a mouthpiece for whichever political party is in majority power, thus currently the ruling African National Congress; during the apartheid era it was accused of playing the same role for the National Party government. Company history Early years Radio broadcasting in South Africa began in 1923, under the auspices of South African Railways, before three radio services were licensed: the Association of Scientific and Technical Societies (AS&TS) in Johannesburg, the Cape Peninsular Publicity Association in Cape Town and the Durban Corporation, which began broadcasting in 1924. These merged into the African Broadcasting Company in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
