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Anime News Network stories related to anime and manga are researched by the ANN staff. Other contributors, under staff discretion, also contribute news articles. [3] The website maintains a listing of anime and manga titles, as well as people and companies involved in the production of those titles, which it dubs an "encyclopedia". [2]
Reporter Blues (レポーターブルース, Repōtā Burūsu) is an Italian-Japanese animation television series written by Marco Pagot and Gi Pagot and directed by Kenji Kodama. [1] It consists of 52 half-hour episodes.
Several of their titles have been acquired by other anime distributing companies prior to and following Central Park Media's bankruptcy and liquidation, such as ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Funimation Entertainment, Media Blasters, Nozomi Entertainment, etc.) US Manga Corps (U.S., part of Central Park Media)
The incident causes the evening news ratings to jump, and because of ATV's desperation to escape the ratings cellar, Keiko is subsequently promoted to full-time weather reporter, displacing Michiko in the process. The rest of the series focuses on her rivalries with co-workers jealous of and insulted by the nature of her success.
Lissa Pattillo of Anime News Network (ANN) called Toriko an "in-your-face action story riding on the back of a gastronomic fetch-quest." [ 65 ] She compared Toriko's design to that of characters from Dragon Ball and Fist of the North Star , and suggested this might deter some readers. [ 65 ]
Shibuya was born in Tokyo in 1991 to a prominent Japanese doctor, [2] and grew up watching Japanese anime and manga. [3] After graduating from high school, Shibuya studied English in Aoyama Gakuin University. [4]
Urasawa later wrote and illustrated the novel Another Monster, a story detailing the events of the manga from an investigative reporter's point of view, which was published in 2002. The manga was adapted by Madhouse into a 74-episode anime television series, which aired on Nippon TV from April 2004 to September 2005.
Prior to the widespread use of anime, the term Japanimation, a portmanteau of Japan and animation, was prevalent throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In the mid-1980s, the term anime began to supplant Japanimation; [17] in general, the latter term now only appears in period works where it is used to distinguish and identify Japanese animation. [18]