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Hazuki Fujiwara
, alternatively titled ''Magical DoReMi'' in English, is a Japanese fantasy magical girl anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It focuses on a group of elementary school girls, led by Doremi Harukaze, who become witch apprentices. The series aired in Japan on ABC, TV Asahi, and other ANN affiliates between February 1999 and January 2003, spanning four seasons and 201 episodes, and was followed by an original video animation series released between June and December 2004. An English-language version of the first season, produced by 4Kids Entertainment, aired in North America in 2005. ''Ojamajo Doremi'' has inspired two companion films, manga adaptations, video games, and a light novel sequel series. A 20th anniversary film titled '' Looking for Magical Doremi'' was released on November 13, 2020. Plot ''Ojamajo Doremi'' Doremi Harukaze is a third grade elementary schoolgirl living in the fictional Japanese town of Misora, comes across a magic shop kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magical Girl
is a Genre#Subgenre, subgenre of primarily Japanese fantasy media (including anime, manga, light novels, and live-action media) centered on young girls who possess magical abilities, which they typically use through an ideal alter ego into which they can transform. The genre emerged in 1962 with the manga ''Himitsu no Akko-chan'', followed by ''Sally the Witch'' in 1966. A wave of similar anime produced in the 1970s led to being used as a common term for the genre. In the 1980s, the term was largely replaced by "magical girl", reflecting the new popularity of shows produced by other studios, including ''Magical Princess Minky Momo'' and ''Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel''. In the 1990s, ''Sailor Moon'' redefined the genre by combining "transforming hero" elements from live-action hero shows. The growth of late-night anime in the early 2000s led to a demographic shift for the genre, where series with more mature themes such as ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' (2004) were created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshihiko Umakoshi
is a Japanese animator and character designer. In 1994, he was put in charge of character designs for the first time with ''Marmalade Boy''. Since then, he has done character designs for many series, such as '' HeartCatch PreCure!'', ''Ojamajo Doremi'', and ''My Hero Academia''. Biography Yoshihiko Umakoshi was born in Hakata, Ehime in 1968. Umakoshi debuted as a character designer in 1994 with ''Marmalade Boy''. In 2011, due to his work on '' HeartCatch PreCure!'', he won the award for best character designer at the 2011 Tokyo Anime Award. Starting in 2016, Umakoshi created the character designs for the anime adaptation of ''My Hero Academia''. He also provided the character designs for the three anime films based on the series. The series has received praise, with '' Paste'' ranking the adaptation among the top 40 anime of all time. ''Polygon'', Crunchyroll, and ''IGN'' also named the adaptation as one of the best anime of the 2010s. At the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, the adapta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Protagonist
A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a story contains a subplot, or is a narrative made up of several stories, then each subplot may have its own protagonist. The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist provides obstacles and complications and creates conflicts that test the protagonist, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist's character, and having the protagonist develop as a result. A particularly noble, virtuous, or accomplished protagonist is commonly called a ''hero,'' though the terms are not synonyms. Etymology The term ''protagonist'' comes , combined of (, 'first') and (, 'actor, competitor'), which stems from (, 'contest') via (, 'I conten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasumi Suzuki
is a Japanese actress. She is best known for playing Lije in ''Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger is a Japanese Tokusatsu television show and Toei's twenty-seventh production of the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries. After Toei filed a trademark for the series on 17 October 2002, it aired from 16 February 2003, to 8 February 2004, replacing '' N ...'', Naomi in ''Drama 8 Geinōsha'', Akemi Nagase in '' Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Yūrei Mansion'', Yuri Nakanishi in '' Threads of Destiny'', and Yurine in '' Karas''. Filmography Theatre Television Films OVA References 1990 births 21st-century Japanese actresses Living people {{Japan-stage-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Palant
Amy Palant is an American voice actress and singer, best known for her role as Miles "Tails" Prower in the anime ''Sonic X'' (2003–2005) and in ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video games from 2005 to 2010. Career Palant studied voice acting at Edge Studio, under founder David Goldberg. She worked with the studio as a performer and voice coach up until the early-2010s. She also worked with 4Kids Entertainment from 2003 to 2012, as well as Central Park Media and DuArt Film and Video. As a recording artist, Palant has performed with numerous bands, and co-founded the New York-based folk band Bombshell — now known as the Shells — in 2005. She left the band in 2006. Filmography Animation * '' Becca's Bunch'' – Mayor Ladymaus * ''Fighting Foodons'' – Kayla * '' Magical DoReMi'' – Dorie Goodwyn, Dodo, David, Keith * '' Mew Mew Power'' – Cassandra * ''Midori Days'' – Makie, Marin, Yuma Takiguchi * ''One Piece'' – Miss Valentine (4Kids Dub) * ''Pokémon'' – Various Characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiemi Chiba
is a Japanese actress and Voice acting in Japan, voice actress. She was born in Kawaguchi, Saitama, and made her professional singing debut on April 7, 1993, as a member of the J-Pop group Aurora Gonin Musume. She is best known for her roles from the anime series as Yuzuriha Nekoi in ''Tsubasa Chronicle'', Hinako in ''Sister Princess'', Doremi Harukaze in ''Ojamajo Doremi'', Nanaka Kirisato in ''Nanaka 6/17'', Wanya in ''UFO Baby'' and Kyoko Kirisaki in ''Black Cat (manga), Black Cat''. She announced on February 25, 2013, that she had gotten married and had a child. Filmography Television animation ;1998 *''Verda Tanko He Mo-su'' – Micah *''Chosoku Spinner'' – Rian Yumemiya ;1999 *''Space Pirate Mito'' – Konabi *''Hoshin Engi'' – Kibi *''Aoi & Mutsuki: A Pair of Queens'' – Konabi *''Ojamajo Doremi'' – Doremi Harukaze *''Zoids'' – Merrian ;2000 *''Mon Colle Knights'' – Adventurers Pocket *''Pilot Candidate'' – Saki Mimori *''Daa! Daa! Daa!'' – Wannya *''Ojam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Novel
A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbreviation of "''raito noberu''" is or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words, and is published in the ''bunkobon'' format (ISO 216, A6, ). Light novels are subject to dense publishing schedules, with new installments being published in three-to-nine-month intervals. Light novels are very commonly illustrated in a manga artstyle, and are often adapted into manga and anime. Whilst most light novels are published only as books, some have their chapters first Serial (literature), serialized monthly in anthology magazines or via the internet as Web fiction#Web novel, web novels before being collected and compiled into book format, similar to how manga is published. Details Plots frequently involve roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ( and ), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologies) in Japan (equivale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original Video Animation
, abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and special episodes of a series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA series may be broadcast for promotional purposes. OVA titles were originally made available on VHS, later becoming more popular on LaserDisc and eventually DVD. Starting in 2008, the term OAD (original animation DVD) began to refer to DVD releases published bundled with their source-material manga. Format Like anime made for television broadcast, OVAs are divided into episodes. OVA media (tapes, laserdiscs or DVDs) usually contain just one episode each. Episode length varies from title to title: each episode may run from a few minutes to two hours or more. An OVA series can run anywhere from a single episode to dozens of episodes in length. Many anime series first appeared as OVAs, and later grow to become televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witchcraft
Witchcraft is the use of Magic (supernatural), magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. According to ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', "Witchcraft thus defined exists more in the imagination", but it "has constituted for many cultures a viable explanation of evil in the world". The belief in witches has been found throughout history in a great number of societies worldwide. Most of these societies have used Apotropaic magic, protective magic or counter-magic against witchcraft, and have shunned, banished, imprisoned, physically punished or killed alleged witches. Anthropologists use the term "witchcraft" for similar beliefs about harmful occult practices in different cultures, and these societies often use the term when speaking in English. Belief in witchcraft as malevolent magic is attested from #Ancient Mesopotamian religion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
