Little Wansa
Little Wansa (ワンサくん, Wansa-kun) is a mascot for Sanwa Bank designed by Osamu Tezuka. It was later turned into a manga series by Tezuka and an anime series from 1973. The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much of the rest of the series looking for his mother. Tezuka never completed the manga version of the series. In 1973 an animated series based on the manga was made, produced by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and broadcast by Kansai Telecasting Corporation. As with the earlier Triton of the Sea, Tezuka had little-to-no involvement in this series and Wansa-kun ultimately ended up being the last series produced by the original Mushi Production before its bankruptcy. The anime series lasted 26 episodes. The first 21 episodes were very comedic in nature, but the final five episodes took a more dramatic turn, when Wansa began his search for his mother
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In a modern sense, comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.[1] The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old".[2] A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes
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Noriko Ohara (小原 乃梨子, Ohara Noriko, born Noriko Tobe (戸部 法子, Tobe Noriko), October 2, 1935) is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo.[1] She is represented by Production Baobab. Her son is Sunrise animator Atsuo Tobe (戸部敦夫, Tobe Atsuo). She is best known for the roles of Nobita Nobi (Doraemon), all female lead villains in the Time Bokan
Time Bokan series (including Doronjo in both the original Yatterman
Yatterman and its remake), Conan (Future Boy Conan), Peter (Heidi, Girl of the Alps), Oyuki
Oyuki (Urusei Yatsura) and Claudia LaSalle from Super Dimension Fortress Macross
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance; a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.[1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.[2] The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δρᾶμα, drama), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: δράω, drao). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia, and Melpomene
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Anime News
News Network (ANN) is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, South East Asia
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South East Asia and Japan
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Masako Nozawa (野沢 雅子, Nozawa Masako, born October 25, 1936) is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo. Throughout her life, she has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce and self-owned Office Nozawa; she is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. Her late husband, Masaaki Tsukada, was also a voice actor. As a voice actress, she is best known for the role of Son Goku
Goku in the popular anime franchise Dragon Ball, as well as all of Goku's male family relatives except Raditz. She has also voiced Tetsurō Hoshino (Galaxy Express 999) and Kitarō (GeGeGe no Kitarō, first and second series). In addition, she has also voiced two separate characters named "Hiroshi"; a character in Dokonjō Gaeru, and the character known in the U.S. as "Pidge" in Hyakujūō Golion
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Kaneta Kimotsuki
Kaneta Kimotsuki (肝付 兼太, Kimotsuki Kaneta, born Kanemasa Kimotsuki (肝付 兼正, Kimotsuki Kanemasa), November 15, 1935 – October 20, 2016) was a Japanese voice actor. He was most known for the roles of Takeshi Goda before Suneo Honekawa (Doraemon), Dra
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Kansai Telecasting Corporation
Kansai Telecasting Corporation (関西テレビ放送株式会社, Kansai Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha, KTV), often called Kansai TV (関西テレビ, Kansai-terebi) or Kantele (関テレ), is a tv station affiliated with Fuji News Network
Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Osaka, serving the Kansai region
Kansai region of Japan
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A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fictional, representative spokespeople for consumer products, such as the rabbit used in advertising and marketing for the General Mills
General Mills brand of breakfast cereal, Trix.Hubbard eagle, Hubbard Ohio 5'10" - 6'5"The mascot for the 2007 Special
Special Olympics, held in Shanghai, China. Displayed in Pudong just in front of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.In the world of sports, mascots are also used for merchandising. Team mascots are often confused with team nicknames.[1] While the two can be interchangeable, they are not always the same
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The Sanwa Bank, Limited (株式会社三和銀行, Kabushiki gaisha Sanwa Ginkō) was a major Japanese bank headquartered in Osaka, which operated from 1933 to 2002. It merged with Tokai Bank
Tokai Bank to form UFJ Bank (now part of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ). In the 1990s, it was the most profitable bank in the world, and second-largest in terms of assets behind its eventual merger partner Tokyo-Mitsubishi.[1] Sanwa was formed by the 1933 merger of three Osaka-based banks. The oldest of these banks, Kōnoike Bank, dated its operations back to 1656, when the Kōnoike family of Osaka
Osaka established a money exchange business. The exchange was chartered to provide services for the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate in 1670
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Jōji Yanami (八奈見 乗児, Yanami Jōji, born Shigemitsu Shirato (白土 繁満, Shirato Shigemitsu), on August 30, 1931) is a retired Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Aoni Production. Some of his major voice roles are in the Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball anime series where he narrates and voices Dr. Briefs, Kaiō-sama
Kaiō-sama (a.k.a. King Kai or North Kaio), and Bobbidi. Other major roles include Dr. Isaac Gilmore in Cyborg 009; Gennai in Digimon; Ittan Momen in GeGeGe no Kitarō; Dr. Yumi in Mazinger Z; and numerous characters in the Time Bokan
Time Bokan series. On September 25, 2015, Toei Animation
Toei Animation announced that Yanami would be taking medical leave from Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Super for an indefinite amount of time
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Ichirō Nagai (永井 一郎, Nagai Ichirō, May 10, 1931 – January 27, 2014) was a Japanese voice actor from Ikeda, Osaka
Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. He was previously affiliated by Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, and was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of his death. On January 27, 2014, while recording narration for a program in Hiroshima, Nagai suffered a bout of myocardial infarction and was found by a hotel employee. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead; Nagai was 82 years old at the time of his death.Contents1 Filmography1.1 Television animation 1.2 OVA 1.3 Theatrical animation 1.4 Video games 1.5 Tokusatsu 1.6 Dubbing1.6.1 Live action 1.6.2 Animation2 Successors 3 References 4 External linksFilmography[edit] Television animation[edit]Year Title Role Other notes1964 Big X Dr
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TV series: Space Battleship Yamato II
Space Battleship Yamato II (1978) Space Battleship Yamato III
Space Battleship Yamato III (1980)
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Kunichika Tomiyama (冨山 邦親, Tomiyama Kunichika, October 31, 1938 – September 25, 1995), better known by his stage name Kei Tomiyama (富山 敬, Tomiyama Kei), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Anshan, Manchukuo. He was also declared the Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc of Japanese voice acting
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Eiichi Yamamoto (山本 暎一, Yamamoto Eiichi, born 22 November 1940) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter of anime. He is known for directing the Animerama film series conceived by Osamu Tezuka. Yamamoto directed ten films between 1962 and 1986
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Yoshinobu Nishizaki (西崎 義展, Nishizaki Yoshinobu, 18 December 1934 – 7 November 2010) was a Japanese film producer best known as one of the two co-creators of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato.[2][3][4][5] He was sometimes credited as Yoshinori Nishizaki. He was born in 1934 and graduated from the Nihon University
Nihon University Art Department.Contents1 Life and work 2 Legal troubles 3 Death 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External linksLife and work[edit] Nishizaki graduated in 1957 from Nippon University. His first love was music; he owned a jazz club and was also a jazz radio personality. He formed Office Academy in 1963 as a music production company. Nishizaki's entry into the anime world came in 1970 when he joined Osamu Tezuka's animation studio, Mushi Production, as a sales manager; his first job was to sell the studio's anime Marvelous Melmo
Marvelous Melmo to a TV broadcaster in Osaka
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