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Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. The quotation is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! as: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. [1]
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The Themis Files trilogy begins with Neuvel's debut novel Sleeping Giants. It follows a group of scientists as they track down and assemble a giant robot of mysterious origins, scattered across the Earth. [2] The idea for Sleeping Giants first came to him when Neuvel's son asked him to build a toy robot with an extended back story. [3]
The book has been adapted into other media. In 2015, a Chinese film adaptation of the same name was in production, but it was never released. A Chinese TV series, Three-Body, released in early 2023 to critical success locally. An English-language Netflix series adaptation, 3 Body Problem, was released in March 2024.
Yoasobi released their first two extended plays in 2021—The Book and The Book 2—with the concept of a "reading CD" with a binder package. [1] [2] The EPs peaked at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart, [3] [4] In 2021, the duo collaborated with Naoki Prize-winning four novelists Rio Shimamoto, Mizuki Tsujimura, Miyuki Miyabe, and Eto Mori for the short story collection Hajimete no ...
Expo '70. Public interest in science fiction had risen notably in Japan by Expo '70.Komatsu's Nihon Chinbotsu (aka Japan Sinks, 1973) was a best-seller. Uchū Senkan Yamato (aka Space Battleship Yamato), a work of anime placed in a science fiction setting, was aired, and Star Wars was screened in Japan in the late 1970s.
The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore from the mo 貘 (giant panda) and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period (14th–15th century). [2] Hori Tadao has described the dream-eating abilities attributed to the traditional baku and relates them to other preventatives against nightmare such ...
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (drama CD, anime) [4] (Japanese); Skyler Davenport [5] (English) A former Japanese office worker reincarnated as an immortal witch, called "the Witch of the Highlands" (高原の魔女, Kōgen no Majo). Weary of any overwork and excitement following her untimely death in her old life, she strives for an easy tune of ...