Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is a Japanese animated franchise about a five-member superhero team created by Tatsuo Yoshida and produced by Tatsunoko Productions. The original anime series,which debuted in 1972,was eponymously entitled Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman and is best known in the English-speaking world as the adaptation entitled Battle of the Planets (1978). The series had additional English adaptations with G-Force:Guardians of Space (1986) and ADV Films' uncut 2005 release. Tatsunoko also uses the official translation Science Commando Gatchaman in related products and media.
Casshan,also known in Japan as Neo-Human Casshern,is an anime series created by Tatsunoko Productions founder Tatsuo Yoshida in 1973.
Brave Raideen is a super robot anime series. Produced by Tohokushinsha,Asahi News Agency and Sunrise,it aired on NET from 4 April 1975 to 26 March 1976,with a total of 50 episodes. The official name being Raideen the Brave,it is mainly known as "Brave Raideen" or "Heroic Raydeen". A series called Raideen the Superior (超者ライディーン) was broadcast from 1996 to 1997 on TV Tokyo,and another series called Reideen was broadcast in 2007 on WOWOW.
Argento Soma is a 25-episode anime TV series that aired on TV Tokyo from October 6,2000,to March 22,2001,with the final episode,"Alone and by myself",releasing direct-to-video.
Chikyu Sentai Fiveman is a Japanese Tokusatsu television series. It was Toei Company's fourteenth installment of the Super Sentai metaseries. It aired on TV Asahi from March 2,1990 to February 8,1991,with a total of 48 episodes. The name given by Toei for international distribution is Sky Rangers.
Godannar is a Japanese anime television series created by Yasuchika Nagaoka,Anime International Company and Project Godannar,which consists of IMAGICA Entertainment,Taki Corporation,KlockWorx,NTT Data Contents Planing,Sojitz and Oriental Light and Magic. The series is produced by AIC and OLM,with Nagaoka serving as director and Hiroyuki Kawasaki serving as its main scriptwriter. The first season aired in Japan from October 1 to December 24,2003 on AT-X. A second season later aired from April 5 to June 29,2004. Both seasons were licensed by ADV Films for North America. However,as of 2013,it is now licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
Marguerite Kathryn Flecknoe is an American voice actress,radio personality,television host and producer.
Toku Nishio was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Gifu Prefecture,Japan. He was represented by Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society.
Gatchaman Fighter or Gatchaman F is the direct sequel to Gatchaman II. In the continuing saga,a surviving fragment of Leader X mutates into Leader Z,and recruits megalomaniac Count Egobossler to create an army to conquer the world. In order to defeat this new enemy,the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman return with stronger weapons.
Dancouga - Super Beast Machine God is a Super Robot anime television series produced by Ashi Productions,directed by Seiji Okuda and written by Keisuke Fujikawa. It ran on TBS for 38 episodes from 5 April 1985 to 27 December 1985. The TV anime was licensed by Central Park Media under their Software Sculptors label in 1995,and was released on subtitled VHS. The series's license was later picked up by Discotek Media. After the series ended,four original video animations were released between 1986 and 1990. A sequel series,Dancouga Nova –Super God Beast Armor,aired in Japan in 2007.
Knights of Sidonia is a space opera and mecha manga series by Tsutomu Nihei,serialized by Kodansha in their magazine Monthly Afternoon between April 2009 and September 2015,localized in English by Vertical. The series tells the story of Nagate Tanikaze,an "under-dweller" destined to become a Garde pilot,whose mission is to defend the massive starship Sidonia from a hostile alien species called Gauna. An anime television series adaptation,produced by Polygon Pictures,aired between April and June 2014,with a second season airing between April and June 2015. An anime film sequel titled Knights of Sidonia:Love Woven in the Stars premiered on June 4,2021.
Planzet (プランゼット) is a 2010 Japanese computer animated film written and directed by Jun Awazu.
Sunday Without God,also known as Kaminai (神ない) for short,is a Japanese light novel series written by Kimihito Irie,with illustrations by Shino. Fujimi Shobo has published nine volumes since January 2010 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation by Abaraheiki began serialization in the November 2010 issue of Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age. A drama CD was released by Marine Entertainment on December 29,2010. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Madhouse and directed by Yūji Kumazawa,aired between July and September 2013.
Dai-Shogun –Great Revolution is a mecha anime television series,directed by Takashi Watanabe and animated by J.C.Staff and A.C.G.T. It aired on April 9,2014 on Tokyo MX and finished on June 26,2014. The mecha design is by Makoto Ishiwata of Nitroplus.
Z-Mind is a six-episode OVA series produced by Sunrise and Bandai Visual,released from February 25,1999 to July 25,1999. The OVA series was initially released in North America on DVD in 2002 by Bandai Entertainment. At Otakon 2013,the OVAs,along with a bunch of other former Bandai Entertainment properties were rescued by Sentai Filmworks.
Manaria Friends,formerly Rage of Bahamut:Manaria Friends,is a Japanese anime television series based on the Rage of Bahamut social game. It was originally scheduled to premiere in April 2016,before being postponed and rescheduled to January 2019. The anime series is licensed worldwide excluding Asia by Sentai Filmworks.
Matoi the Sacred Slayer is a Japanese magical girl anime television series produced by White Fox. It was announced in July 2016 as White Fox's first original anime series that aired between October 4 and December 27,2016.
Made in Abyss is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo's digital publication Web Comic Gamma since 2012 and has been collected into ten tankōbon volumes.
Getter Robo Arc is a manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa and illustrated by Ishikawa himself. It was first serialized in Futabasha's Super Robot Magazine from July 19,2001 to September 19,2003,compiling into 3 tankōbon volumes until its premature cancellation. Taking place 10 years after both Shin Getter Robo and Getter Robo Go,it follows a new Getter Team led by Hayato to stop the invasion of the Andromeda Stellaration from invading Earth using the new mecha,Getter Robo Arc. An anime television series adaptation by Bee Media and Studio A-Cat aired from July to September 2021.
