Touch is a Japanese high school baseball manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1981 to 1986,with its chapters were collected into 26 tankōbon volumes.
Saiyuki is a Japanese manga series by Kazuya Minekura which was serialized in G-Fantasy from 1997 to 2002. It spawned multiple manga sequels,several anime adaptations,live-action musicals,video games and other media. The Saiyuki franchise has become a mainstay of manga/anime culture,and its various entries have continually garnered critical praise and accolades.The story is loosely based on the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Ryoichi Ikegami is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer. He is best known for Crying Freeman (1986–1988),written by Kazuo Koike,and Heat (1999–2004),written by Buronson. The latter won the 2001 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. Yoshihide Fujiwara is a former assistant of Ikegami's.
Kazuya Minekura is a Japanese manga artist widely known for the Saiyuki series.
Iriya no Sora,UFO no Natsu is a Japanese sci-fi light novel series written by Mizuhito Akiyama with illustrations by Eeji Komatsu that centers on the relationship between Kana Iriya,a high school girl who has to fight alien invaders,and Naoyuki Asaba,a member of the school newspaper club and one of her few friends. There were four light novels published by MediaWorks under their Dengeki Bunko imprint;the series was once nominated for the Seiun Award. Later,a six-episode original video animation adaptation was created based on the novels;the DVDs were released in Japan between February 25 and July 29,2005. Two sound novel video games for the Nintendo DS were released in Japan;the first in January 2007 and the second in October 2007. A manga series illustrated by Tōko Kanno was serialized in ASCII Media Works' seinen manga magazine Dengeki Maoh between the October 2007 and March 2009 issues.
X,also known as X TV,is a Japanese anime television series based on Clamp's manga with the same name. It was produced by Madhouse and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Its twenty-four episodes were broadcast on WOWOW from October 2001 to March 2002. The story takes place at the end of days,in the year 1999. The series follows Kamui Shiro,a young esper who returns home to Tokyo after a six-year absence to face his destiny as the one who will determine humanity's fate. There,he discovers two organizations who want to take him as well as another person who shares Kamui's same talent.
Genjo Sanzo is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Saiyuki. He is one of the four protagonists,loosely based on the character Tang Sanzang.
Wild Adapter is a Japanese manga series by Kazuya Minekura set in Tokyo and Yokohama,Japan in the mid-1990s. There is also an alternate universe dōjinshi and two episode OVA called Shiritsu Araiso Koto Gakko Seitokai Shikkobu. Wild Adapter was also adapted as a two episode OVA in 2014,which is set in the universe of the manga series.
Fortune Arterial is a Japanese adult visual novel,developed by August,released as a limited edition version on January 25,2008 playable on Windows PCs as a DVD. Fortune Arterial is August's fifth game,preceded by other titles such as Tsuki wa Higashi ni Hi wa Nishi ni:Operation Sanctuary,and Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na. A manga based on the story,drawn by Akane Sasaki,was serialized between the September 2007 and April 2008 issues of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine;the manga transferred to ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Festival! Comic in April 2008. A second manga started serialization in the November 2007 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's gaming magazine Comptiq,illustrated by Miki Kodama. A 12-episode anime adaptation produced by Zexcs and Feel aired in Japan between October and December 2010.
Patalliro! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mineo Maya. The comedy manga was serialized in Hana to Yume from 1978 to 1990,before switching to Bessatsu Hana to Yume from 1991 where it continues to be published.
Hungry Heart:Wild Striker is a Japanese football manga and anime series,authored by Yōichi Takahashi. The manga was serialized in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from January 2002 to February 2005,with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. The anime series was animated by Nippon Animation and broadcast on Animax from September 2002 to September 2003,spanning a total of 52 episodes.
Young Black Jack is a Japanese manga series written by Yoshiaki Tabata and illustrated by Yūgo Ōkuma. It is based on Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka and serves as its prequel. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Young Champion magazine between November 2011 and June 2019. An anime adaptation aired in Japan from October to December 2015. The story follows Black Jack as a medical student in the 1960s.
Hokuto no Ken:Ichigo Aji is a Japanese comedy manga spoofing the post-apocalyptic action series Fist of the North Star. An anime television series adaptation started airing in October 2015.
"Setsugetsuka",released as a single titled Uta no Prince-sama Eternal Song CD "Setsugetsuka",is a song released for the mobile game Uta no Prince-sama:Shining Live. The song is performed by the characters of the game,Otoya Ittoki,Tokiya Ichinose,Ren Jinguji,Masato Hijirikawa,Natsuki Shinomiya,Syo Kurusu,Cecil Aijima,Reiji Kotobuki,Ai Mikaze,Ranmaru Kurosaki,and Camus. The song was released on November 21,2018.
Rent-A-Girlfriend is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Reiji Miyajima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since July 2017,and has been compiled into twenty-eight volumes as of September 2022. The series is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA,which released the first volume in English in June 2020.
My Home Hero is a Japanese manga series written by Naoki Yamakawa and illustrated by Masashi Asaki. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine since May 2017,with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes as of October 2022. An anime television series adaptation by Tezuka Productions is set to premiere in April 2023.
Saiyuki Reload Blast is a Japanese anime television series adapted from the manga of the same name by Kazuya Minekura. Produced by Liden Films,the series is directed by Hideaki Nakano,written by Kenji Konuta and composed by Tatsuya Kato.
Saiyuki Gaiden,known in Japan as Saiyūki Gaiden (最遊記外伝),is an original video animation (OVA) series,based on the same name manga series written and illustrated by Kazuya Minekura,and it is a prequel to the manga series Saiyuki which ended in Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine in 2009. directed by Naoyuki Kuzuya and written by Hajime Sasaki and released in Japan from March 25,2011 to April 26,2013. Saiyuki Gaiden chronicles the story of 500 years before Saiyuki,a heretic child with golden eyes is brought to Heaven and given into the reluctant care of a minor deity,Konzen,nephew of the Merciful Goddess Kanzeon Bosatsu. Konzen eventually names him "Goku". Goku befriends two other minor gods,Marshal Tenpou and General Kenren of the Western Army of Heaven,and a boy who seems to be his age,the War Prince Nataku. Though Goku is happy in his new home,Heaven is not kind to heretics.
Saiyuki Reload:Burial,known in Japan as Saiyūki Reload:Burial,is an original video animation (OVA) series,based on the arc of Saiyuki Reload manga "Burial" and prequel to the Saiyuki mythological adventure series written and illustrated by Kazuya Minekura,ADV Films released the first Saiyuki television series,and Geneon USA released the Saiyuki Reload and Saiyuki Reload Gunlock series. Although the Burial prequel will be license by Discotek Media on December 27,2022,the release will be the first home video in North America,Geneon USA's parent company Dentsu alongside Studio Pierrot,produced it and the previous Saiyuki anime projects. The OVA series directed by Koichi Ohata and written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa. Saiyuki Reload:Burial the story Taking place in the past it offers a view at the Saiyuki quartet before their formation and their journey to the west.
