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Mecha
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The term mecha may refer to both scientific ideas and science fiction genres that centers on robots or machines controlled by people. Mechas are typically depicted as walker types of Mobile robots and these machines vary greatly in size and shape, but are distinguished from vehicles by their humanoid or biomorphic appearance. Different subgenres exist, with varying connotations of realism, the concept of Super Robot and Real Robot are two such examples found in Japanese anime. The term may refer to real world piloted humanoid robots / non-humanoid robotic platforms. Alternatively, in the original Japanese context of the word, mecha may refer to mobile machinery/vehicles in general, the word mecha is an abbreviation first used in Japanese of the word mechanical. Outside of this usage, it has associated with large robots with limbs or other biological characteristics. While the distinction is often hazy, mecha typically does not refer to form-fitting powered armor such as Iron Mans suit and they are usually much larger than the wearer, like Iron Mans enemy the Iron Monger, and possess a cockpit from which they are operated. In most fiction in which appear, mecha are fighting machines. Often, they are the means of combat, with conflicts sometimes being decided through gladiatorial matches. Other works represent mecha as one component of a military force, supported by and fighting alongside tanks, fighter aircraft. In some continuities, special scenarios are constructed to make mecha more viable than current-day status, for example, in Gundam the fictional Minovsky particle inhibits the use of radar, making long-range ballistic strikes impractical, thus favouring relatively close range warfare of Mobile Suits. Mecha also see roles as transporters, recreation, advanced hazmat suits, Mecha have been used in fantasy settings, for example in the anime series Aura Battler Dunbine, The Vision of Escaflowne, Panzer World Galient and Maze. In those cases, the designs are usually based on some alternative or lost science-fiction technology from ancient times. In case of anime series Zoids, the machines resemble dinosaurs and animals, the 1880 Jules Verne novel La Maison à vapeur featured a steam-powered, piloted, mechanical elephant. One of the first appearances of such machines in modern literature was the tripods of H. G. Wells famous The War of the Worlds. The novel does not contain a detailed description of the tripods mode of locomotion, however it is hinted at. That was the impression those instant flashes gave, but instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand. Two of the earliest uses of mecha in the United States were Kimball Kinnisons battle suit in E. E, doc Smiths Lensman novel Galactic Patrol, and the Mobile Infantry battle suits in Robert Heinleins Starship Troopers
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Military science fiction
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It exists in literature, comics, film, and video games. In some stories, however, technology is fairly static, and weapons that would be familiar to present-day soldiers are used, for example, women may be accepted as equal partners for combat roles. In many military sci-fi stories, technological advances are basic to plot development, several subsets of military science fiction overlap with space opera, concentrating on large-scale space battles with futuristic weapons. The term military space opera is occasionally used to denote this subgenre, another example of military space opera would be the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The key distinction of military science fiction space opera is that the principal characters in a space opera are not military personnel. Military science fiction also does not necessarily include an outer space or multi-planetary setting like space opera. Precursors for military science fiction can be found in war stories dating back at least to George Chesneys story The Battle of Dorking. Other works of fiction followed, including H. G. Wellss The Land Ironclads, eventually, as science fiction became an established and separate genre, military science fiction established itself as a subgenre. The Vietnam War resulted in veterans with combat experience deciding to write fiction, including Joe Haldeman. Throughout the 1970s, works such as Haldemans The Forever War, short stories also were popular, collected in books like Combat SF, edited by Gordon R. Dickson. This anthology includes one of the first Hammers Slammers stories as well as one of the BOLO stories by Keith Laumer and this anthology seems to have been the first time SF-stories specifically dealing with war as a subject were collected and marketed as such. The series of anthologies with the group title There Will be War edited by Pournelle and John F. Carr helped keep the category active, a number of authors have presented stories with political messages of varying types as major or minor themes of their works. David Drake has often written of the horrors and futility of war and it is science-fiction which attempts to realistically portray the military within a science-fiction context. It is about human beings, and members of species, caught up in warfare. It isnt an excuse for simplistic solutions to problems, Military science fiction occurs in an array of media, including books, movies, TV and anime, and games. Space warfare in fiction Weapons in science fiction War novel Goodreads Military Science Fiction Book Group MilitarySciFi. com Military science fiction on gizmodo. com
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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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Tokyopop
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Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx Entertainment, is an American distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, Tokyopops defunct US publishing division previously published works in English and Japanese. Tokyopop had its US headquarters in the Variety Building in Los Angeles, California, Tokyopop was founded in 1997 by Stuart J. Levy. In the late 1990s, the headquarters were located in Los Angeles. While the company was known as Mixx Entertainment, it sold MixxZine, mixxzine later became Tokyopop before it was discontinued. Cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn praised Stu Levy for opening up a market for cartoons with the publication of Sailor Moon. Before Sailor Moon, the belief among entertainment executives was that girls dont watch cartoons, due to Sailor Moon’s immense popularity, Tokyopop discontinued the serial from its magazines, and released it separately as its first manga graphic novel. Also, together with Diamond, Tokyopop offered retailers free spinner rack displays for Tokyopop manga, Tokyopop also licensed and distributed Japanese anime. ”The film was directed and scripted by Shoji Kawamori, who created Super Dimensional Fortress Macross and The Vision of Escaflowne. Taste of Cinema ranked “Spring and Chaos” thirteenth in its list of Top “25 Weird Animated Movies That Are Worth Your Time. In 2002, Tokyopop launched its line of 100% Authentic Manga, unfortunately, this often compromised the integrity of the titles original artwork. Tokyopop volumes hit the shelves monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly versus the six months or longer typical of competitors. It also allowed Tokyopop to sell books for a price point of $9.99 per book. Tokyopop was the first U. S. publisher to adopt such a sweeping policy, an authentic manga how-to guide was included in each graphic novel to keep readers from accidentally reading the final page first, and the authentic manga also featured special packaging. Tokyopop launched their Global Manga publishing program in 2003 via the introduction of its Rising Stars of Manga talent competition, the competition called for American manga artists to submit 15-25 page English-language stories of any genre. The top 10 entries, as judged by Tokyopop editors, received prizes and were published in an anthology of the winning works. The grand prize winners were given the chance to pitch full-length manga projects to Tokyopop for a chance to become professional manga-ka. The 5th Rising Stars of Manga competition added the People’s Choice award, “We are really pleased to open up the Rising Stars judging to the fans, commented Tokyopop editor Rob Valois. Since so many people have been vocal on the boards and at industry conventions
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Dragon Magazine (Fujimi Shobo)
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Dragon Magazine, frequently abbreviated as Doramaga or DM, is a Japanese light novel and manga magazine aimed at young adult males, first published in 1988. The magazine became bi-monthly on March 19,2008, many popular light novels which were later animated were originally serialized in it. The magazine also features one or two series at a time. The light novel magazine Fantasia Battle Royal was an edition of Dragon Magazine. A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives Black Blood Brothers Chrome Shelled Regios Chrono Crusade Chaika - The Coffin Princess Detatoko Princess Dragon Half Good Luck, ninomiya-kun Hyper Police I Couldnt Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job
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A.D. Vision
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Vision was an American multimedia entertainment studio that served as the largest American and British anime distributor in the late 20th to early 21st centuries. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, ADV Films was formed in 1992 by video game fan John Ledford and anime fans Matt Greenfield, in 2002, most of ADV Films back catalog were used to program its new channel, the Anime Network. For over 15 years, ADV released successful anime series, such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Robotech, RahXephon, Full Metal Panic, Azumanga Daioh, Elfen Lied, Gantz, Red Garden, the company maintained offices in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition to North America, ADV Films distributed their home media releases in the United Kingdom, Italy, the companys fortunes declined in the mid-2000s due to low sales. In 2013, Section23 Films revived the ADV Films name to re-release Elfen Lied on Blu-ray, houston-born John Ledford started a Japanese video game and video console import business in 1990. He was introduced to anime when he watched My Neighbor Totoro at his friends suggestion, at the time, San Francisco native Matt Greenfield ran a local anime club called Anime NASA, which also included classmate David Williams. After consulting with Ledford, Greenfield teamed with him and Williams to found A. D. Vision, Ledford contacted Toho about optioning the rights to license Devil Hunter Yohko. Shozo Watanabe, the manager of Tohos Los Angeles office. Vision would not be able to handle the distribution of the film, unable to find another distributor, Toho convinced A. D. That December, Devil Hunter Yohko became the first title to be released by A. D. Vision. D, Vision, in return for equity in the company. Ledford was to remain the majority shareholder and CEO, JCI subsidiary ARM also planned to contribute money for ADV to use in acquiring new distribution licenses. The investment was to ADV Films to raise its output of new anime titles, in return, ADV planned to assist Sojitz with the acquisition of North American and European content for importation into Japan. According to ADV, they also reportedly had big plans for its manga line, in August 2007, a notice was sent to retailers stating that ADV Films would be taking over the distribution, marketing, and sales of Geneon properties in the US as of October 1. In preparation, Geneon United States laid off most of its sales division, however, dentsu confirmed that the distribution deal was canceled through a press release on September 21,2007 with no reasons given except that Geneon and ADV were unable to reach a mutual agreement. In June 2006, ADV Films entered into a partnership with the Japanese Sojitz Corporation and this was done as a means of acquiring more titles in the Japanese market. From this point on, virtually all titles that ADV acquired were with Sojitzs help, however, in January 2008, ADV mysteriously removed a large number of titles from their website. All the titles removed were titles acquired since the Sojitz collaboration including Gurren Lagann, as of May 2008, Gurren Lagann was licensed by Bandai Entertainment. ADV Films made booth appearances at the Anime Central 2008 convention, in July 2008, Funimation announced the acquisition of thirty of these titles
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Monthly Dragon Age
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Monthly Dragon Age is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Fujimi Shobo. The magazine began as a combination between Monthly Comic Dragon and Monthly Dragon Junior, two magazines published by Fujimi Shobo. The first issue was published in April 2003, and the magazine is sold on the ninth of each month, the magazine carries the title New Age Standard Comic. A special edition version called Dragon Age Pure was active between January 2006 and February 2009. Y. N, Σ Galaxy Angel Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun Gosick Gun X Clover Hageruya. Hekikai no AiON Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni High School DxD Highschool of the Dead Iinari, aibure-shon Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi Kamen no Maid Guy Kanon Karin Kaze no Stigma Kiyoshirō Denki File Kōkaku no Regiosu Kore wa Zombie Desu ka. Kyoshiro and the Eternal Sky Lemon ni Vitamin C wa Sorehodo Fukumareteinai Lolita Complex Phoenix Maburaho Maken-ki, marianas Densetsu Mei no Naisho Mizore no Kyōshitsu Mizuiro Splash Namara
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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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Gonzo (company)
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Gonzo K. K. is a Japanese anime studio established on September 11,1992 by former Gainax staff members. Gonzo is a member of The Association of Japanese Animations, September 1992, GONZO Inc. established by former Gainax members. May 1999, GONZO Inc. changed its name to GONZO K. K. April 2002, GONZO K. K. and Digimation K. K. merge, november 2003, Future Vision Music K. K. established. July 2004, Gonzo Dijimation K. K. changed its name to GONZO K. K. Creators. com K. K. changed its name to G-creators K. K, GONZO DIGIMATION HOLDING changed its company name to GDH K. K. September 2005, Warp Gate Online K. K. becomes subsidiary, december 2005, GDH CAPITAL K. K. established and Warp Gate Online K. K. changed its company name to GONZO Rosso Online K. K. April 2009, GDH K. K. merged with its subsidiary, GONZO K. K. the studio had a financial problem in their closing account in the 2008-2009 term and stated its deficit was estimated over 30 million dollars. The Tokyo Stock Exchange announced that on July 30,2009 Gonzo would be delisted from the exchange and this delisting is the conclusion of a notification made to investors in March 2008 that the studios financial liabilities exceeded its total financial assets. Since Gonzo was unable to reverse this, paperwork for delisting was filed at the end of June, the studio is still able to operate, and its parent company GDH has absorbed it in an effort to consolidate management. The combined company now refers to itself as Gonzo. By April 2009, the merger was complete, Gonzo Rosso K. K. was sold to Chushou service kikou kabushikigaisha on 2009-03-31. Since this deficit, Gonzo has started to post better earnings due to the release of such as Rosario + Vampire to western online streaming websites such as Netflix. The marketing of products to western audiences has returned Gonzo to financial stability. April - Gate Keepers October - Vandread July - Samurai Girl, Real Bout High School October - Final Fantasy, February - Pandalian March - Tai Master of Characters April - Gate Keepers 21 July - Saikano October - Kiddy Grade & Gravion February - Digigirl Pop. I. Joe, Sigma 6 Densha Otoko Opening animation, October - SoltyRei & Black Cat April - Glass Fleet & Witchblade July - Welcome to the N. H. K. January - Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm January - Akibas Trip, The Animation July - 18if October 2001 Zaion, ADV Films UK branch was the UK distributor for Gonzo titles licensed by ADV, with the exception of Gantz, as it was licensed by MVM Films. Gad Guard, Hellsing, and Last Exile, which were originally licensed by Geneon, were also licensed by ADV Films UK
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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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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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Wowow
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WOWOW, listed as TYO,4839, is a private satellite broadcasting and pay-per-view television station in Japan. Its headquarters are located on the 21st floor of the Akasaka Park Building in Akasaka, Minato and its broadcasting center is in Koto, Tokyo. WOWOW was the first 24/7,3 channel, full high-definition broadcaster in Japan, WOWOW began broadcasting in analog on April 1,1991. Digital broadcasting began on December 1,2000, the network began with 207,753 subscribers, growing to 2,667,414 two years later. As of December 2011, WOWOW claimed approximately 2.56 million subscribers to its digital service, on July 24,2011, WOWOW shut down its analog broadcast. Paranoia Agent, Now and Then, Here and There, Le Chevalier dEon, several anime studios have partnership deals for distributing their more mature series, with the famed Studio Madhouse among them. The channels name is a double Wow, and the three Ws also stand for World-Wide-Watching, previously WOWOWs headquarters were in another facility in Akasaka. WOWOW has broadcast all four tennis Grand Slam Championships since 2008 and they are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. They broadcast UFC Japan on February 26,2012 and have continued to broadcast UFC events. The president of WOWOW as of October 2011 was Nobuya Wazaki, WOWOW satellite website WOWOW satellite website Wowow at Anime News Networks encyclopedia
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Anime Network
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Anime Network, a former subsidiary of A. D. Vision, Inc. is a cable and satellite digital broadcast service in North America and Latin America dedicated to anime. The Anime Network ceased broadcast of its linear 24/7 network on January 1,2008, it continues to support a VOD service, Vision had sold off the Anime Network to Valkyrie Media Partners LLC as part of the dissolution of the company and the reorganization of its assets. In 2012, Anime Networks name was removed from Microsofts Zune Marketplace, the linear service launched on June 30,2004 to complement the VOD service. Comcast Communications previously carried the channel on video on demand since its launch, from June 30,2004 to January 4,2008, Anime Network offered a 24/7 channel available to cable and satellite providers. The service was carried by small cable companies. On January 4,2008, Anime Network officially announced that the 24/7 service would cease operations, the network will still operate as a Video On Demand provider. The Anime Networks content is distributed through Video On Demand in two formats, sony announced at E32010 that the PlayStation Network would begin carrying The Anime Network. Following is a selected list of providers that distribute Anime Network, a more complete list can be found on their Video On Demand Schedule page. On June 3,2007 Anime Network was launched in the United Kingdom as a block on the Propeller TV satellite channel. It was broadcast as a 2-hour block with 4 different anime series and aired from 8, 00pm to 10, 00pm,7 days a week. The block was removed from the schedule on January 1,2008, official Site Anime Networks Online-Player - List of current titles
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Philippines
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The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila. The Philippines has an area of 300,000 square kilometers, and it is the eighth-most populated country in Asia and the 12th most populated country in the world. As of 2013, approximately 10 million additional Filipinos lived overseas, multiple ethnicities and cultures are found throughout the islands. In prehistoric times, Negritos were some of the archipelagos earliest inhabitants and they were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples. Exchanges with Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Islamic nations occurred, then, various competing maritime states were established under the rule of Datus, Rajahs, Sultans or Lakans. The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Homonhon, Eastern Samar in 1521 marked the beginning of Hispanic colonization, in 1543, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain. With the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi from Mexico City, in 1565, the Philippines became part of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years. This resulted in Roman Catholicism becoming the dominant religion, during this time, Manila became the western hub of the trans-Pacific trade connecting Asia with Acapulco in the Americas using Manila galleons. Aside from the period of Japanese occupation, the United States retained sovereignty over the islands until after World War II, since then, the Philippines has often had a tumultuous experience with democracy, which included the overthrow of a dictatorship by a non-violent revolution. It is a member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. It also hosts the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank, the Philippines was named in honor of King Philip II of Spain. Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, during his expedition in 1542, named the islands of Leyte, eventually the name Las Islas Filipinas would be used to cover all the islands of the archipelago. Before that became commonplace, other such as Islas del Poniente. The official name of the Philippines has changed several times in the course of its history, during the Philippine Revolution, the Malolos Congress proclaimed the establishment of the República Filipina or the Philippine Republic. From the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the name Philippines began to appear, since the end of World War II, the official name of the country has been the Republic of the Philippines. The metatarsal of the Callao Man, reliably dated by uranium-series dating to 67,000 years ago is the oldest human remnant found in the archipelago to date and this distinction previously belonged to the Tabon Man of Palawan, carbon-dated to around 26,500 years ago. Negritos were also among the archipelagos earliest inhabitants, but their first settlement in the Philippines has not been reliably dated, there are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos
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Hero (TV channel)
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Hero is a Filipino cable channel based in Quezon City. It is owned and operated by ABS-CBN Cable Channels, a subsidiary of the media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation and its programming is composed primarily of Filipino-dubbed Japanese animation. Aside from those, the channel also airs anime that have not yet seen in any terrestrial or cable channel shown in the Philippines prior to its first showing in the channel, such as Mirmo de Pon. The channel also once featured anime dubbed by Telesuccess, Inc. supplier for most of the anime aired on ABS-CBNs rival GMA Network, some of these are Love Hina, Rune Soldier, and Shaman King. Others seen in the channel were previously shown in English on Cartoon Networks Philippine feed or, in the case of Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh, furthermore, the channel features re-dubs, i. e. it produced its own dubbed version of anime which previously were already dubbed in Tagalog. Examples of these are Mon Colle Knights, Metal Fighter Miku, Zenki, The Slayers, in 2011, undubbed anime was introduced to the channel with accompanying Filipino-language subtitles in the form of Yu-Gi-Oh. The Movie, Pyramid of Light, and the Initial D Extra Stage OVA, the reason for airing these two anime features in their original Japanese audio is not known. In the Summer of 2012, HERO began to increase its lineup of new titles. Except for Sailor Moon, Jigoku Shoujo and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, although the channel prides itself as an anime channel, some of the programs it aired were non-anime. They are Mission Odyssey and Shadow of the Elves, both produced by the Berliner Film Companie, and the tokusatsu or live-action shows The Gransazers, Masked Rider Ryuki, as of the present, all five programs mentioned have been pulled out of the program rotation
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Toku (TV network)
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Toku is a 24-hour cable network owned by Olympusat which broadcasts anime series, OVAs, ONAs, anime films and live-action Asian films and series. Formerly known as Funimation Channel, it adopted its current name on December 31,2015, as such, Toku has not aired any Funimation titles since January 1,2016. Tristan Leostar is the content aggregator for the Toku network, the linear channel is available on AT&T U-verse, Frontier FiOS, Sjobergs Inc. IFiber Communications, OptiLink and Claro Puerto Rico, its HD feed was launched on September 27,2010, the VOD service is available on Optimum, Xfinity, Vubiquity, Massilion, Hotwire Communications, Armstrong and FlixFling. The VOD service was available on Charter Communications. Funimation Channel started out as a block on Colours TV. Programs during this era were Dragon Ball, Negima, kodocha, The Slayers, Blue Gender, Kiddy Grade, Fruits Basket, Case Closed and Yu Yu Hakusho. Olympusat was chosen as the distributor of Funimation Channel. The service originally was available to a few cities via UHF digital signals and was temporary as the channel was trying to gain a foothold in the already crowded digital cable landscape. In May 2009, Funimation Channel continued its expansion on cable launching on Comcasts VOD platform, the PPV VOD offers viewers a chance to watch titles prior to their DVD release. Movies and packaged specials are available at $2.99 each while episodes are available at $.99 each, as of September 27,2010, a High Definition feed was launched alongside existing VOD services. On February 16,2012, Verizon announced that it will drop Funimation Channel and Bridges TV from its Verizon FiOS service on, in response to reaction from Verizon FiOS TV customers, FiOS TV returned Funimation Channel via Video on Demand. Channel 262 remains on the FiOS system operated by Frontier Communications in some ex-Verizon territories, cablevisions Optimum TV recently launched FUNimation Channel On Demand in the NY/NJ/CT Tri-State area. Adding this MSO increased FUNimation Channels footprint to over 40 million households nationwide, Funimation Channels programming came from Funimation, Viz Media, Nozomi Entertainment and the now-defunct Central Park Media and Enoki Films USA. It was subsequently announced, on December 15,2015, that Funimation would end its partnership with Olympusat, on March 14,2016, Olympusat announced a local version of Toku in Latin America, named Toku Español. Tokus programming comes from Media Blasters and other anime and movie licensors, shinobi Girl Ultraman Max Ultraman 80 Official website
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KQEH
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KQEH, virtual channel 54, is a PBS member station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to San Jose, California, United States. The station is owned by KQED, Inc. alongside sister station KQED in San Francisco, its satellite KQET in Watsonville, the three stations share studios and offices located on Mariposa Street in San Franciscos Mission District, The KQEH transmitter is located on Monument Peak. The station first signed on the air on October 19,1964, in the late 1990s, KTEH bought KCAH in Watsonville, which was founded in 1989 to serve as the PBS station for the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market. These volunteers made up the crews for all of their pledge drives and auction programming. In 2006, KQED and the KTEH Foundation agreed to merge to form Northern California Public Broadcasting, as a result of the merger, KCAH changed its call letters to KQET on August 12,2007. Subsequently on October 1,2007, KQET, which became a satellite of KTEH following its acquisition of the station, kQEHs programming is carried on the second digital subchannel of KQET. In December 2010, the Board of Directors of Northern California Public Broadcasting changed the name to KQED Inc. The stations digital channel is multiplexed, KQEH shut down its signal, over UHF channel 54, on June 12,2009. The stations daytime hours on weekdays are dominated by childrens programming, including Dinosaur Train, Sesame Street, weeknights begin with news programming – the Nightly Business Report and BBC World News – followed by mostly United Kingdom-originating dramas and comedies. Weeknight prime-time contains mainly documentaries and drama, the current slogan for British programming on KQEH reflects this. Starting in April 1981, KTEH started showing the British science-fantasy show Doctor Who, on April 10,2007, Doctor Who returned to the station with the airing of the programmes 2005 revival. KTEH has also aired another British sci-fi show, Red Dwarf, in 1998, KTEH aired the entire eighth series of Red Dwarf in one night. In doing so, many episodes were shown on KTEH before their broadcast on British television, KTEH was also the first to air Neon Genesis Evangelion in America, as well as dubbed) Tenchi Muyo. Ryo-Ohki and Tenchi Universe TV series and these shows were later shown on Cartoon Networks Toonami programming block. Magic Knight Rayearth, Martian Successor Nadesico, Betterman, Robotech, Mobile Suit Gundam, Cardcaptor Sakura, Astro Boy, Gatchaman, KTEH has produced many television programs over the years, some of which have been nationally broadcast. Its current production schedule includes, This is Us – an Emmy Award-winning show featuring profiles of remarkable people, saving the Bay – the Emmy Award-winning documentary about San Francisco Bay went on to a national release in 2011. Video i – an award-winning showcase of documentaries, dramas and experimental films KTEH Cooks with Garlic – local viewers preparing their favorite garlic recipes
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Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
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Fumoffu is a companion series to the anime series Full Metal Panic. by Kyoto Animation, and takes place between the first season and The Second Raid. It frequently parodies itself and anime stereotypes, none of the mecha combat or political intrigue, which characterized much of the original Full Metal Panic. can be seen in the series. The only reference to the aspect of Full Metal Panic. is the Bonta-kun. Fumoffu was directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto and produced by Kyoto Animation, which replaced Gonzo as the series producer, the English version was produced by ADV Films. The original broadcast in Japan aired from August 25 to November 18,2003,12 half-hour episodes were created, but only 11 were broadcast on Japanese television. The missing episode was not broadcast because its plot dealt with kidnapping and was similar to a series of kidnappings that happened in real-life Japan shortly before the planned broadcast, however, the missing stories are featured on all DVD and Blu-ray releases. To coincide with seasonal change, the last three episodes feature character animations in a setting, as opposed to a summer setting in the rest of the series. At Anime USA2009, Funimation Entertainment announced that it acquired the rights to the first, DVD and Blu-ray sets were re-released on October 5,2010 and the series made its North American television debut on November 15,2010, on the Funimation Channel. The fictional Jindai High School, which Kaname and Sousuke are students of, is based on the real life Jindai High School in Chōfu, Tokyo. In contrast to the series, there is little plot continuity between episodes and most of them can stand alone, needing very little recap, if any. The only break from this pattern is a handful of stories which are told over two episodes. Most of the stories in Full Metal Panic, Fumoffu are adaptations of plots from the original Full Metal Panic. Short stories written by Shoji Gatoh and published in the Dragon Magazine, the creators of Full Metal Panic. planned to give the new series title Full Metal Panic. - with the exclamation mark exchanged for a question mark. However, they realized that such a minor alternation was insufficient to properly differentiate between the new series and the original. For that reason, it was decided that the fictional word Fumoffu would be used, Fumoffu is the sound made by Bonta-kun, the series fictional mascot, which resembles a human-sized, yellow teddy-bear, seemingly parodying Gonta-kun from the educational show Dekirukana. It is an armor suit, designed by Sousuke for the purpose of providing aid in tactical situations. Even though only capable of moving with human running speed and limited by its size, however, due to the suits main computers malfunction, all syllables uttered by the pilot are changed to either Fu, Mo, Ffu, or Ru. The suits Operating System immediately crashes if the pilot tries to deactivate the voice changer, for that reason, Kaname has to translate what Sousuke wants to say using a headset radio, which is a frequent cause of humor in the series
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Kyoto Animation
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Kyoto Animation Co. Ltd. abbreviated KyoAni, is a Japanese animation studio located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1981 by former Mushi Pro staff, presided by Hideaki Hatta, the company is also affiliated with the studio Animation Do. As of 2015, Kyoto Animation has headed production for 21 anime series, one of the founders Yoko Hatta was employed by Mushi Production and she became independent from the production when she moved to Kyoto after she was married with Hideaki Hatta. Then Kyoto Animation was founded in 1981 by the couple and it became a limited company in 1985 and a corporation in 1999. Its logo is based on the kyō kanji, the first character of Kyoto, early in its history, it was involved in the production of Kiddy Grade, InuYasha, Tenchi Universe, Nurse Witch Komugi, and Generator Gawl. Kyoto Animation also produced the opening and ending sequences for four installments of Konamis long-running baseball game series Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū. Starting in 2009, Kyoto Animation has awarded original novels and manga in its annual Kyoto Animation Award, winning submissions have a chance of being adapted into an anime. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Free. and Beyond the Boundary were based on novels that received a mention in this competition. In 2014, the novel Violet Evergarden became the first work to win a prize in any of the three categories. According to Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation has become recognized for its production values and sensitivity to the wonders. An associate company, Animation Do Co. Ltd. was established to assist production at Kyoto Animation, originally established as the Kyoto Animations Osaka office, it was incorporated as a limited company in 2000, and became a corporation in 2010. Both companies are run by Hideaki Hatta and are run jointly as one and they produce up and coming works under the Animation Do label with Kyoto Animation as their main contractor and works where they work as one company alongside Kyoto Animation. They work on most Kyoto Animation projects and many of them have joint signatures, in the list below, only the productions that Kyoto Animation were the main producer for are listed. What Makes Kyoto Animation So Special, official website Animation Do official website Kyoto Animation at Anime News Networks encyclopedia
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Singapore
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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, sometimes referred to as the Lion City or the Little Red Dot, is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the tip of peninsular Malaysia. Singapores territory consists of one island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its size by 23%. During the Second World War, Singapore was occupied by Japan, after early years of turbulence, and despite lacking natural resources and a hinterland, the nation developed rapidly as an Asian Tiger economy, based on external trade and its workforce. Singapore is a global commerce, finance and transport hub, the country has also been identified as a tax haven. Singapore ranks 5th internationally and first in Asia on the UN Human Development Index and it is ranked highly in education, healthcare, life expectancy, quality of life, personal safety, and housing, but does not fare well on the Democracy index. Although income inequality is high, 90% of homes are owner-occupied, 38% of Singapores 5.6 million residents are permanent residents and other foreign nationals. There are four languages on the island, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil. English is its language, most Singaporeans are bilingual. Singapore is a multiparty parliamentary republic, with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government. The Peoples Action Party has won every election since self-government in 1959, however, it is unlikely that lions ever lived on the island, Sang Nila Utama, the Srivijayan prince said to have founded and named the island Singapura, perhaps saw a Malayan tiger. There are however other suggestions for the origin of the name, the central island has also been called Pulau Ujong as far back as the third century CE, literally island at the end in Malay. In 1299, according to the Malay Annals, the Kingdom of Singapura was founded on the island by Sang Nila Utama and these Indianized Kingdoms, a term coined by George Cœdès were characterized by surprising resilience, political integrity and administrative stability. In 1613, Portuguese raiders burned down the settlement, which by then was part of the Johor Sultanate. The wider maritime region and much trade was under Dutch control for the following period, in 1824 the entire island, as well as the Temenggong, became a British possession after a further treaty with the Sultan. In 1826, Singapore became part of the Straits Settlements, under the jurisdiction of British India, prior to Raffles arrival, there were only about a thousand people living on the island, mostly indigenous Malays along with a handful of Chinese. By 1860 the population had swelled to over 80,000, many of these early immigrants came to work on the pepper and gambier plantations
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Odex
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Odex Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based company that licenses and releases anime for local and regional Southeast Asian consumption. Odex was established in 1987 and set up its Anime Distribution department in 2000 and it works with Japanese licensors such as Sunrise Inc. TV Tokyo, Yomiuri TV, D-Rights, TMS, Showgate Inc, Odex also sells programs to television stations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, such as TV3, NTV7, Astro, MediaCorp TV and StarHub TV. Other than licensing, Odex also does English dubbing, translation, Odex also deals in anime merchandise sales. Odex is most well known for taking action in 2007-2008 against home users who were allegedly downloading copyrighted anime videos from the Internet. Issues of intellectual property, copyright protections, privacy and freedom of speech underlie these events,2000, Odex set up its Anime Distribution department to license and bring into the region videos ranging from drama to animation of all kinds. 2003, With the support of Japanese licensors, the Anti-Video Piracy Association of Singapore is created to fight piracy in Singapore. AVPASs committee-in-charge is led by Dr. Toh See Kiat, followed by Odex directors Peter Go, in order to continue in its fight against video piracy, AVPAS created its official website. After a month, they started to take actions against illegal downloaders,2005, Odex set up its own professional setup of English dubbing studios and DVD authoring facility. Odex was tasked with making English dub and DVD authoring for release in the USA market, clients engaging Odex’s services includes Bandai Entertainment USA, Geneon Entertainment USA, History Channel. 2006, Odex has achieved in putting a prime-time anime title on Singapore Free TV within 5 days of Japan TV broadcast and this is followed by other popular titles such as Casshern Sins, Seto no Hanayome, Gundam 00. 2007, Odex joined Anime Festival Asia, took up a big space in the event, Odex also participated in SGTCC selling Bakugan. 2008, Odex succeed in provide same week telecast as Japan by collaborating with Mediacorp, Odex took part in AFA again. 2009, Partnering with Animax, Odex succeeded in making anime titles released same day,2010, Odex started its business in MobTV. The company brought its website back up, but only to provide a link to the MobTV website so that visitors can learn more about the Animetrix service that Odex is providing on MobTV. Odex brought the Gundam 00 movie - Awakening of the Trailblazer into Singapore theatre, there were two screening venues, which are at Alliance Francaise and at Sinema after the first day premiere in Singapore. Odex made a presence in AFA, being one of the two largest booths in the event hall. They brought in a range of anime cushions and anime apparel under their license
