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Nobuhiro Sugiyama
is a Japanese animator, character designer, and storyboard artist. Career Sugiyama joined Shaft (company), Shaft in 2001 as an in-between animator while he was interested in drawing a variety of subjects and learning from the industry. By 2003 he was a key animator, and by 2004 an animation director. In 2007, Sugiyama was chosen to design the characters for the studio's adaptation of the ''Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two, Ef'' visual novel. Sugiyama became one of the studio's primary character designers and chief animation directors and was again given the task of heading the ''Arakawa Under the Bridge'' project in 2010. In 2011, Sugiyama was opposite of character designer Asako Nishida in acting as the chief animation director for ''Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl''. Nishida commented on herself, the main animators, and Sugiyama being especially particular about the drawings of character's legs in the work. In 2014, he was given responsibility of designing the characters for ... [...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] |
Tohokushinsha Film
is a Japanese film distributor, production company and dubbing studio based in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. It was founded in 1961 by Banjirō Uemura (who was also once the head of the Japanese branch of ITC Entertainment) as a dubbing house for foreign films; members of the Uemura family continue as its largest shareholders. Anime * '' Adventures of the Little Koala'' * '' Aikatsu Planet!'' * '' Amon Saga'' * '' Appleseed'' * '' Assemble Insert'' * ''Brave Raideen'' * '' Garo series'' * '' Gundam Reconguista in G'' * '' Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro'' * '' Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo'' * '' Lupin III: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty'' * '' Lupin III: Green vs. Red'' * '' Mr Locomotive'' * '' Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:00096'' * '' Mary and the Witch's Flower'' * '' Mai Mai Miracle'' * '' New Tetsujin-28'' * '' Paranoia Agent'' * ''Patlabor'' ** '' Patlabor: The Movie'' ** '' Patlabor 2: The Movie'' ** '' WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3'' * ''Ray the Animation'' * '' Saikano'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Smile Company
is a Japanese manufacturer of hobby products such as the Nendoroid and Figma (toy), Figma product lines, as well as scale figures. In addition to production and manufacturing, its business includes design, marketing and distribution. Its products are usually based on anime, manga or video games that are currently popular in Japan, China and Western countries, although the company also produces products based on other media properties such as the voice synthesizer software Vocaloid, VTubers and various western franchises such as Marvel Cinematic Universe and Masters of the Universe. History Good Smile Company was established by Aki Takanori in 2001 as an event management and talent company. Thereafter it began working with Max Factory on hobby related products which soon become the main focus of the company. Good Smile Company is now primarily involved in the planning, production, manufacturing and sales of figures and toys, but also markets accessories and other goods. Good Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC was an American entertainment company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth was a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment, which is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Rooster Teeth's first production was ''Red vs. Blue'', which premiered in April 2003; it is the third longest-running episodic web series of all time. Due to server and web hosting costs, the founders created "Sponsorships" which later became "FIRST", a subscription to exclusive and earlier access to content and discounts on their merchandise store, among other benefits. The company later branched out into live-action shorts, series, comedy, Let's Play videos, and full animated productions. Other projects included reality shows, video game development, entertainment news programs, and podcasts. In 2015, Rooster Teeth rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Oum
Monyreak "Monty" Oum ( ; June 22, 1981 – February 1, 2015) was an American web-based Computer animation, animator and writer. Oum attracted attention within the gaming community after releasing an animated video in 2007, titled ''Haloid'', where characters from the ''Halo (franchise), Halo'' and ''Metroid'' video game franchises fight against each other'','' which went viral. In October of the same year, he released a follow-up, ''Dead Fantasy''. Oum began working for Rooster Teeth, serving as the lead animator for ''Red vs. Blue'', and creating the original animated series ''RWBY''. Oum had a severe iatrogenic allergy, allergic reaction and fell into a coma in January 2015. He died on February 1, 2015 in Austin, Texas. Early life Oum was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1981. He was of Khmer people, Cambodian, Vietnamese people, Vietnamese, Han Chinese, Chinese, and Japanese people, Japanese heritage. He had four older brothers (including Neath, who took over voicing RWBY ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RWBY
''RWBY'' (pronounced "Ruby") is an American Anime-influenced animation, animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. It is set in the fictional world of Remnant, where young people train to become warriors ("Huntsmen" and "Huntresses") to protect their world from monsters called Grimm. The name ''RWBY'' is derived from the four main protagonists' forenames: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long, and their respective thematic colors (red, white, black and yellow). Following several promotional trailers, the first episode was screened at Rooster Teeth's convention, RTX (event), RTX, and premiered on their website on July 18, 2013. Subsequent episodes were released weekly, first to Rooster Teeth subscribers and then to YouTube a week later. Following Oum's death in 2015 during the production of the third season (stylized as volumes), there was an overall shift in the series production and release schedule. Despite the death of its creator, the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
, also known simply as ''Madoka Magica'', is a Japanese anime television series created by Magica Quartet, and animated by Shaft. The story follows a group of middle school girls, led by protagonist Madoka Kaname, who make supernatural contracts to become magical girls. In battling surreal enemies known as "witches", they learn of the anguish and peril associated with their new roles. The first ten episodes of the series aired on TBS and MBS between January and March 2011, while the final two episodes were delayed until April of the same year due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A manga adaptation of the anime and various spin-off manga have been published by Houbunsha and licensed in North America by Yen Press. A novelization by Nitroplus was released in August 2011, and a dedicated magazine, ''Manga Time Kirara Magica'', was launched by Houbunsha in June 2012. A video game for the PlayStation Portable was released in March 2012 and another for PlayStati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroki Yamamura
is a Japanese animator, character designer and storyboard artist. Career Yamamura is from Anjō, Aichi Prefecture, and graduated from . Initially, he joined eroge game company Studio Lux as an illustrator around 2002 and used the name , a play on the Hiragana spelling of his name , but left the company in August 2003. After leaving Studio Lux, Yamamura joined Actas briefly before joining newly founded animation production company Studio Pastoral, where he initially did in-between animation and was quickly promoted to key animator in less than a year, and again to animation director by 2005. While Studio Pastoral itself was a sub-contracting animation firm not producing its own titles, from the very beginning of the studio's history it developed a close relationship to studio Shaft. Yamamura worked on a number of different titles from a number of different studios that were outsourcing work to Studio Pastoral, but he gained prominence within Shaft's works and mainly took on jobs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magia Record
was a Japanese role-playing video game developed by f4samurai for Android and iOS, which was released by Aniplex in Japan on August 22, 2017. A North American version was available from June 2019 to October 2020. The game is a spin-off of the 2011 anime series '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'', and follows a new protagonist, Iroha Tamaki, who arrives in Kamihama City in search of her missing sister. The game closed its servers on July 31, 2024, to be replaced by '' Magia Exedra'', a 3D gacha game in development with characters carried over from ''Magia Record''. A manga adaptation has been serialized in '' Manga Time Kirara Forward'' magazine since August 2018. A stage play adaptation was also produced in 2018. An anime television series adaptation of the game produced by Shaft aired for three seasons between January 2020 and April 2022. Gameplay ''Magia Record'' is a turn-based tactical RPG that features battles with magical girls on the right side of the screen and witc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akio Watanabe
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 is a Literary genre, literary form in traditional Japanese literature – an extended prose narrative tale comparable to epic (genre), epic literature. ''Monogatari'' is closely tied to aspects of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monogatari (series)
is a Japanese light novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. The plot centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survives a vampire attack and finds himself helping girls involved with a variety of apparitions, ghosts, beasts, spirits, and other supernatural phenomena, which often serve as proxies for their emotional and mental issues. Since November 2006, Kodansha published 29 volumes in the series under its Kodansha Box imprint (trade name), imprint. All of the series' story arcs share the common title suffix . Shaft (company), Shaft has animated the ''Monogatari'' series several times since 2009. The "first season" of the anime adaptation consists of 30 episodes, which were broadcast in Japan between July 2009 and December 2012. The second season consists of 28 episodes broadcast between July and December 2013, and the "final season" consists of 42 episodes broadcast between December 2014 and June 2019. A prequel anime film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
