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Comedy
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In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece, in the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a Society of Youth and a Society of the Old, a revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, a comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms. The adjective comic, which means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage. Of this, the word came into usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the comedy to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average, however, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others, the mask, for instance, in the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings. It is in this sense that Dante used the term in the title of his poem, as time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter. During the Middle Ages, the comedy became synonymous with satire. They disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms and they viewed comedy as simply the art of reprehension, and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the satyr plays
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Fuji Television
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Fuji Television Network, Inc. is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as Fuji TV or CX, based on the stations call sign JOCX-DTV. It is the station of the Fuji News Network and the Fuji Network System. Fuji Television also operates three television stations, known as Fuji TV One, Fuji TV Two, and Fuji TV Next. It is owned by Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. the holding company of the Fujisankei Communications Group, the headquarters are located at 2-4-8, Daiba, Minato, Tokyo. The Kansai office is found at Aqua Dojima East, Dojima, Kita-ku, the Nagoya office is found at Telepia, Higashi-sakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya. Fuji Television Network Inc. was founded on November 18,1957, in June of that year, Fuji TV formed a network with Tokai TV, Kansai TV, and KBC Television. In October 1966, a network of exchanging news with local stations with the name of FNN was formed. On April 1,1986, Fuji TV changed their logo from the old Channel 8 logo. In 1986 and 1987, Fuji TV worked with Nintendo to create two games called All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. and Yume Kojo, Doki Doki Panic for the Famicom. All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. was a version of Super Mario Bros. with some minor changes. The Lost Levels and some enemies being replaced with Japanese celebrities with comedic effect, Yume Kojo, Doki Doki Panic later became the basis for Super Mario Bros. 2, which was released a year later. JOCX-TV2 featured numerous experimental programs on low budgets under this and follow-on brands, the JOCX-TV2 branding itself was changed in October 1988 to JOCX-TV+, which lasted until September 1991, when it was replaced with GARDEN/JOCX-MIDNIGHT in October 1991. Meanwhile, Fuji TV helped produced only the series of the British childrens television programme Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends with its creator. The GARDEN/JOCX-MIDNIGHT branding lasted until September 1992 when it was replaced with the JUNGLE branding, on March 10,1997, Fuji TV moved from their old headquarters in Kawadacho, Shinjuku, into a new building in Odaiba, Minato designed by Kenzo Tange. On March 3,2006, Fuji Television Network Inc. consolidated Nippon Broadcasting Holdings, Inc. the broadcasting business of which was taken over by Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. two days before. On October 1,2008, a former Fuji TV became a certified broadcasting holding company Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. Fuji TV, which broadcasts Formula One in Japan since 1987, is the only media sponsor of a Formula One Grand Prix in the world. Fuji TV has also licensed numerous Formula One video games including Human Grand Prix IV, Channel Sakura called Fuji TV the Traitor Network in these protests
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Seven Network
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The Seven Network is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main television networks in Australia. In 2011 the Seven Network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the season for total viewers. Seven is the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001, as of 2014, it is the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach. In 2016, the network had its biggest lead in total people over the Nine Network since the current OzTAM ratings system began, in Melbourne,30 of the 40 ratings weeks were won and all ratings weeks were won in Adelaide and Perth. Sevens administration headquarters are based in a warehouse at Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont, Sydney. The networks main playout centre is located in Docklands, Melbourne, National news and current affairs programming are based between flagship station ATN-7 in Sydney and HSV-7 in Melbourne. In 2009, Seven moved its Sydney-based production operations from Epping to a purpose-built high-definition television production facility at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, the present Seven Network began as a group of independent stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. HSV-7 Melbourne, licensed to The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, was launched on 4 November 1956, ATN-7 Sydney, licensed to Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was launched on 2 December 1956. BTQ-7 Brisbane followed on 1 November, signing on as Brisbanes second commercial television station, ADS-7 Adelaide was launched on 24 October 1959 as the final capital city VHF7 station. In the early 1960s, coaxial cable links, formed initially between Sydney and Melbourne, allowed the sharing of programmes and simultaneous broadcasts of live shows, left without their original partners, ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to form the Australian Television Network in 1963. The new grouping was soon joined by other capital-city channel 7 stations, ADS-7 Adelaide, however, it was not until 1970 that a national network logo was adopted, albeit still with independently owned and operated stations with local advertising campaigns. Colour television was introduced across the network in 1975, when a new logo was adopted. Rupert Murdoch made a bid for the Herald and Weekly Times, owners of HSV-7, in 1979. Fairfax, however, successfully bought a 14. 9% share of the later in the same year. The 1980s saw the introduction of sound, as well as a number of successful shows, most notably A Country Practice in 1981, and Sons and Daughters. Wheel of Fortune began its 25-year run in July 1981, produced from ADS-7s studios in Adelaide, the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were shown live on the network the year before. Perth based businessman Robert Holmes à Court, through his business the Bell Group, bought TVW-7 from its original owners, the Herald and Weekly Times, owner of HSV-7 and ADS-7, was sold to Rupert Murdoch in December 1986 for an estimated A$1.8 billion
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Speed Racer
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Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo, is a Japanese animated franchise about automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print in Shueishas 1966 Shōnen Book and it was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics, and later re-released in Japan by Fusosha. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, its 52 episodes aired on Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968, the anime was later re-broadcast on Tokyo MX from July 1 to September 25,2008. Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title Speed Racer Classics and these were later released by Wildstorm Productions, a division of DC Comics, as Speed Racer, The Original Manga. The television series itself is an example of an anime becoming a successful franchise in the United States. Mach GoGoGo was first created and designed by anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida as a series in the 1960s. The actual manga was inspired by Yoshida’s earlier, and more popular automobile racing comics, Pilot Ace’s main storyline would form the structure for Mach GoGoGo, which followed the adventures of an ambitious young man who became a professional racer. The characters’ designs in Pilot Ace would set the ground for the character design in Mach GoGoGo. Yoshida got his idea for the story after seeing two films that were popular in Japan at the time, Viva Las Vegas and Goldfinger. Soon enough, Mach GoGoGo hit shelves in the early 1960s, the central character in the anime and manga was a young race car driver named Gō Mifune. The name of the series, Mach GoGoGo has a meaning, Mahha-gō is the name of the car, the name of the main character is Gō Mifune. In the American adaptation, the Mach 5 stems from the number 5 on the door, although, in Japanese, go is the word for the number 5, the Kanji character gō which is used in the car name actually means item number. In addition, gogogo, is used as a general Japanese sound effect for rumble, taken together, the programs title means, Mach-gō, Gō Mifune, Go. In the American version, this would translate into Go, Speed Racer, the manga has several storylines such as The Great Plan, Challenge of the Masked Racer, The Fire Race, The Secret Engine and Race for Revenge that were adapted to the anime. However, minor changes occur between both the manga and the anime series, such as differences between back stories of several characters and places. A few years after the volumes were released, Yoshida decided to release his manga series as an anime program,52 episodes aired in Japan, each one emulating the fast-paced action of the manga. Selected chapters of the original Mach GoGoGo manga series were reprinted by Now Comics as Speed Racer Classics and by DC Comics/Wildstorm Productions as Speed Racer, The Original Manga. In 2008, a box set of the complete manga series was released by Digital Manga Publishing as Speed Racer
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Yatterman
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Yatterman is a Japanese anime television series broadcast from January 1,1977 to January 27,1979, comprising 108 episodes. It is the second and longest show in the Time Bokan series by Tatsunoko Productions, the series succeeded Time Bokan and preceded Zenderman, it was the final series to be produced by company founder Tatsuo Yoshida prior to his death. A remake of Yatterman aired on NTV and Yomiuri TV from January 14,2008 through September 27,2009, a live-action adaptation was released theatrically in March 2009. Another entry in the franchise, Yatterman Night, began airing in January 2015 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Time Bokan franchise. A mysterious stone known as Skull Stone is scattered across the planet, the Doronbo Gang, the three villains, are searching for the Skull Stone. Standing in their way are Gan and Ai who, teamed up with their large mechanical dog Yatterwan, become the masked heroes Yatterman-1, unlike the previous series in the Time Bokan lineup, Yatterman does not cover any specific time/space travel. Instead, the places the characters travel to and the individuals they meet are either a homage or parody, the fictional characters or places are usually represented by purposely misspelled names or familiar actions. For example, a leader is named Yashington as a homage to George Washington. Gan is an expert in mechanics, and he helps fix his fathers dream design and he forms a fighting team with his girlfriend Ai, and names himself Yatterman-1. His weapon of choice is a kendama, which he uses as a flail and grappling hook as well as for his special attack Kenda-Magic and he is shown to be much more careless in the 2008 version of the show and has tendency to frustrate Ai. She is often seen constructing and modifying machines with Gan and she is Yatterman-2, and uses a telescoping baton called Electric Stick to emit electric currents to shock opponents. In the 2008 version of the show, she often refer things as 100% Omotchama Voiced by, Reiko Katsura and it serves as the mascot of Gans fathers toy shop. It is shaped like a dice, and is known for its catchphrase -da-koron at the end of each sentence. His name comes from omoccha, the Japanese word for toy, Doronjo Voiced by, Noriko Ohara Actor portrayal, Kyoko Fukada Doronjo is an attractive blonde who leads the Dorombo Gang in locating the Dokuro Stone. She is known for her vanity, intelligence and leadership, just like her counterpart from Time Bokan and her real name is Hiroko Sasagawa. Boyacky Butsukusa Voiced by, Jōji Yanami Actor portrayal, Katsuhisa Namase Boyacky is a skinny man with a large nose and moustache. He is clever, lecherous and largely responsible for the creation of the giant mechas used by the Dorombo Gang and he usually appears naked according to his comic Bogeboge Boyacky. Tonzura Sutakora Voiced by, Kazuya Tatekabe Actor portrayal, Kendo Kobayashi A short, muscular, squat man with a severe overbite and facial stubble, just like his counterpart Walther in Time Bokan
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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is a Japanese animated franchise about a five-member superhero team created by Tatsuo Yoshida and produced by Tatsunoko Productions. The original anime series, which debuted in 1972, was eponymously entitled Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman and is best known in the English-speaking world as the adaptation entitled Battle of the Planets. The series had additional English adaptations with G-Force, Guardians of Space, Tatsunoko also uses the official translation Science Commando Gatchaman in related products and media. The original Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman series was followed by an animated film, during the 1990s, episodes from both series were dubbed into English by Saban as Eagle Riders. In the years since, the franchise has spawned many different productions, recurring themes of Gatchaman involve conservation, environmentalism and the responsible use of technology for progress. The leader of Galactor is an androgynous, masked antagonist named Berg Kattse, the most-common plot involves the Gatchaman team opposing giant monsters dispatched by Galactor to steal natural resources such as water, oil, sugar and uranium. The Science Ninja Team is often aided by a squadron of combat pilots led by the enigmatic Red Impulse, most of the team are in their late teens, except for Jinpei. The main characters wear teen clothing with T-shirts numbered to show their rank in the team or caped and this fighting system, known as Science Ninja Technique, is mentioned in the Japanese lyrics of the Gatchaman theme. The team members also use weapons and mecha-style vehicles, each with a mundane. To change modes, each member is equipped with a wrist device that, in addition to communications and tracking, enables a change when the proper gesture and voice command is given. Their vehicles are docked in the main vehicle, the God Phoenix. The God Phoenix is armed with Bird Missiles, which are fired from a rack mounted atop the center section. After the original God Phoenix is destroyed by an octopus mecha, the plane can also temporarily transform into a massive bird of flame to escape danger or attack, although the process endangers the team because of extreme pressure in the passenger cabin. Ken, the Eagle Ken Washio, a pilot, is a leader of the Science Ninja Team, Kens father disappeared during a flight, becoming Red Impulse. Ken did not know his father, and was raised by Dr. Nambu, Joe, the Condor Joe Asakura is an Italian of Japanese descent. A race car driver, he is a sub-leader of the team, Joe was born George Asakura, the son of Giuseppe Asakura and his wife Caterina. Dr. Nambu rescued the boy, named him Jō to hide him from Galactor, Jun, the Swan Jun is an American of Japanese descent. Raised in an orphanage, her last name is not disclosed in the anime, in her free time, she enjoys riding her motorcycle and runs Snack Bar J. Jinpei, the Swallow Jinpei was also an orphan, and grew up with Jun
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Tatsunoko Production
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Tatsunoko Production Company, previously known as Kabushiki gaisha Tatsunoko Purodakushon and often shortened to Tatsunoko Pro, is a Japanese animation company. It was founded in October 1962 by anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida and his brothers, Kenji, the studios name has a double meaning in Japanese, Tatsus child and sea dragon, the inspiration for its seahorse logo. Tatsunokos headquarters are in Musashino, Tokyo, the studios first production was the 1965 TV series Space Ace. Since then many figures in the industry have worked with Tatsunoko, including Mizuho Nishikubo, Hiroshi Sasagawa, Koichi Mashimo, Katsuhisa Yamada, Hideaki Anno. Sasagawa is notable for bringing his fondness for comedy animation to the forefront in Tatsunoko series such as the Time Bokan franchise, the company later licensed Macross to Harmony Gold, who then produced Robotech. Takara acquired Tatsunoko on June 3,2005 after purchasing an 88 percent stake, Production I. G was established in 1987 as I. G. Tatsunoko, a branch for the production of Zillion led by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, in 2009, Tatsunoko announced that it would collaborate with Marvel Comics on a joint television project and other ventures. IG Port announced on June 2,2010 that its subsidiary, Production I. G president Mitsuhisa Ishikawa became a part-time director of the studio. Talent agency Horipro announced on February 23,2013 that it had acquired a 13.5 percent stake in Tatsunoko, at Anime Expo 2013, Sentai Filmworks announced a deal to license and release some of Tatsunokos titles, including Gatchaman and Casshan. Nippon Television announced on January 29,2014 that it had purchased a 54.3 percent stake in Tatsunoko, Time Bokan 24 Once Upon a Time. C. Staff Production IG Xebec Radix Bee Train TNK Official website Tatsunoko Production at Anime News Networks encyclopedia
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Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
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Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, Ultimate All-Stars is a crossover fighting game developed by Eighting and published by Capcom. The game features characters from both Capcoms video game franchises and various anime series produced by Tatsunoko Production and it was originally released in Japan for arcades and the Wii video game console in December 2008 as Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, Cross Generation of Heroes. In Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, players engage in combat with a team of two characters or with a giant character and attempt to knock out their opponents. It is the seventh Capcom-designed installment in their Vs. fighting game series, which includes the Marvel vs. Capcom and Capcom vs. SNK series, and the first to be fully rendered in 3D graphics. The game is set in a 2. 5D environment, characters fight in a two-dimensional arena, the game is designed around a simplified three-button attack system, which was inspired by the simplistic control schemes commonly used by both the Vs. series and the Wii. The game received positive reviews from critics, who praised its approachable gameplay for newcomers. However, reviewers had mixed experiences with its online component, Capcom announced in April 2010 that the game was a commercial success. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom is a tag team-based fighting game in which players control characters with different attacks and fighting styles, the gameplay is set in a 2. Each player may select a team of two characters and can switch between them during combat, alternatively, players may select one of two giant characters, who cannot be played as part of a team. When characters switch, the incoming one performs an attack upon entry. Characters not in play may be used to assist, and to perform team moves. A match ends when a team has no characters left, or when the timer reaches zero—in which case, the arcade release of Cross Generation of Heroes has a control scheme consisting of a joystick and four buttons. Players use controller inputs to perform attacks, the most basic attacks are executed by pressing one of three buttons, light, medium, or strong. Players may augment basic attacks with joystick or control pad directional inputs, for example, basic attacks can be strung together to perform combos. Each character has unique universal techniques—special attacks that are more powerful than normal moves—that require complex control inputs, certain universal techniques are usable by all characters, for example, each character possesses one that launches opponents upward, rendering them vulnerable to an air combo. Time attack and Survival modes are available, and require the player to defeat every character in the game. While Survival limits health regeneration, Time attack challenges players to win in the shortest time possible, other modes include Vs. Mode, in which two players engage in combat, and Original Games, which sees up to four players competing in character-specific minigames. Using money obtained throughout the game, the player may purchase unlockable characters, alternate character costumes, minigames, character profiles, movies, illustrations, once purchased, the latter four are viewable in a gallery
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an American live-action superhero childrens television series that premiered on August 28,1993, on the Fox Kids weekday afternoon block. It is the first entry of the Power Rangers franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon alongside a line of action figures. The show adapted stock footage from the Japanese TV series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the series was produced by MMPR Productions and distributed by Saban Entertainment. The shows merchandise was produced and distributed by Bandai Entertainment, the first 32 of season ones 60 episodes were remade with the revision graphics. The series also spawned the feature film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, The Movie, the series takes place in the fictional town of Angel Grove, California. On an exploratory mission, two astronauts discover a container and breach the unit, inadvertently releasing the evil alien sorceress Rita Repulsa from 10,000 years of confinement. Upon her release, she and her army of space aliens set their sights on conquering the nearest planet. The five teens chosen are Jason Lee Scott, Kimberly Hart, Zack Taylor, Trini Kwan, the series begins with five teenagers combating Rita and her seemingly endless array of monsters, while also dealing with typical teenage problems and clashing with local bullies Bulk and Skull. However, consecutive failures lead Rita to adopt a new method for conquering Earth and destroying the Power Rangers, using her magic, Rita kidnaps and brainwashes a local teen whose fighting skills prove to equal that of Jasons in a martial-arts contest held in Angel Grove. The new teen, Tommy Oliver, passes Ritas tests, becoming the Green Power Ranger, however, the Green Ranger is ultimately defeated, and the Sword of Darkness is destroyed by Jason. Now free from Ritas spell, Tommy chooses to use his Green Ranger powers to assist the other Rangers in defeating the evil that gave them to him in the first place. His Zord, the Dragonzord, is reconfigured to enable it to form more powerful Zord combinations alongside the other Dinozords. As time goes on, Rita focuses on eliminating Tommy in order to regain the powers that she believes belong to her. Using a special wax that was touched by Tommy when he was evil, Rita uses a magic Green Candle to slowly remove his powers, returning them to her. In the end, Tommy loses his powers, but he prevents Rita from reclaiming them by transferring them to Jason who, feeling guilt for failing to protect Tommys powers, accepts them. However, Tommy later returns to the team when the other Rangers Power Coins are handed over to Rita in exchange for their kidnapped parents, with Zordons help, Tommy regains his powers and successfully retrieves the other Rangers Power Coins. However, Tommys regained powers are temporary and must be frequently re-charged by Zordon. Despite this, Tommy remains determined to continue assisting the other Rangers as long as possible, Lord Zedd, Ritas superior, arrives at Ritas Moon Palace, where he takes her place and throws her into a space dumpster again
