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Kaguya-sama
is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Aka Akasaka. It was first serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Miracle Jump'' from May 2015 to January 2016, and later transferred to '' Weekly Young Jump'', where it ran from March 2016 to November 2022. Its chapters were collected in 28 '' tankōbon'' volumes. In North America, the manga is licensed in English by Viz Media. An anime television series adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures, aired in Japan from January to March 2019. A second season aired from April to June 2020. An OVA episode was released in 2021, and a third season aired from April to June 2022. An anime film titled ''The First Kiss That Never Ends'' premiered in theaters in December 2022. It was also adapted into a live-action film directed by Hayato Kawai, which was released in Japan in September 2019. The anime series is licensed in North America by Aniplex of America. As of December 2022, the manga had ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinichi Omata
is a Japanese director, storyboard artist, and former producer best known for directing '' Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju'' (2016) and '' Kaguya-sama: Love is War'' (2019). Career Omata began his career in the industry in the mid 1990s as an producer at Phoenix Entertainment, which he worked with until 2001. He mainly worked as either an animation producer for hentai series, or as an assistant production manager on series Phoenix Entertainment produced. In 2009, he became an active storyboard artist with Shaft, first serving on the 9th episode of '' Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chū''. During his tenure with Shaft, he worked mainly under the direction of Akiyuki Shinbo and Yukihiro Miyamoto, with whom he directed and storyboarded several episodes to ''Arakawa Under the Bridge'', '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'', and ''Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl''. In 2012, Omata left Shaft's ranks and began working mainly for Studio Deen, where he would make his first seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A-1 Pictures
is a Japanese animation studio founded by ex- Sunrise producer Mikihiro Iwata and it is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan's anime production firm Aniplex. History The studio was established by SMEJ's animation production division, Aniplex, on May 9, 2005, to animate its anime series and productions. In 2006, it co-produced the original production ''Zenmai Zamurai'', and in October of the same year, established a studio in Asagaya is a residential area of Tokyo located in Suginami ward (one of the 23 wards or boroughs of Tokyo) west of Shinjuku. Main access to Asagaya is via the Chūō-Sōbu Line, 12 minutes by train from Shinjuku station. Geography At present the Asagay .... In the following year, 2007, the studio produced its first series, '' Ōkiku Furikabutte''. Originally established to oversee the production of only a few of Aniplex's family-oriented series, the studio has since grown and expanded as a full-fledged studio involved in the production of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aka Akasaka
is a Japanese manga artist. His series '' Kaguya-sama: Love Is War'' was serialized in Shueisha's ''Miracle Jump'' between May 2015 and January 2016, and was then transferred to ''Weekly Young Jump'' starting from March 2016. It was the 9th best selling manga in Japan in 2019, with over 4 million copies sold. In 2020, he won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category with the manga. Starting from April 2020, his work '' Oshi no Ko'', which is illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari, is serialized on ''Weekly Young Jump'' and is his second active series on the magazine at the same time. In August 2021, ''Oshi no Ko'' won the Next Manga Award in the print category. In addition, he contributed to the background assets of the visual novel video game Subarashiki Hibi, released in Japan in 2010. Works * (2011-2012, story by Hikaru Sugii, character design by Ryō Ueda) * (2013-2015) * '' Kaguya-sama: Love Is War'' (2015–2022) * (2020–present, illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniplex Of America
Aniplex of America Inc. or Aniplex USA is the U.S. distribution enterprise of Aniplex, an anime and music production company owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was established in March 2005 in Santa Monica, California, with the goal of reinforcing the parent company's licensing business in the North American market. They operate the English language version of the Aniplex+ store, and from 2013 to 2017 operated a streaming service called Aniplex Channel through their website. The company most of the time only directly releases its titles in the Americas, however, some of its titles have been released in other territories by other distributors, such as Anime Limited, Manga Entertainment, MVM Films, Madman Anime Group, and Siren Visual. Their home video sets are distributed in the North American market by Right Stuf Anime and their titles are usually streamed on Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hulu, and Hidive, and occasionally streamed on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) 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 prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is use ... awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since 1955. Categories The current award categories are: * * * * Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette, a certificate and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$7,500). Special awards are also occasionally given out for outstanding work, lifetime achievement, and so forth. Recipients The laureates were awarded for comics published during the years listed in the table. However, the laureates were not presented and the prizes were not given out until the beginning of the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Best-selling Manga
The following is a list of the best-selling Japanese manga series to date in terms of the number of collected ''tankōbon'' volumes sold. All series in this list have at least 20 million copies in circulation. This list is limited to Japanese manga and does not include manhwa, manhua or original English-language manga. The series are listed according to the highest circulation (copies in print) estimate of their collected ''tankōbon'' volumes as reported in reliable sources unless indicated otherwise. As for the series with the same total number of circulation or sales, they are arranged in alphabetical order. Note that most manga series are first sold as part of manga magazines, where most manga series are first serialized, before being sold separately as individual collected ''tankōbon'' volumes. This list only includes the number of collected ''tankōbon'' volumes sold. For sales of manga magazines which includes these series, see '' List of Japanese manga magazines by circ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Young Jump
is a Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shueisha. Launched in 1979, it is published under Shueisha's '' Jump'' line of magazines. The chapters of series that run in ''Weekly Young Jump'' are collected and published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under the "Young Jump Comics" imprint every four months. Many of the featured series are known to contain heavy violence and a fair amount of sexual content. The magazine is headquartered in Tokyo. History ''Young Jump'' was launched in May 1979 as biweekly magazine and switched to a weekly release schedule in 1981. The "young" in its name denotes its target demographic as a ''seinen'' manga magazine, aimed at young adult men. In 2008, an offshoot issue similar to '' Monthly Shōnen Jump'' was released called ''Monthly Young Jump''; the magazine was rebranded as ''Miracle Jump'' in 2011, and was suspended in 2017. Features Series There are currently twenty-five manga titles being regularly serialized in ''Weekly Young Jump''. Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is War (film)
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Love Is War may refer to: * ''Love Is War'' (album), a 2006 album by Vanilla Ninja * ''Love Is War'' (1970 film), a 1970 Norwegian film * ''Love Is War'' (2019 film), a Nigerian film * "Love Is War", a 2010 song by Joe McElderry from ''Wide Awake'' * "Love Is War", a 2013 song by American Young * '' Kaguya-sama: Love Is War'', a Japanese manga and anime series See also * In Love and War (other) * Love and War (other) * War is peace ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (also stylised as ''1984'') is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale written by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viz Media
VIZ Media LLC is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is owned by Japanese publishing conglomerates Shueisha and Shogakukan, as well as Japanese production company Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro). In 2017, Viz Media was the largest publisher of graphic novels in the United States, with a 23% share of the market. In 2020, Viz Media saw a 70% growth in the U.S. market, in line with a 43% increase in overall manga sales in the United States the same year. Early history Seiji Horibuchi, originally from Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku, Japan, moved to California, United States in 1975. After living in the suburbs for almost two years, he moved to San Francisco, where he started a business exporting American cultural items to Japan, and became a writer of cultural in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muse Communication
Muse Communication Co., Ltd. (also known simply as Muse) is a Taiwanese distributor and licensor that specializes in the distribution of anime. Based in Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City, the company also distributes Asian and European films in Taiwan. It has licenses for several popular anime series and tokusatsu such as '' Attack on Titan'', ''Sword Art Online'', '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', ''Martian Successor Nadesico'', '' One-Punch Man'', '' Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World'', ''Spy × Family'', ''Saint Seiya'', ''Ultra Series'', ''Kamen Rider Series'', ''Super Sentai'' and many more. History Originally founded in 1987, the company was formerly known as Muse Cultural Enterprise Co., Ltd before becoming Muse Communication Co., Ltd. in 1992. Fukang Enterprise is in charge of physical distribution, while Eagle International Communication handles distribution for live-action films from Asia and Europe. Muse Communication (Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tankōbon
is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or monthly manga anthology with other works before being published as volumes containing several chapters each. Major publishing imprints for include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Comics, and Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics. Japanese comics (manga) manga came to be published in thick, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology manga magazines (such as '' Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or '' Weekly Shōnen Jump''). These anthologies often have hundreds of pages and dozens of individual series by multiple authors. They are printed on cheap newsprint and are considered disposable. Since the 1930s, though, comic strips had been compiled int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
