Rave Master,Rave,and alternatively,The Groove Adventure Rave in Japan,is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. The series follows Haru Glory,a teenager on a quest to find the five fragments of the sacred stone of light Rave in order to bring peace to the world by defeating the criminal group Demon Card. Mashima created this series with the idea of travelling around the world and was presented with difficulties in its serialization due to its considerable length.
Eat-Man is a Japanese manga series created by Akihito Yoshitomi in 1996 which was serialized by MediaWorks monthly in 19 volumes until 2003 in Dengeki Comic Gao! magazine. In 1997,Studio Deen adapted the manga into a 12-episode anime television series which was broadcast in Japan from January 9 to March 27,1997 on TV Tokyo. A sequel,Eat-Man '98,was also animated by Studio Deen and ran from October 8 to December 23,1998. Both anime series are licensed in North America by Discotek Media and the manga series was licensed by Viz Communications before it was dropped. A second manga called Eat-Man The Main Dish started serialization in Monthly Shonen Sirius in May 2014.
Night on the Galactic Railroad,sometimes translated as Milky Way Railroad,Night Train to the Stars or Fantasy Railroad in the Stars,is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927. The nine-chapter novel was posthumously published by Bunpodō (文圃堂) in 1934 as part of Complete Works of Kenji Miyazawa Vol. 3 (『宮沢賢治全集』第三巻). Four versions are known to be in existence,with the last one being the most famous among Japanese readers.
20th Century Boys is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1999 to 2006,with the 249 chapters published into 22 tankōbon volumes. A 16 chapter continuation,titled 21st Century Boys,ran in the same magazine from 2006 to 2007 and was gathered into two tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of Kenji Endo and his friends,who notice that a cult-leader known only as "Friend" is out to destroy the world,and that his cult icon bears a striking resemblance to a symbol developed during their childhoods. The series makes many references to a number of manga and anime from the 1960s–1970s,as well as to classic rock music,its title being taken from T. Rex's song "20th Century Boy".
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing:Episode Zero,released in the United States as Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:Episode Zero,is a manga miniseries based on the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing,featuring stories set mostly before the events of that tale. Unlike other Gundam Wing manga,which are not necessarily considered as being in continuity,Episode Zero has the distinction of being written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa,who was also the writer of the anime series,and thus carries a higher level of credibility. Akira Kanbe handled the art duties for this project.
Shinzo,known as Mushrambo in Japan,is an anime television series produced by TV Asahi,Toei Advertising,and Toei Animation. It was directed by Tetsuo Imazawa,with Mayori Sekijima handling series scripts,Sachiko Kamimura designing the characters and Katsumi Horii composing the music. In the series,genetically-altered creatures known as Enterrans take over Earth and rename it in their own image called Enterra. Now three Enterrans have to protect the last human in order to find the hidden sanctuary called Shinzo and restore the human race. The anime focuses primarily on the adventures they undergo while working to accomplish this task,though battle action becomes the main focus in the middle of the series. Due in part to the popularity of Hunter ×Hunter in some areas in the competing timeslot,the series struggled with an average viewership of 3.5%,and was cancelled. In the United States,the anime was licensed and dubbed by Saban Entertainment &Buena Vista Television.
Mermaid Saga is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It consists of nine stories told in 16 chapters irregularly published in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Zōkan and Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1984 to 1994.
Silent Möbius is a twelve-volume manga series created by manga artist Kia Asamiya. Both anime versions have been licensed by Bandai Entertainment. It is heavily influenced by the film Blade Runner and is centered on the lives of an all-female group of police officers dedicated to protecting Tokyo from an invasion of extra-dimensional creatures called Lucifer Hawks.
Tomorrow's Joe is a Japanese boxing manga series written by Asao Takamori and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba. The story follows a young man named Joe Yabuki and his boxing career as a Bantamweight.
Kagihime Monogatari EikyūAlice Rondo,or simply Kagihime,is a Japanese manga series written by Kaishaku. The manga was serialised in Dengeki Daioh. A 2006 thirteen episode anime produced by Trinet Entertainment was adapted from the manga.
Genma Wars is a Japanese science fiction manga and novel franchise that began in 1967. It was a collaboration in Weekly Shōnen Magazine by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. It was adapted into a 1983 anime film,a 2002 anime television series,and a 1983 laserdisc video game called Bega's Battle in North America.
King of Thorn is a Japanese fantastique manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Iwahara. It was published in by Enterbrain in the seinen magazine Monthly Comic Beam between October 2002 and October 2005 and collected in six bound volumes. It is licensed in North America by Tokyopop,with the final volume published in November 2008. The series is about a group of people who are put in suspended animation to escape a mysterious plague that turns people to stone,and upon waking there appears to be only seven survivors in a world run wild—including a Japanese teenage girl named Kasumi Ishiki and a British man named Marco Owen. The survivors soon discover that the entire ruin is filled with strange,dinosaur-like creatures and other monstrous aberrations of nature. Thinking that a great amount of time passed since their arrival on the island,soon the survivors discover not only that their sleep was indeed too short to label such dramatic changes as natural occurrence,but also that the situation in and of itself is far greater than they could imagine.
Monkey Typhoon,known in Japan as Assobot Robot Goku,is a Japanese mixed-media project created by Avex Inc.,consisting of a manga series and an anime television series. The project was first announced in June 2000,under the tentative title Son Gokūno Bōken,with collaboration of writer Yoshimi Ishikawa. The series is loosely based on the 16th century novel Journey to the West.
Bartender is a Japanese manga series written by Araki Joh and illustrated by Kenji Nagatomo. Its focus is RyūSasakura,a genius bartender who uses his talents to ease the worries and soothe the souls of troubled customers. The manga was first serialized in Shueisha's Japanese seinen magazine Super Jump from 2004 to 2011. The individual chapters were collected by Shueisha and released in twenty-one tankōbon volumes.
Yasuko to Kenji is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Aruko. Yasuko to Kenji was serialized in the shōjo manga magazine Bessatsu Margaret from April 2005 to November 2006. In 2008,the series was adapted into a comedy drama which aired in Japan on Nippon Television.
Guilty Crown is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G which aired on Fuji TV's noitamina program block from October 13,2011. The story revolves around Shu Ouma,a high school boy who comes into possession of an ability called the "Power of the King" allowing him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the conflict between a quasi-governmental organization known as GHQ and a rebel organization called Funeral Parlor which aims to restore Japan's independence from the GHQ. In the process,Shu has to deal with the burden his ability puts on his shoulders and the horrific mystery of his past.
Sophia is a major theme,along with Knowledge,among many of the early Christian knowledge-theologies grouped by the heresiologist Irenaeus as gnostikoi (γνωστικοί),"knowing" or "men that claimed to have deeper wisdom". Gnosticism is a 17th-century term expanding the definition of Irenaeus' groups to include other syncretic and mystery religions.
Happy is a fictional character who appears in the manga series Fairy Tail and Edens Zero created by Hiro Mashima. He is depicted throughout his appearances as an anthropomorphic blue cat who accompanies the main protagonists on their adventures,often providing comic relief. In Fairy Tail,Happy is a member of the magical Exceed race who possesses the ability to transform into a winged cat with white,feathered wings,and serves as a friend and partner of Natsu Dragneel. For Edens Zero,the character is re-envisioned as an alien android and companion of the female protagonist Rebecca Bluegarden,for whom he also functions as a convertible pair of blaster weapons. Happy has made appearances in various media related to Fairy Tail,including an anime adaptation,feature films,original video animations (OVAs),light novels,and video games. He is voiced by Rie Kugimiya in Japanese media,while Tia Ballard voices him in the English anime dub.
Valkyrie Drive is a Japanese media franchise created by Marvelous,which was announced at the AnimeJapan convention in March 2015. The franchise consists of three projects;Mermaid,an anime television series produced by Arms Corporation,which aired in Japan from October to December 2015;Bhikkhuni,a PlayStation Vita game released on December 10,2015 in Japan with a Western release in 2016 and a Microsoft Windows version in 2017;and Siren,a social game for iOS and Android devices released in December 2015.
Edens Zero is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since June 2018,with its chapters collected into twenty-nine tankōbon volumes as of November 2023. The manga is published digitally in six other languages as they are released in Japan,with Kodansha USA licensing the series for English publication in North America on Crunchyroll,Comixology,and Amazon Kindle. An anime television series adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired from April to October 2021. A second season premiered from April to October 2023. A video game adaptation by Konami was also released.
