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Tomoyuki Itamura
is a Japanese director, animator, and storyboard artist. He joined OLM in 2004 as an in-between animator and left in 2007 to join Shaft. Itamura took over the ''Monogatari'' series from Tatsuya Oishi as his television directorial debut with ''Nisemonogatari''. With Akiyuki Shinbo, Itamura directed all subsequent televised installments until he left the studio following ''Owarimonogatari II''. Career Itamura joined OLM in 2002, and he first served as an in-between animator on the studio's '' Pokémon Chronicles'' television series. In 2006, he storyboarded two episodes of ''Ray the Animation'', and the following year left the studio, where he then joined Shaft. That year, he debuted as an episode director with the 3rd episode of '' Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei'', and in 2008 debuted as a project director under the chief direction of Akiyuki Shinbo with '' Mahō Sensei Negima!: Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba''. In 2012, Itamura succeeded Tatsuya Oishi as the successor to Shaft's adapta ... [...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] |
Ball-jointed Doll
A ball-jointed doll is any doll that is articulated with ball and socket joints. In contemporary usage when referring to modern dolls, and particularly when using the acronyms BJD or ABJD, it usually refers to modern Asian ball-jointed dolls. These are Resin casting, cast in polyurethane synthetic resin, a hard, dense plastic, and the parts strung together with a thick elastic. They are predominantly produced in Japan, South Korea and China. The BJD style has been described as both realistic and influenced by anime. They commonly range in size from about for the larger dolls, for the mini dolls, and down to for the very smallest BJDs. BJDs are primarily intended for adult collectors and customizers. They are made to be easy to customize, by painting, changing the eyes and wig, and so forth. The modern BJD market began with the Volks line of Super Dollfie in 1999. ''Super Dollfie'' and ''Dollfie'' are registered trademarks but are sometimes erroneously used as Genericized tradem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Holic
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minari Endō, the author of ''Dazzle''. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine '' Monthly Comic Alive'' on June 27, 2006, and is published by Media Factory. The manga was initially licensed by Tokyopop in North America and picked up by One Peace Books in 2016 after Tokyopop lost the license in 2011. It has also been released digitally by BookWalker, Kadokawa's online digital shopfront. The series follows Kanako Miyamae who just got transferred to an all-girls private Catholic school to find a partner of the same sex. The first anime adaptation animated by Shaft aired in Japan between January and March 2009. A second anime season, ''Maria†Holic: Alive'', premiered on April 8, 2011. Both seasons of the anime series have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks. Plot ''Maria†Holic'' revolves around a high school girl named Kanako Miyamae, who due to a childhood incident is scared of boys and brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidamari Sketch
is a Japanese ''yonkoma'' manga series written and illustrated by Ume Aoki. It follows a group of young female art students, and following their daily lives as close friends and neighbors at the nearby Hidamari Apartments. The manga has been serialized in Houbunsha's monthly magazine ''Manga Time Kirara Carat'' since February 28, 2004, with its chapters collected in ten ''tankōbon'' volumes as of March 2020. Since 2008, Yen Press has licensed an English translation of the series in North America under the title ''Sunshine Sketch''. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Shaft (company), Shaft aired in Japan between January and March 2007. It was followed by three sequels: ''Hidamari Sketch × 365'', a 13-episode season between July and September 2008; ''Hidamari Sketch × Hoshimittsu'', a 12-episode season between January and March 2010; and ''Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb'', a 12-episode season between October and December 2012. Two special episodes for each of the first thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukihiro Miyamoto
, occasionally nicknamed Otokomatsuri, is a Japanese anime director. He started at animation studio Vega Entertainment, and later joined Shaft. He is best known for directing ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' and its subsequent film trilogy alongside Akiyuki Shinbo, the latter trilogy which subsequently garnered ¥2 billion, making it a box-office success. Early life Miyamoto was interested in animation from a young age and was particularly interested in timing processes regarding characteristics like lip-sync timing or footstep sounds and whether they aligned with the screen images.Shaft Shizuoka Studio Aoi display, part of the at the . October 12, 2024, to November 10, 2024. After high school, he went to a science-based university as per his parents' wishes but found that he still loved animation, so he went to a vocational school, . Career After graduating from vocational school, he joined the anime industry in 2002 as a production manager and assistant director for Vega Entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fairy Tale Of The Two
''Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two'' is a Japanese two-part Eroge, adult visual novel series by Minori (company), Minori for Microsoft Windows, Windows Personal computer, PCs and PlayStation 2. The first game in the series, ''Ef: The First Tale'', was released on December 22, 2006, and the second game, ''Ef: The Latter Tale'', was released on May 30, 2008. The opening video for the game was animated by Makoto Shinkai, and a majority of the music was produced by Tenmon (composer), Tenmon, who has worked in the past with Shinkai and Minori. Female character design was by Naru Nanao of ''Da Capo (visual novel), Da Capo'' fame, while male character design was by 2C Galore. Before the release of ''Ef: The First Tale'', a manga based on the overall story was serialized between 2005 and 2015 starting in ''Dengeki Comic Gao'', but later transferred to ''Dengeki Daioh''. In addition, a light novel was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's ''Comptiq'' from July 2006 to July 2008. A 12-episode a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
