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George Nakata
, sometimes Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicized to George Nakata, is a Japanese actor, Voice acting in Japan, voice actor, and narrator who is affiliated with the Office Osawa agency. His major voice roles include Alucard (Hellsing), Alucard in ''Hellsing'', Hijikata Toshizo in ''Golden Kamuy'', List of SoltyRei characters#Roy Revant, Roy Revant in ''Solty Rei'', Giroro in ''Sgt. Frog'', Kirei Kotomine in ''Fate/stay night'', and the title character in ''Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo''. In video game franchises, he voices Ieyasu Tokugawa and Kenshin Uesugi in ''Samurai Warriors'' and ''Warriors Orochi'' series, Albert Wesker in the ''Resident Evil'' franchise, Sol Badguy in the ''Guilty Gear'' series since ''Guilty Gear 2: Overture'', Naobito Zen'in in ''Jujutsu Kaisen'' and Kazuya Mishima in the first, second and first Tag installments of the ''Tekken'' series. Biography Nakata studied at the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. His first roles were for live-action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Wesker
is a character in the ''Resident Evil'' survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. He was first introduced in the original ''Resident Evil'' (1996) as the captain of the Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) unit of the Raccoon Police Department. Wesker has been one of the series' main antagonists as a member of the pharmaceutical conglomerate Umbrella Corporation, the primary antagonistic faction, manipulating story events behind the scenes. To further his own plans, Wesker betrays his allies, fakes his death, gains superhuman abilities, and works with both Umbrella's mysterious rival company and their successors in the field of biological weapons development until his ultimate defeat by Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar in ''Resident Evil 5'' (2009). Wesker appears in several ''Resident Evil'' games, novelizations, and films and has also appeared in other game franchises, including ''Marvel vs. Capcom'', ''Teppen,'' and ''Dead by Day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sazae-san
is a Japanese ''yonkoma'' manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the ''Asahi Shimbun'' wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in 1949 with the explanation that the main characters had moved from Kyūshū to Tokyo as well. The first ''Sazae-san'' strip run by the ''Asahi Shimbun'' was published on November 30, 1949. The manga dealt with everyday life and contemporary situations in Tokyo until Hasegawa retired and ended the series, with the final comic published on February 21, 1974. As of 1999, the manga had over 86 million copies in circulation, making it one of the List of best-selling manga, best-selling manga series of all time. An anime television adaptation by TCJ (later renamed Eiken (studio), Eiken) began airing in Japan in October 1969 and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running animated television series. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiko Nomura
is a Japanese actress and voice actress. Career Nomura was previously affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, then Aoni Production and now she is affiliated with Ken Production, an agency founded by the late Kenji Utsumi. As of September 2024, after the deaths of Noriko Ohara and Nobuyo Ōyama, she is the last surviving lead voice actor of the 1979 ''Doraemon'' anime series. Personal life She was married to fellow voice actor Kenji Utsumi until his death in 2013. Notable roles Animation *''Speed Racer'' (1967): Mitchi Shimura ("Trixie"; episode 5 onwards) *'' Andersen Stories'' (1971): Gerda, Ilze *'' Babel II'' (1973): Yumiko Furumi *'' Calimero'' (1974): Priscila *''Maya the Bee'' (1975): Maya *''Sazae-san'' (1976–2005): Wakame Isono (2nd voice) *''Doraemon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. First serialized in 1969, the manga's chapters were collected in 45 volumes published by Shogakukan from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Sentai
The is a Japanese superhero team media franchise consisting of television series and films produced by Toei Company and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi. The shows are of the '' tokusatsu'' genre, featuring live action characters and colorful special effects, and are aimed at children, teens and young adults. ''Super Sentai'' airs alongside the '' Kamen Rider'' series in the Super Hero Time programming block on Sunday mornings. In North America, the ''Super Sentai'' series is best known as the source material for the '' Power Rangers'' series. Series overview In every ''Super Sentai'' series, the protagonists are a team of people who – using either wrist-worn or hand-held devices – transform into superheroes and gain superpowers – color-coded uniforms, signature weapons, sidearms, and fighting skills – to battle a group of otherworldly supervillains that threaten to take over the Earth. In a typical episode, the heroes thwart the enemies' plans and defeat an army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choujuu Sentai Liveman
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series and the twelfth entry of Toei Company's Super Sentai metaseries. The last Super Sentai title of the Shōwa Era, it aired on TV Asahi from February 27, 1988, to February 18, 1989, replacing '' Hikari Sentai Maskman'' and was replaced by ''Kousoku Sentai Turboranger''. Its international English title as listed by Toei is simply ''Liveman''. It was the first Super Sentai series to have a female Blue Ranger as well as the first Super Sentai series that introduced animal-based mecha. It was also the first Super Sentai series that introduced a super-combined robot (that is 2 or more robots put together); the first Super Sentai series to have three members from the start, with two additional members joining later on; it was the last Super Sentai series that had its mechas transported to the battle through a flying fortress on a regular basis, which would not occur again until '' Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger''; and it was the first Super Sentai seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choushinsei Flashman
is a Japanese television show broadcast on TV Asahi from 1986 to 1987. It was the tenth instalment in the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries produced by Toei Company, replacing ''Dengeki Sentai Changeman''. It ran for 50 episodes before it was replaced by '' Hikari Sentai Maskman''. The show also aired in South Korea from 1989, where it saw popularity. Yutaka Izubuchi designed all the characters in the series. He would return to design characters for '' Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters''. In 2018, the costume worn by the character Red Flash was sold for ¥1,553,000 on Yahoo Auctions in Japan. Storyline In 1966, five infant children were kidnapped by an alien group known as the Alien Hunters for the Reconstructive Experiment Empire Mess, who wanted samples of humans from Earth to experiment on. The children were rescued by Mess' arch enemy, the Flash alien race, which took each one to a different planet of the Flash solar system for training. Each child was trained separately in a range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toho Gakuen College Of Drama And Music
is a junior college A junior college is a type of post-secondary institution that offers vocational and academic training that is designed to prepare students for either skilled trades and technical occupations or support roles in professions such as engineering, a ... in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in 1955. Academic departments * Music External links * Universities and colleges established in 1955 Junior colleges in Japan 1955 establishments in Japan Universities and colleges in Tokyo {{tokyo-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekken
is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting games developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco). The franchise also includes film and print adaptations. The main games in the series follow the events of the King of Iron Fist Tournament, hosted by the ''Mishima Zaibatsu'', where players control a plethora of characters to win the tournament and gain control of the company; the conflict between the Mishima family serves as the main focus of the series' plot, while players explore other characters' motivations in aiming to control the ''Zaibatsu''. Gameplay focuses on hand-to-hand combat with an opponent, with the gameplay system including blocks, throws, escapes, and ground fighting. The series later introduced combos and special moves, with characters also able to stage break arenas. ''Tekken'' is noted as being one of the first fighting games at the time to use 3D animation. Japanese video game developer Namco began the series in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuya Mishima
is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists of Bandai Namco's ''Tekken'' series. Debuting as the protagonist of the original game, Kazuya has since become one of the series' most prominent villains after serving as the penultimate boss of '' Tekken 2''. The son of a wealthy zaibatsu CEO named Heihachi Mishima, Kazuya seeks revenge against his father for throwing him off a cliff years earlier. Kazuya becomes corrupted in later games, seeking to obtain more power and eventually coming into conflict with his own son, Jin Kazama. Kazuya Mishima possesses the Devil Gene, a demonic mutation, which he inherited from his late mother, Kazumi Mishima, which can transform him into a demonic version of himself known as . Devil Kazuya has often appeared as a separate character in older installments prior to becoming part of Kazuya's moveset in ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'' and later games. Kazuya Mishima is also present in related series media and other games. The character was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jujutsu Kaisen
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. It was serialized in Shueisha's Shōnen manga, manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from March 2018 to September 2024, with its chapters collected in 30 volumes. The story follows high school student Yuji Itadori as he joins a secret organization of Jujutsu Sorcerers to eliminate a powerful Curse named Ryomen Sukuna, of whom Yuji becomes the host. ''Jujutsu Kaisen'' is a sequel to Akutami's ''Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School'', serialized in Shueisha's ''Jump Giga'' from April to July 2017, later collected in a single volume, retroactively titled as ''Jujutsu Kaisen 0'', in December 2018. ''Jujutsu Kaisen'' is licensed for English-language release in North America by Viz Media, which has published the manga in print since December 2019. Shueisha publishes the series in English on the ''Manga Plus'' online platform. Two novels, written by Ballad Kitaguni, were published in May 2019 and Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overture
Overture (from French ''ouverture'', "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres such as the symphonic poem. These were "at first undoubtedly intended to be played at the head of a programme". The idea of an instrumental opening to opera existed during the 17th century. Peri's '' Euridice'' opens with a brief instrumental ritornello, and Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' (1607) opens with a toccata, in this case a fanfare for muted trumpets. More important was the prologue, consisting of sung dialogue between allegorical characters which introduced the overarching themes of the stories depicted. French overture As a musical form, the French overture first appears in the court ballet and operatic overtures of Jean-Baptiste Lully, which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
