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Blox Fruits (formerly known as Blox Piece), is an action fighting game created by Gamer Robot that is inspired by the manga and anime One Piece. [165] In the game, players choose to be a master swordsman, a powerful fruit user, a martial arts attacker or a gun user as they sail across the seas alone or in a team in search of various worlds and ...
A shōjō standing on a giant sake cup, and using a long-handled sake ladle to pole through a sea of water or sake; detail from a whimsical Edo-period painting.. A shōjō (猩 々 or 猩猩) is the Japanese reading of Chinese xing-xing (猩猩) or its older form sheng sheng (狌狌, translated as "live-lively"), which is a mythical primate, though it has been tentatively identified with an ...
The Sea Beast is a 2022 animated adventure film directed by Chris Williams, who co-wrote the screenplay with Nell Benjamin and produced with Jed Schlanger. [1] [2] The film stars the voices of Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste with supporting roles done by Kathy Burke, Jim Carter, Doon Mackichan, and Dan Stevens.
In zoology, a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period, [1] being matutinal, vespertine/vespertinal, or both. This is distinguished from diurnal and nocturnal behavior, where an animal is active during the hours of daytime and of night, respectively.
In China Miéville's 2002 book The Scar, the floating city-state of Amarda summons an avanc, attaching it to the city and using its huge pulling-power to cross the ocean. [ 3 ] In the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire , afanc are a marsh creature about the size of a cow with fur, scales, and a "disturbing" number of teeth.
Hafgufa (Old Norse: haf "sea" + Old Norse: gufa "steam"; [2] [3] "sea-reek"; [a] [5] "sea-steamer" [6]) is a sea creature, purported to inhabit Iceland's waters (Greenland Sea) and southward toward Helluland. Although it was thought to be a sea monster, research suggests that the stories originated from a specialized feeding technique among ...
Heikegani (平家蟹, ヘイケガニ, Literal meaning: Heike Crab, Heikeopsis japonica) is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face – an example of the phenomenon of pareidolia – which is interpreted to be the face of an angry samurai, hence the nickname samurai crab.
At sea, a taniwha often appears as a whale or a large shark [5] such as southern right whale or whale shark; [6] compare the Māori name for the great white shark: mangō-taniwha. In inland waters, they may still be of whale-like dimensions, but look more like a gecko or a tuatara , having a row of spines along the back.