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Grendizer
, also known as '' Grandizer'', ''Ufo Robot Grendizer Raids'', ''Goldrake'' and ''Goldorak'', is a Japanese manga and animated television series created by Go Nagai. The series is the third entry in the '' Mazinger'' series, later relegated into a spinoff series. The series is produced by Toei Doga and Dynamic Planning, directed by Tomoharu Katsumata, and written by Shozo Uehara. It aired on Fuji TV from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977. The mecha's first appearance in the United States was as a part of the Shogun Warriors line of super robot toys imported in the late 1970s by Mattel, then in Jim Terry's '' Force Five'' series. A remake of the original anime series, ''Grendizer U'', aired from July to September 2024. Plot The Vega homeworld has become unstable due to the exploiting of Vegatron, a powerful radioactive ore. Seeking to expand his militaristic empire and find a substitute planet to settle upon, the ruthless King Vega unleashes his armies—compo ... [...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] |
Shunsuke Kikuchi
was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017. He specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film. Kikuchi was regarded as one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on ''tokusatsu'' and anime productions, and also popular action films, ''jidaigeki'', and Japanese television drama, television dramas. Early life and education Kikuchi was born on 1 November 1931 in the city of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. He graduated from Aomori Prefectural Hirosaki Technical High School, specializing in mechanics. Kikuchi then attended the Nihon University College of Art. Career After graduating from the Nihon University College of Art, he made his debut composing for the 1961 film . ''The Tō-Ō Nippō Press'' wrote that the contrast between the heroic opening theme and the melancholic ballad ending theme that Kikuchi composed for the 1969 ''Tiger Mask'' anime, "changed Japanese anime music." Kikuchi composed ... [...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] |
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] |
Gaina (company)
, formerly known as , is a Japanese animation studio subsidiary of the Kinoshita Group. History In March 2015, Gainax established Fukushima Gainax, a new animation studio and museum, in a converted junior high school building in Miharu, Fukushima to take more overseas outsourcing work. The studio and museum were established to bring more tourism to the area in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. In December 2015, Fukushima Gainax and Gainax became independent companies with no relation between each other besides the Gainax name, with the company starting their own projects later. In September 2016, the company established a new subsidiary in Tokyo. In August 2018, it was announced that Fukushima Gainax had been acquired by Kinoshita Group Holdings on July 26, making it Kinoshita's new subsidiary. Fukushima Gainax changed its studio name to Gaina and relocated to Koganei, Tokyo on August 9, with its new parent company planning to make the new subsidiary a pillar o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kohei Tanaka (composer)
is a Japanese composer, arranger, conductor and singer-songwriter. He is affiliated with the music production company Imagine. He has created numerous musical scores for anime television series, OVAs, films, video games and ''tokusatsu'' series including ''Gunbuster'', ''Sakura Wars, The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Betterman,'' and ''One Piece''. Biography Tanaka was a student at Berklee College of Music. While employed playing the piano in a hotel lounge, he was requested to arrange a song in '' Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX'', a 1982 TV anime, and it became his first work as a composer. Afterwards, he produced some songs and arrangements for the Super Sentai series and his first work as a lead composer was for the television anime ''Konpora Kids'' in 1985. Notably, the background music in ''Gunbuster'' made his name and talent very famous among anime fans and is recognized as one of his most important works. He also handled the composition of ''Diebuster'', a sequel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ichirō Ōkouchi
is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. He is a graduate of the School of Human Sciences in Waseda University. Ōkouchi is best known for collaborating with director Gorō Taniguchi for composing the story and script of the Sunrise original production, '' Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion'' in 2006 and its sequel '' Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2'' in 2008. Works Anime television series *'' Turn A Gundam'' (Episodic screenplay; 1999–2000) *''Angelic Layer'' (Series composition, screenplay; 2001) *''Project ARMS'' (Episodic screenplay; 2001) *'' Overman King Gainer'' (Series composition, screenplay; 2002) *''Azumanga Daioh'' (Series composition, screenplay; 2002) *'' RahXephon'' (Episodic screenplay; 2002) *'' Wolf’s Rain'' (Episodic screenplay; 2003) *''Stellvia'' (Episodic screenplay; 2003) *'' Planetes'' (Series composition, screenplay; 2003–2004) *'' Mahou Sensei Negima!'' (Series composition, screenplay; 2005) *'' Eureka Seven'' (Episodic screenplay; 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuo Fukuda
(born October 28, 1960) is a Japanese animation director and scriptwriter from Tochigi Prefecture. He was married to anime screenwriter Chiaki Morosawa until her death in 2016. Career Fukuda is a graduate of Waseda Senior High School. While in school, he was a member of the manga research society. After graduating from high school, he joined Sunrise in 1979 at the age of 19. He calls himself a disciple of Takeyuki Kanda, who directed '' Ginga Hyōryū Vifam'', '' Choriki Robo Galatt'', and '' Metal Armor Dragonar'' among others. For the OVA series ''Future GPX Cyber Formula SAGA'', Fukuda selected his wife, Chiaki Morosawa, who had been a family friend to talk with about work, to write the scripts, and since then, he has entrusted series composition to Morosawa for almost all of the works he has directed (Morosawa's scriptwriting work is also almost exclusively limited to series directed by her husband Fukuda). Fukuda's major works include ''Future GPX Cyber Formula'', ''Gear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microids
Microids (formerly Microïds) is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris. Founded in 1985 by Elliot Grassiano, it attained early success with games published through Loriciel in France and other partners (including Activision and Broderbund) in international markets. Through expanding its staff and development teams, Microïds generated funds to expand from just development to publishing and distribution and opening international offices. The company merged with MC2 in 2003 to create MC2-Microïds, whereafter it acquired publishers Wanadoo Edition and Cryo Interactive. Grassiano left MC2-Microïds in 2005; under new management, MC2-Microïds was briefly renamed MC2 before returning to the old Microïds name. It was then acquired by Anuman Interactive in 2010, which itself was renamed Microïds (then simplified to Microids) in 2019. History Background and early years (1985–2003) Microïds was founded by Elliot Grassiano, a French programmer. He was educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosaku Ota
Junichi Ota (, 16 March 1948 – 12 December 2022), best known under the pen name Gosaku Ota () was a Japanese manga artist. Life and career Born in Kaminoyama, Ota started his career as an assistant of Shotaro Ishinomori. He made his official debut as a mangaka in 1969 with the shōjo manga ''Bōifurendo yai!'' ("Hey boyfriend!"). Ota is best known for co-creating with Go Nagai the shōnen manga ''Groizer X'', later adapted in an anime, and for the manga adaptations of other Nagai's works such as ''Mazinger Z'', ''Great Mazinger'', ''Getter Robo'', ''Grendizer'', '' Steel Jeeg''. Other successful works include the fishing-themed manga ''Tsuri Baka Taishō'' ("Master of Fishing"), which spanned 10 tankōbon volumes, and the shōnen manga ''Mach SOS''. He was also a longtime collaborator of Sports Nippon, for which he produced fishing-themed comic strips from 1981 to 2019. Ota died of COVID-induced pneumonia Pneumonia is an Inflammation, inflammatory condition of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013, in Europe, South America, and Australia, and on February 22, 2014, in Japan. A Eighth generation of video game consoles, console of the eighth generation, it competes with Microsoft Gaming, Microsoft's Xbox One and Nintendo's Wii U and Nintendo Switch, Switch. Moving away from the more complex Cell (microprocessor), Cell microarchitecture of its predecessor, the console features an AMD APU, APU from AMD built upon the x86-64 architecture, which can theoretically peak at 1.84 teraflops; AMD stated that it was the "most powerful" APU it had developed to date. The PlayStation 4 places an increased emphasis on social interaction and integration with other devices and services, including the ability to play games off-console on PlayStation Vita an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam (service)
Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation, Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide video game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, such as Matchmaking (video games), game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) measures, social networking service, social networking, and game streaming services. The Steam client functions include update maintenance, cloud storage, and community features such as direct messaging, an in-game overlay, discussion forums, and a virtual collectable marketplace. The storefront also offers productivity software, Video game music, game soundtracks, videos, and sells hardware made by Valve, such as the Valve Index and the Steam Deck. Steamworks, an application programming interface (API) released in 2008, is used by developers to integrate Steam's functions, including digital rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
