Takahiro Kimura
was a Japanese animator, illustrator and character designer. He died of amyloidosis on March 5, 2023. Works *''City Hunter 3'' ( Key animation) *''Idol Tenshi Yokoso Yōko'' (Key animation) *'' Dirty Pair Flash'' (Character design, animation director) *''Mobile Fighter G Gundam'' (Chief animation director) *''The King of Braves GaoGaiGar'' (Character designs and chief animation director) *'' Betterman'' (Character designs and chief animation director) *''Variable Geo'' (Character designs) *'' Steam-Heart's'' (Character designs) *'' Usagi-chan de Cue!!'' (Character designs) *'' Brigadoon: Marin & Melan'' (Character designs and chief animation director) *''Kiddy Grade'' (Eyecatch illustrator – episode 4) *'' Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!'' (Character designs and chief animation director) *''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' (Eyecatch illustrator) *''Superior Defender Gundam Force'' (Character designs) *''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY'' (Eyecatch illustrator) *''Gun Sword'' (Character desi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fukuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders Saga Prefecture to the southwest, Kumamoto Prefecture to the south, and Ōita Prefecture to the southeast. Fukuoka is the capital and largest city of Fukuoka Prefecture, and the largest city on Kyūshū, with other major cities including Kitakyushu, Kurume, and Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Ōmuta. Fukuoka Prefecture is located at the northernmost point of Kyūshū on the Kanmon Straits, connecting the Tsushima Strait and the Seto Inland Sea across from Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshu, and extends south towards the Ariake Sea. History Fukuoka Prefecture includes the Old provinces of Japan, former provinces of Chikugo Province, Chikugo, Chikuzen Province, Chikuzen, and Buzen Province, Buzen. Shrines and temples Kōra taisha, Sumiyoshi-j ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marin & Melan
Marin or Marín (Italian "sailor") may refer to: People * Marin (name), including a list of persons with the given name or Italian surname. * MaRin, in-game name of professional South Korean ''League of Legends'' player Jang Gyeong-hwan (born 1991). Places U.S. * Marin City, California * Marin County, California * Marin Creek, California * Marin Headlands, California * Marin Hills, in southern Marin County, California * Marin Islands, California * Marin, California, former name of Point Reyes Station, California Elsewhere * Marin River, a river in Venice, Italy. * Le Marin, a commune in the French overseas department of Martinique * Marin, Haute-Savoie, a commune in France * Marin, Iran, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran * Marín, Nuevo León, a town and municipality in Mexico * Marín, Pontevedra, a municipality in Galicia, Spain * Marin, a village in Crasna Commune, Sălaj County, Romania * Marin Rural Municipality, a municipality in Bagmati Province, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anime Character Designers
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1964 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motors, Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day (Panama), Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2
''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the third installment in the '' Xenoblade Chronicles'' series and the sixth main entry in the ''Xeno'' series, and was released on December 1. Plans for the game began shortly before the launch of '' Xenoblade Chronicles X'' in 2014. Key developers from previous games returned, including franchise creator Tetsuya Takahashi and directors Koh Kojima and Genki Yokota. The team wanted to develop a story-driven game in the style of the original '' Xenoblade Chronicles''. The game was announced in 2017 and was released worldwide the same year. As with ''Xenoblade Chronicles'', the game was localized by Nintendo of Europe. ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' has gameplay that is similar to previous entries, but with an added summoning mechanic. It features a different setting and characters than the first ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' and marks the seri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera
, also known as ''Satanikus!'', is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It is one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world. In 2006, it would get a sequel/remake in ''Demon Prince Enma'', which drops the comedy and becomes a full-fledged suspense-horror series. After the OVA was released, another manga version was released called ''Satanikus Enma Kerberos'' by Eiji Toriyama. A remake entitled ''Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up'' aired in Japan in 2011. Plot Enma, Yukiko-Hime and Kapaeru are part of the Yokai-Patrol. They go after yokai that have escaped from Hell into the human world. Characters Main Characters ; : : The hot-headed, perverted protagonist, sent by his uncle, King Enma, to arrest yokai that have infiltrated the human world, though most often then not he ends up going overboard and killing them instead. He had long eyebrows that can detect a yokai's presence called ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blood+
''Blood+'' (stylized as ''BLOOD+'' and pronounced "Blood Plus") is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G and Aniplex and directed and written by Junichi Fujisaku. The series was broadcast on MBS and TBS from October 2005 to September 2006. ''Blood+'' is licensed for international distribution in several regions through Sony Pictures' international arm, Sony Pictures Television International. ''Blood+'' was inspired by the 2000 anime film '' Blood: The Last Vampire''; however, there are only a few allusions and basic elements from the film. Fujisaku has been involved with both works, including acting as the director and writer for ''Blood+'' and writing the novelization of ''Blood: The Last Vampire''. Plot The series is initially set in September 2005 in Okinawa City (Koza) on Okinawa Island near the US Kadena Air Base. Under the care of her adoptive family, the protagonist Saya Otonashi had been living the life of an anemic amnesia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gun Sword
, is a Japanese anime television series animated by AIC A.S.T.A, written by Hideyuki Kurata, and directed by Gorō Taniguchi. Plot The story is set on the "Planet of Endless Illusion", a place where rogues of all sorts gather. The protagonist, Van, travels the world searching for a man with a clawed right hand who killed his bride. He is joined by several other travelers along the way, each linked to the clawed man by a personal loss. Production ''Gun X Sword'' was first announced by JVC in May 2005 through the reveal of its official website. Despite its aesthetics in the anime's premiere, director Goro Taniguchi claimed ''Gun Sword'' is not a Western series. He wanted to convey the series is not simple, that is why he decided to bring the mecha area already in the first episode. Kurata wanted to play homage to the mecha genre which had been highly popular during the making of the anime. Van was often compared with Vash the Stampede from ''Trigun'' due to how they avoid f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY
is an anime television series, a direct sequel to ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' by Sunrise and the overall tenth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise. It retains most of the staff from ''Gundam SEED'', including Director Mitsuo Fukuda. Set two years after the original ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'', the plot follows the new character Shinn Asuka, a soldier from the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, or ZAFT, composed of humans born genetically enhanced labelled as Coordinators. As ZAFT is about to enter into another war against the regular human race, the Naturals, the series focuses on Shinn's as well as various returning characters' involvement in the war. The series spanned 50 episodes, aired in Japan from October 2004 to October 2005, on the Japan News Network television stations Tokyo Broadcasting System and Manichi Broadcasting System. In December 2005, Sunrise aired a special episode that remade the events from the series' last episode. A series of four films compil ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Superior Defender Gundam Force
, is a 2004 Japanese-American anime television series produced by Sunrise. The series was released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Gundam media franchise, and was the first Gundam series to be entirely animated in cel-shaded 3D computer graphics (3DCG), and the first full-3DCG series to be broadcast on Japanese television. The show was directed by Yūichi Abe. Overview A Japan/America co-production, 26 episodes of ''Superior Defender Gundam Force'' initially aired on the Cartoon Network in the U.S., and later 52 episodes were broadcast on TV Tokyo in Japan, making it the longest Gundam series ever broadcast. The TV show was the first Japanese anime not to be released on VHS; its home video releases are only available on DVD with each containing three episodes. Though the final 26 episodes were not aired on television in America, fans petitioned for the second half of the series to be released and the last 26 episodes were released in an English-dubbed DVD set in 2008 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. The ninth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, ''Gundam SEED'' takes place in a future calendar era, in this case the Cosmic Era. In this era, mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth, and Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans capable of amazing feats of intellect who emigrate to man-made orbital colonies to escape persecution by natural humans. The story revolves around a young Coordinator Kira Yamato who becomes involved in the war between the two races after a third, neutral faction's space colony is invaded by the Coordinators. The television series was broadcast in Japan between 2002 and 2003, on the Tokyo Broadcasting System Television and MBS TV networks, beginning a broadcast partnership with the ''Gundam'' franchise. The series spawned three compilations films and was adapted into a manga as well as light novels. A sequel series, '' Mobile Suit Gun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |