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Clockwork Planet
is a Japanese light novel series, written by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana, and illustrated by Shino. Kodansha has published four volumes since April 2, 2013, under their Kodansha Ranobe Bunko imprint. The story is set in a clockpunk fantasy version of the world, in which the entire planet is run by clockwork. The main characters are five people (a machine otaku, two automata, a young technician and a bodyguard) who, after a month of meeting, become the world's most infamous terrorists. A manga adaptation illustrated by Kuro was serialized in Kodansha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Shōnen Sirius'' since 2013 and ended in August 2018. It has been collected in ten ''tankōbon'' volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Xebec aired from April 6 to June 22, 2017. Plot At an unspecified point in time, Earth collapses. Despite it being almost inevitable that humankind would die out, a genius engineer known only as "Y" manages to rebuild Earth entirely with gear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Action (fiction)
Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range of sub-genres, such as spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror and intrigue ("cloak and dagger") and mysteries. This kind of story utilizes suspense, the tension that is built up when the reader wishes to know how the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist is going to be resolved or what the solution to the puzzle of a thriller is. Genre fiction Action fiction is a form of genre fiction whose subject matter is characterized by emphasis on exciting action sequences. This does not always mean they exclude character development or story-telling. Action fiction is related to other forms of fiction, including action films, action games and analogous media in other formats such as manga and anime. It includes martial arts action, extreme sports action, car chases and vehicles, suspense action, and action come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Otaku
is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in '' Manga Burikko''. may be used as a pejorative with its negativity stemming from a stereotypical view of as social outcasts and the media's reporting on Tsutomu Miyazaki, "The Otaku Murderer", in 1989. According to studies published in 2013, the term has become less negative, and an increasing number of people now identify themselves as , both in Japan and elsewhere. Out of 137,734 teens surveyed in Japan in 2013, 42.2% self-identified as a type of . subculture is a central theme of various anime and manga works, documentaries and academic research. The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to what was then seen as inevitably becoming social outcasts. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Saori Ōnishi
is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She played La Folia Rihavein in her first main role for the anime series ''Strike the Blood''. She is known for her roles as Eriri Spencer Sawamura in '' Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend'', Ais Wallenstein in '' Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?'', and Vignette April Tsukinose in ''Gabriel DropOut''. She won the Best Supporting Actress award and the Personality Award at the 12th Seiyu Awards. Biography Ōnishi began aspiring to become an actress in elementary school, while watching television. The voice acting performances of voice actresses such as Maaya Sakamoto and Sanae Kobayashi also inspired her to pursue the profession. During her elementary and junior high school years, she was part of a brass band club. Although she was part of the science class in high school, she decided not to join any clubs, instead preferring to attend a voice acting training school. Ōnishi began her voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jeannie Tirado
Jeannie Tirado is an American voice actress. Some of her noteworthy roles include Zera in '' Fairy Tail Zero'', Leila Malcal in '' Code Geass: Akito the Exiled'', Kaga in '' KanColle: Kantai Collection'', Android 21 in ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'', and female Byleth in '' Fire Emblem: Three Houses''. Biography Tirado was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. She is of Puerto Rican descent. Growing up, Tirado was a fan of Disney films, especially ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine T ...''; this inspired her to pursue a career in voice acting. Tirado graduated from college with a degree in music and worked as a vocalist for various albums, before switching to voice acting. On October 24, 2021 Jeannie Tirado married John Riding. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ai Kakuma
is a Japanese voice actress from Fukuoka Prefecture. Filmography Anime television series ;2012 *'' Campione!'' as Hikari Mariya *''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san'' as Female Student (episode 10) *''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' as Customer B (episode 10) ;2013 *'' Day Break Illusion'' as Female Student (episode 4) *'' Dog & Scissors'' as Hami Oosawa *'' Genshiken: Second Generation'' as Kenjiro Hata (Female) *'' Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3'' as Akane & Moe Seto *''Sunday Without God'' as Memepo Gedenburg, Mimiita Gedenburg ;2014 *''Aikatsu!'' as Noel Otoshiro *'' Aldnoah.Zero'' as Nina Klein *''Amagi Brilliant Park'' as Isuzu Sento *'' Bladedance of Elementalers'' as Terminus Est *'' Daimidaler the Sound Robot'' as Macaroni *''Dragonar Academy'' as Primrose Shelly *'' If Her Flag Breaks'' as Hakua Berserker Bladefield *'' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders'' as Female Student E (episode 2), Tourist B (episode 5) *'' Log Horizon 2'' as Mikakage *'' Magi: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dallas Reid
Dallas Reid (born April 5, 1993) is an American voice actor affiliated with Funimation. They debuted in 2013, with their first lead role in 2015 with Kimito Kagurazaka in '' Shomin Sample''. Other major roles include Asta in ''Black Clover'', Haruki Bando in ''Cheer Boys!!'', and Zack (Isaac Foster) in '' Angels of Death''. Filmography Anime Films Video games Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Dallas 1993 births 21st-century American actors American non-binary actors American video game actors American voice actors Living people Non-binary voice actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Yoshino Nanjō
is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is affiliated with Voice Kit. Among her most popular roles is Eli Ayase from '' Love Live! School Idol Project'' series. She became the lead singer of the Japanese pop and trance duo fripSide in 2009 until she announced in October 2021 her retirement from the music duo. Her nickname is Nanjolno. Biography Nanjō's music career began in 2009 when she replaced the singer Nao as the lead singer of the band fripSide. Her first song as a member of the band was "Only My Railgun", which was used as the opening theme to the anime television series '' A Certain Scientific Railgun''. In 2010, she was cast in the ''Love Live!'' franchise as Eli Ayase, a member of the fictional idol group μ's, as well as a member of its sub-unit BiBi. She released her first mini-album "Katarumoa" on December 12, 2012. She released her first solo single on November 27, 2013; the title song is used as the first ending theme to the 2013 anime television series '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Economy of Japan, Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Akihabara
is a common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan. Administratively, the area called Akihabara mainly belongs to the and Kanda-Sakumachō districts in Chiyoda. There exists an administrative district called Akihabara in the Taitō ward further north of Akihabara Station, but it is not the place people generally refer to as Akihabara. The name Akihabara is a shortening of , which ultimately comes from , named after a fire-controlling deity of a firefighting shrine built after the area was destroyed by a fire in 1869.Cybriwsky, Roman. ''Historical dictionary of Tokyo.''Scarecrow Press, 2011. Akihabara gained the nickname shortly after World War II for being a major shopping center for household electronic goods and the post-war black market.Nobuoka, Jakob. "User innovation and creative consumption in Japanese culture industries: The case of Akihabara, Tokyo." ''Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography'' 92.3 (2010): 205–218.Yama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city had a population of 1.46 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an/ Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869. It was the scene of several key events of the Muromachi period, Sengoku period, and the Boshin War, such as the Ōnin War, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains many anime and manga with information on the staff, cast, theme music, plot summaries, and user ratings. The website was founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, and operated the magazine '' Protoculture Addicts'' from 2005 to 2008. Based in Canada, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in four separate regions: the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. History The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing editor-in-chief Isaac Alexander. On June 30, 2002, Anime N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |