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Fantasy
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Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other elements as a main plot element, theme. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds, in popular culture, the fantasy genre is predominantly of the medievalist form. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy works by many writers, artists, filmmakers. Fantasy is studied in a number of disciplines including English and other studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, history. The identifying trait of fantasy is the reliance on imagination to create narrative elements that do not have to rely on history or nature to be coherent. This differs from realistic fiction in that whereas realistic fiction has to attend to the history and natural laws of reality, an author applies his or her imagination to come up with characters, plots, and settings that are impossible in reality. Fantasy has often compared with science fiction and horror because they are the major categories of speculative fiction. Fantasy is distinguished from science fiction by the plausibility of the narrative elements, a science fiction narrative is unlikely, though seeming possible through logical scientific and/or technological extrapolation, whereas fantasy narratives do not need to be scientifically possible. The imagined elements of fantasy do not need an explanation to be narratively functional. Authors have to rely on the suspension of disbelief, an acceptance of the unbelievable or impossible for the sake of enjoyment. Despite both genres heavy reliance on the supernatural, fantasy and horror are distinguishable, horror primarily evokes fear through the protagonists weaknesses or inability to deal with the antagonists. Beginning perhaps with the earliest written documents, mythic and other elements that would come to define fantasy. MacDonald was an influence on both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The other major fantasy author of this era was William Morris, lord Dunsany established the genres popularity in both the novel and the short story form. Many popular mainstream authors also began to write fantasy at this time, including H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Indeed, juvenile fantasy was considered more acceptable than fantasy intended for adults, nathaniel Hawthorne wrote fantasy in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, intended for children, though works for adults only verged on fantasy. Political and social trends can affect a societys reception towards fantasy, in the early 20th century, the New Culture Movements enthusiasm for Westernization and science in China compelled them to condemn the fantastical shenmo genre of traditional Chinese literature
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Kow Otani
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Kow Otani is a Japanese music composer. He is best known for creating the soundtracks for the Heisei Gamera trilogy, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah, Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, kow Otani was born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from university, he became a member of Yuji Saitos music production company Imagine in November 1986. The company has grown to feature musicians like Kohei Tanaka, Shiro Hamaguchi, Hayato Matsuo, and Shinji Miyazaki, in 1987, he made his debut as an anime composer with the popular manga adaptation City Hunter, which earned him recognition in the industry. He later went on to work on such as Spy Games, The Ultimate Teacher, The Yadamura Waltz. The anime Future GPX Cyber Formula and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, in 2001, he created the score to the film Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah, Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. Other notable scores by Otani include Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing, Endless Waltz, Cross Fire, The SoulTaker, Haibane Renmei, eyeshield 21, Pumpkin Scissors, Deltora Quest, and Over Drive. He has also been the director and keyboardist of the band Dreams Come True. He appeared at Eminence Symphony Orchestras events A Night in Fantasia 2007, Symphonic Games Edition, throughout his career, Otani has also composed music for several video games, making his debut with the 1995 shooter game Philosoma. In 2000, he created the soundtrack to the flight simulator Sky Odyssey and he scored Shadow of the Colossus in 2005, his most famous video game work. He did two more game to anime adaptations, Night Warriors, Darkstalkers Revenge and Popolocrois Monogatari. In 2005, he created the track Madness alongside Hiroko Shigezumi for the Square Enix game Heavy Metal Thunder
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Australasia
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Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Charles de Brosses coined the term in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes and he derived it from the Latin for south of Asia and differentiated the area from Polynesia and the southeast Pacific. The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India, physiographically, Australasia includes New Zealand, Australia, and Melanesia, New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° south. Most of Australasia lies on the portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west. Sometimes the term encompasses the island of New Guinea. Many organisations whose names include the prefix Australasian Society of, limit their scope of operation to just Australia and New Zealand. In the past, Australasia has been used as a name for combined Australia/New Zealand sporting teams, examples include tennis between 1905 and 1915, when New Zealand and Australia combined to compete in the Davis Cup international tournament, and at the Olympic Games of 1908 and 1912. From an ecological perspective the Australasia ecozone forms a region with a common geologic and evolutionary history. In this context, Australasia is limited to Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the Wallace Line marks the biological divide from the Indomalaya ecozone of tropical Asia – Borneo and Bali lie on the western, Asian side. These three land masses have been separated from other continents, and from one another, for millions of years, all of Australasia shares the Antarctic flora, although the northern, tropical islands also share many plants with Southeast Asia. Mainland Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania are separated from one another by shallow continental shelves and they share a similar fauna which includes marsupial and monotreme mammals and ratite birds. Eucalypts are the predominant trees in much of Australia and New Guinea, New Zealand has no extant native land mammals aside from bats, but also had ratite birds, including the kiwi and the extinct moa. Media related to Australasia at Wikimedia Commons
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Madman Entertainment
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Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that distributes Australian and foreign films as well as Japanese anime and manga in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Madman is one of the entertainment companies in Australia. It employs approx 100 people and has a turnover of around A$50 million. Its headquarters is in Richmond, Victoria, Madman has secured the local release rights to popular titles including Sailor Moon, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira, Steins, Gate and almost all of Studio Ghiblis catalogue. In addition to DVD sales, Madman manages the theatrical release of some of their titles, according to market research, Madman accounts for 97% of the total anime home media market in Australia. Later on in 1997, Madman started to distribute anime from ADV Films along with Siren Entertainment, in 2001 Madman Entertainment bought Sirens distribution equipment and established The AV Channel, allowing Madman to distribute their own titles. As of 2008, only some of Manga Entertainment Australias titles from the 1990s have been distributed by Madman, some of their DVD releases have been jointly mastered with Britains MVM Films or Revelation Films to save costs, and are therefore dual-region. A few DVD titles from Madman, such as the Oh My Goddess, oVAs, are all-region or multi-region DVDs in the NTSC format, imported from the US and repackaged for sale in Australia and New Zealand. Madman & Manga UK also work together on PAL DVD & Region B Blu-ray masters and video transfers, a growing selection of manga titles translated by Tokyopop in the United States and Chuang Yi in Singapore are being imported and distributed through Madman Entertainment. In February 2008, Madman announced that they would also be distributing manga titles from Viz Media, Madman currently distributes manga from Viz Media, Dark Horse Comics, Tokyopop, and recently from Yen Press with the 2012 release of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Madman launched in 1996 solely as a distribution company, but has since expanded. Madman also has a distribution arm called Madman Cinema. In addition, the company distributes original series produced by Australias Special Broadcasting Service on DVD, at the 2008 Supanova Pop Culture Expo, Madman announced plans to explore new distribution methods. The company now offers streaming of selected anime episodes, beginning with the first episode of School Rumble. Madman now has a sub-page, Madman Scereening Room, dedicated to video streaming, Madman has also begun releasing Blu-ray Disc titles, starting with The Transformers, The Movie in June 2009. On 1 June 2009, Madman Entertainment released an English adaption of Tamagotchi, The Movie, Madman also intended to dub the films sequel, Tamagotchi, Happiest Story in the Universe. But the dub was cancelled for unknown reasons, in April 2008, the company announced a collaboration with British company Warp Films. Warp and Madman plan to make at least two films together over the three years, starting with Tyrannosaur
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Northern America
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Northern America is the northernmost subcontinent of North America. It lies directly north of the region of Middle America, consisting of Mexico, the Caribbean, the land border between the two regions coincides with the border between the United States and Mexico. Geopolitically, according to the scheme of geographic regions and subregions, Northern America consists of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, maps using the term Northern America date back to 1755, when the region was occupied by France, Great Britain, and Spain. The Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America in 1813 applied to Mexico, Central America Middle America Americas Anglo-America
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Funimation
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Funimation is an American entertainment, anime, and foreign licensing company based in Flower Mound, Texas. The studio is one of the distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America alongside Viz Media, Sentai Filmworks. It was founded on May 9,1994 by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy as FUNimation Productions, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, Funimation was sold to Navarre Corporation on May 11,2005 and the company was renamed FUNimation Entertainment. In April 2011, Navarre sold Funimation to a group of investors including Fukunaga for $24 million, around the same time, the companys trademark ball, star and blue bar were dropped from its logo and the company was renamed to simply Funimation. In May 2013, Funimation consolidated its divisions under its new holding company Group 1200 Media, Funimation is a portmanteau of the English words fun and animation. The company was founded on May 9,1994 by Japanese-born businessman Gen Fukunaga, fukunagas uncle, Nagafumi Hori, was working as a producer for Toei Company, Hori approached Gen about licensing Dragon Ball to the United States. He proposed that if Fukunaga could start a company and raise enough money. Fukunaga met with co-worker Daniel Cocanougher whose family owned a mill in Decatur, Texas and convinced Cocanoughers family to sell their business. The company was formed in Silicon Valley, California as Funimation Productions in 1994. They initially collaborated with companies on Dragon Ball, such as BLT Productions, Ocean Studios, Pioneer. This led Funimation to begin licensing other anime to the U. S, on May 11,2005, Funimation was acquired by the now-defunct Navarre Corporation for US$100.4 million in cash and 1.8 million shares of Navarre stock. Funimation moved into the Lakeside Business District with a ten-year lease, in July 2008, Funimation confirmed that they had acquired distribution rights to several Geneon titles, including some that Geneon had left unfinished when they ceased operations. At Anime Expo 2008, Funimation announced that it had acquired over 30 titles from the Sojitz catalog that had previously licensed by ADV Films. In 2009, Funimation signed a deal with Toei Animation to stream several of its anime titles online through the Funimation website, in the first quarter of 2010, Navarre Corporation reclassified Funimation as discounted operations and began preparations to sell the company. Navarre released a statement in April 2011 confirming that Funimation has been sold to a group of investors, including original owner Gen Fukunaga, for $24 million. It is speculated that Funimation was sold at such a low cost because Navarre wanted to continue distributing goods in relation to the products, Navarre remained as exclusive distributor of Funimations titles until 2013 when the company shutdown. From this point on, virtually all titles simulcasted by Niconico were acquired by Funimation, the deal has since been severed. On June 22,2015, Funimation and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced a home video distribution deal
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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MVM Entertainment
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MVM Entertainment, also known as MVM and MVM Films, is a British distributor of Japanese animation. It is part of the MVM Group, which also has wholesale and retail arms and it is headquartered in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. MVM Entertainment came into existence in 1990 as a mail order and it grew as did the demand for anime and manga products into the nineties, allowing the company to start licensing anime series for the United Kingdom market in 1998. Today MVM have over 40 different titles for the UK market and is the largest anime distributor in the country by volume of titles, some of their DVD releases have been jointly mastered with Australias Madman to save costs, and are therefore dual-region. The company also won the Best Anime distributor award in the 2006 Neo Magazine Awards, MVM Entertainment had also managed to win the 2009 Best Anime Distributor award in Neo magazine amid stiff opposition from the likes of Beez and Manga Entertainment UK. Up until November 2006, Funimation distributed their titles in the United Kingdom through MVM, however, in a surprise announcement, Funimation switched their British distributor to Revelation Films, starting in early 2007. This move has been credited to Funimation’s takeover by the Navarre Corporation, MVM retained their licenses for some series animated by studio GONZO and licensed by Funimation in North America, such as Samurai 7 and Burst Angel, since they were licensed directly from GONZO. Nevertheless, MVM’s market share was damaged, and the publisher lost some of their most popular titles, including Fruits Basket and Fullmetal Alchemist. MVMs most recent releases of Funimation-licensed titles are Aquarion. hack//Quantum, Shakugan no Shana, Ga-Rei, Zero, Sankarea, Is This a Zombie. and – Control
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Kadokawa Shoten
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Kadokawa Shoten, formerly Kadokawa Shoten Co. Ltd. is a Japanese publisher and brand company of Kadokawa Corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1,2013. Kadokawa has published both manga novels and magazines, such as Newtype magazine, since its founding, Kadokawa has expanded into the multimedia sector, namely in video games and movies. Kadokawa Shoten was established on November 10,1945 by Genyoshi Kadokawa, the companys first publication imprint, Kadokawa Bunko, was published in 1949. The company went public on April 2,1954, in 1975, Haruki Kadokawa became the president of Kadokawa Shoten, following Genyoshi Kadokawas death. On April 1,2003, Kadokawa Shoten was renamed to Kadokawa Holdings, on July 1,2006, the parent company was renamed to Kadokawa Group Holdings, and inherited the management and integration businesses within Kadokawa Shoten. In January 2007, Kadokawa Group Holdings inherited the management and integration businesses within Kadokawa Shoten, the magazine businesses was transferred to the Kadokawa Magazine Group. The video game divisions of Kadokawa Shoten, ASCII Media Works, Kadokawa Shoten ceased being a kabushiki gaisha on October 1,2013 when it was merged with eight other companies to become a brand company of Kadokawa Corporation. Kadokawa Haruki Corporation, Founded in 1976 Haruki Kadokawa as a production company. The company was merged into Kadokawa Shoten. When Haruki Kadokawa was still on bail following his 1993 arrest, Fujimi Shobo, In 1991, Fujimi Shobo was merged into Kadokawa Shoten, but continued operations as a division of Kadokawa Shoten. The Television), In 1993, it was merged into Kadokawa Shoten, Kadokawa Media Office, In 1993, it was merged into Kadokawa Shoten. Kadokawa J-com media Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan Publishing, Formerly Hichō Kikaku, in 2007, Kadokawas stake of Asmik Ace was transferred to Kadokawa Group Holdings. In 2010, Sumitomo purchased the remaining 20% stake from Kadokawa Group Holdings, cinema Paradise Taiwan Animate Chara Ani. hack//G. U. Bio Booster Armor Guyver Black Rock Shooter Brain Powerd Cardfight, frog Shangri-La Shibuya Fifteen Shirahime-Syo, Snow Goddess Tales Slayers Sora no Otoshimono Steel Angel Kurumi Strider Hiryu Super Lovers Tenchi Muyo
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Comp Ace
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Comp Ace is a Japanese computer game and manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten. Comp Ace began as a special version of another one of Kadokawa Shotens magazines. The first issue was released on March 26,2005, and was published quarterly for the first three volumes which had cover illustrations by Itaru Hinoue of Key, volumes four through nine where published bimonthly with cover art providved by Aoi Nishimata of Navel. Starting with the August 2007 issue published on June 26,2007, Comp Ace broke off from Comptiq and its main focus is on bishōjo games and manga that are based on said games. Eclipse Stage Battle Cinder-Ella- Canaan Canvas 2 ~Niji Iro no Sketch~ Cardfight, -Hyper Girls Pop- Fukanzen Shinsei Kikan Iris H2O, Footprints in the Sand Hatsune Miku, Mikubon Hatsuyuki Sakura Hana no Miyako. Lucky Star Macross Frontier Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Innocent Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai, maoyū Maō Yūsha - Kono Watashi no Mono Tonare, Yuusha Yo Kotowaru. Never Say Goodbye Touhou Suzunaan, Forbidden Scrollery Tsuyokiss Utsūtsuhi de Onikki Valkyria Chronicles Weiß Survive R Yosuga no Sora Yōjo Senki Official website
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Bandai Visual
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Most of the anime and films that has been distributed and licensed by Bandai Visual has been released under the Emotion label. Since the reorganisation of Bandai Namco Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual now heads the groups Visual and its subsidiaries include the Emotion Music Company, Limited, and Lantis Company, Limited music publishing labels. Bandai Visual is currently a fully owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings, Bandai Namco announced on November 8,2007 that it would buy the voting shares it did not own between that date and December 10,2007 and turn the company into a wholly owned subsidiary. On December 18,2007, Bandai Namco announced that it owned 93. 63% of Bandai Visuals shares since the end of November, the remaining shares were delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on February 15,2008 after Bandai Namco acquired the remaining 10% of the shares. Bandai Entertainment is a subsidiary of Bandai America, founded in 1998. Their first releases were under the AnimeVillage. com label up until 1999 when Bandai Entertainment started releasing its titles, despite its name it was not directly established by Bandai Visual. Originally separate from Bandai Visual USA, Namco Holdings announced that Bandai Entertainment would absorb Bandai Visual USA in 2008, the company also licensed manga series for release with English translation, and published American-made graphic novels. As with many North American anime distributors, Bandai Entertainment offered a fan support program to public screenings of licensed content at anime clubs. The company confirmed on January 2,2012 that they would stop offering new DVD, Blu-ray disc and manga releases by February, Bandai Entertainment was restructured to focus on licensing anime to other companies. On August 30,2012, Bandai America announced that it shut down Bandai Entertainment and discontinue distributing their home video. They made their final shipment to retailers on November 30,2012, many former Bandai Entertainment titles have been re-licensed by companies like Funimation, Discotek Media, Nozomi Entertainment & Sentai Filmworks. In 2017, Bandai Entertainment was temporarily relaunched by Manga Entertainment to release both seasons of Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex on Blu-ray, Beez Entertainment was the European branch of Bandai Entertainment that also distributed anime and music and were also owned by Bandai Namco Holdings. The name is an acronym for Bandai Entertainment European Zone, following the discontinuation of Bandai Entertainment, Beez has also stopped releasing anime in the European market. Their anime releases were licensed in North America by Bandai Entertainment, Bandai Visual USA was established in 2005 to distribute and market Bandai Visuals productions in North America. Unlike Bandai Entertainment, Bandai Visual USAs releases were of high quality and were aimed at collectors and their titles were released under the Honnêamise label. Bandai Visual USAs anime products were distributed in North America initially by Image Entertainment and later, Geneon Entertainment USA, on May 23,2008, Bandai Namco Holdings announced that Bandai Visual USA would be merged into Bandai Entertainment. Bandai Visual USA was dissolved on July 1,2008, Honnêamise was Bandai Visual USAs boutique label that distributed deluxe editions of anime and artsier products. The labels namesake comes from Royal Space Force, The Wings of Honnêamise, the label was shut down on July 1,2008 when Bandai Visual USA was absorbed into Bandai Entertainment
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.hack//G.U.
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. hack//G. U. is a series of single-player action role-playing games for the PlayStation 2, developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Games. Simulates a massively multiplayer online role-playing game as the controls a character who starts playing it. The story focuses on a player named Haseo who hunts a player nicknamed Tri-Edge who defeated his friend Shino, Haseo comes into contact with other players who know of Tri-Edge and wish to stop him. The reason for Shino and several other players falling into a coma is connected with AIDA, during the release of the games in Japan, Bee Train produced an anime titled. hack//Roots that tells Haseos first days in The World. The series has also adapted into a manga, a light novel. The first game got higher scores, critics praised the addition of new features while parts from the story have been labeled as fillers. hack//G. U. Simulates a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, players assume the role of a participant in a game called The World. While in The World, the controls the on-screen player character, Haseo. The player may control the camera using the controllers right analog stick. Within the fictional game, players explore monster-infested fields and dungeons as well as Root Towns that are free of combat. They also can log-off from the game and return to a desktop interface which includes in-game e-mail, news. In Reminisce, a card game called Crimson VS becomes available. The player may save the game to a memory card both from the desktop and within The World at a Save Shop. After the player completes the game, a Data Flag appears on the save file and this can also be applied to previous games if the player first finished the Reminisce or Redemption. Players can attack monsters in real time, however, the action pauses whenever the menu is opened in order to select magic to cast, items to use, or skills to perform. The player only directly controls Haseo, while the characters are controlled by artificial intelligence. The player may either provide guidelines or issue commands to the computer-controlled characters. Monsters roam the environments freely or guard treasure chests, once combat is initiated, via a surprise attack or the player being spotted, a wall erects around the combat area to prevent escape
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Bee Train
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Bee Train Production, commonly referred to simply as Bee Train, is a Japanese animation studio founded by Kōichi Mashimo in 1997. Originally, Bee Train was a subsidiary of Production I. G along with Xebec but in February 2006, it ended its relationship and this studio-as-hospital approach was allegedly invented by Mashimo during his prolonged stay in an intensive care unit and has been Bee Trains official strategy ever since. The first projects published by the studio in 1999 were anime adaptations of game franchises popular in Japan, PoPoLoCrois, Arc the Lad, Wild Arms, Twilight Venom. Later, Bandai Visual joined forces with Bee Train to produce an anime OVA based on the famous. hack video game series. Simultaneously, they decided to promote the games with a television series. The OVA became known as. hack//Liminality and its four episodes were added as bonus material to each of the four games of the franchise. In 2006, Bee Train produced. hack//Roots, an anime to the. hack//G. U. Games and a successor to Sign. Bee Trains first independent project was Noir, aired in 2001, the series was produced at the same time as Sign and became the first installment of Bee Trains girls-with-guns trilogy. Although the girls-with-guns series are considered Bee Trains and, particularly, Mashimos signature works, from 1997 on, the studios headquarters were located in Kokubunji, Tokyo, although in 2001, it moved to another part of the city. Two more studio locations were acquired in 2004 and 2006, currently the main office now resides in Musashino, Tokyo with C-Station Co. Ltd. department in the Kokunbunji office. The company has been dormant since 2012 due to Kōichi Mashimos retirement from the anime industry, one frequent technique that Mashimo uses as part of his studio-as-hospital strategy is brainstorming new anime concepts with his colleagues in the state of alcohol intoxication. For example, according to him, that is how the idea of the connection between the two female leads of Madlax was born. Another typical Bee Train gesture is to invite Japanese voice actors who have worked on some of their projects to voice the characters similar to the ones they voiced before. For example, this list includes Hōko Kuwashima, Aya Hisakawa, the famous Japanese composer and music producer Yuki Kajiura has created musical scores for multiple projects by Bee Train since Noir. Kajiura has provided music for Sign, Liminality, Madlax, Tsubasa Chronicle, when explaining his preference for Kajiuras work, Mashimo once commented that shes a storyteller who just happens to know how to write music. Another frequent collaboration is that between Bee Train and the musical duo Ali Project, generally, the music plays a just as important role in Bee Trains works as visuals and dialogue do, sometimes even drowning the latter. Bee Train also participated in the works as a general for hire company
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.hack//Link
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. hack//Link is the final chapter to the. hack series. The story is told in manga with art by Megane Kikuya, a PlayStation Portable game of this title was released on March 4,2010 in Japan. The story takes place in the year 2020, three years after the events of. hack//G. U, the story will take place not only in the new version of The World known as The World R, X but in the real world as well. The lead character is a school student named Tokio Kuryuu. He lives a life as a gamer until a mysterious girl named Saika Amagi transfers to his school. Similar as the manga, the takes place in the year 2020. Tokio Kuryuu is a normal student who loves to play games. One day, a student named Saika Amagi approaches Tokio. There, he finds Kite, the hero and leader of Twilight Knight dedicated to protect The World fighting against Flügel. During their battle, Kite protected Tokio from Flügels attack, resulting Kites PC to be frozen, during their journey, Tokio befriends AIKA, a benevolent AIDA-PC that greatly resembles Saika whom the latter introduces as some sort of her alter ego. Saika also reveals that the reason shes gather Chrono Cores is because her cousin, the mystery behind Tokios ability to directly entering the game is revealed because he is a Doubleware, a special kind of human who has the ability to real digitise himself into network. Near reaching the top of Akashic Record, Tokio are confronted by the five remaining members of Schicksal, at this time, a virus suddenly came out from Tokios body and slowly corrupting Aura. Aura, who was corrupted, begins her onslaught throughout the network. Hoping to return Aura to normal, Tokio and all the revived Twilight Knights confronts Aura, unfortunately, the vaccine isnt enough to destroy the virus inside Aura, and one by one Tokios friend was defeated. To save everyone, AIKA sacrifices herself to restore Auras data, after the incident, Saika suddenly disappears, prompting Tokio to ask Flügel for help to locate her and finds her at a hospital where she is tending Jyotaro. Saika reveals her guilt for involving Tokio and blames herself for AIKAs death so she tries her best to just forget everything that happens and hopes for Tokio to do the same. Tokio refuses and convinces Saika that everything that happened are too meaningful and precious to be forgotten, Tokio and Saika reaffirms their friendship, both determines to overcome their sadness over AIKAs death. Tokio Kuryuu An avid gamer who never thinks about his future, because he beats most games easily, he becomes excited about the release of The World, R, X and is disappointed to find he is unable to obtain it
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a Japanese anime television series that premiered on Fuji TVs noitamina timeslot on July 9,2009, where it ended its original run on September 17. Directed by Masaki Tachibana and written by Natsuko Takahashi, it is an original series co-produced by Bones and it won the Excellence Prize in the Animation category at Japans Media Arts Festival in 2009. It was announced that the series has been licensed for a release in North America by Maiden Japan released on April 2013, after a massive earthquake in Tokyo 25 km under the sea at a magnitude of 8. Together, the three brave the ruined city and try their best to make it home safely, Mirai Onozawa is a first-year middle school student who attends Rika Girls Academy, a prestigious and selective middle school. At the beginning of the series, she is unsure of what she wants to become later in life, Voiced by, Satomi Hanamura, Luci Christian Yūki Onozawa is in his third year of elementary school and enthusiastic about robots. He has a distant relationship with his sister, and does not like to let others know when he is tired or ill. Voiced by, Yumiko Kobayashi, Tiffany Grant Mari Kusakabe is a courier who assists Mirai. They make a promise to reach their home together. Voiced by, Yūko Kaida, Shelley Calene-Black Seiji Onozawa, Mirai, Voiced by, Hiroshi Naka, David Matranga Masami Onozawa is Mirai and Yūkis mother. The earthquake occurs on her birthday, Voiced by, Kikuko Inoue, Maggie Flecknoe Mayu is one of Mirais friends from school. She is seen taking care of her siblings while her mother is in a nearby hospital. Voiced by, Eri Kitamura, Nancy Novotny Yuka is Mirais other friend from school, because of her laziness she tends to do poorly in her studies. Voiced by, Aki Toyosaki, Carli Mosier Risa another classmate of Mirais and she comes from a rich family and owns a summer house in Canada that was built by her father. Voiced by, Aya Endo, Allison Sumrall Itsuki is Yukis best friend who is in the class as him. Before the earthquake, he and Yuki along with their school teacher planted a tree in their schools yard, Voiced by, Miyuki Sawashiro, Shannon Emerick Hina Kusakabe is Maris daughter age 3 to 5 years old. While Hinas mother was out searching for her, she was staying with her grandmother during the earthquake, Voiced by, Megumi Yamaguchi, Nancy Novotny Kento Nonomiya a high school aged boy who becomes friends with Mirai in episode 6. Just like Yuki he is a big fan of robots, FNN newscaster Christel Takigawa also features as a guest, reporting on the earthquake and assuming the role of a navigator during the series. The series uses two pieces of theme music and your Song by abingdon boys school is used for the opening theme, while M/elody by Shion Tsuji is used for the ending. This series was broadcast only in Italy on Italian television channel Rai 4 on August 22,2011, official website Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 at Anime News Networks encyclopedia
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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
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As in all RPGs, the player assumes the role of a character and takes control over many of that characters actions. MMORPGs are played throughout the world, worldwide revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and Western revenues exceeded a billion dollars in 2006. In 2008, the spending on subscription MMORPGs by consumers in North American, World of Warcraft, a popular MMORPG, has over 10 million subscribers as of November 2014. World of Warcrafts total revenue was $1.04 billion US dollars in 2014, Star Wars, The Old Republic, released in 2011, became the worlds Fastest-Growing MMOG Ever after gaining more than 1 million subscribers within the first three days of its launch. Although modern MMORPGs sometimes differ dramatically from their decedents, many of them share the basic characteristics. The majority of popular MMORPGs are based on traditional fantasy themes, some employ hybrid themes that either merge or replace fantasy elements with those of science fiction, sword and sorcery, or crime fiction. Still, others draw thematic material from American comic books, the occult, often these elements are developed using similar tasks and scenarios involving quests, monsters, and loot. In nearly all MMORPGs, the development of the character is the primary goal. Traditionally, combat with monsters and completing quests for non-player characters, the accumulation of wealth is also a way to progress in many MMORPGs, and this is also traditionally best accomplished via combat. The cycle produced by these conditions, combat leading to new items allowing for more combat with no change in gameplay, is sometimes referred to as the level treadmill. The role-playing game Progress Quest was created as a parody of this trend, eve Online trains skills in real time rather than using experience points as a measure of progression. In some MMORPGs, there is no limit to a player’s level, MMORPGs that use this model often glorify top ranked players by displaying their avatars on the game’s website or posting their stats on a high score screen. Another common practice is to enforce a maximum level for all players. Once reached, the definition of a player’s progression changes, instead of being awarded primarily with experience for completing quests and dungeons, the player’s motivation to continue playing will be replaced with collecting money and equipment. Often, the range of equipment available at the maximum level will have increased aesthetic value to distinguish high ranking players in game between lower ranked players. Colloquially known as gear, this set of empowered weapons. Player motivation to outperform others is fueled by acquiring such items and is a significant determining factor in their success or failure in combat-related situations, also traditional in the genre is the eventual demand on players to team up with others in order to progress at the optimal rate. This sometimes forces players to change their schedules in order to keep up with the game-world
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.hack
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. hack is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses two projects, Project. hack and. hack Conglomerate. Both projects were primarily created/developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai, the series is mainly followed through anime and video game installations, and has been adapted through manga, novels and other related media. Project. hack was the first project of the. hack series and it launched in 2002 with the anime series. hack//Sign in April 2002 and the PlayStation 2 game. hack//Infection in June 2002. Project developers included Koichi Mashimo, Kazunori Ito, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, since then, Project. hack has spanned television, video games, manga, and novels. The four volumes, in sequence, are. hack//Infection. hack//Mutation. hack//Outbreak, and. hack//Quarantine. hack//frägment, the first. hack ORPG. It was released in only Japan, and the servers have since closed, ending all official online gameplay. hack//Enemy. The series focuses on a Wavemaster named Tsukasa, a character of a virtual-reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game called The World. Tsukasa wakes up to himself in a dungeon in The World. The situation gets worse when he discovers he is unable to log out and is trapped in the game, from then on, along with other players Tsukasa embarks on a quest to figure out the truth behind his abnormal situation. The series is influenced by psychological and sociological subjects such as anxiety, escapism, the series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 4,2002 and September 25,2002. It is distributed across North America by Bandai Entertainment. hack//Legend of the Twilight is a twelve episode anime adaption of the series written by Tatsuya Hamazaki. The series was directed by Koichi Mashimo and Koji Sawai, set in a fictional MMORPG, The World, the series focuses on twins Rena and Shugo, who receive chibi avatars in the design of the legendary. hackers known as Kite and BlackRose. After Shugo is given the Twilight Bracelet by a mysterious girl, the anime series features many of the same characters as the manga version, but with an alternative storyline. It was incorrectly called. hack//Dusk, among other names, in early fan-translated versions. hack//Liminality is a set of four DVD OVAs included with the. hack video game series for the PlayStation 2. Liminality is focused on the world as opposed to the games MMORPG The World. Separated into four volumes, each volume was released with its corresponding game, the initial episode is 45 minutes long and each subsequent episode is 30 minutes long. The video series was directed by Koichi Mashimo, written by Kazunori Itō with music by Yuki Kajiura, in Japan, it was available when the Data Flag on the memory card file in. hack//Quarantine was present, whereas the American version included Gift on the fourth Liminality DVD. It is predominantly a comedy that makes fun of everything that developed throughout the series, Character designs are deliberately simplistic. hack//AI buster, a novel released under Project. hack
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Kana Hanazawa
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Kana Hanazawa is a Japanese voice actress and singer represented by the Office Osawa talent agency. She is known for voice acting leading roles for a number of television shows and other anime-related media in Japan. Kuroneko / Ruri Gokō in Oreimo, Anri Sonohara in Durarara, nadeko Sengoku in Monogatari, Akane Tsunemori in Psycho-Pass, Kosaki Onodera in Nisekoi, Akane Sakurada in Castle Town Dandelion and Mayuri Shiina in Steins, Gate. Her debut single, Hoshizora Destination, was released on April 25,2012 under the Aniplex/Sony Music Entertainment Japan label, Hanazawa began acting when she was in kindergarten. She then signed up with voice acting agency Office Osawa and she graduated from university in 2011, and in the same year became a full-time voice actress. In late 2010, she was invited to the Anime Festival Asia anime convention in Singapore, on February 23,2012, it was announced that Hanazawa would launch her official website. Her first album Claire was released on February 20,2013 and she released the album Blue Avenue in April 2015, and went on a concert tour starting at the Nippon Budokan on May 3. Her Blu-ray of the show, Live Avenue Kana Hanazawa in Budokan, in 2015, she won Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Seiyu Awards. She later won Newtypes Best Voice Actress award, Hanazawa starred in her first live-action feature film Kimi ga Inakucha Dame Nanda Her video would later place tenth in Oricons Blu-ray Disc Chart. Hanazawa moved to the Sacra Music record label under Sony Music Entertainment Japan in April 2017, Official website Official agency profile Kana Hanazawa at Anime News Networks encyclopedia Kana Hanazawa at the Internet Movie Database Kana Hanazawa profile at Oricon
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Aomori, Aomori
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Aomori is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of northern Japan. As of September 2015, the city had an population of 288,029. The total area of the city was 824.61 square kilometres, Aomori literally means blue forest, although it could possibly be translated as green forest. The name is considered to refer to a small forest on a hill which existed near the town. This forest was used by fishermen as a landmark. A different theory suggests the name might have derived from the Ainu language. The large scale of these settlements revolutionized theories on Jōmon period civilization, during the Heian period, the area was part of the holdings of the Northern Fujiwara clan, but remained inhabited by the Emishi people well into the historic period. After the start of the Edo period, Aomori was a port settlement for Hirosaki Domain called Utō. The town was rebuilt in 1626 by Moriyama Yashichirō, under orders of the daimyō, Tsugaru Nobuhira and renamed Aomori, after the Meiji Restoration the various domains were abolished and replaced with prefectures, a total of six in the territory of modern Aomori Prefecture. These were merged into the short-lived Hirosaki Prefecture in July 1871, however, Aomori was not given town status within Higashitsugaru District until April 1,1889, and was not designated a city until April 1,1898. The Hokkaidō Colonization Office began operations of a service from Aomori to Hakodate in Hokkaido from 1872. In September 1891, Aomori was connected with Tokyo by rail with the opening of the Tōhoku Main Line, the Ōu Main Line running along the Sea of Japan coast opened in December 1894. The 8th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army were stationed in Aomori from 1896, much of the town burned down in a large fire on May 3,1910. The port facilities were expanded in 1924, and the city received its first bus services in 1926, Japan Air Transport began scheduled air services from 1937. The July 28–29 bombing claimed 1,767 lives and destroyed 88% of the city, in the post war period, Aomori rebuilt as the local political and commercial center. The Tsugaru Line railway opened in 1951, and Aomori Airport in 1964, the city was connected to Tokyo by highway in 1979 with the opening of the Tōhoku Expressway. Aomori’s landmark pyramidal Aomori Prefectural Tourist Center opened in 1986, on October 1,2002, Aomori was proclaimed a core city with increased autonomy from the central government. On April 1,2005, the town of Namioka was merged into Aomori, Aomori is located in central Aomori Prefecture, between the southern end of Mutsu Bay, which it faces to the north and the Hakkōda Mountains to the south
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Player character
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A player character or playable character is a fictional character in a role-playing or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters, the actions of non-player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games, or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role-playing games. The player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling it, video games typically have one player character for each person playing the game. Some games offer a group of characters for the player to choose from. Where more than one character is available, the characters may have different abilities, strengths. A player character may sometimes be based on a real person, historical people and leaders may sometimes appear as characters too, particularly in strategy or empire building games such as in Sid Meiers Civilization series. Such a player character is properly an avatar as the player characters name. Avatars are also seen in casino game simulations. In many video games, and especially first-person shooters, the character is a blank slate without any notable characteristics or even backstory. Pac-Man, Crono, Link and Chell are examples of such characters and these characters are generally silent protagonists. Some games will go further, never showing or naming the player-character at all. This is somewhat common in first-person videogames, such as in Myst, having many different characters to play as and against, all possessing different moves and abilities, is necessary to create a larger gameplay variety in such games. In role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons or Final Fantasy, the character is usually of a certain race and class, each with strengths and weaknesses. The attributes of the characters are given as numerical values which can be increased as the gamer progresses and gains rank, a secret or unlockable character may be a playable character in a video game available after completing the game or meeting other requirements
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Miyuki Sawashiro
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Miyuki Sawashiro is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Aoni Production. She participated in voice actor auditions of Di Gi Charat in May 2,1999 and she was not able to record for the English dub of the Di Gi Charat TV series because of a scheduling conflict. She was affiliated with Mausu Promotion since the start of her acting career until August 2015 when she became affiliated with Aoni Production. During her time in school, she stayed in Pennsylvania. Currently, she takes time off to practice English when shes not busy with voiceover work
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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto is a Japanese character designer, manga artist, and one of the founding members of the Gainax anime studio. Before Gainax was founded under the name, Yoshiyuki served as animator on the second animated project. His first assignment as character designer in Gainax was for Royal Space Force, The Wings of Honnêamise, Sadamoto has since had many works credited to him, one of the most notable being Neon Genesis Evangelion where he worked as a designer for the characters. Yoshiyukis three most recent films include, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, according to Yasuo Otsuka, who guided Sadamoto as a newcomer, there are only three people whom he regarded as more skillful than himself that he has met during his career. One of them is Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the other two are Sadao Tsukioka who became a visual creator, and award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki. When Otsuka met the three men, he seems to have felt that he was taking off his hat to them at once, however, he thinks that only Miyazaki completely mastered a genuinely superior animation technique at present. He guesses, A too excellent person might despair in the group work, in general, I don’t want to draw something that I have to study further in order to draw. For example, I could not draw a medical manga because it’s impossible for me to make a lie about medicine, also things like Soccer and Baseball. I am unfamiliar with these worlds so it would be too difficult to show the actual plays, when asked about dream collaborations he revealed an interest in working with Robert Westall and Philip K. Dick but apologized These are all deceased people, sorry
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Hiroshi Okuda
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Hiroshi Okuda, is the former chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation from 1999 to 2006. He became president of Toyota in 1995 and has worked at the corporation for 50 years, in 1998, Okuda was selected as a member of the Prime Ministers Economic Strategy Council of Japan and became chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations in 1999. He has also held the position of chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association since 2000, Okuda holds a 4th dan black belt in Judo and graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1955. Okuda is credited with seeing the need for hybrid cars early and pushing Toyota towards quickly bringing them to market
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JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment
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It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Entertainment operates the RCA Victor label. April 1972, Victor Music Industries, Inc. spun off as subsidiary of JVC February 1984, Sales and marketing department of JVC spun off as Nihon AVC, April 1993, Nihon AVC and Victor Music Industries merge and the name is changed to Victor Entertainment, Inc. March 1999, Moved main office April 2014, Changed corporate name to JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment Corporation, listed alphabetically by group or first name
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NTT DoCoMo
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NTT DOCOMO, Inc. is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, do communications over the mobile network, Docomo provides phone, video phone, i-mode, and mail services. The companys headquarters are in the Sanno Park Tower, Nagatachō, Chiyoda, at the beginning of 2015, it was the fourth largest public company in Japan when measured by market capitalization. Docomo was spun off from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in August 1991 to take over the mobile cellular operations. It provides 2G PDC cellular services on the 800 MHz band, and 3G FOMA W-CDMA services on the 2 GHz and 800 MHz and 1700 MHz bands and its businesses also included PHS, paging, and satellite. Docomo ceased offering a PHS service on January 7,2008, NTT Docomo is a subsidiary of Japans incumbent telephone operator, NTT. The majority of NTT Docomos shares are owned by NTT, while some NTT shares are publicly traded, control of the company by Japanese interests is guaranteed by the number of shares available to buyers. It provides wireless voice and data communications to subscribers in Japan, NTT Docomo is the creator of W-CDMA technology as well as mobile i-mode service. In late 1995, Docomo CEO hired the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for strategy development, NTT Docomo has more than 53 million customers, which is more than half of Japans cellular market. The company provides a variety of mobile multimedia services. NTT Docomo is listed on the Tokyo, London, and New York stock exchanges, on April 19,2008, it was announced that Ryuji Yamada, the current co-president of NTT Docomo, will be promoted as the president of NTT Docomo in June 2008. Masao Nakamura will stay in NTT Docomo as a director and also the senior adviser. Since October 2006, when the introduction to the service allows the user to carry their original phone number with a new provider was made, NTT Docomo has lost many users to KDDI. This promotion was made in order to get more users for NTT Docomo, the company was the last major global mobile carrier to offer Apples iPhone, which it finally did with the release of the iPhone 5s and 5c. This has been cited as one of the reasons for the stream of its customers switching for competing networks. In June 2011, the announced that they were teaming up with McAfee to provide McAfee VirusScan Mobile for its Android mobile users. In July 2012, NTT Docomo acquired Italys Buongiorno in a deal worth 209 million euros, on October 2007, the prototype Wellness mobile phone of Japans NTT Docomo Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was launched at CEATEC. It checks health with a sensor that detects body movement and measures calories
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Anime News Network
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Additionally, it sometimes features similar happenings throughout the world. Founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, the claims to be the leading English-language source for news and information about anime. The site operated, until 2008 the magazine Protoculture Addicts, the website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, current CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the editorial staff. In January 2007, ANN launched a version for Australian audiences. On July 4,2008, ANN launched its platform with a library of anime trailers as well as its own news show ANNtv. In the fall of 2004, the staff at ANN became formally involved with the anime magazine Protoculture Addicts. On September 7,2004, the Sci Fi Channel online newsletter Sci Fi Weekly named the site the Web Site of the Week. The website maintains a listing of anime and manga titles, as well as people and companies involved in the production of those titles, staff members of ANN also publish their own blogs hosted on the site. ANN also hosts forums, and includes threads to accompany each news item for purposes of discussion, anime News Network hosts an IRC channel on the WorldIRC network, #animenewsnetwork
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.hack (video game series)
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. hack /dɒt hæk/ is a series of single-player action role-playing video games developed for the PlayStation 2 console by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai. Players may transfer their characters and data between games in the series, each game comes with an extra DVD containing an episode of. hack//Liminality, the accompanying original video animation series which details fictional events that occur concurrently with the games. The games are part of a franchise called Project. hack which explores the mysterious origins of The World. Set after the events of the anime series. hack//Sign, the focus on a player named Kite. The search evolves into an investigation of The World and its effects on the stability of the Internet. Critics gave the mixed reviews. It was praised for its setting and its commitment to preserve suspension of disbelief. However, it was criticized for uneven pacing and a lack of improvement between games, the commercial success of the franchise led to the production of. hack//frägment—a remake of the series with online capabilities—and. hack//G. U. Another video game trilogy. hack simulates an MMORPG, players assume the role of a participant in a game called The World. The player controls the player character Kite from a third-person perspective. The player manually controls the viewing perspective using the game controller, within the fictional game, players explore monster-infested fields and dungeons, and Root Towns that are free of combat. They can also log off from The World and return to a desktop interface which includes in-game e-mail, news, message boards. The player may save the game to a memory card both from the desktop and within The World at a Save Shop. A Data Flag appears on the file after the player completes the game, allowing the transfer of all aspects of the player character. The series is typical of action role-playing games, in which attack enemies in real time. The games action pauses whenever the menu is opened to select magic to cast, items to use, the player directly controls Kite and the other characters are controlled by artificial intelligence. The player may provide the computer-controlled characters with guidelines or issue direct commands. Most hostile creatures are contained within magic portals and combat will not begin until the character approaches the portal
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.hack//Sign
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. hack//Sign is an anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo and produced by studio Bee Train and Bandai Visual, that makes up one of the four original storylines of the. hack franchise. Twenty six original episodes aired in 2002 on TV and three additional episodes were released on DVD as original video animations. The series features character design by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, known for his work on Evangelion, and screenplay by Kazunori Itō, the series focuses on a Wavemaster named Tsukasa, a player character of a virtual-reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game called The World. Tsukasa wakes up to himself in a dungeon in The World. The situation gets worse when he discovers he is unable to log out and is trapped in the game, from then on, along with other players Tsukasa embarks on a quest to figure out the truth behind his abnormal situation. The show premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 4,2002 and September 25,2002 and it was distributed across North America by Bandai Entertainment. It relies on character development and has few action scenes, most of the character interaction is presented in the form of dialogue. The results are described as catastrophic, traffic lights shut down, planes collide in midair, as a consequence, cyberspace is subjected to severe restrictions. The virus affects all operating systems except for one, Altimit OS, two years later free access to the networks recovers, bringing with it the release of The World, the first online game since Plutos Kiss, developed for Altimit OS. At the center of each server is a Root Town, which contain shops, a point. Harald Hoerwick is introduced as the creator of The World and he secretly designed the game as a virtual womb in order to create the ultimate artificial intelligence, by receiving emotional and psychological data from the players. His motivation is revealed to be the death of Emma Wielant, a German poet whom he was in love with, the AI, who was named Aura, would serve as the daughter they never had. Harald left the gathering of the data for Auras development at the care of the core system of The World itself. Despite being a fantasy quest type adventure, it does not rely on action sequences, instead, the show is driven by mystery, slowly revealing its secrets to the viewer while paying much attention to the individual characters. Questions like what happened to Tsukasa in the world, who he really is. Soon after the beginning of the series Tsukasa is led to a hidden area, there he meets Morganna, depicted as a voice without physical appearance, and Aura, who appears as a young girl clad entirely in white, floating asleep above a bed. The storyline introduces Morganna as an ally, but her intentions are unknown at this point. As the story progresses many characters are introduced, some who want to help, then more questions arise as to what is happening in the game itself, who are these various characters, what are their true goals and what will happen to Tsukasa
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.hack//Liminality
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Liminality was separated into four volumes, each volume was released with its corresponding game. The initial episode is 45 minutes long, while subsequent episodes are 30 minutes long, the video series was directed by Koichi Mashimo, written by Kazunori Itō with music by Yuki Kajiura. Primary Animation production was handled by Mashimos studio Bee Train which collaborated for the four games as well as handled major production on. hack//Sign. The games were packaged with DVDs featuring episodes of. hack//Liminality, the OVA series was meant to give perspective on fictional events happening in the real world outside the game. Vol.1, In The Case of Mai Minase Vol.2, In The Case of Yuki Aihara Vol.3, In The Case of Kyoko Tohno Vol.4, Trismegistus The episode starts when Tokuoka was kicked out of CC Corp. Mai and her boyfriend, Tomonari Kasumi, are taken to a due to both of them collapsing while playing a MMORPG called The World. Despite Mai waking up shortly after arriving at the hospital, Tomonari remains in a coma, for this, Mai is the object of rumors, especially when the clubhouse is closed after the incident. It is soon revealed that she heard a certain sound shortly before collapsing, and she discovers that it is A in C major. It was this sound that enabled her to wake up, and she meets Junichiro Tokuoka, and although she distrusts him at the beginning, as they investigate into Tomonaris coma, they soon become allies, if not friends. The investigation itself starts with Tokuoka accessing Tomonaris account on The World, Tokuoka accidentally opens the e-mail, and discovers that two users, Yukichin and Kyo, are close with Tomonari and have been harassing him with e-mails regarding his absence. It is also revealed during the course of the episode that Tomonari took the name Sieg as a contraction of Siegfried, from Richard Wagners operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Tokuoka and Mais investigation leads them to break into G-study, in order to attempt to recreate the situation so that they can find out why Mai. The sound starts up again when they enter a field, and although Mai saves herself, in desperation, Mai destroys the monitor and the computer that they were using, and drags him outside, where a splash of rainwater wakes him up. After that, the two pledge to find out just what C. C. Corp. is hiding, and what it will take to wake everyone up. An interesting easter egg is if you turn on the subtitles, in the scene where Tomonaris friend is fixing the computer and those keywords in the Theta server lead to where the Soul Blades reside. Tokuoka and Mai are on their way to meet with Yuki, Tokuoka gets stuck in traffic, and Mai goes to the library in Tokyo to attempt to look up information. During this time, she hears the sound, meanwhile, Yuki is watching a movie when suddenly THE WORLD flashes on the screen, the power goes out, and the employees attempt to evacuate the building. Yuki runs into a woman who works at the building
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.hack//Legend of the Twilight
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. hack//Legend of the Twilight is a science fiction manga series written by Tatsuya Hamazaki and drawn by Rei Izumi. The twenty-two chapters of. hack//Legend of the Twilight appeared as a serial in the Japanese magazine Comptiq, and published in three tankōbon by Kadokawa Shoten from July 2002 to April 2004. Set in a fictional MMORPG, The World, the focuses on twins Rena and Shugo. After Shugo is given the Twilight Bracelet by a mysterious girl, the series was adapted into a twelve episode anime of the same name directed by Koichi Mashimo and Koji Sawai, and produced by Bee Train. Tokyopop licensed the series for an English-language release in North America. It published the three volumes from September 2003 to April 2004, Bandai Entertainment had licensed the anime series for North American broadcast. The word Bracelet in the title was removed in North America, following the closure of Bandai Entertainment, Funimation announced at SDCC2013, that they have acquired 4. hack titles including Legend of the Twilight. Set in a fictional MMORPG called The World, the series follows twins Shugo, after winning a contest, Rena is given a pair of chibi avatars in the design of the legendary. hackers, Kite and BlackRose. After an odd occurrence, a mysterious AI named Aura gives Shugo the Twilight Bracelet, Rena and Shugo embark on an adventure to find Aura and unravel the mystery of the Twilight Bracelet. Along the way, Shugo and Rena befriend Mireille, a rare item hunter, the fierce Ouka, and Hotaru, a peaceful girl. While waiting for an event to start, they encounter a girl named Zefie. It is later realized that Zefie is a vagrant AI – an AI that acts independently outside the parameters of the game. Zefies presence upsets many, including the Cobalt Knights, a group of administrators that follow the rule If you cant control it, meanwhile, Balmung, another administrator in The World, encounters problems of his own. The suits, CC Corps upper tier executives, are displeased with what little action Balmung has taken against Shugo and his illegal item, Kamui, the leader of the Cobalt Knights, begins her pursuit of Shugo and company. She captures Shugo and his friends, but allows Mireille, Ouka, Shugo, Rena, and Zefie are left in a cell together. Rena and Shugo disagree over whether to stay until the end, after they come to an agreement to stay and fight, Zefie opens the door to the cell, freeing them. In the outside world, Ouka, Hotaru, and Mireille decide to return to The World, kazu, a friend of Balmung, meets up with Shugo and party, carrying Helbas Key, the key to an area called the Net Slums. Kamui shows up, demanding the key to the Net Slums with her knights in tow, Shugo and Kamui face off, which results in Kamui breaking her axe
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.hack//Roots
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. hack//Roots is a 26-episode anime series, animated by studio Bee Train, that sets as a prologue for the. hack//G. U. It is the first. hack TV series broadcast in HDTV, in the year 2015, the CC Corporations building burned down, and with it, most of the existing data for The World. By splicing in data from what would have potentially been another game with what remained of The World after the fire, CC Corp. created The World R,2, the main revisions in this release were that the game allowed for guild and PvP play. Haseo logs into The World R,2 for the first time and he is saved by Ovan, who prompts him to join the Twilight Brigade alongside Sakisaka, Tabby and Shino, who are in search of finding The Key of the Twilight. However, a guild named TaN obstructs the Twilight Brigade in its mission and is attempting to obtain Ovans unique character data. The Twilight Brigade has discovered special items, known as Virus Cores, once the Twilight Brigade had acquired all 6 cores, the guild headed out to use them in one of the Lost Grounds, after figuring out that the two were connected to one another. However, the group discovers that this was all a trap laid by the members of TaN in order to capture Ovan. With Ovan gone and no sign of the Key of the Twilight, soon after, Shino is killed within the game by a mysterious PKer named Tri-Edge. This somehow puts her into a coma in the real world, Haseo then begins training in order to get strong enough to defeat Tri-Edge and save Shino from her real-life coma. Through this ordeal, Haseo becomes obsessed with power and ends up as a Player-Killer-Killer, Haseo Voiced by, Takahiro Sakurai, Andrew Francis The protagonist of the series, and a newbie within The World R,2. Haseo had an encounter with PKers before joining the Twilight Brigade and he appears to be obsessed with Ovans enigmatic nature, which he soon discovers isnt so unusual. He is an outsider in real life, and not very good at dealing with people and he seems to care for Shino in a more than platonic way. After Shino goes into a coma, Haseo starts to become extremely depressed and he completed a special event known as The Forest of Pain, which was said to be impossible to complete. His reward was an upgrade that gave him impossible strength and he is now trying to hunt down Tri-Edge, using his newly gained power status to PK players in an attempt to find information. After his transformation he becomes more mentally unstable and anti-social. While trying to find information on Tri-Edge, Haseo reunites with Ovan who tells him that he will find Tri-Edge at the Hulle Granz Cathedral, Haseo fights Tri-Edge but is defeated and stripped of all his power and equipment, ironically returning him mostly to his senses as well. Outside of the game, Haseo is 17 years old and attends a high school. Haseo visits Shino in the hospital on a daily basis after she fell in a coma, Ovan Voiced by, Hiroki Touchi, Michael Kopsa The Guildmaster of the Twilight Brigade, Ovan has a strange device sealed around his left arm
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.hack//The Movie
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. hack//The Movie is a 2012 Japanese CGI anime film written by Kazunori Ito and directed by Hiroshi Matsuyama. It was released on January 21,2012 in theaters and was released on DVD/Blu-ray on June 28,2012, the Blu-ray release is a hybrid PlayStation 3 disc that includes the film and a fighting game called. hack//Versus. The movie features a theme song Hikari wo Atsumete by Japanese music artist KOKIA, the story, taking place in 2024 Summer Olympics, follows the life of Sora Yuki, a 14-year-old girl persuaded by her friends to play the popular game called The World. Due to an incident in The World, anomalies start occurring in the real world, the game features characters from throughout the series, including Haseo, Sora, Tsukasa, Ovan, Sakuya, Tokio, Kite, and BlackRose. PlayStation LifeStyles review of the game and movie combo disc noted that the game was not created to provide a rival to Mortal Kombat or Soul Calibur, enjoy the characters, the world, and the story. That’s what you came to. hack for anyway, right, archived from the original on December 18,2011. CS1 maint, Unfit url Official website. hack//The Movie at Anime News Networks encyclopedia. hack//The Movie at the Internet Movie Database
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Haseo
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Haseo is a fictional character in the. hack franchise first introduced as the main character from the video game trilogy. hack//G. U. and the TV anime series. hack//Roots. Haseo is a character from the fictional massively multiplayer online role-playing game The World and is controlled by the player. He is voiced by Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese, in the English version, Haseo is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal in the games and Andrew Francis in the anime. Haseo is introduced as a loner who is searching for the mysterious player killer Tri-Edge who defeated his friend Shino and left her on a coma in real life. He comes into contact with the guild G. U. who is searching for him and also becomes involved in the quest to destroy AIDA. Haseos appearances in. hack//Roots depicts his early days in The World as a member of the Twilight Brigade guild led by Ovan and he has also appeared in other adaptations from the. hack//G. U. Games that give different focus on the character as well as the player controlling him, video game publications have given both positive and negative response to Haseos character, with most criticism being aimed towards his rude personality. On the other hand, his development across the games and the improvement to his PC resulted in positive responses, Haseo is depicted as an Adept Rogue type of character in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game The World. He is silver-haired and wears a black leather wardrobe with red marks, while initially able to use only dual swords as weapons, he can undergo upgrades called Job Extensions that allow him to use other weapons. The Job Extensions are also notable for changing Haseos appearance, he gains more clothes in the first one, in most types of media, Haseo gains an illegal Job Extension called the Xth Form distinguished by white clothes and the use of guns. The player controlling Haseo, Ryou Misaki, only appears in the manga, Haseo is a cold person who has trouble getting close to people. As a result of his friend Shino falling comatose, Haseo develops a lust for power in order to get his revenge on the culprit and he socializes with players from The World but states he just uses them in his quest for power. Games Haseo becomes a person and learns to depend on others. Games as a player from The World who several player killers and is known as The Terror of Death. He is in a search for the legendary player killer Tri-Edge and he is guided by his former comrade, Ovan, to fight the AI Azure Kite under the assumption he is Tri-Edge, though he is completely reset after being defeated. As he recovers, Haseo is mistaken for a new player by Gaspard and Silabus, Haseo gains an Avatar, Skeith, The Terror of Death, hidden within his PC, that has the ability to destroy AIDA. Although initially cold and antisocial, Haseo comes to appreciate the friendships he makes across the trilogy. He also starts developing feelings for Atoli, a player who encourages him to appreciate his time in The World
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Project X Zone
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The game is a follow up to the 2005 video game Namco × Capcom and features characters from Bandai Namco, Capcom, and Sega. The game was released on October 11,2012 in Japan, June 25,2013 in North America, a sequel was released in Japan in November 2015 and in North America and Europe in February 2016. Stages in Project X Zone take place in grid-based locations from the games many crossover titles, each friendly unit is made up of two characters, though a third character can be added for once-per-battle assistance. Unlike Namco × Capcom, units can move freely within their range on the field map, the battle system is called the Cross Active Battle System, wherein pressing the A button in combination with the Circle Pad performs up to five basic attack combos. Also, the player can trigger Critical Hits by connecting their next attack just before the target hits the ground after the first, as the players units deal damage, the players Cross Power gauge fills up and can be used for special attacks and defensive moves on the map. Damage done via Cross Hits can fill this gauge up to 150%, Project X Zone has a total of 15 save game slots included in the game, which can be used for recording a save game file during intermissions with a quick save file and a soft reset command. Over 90 characters are included in the game, the overseas versions feature the same character roster as the original Japanese version. Notes Namco Bandai came up with the idea of a crossover and brought on Capcom. The game was first revealed in a teaser by Bandai Namco on the website until it was revealed in the May 2012 issue of Famitsu. The initial creation of the characters were done in 3D character models before they were converted to be SD pixel art, notable attacks used by the characters had to be done in 2D space in order to preserve its source material origin. The game features two songs, with the opening song titled Wing Wanderer and the ending titled GALAXY. The opening movie was created by the new animation studio Trigger, in September 22,2012, Katsuhiro Harada, producer of the Tekken series, has revealed on Twitter, I proposed localization of Project X Zone. He added that the company has not decided yet, but It will be realized if I continue proposing, Namco Bandai Games announced on January 21,2013 that the game will be officially released in North America, Europe and Australia during summer 2013. The English versions of the game retain the Japanese voices, like Otomedius Excellent, some music tracks were removed or replaced for the same reasons. On May 1,2016, the disappeared from the North American and European eShops without explanation. The game sold more than 85,539 units in its first week in Japan, in the West, the game has sold over ten times more than what Bandai Namco had expected. The game was among the 20 best games sold in the United Kingdom after it made its debut, in the United States, the game has been among the best selling games sold for the 3DS. The game has sold over 400,000 copies worldwide, according to Bandai Namco, Project X Zone has received mixed to positive reviews from western critics
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Project X Zone 2
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Despite the game being the official sequel to Project X Zone, the plot is a homage to the events of its spiritual predecessor, Namco x Capcom whilst retaining a standalone story. Kogorō Tenzai and Mii Kōryūji from the prequel are absent in this installment, the title arrived in Japan on November 12,2015, and was released in North America and Europe in February 2016. Like its predecessor, Project X Zone is a tactical role-playing game in which players strategically maneuver their characters across a field to battle with the enemy, characters are paired up into Pair Units, with Solo Units consisting of a single character able to assist them when linked together. In battle, players use well-timed attacks and combos to do as much damage to the opponent as possible before their turn ends. Like its predecessor, Project X Zone 2 features pairs of characters from all three participating companies, as well as characters who can provide assist attacks during combat. The game also features Nintendo characters for the first time, on April 8,2015, Famitsu. com launched a teaser website with a countdown that would expire in five days, revealing a secret project from Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game was revealed to the public three days later. It was confirmed in an interview that the game will address the criticisms of the original, the game was originally going to have a simultaneous worldwide release, but the North American and European releases were later delayed to early 2016. Unlike the previous game, the western versions will feature no altered content from the Japanese version, the game received a 32/40 from Famitsu. Hardcore Gamer gave the game a 4/5 saying, Project X Zone 2 is a funny and it sets out to entertain video game fans of all stripes and allows the player to jump from world to world to get a taste of other titles they may have been missing. Just based on the built-in “Crosspedia” encyclopedia database, the stack of games that I really want to try out has grown, it’s not challenging, but it was never meant to be. The gameplay is simply the vehicle to deliver the true focus of this title, players who don’t need everything to bristle with a dark malevolence will find a great time in this one. The game sold 37,000 copies in Japan on its first week, the game made the #2 spot in the UK 3DS sales charts. In an interview with Nintendo Life, Kensuke Tsukanaka stated that he would like to continue the series, official website Project X Zone 2 at the Internet Movie Database
