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Getter Robo is a Japanese Mecha anime and manga, mecha media franchise created by Ken Ishikawa (manga artist), Ken Ishikawa and Go Nagai. An anime television series produced by Toei Animation was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4, 1974, to May 8, 197 ...

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Ken Ishikawa was a Japanese manga artist. He is renowned as the co-creator (with Go Nagai) of the ''Getter Robo'' anime series, as well as four of their subsequent manga continuations. According to Nagai, he considered Ishikawa his greatest friend and ally. ...

Screenwriting credits

Manga

*'' Getter Robo Saga'' (Editor) * Kyomu Senki (Editor)

Novels

*''

Oh! Edo Rocket is a 2001 stage play written for the Gekidan Shinkansen theater troupe by Kazuki Nakashima and directed by Hidenori Inōe, with a novelization released in August of the same year. A manga adaptation illustrated by Una Hamana was serialized ...

'' (2001)

Anime

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Gurren Lagann ''Gurren Lagann'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese mecha anime television series animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami. It ran for 27 episodes on TV Tokyo between April and September 2007. It was directed by Hiroyu ...

'' (2007) *'' Nodame Cantabile: Finale'' (2010) *''

Kill la Kill is a Japanese anime television series created and produced by Trigger. The series follows vagrant schoolgirl Ryuko Matoi on her search for her father's killer, which brings her into violent conflict with Satsuki Kiryuin, the iron-willed st ...

'' (2013-2014) *'' Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song'' (2016) *'' BNA: Brand New Animal'' (2020) *''

Back Arrow is an original Japanese anime series produced by Studio VOLN, directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Kazuki Nakashima. The series aired from January to June 2021. Plot The series takes place in the land of , a continent completely ...

'' (2021)

OVA

* '' Re: Cutie Honey'' (2004)

Anime films

* ''Gurren Lagann: Childhood’s End'' (2008) * ''Gurren Lagann: The Lights in the Sky are Stars'' (2009) * '' Crayon Shin-chan: Intense Battle! Robo Dad Strikes Back'' (2014) * ''

Batman Ninja is a 2018 American -Japanese animated superhero film directed by Junpei Mizusaki, produced by Warner Bros., and animated by Kamikaze Douga and YamatoWorks, which features the DC Comics character Batman and several of his allies and enemies who ...

'' (2018) * ''

Promare is a 2019 Japanese animated science fiction action film co-produced by Trigger and XFLAG. It was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima. It features character and mecha designs by Shigeto Koyama, 3DCG animation by Sanzig ...

'' (2019) * ''

Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League is a 2025 anime superhero film directed by Junpei Mizusaki and Shinji Takagi, written by Kazuki Nakashima, produced by Warner Bros., and animated by Kamikaze Douga and YamatoWorks, based on the DC Comics character Batman. It is the sequel to ''B ...

'' (2025)

Live action television

Series head writer denoted in bold * ''

Ultraman Max is a Japanese tokusatsu series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company. Released as the fourteenth entry (twentieth overall) in the ''Ultra Series'', it aired from July 2, 2005, until April 1, 2006. The show aimed ...

'' (2006) * ''

Juken Sentai Gekiranger is Toei Company's thirty-first entry in the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries. Production began on September 29, 2006, with principal photography beginning on October 6, 2006. It aired on TV Asahi's 2007 Super Hero Time programming block with '' Kamen ...

'' (2007) * ''

Kamen Rider W is a 2009–2010 Japanese tokusatsu drama, the eleventh series in the Heisei period run of the Kamen Rider Series and the twentieth overall. It premiered following the finale of ''Kamen Rider Decade'' on September 6, 2009, and aired alongside ''S ...

'' (2010) * ''

Kamen Rider Fourze is a Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series, being the thirteenth series in the Heisei period run and the twenty-second overall. It began airing on September 4, 2011, the week following the conclusion of ''Kamen Rider OOO'' ...

'' (2011-2012) * ''

Futagashira is a Japanese slice of life historical series written and illustrated by Natsume Ono. It was published in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Ikki'' from May 2011 to September 2014, when the magazine ceased publication. It was ...

'' (2015-2016)

Live action films

* ''Seven Souls in the Skull Castle'' (2004) * ''

Ashura Ashura (, , ) is a day of commemoration in Islam. It occurs annually on the tenth of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. For Sunni Muslims, Ashura marks the parting of the Red Sea by Moses and the salvation of the Israelites ...

'' (2005) * '' Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess'' (2008) * '' Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max'' (2011) ** ''Beginning: Fight! Legendary Seven Riders'' ** ''Fuuto, the Conspiracy Advances: Gallant! Kamen Rider Joker'' ** ''Kamen Rider Fourze: Nadeshi-Ko Ad-Vent'' ** ''Movie War Mega Max: Gather! Warriors of Glory'' * '' Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie: Space, Here We Come!'' (2012) * '' Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum'' (2012) ** ''Kamen Rider Fourze'' * ''

Terra Formars is a Japanese manga series written by and illustrated by . It was originally serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Miracle Jump'' from January to December 2011, and was transferred to ''Weekly Young Jump'' in April 2012. ...

'' (2016)

Theater

* ''No.9 - Immortal Melodies''

References

External links

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Kazuki Nakashima
anime works at Media Arts Database Living people Rikkyo University alumni 1959 births {{Anime-bio-stub