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Takamori Nao
is a Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture formerly affiliated with Production Ace. Filmography Television animation *'' Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution ''(Receptionist, nurse) *''Bakugan Battle Brawlers'' (Wavern) *'' Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia'' (Wavern) *''Banner of the Stars'' (Kotoponī, crew) *'' Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran'' (Kuma) *''Detective Conan'' (Beauty artist, housekeeper, woman, companion, others) *''Crest of the Stars'' (Crew) *''Devil Lady'' (Emiko Sakazawa, stylist, model, underclassmen, others) *''Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure'' (Kaori Hayase) *''Ghost Stories'' (Child) *''Go! Go! Itsutsugo Land'' (Boy, henchman) *''I My Me! Strawberry Eggs'' (Miho Umeda's mother, music teacher) *''Kokoro Library'' (Kājīenjeru) *''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS'' (Carim Gracia) *''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vivid'' (Carim Gracia) *''Maico 2010'' (Izumi) *''Mon Colle Knights'' (Ma Kami Tōbatsu Tai) *''Please Teacher!'' (Todoroki's wife) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Acting In Japan
Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, Radio drama#Japan, audio dramas, Television advertisement, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs. In Japan, and actresses have devoted fan clubs due to a crossover with the Japanese idol, idol industry, and some fans may watch a show merely to hear a particular voice actor. Many voice actors have concurrent singing careers and have also crossed over to live-action media. There are around 130 voice acting schools in Japan. Broadcast companies and talent agencies often have their own troupes of vocal actors. Magazines focusing specifically on voice acting are published in Japan, with ''Voice Animage'' being the longest running. The term character voice (abbreviated CV) has been commonly used since the 1980s by such Japanese anime magazines as ' and ''Newtype'' to describe a voice actor associated with a part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maico 2010
''Maico 2010'' is a manga series by Toshimitsu Shimizu which ran in '' Young King'' from 1997 to 1998. The manga was adapted to an anime television series on WOWOW that ran from April 6, 1998 to September 28 of that year titled as part of the '' Anime Complex'' omnibus show. The series was published in English by ComicsOne. ComicsOne rated the series as "Suggested 17Up." Plot Maico is Japan's newest radio DJ. When she is not working, she must stave off assassins, crazed fans and a couple of office workers as well. She believes she was created just to be the perfect DJ. What she does not know is that she is really a sexdroid — a robot specifically designed for sexual intercourse. However, her creator Otari Masudamasu wanted her to be as close to humans as possible and not a sex toy. Maico has never had sexual intercourse and is shy at times. She constantly learns about love and matters of the heart. She later meets another sexdroid Rei, Masudamasu's first android, who is de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suikoden Tactics
''Suikoden Tactics'', originally released in Japan as , is a tactical role-playing video game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 console as part of their ''Suikoden'' series. Initially released in Japan and North America in late 2005, the game was later made available in Europe and the PAL region in early 2006. It is the first strategy-based installment of the series, using tactical, grid-based combat instead of the turn-based battles employed by previous games in the series. The game's music was composed by series veteran Norikazu Miura and features the opening theme "Another World" performed by Japanese vocalist yoshiko. The game's fantasy story is told in two parts, taking place both before and after the events of ''Suikoden IV'' released one year earlier, and features appearances by characters from the title. Players assume the role of Kyril, a young man investigating the power of mysterious weapons called "Rune Cannons," which hold strange powers of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Cott
is a role-playing video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami exclusively for the PlayStation 2 video game console and is the fourth installment of the ''Suikoden'' video game series. It was released in August 2004 in Japan, and early 2005 in North America and Europe. ''Suikoden IV'' takes place approximately 150 years before the events of the first ''Suikoden'' game, and relates the story of a young boy living on the island of Razril and the Rune of Punishment, one of the 27 True Runes. The Rune of Punishment governs both atonement and forgiveness, and is unusual in that it consumes the life of the bearer with use; once the previous bearer dies, it immediately jumps to someone nearby. Meanwhile, the Kooluk Empire seeks to expand into the nearby Island Nations. Konami later produced ''Suikoden Tactics'', a spinoff that serves as a direct prequel, side-story, and sequel to ''Suikoden IV''. Story ''Suikoden IV'' begins its tale with a tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters Of Onimusha
is a series of action-adventure video games developed and published by Capcom. It makes use of the historic figures that shaped Japan's history, retelling their stories with supernatural elements. Most of the games are of the action-adventure genre, a combination of third-person hack-and-slash combat and puzzle elements. The player protagonist wields the power of the ''Oni'', enabling them to fight the ''Genma'', the main enemy in the series. As of June 2024, the series has sold a total of 8.7 million copies worldwide, making it Capcom's tenth best-selling franchise, behind ''Resident Evil'', ''Monster Hunter'', ''Street Fighter'', ''Mega Man'', ''Devil May Cry'', ''Dead Rising'', '' Dragon's Dogma'', ''Ace Attorney'', and ''Marvel vs. Capcom''. A high-definition remaster of the first game, '' Onimusha: Warlords'', was released in December 2018 for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. A Windows version was released in January 2019. A remaster of the second game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagi (Bloody Roar)
is a series of fighting games created by Hudson Soft and developed together with Eighting. The series has been published by multiple companies including Activision, Konami, SCEA, and Virgin Interactive. Konami holds the rights to the franchise after Hudson Soft was absorbed into the former company in 2012. The series began in 1997 under the name '' Beastorizer''. The game incorporates anthropomorphism as its main gameplay feature and theme, where the playable characters are ''Zoanthropes'' (the name comes from the clinical term, ' zoanthropy', which is similar to lycanthropy), humans who have the ability to transform into half-human, half-animal creatures (anthropomorphic animals). This form is called a ''beast'' form, and ''Zoanthropes'' are capable of switching between their ''human'' and ''beast'' forms. The game would appear under the name "''Bloody Roar''" when it was ported to the PlayStation in 1998, which would become the permanent title for the series thereafter. Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Roar 4
''Bloody Roar 4'' is a fighting game developed by Eighting and Hudson Soft in 2003. It is the fifth and final of the ''Bloody Roar'' games as well as the second game in the series to appear on the PlayStation 2. Gameplay Like the previous games in the series, characters can transform into beasts during battle, using the beast gauge, slightly increasing their power. Unlike the other games, however, the beast gauge acts as its own separate health meter. Plot After the events of '' Bloody Roar 3'', Xion, who is possessed by the Unborn, an evil spirit, attacks the dragon temple, awakening the dragon. The dragon is a weapon of Gaia, the Earth's will, and is supposed to awaken in the presence of evil. However, if freed too long, it can inadvertently destroy the world itself. The dragon is successfully resealed by the temple's head miko at the cost of her life, leaving the late miko's sister, Mana, to watch over the seal in Ryoho, the temple's priest and the vessel of the dragon. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn A Gundam
, also stylized as ''∀ Gundam'', is a 1999 Japanese mecha anime series produced by Sunrise (company), Sunrise, and aired between 1999 and 2000 on Fuji Television and other Fuji Network System, FNS stations. It was created for the ''Gundam Big Bang'' 20th Anniversary celebration, and is the eighth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise. It was later compiled in 2002 into two feature-length films entitled ''Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light'' and ''Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly''. ''Turn A Gundam'' was directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who is the main creator of the ''Gundam'' franchise, and who had written and directed many previous ''Gundam'' works. Tomino created the series as a means of "affirmatively accepting all of the ''Gundam'' series", which is reflected in the series title's use of the Turned A, a mathematical symbol representing universal quantification. Overview ''Turn A Gundam'' takes place in the year , in a different calendar era than the previous Gundam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenchi Muyo! GXP
is a Japanese anime television series animated by AIC and broadcast on NTV from April 3 to September 25, 2002. It is the fourth installment of the ''Tenchi Muyo!'' line of series, succeeding '' Tenchi in Tokyo'', localized in North America by Funimation. On November 11, 2012, it began airing on Adult Swim's revived Toonami programming block. An anime OVA project titled ''Tenchi Muyo! GXP Paradise Shidō-hen'' by AIC and Saber Project premiered in May 2023. Plot Seina Yamada is a young Japanese high school student living with his parents and younger sister in rural Okayama, Japan. One morning, following a hapless bike ride through the country, a large spacecraft crashes into the lake behind the Masaki residence, causing a violent tsunami that Seina is unable to escape from and he sinks, almost drowning. He regains consciousness shortly after, meeting Amane Kaunaq, the spacecraft's pilot, who gives Seina an application. Seina takes it, and shows it to his family at home. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Of Cerulean Sand
is a 26-episode anime television series. The main character is a 15-year-old English girl named Jane Buxton, who dreams of building a flying machine due to the influence of her brother. The series documents her journey through the Near East to find her brother, who went missing after headed to the Near East to look for a floating liquid in an expedition. It is set in the late 19th century where impossible technologies such as landships and "floating liquid" exist side by side in a steampunk world. The series is loosely based on two works by Jules Verne—his posthumous 1919 novel ''The Barsac Mission'', which was largely written by his son Michel Verne (''L’Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac'', published in English in two volumes—''Into the Niger Bend (Book One of the Barsac Mission)'', and ''City in the Sahara (Book Two of the Barsac Mission)'') as well as his 1896 novel '' Facing the Flag'' (''Face au drapeau''). It was included in Jury selections in the 2002 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
