The Japanese anime and manga series To Love-Ru and its sequel To Love-Ru Darkness , written by Saki Hasemi and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki, features an extensive cast of characters. Each character's profile is based more on the manga than the anime adaptation. Many of the characters also make a cameo appearance in the manga version of Mayoi Neko Overrun! .
Anime is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from or associated with Japan.
Manga are comics or graphic novels created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.
To Love-Ru is a Japanese manga series written by Saki Hasemi and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki, creator of Black Cat. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from April 24, 2006 to August 31, 2009, and the chapters collected into 18 tankōbon volumes. The manga series' title, Toraburu (とらぶる), is the English gairaigo "trouble" and "rabu" (ラブ) is the English loan word "love". The title is a pun on the words "love" and "trouble", which describes the harem aspect of the series.
Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito, also known as Yamibō/Yamibou for short, is a Japanese adult visual novel published in December 2002 by Root. A 13-episode anime series produced by Studio Deen aired between October and December 2003. Although the characters and their relationships remain basically the same in the game and anime, the storyline is quite different.
Now and Then, Here and There is a Japanese anime television series conceived and directed by Akitaro Daichi, with a screenplay by Hideyuki Kurata. It premiered in Japan on the WOWOW television station on October 14, 1999 and ran until January 20, 2000. It was licensed for Region 1 DVD English language release by Central Park Media under their US Manga Corps label. Following the 2009 bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, ADV Films rescued the series for a boxset re-release on July 7, 2009. However, the ADV re-release is now out of print.
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UFO Baby is a shōjo comedy manga by Mika Kawamura, serialized by Kodansha in Nakayoshi from February 1998 to March 2002 and collected in nine bound volumes. The series was adapted as a 78-episode anime television series, produced by NHK and animated by J.C.Staff, which was broadcast between March 2000 and February 2002 on NHK's BS2 broadcast satellite network. The series was one of the top-rated anime series during its initial broadcast.
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Onidere (オニデレ) is a shōnen manga by Crystal na Yōsuke. The manga had been serialized in Shōnen Sunday since 2008's issue 18 to 2011's issue 12. The name of this manga coming from the fusion of the words Oni and deredere, so in a way this story can be translated to Lovestruck Demon.
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PriPara, short for Prism Paradise, is a Japanese arcade game by Takara Tomy. It is the successor to the Pretty Rhythm series of arcade games. An anime television series adaptation by Tatsunoko Production and DongWoo A&E began airing from July 5, 2014, to March 28, 2017. A second animation adaption, Idol Time PriPara, began on April 4, 2017. It was succeeded by Kiratto Pri Chan in 2018.
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