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Maria Kawamura
, better known by the stage name, , is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Setagaya, Tokyo. Kawamura is a freelancer and a former affiliate of Arts Vision. In 1991, she married manga artist Mamoru Nagano. In addition to her voice acting and acting work, Kawamura is also a singer. She has released 9 studio albums, 1 compilation album, 1 live album, and 10 singles. Here is a list of her albums and singles: Discography Studio Albums * Green and Gold ~ The Five Star Stories (1988) * Canary (1989) * "Spring Dream" Sanctus (1991) * Moon and Sakuragai (1993) * GothicMade Flower Poetry Girl (2007) * Summer Without You (2011) * Eternal Light (2014) * Angel's Singing Voice (2017) Compilation album * Maria Kawamura Best Collection (2000) Live album * Maria Kawamura Live 2010 〜Anata no Koto wo Kangaeteru〜 (2010) Singles * From The Five Star Stories (1988) * Phantom Sky (1988) * Midnight Orchestra (1989) * Summer Without You (2011) * Yumeiro no Kaze (2012) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee
is a Japanese anime series produced by Tatsunoko Production and Sotsu Agency. The series originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from February 1, 1990, to February 12, 1991, for a total of 54 episodes. Saban picked up the North American rights to the series in 1991, and produced an English version called '' Samurai Pizza Cats''. The creators stated that there was going to be a spin-off series, . The series is known for its cultural humor consisting of Japanese puns, pop culture, and fourth-wall breaking. Plot The series is set in Edoropolis (a portmanteau of " Edo" and "metropolis"), a mechanical city that fuses feudal Japanese culture with contemporary culture populated by cybernetic anthropomorphic "animaloids" (or animal androids). The city is notionally led by ''shōgun'' Iei-Iei Tokugawa, but as he is a doddering eccentric, the actual leadership is in the hands of his neurotic daughter Tokugawa Usako and a council. The council is headed by the ambitious prime minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XxxHolic
''xxxHolic'' (stylized as ''×××HOLiC''; pronounced "Holic") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. The series, which crosses over with another Clamp work, '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', revolves around Kimihiro Watanuki, a high school student who is disturbed by his ability to see the supernatural, and Yūko Ichihara, a powerful witch who owns a wish-granting shop. When Watanuki asks Ichihara to remove his ability to see spirits, she grants it on the condition that he pay for his wish by working for her. Clamp created ''xxxHolic'' to link the supernatural and fantasy series. ''xxxHolic'' was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine ''Weekly Young Magazine'' periodically from February 2003 until March 2010. It then moved to the manga magazine ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine'' in June 2010, where it ended serialization in February 2011; its chapters were collected in 19 volumes. A sequel, ''xxxHolic: Rei'', started in ''Wee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Mew Mew
is a Japanese manga series created and written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by Mia Ikumi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from September 2000 to February 2003, with its chapters collected in seven ''tankōbon'' volumes by Kodansha. It focuses on five girls infused with the DNA of endangered animals which gives them special powers and allows them to transform into "Mew Mews". Led by Ichigo Momomiya, the girls protect Earth from aliens who wish to "reclaim" it. The series was adapted into a fifty-two episode anime series produced by TV Aichi, We've Inc. & Tokyu Agency and animated by Pierrot. The anime aired in Japan from April 6, 2002, to March 29, 2003 on TXN affiliates. A two-volume sequel to the manga, ''Tokyo Mew Mew à la Mode'', was serialized in ''Nakayoshi'' from April 2003 to February 2004. The sequel introduces a new character, Berry Shirayuki, who becomes the temporary leader of the Mew Mews. The series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Stories (Japanese TV Series)
, also known as ''Ghosts at School'', is a Japanese series of children's novels written by . It was published by Kodansha, starting in 1990. The series is a collection of popular school ghost stories in Japan, rewritten specifically for a young demographic. A four-part film series based on the books was produced from 1995 to 1999. Additionally, it was adapted into a television series in 1994 and an anime produced by Pierrot and SPE Visual Works in 2000. A video game was also produced. The books were received positively in Japan upon release. The first film received a nomination for Best Screenplay at the 19th Japanese Academy Awards. Sources conflict as to whether the anime's original run was successful or not, though there is evidence of it having a relatively successful run. Nevertheless, it received notoriety in the succeeding years with its official English dub, which mostly replaced the original script for the series with pop culture references and dark humor. Synopsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pokémon (anime)
is a Japanese media franchise consisting of List of Pokémon video games, video games, Pokémon (TV series), animated series and List of Pokémon films, films, Pokémon Trading Card Game, a trading card game, and other related media. The franchise takes place in a shared universe in which humans co-exist with creatures known as List of Pokémon, Pokémon, a large variety of species endowed with special powers. The franchise's primary target audience is children aged 5 to 12, but it is known to attract people of all ages. The franchise originated as Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, a pair of role-playing games developed by Game Freak, from an original concept by its founder, Satoshi Tajiri. Released on the Game Boy on 27 February 1996, the games became sleeper hits and were followed by manga series, a trading card game, and anime series and films. From 1998 to 2000, ''Pokémon'' was exported to the rest of the world, creating an unprecedented global phenomenon dubbed "Pokémania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excel Saga
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōshi Rikudō. It was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's Seinen manga, manga magazine ''Young King OURs'' from 1996 to 2011, and its individual chapters were collected and published in 27 volumes . The series follows the attempts of Across, a "secret ideological organization", to conquer the city of Fukuoka as a first step towards world domination. The title character of the series, List of Excel Saga characters#Excel, Excel, is a key member of the group who is working towards completing this goal, while the city is being defended by a shadowy government agency led by List of Excel Saga characters#Kabapu, Dr. Kabapu. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment, Victor Entertainment, which was taglined . Directed by Shinichi Watanabe and featuring animation from J.C.Staff, the series premiered on TV Tokyo in 1999. TV Tokyo only aired twenty-five of the series' twenty-six episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brain Powerd
is a Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise. It was directed and written by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino and features mecha designs by Mamoru Nagano, character designs by Mutsumi Inomata, and music by Yoko Kanno. The 26 episodes of the series originally premiered on the satellite channel WOWOW between April and November 1998. The series was also aired across Japan on the anime network Animax, which also later broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia. Animax aired Bandai Entertainment's localization, the series' English language television premiere. The anime series was licensed by Bandai and distributed across the region on DVD under the title ''Brain Powered''. The series is set on a future, decimated Earth after the discovery of a mysterious, alien spacecraft dubbed "Orphan". A group of researchers scour the planet for Orphan's disc plates using mecha called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Girl Utena
is a Japanese anime television series created by Be-Papas, a production group formed by director Kunihiko Ikuhara and composed of himself, Chiho Saito, Shinya Hasegawa, Yōji Enokido and Yūichirō Oguro. The series was produced by J.C.Staff and originally aired on TV Tokyo from April to December 1997. ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' follows Utena Tenjou, a teenaged girl who is drawn into a sword dueling tournament to win the hand of Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious girl known as the "Rose Bride" who possesses the "power to revolutionize the world". Ikuhara was a director on the anime adaptation of ''Sailor Moon'' at Toei Animation in the 1990s; after growing frustrated by the lack of creative control in directing an adapted work, he departed the company in 1996 to create an original series. While he initially conceived of ''Utena'' as a mainstream (girls' anime and manga) series aimed at capitalizing on the commercial success of ''Sailor Moon'', the direction of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neon Genesis Evangelion
, also known as ''Evangelion'' or ''Eva'', is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production, and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from October 1995 to March 1996. The story is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy recruited by his father Gendo to the mysterious organization Nerv. Shinji must pilot an Evangelion, a giant biomechanical mecha, to fight beings known as Angels. The series explores the experiences and emotions of the Evangelion pilots and Nerv members as they battle Angels. They are called upon to understand the ultimate cause of events and the motives behind human action. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre, and features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology and mystical Judeo-Christian traditions, including Midrashic tales and Kabbalah. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger
is a 1995 Japanese anime television series by Shaft. Plot The series takes place on the continent of Mugen, a floating island ruled by Princess Aura, who derives her power from the Great God Goal, but is forbidden from leaving the island. Mugen is located over an ocean and connected to the sky by the Novel Pole, which contains the Novel Worlds; worlds based on stories created by the human imagination, such as folk tales, fairy tales, and literature. The protagonists are the Eto Rangers, anthropomorphic animals who represent the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. Their nemesis is the forgotten Spirit of the Cats, Nyanma, who was once known as Chocolat. She resents Aura from excluding her from the role of Ranger after she was disqualified from the race and seeks revenge by distorting Novel Worlds with Jyarei Monsters. To return the Novel Worlds to normal and prevent them from collapsing, the Rangers travel to the Worlds in Kirinda to uncover the Jyarei Monster and purify ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo's Blue Skies
is a 1995 Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. Although "Romeo's Blue Skies" is the literal translation of the Japanese title, the official English name given by Nippon Animation is "Romeo and the Black Brothers". It is based on the novel '' Die schwarzen Brüder'' ("The Black Brothers"), written in 1941 in Switzerland by author Lisa Tetzner. Plot In 1875, a young boy named Romeo lives in the Swiss village of Sonogno. His family, already struggling with debt, faces further hardship when a drought devastates their crops. A sinister man known as Luini, "The God of Death," arrives in the village, seeking to buy children for labor. After Luini sets fire to the family's last cornfield, leaving Romeo’s father blind, Romeo sells himself into servitude as a chimney sweeper for 25 francs to cover medical costs. On his journey to Milan, Romeo befriends Alfredo, a kind but secretive boy, and other children in similar circumstances. They are locked in a basement and later forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
