Digimon, short for "Digital Monsters", is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on Digimon creatures, which are monsters living in a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.
Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese manga series about gaming written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine between September 30, 1996 and March 8, 2004. The plot follows the story of a boy named Yugi Mutou, who solves the ancient Millennium Puzzle. Yugi awakens a gambling alter-ego within his body that solves his conflicts using various games.
Archie's Weird Mysteries is a French/American animated television series based on the characters by Archie Comics. The series premise revolves around a Riverdale High physics lab gone awry, making the town of Riverdale a "magnet" for B movie style monsters. The series is distributed as meeting the FCC's educational and informational children's programming ("E/I") requirements, and is used by commercial stations in the United States to meet this guideline. Produced by Les Studios Tex and DIC Productions, L.P., the series was initially shown mornings on the PAX network, often with infomercials bookending the program. The series eventually premiered in France on M6 on January 19, 2000.
Frankenstein's monster, often referred to as "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley's title thus compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire.
Lewis Trondheim, is a French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons. He explained his choice of pseudonym after the Norwegian city of Trondheim as follows: "As a last name I wanted to use a city's name, but Lewis Bordeaux or Lewis Toulouse didn't sound so good. Then I thought about this city, Trondheim… Maybe someday I will publish a book under my real name, in order to remain anonymous."
Godzilla: The Series is an American-Japanese animated television series developed by Jeff Kline and Richard Raynis, which originally aired on Fox Kids in the United States between September 1998 and April 2000, and a sequel to Godzilla (1998). Malcolm Danare, Kevin Dunn and Michael Lerner reprise their roles from the film.
The Spiffy Adventures of McConey is a Franco-Belgian comic series by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It debuted in 1992.
Slaloms is a story in the comics series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in a smaller black-and-white format in 1993, then entirely redrawn for the 1997 re-release as volume 0 in the series.
Pichenettes is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1996 as volume 2 in the series.
Amour & Intérim is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1998 as volume 4 in the series.
Vacances de printemps is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1999 as volume 5 in the series.
Pour de vrai is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1999 as volume 6 in the series.
La couleur de l'enfer is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 2000 as volume 7 in the series.
L'accélérateur atomique is an album in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey, by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 2003 as volume 9 in the series.
Pocket Monsters is one of the first Pocket Monsters manga to come out in Japan and ran for 13 volumes. In Singapore it was published by Chuang Yi in English in 2005 and it was retitled Pokémon Pocket Monsters. While the first series is set in Kanto, and then Johto, new series were released based on Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos and Alola. The author is Kosaku Anakubo.
The first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, based on the manga by Kazuki Takahashi, premiered in Japan on April 18, 2000, and concluded on April 3, 2001, on TV Tokyo. An English adaptation of the series was made and premiered in the United States on September 29, 2001, and concluded on November 9, 2002, on Kids' WB. It was renamed Yu-Gi-Oh!, due to the fact that the first Yu-Gi-Oh! TV series was never released outside Japan. The season was directed by Kunihisa Sugishima, and written by Junki Takegami, Masashi Sogo, and Shin Yoshida. The original version features vocals from Shunsuke Kazama, Hiroki Takahashi, Hidehiro Kikuchi, Maki Saito and Kenjiro Tsuda as the main characters. The English adaptation features vocals from Amy Birnbaum, Frank Frankson, Wayne Grayson, Dan Green, Chuck Powers, Sam Regal, Eric Stuart and Dwayne Tan as the main characters.
Playtoons is a series of linked games, released in 1994, which allow players to make their own cartoons using a variety of characters, backgrounds, scenery and props from either a single game or a mixture from the full series.
