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Zombie Land Saga
is an anime television series produced by MAPPA, Avex Pictures and Cygames. The series aired in Japan between October and December 2018. A second season titled ''Zombie Land Saga Revenge'' aired between April and June 2021. An anime film project, titled ''Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise'', is set to release in October 2025. A manga adaptation that loosely follows the events of the anime, ran on Cygames' ''Cycomi'' website from October 2018 to June 2021; a spinoff series which focused on Tae's exploits during her previous life, titled ''Zombie Land Saga Sidestory: The First Zombie'', ran in ''Ultra Jump'' magazine from May 2021 to November 2022. Plot In the year 2008, high school student Sakura Minamoto is abruptly killed by a truck on the morning she plans to submit an idol application. Ten years later, Sakura, along with six "legendary" girls from various eras of Japan's history, are brought back as zombies by a man named Kotaro Tatsumi, who seeks to revita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Horror
Comedy horror (also called horror comedy) is a literary, television and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been described as having three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof." Comedy horror can also parody or subtly spoof horror clichés as its main source of humour or use those elements to take a story in a different direction. Examples of comedy horror films include ''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'' (1948), ''An American Werewolf in London'' (1981), the '' Evil Dead'' franchise (1981–present), '' Gremlins'' (1984), '' Shaun of the Dead'' (2004) and '' The Cabin in the Woods'' (2011). In literature Horror and comedy have been associated with each other since the early days of horror novels. Author Bruce G. Hallenbeck cites the 1820 short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving as "the first great comedy horror story". The story made readers "laugh one moment and scream the next" and its premise was bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōnen Manga
is an editorial category of Manga, Japanese comics targeting an audience of both adolescent boys and young men. It is, along with Shōjo manga, manga (targeting adolescent girls and young women), Seinen manga, manga (targeting young adults and adult men), and Josei manga, manga (targeting adult women), one of the primary demographic categories of manga and, by extension, of Anime, Japanese anime. manga is traditionally published in dedicated List of manga magazines, manga magazines that often almost exclusively target the demographic group. Of the four primary demographic categories of manga, is the most popular category in the Japanese market. While manga ostensibly targets an audience of young males, its actual readership extends significantly beyond this target group to include all ages and genders. The category originated from Japanese children's magazines at the turn of the 20th century and gained significant popularity by the 1920s. The editorial focus of manga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaede Hondo
is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She took leading roles for each series, including '' Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama'' as Kokoro Yotsuba, '' Interviews with Monster Girls'' as Hikari Takanashi, '' Girlish Number'' as Yae Kugayama, '' Anime-Gatari'' as Minoa Asagaya, '' Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko'' as Kanami Eto, '' Comic Girls'' as Koyume Koizuka, ''Hinamatsuri'' as Hitomi Mishima, '' Zombie Land Saga'' as Sakura Minamoto, '' Bofuri'' as Maple/Kaede Honjō, and '' Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina'' as Elaina. She won the Best New Actress Award at the 13th Seiyu Awards. Biography Born in Aichi Prefecture, She became interested in anime while watching ''Naruto''. Hondo became interested in acting and modelling, after an incident during her fifth year of elementary, and when a woman came near and saying she has "a face that goes well with makeup". She had some research on her own job, and came to believe she was told she has a face suita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAPPA (studio)
is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Nakano, Tokyo (formerly in Suginami, Tokyo). Founded in 2011 by Madhouse co-founder and producer Masao Maruyama, it has produced anime works including '' Terror in Resonance'', '' Yuri!!! on Ice'', '' In This Corner of the World'', '' Kakegurui'', '' Banana Fish'', '' Zombie Land Saga'', '' Dororo'' (in co-production with Tezuka Productions), '' Dorohedoro'', '' The God of High School'', '' Jujutsu Kaisen'', '' Attack on Titan'' ( season 4), '' Vinland Saga'' ( season 2), '' Chainsaw Man'', '' Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku'', and the 2024 adaptation of '' Ranma ½''. MAPPA is an acronym An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial Letter (alphabet), letter of each wor ... for Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association. Business History The studio was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AT-X (company)
is a Japanese anime television network owned by AT-X, Inc. was founded on June 26, 2000 as a subsidiary of TV Tokyo Medianet, which is (in turn) owned by TV Tokyo. Its headquarters are in Minato, Tokyo. AT-X network has been broadcasting anime via satellite, cable, and IPTV since December 24, 1997. AT-X broadcasts many '' Comic Gum'' anime adaptations. ''Ikki Tousen'', '' Ah My Buddha'' and '' Juden Chan'' were shown on this channel first, before they were rebroadcast on Tokyo MX. Due to its status as a premium channel, AT-X is also known for showing uncensored versions of several anime like ''Juden Chan'', ''Ah My Buddha'', ''Girls Bravo'', ''Elfen Lied'', '' Mahoromatic'', ''High School DxD'' and '' Redo of Healer'', which would normally get censored on free-to-air television because of the large amounts of mature content. Timeline * December 24, 1997 - AT-X begins broadcasting on DirecTV Channel 270. * November 30, 1998 - Bandai Chara Net TV (owned by Bandai, which AT-X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saga Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of roughly 780,000 and has a geographic area of . Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasaki Prefecture to the southwest. Saga (city), Saga is the capital and largest city of Saga Prefecture, with other major cities including Karatsu, Saga, Karatsu, Tosu, Saga, Tosu, and Imari, Saga, Imari. Saga Prefecture is located in the northwest of Kyūshū covering an isthmus-like area extending between the Sea of Japan and the Ariake Sea. Saga Prefecture's western region is known for the production of Ceramic art, ceramics and porcelain, particularly in the towns of Karatsu, Imari, and Arita, Saga, Arita. History In ancient times, the area composed by Nagasaki Prefecture and Saga Prefecture was called Hizen Province. The current name dates from the Meiji Restoration. Rice farming culture has prospered here since ancient times, and vestiges can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zombies
A zombie (Haitian French: ; ; Kikongo: ''zumbi'') is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. In modern popular culture, zombies appear in horror genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a ''zombie'' is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magical practices in religions like Vodou. Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often do not involve magic but rather science fictional methods such as fungi, radiation, gases, diseases, plants, bacteria, viruses, etc. Zombies are real-life individuals in Haiti who have undergone a religious punishment called zombification for committing crimes such as rape or land theft. They are drugged, buried alive, exhumed and then enslaved by secret societies in Haiti. This practice became the basis for the zombie myth of a resurrected corpse. The English word "zombie" was first recorded in 1819 in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Idol
An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese popular culture, Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by Talent agent, talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial relationship with a financially loyal consumer fan base. Japan's idol industry first emerged in the 1960s and became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to television. During the 1980s, regarded as the "Golden Age of Idols", idols drew in commercial interest and began appearing in commercials and television dramas. As more niche markets began to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it led to a significant growth in the industry known as the "Idol Warring Period." Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ( and ), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologies) in Japan (equivale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
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] |
Kōnosuke Uda
is a Japanese director of anime. He graduated from the Animation Department of Tokyo Design Academy and worked as a freelancer at Toei Animation. His most notable work has been as a series director for ''One Piece'', including two of its feature films.'' Shonen Jump'' Volume 5, Issue 12. December 2007. VIZ Media. 198. Other works directed include '' Ginga e Kickoff!!'', '' Rainbow Fireflies'', '' Majin Bone'', and ''Days''. He currently works mainly for MAPPA. Filmography TV series *''One Piece'' (1999–2006) - Director *'' The File of Young Kindaichi'' (2007) - Director *''Love Com'' (2007) - Director *'' Ginga e Kickoff!!'' (2012–2013) - Director *'' Majin Bone'' (2014) - Director *'' One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia'' (2015) - Director *''DAYS'' (2016) - Director, series composition *'' One Piece: Episode of Skypiea'' (2018) - Chief director *''Hinomaru Sumo'' (2018–2019) - Chief director, series composition *''Ranma ½ is a Japanese manga series writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultra Jump
is a Japanese monthly seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. Originally, the magazine was a special issue of ''Weekly Young Jump'' which was first issued in 1995. On October 19, 1999, the special issue became the new monthly publication ''Ultra Jump''. The manga titles serialized in the magazine are published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under the ''Young Jump Comics Ultra'' label. History ''Ultra Jump'' started as a special issue of the seinen anthology ''Weekly Young Jump'' called "''Young Jump: Ultra Special Issue: Ultra Jump''", which was first issued in 1995. The magazine was split to a monthly publication in 1999, simply called "''Ultra Jump''". On March 19, 2008, ''Ultra Jump'' released an online spin-off of the ''Ultra Jump'' magazine: . ''Ultra Jump Egg'' is an online manga website that mainly serializes manga not in the original ''Ultra Jump'' magazine. Features The magazine has been known for fanservice-laden fantasy and science- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
