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Hiroyuki Kanno (game Designer)
Hiroyuki Kanno (菅野 ひろゆき, 8 May 1968 – 19 December 2011) was a Japanese video game designer who wrote and directed visual novels and eroge adventure games starting in the 1990s. Some of his most well-known games include ''Desire'', '' EVE Burst Error'' (at ) and '' YU-NO'' (at ELF Corporation), which had a major influence on the visual novel genre. His games often feature multiple narrative layers, such as different character viewpoints or overlapping mystery story arcs. He was friends with Ryu Umemoto, who often worked closely with him and composed music for the games. In December 1997, he founded Abel corporation and became its CEO. In 2011, Kanno died due to cerebral infarction and brain hemorrhage. Games *''Desire'' (1994) * (1994) *'' EVE Burst Error'' (1995) *'' YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World'' (1996) *''Exodus Guilty'' (1998) * (2000) * (2004) Legacy According to Anime News Network, ''YU-NO'' is "considered one of the most belo ... [...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] |
Brain Hemorrhage
The brain is an organ (biology), organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head (cephalization), usually near organs for special senses such as visual perception, vision, hearing, and olfaction. Being the most specialized organ, it is responsible for receiving information from the sensory nervous system, processing that information (thought, cognition, and intelligence) and the coordination of motor control (muscle activity and endocrine system). While invertebrate brains arise from paired segmental ganglia (each of which is only responsible for the respective segmentation (biology), body segment) of the ventral nerve cord, vertebrate brains develop axially from the midline dorsal nerve cord as a brain vesicle, vesicular enlargement at the rostral (anatomical term), rostral end of the neural tube, with centralized control over all body segments. All vertebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type-Moon
Type-Moon (stylized as TYPE-MOON) is a Japanese video game company, best known for their visual novels, co-founded by author Kinoko Nasu and illustrator Takashi Takeuchi. It is also known under the name for its publishing and corporate operations, as it is the company official name, while Type-Moon is a brand name as a homage to the original doujin group. After creating the popular visual novel ''Tsukihime'' as a doujin soft dōjin circle, circle, the company has since incorporated and produced the even more popular visual novel ''Fate/stay night'', which became its most well-known title. Both series have also been adapted into anime and manga series that have amassed a global fanbase. History The company was founded by artist Takashi Takeuchi and writer Kinoko Nasu, whose first project was the novel ''The Garden of Sinners'', which was originally released in October 1998 and reprinted in 2004. The company name Type-Moon comes from one of Nasu's older works, , written for the an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Maeda
is a Japanese writer and composer. He is a co-founder of the visual novel brand Key under Visual Arts. He is considered a pioneer of nakige visual novels, and has mainly contributed as a scenario writer, lyricist, and musical composer for the games the company produces. After graduating with a degree in psychology from Chukyo University, Maeda contributed to the scripts and scores of games released under the Tactics brand of Nexton: ''Moon'' and '' One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e''. He has contributed both to writing music and scripts to most games released under the Key brand, notably writing the majority of '' Air'' and '' Clannad''. He also served as a screenwriter and composer for several anime series produced by P.A. Works, such as '' Angel Beats!'' and '' Charlotte''. Early life Jun Maeda started writing at a young age; while attending elementary school, Maeda wrote his first amateur gamebook. Maeda was initially inspired by the '' Grailquest'' series of gamebooks by J.H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poyoyon Rock
is a Japanese animator, illustrator, character designer, supervisor, director, dōjin artist and a member of the circle . His pseudonym is . He worked with Akiyuki Shinbo at Shaft. His representative works include key animation for '' Popotan'', and character design for ''Nurse Witch Komugi'', ''The SoulTaker'' and ''Monogatari''. Filmography Under the name Akio Watanabe Anime * '' Etotama'' (original character design) * ''Fireworks'' (character design) * '' Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation'' (character designer, chief animation director) * '' Higurashi When They Cry - Gou and Sotsu'' (character design) * ''Hoshizora Kiseki'' (director, script, character design, storyboard, animation direction, color design) * ''Magical Kanan'' (character design) * ''Monogatari'' (chief animation director, character design) * ''Nurse Witch Komugi'' (character design) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream'' (original character design) * '' Rumble Garanndoll'' (original character design) * ''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Tanaka
is a Japanese author and scenario writer for adult and ''bishōjo'' games. At one time, he had attended the University of Tsukuba. In 2007, Tanaka started to write his first light novel series entitled '' Humanity Has Declined'' which is published by Shogakukan. He is notable for having a hand in the creation of '' Cross Channel'' and '' Yume Miru Kusuri'', and co-authored the scenario for Key's game '' Rewrite''. Influences Tanaka has stated that some of his major influences include science fiction novelists like Yasutaka Tsutsui, Mariko Ōhara, in addition to screenwriters like Shinji Nojima. Works ;Adult games *''Chanter: Kimi no Uta ga Todoitara'' (by Terios, co-authorship) *'' Cross Channel'' (by FlyingShine, scenario) *''Shinju no Yakata'' (by Meteor, scenario) *'' Kana: Little Sister'' (by Digital Object, under pseudonym Yamada Hajime, scenario) *''Kazoku Keikaku'' (by Digital Object, under pseudonym Yamada Hajime, scenario) *''Otaku Masshigura'' (by Gindokei, scenario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World God Only Knows
, abbreviated as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from April 2008 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 26 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The manga was adapted into three anime television series by Manglobe, which were broadcast in Japan from October 2010 to September 2013. In North America, the anime series were licensed for English release by Sentai Filmworks. Plot Keima Katsuragi, a second-year high school student, is an avid player of gal games (video games that involve interactions with anime-styled pretty girls). He is known on the Internet as for his legendary skills to be able to "conquer" any 2D girl in games. However, in his actual school life, Keima is called , a derogatory portmanteau of the two words and . At the start of the series, Keima receives an e-mail offering him a contract to "conquer" girls and, thinking it is an invitation to a game ch ... [...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] |
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] |
Tamiki Wakaki
is a Japanese manga artist, notable for his manga series, ''The World God Only Knows , abbreviated as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from April 2008 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 26 ''tankōbon'' vo ...''. Works Other works Wakaki collaborated on Team Ninja's '' Dead or Alive 5 Last Round'' to create some original costume designs for its characters. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wakaki, Tamiki 1972 births Living people Manga artists from Osaka Prefecture People from Ikeda, Osaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangaka
A manga artist, also known as a mangaka (), is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of '' Sailor Moon'', won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. A manga artist will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark the interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers. For example, there are contests which prospective manga artist may enter, sponsored by manga editors and publishers. This can also be accomplished through producing a one-shot. While sometimes a stand-alone manga, with enough positive reception it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otaku
is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, such as anime, manga, video games, computers or other highly enthusiastic hobbies. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in '' Manga Burikko''. ''Otaku'' subculture is a central theme of various anime, manga, documentaries, and academic research. The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of ''otaku'' traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to what was then seen as inevitably becoming social outcasts. The subculture's birth coincided with the anime boom after the release of works such as ''Mobile Suit Gundam'', before it branched into Comic Market. The rise of the internet and media further expanded the otaku subculture, as more anime, video games, and other media catering to otaku interests were created. The definition of subsequently became more complex, and numerous classifications of ''otaku'' emer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
