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Govarian
is a Japanese anime television series created by Go Nagai. It was produced by Knack Productions and TV Tokyo. The series was originally broadcast from to in Japan. Besides Japan, it was also broadcast in South Korea in 1988 by MBC where it was known as ' or '. It is also known as in Taiwan and in Hong Kong. The anime is considered a mix of ''Genma Taisen'', ''Mazinger'' and ''Gundam''. Story The Garadain Empire has exhausted the primary resources of their native planet, so they send different space expeditions to find a new world where to live. One of their main objectives is planet Earth. However, Zeku Alba, an alien scientist, decides to rebel against the imperial rule and flees towards the Earth, where he gathers a group of children gifted with the power of "psychogenesis", an ability that consists of creating solid matter from psychic energy. The most gifted of the squadron is Isamu, a young orphan whose family was killed in the first attack of the Garadain Empire. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discotek Media
Discotek Media is an American entertainment company based in Altamonte Springs, Florida, focused on distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series. Formed in 2005, Discotek primarily focuses on licensing retro titles from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, a lot of them "license rescued" from other companies such as Funimation, Viz Media, ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Geneon, Manga Entertainment, etc. Their licenses include most of the '' Lupin the Third'' franchise (including the Hayao Miyazaki film '' The Castle of Cagliostro''), the first season of '' Digimon'', '' Fist of the North Star'', '' Sonic X'', '' Hajime no Ippo'', ''Urusei Yatsura'', '' Galaxy Express 999'', and '' Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'', as well as OVAs such as '' Giant Robo'' and '' Gunbuster'' and films such as '' Memories'' and '' Project A-ko''. The company has also acquired several recent titles and has collaborated with streaming service Crunchyroll on several releases including ''Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knack Productions
, formerly known as or simply until August 2008, is a Japanese anime and film production company. History Knack Productions was founded on September 25, 1967, by a group of former employees of Toei Animation and Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production, including illustrator Seiichi Hayashi, animator/director Sadao Tsukioka, former Mushi producer Sakuro Koyanagi, and Seiichi Nishino, who would become the principal planner of most of the studio's works. From its early days the studio concentrated on TV production. The studio's first work, the TV series ''Granny Mischief'' (''Ijiwaru Baasan''), based on a manga by Sazae-san creator Machiko Hasegawa), premiered in 1970. In the late 1980s the company moved away from TV production and into OVA, finding success in the growing market for soft-core direct-to-video pornography anime. Since the late 1990s, Knack (renamed ICHI Corporation in August 2008) has focused chiefly on live-action production. The company's most recent animation work, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuhiko Inoue
is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. His notable works include Kakashi Hatake in '' Naruto'' , Kars in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', Toichirou Suzuki in '' Mob Psycho 100'' and Gildarts Clive in '' Fairy Tail''. Biography Since his debut in 1973, he became one of Japan's most well established voice actors. His early roles from the 1970s include Anthony in ''Candy Candy'', and later as Joe in the 1979 remake of ''Cyborg 009''. In the 1980s, Inoue's work ranged from the adult-oriented ''Oishinbo'' (The Gourmet) to the popular '' Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato'' for the younger generation. More recently, he is known internationally for roles such as Kars in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kakashi Hatake in '' Naruto'', Eiri Yuki in ''Gravitation'', Aion in '' Chrono Crusade'', Hatori Sohma in '' Fruits Basket'', and Nyanko-sensei/Madara in ''Natsume Yūjin Chō''. His voice performance is often described as natural and relaxed. This wide and versatile vocal range all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyuki Muroi
is a Japanese voice actress known for voicing Botan of YuYu Hakusho. Her previous stage name was . Anime roles * '' Akuma-kun'' (Hyakume) * ''Bubblegum Crash'' (Street Kid (episode 2)) * ''Chimpui'' (Hotaru Fujino) * '' Crayon Shin-chan: Henderland no Daibouken'' (Chokiriinu Besuta) * ''Dream Hunter Rem'' (Alpha) * '' Genesis Climber Mospeada'' (Mint Labule) * '' Karuizawa Syndrome'' (Kumiko Kinoshita) * ''Lady Lady!!'' (Lynn Russell) * ''Magic Knight Rayearth'' (Hikari (episode 8)) * '' Mahou no Angel Sweet Mint'' (Bell; Bobby) * '' Maison Ikkoku'' (Etsuko) * '' New Dream Hunter Rem (OAV)'' (Alpha) * '' Nightwalker'' (woman) * ''Ninku the Movie'' (Fake Rihoko) * '' Norimono Oukoku BuBu ChaCha'' (Megu) * '' O-bake no... Holly'' (Stinky) * ''Obake no Q-Taro'' (Yoshiko; Miko Koizumi) * ''Oedo wa Nemurenai! (OAV)'' (Kotetsu) * ''Psycho Armor Govarian'' (Layla) * ''Rainbow Brite (Rainbow Brite) * '' Story of the Alps: My Annette'' (Daniel Barunieru) * ''Super Dimension Century Orguss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masako Miura
is a Japanese voice actress employed by the talent management firm Arts Vision. Anime TV *'' Pāman'' (1983) (Michiko Sawada, Girl) Unknown date *''Aishite Knight'' (Kaoru) *''Chibi Maruko-chan'' (Yumiko, Kazuko Sasayama, Toshiko Tsuchihashi (First), Girl) *''City Hunter 2'' (Naomi Okabe) *'' Crayon Shin-chan'' (Yumi Kusaka) *'' Fushigi na Koala Blinky'' (Printy) *'' Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger'' (Susie Chō) *'' Goldfish Warning!'' (Tamiko Umino) *'' High School Mystery: Gakuen Nanafushigi'' (Emi Ishida) *'' Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair'' (Cathy) *'' Kerokero Keroppi'' (Kerorine) *'' Little Memole'' (Cynthia) *''Manga Mito Kōmon'' (Onatsu) *''Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron'' (Poron) *'' Psycho Armor Govarian'' (Achika Risa, Puke) *''RPG Densetsu Hepoi'' (Popoko) *'' Super Bikkuriman'' (Mānya) *''The Kabocha Wine'' (Chiho) *''Tongari Bōshi no Memole The is a plucked string instrument played by the Ainu people of Hokkaidō, northern Japan and Sakhalin. It gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of records other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gundam
is a Japanese military fiction media franchise. Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks), the franchise features giant robots, or mecha, with the name "Gundam". The franchise began on April 7, 1979, with '' Mobile Suit Gundam'', a TV series that defined the " real robot" mecha anime genre by featuring giant robots called mobile suits (including the original titular mecha) in a militaristic setting. The popularity of the series and its merchandise spawned a franchise that includes 50 TV series, films and OVAs as well as manga, novels and video games, along with a whole industry of plastic model kits known as Gunpla which makes up 90 percent of the Japanese character plastic-model market. Academics in Japan have viewed the series as inspiration; in 2008, the virtual Gundam Academy was planned as the first academic institution based on an animated TV series. As of March 2020, the franchise is fully owned by Bandai Namco Holdings through s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Negishi
Hiroshi Negishi (ねぎし ひろし, born June 20, 1960) is a Japanese anime director who got his start at Toei Animation, then join Tatsunoko Production and AIC and later became one of the founders of anime studios Zero-G Room (in 1991) and Radix (in 1995). Both studios would merge operations in 2001. In 2011, he founded anime studio Zero-G. He's also the CEO of Saber Project. Filmography * ''Ladius'' (1987) * '' Sonic Soldier Borgman'' (1988) * '' Sonic Soldier Borgman: Last Battle'' (1989) * '' NG Knight Ramune & 40'' (1990) * ''Judge'' (1991) * '' Tekkaman Blade'' (1992) * ''K.O. Beast'' (1992) * '' Suikoden Demon Century'' (1993) * ''Bounty Dog'' (1994) * '' Tenchi Muyo!'' (1995) * '' Burn-Up W'' (1996) * '' Shadow Skill'' (1996) * '' Tenchi Muyou! in Love'' (1996) * '' VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire'' (1996) * ''Master of Mosquiton'' (1996) * ''Saber Marionette J'' (1996) * ''Master of Mosquiton 99'' (1997) * '' Tenchi Muyo Movie 3: Tenchi Forever'' (1999) * '' Amazing Nurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicide Attack
A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout history, often as part of a military campaign (as with the Japanese ''kamikaze'' pilots of 1944–1945 during World War II), and more recently as part of terrorist campaigns (such as the September 11 attacks in 2001). While few, if any, successful suicide attacks took place anywhere in the world from 1945 until 1980, between 1981 and September 2015 a total of 4,814 suicide attacks occurred in over 40 countries, killing over 45,000 people. During this time the global rate of such attacks grew from an average of three a year in the 1980s to about one a month in the 1990s to almost one a week from 2001 to 2003 to approximately one a day from 2003 to 2015. Suicide attacks tend to be more deadly and destructive than other terror attacks because th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonne
The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton ( United States customary units), and the long ton ( British imperial units). It is equivalent to approximately 2204.6 pounds, 1.102 short tons, and 0.984 long tons. The official SI unit is the megagram (symbol: Mg), a less common way to express the same mass. Symbol and abbreviations The BIPM symbol for the tonne is t, adopted at the same time as the unit in 1879.Table 6 . BIPM. Retrieved on 2011-07-10. Its use is also official for the metric ton in the United States, having been adopted by the United States |
Toshiya Ueda
was a Japanese voice actor who worked for 81 Produce. He died on February 8, 2022, at the age of 88. Filmography Television animation *''Jungle Emperor'' (1965) (Lion A) *'' Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae'' (1968) (Rihei) *'' Andersen Stories'' (1971) (Ole the Dream-god) *'' Science Ninja Team Gatchaman'' (1972) (Old man) *'' The Adventures of Pepero'' (1975) (Titicaca) *''3000 Leagues in Search of Mother'' (1976) (Lombardini) *'' Rascal the Raccoon'' (1977) (Futon) *'' Lupin III Part 2'' (1977) (Commissioner, Part 2 Episode 155) *'' The Story of Perrine'' (1978) (Onu) *''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' (1985) (Melanie Hue Carbine) *'' Princess Sarah'' (1985) (Monsieur Dufarge) *''Parasol Henbē'' (1989) (Principal) *'' Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon'' (1992) (Kunitachi) *'' Bonobono'' (1995) (Ōsanshōuo-san and Kaeru-kun) *''Pocket Monsters'' (1998) (Katsura) *'' Ojarumaru'' (1998) (Tomio Tamura) *'' Mirmo!'' (2003) (Enma-sensei) *''One Piece'' (2011) (Nefertari Cobra) Original video ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirotaka Suzuoki
was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture who graduated from Tokyo Keizai University. His best known roles include '' Mobile Suit Gundam'' ( Bright Noa), '' Captain Tsubasa'' ( Kojirou Hyuga), ''Saint Seiya'' (Dragon Shiryū), '' Dragon Ball'' ( Tenshinhan), ''The Transformers'' ( Starscream), ''Ranma ½'' ( Tatewaki Kuno), ''Rurouni Kenshin'' ( Saitō Hajime), ''Pokémon'' ( Giovanni), and '' Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3'' (Banjō Haran). He was also the official Japanese dub-voice for Tom Cruise and John Travolta. In 2006, Suzuoki died at the age of 56 as a result of lung cancer. Career Suzuoki's most notable trait is his soft, dignified voice. He was affiliated with Ken Production, in which he worked in many animation roles. In 1978, Suzuoki made his voice acting debut in '' Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3''. Suzuoki was the best friend of fellow voice actor Toru Furuya, who co-starred with him in several different series. Suzuoki felt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
