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Yamaguchi Prefecture
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Yamaguchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region of the main island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Yamaguchi, in the center of the prefecture, the largest city, however, is Shimonoseki. Yamaguchi Prefecture was created by the merger of the provinces of Suō, during the rise of the samurai class during the Heian and Kamakura Periods, the Ouchi family of Suō Province and the Koto family of Nagato Province gained influence as powerful warrior clans. In the Muromachi Period, Ouchi Hiroyo, the 24th ruler of the Ouchi family conquered both areas of Yamaguchi Prefecture, the Ouchi clan imitated the city planning of Kyoto. They gained great wealth through cultural imports from the continent and trade with Korea, as a result, Yamaguchi came to be known as the Kyoto of the West, and Ouchi culture flourished. Sue Harutaka defeated the 31st ruler of the Ouchi clan, the Sue clan was then defeated by Mōri Motonari, and the Mōri family gained control of the Chugoku region. Yamaguchi was ruled as part of the Mōri clan domain during the Sengoku period, Mōri Terumoto was then defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the battle of Sekigahara in 1600. He was forced to give up all his land except for the Suō and Nagato areas, Mōri sought to strengthen the economic base of the region and increase local production with his Three Whites campaign. After Commodore Matthew Perrys opening of Japan, clans from Nagato played a key role in the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, four years after the Edo Shogunate was overthrown and the Meiji government formed in 1868, the present Yamaguchi Prefecture was established. The Meiji government brought in new systems and modern policies. In the Taisho period, from 1912 to 1926, shipbuilding, chemical, machinery, during the post-World War II Shōwa Period, Yamaguchi developed into one of the most industrialized prefectures in the country due to the establishment of petrochemical complexes. Thirteen cities are located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, These are the towns in each district, For the purposes of development analysis, although Yamaguchi is not part of the island of Kyushu, it has become a functional satellite of the Kanmon Straits metropolitan area. The most popular place for tourism is Shimonoseki, for example Karato Fish Market, there is a large fireworks festival in summer. Another attraction is the Kintai Bridge in the town of Iwakuni and this five-arched wooden structure is considered a symbol of Western Honshū. Hagi City is in the north of Yamaguchi and it is a very traditional city. The usual color of Japanese post boxes is red, but in Hagi they are painted green or brown, the Hagi Museum is modeled after a traditional samurai residence. The exhibits are detailed and realistic, and are changed every year, the permanent collection is data about Hagis history and collections about Takasugi Shinsaku. Hagi also contains a reverberatory furnace which has designated a World Heritage Site
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga)
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Neon Genesis Evangelion is a long-running manga series by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Gainaxs co-founder Hideaki Anno and published by Kadokawa Shoten. It began in the February issue of Shōnen Ace in December 1994 and it consists of 14 volumes, each composed of several stages or chapters. Initially released before the series of the same name, the manga was quickly outpaced and only reached its conclusion in June 2013. Neon Genesis Evangelion was created after a meeting between Hideaki Anno and King Records in 1993, although the anime series was conceived first, the manga was the first to be released, to boost public interest in the upcoming TV series while it was still under production. Due to severe production delays, the anime ultimately aired a full 10 months after the manga first appeared in Shōnen Ace. When the series appeared on TV in October 1995, Sadamotos manga storyline had completed what would later become volumes 1 to 3. The anime rapidly outpaced the manga, to the point that the chapters comprising volume 4 were not released until over a year after the TV series had finished airing, for example, between the publication in Japan of volume 4 and volume 5, two years elapsed. While the manga ran for more than 18 years, only 14 volumes were published, in 2008, it was announced that the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga was approaching its conclusion. In July 2009, it was moved to a new Shoten seinen magazine, Young Ace, at that point Sadamoto stopped writing the manga, putting the publication on hiatus in order to work on the latest Rebuild of Evangelion film. The December 2010 issue of Young Ace announced that the manga would resume that winter, on February 12,2012, half of the 90th Stage was published, retelling events as seen in episode 26 from The End of Evangelion. This was reportedly the final chapter, Sadamoto was the original character designer for the anime with Hideaki Anno as the supervisor. His manga versions of the characters and plot often differ in ways from the TV series. Shinji Ikari Shinji Ikari is invited to Tokyo-3 by his father Gendo Ikari to pilot a mecha known as the Evangelion Unit 01. Shinji reluctantly agrees, and despite a rough start he learns to use Unit 01 to protect the city from creatures known as Angels that threaten to destroy mankind, unlike the anime, Shinjis eyes are brown instead of blue. He is also introverted and expresses himself more, although he is still plagued by self-doubt. Rei Ayanami Rei Ayanami is the First Child and pilot of Evangelion Unit 00, at the beginning of the series she is an enigmatic figure whose unusual behavior confounds her peers. However, she becomes more involved with the people around her. She is slightly more talkative than in the anime and becomes connected with the people around her
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Rei Ayanami
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Rei Ayanami is a fictional character from the Japanese media franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion created by Gainax. She is the First Child and pilot of the Evangelion Unit 00, at the beginning of the series, Rei is an enigmatic figure whose unusual behavior astonishes her peers. As the series progresses, she becomes involved with the people around her, particularly her classmate. She is revealed to be a key factor in the events that conclude the storyline and her role in this conclusion is not made entirely clear in the TV series, but is one of the principal plot points of The End of Evangelion. Like many of Evangelions characters, Ayanamis surname comes from a Japanese World War II naval vessel and her first name comes from the character Rei Hino of the anime and manga series Sailor Moon. This was done in an effort to get one of the directors, Kunihiko Ikuhara, to work on Evangelion, however. Hideaki Anno instructed Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on Reis character design that Whatever else, Sadamoto was inspired to draw Rei by the band Kinniku Shōjo Tais theme song Hotai de Masshiro na Shojo. Ukina, a character from Sadamotos previous work Koto served as Reis model, Anno suggested to draw red eyes for the character, a feature that allowed to give her more personality. Also, red eyes distinguish her from the other characters and her blue hair comes from the main character of Aoki Uru. An emotional change causes certain muscles in the face to tense, Rei is expressionless but is it that she doesnt feel emotion, or that she is merely unable to express it. As the series progresses, she begins to develop relationships with others and to show moments of emotion, to even become sad. Her English voice actor, Amanda Winn-Lee describes her saying, Rei is not totally devoid of personality, there is a small spark of humanity, but it is clouded by this huge sense of negative self-worth and the realization that she is expendable. The joy of playing Rei is exploring that small spark, and also said, I got into a weird mode - I cant describe it. Its a good thing Im in a padded room when Im doing it because thats where she belongs. She knows shes expendable, but the thing is, shes still human so you cant do her totally catatonic, no specific information is given about Reis origin or heritage. Ritsuko Akagi states that Rei was born in a room deep in the lower levels of Nerv headquarters. The Red Cross Book stated that Rei was created from the remains of Yui Ikari after Yuis absorption into Unit 01 in 2004. The connection between Rei and Yui is implied a few times during the series, gendo introduces Rei to the Nerv staff in 2010 as an acquaintances child whom he is temporarily taking care of
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, commonly referred to as Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production, and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996, the original Japanese cast includes Megumi Ogata as Shinji Ikari, Megumi Hayashibara as Rei Ayanami, and Yūko Miyamura as Asuka Langley Soryu. The music was composed by Shirō Sagisu, Evangelion is an apocalyptic anime, set in a futuristic Tokyo fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm. The series explores the experiences and emotions of Evangelion pilots and members of NERV as they attempt to prevent another catastrophe, in the series there are many references to psychoanalytic concepts, such as the oral stage, introjection, oral personality, ambivalence, and the death drive. It features religious symbolism throughout the series, including themes and imagery derived from Kabbalah, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Neon Genesis Evangelion gained widespread critical acclaim. Regarded as a critique and deconstruction of the genre, the series has become a cultural icon and influenced an artistic. Shinji witnesses the United Nations forces battling an Angel, one of a race of giant monstrous beings whose awakening was foretold by the Dead Sea Scrolls. NERV officer Misato Katsuragi escorts Shinji into the NERV complex beneath the city, without training, Shinji is quickly overwhelmed in the battle, causing the Evangelion to go berserk and savagely kill the Angel on its own. Following hospitalization, Shinji moves in with Misato and begins settling into life in Tokyo-3, in his second battle, Shinji destroys an Angel but runs away after the battle, distraught. Misato confronts Shinji and he decides to remain a pilot, Evangelion Unit-00 is repaired and Shinji tries to befriend its pilot, a mysterious, and socially isolated teenage girl named Rei Ayanami. With Reis help, Shinji defeats another Angel, the pilot of Evangelion Unit-02, teenage girl Asuka Langley Soryu, moves in with Misato and Shinji and joins her fellow pilots in defeating the next Angels. Shinjis schoolfriend Toji Suzuhara is selected for Unit-03, but during his first test synchronization with the Evangelion, Shinji is devastated and quits piloting the Evangelion, but is forced to return to destroy an Angel that has defeated both Asuka and Rei. Asuka loses her self-confidence following her defeat, and spirals into a deep depression and this is worsened by her next fight, against an Angel which attacks her mind. In the next battle, Rei self-destructs Unit-00 and dies to save Shinjis life, Misato and Shinji later visit the hospital where they find Rei alive but claiming she is the third Rei. Misato forces Ritsuko to reveal the secrets of NERV, the Evangelion graveyard. Asuka is reduced to a state by her depression. Kaworu, who initially befriends Shinji, is revealed to be the final Angel, Kaworu fights Shinji, then realizes that he must die if humanity is to thrive and asks Shinji to kill him. Despite his initial hesitation, Shinji kills Kaworu, soon after this act, NERV and SEELE trigger the forced evolution of humanity, termed the Human Instrumentality Project, in which the souls of all mankind are merged into one through Rei
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Gainax
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Evangelion has reportedly grossed over 150 billion yen, or approximately 1.2 billion USD. The company is headquartered in Koganei, Tokyo, series produced by Gainax are often known for their controversial twist endings. The Animage Anime Grand Prix has been awarded to Gainax for Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water in 1991, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997. The studio was formed in the early 1980s as Daicon Film by university students Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Hiroyuki Yamaga, Takami Akai, Toshio Okada, Yasuhiro Takeda and Shinji Higuchi. Their first project was a short for the 20th Annual Japan National SF Convention, also known as Daicon III, held in 1981 in Osaka. Though the short had a scope, the animation was rough. The group made a bigger splash with the short they produced for the 22nd Annual Japan National SF Convention, Daicon IV. The action was all set to the Electric Light Orchestra song Twilight, the Daicon IV short firmly established Daicon Film as a talented new anime studio. The studio changed its name to Gainax in 1985, basing the term Gainax on an obscure Tottori Prefecture term for giant, Gainaxs first work as a commercial entity was Royal Space Force, The Wings of Honneamise, released in 1987. Honneamise was critically acclaimed and an anime movie, however. The next release, the 1988 OVA Gunbuster, was a success and put Gainax on a stabler footing to produce works like Nadia. During this period, Gainax also produced a number of such as garage kit. In 1995, Gainax produced perhaps their best known series, the commercially successful and it was later revealed that Gainax had concealed 1. Gainax president Takeshi Sawamura and tax accountant Yoshikatsu Iwasaki were arrested on July 13,1999, I guess he was vulnerable to temptation at that point, because no one knew how long the Evangelion goose would keep laying golden eggs. I dont think he purposely set out with the goal of evading taxes and it was more that our level of accounting knowledge wasnt up to the task of dealing with revenues on such a large scale. In 2004, Gainax marked their 20th anniversary with the production of Diebuster, Gainaxs most recent successes on television have been the popular anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. In August 2011, Gainax was sued by A. D. A. D, vision has asked to be awarded the live-action rights to Evangelion and any accruing legal fees. In 2012, Gainax announced it would be producing its first live-action television series, EAs Rock, Gainax also collaborated with Game Arts in 1992, resulting in the video game Alisia Dragoon
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Daicon III and IV Opening Animations
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The Daicon III and IV Opening Animations are two short, anime,8 mm films that were produced for the 1981 Daicon III and 1983 Daicon IV Nihon SF Taikai conventions. They were produced by a group of animators known as Daicon Film. Daicon III was made by Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga and Takami Akai and Daicon IV credits twelve people, including Yamaga as the director and Anno, in 2001, the anime magazine Animage ranked the Daicon animations as the 35th of the Top 100 anime of all time. The Jet VTOL ship from Ultramans Science Patrol descends out of the sky toward Earth, as a girl, carrying her randoseru. The Science Patrol offer the girl a cup of water and ask her to deliver it to DAICON, the girl salutes and races away, but she quickly experiences trouble as Punk Dragon blocks her path. He summons a mecha from Starship Troopers, and it and the girl begin battling, the girl tosses the mecha aside and Gomora rises from the earth. Using a booster concealed in her backpack, the girl flies up into the sky and evades Gomoras blast and they continue their battle in mid-air. A blow from the mecha sends the girl falling, imperiling her cup of water, at the last moment, she has a vision of the Science Patrol and regains consciousness. She snatches the cup before it crashes to the ground, resuming her battle with the mecha, she catches one of its missiles and hurls it back at the mecha, causing a huge explosion. The destroyed mecha launches a rocket, summoning Godzilla with the Ideon symbol, with King Ghidorah and Gamera chasing her, the girl flies through the air with her jet-propelled backpack. A Star Destroyer, a TIE fighter, and Martian fighting machines from the film The War of the Worlds cross the background, reaching into her backpack, the girl pulls out a bamboo ruler, which magically becomes a lightsaber. After slicing an Alien Baltan in half, the girl launches a number of missiles from her backpack. Hit by one of the missiles, a Maser Tank from the Godzilla series catches fire, the Atragon breaks in two as the Yamato, the USS Enterprise, an X-wing fighter and Daimajin explode in complete chaos. The girl pours her cup of water on a shriveled daikon buried in the ground, as the daikon absorbs the water, it turns into the spaceship Daicon. Bathed in light, and now wearing a uniform, the girl boards the ship. As the landing gear retracts, Daicon departs for the far reaches of the universe, the Daicon IV Opening Animation begins with an abridged, 90-second retelling of the Daicon III Opening Animation set to music by Kitarō. After this, Prologue by Electric Light Orchestra is heard, while the lyrics appear against a starfield, the film proper begins as Prologue segues into Twilight, the song which follows it on the album Time. The girl from the animation is now an adult, wearing a bunny costume
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film)
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a 2006 Japanese-animated science fiction romance film produced by Madhouse, directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Satoko Okudera. Riisa Naka voices teenager Makoto Konno, who learns from Kazuko Yoshiyama, Makotos aunt and the protagonist to the original story, Makoto begins using the time-leaps frivolously to fix problems. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was released on July 15,2006, the film won numerous awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. The English version was licensed and produced by Kadokawa Pictures U. S. with dubbing supplied by Ocean Productions, Makoto Konno, who enjoys playing baseball, lives with her parents and younger sister Miyuki in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo, Japan. Her aunt Kazuko Yoshiyama, is an art restorer at the Tokyo National Museum, one day, when Makoto discovers a message written on a blackboard at her high school, she inadvertently falls upon a walnut-shaped object. On her way home, Makoto is ejected into a crossing when the brakes on her bicycle fail and is hit by a train. She finds herself transported back to the point in time when she was riding her bicycle right before the accident, Kazuko explains to Makoto that she has the power to time-leap, to literally leap through time. At first, Makoto uses her powers to avoid being late, getting perfect grades, and even relive a single session for hours. Consequently, Makoto uses most of her leaps frivolously, to prevent undesirable situations from happening, including a love confession from her best friend Chiaki Mamiya. Makoto realizes that she has a tattoo on her arm indicating the limited amount of times she can time leap. Using her remaining time leaps, Makoto attempts to make things right for everyone, when Chiaki calls Makoto to ask if she has been time-leaping, she uses her final time leap to prevent Chiakis call. In the meantime, Makotos friend Kōsuke Tsuda and his new girlfriend, Kaho Fujitani, Makoto attempts to stop them, but because she had just used her final leap, she arrives too late to the crossing only to watch them get hit by the train. A moment later, Chiaki freezes time, telling Makoto that he is from the future, while walking with Makoto in the frozen city, Chiaki also explains that he stayed longer in her time frame than he originally planned. Consequently, he has used his final leap to ensure Kōsukes existence and has stopped only to explain to Makoto what the results will be. Having revealed his origins and the nature of the item that allowed Makoto to leap through time, Makoto then realizes that she loves him. True to his words, Chiaki disappears once time resumes, initially distraught by Chiakis disappearance, Makoto discovers that Chiakis time-leap had inadvertently restored her time-leap, Chiaki had leaped back to the time before Makoto used her final leap. Makoto uses it to leap back to the moment right after she gained her powers, at which point Chiaki still has one remaining time-leap. Makoto explains her knowledge of everything and shows the device to Chiaki, Makoto vows to ensure the paintings existence so Chiaki can see it in his era
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Summer Wars
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Summer Wars is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, animated by Madhouse and distributed by Warner Bros. The films voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji, the film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmothers 90th birthday. However, he is implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done to it and find a way to stop the computer program from causing any further damage. After producing The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Madhouse was asked to produce something new, Hosoda and writer Satoko Okudera conceived a story about a social network and a strangers connection with a family. The real-life city of Ueda was chosen as the setting for Summer Wars, Hosoda used the clan as the basis for the Jinnouchi family after visiting his then-fiancés home in Ueda. Production of Summer Wars commenced in 2006, art director Youji Takeshige incorporated Japanese houses into his background designs. Hosoda also insisted that 80 family members were to be included as main characters, the project was first announced at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair and the first trailer of the film was released in April 2009. Audience interest was fueled primarily through word of mouth and Internet publicity, a manga adaptation of the film was written by Iqura Sugimoto and began its serialization in July 2009. Summer Wars premiered in Japan on August 1,2009 and it grossed over US$1 million in its opening weekend in 127 theaters and ranked No.7 at the box office. The film was received by critics and the general audience and was financially successful. One day, Kenji is invited by fellow Kuonji student Natsuki Shinohara to participate in the 90th birthday of her great-grandmother Sakae Jinnouchi, after traveling to Sakaes estate in Ueda, Natsuki introduces Kenji as her fiancé to Sakae, surprising them both. Kenji meets several of Natsukis relatives and discovers that the Jinnouchis are descendants of a samurai who challenged the Tokugawa clan in 1615. He also meets Wabisuke Jinnouchi, Natsukis half-great-uncle and an expert who has been living in the United States since stealing the family fortune 10 years ago. Kenji receives an e-mail with a code and cracks it. Love Machine, an artificial intelligence written by Wabisuke, uses Kenjis account and avatar to hack the infrastructure, Kenji, Sakuma, and Natsukis cousin Kazuma Ikezawa confront Love Machine. Love Machine defeats Kazumas avatar King Kazma and continues to consume accounts in the OZ mainframe, creating traffic congestion. Two of Sakaes relatives, Rika and Shota Jinnouchi, discover Kenjis involvement, Shota arrests Kenji, but the congestion causes Natsuki to return them to the estate
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Wolf Children
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Wolf Children is a 2012 Japanese animated fantasy film directed and co-written by Mamoru Hosoda. The film stars the voices of Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, the story follows a young mother who is left to raise two half-human half-wolf children, Ame and Yuki, after their werewolf father dies. To create the film, director Hosoda established Studio Chizu, which co-produced the film with Madhouse, yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer for Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water and Neon Genesis Evangelion, designed characters for the film. Wolf Children had its premiere in Paris on June 25,2012. It is licensed by Funimation Entertainment in North America and was released on DVD and it was screened in the UK at the end of October 2013 with a DVD and Deluxe Blu-ray/DVD edition from Manga Entertainment following on December 23,2013. In Tokyo, Japan, college student Hana falls in love with a werewolf and has two half-wolf, half-human children with him, a daughter, Yuki, and a later a son. Soon after, their father is killed in an accident while hunting food for the children, hanas life as a single mother is difficult, Yuki and Ame constantly switch between their human and wolf forms, and Hana has to hide them from the world. When she is visited by social workers concerned that the children have not had vaccinations and she works hard to repair a dilapidated house and sustain the family on their own crops. One winter day, Ame almost drowns in a river after trying to hunt a kingfisher, Yuki begs her mother to let her go to school like other children. Hana accepts on the condition that Yuki keeps her wolf nature secret, though Yukis classmates find her strange at first, she soon makes friends. However, Ame is more interested in the forest and takes lessons from an elderly fox about survival in the wild, in fourth grade, Yukis class receives a new transfer student, Souhei, who realizes something is strange about her. That day, when he pursues her, Yuki transforms into a wolf and inadvertently injures him, leading to a meeting with their parents, Souhei tells them a wolf attacked him, absolving Yuki of blame, the two eventually become friends. Yuki and Ame disagree over whether they are human or wolf, two years later, while Yuki is at school, a storm gathers and Ame disappears into the forest to help his dying fox teacher, Hana follows him. The other children are picked up from school by their parents, leaving Yuki, Yuki shows Souhei that she can transform into a wolf, he promises to keep her secret. As Hana searches the forest for Ame, she slips and falls unconscious, Ame finds her and carries her to safety. She awakens to see Ame transform into a wolf and run into the mountains. She realizes he has found his own path and accepts his goodbye, one year later, Yuki leaves home to move into a dorm in junior high school. Ames wolf howls can be far and wide in the forest
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist. Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his career in 1963 when he joined Toei Animation. From there, Miyazaki worked as an in-between artist for Gullivers Travels Beyond the Moon, Hayao Miyazaki was also associated with Tokyo Movie Shinsha. He co-directed Lupin III with Isao Takahata, provided the screenplay and he continued to work in various roles in the animation industry with various studios until he directed his first feature film, The Castle of Cagliostro, a Lupin the Third story, released in 1979. After the success of his film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli. While Miyazakis films have enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke in 1997. Miyazakis next film, Spirited Away, won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards, Miyazakis films often contain recurrent themes, like humanitys relationship with nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. His films protagonists are often strong girls or young women, Miyazakis newest film The Wind Rises was released on July 20,2013 and screened internationally in February 2014. The film would go on to him his third American Academy Award nomination. Miyazaki announced on September 1,2013 that The Wind Rises would be his final feature-length movie, in November 2014, Miyazaki was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his impact on animation and cinema. He is the second Japanese filmmaker to win this award, after Akira Kurosawa in 1990, in 2002, American film critic Roger Ebert suggested that Miyazaki may be the best animation filmmaker in history, praising the depth and artistry of his films. Miyazaki was born in the town of Akebono-cho in Bunkyō, Tokyo and his father was director of Miyazaki Airplane, which made rudders for A6M Zero fighter planes during World War II. During the war, when Miyazaki was only three old, the family evacuated to Utsunomiya and later to Kanuma in Tochigi Prefecture where the Miyazaki Airplane factory was located. For fifth grade, he went to the new Eifuku Elementary School, Miyazaki graduated from Eifuku and attended Omiya Junior High. During this time, Miyazakis mother suffered from tuberculosis and was bedridden from 1947 until 1955. She spent the first few years mostly in the hospital, but was able to be nursed from home. Miyazaki aspired to become an author from an early age. He read the stories in boys magazines and acknowledges the influences of creative artists of the medium, such as Tetsuji Fukushima, Soji Yamakawa
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Philip K. Dick
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Philip Kindred Dick was an American writer, who published works mainly belonging to the genre of science fiction. Born in Illinois before moving to California, Dick began publishing science fiction stories in the 1950s and his 1962 alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle earned Dick early acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel. He followed with science fiction such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel, a collection of his non-fiction writing on these themes was published posthumously as The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. He died in 1982 of a stroke, aged 53, in addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. A variety of films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, Paycheck, Next. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923, in 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series. The death of Jane six weeks later, on January 26,1929, profoundly affected Philips life and his family later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. When Philip was five, his father was transferred to Reno, Nevada, both parents fought for custody of Philip, which was awarded to the mother. Dorothy, determined to raise Philip alone, took a job in Washington, D. C. Philip was enrolled at John Eaton Elementary School, completing the second through fourth grades. His lowest grade was a C in Written Composition, although a teacher remarked that he shows interest and he was educated in Quaker schools. In June 1938, Dorothy and Philip returned to California, Dick stated that he read his first science fiction magazine, Stirring Science Stories in 1940 at the age of twelve. Dick attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California and he and fellow science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin were members of the graduating class but did not know each other at the time. After graduation, he attended the University of California, Berkeley. Dick did not declare a major and took classes in history, psychology, philosophy and this question from his early studies persisted as a theme in many of his novels. Dick dropped out because of ongoing anxiety problems, according to his third wife Annes memoir and she also says he disliked the mandatory ROTC training. At Berkeley, Dick befriended poet Robert Duncan and poet and linguist Jack Spicer, Dick claimed to have been host of a classical music program on KSMO Radio in 1947
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Animator
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An animator is an artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, Animation is closely related to filmmaking and like filmmaking is extremely labor-intensive, which means that most significant works require the collaboration of several animators. The methods of creating the images or frames for an animation piece depends on the artistic styles. Other artists who contribute to animated cartoons, but who are not animators, include layout artists, storyboard artists, in hand-drawn Japanese animation productions, such as in Hayao Miyazakis films, the key animator handles both layout and key animation. Some animators in Japan such as Mitsuo Iso take full responsibility for their scenes, one important distinction is between character animators and special effects animators. Usually, a young artist seeking to break into animation is hired for the first time in one of these categories, historically, the creation of animation was a long and arduous process. Each frame of a scene was hand-drawn, then transposed onto celluloid. These finished cels were placed together in sequence over painted backgrounds and filmed. Animation methods have become far more varied in recent years, todays cartoons could be created using any number of interesting methods, mostly using computers to make the animation process cheaper and faster. These more efficient animation procedures have made the job less tedious. Audiences generally find animation to be more interesting with sound. Voice actors and musicians, among other talent, may contribute vocal or music tracks, some early animated films asked the vocal and music talent to synchronize their recordings to already-extant animation. Nowadays, visual development artists will design a character as a 2D drawing or painting, texture artists paint the character with colorful or complex textures, and technical directors set up rigging so that the character can be easily moved and posed. For each scene, layout artists set up cameras and rough blocking. Despite those constraints, the animator is still capable of exercising significant artistic skill, more recently, Chris Buck has remarked that animators have become actors with mice. Some studios bring in acting coaches on feature films to help work through such issues. Each finished film clip is then checked for quality and rushed to a film editor, Animation Computer animation Computer graphics Key frame Sweat box Animation Toolworks Glossary, Who Does What In Animation How An Animated Cartoon Is Made
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Short film
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A short film, is a cinema format, denoting any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. The term featurette originally applied to a longer than a short subject. The increasingly rare term short subject means approximately the same thing and it is an industry term which carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short is an abbreviation for either term, Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers for non profit, either with a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by grants, non profit organizations. Short films are used by filmmakers to gain experience or prove their talent in order to gain funding for future films from private investors, entertainment companies. Longer and shorter films coexisted with similar popularity throughout the days of film. However, comedy films were produced in large numbers compared to lengthy features such as D. W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation. By the 1920s, a ticket purchased a varied program including a feature and several supporting works from such as second feature, short comedy, 5–10 minute cartoon, travelogue. Short comedies were popular, and typically came in a serial or series. Even though there was no set release schedule, these series could be considered somewhat like a modern TV sitcom – lower in status than feature films. Animated cartoons came principally as short subjects, in the 1930s, the distribution system changed in many countries owing to the Great Depression. Instead of the cinema owner assembling a program of their own choice, the studios sold a package centered on a main and supporting feature, with the rise of the double feature, two reel shorts went into decline as a commercial category. Hal Roach, for example, moved Laurel and Hardy full-time into feature films after 1935, by the mid-1950s, with the rise of television, the commercial live-action short was virtually dead, The Three Stooges being the last major series of 2-reelers, ending in 1959. Short films had become a medium for student, independent and specialty work, cartoon shorts had a longer life, due in part to the implementation of lower-cost limited animation techniques, but also declined in this period. Warner Bros. one of the most prolific of the golden era, the Pink Panther was the last regular theatrical cartoon short series, having begun in 1964 and ended in 1980. By the 1960s, the market for animated shorts had largely shifted to television, a few animated shorts continue within mainstream commercial distribution. For instance, Pixar has screened a short along with each of its feature films during its theatrical run since 1995
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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Gunbuster
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Gunbuster, known in Japan as Aim for the Top. is a six-episode anime OVA series created by Gainax in 1988. It was the debut of Hideaki Anno, best known as the director of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The title is a combination of the titles of classic tennis anime Aim for the Ace. and hit action drama film Top Gun, to celebrate Gainaxs 20th anniversary in 2004, an official sequel to Gunbuster, Diebuster, was released as an OVA. The sequel features new characters and mecha, but retains the format, in the very near future, a race of huge, insectoid aliens are discovered traveling the galaxy. Humanity has responded by developing space-going battleships and giant fighting robots and these complex robots—RX-7 Machine Weapons—are actually an advanced type of fighting suit, piloted by a single occupant. As advanced as they are, however, they are being used as trainers for a new weapon, however, being relatively new technology, they are difficult to operate, so pilot candidates are selected from the best and brightest youth on Earth and the Lunar colony. These are trained at schools around the world, the story begins in the year 2023, six years after the first battles with the aliens, and centers on young Noriko Takaya. Nonetheless, she has entered a school on Okinawa, where she is largely influenced by her instructor, Kouichirou Ohta. He has faith that she will overcome her early clumsiness, while students are critical of her inability. Noriko idolizes the beautiful, competent and talented Kazumi Amano and she is not alone, the other students recognize that Amano is the top RX-7 pilot at the school, and likely the entire world. Coach Ohta shows the extra training which Amano creates for herself, only two Gunbuster pilots from each school will be selected for the real mission. Amano, of course, will be going, and all of the others want the second slot on the team, Takaya is determined to win, not only to be with Amano but also to find her father. She is thrilled to discover that she has in fact been chosen as the second Japanese pilot, following that selection, conflict between Takaya and other students comes to a head, when the second-best RX-7 pilot at the school publicly challenges her to a one-on-one fight. Planned for late at night, when none of the authorities will be around to stop it, Ohta learns of the duel. He is there to observe, and perhaps to save Takayas life, Takaya is on the defensive from the start, and the older student humiliates her by action and over the radio. As Takayas RX-7 is pummeled, Noriko realizes that her difficulties are a case of sensory overload—she is getting too much information from the monitoring systems. She turns off her monitors, but as the systems go dark, her opponent is infuriated by the insult and prepares the final. Just as it appears that Noriko is doomed, she destroys her opponents RX-7 with a Thunder Kick and her opponent muses that the school rookie has beat her with an advanced maneuver which she hadnt been taught
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
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Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo. The series was created by NHK, Toho and Korad, from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, the series follows a young inventor named Jean and a former circus performer named Nadia, who wishes to return to her home in Africa. In its original Japanese broadcast, it aired from 1990 to 1991, running for 39 episodes, aDVs Anime Network has broadcast the series in the United States. Following the 2009 closure of ADV, Sentai Filmworks has re-licensed the anime series, set in an alternate universe 1889, the series centers on Nadia, a 14-year-old girl of unknown origins, and Jean, a young, warm-hearted French inventor. Early in the story, the two protagonists are chased by Grandis Granva, Sanson, and Hanson, a group of thieves who pursue Nadia for the blue jeweled pendant she possesses. This series origins date to the mid-1970s when Hayao Miyazaki was hired by Toho to develop a television series, one of these concepts was Around the World in 80 days by Sea, in which two orphan children pursued by villains team up with Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. It was never produced, but Toho retained the rights for the outline, while Miyazaki reused elements from his original concept in later projects like Future Boy Conan. Gainaxs initial involvement with the project occurred during a power struggle within the company. During a pitch with NHK, Group TAC requested character designs, hiroaki Inoue provided character designs and storyboards for the pitch that were provided by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Mahiro Maeda working in secret. After the conclusion of the pitch NHK chose to proceed with Inoues Nadia presentation, however the estimated cost of producing the show would cause Gainax to lose money. After a meeting at NHK where senior Gainax staff demanded Inoue be removed from the project or else they would withdraw, Sadamoto was originally assigned to be director but eventually dropped out, preferring to concentrate on design and animation. Hideaki Anno was chosen as his replacement, the series contains references and in-jokes to other anime works including Space Battleship Yamato, Macross and Time Bokan. Parts of the series were animated in Korea, at the completion of the series Gainax had lost 80 million yen on the project and had no rights to the series itself. However they were allowed rights to produce a game of the series, Group TAC later requested Gainax produce a Nadia movie and provided a 50 million yen advance. Hideaki Anno was convinced to direct it after declining the role due to the stress of making the series. Initial production work began and included designs by Sadamoto, however the company was unable to develop the project. The original advance had brought Gainaxs loss on the series down to 30 million yen but the advance was spent on early production and Gainax was unable to repay it. After the success of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gainax returned the advance to Group TAC, minus some costs from Gainaxs involvement in providing designs, the series was broadcast on NHK between April 13,1990 and April 12,1991 and consisted of 39 episodes
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Anime
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Anime is Japanese hand-drawn or computer animation. The word is the pronunciation of animation in Japanese, where this term references all animation. Arguably, the abstract approach to the words meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan. For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product, some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of orientalism. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917, and Japanese anime production has continued to increase steadily. Anime is distributed theatrically, by way of television broadcasts, directly to home media and it is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences. Anime is an art form with distinctive production methods and techniques that have been adapted over time in response to emergent technologies. It consists of an ideal story-telling mechanism, combining art, characterization, cinematography. The production of anime focuses less on the animation of movement and more on the realism of settings as well as the use of effects, including panning, zooming. Being hand-drawn, anime is separated from reality by a gap of fiction that provides an ideal path for escapism that audiences can immerse themselves into with relative ease. Diverse art styles are used and character proportions and features can be quite varied, the anime industry consists of over 430 production studios, including major names like Studio Ghibli, Gainax, and Toei Animation. Despite comprising only a fraction of Japans domestic film market, anime makes up a majority of Japanese DVD sales and it has also seen international success after the rise of English-dubbed programming. This rise in popularity has resulted in non-Japanese productions using the anime art style. Anime is an art form, specifically animation, that all genres found in cinema. In Japanese, the term refers to all forms of animation from around the world. In English, anime is more used to denote a Japanese-style animated film or television entertainment or as a style of animation created in Japan. The etymology of the anime is disputed. The English term animation is written in Japanese katakana as アニメーション and is アニメ in its shortened form, in English, anime—when used as a common noun—normally functions as a mass noun
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Death & Rebirth, romanized in Japan as Evangelion, Death and Rebirth, is a 1997 Japanese animated science fiction film. It is the first film in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise and it was released, along with the follow-up, The End of Evangelion, in response to the success of the TV series and a strong demand by fans for another ending. It has since been re-edited and re-released several times, between March and October 1997, Death and Rebirth grossed 1.1 billion yen. On July 26,2005, Manga Entertainment released Death and Rebirth, the English production made similar creative changes in the dubbing of the film, as had been made to The End of Evangelion. One notable change was the alteration of the effect between the scene featuring Kaji to one of Shinji informing Asuka of his death. According to the DVD commentary, English ADR director Amanda Winn-Lee, also the voice of Rei in the dub, felt the sound was not a proper gunshot and replaced it with a more overt effect. Another version titled Revival of Evangelion was released on March 8,1998 and is a unification of the movies Death2 and it is considered the final form of the Evangelion movies, which had been released in several forms prior to Revival. The two were released on the ninth and tenth discs of the Renewal of Evangelion box set with the labels of Revival of Evangelion and Evangelion – The Feature Film, Death2 is also the version released in the west. Chris Beveridge from Mania gave it an overall A- score, anime Reviews gave it a 3 out of 5. Japan Cinema gave the film a C+, adam Arnold from Animefringe gave the film an overall score of 72%
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The End of Evangelion
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The End of Evangelion is a 1997 Japanese live-action/animated science fiction film written and directed by Hideaki Anno and animated by Production I. G. Fan theories posit that the film is a finale for the series Neon Genesis Evangelion however this is not confirmed. The film is divided into two episodes, Episode 25, Air / Love is Destructive and Episode 26, My Purest Heart for You, Sincerely Yours / ONE MORE FINAL, the End of Evangelion initially received mixed reviews, despite obtaining the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1997. A2014 Time Out New York poll of filmmakers saw The End of Evangelion voted one of the 100 best animated films of all time, teenager Shinji Ikari is the pilot of Evangelion Unit 01, one of several giant cyborgs designed to fight hostile supernatural entities called Angels. Distraught over the death of his friend Kaworu Nagisa, Shinji visits fellow pilot Asuka Langley Soryu in a hospital, the shadowy committee SEELE has discovered that commander Gendo Ikari intends to use NERV, the paramilitary organization that deploys the Evangelion units, for his own plans. SEELE dispatches the Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Force to seize control of NERV, NERV major Misato Katsuragi orders Asuka moved to the cockpit of Evangelion Unit 02 and placed at the bottom of a lake, then rescues Shinji from JSSDF troops. Determined to have Shinji defend NERV, Misato brings Shinji to Unit 01s bay doors, Misato implores Shinji to pilot Unit 01, kisses him, and forces him into the elevator. Shinji discovers that Unit 01 is immobilized in JSSDF bakelite, after concluding that NERVs defeat is inevitable, Gendo retrieves the Evangelion pilot Rei Ayanami. He plans to use her to initiate Third Impact, a cataclysm which will kill everyone on Earth, attempting to stop him, NERV scientist Ritsuko Akagi sends a computer command to destroy NERV. However, Casper, a computer core modeled on Ritsukos mother, overrides her command, inside Evangelion Unit 02, Asuka overcomes her trauma and re-activates the unit. She destroys the JSSDF forces, but SEELEs new mass-produced Evangelion units dismember her and Unit 02, breaking free of the bakelite, Unit 01 ascends above NERV headquarters. From the cockpit, Shinji witnesses the mass-produced units carrying the remains of Unit 02. Gendo attempts to merge with Rei, who has the soul of Lilith, an angel hidden beneath NERV headquarters, to begin Third Impact. Having merged with another angel, Adam, Gendo will become a god if he merges with Lilith, however, Rei rejects Gendo, absorbs Adam and reunites with Lilith, and her body grows to gargantuan size. The mass-produced Evangelion units pull Unit 01 into the sky and crucify it, after several dreamlike contemplations, including a fight with Asuka, Shinji decides that he is alone and everyone in the world should die. In response, Rei/Lilith dissolves humanity back into primordial soup, reforming the souls of humanity into a single consciousness, initially accepting this new state, Shinji feels that there is no happiness in the real world. However, he rejects it when he realizes that life is about experiencing joy, Rei/Lilith dies and Asuka and Shinji rematerialize in an apocalyptic landscape. Shinji begins to strangle Asuka, but when she caresses his face, he stops, the ambiguous ending of original Evangelion TV series left several viewers and critics confused and unsatisfied
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Pilgrim (Eric Clapton album)
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Pilgrim is the thirteenth studio album by the British rock musician Eric Clapton, released on March 10,1998 for Reprise Records. The album features all-new studio-recorded material since Claptons 1989 hit album Journeyman and was nominated for music awards. The album was recorded from 1996 to 1997 in both Ocean Way and the Olympic Studios, the release of Pilgrim marked Claptons first album of all-new original studio material since 1989s Journeyman album. When being interviewed by Larry King in February 1998, Clapton explained how the title came to be, Well. Just looking at my life as a musician and a lot of other respects, and I see myself as kind of being like a lone guy on a quest. The album cover and packaging for Pilgrim was originally conceived by Eric Clapton himself, in his 2007 autobiography, Clapton noted, that he asked his drummer Steve Gadd, how he would feel about making the saddest record of all time. Clapton calls Pilgrim one of his albums, because he put so much passion. Pilgrim brings, so the website, a slick, smooth, detached, laid-back, mellow, refined, reflective, stylish, sentimental. The Billboard magazine, however, thinks, the album belongs to the music genre of pop music. The album experiments with drum machines and certain sounds like synthesizers, guitars, the album features a lot of synth-keyboard sounds and a twenty-piece orchestra on some of the tunes. The music website CD Shakedown thinks the album is not rock and not blues, rolling Stone calls the albums material a loosely themed soul-song cycle in the tradition of Marvin Gaye effective modern contexts. Pilgrim features 14 tracks of a total 75 minutes and 33 seconds duration, twelve of the albums tracks were either written completely alone by Clapton, or at least co-written by the British rock musician. The songs Circus and My Fathers Eyes were written originally for Claptons 1992 Unplugged live album, although Clapton recorded both of the songs in the acoustic situation, he never officially released the recordings until the deluxe edition of the live album was released in 2013. In his autobiography, Clapton noted, the reason for the release was because he felt the songs were not quite finished. The titles on Pilgrim are wide open musically, as the album includes tracks such as Fall Like Rain, ballads like Needs His Woman. Broken Hearted, a song Clapton wrote with Greg Phillinganes, features synthezisers, for example, in 2011 and 2013, the record was re-released on 12 vinyl with better quality pressings, and was in 2014 re-released by Audio Fidelity Records as a Super Audio CD. The album was released alongside Change the World as an so called extended play on February 2,1999 for WEA International. On August 4,2008, Welt & Placket released the 1998 record with along with 2001s Reptile as a double album
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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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FLCL
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The six-episode series was released in Japan from April 2000 to March 2001. A manga and novel were created at the time. It aired in the United States on Adult Swim in 2003 several times and it aired once again on the networks Toonami block from October 26,2013 to January 25,2014. The series is available via Hulu, iTunes, and on Funimations website. Two new seasons totaling 12 episodes were announced on March 24,2016 as a co-production between Production I. G and Adult Swim, FLCL is a coming-of-age story and revolves around Naota Nandaba, a 12-year-old, working-class boy living with his widowed father and grandfather. Naota discovers that the blow to his created a N. O. portal. Naota later finds Haruko working in his house as a live-in maid and it is later discovered that Haruko is an investigator for the Galactic Space Police Brotherhood. Haruko uses Naota for her search for the Pirate King, Atomsk and she is at odds with Medical Mechanica, a monolithic industrial corporation. Naota is being watched by Commander Amarao, an agent of the Bureau of Interstellar Immigration. Naota is ultimately drawn into a battle between Haruko, Amarao and Medical Mechanica. FLCL was directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax, Production I. G, fLCLs localization director and script writer Marc Handler stated that localization of the script was the hardest part of the show. The in-jokes in the show included obscure pop culture references that had to be decoded and transferred to English audiences. One example was a reference to Cheerio, a soft drink in Japan, for the English release the choice was made to use a discontinued American soft drink at the time. Director Kazuya Tsuramaki responded to criticism of FLCL, stating comprehension should not be an important factor in FLCL, the Medical Mechanica building featured is in the shape of a large iron. The character Amarao describes Medical Mechanicas goal as the destruction of all thought, FLCL uses the iron as a symbolic breakdown of thought by smoothing out the wrinkles as equated to the removing of the brains wrinkles. For English localization, the Japanese team had to explain the concept because a translation of script did not convey the ideology. Six DVD compilations, each containing one episode, have released in Japan by Gainax. In addition, a DVD collection box, containing all six DVD compilations, was released in Japan on August 13,2005, three DVD compilations were released by Synch-Point in North America
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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 (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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Diebuster
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Diebuster, also known as Aim for the Top 2. and Gunbuster 2, is a six-episode original video animation series directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki, written by Yōji Enokido and animated by Gainax. It was created to commemorate the studios 20th anniversary in 2004, a compilation movie, titled Aim for the Top. The Gattai Movie. that condenses Gunbuster and Diebuster into two movies, was released on October 1,2006. It was licensed for American release by Bandai Visual USA as Gunbuster 2, discotek Media has since re-licensed Diebuster as Gunbuster 2, Diebuster and it was released on May 21,2013. A manga adaptation of the series is available in Japan and it also explores her interactions with the rest of the Idols, her efforts to fit in and, ultimately, the truth to her forgotten past. This so-called Topless is actually a space monster, as LalC learns when she witnesses its vicious attacks against her comrades and, horrified. During these events, Nonos potent powers as Buster Machine no.7 awaken, she, nearing the end of the story, they encounter the last of the space monsters carrying a black hole and utilizing it as an energy source to warp from system to system. The empire plans to use Nonos Buster Machine powers and the artificial Buster Machines to destroy the final Space Monster. However, LalC and the Fraternity find themselves useless during this time, Nono attempts to hold back the monster, but to no avail. LalC then brings Jupiter 2 out of orbit and seems to summon it the way she summons Dix-Neuf, the Space Monster warps closer to earth, Nono suddenly departs with the Solar Defence Force, and seemingly vanishes from the system. The empire decides to use Earth as a weapon to destroy the final Space Monster to ensure their survival, meanwhile, LalC for the first time, delves into Nonos past, How she learned to idolize Nonoriri and the man who found her in the depths of Space. She and the remainder of the Topless prepare for the Space Monsters arrival and the intervention of Nono. However, frustrated with Nonos departure, LalC batters DieBuster in a fit of rage, just as she is about to land a finishing blow using Douze-Milles reformed components as a Buster Machine, her Topless powers suddenly expire. DieBuster attempts to attack the Space Monster, with no effect, however, the monster vaporizes DieBusters hands. Dix-Neuf moves on his own to help LalC access the cockpit in his brain, activating his true form. With the two girls together once more, and Dix-Neufs new powers, they defeat the final Space Monster with a Double Inazuma Kick, however, at the wake of their battle, the Black hole tears open due to the Space Monsters death. Dix-Neuf saves LalC, and brings her back to civilization, where she weeps at the death of Nono, ten years later, LalC becomes an environmentalist and her Topless comrades have moved on from their previous life. She stays on a hilltop in the Okinawan coast line, musing about Nono before the citys lights shuts off
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Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
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Evangelion,1.0 You Are Alone. is a 2007 Japanese animated film written and chief directed by Hideaki Anno. It is the first of four released in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy based on the original anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was produced and co-distributed by Annos Studio Khara in partnership with Gainax, Hideaki Anno wrote the first movie and is the general director and manager for the entire project. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto provided character designs for the film, while Ikuto Yamashita provided mechanical designs, both Shinji Higuchi and Tomoki Kyoda provided the films storyboards. The film focuses on a teenager named Shinji Ikari, who is asked to pilot a mecha known as Evangelion Unit-01 to protect the world from mysterious creatures known as Angels. The plot is largely a point-for-point adaptation of the first six episodes of the original anime, while some scenes and events are replications of the original series, others unfold differently with new or omitted scenes and newly-available 3D CG technology. The film received a response from fans, with Hideaki Anno himself calling it a faithful remake of the original series. The film was ranked as the 4th-highest grossing anime film at the Japanese box office during 2007, Shinji is caught in the crossfire between UN forces and an angel, an alien lifeform, colonel Misato Katsuragi rescues him and brings him to NERV headquarters. Gendo demands Shinji pilot Evangelion Unit 01, a giant bio-machine, Shinji concedes when Gendo threatens to send Rei Ayanami, a wounded Evangelion pilot, into battle instead. Shinji wins the fight after Unit 01 goes berserk and destroys the Angel, Misato becomes Shinjis guardian and he is enrolled in the local middle school. When another angel arrives, Shinjis classmates Toji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida sneak out of the shelters to watch the battle. The angel slams Unit 01 into a mountainside, nearly crushing Toji, Misato has the two take cover in Unit 01s cockpit and orders Shinji to retreat, but he ignores it and destroys the angel with Unit 01s knife. The Sixth Angel appears and begins drilling into Tokyo-3 to reach NERV headquarters, when Shinji attacks it in Unit 01, the Angel fires a powerful laser, critically injuring him. He wakes from a coma some time later and Rei tells him she will take his place and leaves for the mission alone. To motivate the despondent Shinji, Misato takes him to the deepest level of NERV headquarters and shows him a giant white being crucified to a cross-like restraint, the Second Angel, Lilith. Misato explains that the angels are attempting to contact with Lilith and bring about Third Impact. Shinji agrees to pilot Unit 01 against the angel alongside Rei in Unit 00 and he destroys it with an experimental positron rifle, which requires the entire electrical power output of Japan to power. Rei is nearly killed defending Shinji from the Angels return fire, Rei, normally cold and emotionless, shares a smile with him
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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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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Animerica
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Animerica was a quarterly digest published by Viz Media. It initially started as a magazine featuring reviews of anime and manga titles. After a preview issue was released in November 1992, the magazines first issue was released in February 1993 with a March 1993 cover date, the magazine originally featured articles and reviews on manga, anime, and related media, as well as manga preview chapters. In 1998, Animerica Extra was launched as an anthology which eventually focused specifically on shōjo titles. Viz changed the format in April 2005, with the new magazine being three different free publications of the same name. A similar version was added for Best Buy stores. All three versions have fewer and briefer articles and a page count. Animerica was one of the first professional anime and manga magazines released in the United States,100 copies of the first issue of the free digest were sent to 1,000 Waldenbooks and Border stores. Animerica was introduced in 1992 with the release of issue 0, with Vizs connections to Shogakukan, the magazine was one of the first professional-quality anime and manga oriented magazine to be released in the United States. At the magazines launch, it was co-edited by Seiji Horibuchi, Satoru Fujii, in 1998, Viz introduced a related magazine, Animerica Extra, which was its first monthly manga anthology. This secondary magazine was canceled in 2004, fold-out posters were also added to every issue. During 2002 the magazine was published in a bound, full colour format without a manga serial that had previously been included. By 2003, the magazine had doubled its initial page count. When Viz began publication of Animerica, it registered the name as a trademark, in 1997, a Japanese company named Redsun began using the domain name animerica. com to host an adult oriented and hentai distribution website. Viz attempted to purchase the name from the company. Viz filed a lawsuit claiming the website infringed on its trademark, the court agreed that the website was causing confusion with Vizs publication, but that the confusion was primarily limited to American audiences. The court refused Vizs request that the site be shut down, in November 2004, Redsuns adult website closed. Viz claimed the name in 2005, and by October the site had been relaunched as the website of the new Animerica magazine
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Twilight (novel series)
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Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. The series is primarily from Bellas point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part II of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black. The unpublished Midnight Sun is a retelling of the first book, Twilight, the Twilight Saga, The Official Illustrated Guide, a definitive encyclopedic reference with nearly 100 full color illustrations, was released in bookstores on April 12,2011. Since the release of the first novel, Twilight, in 2005, in November 2011, the series had sold over 120 million copies worldwide with translations into at least 38 different languages around the globe. The books have made into The Twilight Saga series of motion pictures by Summit Entertainment. The film adaptations of the first three books were released in 2008,2009, and 2010 respectively, the fourth book is adapted into two full-length films—the first film being released in November 2011, and the second film in November 2012. Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to live with her father in Forks, Washington to allow her mother to travel with her new husband, after moving to Forks, Bella finds herself involuntarily drawn to a mysterious, handsome boy, Edward Cullen. She eventually learns that he is a member of a family which drinks animal blood rather than human blood. Edward and Bella fall in love, while James, a vampire from another coven, is drawn to hunt down Bella. Edward and the other Cullens defend Bella and she escapes to Phoenix, where she is tricked into confronting James, who tries to kill her. She is seriously wounded, but Edward rescues her and they return to Forks, Edward and his family leave Forks because he believes he is endangering Bellas life. Bella goes into a depression until she develops a friendship with Jacob Black. Jacob and the wolves in his tribe must protect her from Victoria. Due to a misunderstanding, Edward believes Bella is dead, Edward decides to commit suicide in Volterra, Italy, but is stopped by Bella, who is accompanied by Edwards sister, Alice. They meet with the Volturi, a vampire coven, and are released only on the condition that Bella be turned into a vampire in the near future. Bella and Edward are reunited, and she and the Cullens return to Forks, Victoria has created an army of newborn vampires to battle the Cullen family and murder Bella for revenge. Meanwhile, Bella is compelled to choose between her relationship with Edward and her friendship with Jacob, Edwards vampire family and Jacobs werewolf pack join forces to successfully destroy Victoria and her vampire army. In the end, Bella chooses Edwards love over Jacobs friendship, Bella and Edward are married, but their honeymoon is cut short when Bella discovers that she is pregnant
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Angelic Days is a manga by Fumino Hayashi based on an original story by Gainax. It was serialized in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten in Monthly Asuka from 2003 to 2005, the Evangelions and Angels make up little of the story and are not fully explained, they first appear near the end of the second volume, during which Shinji and Rei battle Sachiel. The series concludes with a happier ending than that of the original anime. The series is licensed in English by ADV Manga, who serialized it in Newtype USA before publishing the bound volumes, as in the original anime series, the first four volumes of the manga deal with the Angel invasions, but from a much different angle. Nonetheless, Asuka becomes jealous when Rei is attracted to Shinji, Kensuke has an unrequited crush on Asuka, but is afraid to act because of Shinjis possible feelings. Rei is in a position, with the roles reversed. Toji and Hikari date, even though the invasions threaten both of their lives, Kaworu is also a childhood friend of Shinji. However, their friendship originated from childhood incidents when Asuka abandoned Shinji, Gendo Ikaris work schedule and cold personality alienate Shinji, who in turn resents his fathers attitude towards his mother, Yui. The fifth volume is a flashback to Gendo and Yuis youths and this flashback presents Gendo as a violent juvenile delinquent in high school, abandoned by his parents, and he hates the world. Yui is introduced as a student who is attracted to Gendo. The sixth and final volume returns to the story arc after the Angels defeat, specifically the actions. Misato and Kaji, who dated in college and remain good friends, although they seemed to break up soon after college, they realize that they never officially broke up and still have feelings for each other. They agree to keep their relationship going, but not to rush anything, Hikari and Toji endure a long distance relationship, made complicated by the constant dangers in Tojis job. Shinji and Asuka are forced to deal with strains in their relationship on their own, kaworus true identity, goals, purpose, feelings, and eventual fate are hinted at during both story arcs, but are never explicitly identified. The characters of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Angelic Days are alternate versions of characters in the anime series, Shinji Ikari Shinji Ikari is the male protagonist of the series. He is timid, quiet, and easily influenced by his peers and he is very much like his original persona, however he is more sociable and friendly than before. Shinji is also a friend to Asuka Langley Soryu. Asuka Langley Soryu Asuka Langley Soryu is a redhead with fiery temper and her rage is especially violent in the beginning of the series, she is openly hostile with Kaworu and splashes boiling water on Shinji in a jealous fit during a cooking class
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Campus Apocalypse is a 2007-launched manga series by Ming Ming based on the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. It was serialized in the manga magazine Monthly Asuka between 2007 and 2009, published by Kadokawa Shoten, and is also available in the PlayStation Store. It has been collected in four volumes, many of the main characters from Neon Genesis Evangelion return, including Shinji Ikari, Rei Ayanami, Kaworu Nagisa, Asuka Langley Soryu, Toji Suzuhara, Misato Katsuragi, and Kensuke Aida. Though the series uses the characters, the story and setting differ greatly from previous manga. The official English translation of the series is published by Dark Horse Comics starting in August 2010, Shinji Ikari attends the NERV Foundation Academy and lives a relatively boring but peaceful life. During a typical outing at night to a vending machine, he witnesses Rei Ayanami. Startled by the incident, he finds an unusual gem. The next day, he meets Kaworu Nagisa, a student to the NERV Foundation Academy. Shinji soon receives an EVA, the manifestation of the most powerful form of his will, Shinji Ikari The protagonist, Shinji lives a relatively peaceful but boring life attending a local Catholic school. His mother died when he was a child and his works abroad, so Shinjis legal guardian is Kaji. He finds his life changed forever when he becomes involved with Rei Ayanami and Kaworu Nagisa as they hunt the Angels and he apparently has mysterious powers of his own, which allow him to drive off Ramiel, the first Angel he encounters. His Eva weapon manifested itself as a gun, Shinji appears to have a crush on Rei, but also develops a strong, almost intimate, friendship with Kaworu where they care greatly for each others opinion and well-being. Rei Ayanami A beautiful, but distant girl described by Toji to be classy, most people in the class consider her an oddball, though she is exceptionally talented at anything she is told to do, especially if Asuka tells her that it is a mission. Rei leads a life, working as a Shamash Guardian for a group hidden in the school. She wields the Lance of Longinus in combat, as revealed in chapter eight, she is an artificially created child, meaning that she has no parents, and she has spent most of her life in a facility. He uses the name Tabris to play online games and he, as revealed in chapter eight, is an artificially created child and has spent all of his life until now in facilities. He is ignorant of many customs, and considers himself to be close friends with Shinji. Asuka Langley Soryu Asuka is considered to be an attractive and stylish foreign student by the children in Shinjis class and she is also involved with the Shamash Guardians fighting against Angels and appears to be on relatively good terms with Kaworu and Rei
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Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
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Evangelion,2.0 You Can Advance. is a 2009 Japanese animated film directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and Masayuki, and written by Hideaki Anno. It is the second of four released in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy based on the original anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was produced and co-distributed by Hideaki Annos Studio Khara in partnership with Gainax and its ending paves the way for the significant storyline departures from the original series in Evangelion,3.0 You Can Redo. Meanwhile, Shinji Ikari and his father Gendo visit Yuis grave, shortly after, the Seventh Angel attacks, but is quickly dispatched by the newly arrived Unit-02 and its headstrong pilot, Asuka Langley Shikinami. Ryoji Kaji delivers to Gendo a suitcase containing the mysterious Key of Nebuchadnezzar, Gendo and Kozo Fuyutsuki then visit NERVs lunar compound, Tabgha Base, to view the construction of Evangelion Mark.06, which is noted as being different from the other EVAs. They are denied permission to land, but briefly see Kaworu Nagisa sitting in space without a space suit, during Gendos absence, the Eighth Angel attacks Tokyo-3. Shinji, Asuka, and Rei kill it in a plan devised by Misato Katsuragi. Both Unit-00 and Unit-01 are damaged, Gendo returns and asks to have them both repaired, but SEELE only allows the repair of Unit-01. In an attempt to heal the relationship between Gendo and Shinji, Rei prepares a dinner party, at the same time, Mari arrives in Tokyo-3. Later, Unit-04 and NERVs U. S. branch are destroyed during an experiment, once Asuka activates Unit-03, the Ninth Angel possesses the EVA and goes on a rampage. Shinji pilots Unit-01, but refuses to fight the Angel for fear of harming Asuka, Gendo orders the activation of the Dummy System, which makes Unit-01 autonomous, and allows it to savagely destroy Unit-03, crushing the cockpit in its teeth. Emotionally wounded by his fathers decision, Shinji leaves NERV. Asuka survives, but is injured and placed in quarantine for fear of mental contamination by the Angel. Shinji heads out of the city, but the Tenth Angel attacks, Gendo fails to activate Unit-01 without Shinji, so Mari hijacks Unit-02 and heads out to fight the Angel alone. She removes Unit-02s restraints and launches an attack, but the Angel severely damages Unit-02. Rei joins the fight with the damaged Unit-00 and charges at the Angel with a missile, the missile detonates, but fails to destroy the Angel. The Angel consumes Unit-00 and integrates it with its own body, upon seeing Rei consumed along with Unit-00, Shinji rushes to Gendo and asks to pilot Unit-01 again. Shinji fends off the Angel, but before he can defeat it, Unit-01 runs out of power, Unit-01 reactivates in berserk mode in response to Shinjis rage at the loss of Rei
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Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
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It was produced and co-distributed by Annos Studio Khara and released in Japanese theaters on November 17,2012. When Asuka grabs the container with her Evangelion unit, it releases attack drones, Unit 01 awakens and destroys the drones, then deactivates and descends back to Earth. Kaworu Nagisa watches and says he has been waiting for Shinji, salvaged from Unit 01, Shinji is fitted with an explosive collar by WILLE, an organization headed by Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi. WILLE intends to destroy the paramilitary organization NERV and the Evangelion units, when more drones attack, WILLE launches the flying battleship Wunder and destroys them. Shinji discovers that Unit 01 is powering the Wunder, and the collar will kill him if he attempts to pilot an Evangelion unit again, Ritsuko informs him that the other previous occupant of Unit 01, Rei Ayanami, was never found. Mark.09, a unit piloted by Rei, intercepts the Wunder, while there, his father Gendo, the leader of NERV, informs him that he is to pilot a new Evangelion, Unit 13, with Kaworu. Shinji befriends Kaworu as they practice piano duets together, but discovers that Rei is unable to remember anything, Kaworu shows Shinji the ruins of Tokyo 3, explaining that Shinjis awakening of Unit 01 caused Third Impact. He also reveals that Gendo plans to force humanitys evolution to remove their individuality, Gendos assistant Kozo Fuyutsuki invites Shinji to play shogi and reveals that Yui is within Unit 01 as the control system. In addition, Rei is one of several clones of his mother, Shinji is distraught by this revelation. Kaworu removes Shinjis collar and wears it as a sign of trust, Shinji and Kaworu pilot Unit 13 on their mission to use the Spears of Cassius and Longinus, two ancient weapons, to undo Third Impact, Rei follows in Mark.09. When Unit 13 reaches the body of the alien lifeform Lilith, Kaworu, Asuka and Mari attempt to stop Shinji, but Shinji removes the spears. On Gendos orders, Mark.09 decapitates Mark.06 to release the Twelfth Angel, the awakened Unit 13 rises into the sky, starting another cataclysm called Fourth Impact. Kaworu reveals he is the First Angel, now cast down to the Thirteenth, the bomb detects Unit 13s awakening and activates. Rei loses control of Mark.09, which boards Wunder on its own in an attempt to control of the ship. Rei ejects from her unit and Asuka blows up her own unit to destroy Mark.09, to stop Fourth Impact, Kaworu stabs Unit 13 with both spears and then allows the collar to kill him to Shinjis horror. Mari ejects Shinjis cockpit from Unit 13, and WILLE recovers units 02 and 08, Asuka rescues and drags Shinji through the remains of Tokyo-3, with Rei following them. The films initial teaser trailer, shown after the end credits of Evangelion,2, on January 1,2012, the official website was updated to reveal the official English title, You Can Redo, and a tentative release date for the fourth and final film in 2013. The EVA-EXTRA08 live screening in Shinjuku revealed that the film would be released in Japan on November 17,2012, a 30-second trailer streamed on Nico Nico Douga on October 17,2012, showing Shinji, Rei, Kaworu, Mari, and Asuka
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Ayanami Raising Project
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ayanami Raising Project is a simulation game created by Gainax and BROCCOLI, and based on the anime and manga series Neon Genesis Evangelion. The gameplay is similar to that of the Princess Maker series also developed by Gainax and it was released for Microsoft Windows PCs in 2001, and the Dreamcast the following year. A PlayStation 2 version called Shin Seiki Evangelion, Ayanami Ikusei Keikaku with Asuka Hokan Keikaku was made another year later, the PS2 version has the original Ayanami route, as well as a new Asuka Route that can be unlocked. A Nintendo DS port of this version was released on August 27,2008, in Ayanami Raising Project, the player takes on the role of a NERV officer who has just been assigned to Tokyo-3. Upon meeting with Commander Gendo Ikari, he is charged with taking care of the First Child and it is up to the player to decide Ayanamis weekly schedule, balancing between education, duties at NERV, and leisure. The game spans approximately one year, and includes the events of the anime series. Ayanami Ikusei Keikaku revolves around the interaction between the player and Rei, the Lieutenant is the player character. He appears as a young man, possibly in his twenties. Although the majority of his personality depends on decisions made throughout the game, he is presented as good-natured and responsible, the player is assigned by Gendo Ikari to care for Rei over the course of a year. He is given the rank Sanii and is referred to by his rather than whatever name the player inputs throughout the game. If the name is mentioned without Sanii in the dialogue box, in the PS2 version, he is in charge of Asuka on Asukas route. He has a sister, which is the reason he was assigned to take care of Asuka. Due to the difference of the way the guardian for Rei and Asuka refer to themselves. In the game depending on how well Rei performs its possible that The Lieutenant will be promoted to Captain in the game Rei Ayanami is the pilot of Evangelion Unit-00 and she is said to be fourteen years old. Of very pale complexion and lacking in emotions toward people, she is serious about her work. During the game, Reis personality and attitude is likely to change, a number of outcomes concerning her future are possible, including romantic relations with, and possibly even marriage to, the player. Other characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion appear in the game to varying degrees, Gendo Ikari is the Commander of NERV, intimidating and ruthless, he is committed to destroying the Angels that periodically attack the city, at any cost. The Lieutenant receives his salary directly from the commander, ritsuko Akagi is NERVs top scientist, and the first person the Lieutenant meets in the game
