List Of Rave Master Characters
The ''Rave Master'' manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Hiro Mashima. The series takes place in a fictional universe that exists as a parallel world where vast numbers of humans, as well as species known as sentenoids and demonoids, fight using weapons, magic, and evil artifacts known as Dark Brings (Shadow Stones in the anime's English dub). One of the primary users of Dark Brings is an evil terrorist organization known as Demon Card (Shadow Guard in the anime's English dub) which plans to use them to take over the world and bring it into darkness. The main character, Haru Glory, is chosen by the holy artifact known as Rave to wield the Ten Powers and go on a quest with the strange dog-like creature known as Plue to find the other four remaining Rave stones and put an end to the usage of Dark Brings, thus bringing peace to the world. In his travels, fate brings him to ally himself with a girl that lost her memories and believes she is name ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kodansha USA
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC is a publishing company based in New York, US, and a subsidiary of Japan's largest publishing company Kodansha. Established in July 1st 2008, Kodansha USA publishes books relating to Japan, Japanese culture, and manga, the latter under their Kodansha Manga imprint (trade name), imprint (formerly Kodansha Comics). In 2020, Kodansha announced that it had consolidated Kodansha Advanced Media and Vertical (publisher), Vertical into Kodansha USA Publishing, with Kodansha Advanced Media general manager Alvin Lu becoming the president and CEO of Kodansha USA Publishing. On March 9, 2021, Kodansha USA Publishing announced it had rebranded and relaunched its website, and unified Kodansha Comics, Kodansha USA International, and Vertical under the Kodansha name, and Kodansha Comics being renamed Kodansha Manga. Kodansha Manga Kodansha Manga (formerly Kodansha Comics) is an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing who are responsible for the localization and publica ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cartography
Cartography (; from , 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and , 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. The fundamental objectives of traditional cartography are to: * Set the map's agenda and select traits of the object to be mapped. This is the concern of map editing. Traits may be physical, such as roads or land masses, or may be abstract, such as toponyms or political boundaries. * Represent the terrain of the mapped object on flat media. This is the concern of map projections. * Eliminate the mapped object's characteristics that are irrelevant to the map's purpose. This is the concern of Cartographic generalization, generalization. * Reduce the complexity of the characteristics that will be mapped. This is also the concern of generalization. * Orchestrate the elements ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tom Kenny
Thomas James Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and comedian. He has been voicing SpongeBob SquarePants (character), the titular character in ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' and associated media since its debut in 1999. Kenny has voiced many other characters, including Heffer Wolfe in ''Rocko's Modern Life'', the Ice King in ''Adventure Time'' and its spinoff Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, ''Fionna and Cake'', the Narrator and Mayor in ''The Powerpuff Girls'', Carl Chryniszzswics in ''Johnny Bravo'', Dog in ''CatDog'', Starscream in ''Transformers: Animated'', Hank and Jeremy in ''Talking Tom & Friends (TV series), Talking Tom and Friends'', Penguin (character), The Penguin in various animated media based on DC Comics, and Spyro (character), Spyro from the ''Spyro'' video game series. His live action work includes the comedy variety shows ''The Edge (Fox TV series), The Edge'' and ''Mr. Show''. List of roles and awards of Tom Kenny, Kenny's accolades include two Daytim ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Katsuya Shiga
is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Written forms *克也, "achieve, to be" *克弥, "achieve, extensive, complete" *勝也, "win, to be" *勝矢, "win, arrow" *勝哉, "win, how" *勝夜, "win, night" *活耶, "active, father" *活弥, "active, extensive, complete" *轄也, "administer, control, to be" *担耶, "carry, bear, father" People with the given name *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese video game designer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese wrestler *, Japanese actor *, Japanese sociologist *, Japanese manga artist, character designer, animator and animation director *, Japanese football player *, Japanese film director and screenwriter *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese football player *, Japanese freestyle skier *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese politician *, Japanese politician *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese cyclist *, Japanese snowboarder *, Japanese plastic surgeon *, Japanese illus ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Doug Erholtz
Doug Erholtz is an American voice actor. He is known for his performances as Inspector Zenigata in ''Lupin the Third'', Gin Ichimaru in ''Bleach'', TK Takaishi in ''Digimon Adventure 02'', Squall Leonhart in the ''Final Fantasy'' and ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, Asuma Sarutobi and Kankuro in ''Naruto'', Jean Pierre Polnareff in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders'' and '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind'', and Hamrio Musica in '' Rave Master''. Roles Anime * '' Battle B-Daman'' – Joe, Biarce * ''BlazBlue Alter Memory'' – Hazama * ''Bleach'' – Gin Ichimaru, Kisuke Urahara (Eps. 231-366) * ''Blue Exorcist'' – Kaoru Tsubaki * ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'' – Nightmare * ''Buso Renkin'' – Shinobu Negoro * '' Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion'' – Yoshida * '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'' - Kasugai Crow * '' Devilman Crybaby'' - Koji Nagasaki * '' Digimon Adventure'' – MetalSeadramon, SkullGreymon, Susumu Kamiya, Jim Kido, Deramon, Unimon, Chuumon * '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Showtaro Morikubo
is a Japanese voice actor and singer who has voiced characters in anime, drama CDs, and video games. He was formerly affiliated with I'm Enterprise, Sigma Seven and VIMS. His most notable roles were Shikamaru Nara from ''Naruto'', Souji Okita in the '' Hakuouki'' series, X in the '' Mega Man X'' series, Yuusuke Makishima from '' Yowamushi Pedal'', and Yosuke Hanamura from ''Persona 4''. Biography Morikubo graduated from Third Junior & Senior High School of Nihon University in 1992, and dropped out of Tama Art University. Before becoming a full-fledged voice actor, he worked at a talent agency, and was recruited by people in the voice acting industry who saw a performance by the Onigiri Skippers, a theater troupe he founded with his seniors from the lab party he attended in elementary school. During his first dubbing session, he made sounds out of flipping pages on the script because he had no experience as a voice actor at that time. The script for the first episode had fou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Del Rey Manga
Del Rey Manga was the manga-publishing imprint (trade name), imprint of Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books, which in turn is part of Random House, the publishing division of Bertelsmann. History Del Rey Manga was formed as part of a cross-publishing relationship with Japanese publisher Kodansha. Some of the Del Rey titles, such as ''Tsubasa Chronicle'' and ''xxxHolic'', are published in the United Kingdom by Tanoshimi. Tricia Narwani, the editor of Del Rey, stated that "Del Rey finds most of its talent through conventions and existing professional contacts". In October 2010, Kodansha and Random House announced that the US division of Kodansha, Kodansha USA, will take over publishing over all Del Rey Manga titles as well as their own manga, starting on December 1. Random House will act as the sales and marketing distributor. Titles Del Rey made its debut in May 2004 with four manga titles: * ''Mobile Suit Gundam Seed'' (''Kidō Senshi Gundam SEED'') - by Masatsugu Iwas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kodansha
is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Evening'', ''Weekly Young Magazine'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', and ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine'', as well as the more literary magazines ''Gunzō'', ''Weekly Gendai, Shūkan Gendai'', and the Japanese dictionary, ''Nihongo Daijiten''. Kodansha was founded by Seiji Noma in 1909, and members of his family continue as its owners either directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation. History Seiji Noma founded Kodansha in 1909 as a spin-off of the ''Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai'' (, "Greater Japan Oratorical Society") and produced the literary magazine, ''Yūben,'' () as its first publication. The name ''Kodansha'' (taken from ''Kōdan Club'' (), a now-defunct magazine published by the company) originated in 1911 when the publisher formally merged wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pastel (manga)
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Toshihiko Kobayashi. It was first serialized in Kodansha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from July 2002 to July 2003, then moved to ''Magazine Special'' in September 2003 and finished in January 2017. Its chapters were collected in 44 volumes. It was published in North America by Del Rey Manga; only the first 14 volumes were released. Plot Sixteen-year-old Mugi Tadano tries to shake off his latest heartbreak by working at his friend's aunt's beach-side inn. One day he spies on a beautiful girl, Yuu Tsukisaki, changing clothes in an alley behind the inn. Instead of getting angry, Yuu charges him the price of a soda for watching her. The next day Mugi is set up on a blind date with Yuu, and they have a great time—until Mugi walks in in the middle of her bath. Yuu decides to leave on the next ferry out, leaving Mugi heartbroken again. However, when he returns home, he is surprised to find that Yuu and he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Air Gear
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Oh! great, serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from November 2002 to May 2012, with its chapters collected in 37 volumes. ''Air Gear'' revolves around the life of Itsuki Minami "Ikki or Crow", also known as "Baby Face", "Lil (and Little) Crow", and his friends. The story follows their use of Air Gear, an in-universe invention derived from inline skates. Initial sections of the plot carries out the introduction of characters that eventually join Ikki. As the story progresses, it focuses on their roles as Storm Riders and their quest to be on the top of the Trophaeum Tower, the pinnacle that all Storm Riders hope to reach. ''Air Gear'' was adapted into a 25-episode anime television series by Toei Animation, which aired on TV Tokyo from April to September 2006. A three-episode original video animation (OVA), titled ''Air Gear: Break on the Sky'', produced by Satelight, was released fro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Happy (manga Character)
is a fictional character who appears in the manga series '' Fairy Tail'' and '' Edens Zero'' created by Hiro Mashima. He is depicted throughout his appearances as an anthropomorphic blue cat who accompanies the main protagonists on their adventures, often providing comic relief. In ''Fairy Tail'', Happy is a member of the magical Exceed race who possesses the ability to transform into a winged cat with white, feathered wings, and serves as a friend and partner of Natsu Dragneel. For ''Edens Zero'', the character is re-envisioned as an alien android and companion of the female protagonist Rebecca Bluegarden, for whom he also functions as a convertible pair of blaster weapons. Happy has made appearances in various media related to ''Fairy Tail'', including an anime adaptation, feature films, original video animations ( OVAs), light novels, and video games. He is voiced by Rie Kugimiya in Japanese media, while Tia Ballard voices him in the English anime dub. Creation and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |