Kyorosuke
is a video game series developed by Tose and published by Nintendo. The series began in 2002 with '' Densetsu no Starfy'' for the Game Boy Advance, and four sequels were released. For its first seven years, ''Starfy'' games were not released outside Japan. The fifth and latest game in the series was released as ''The Legendary Starfy'' in North America on June 8, 2009. In July 2024, the first three titles were officially released via the Nintendo Classics service. The series focuses on Starfy, an anthropomorphic starfish and the prince of Pufftop Palace, who must explore the underneaths of the ocean to save the world from various threats alongsides his friends and family. The first three games focus on Starfy's efforts to prevent Ogura from sabotaging the ocean, while the fourth game focuses on Starfy into saving a distant island, and the fifth game follows Starfy who must stop space pirates from abusing power. Games Gameplay ''The Legendary Starfy'' series are platform game ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Densetsu No Starfy 4
is a platform video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the fourth game in ''The Legendary Starfy'' series. As with the other games in the series, ''Densetsu no Starfy 4'' features Stafy, known as Starfy in Western regions, as the main character. He is joined by his sister Starly and his friend Moe the clam. The three of them help out other undersea creatures and fights numerous villains. It was also the first game to use the updated CERO rating system. Plot While Starfy and his family slept in the Pufftop Palace, a nearby land known as the Amy Kingdom was under attack. The heart-shaped Monamool Stone held there was stolen by an evil female snake named Degil. Mattel, a princess from Amy Castle, fled to seek Starfy's help. When Moe the clam saw Mattel and heard about her, he rushed toward Pufftop Palace, burst inside the front door, and told everyone that she would like to speak with them about the Amy Kingdom tragedy. Starfy dozed off, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Densetsu No Starfy (video Game)
is a platform video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance system exclusively in Japan on September 6, 2002. It is the first game in ''The Legendary Starfy'' series. It received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on July 12, 2024, in all regions for the first time along with the other GBA entries. Plot In the game's introduction, the protagonist, Stafy, known as Starfy in Western regions, is moving things around his home, Pufftop Palace, until he trips and drops some things he was moving. One of them, the Magic Jar (an object that seals the antagonist of the game, known as Ogura), falls into the ocean. Meanwhile, a very severe thunderstorm with two tornadoes shakes Starfy out of his home into the ocean. Later, Old Man Lobber encounters Starfy, and Starfy tells him about the Magic Jar and Ogura, while he helps Starfy get back home by giving him swimming lessons, and gives directions. While Starfy heads back home, h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Densetsu No Starfy 2
is a platform video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in Japan on September 5, 2003. It is the second game in ''The Legendary Starfy'' series. It received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on July 12, 2024, in all regions for the first time along with the other GBA entries. Plot ''Densetsu no Starfy 2'' takes place shortly after its '' predecessor''. Stafy, known as Starfy in Western regions, is now back at Pufftop Palace, playing with his friend Moe. The series' main antagonist, Ogura, imprisoned inside the Magic Jar, unleashes his children into the sky. Ogura's children cause a series of thunderstorms and earthquakes that shake Pufftop Palace, causing the Magic Jar to shatter and release Ogura. Ogura captures Starfy's mother and flies away with Starfy in hot pursuit. Both he and Moe fall from Pufftop Palace to the ocean below. The duo mount an attack against Ogura and his children during the journey back t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Densetsu No Starfy 3
is a platforming video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance only in Japan on August 5, 2004. It is the third game in ''The Legendary Starfy'' series, as well as the third and last title of the series developed and released for the Game Boy Advance. Later, its sequel, ''Densetsu no Starfy 4'', was developed for the Nintendo DS. It received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on July 12, 2024, in all regions for the first time along with the other GBA entries. Plot In the beginning, a short time after ''Densetsu no Starfy 2''s storyline, everything is calm, and everyone, including the protagonist Stafy, known as Starfy in Western regions, is happy again, until another severe thunderstorm comes and shakes Pufftop Palace. This time, it is more severe than the ones in the past. A lightning bolt strikes the Magic Jar and destroys it, and the antagonist of the previous titles, Ogura, is freed once again. He later flies ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company to produce handmade ''hanafuda'' playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business and becoming a public company, Nintendo began producing toys in the 1960s, and later video games. Nintendo developed its first arcade games in the 1970s, and distributed its first system, the Color TV-Game in 1977. The company became internationally dominant in the 1980s after the arcade release of ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'' (1981) and the Nintendo Entertainment System, which launched outside of Japan alongside ''Super Mario Bros.'' in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, including the Game Boy (1989), the Super Nintendo Entertainment Syste ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oha Suta
''Oha Suta'' () is a Japanese children's breakfast television show. Produced by Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro) for TV Tokyo, the show airs on TX Network (TXN). It premiered in 1997 as a relaunch of (. ''Sutajio'' is a loanword from English word "studio"), which originally ran from 2 April 1979 to 27 June 1986 on what is now TXN; the title of this revival, ''Oha Suta'', comes from the Japanese abbreviated and contracted words, portmanteau of the original ''Ohayō Studio''. Cast *Subaru Kimura Oha Girls are cast members consisting of girls in their early-mid teens who act as co-hosts and musical performers. Previous Oha Girls include Haruka Suenaga and Nozomi Maeda. *Oha Girl Apple (おはガールアップル, July 1998 - September 1998) *Oha Girl Banana (おはガールバナナ, October 1998 - March 1999) *Oha Girl Citrus (おはガールシトラス, April 1999 - March 2000) *Oha Girl Cherry (おはガールチェリー, April 1999 - March 2000) *Oha Girl Grape ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cute (Japanese Idol Group)
, was a Japanese girl group associated with Hello! Project and produced by Tsunku. Cute consisted of Maimi Yajima, Saki Nakajima (singer), Saki Nakajima, Airi Suzuki, Chisato Okai, and Mai Hagiwara, who were all members of Hello! Project Kids prior to the group's formation. The original member line-up also consisted of fellow Hello! Project Kids members Megumi Murakami and Erika Umeda, as well as Kanna Arihara (a member of Hello Pro Kenshusei, Hello Pro Egg, Hello! Project's trainee group), prior to their departure. After releasing a string of independent hits, Cute made its major label, major debut in 2007 with "Sakura Chirari" and that year won the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist. In 2008, the group was nominated for the main Japan Record Award, the Grand Prix, its song being named one of the year's best songs. All of the group's major label, major-label single (music), singles debuted in the top 10 of the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. History 2002–2004: Formation an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Action Adventure
Action-adventure game is a video game genre that combines elements of action and adventure games. Action-adventure may also refer to: * Action-adventure fiction, a hybrid of the action and adventure genres * Action-adventure film, a hybrid of the action and adventure film genres * Action-adventure comics Action fiction is a genre in literature that focuses on stories involving high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range of subgenres, such as spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror, intrigue ("cloak ..., a hybrid of the action and adventure comics genres * ''Action-Adventure'', a working title for a Retro Studios video game whose assets were later used for ''Metroid Prime'' * ''Action/Adventure'', a 2004 album by Dealership (band) * ''Action Adventure'' (album), 2023 album by DJ Shadow {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shōnen Manga
is an editorial category of Manga, Japanese comics targeting an audience of both adolescent boys and young men. It is, along with Shōjo manga, manga (targeting adolescent girls and young women), Seinen manga, manga (targeting young adults and adult men), and Josei manga, manga (targeting adult women), one of the primary demographic categories of manga and, by extension, of Anime, Japanese anime. manga is traditionally published in dedicated List of manga magazines, manga magazines that often almost exclusively target the demographic group. Of the four primary demographic categories of manga, is the most popular category in the Japanese market. While manga ostensibly targets an audience of young males, its actual readership extends significantly beyond this target group to include all ages and genders. The category originated from Japanese children's magazines at the turn of the 20th century and gained significant popularity by the 1920s. The editorial focus of manga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Children's Anime And Manga
and refer to manga and anime directed towards children. These series are usually moralistic, often educating children about staying in the right path in life. Each chapter is usually a self-contained story History Manga aimed at children started in the late 19th century with the production of short manga, approximately 15 pages long, printed in magazines. These short manga were created as a part of the Meiji era's attempt to encourage literacy among Japanese youth. A major milestone in the popularity of anime was the creation of ''Astro Boy'' by Osamu Tezuka, who is often considered the father of anime. Children's anime and manga can be divided into four categories. The first category consists of anime and manga adaptations of Western stories, such as '' World Masterpiece Theater''. Most of them are TV series. Despite being popular, they are less representative of traditional Japanese anime. Instead, they are modeled after classical American or Soviet cartoons. The second c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Becky (television Personality)
, better known mononymously as , is a Japanese entertainer signed to GATE. Since 2009, she has recorded music under the stage name Becky♪♯. Biography Becky was born in Kanagawa Prefecture to a Japanese mother and an English father, Simon Rabone. She has one younger sister, dancer Jessica "JJ" Rabone. Until at least 2011, Becky held dual citizenship status in both Japan and the United Kingdom. She graduated from Tokyo's Asia University with a degree in business administration on 15 March 2006. Although ''The Japan Times'' previously erroneously reported her full name as "Rebecca Eri Ray Vaughan", Australian airline Jetstar Airways, having used her in advertisements and promotions aimed towards Japanese audiences, gives her full name as being "Rebecca-Eri Rabone", this surname matching that used by her father and sister; the error arises from the fact that 'Rabone' and 'Ray Vaughan' would be spelled the same way in Japanese. Career She debuted as a regular on the popular ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |