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Devilman
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The manga focuses on a high school student named Akira Fudo who absorbs the powers of the demon called "Amon" with help of his friend Ryo Asuka in order to battle creatures hidden in human society, thus calling himself the "Devilman" in the process. The series was originally ordered by Toei Animation as a toned-down anime version of Nagai's previous manga series, '' Demon Lord Dante''. However, Nagai wrote a darker-toned manga in order to alert readers of the dangers of the wars based on how dark the narrative becomes with each of Akira's challenges. ''Devilman''s 39-episode anime series was developed by Toei Animation in 1972, while Nagai began the ''Devilman'' as a manga in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', barely a month before the anime series started. The manga was published between June 1972 and June 1973, while multiple publishers have released it in collected volumes (). Seven Seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Fudo
is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the ''Devilman'' manga series created by Go Nagai. A shy teenager living in Japan while his parents work abroad, Akira absorbs the powers of the devil Amon thanks to his friend Ryo Asuka. Then as the self-proclaimed title character , Akira starts fighting numerous enemies hidden in the world. The character also appears in the multiple anime adaptations of the series, though his role differs based on media. The spin-off ''Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman'' tells an alternate story of when Akira's body is taken over by Amon after losing his humanity. Akira was created by Nagai following Toei Animation's approach of creating anti-heroes similar to the recently cancelled manga ''Demon Lord Dante''. Nagai aimed in his take of the ''Devilman'' to portray the suffering of a demon, though focused more on the chaos of wars during the climax. ''Devilman Crybaby'' director Masaaki Yuasa was inspired to show his intimate relationship bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Nagai
, better known by the pen name , is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of Japanese science fiction, science fiction, fantasy, Japanese horror, horror, and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with ''Meakashi Polikichi'', but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as ''Cutie Honey'', ''Devilman,'' and ''Mazinger Z''. He is credited with creating the Mecha anime and manga, super robot genre; designing the first mecha robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with ''Mazinger Z'';Mark Gilson, "A Brief History of Japanese Robophilia", ''Leonardo'' 31 (5), pp. 367–369 [368]. as well as helping pioneer the magical girl genre with ''Cutie Honey;'' the post-apocalyptic manga/anime genre with ''Violence Jack;'' and the ecchi genre with ''Harenchi Gakuen''. In 2005, he became a Character Design professor at the Osaka University of Arts. He has been a member of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's nominating committee since 2009. Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Komatsubara
was a Japanese animator, animation director and character designer born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He worked as an independently contracted character designer for Toei Animation in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a member of the board of directors of animation studio Oh! Production (which he helped found along with Norio Shioyama, Kōichi Murata, and Kōshin Yonekawa). He died on March 24, 2000, due to a cancerous tumor on his neck. Profile Beginning with ''Devilman'' in 1972, Komatsubara moved on to work on other important 1970s anime shows including ''Getter Robo'' (1974), ''Getter Robo G'' (1975), '' UFO Robo Grendizer'' (1975), and ''Magne Robo Gakeen'' (1976), working closely with Go Nagai on character designs for many of these shows. For the 1987 OVA remake of the ''Devilman'' series, Komatsubara worked as both character designer and animation director. He then caught the animation fandom boom at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s as the charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Kawai
is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films and video games. Among his credits are Toei's '' Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever'', Tsui Hark's '' Seven Swords'' and '' Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon''; Wilson Yip's ''Ip Man''; Mamoru Oshii's films '' The Red Spectacles'', '' StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops'', ''Ghost in the Shell'', '' Mobile Police Patlabor'', and '' Assault Girls''. He also worked on the OVA and TV anime adaptations of ''Vampire Princess Miyu'', ''The Sky Crawlers'' and ''Avalon''; the anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's ''Ranma ½'' and '' Maison Ikkoku''; the live-action adaptation of ''Gantz'' and Hideo Nakata's films ''Ring'', ''Ring 2'', ''Chaos'', ''Dark Water'' and ''Kaidan''. His nephew, Hidehiro Kawai, is a bassist in Fox Capture Plan, an instrumental band. Career After dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoharu Katsumata
is a Japanese film director best known for his work on various anime works. A leading director at the Toei Animation studio during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Katsumata worked as a director on several of Toei's anime television adaptations of manga by Go Nagai, including '' Devilman'' (1972), '' Mazinger Z'' (1972), '' Cutey Honey'' (1973), '' Great Mazinger'' (1974), ''UFO Robo Grendizer'' (1975) and '' Gaiking'' (1976) (both Grendizer and Gaiking became later part of Jim Terry's '' Force Five'' package on U.S. television). Katsumata also directed a TV adaptation of '' Silver Fang -The Shooting Star Gin-'' in 1986. Early life Katsumata graduated from Nippon University's film school in 1960 and began working with the Kyoto division of the Toei Company that same year as an assistant director to Masahiro Makino, Eiichi Kudo, Tomotaka Tasaka on his samurai dramas. After a few years, Katsumata moved to Toei Doga (Toei Animation) in Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umanosuke Iida
(also known as Tsutomu Iida) was a Japanese anime creator, director and screenwriter. Iida died due to lung cancer. Iida was born in Urakawa, Hokkaido and graduated from Hokkaido Urakawa High School. He was a member of the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He died of lung cancer at a hospital in Kiyose, Tokyo on November 26, 2010, at the age of 49. At the farewell ceremony, Hayao Miyazaki read a eulogy. He passed during production of the anime Towa No Quon, which he had been set to direct. After his death, production was taken over by Takeshi Mori, who was credited as co-director. Filmography * '' Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' (1984) – In-between animation * '' Lupin III Part III'' (1984–1985) – Key animation (Oh! Production) (5 eps.) * '' Legend of the Gold of Babylon'' (1985) – Key animation * ''Castle in the Sky'' (1986) – Assistant director * '' Devilman: Tanjou Hen'' (1987) – Director, screenwriter * '' Devilman: Yocho Sirène Hen'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh! Production
, sometimes credited as Oh! Pro or Oh-Pro, is an anime production studio in Amanuma, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in May 1970 by animators Norio Shioyama, Kōichi Murata, Kazuo Komatsubara, and Kōshin Yonekawa. Former members * Kazuo Komatsubara (deceased, founding member of Oh! Pro, animation director) * Kitarō Kōsaka * Norio Shioyama (deceased, founding member of Oh! Pro, animation director) * Kazuhide Tomonaga (left in 1978, currently one of the head animation directors of Telecom Animation Film) Works OVAs *'' Devilman: The Birth'' (1987) *'' Devilman: The Demon Bird'' (1990) Films *'' Furiten-kun'' (1981) *''Jarinko Chie'' (1981) (supporting animation) *'' Gauche the Cellist'' (1982) *'' Fair, then Partly Piggy'' (1988) * '' Umi Da! Funade Da! Nikoniko, Pun'' (1990) *''La Maison en Petits Cubes is a 2008 Anime, Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kenji Kondo and produced by Robot Communications and animated by O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verotik
Verotik is an American comic book company founded by heavy metal/horror punk Horror punk is a music genre that mixes punk rock and 1950s-influenced doo-wop and rockabilly sounds with morbid and violent imagery and lyrics which are often influenced by horror films and science fiction B-movies. The genre was pioneered by t ... musician Glenn Danzig. The comics are aimed toward Adult comics, adult readers as they often contain imagery of a sexual and/or violent nature. The company's two longest-running titles were ''Verotika'' (15 issues) and ''Satanika'' vols. 1 & 2 (total of 13 issues). Verotik was known for producing Variant cover, variant "chase covers" for some of its titles: expensive adult-only variants depicting nudity. The company was most active in the period 1994–2001, and has not released many new comics since 2009. Notable creators associated with Verotik include Simon Bisley, Jae Lee, Tim Vigil, Liam Sharp, Martin Emond, Drew Posada, Jason Pearson, Shelby Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Seas Entertainment
Seven Seas Entertainment is an American publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original English-language manga, but now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan, as well as select webcomics. The company is headed by Jason DeAngelis, who coined the term " world manga" with the October 2004 launch of the company's website. History In April 2005, Seven Seas became the first manga publisher to release downloadable manga content for the PlayStation Portable and, as a result, gained over 12,000 downloads in the first five days. Seven Seas followed the PlayStation Portable announcement with enlisting the platinum-selling Filipino group the J Brothers to create a theme song for its web OEL manga series '' Aoi House'' entitled "Itsumo Futaride". During Comic-Con 2005, Seven Seas Entertainment premiered the pilot of its ''No Man's Land'' flash anime series and later followed it with a flash animation music v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toei Animation
is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It has produced numerous series, including '' Sally the Witch'', '' GeGeGe no Kitarō'', '' Mazinger Z'', '' Galaxy Express 999'', '' Cutie Honey'', '' Dr. Slump'', '' Dragon Ball'', ''Saint Seiya'', '' Sailor Moon'', ''Slam Dunk'', '' Digimon'', '' One Piece'', '' Toriko'', '' World Trigger'', '' The Transformers'' (between 1984 and 1990, including several Japanese exclusive productions), and the ''Pretty Cure'' series. History The studio was founded by animators Kenzō Masaoka and Sanae Yamamoto in 1948 as often shortened to . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was renamed , doing business as Toei Animation Co., Ltd. outside Japan. In 1998, the Japanese name was renamed to Toei Animation. It has created a number of TV series and movies and adapted Japanese comics as animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Yasuji Mori, Leiji Matsumoto and Yōichi Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasutaka Nagai
, better known by the pseudonym , is a Chinese-born Japanese novelist, manga author and scenario writer. He is one of the four brothers of manga artist Go Nagai. In 1969, he was a candidate for the Edogawa Rampo Prize for his novel ''Baptism of Blood'' (鮮血のバプテスマ ''Senketsu no Baputesuma''), written under the pen name Baku Nagai (the onyomi reading of his birth name), but lost to Seiichi Morimura. He abandoned his activities as a writer, for a time, with the establishment of ''Dynamic Production''. He would re-debut as a writer in 1981 with '' Shin Devilman'' (not to be confused with the manga of similar name with which he also collaborated). When working as a comic writer, he usually takes yet another pen name, that of Hiroshi Koenji. He wrote several comics for both his brother Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa was a Japanese manga artist. He is renowned as the co-creator (with Go Nagai) of the ''Getter Robo'' anime series, as well as four of their subsequent mang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocalyptic And Post-apocalyptic Fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are genres of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astronomical, an impact event; destructive, nuclear holocaust or resource depletion; medical, a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused; end time, such as the Last Judgment, Second Coming or Ragnarök; or any other scenario in which the outcome is apocalyptic, such as a zombie apocalypse, AI takeover, technological singularity, dysgenics or alien invasion. The story may involve attempts to prevent an apocalypse event, deal with the impact and consequences of the event itself, or it may be post-apocalyptic, set after the event. The time may be directly after the catastrophe, focusing on the psychology of survivors, the way to keep the human race alive and together as one, or considerably later, often including that the existence of pre- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
