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Anime (アニメ, Anime?) refers to the animation style originated in Japan. It is characterized by distinctive characters and backgrounds (hand-drawn or computer-generated) that visually set it apart from other forms of animation. Storylines may include a variety of fictional or historical characters, events, and settings. Anime is aimed at a broad range of audiences and consequently, a given series may have aspects of a range of genres. Anime is most frequently broadcast on television or sold on DVDs either after their broadcast run or directly as original video animation. Console and computer games sometimes also feature segments or scenes that can be considered anime.
Manga (漫画, Manga?) is Japanese for "Comics" or "Whimsical images". Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II. Manga, apart from covers, is usually published in black and white but it is common to find introductions to chapters to be in color and is read from right to left. Financially, manga represented in 2005 a market of ¥24 billion in Japan and one of $180 million in the United States.[1] Manga was the fastest growing segment of books in the United States in 2005.
Anime and manga share many characteristics, including: "exaggerated physical features such as large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs... and dramatically shaped speech bubbles, speed lines and onomatopoeic, exclamatory typography."[2] Some manga, a small amount of the total output, is adapted into anime, often with the collaboration of the original author. Computer games can also give rise to anime. In such cases, the stories are often compressed and modified to fit the format and appeal to a wider market.[3] Popular anime franchises sometimes include full-length feature films, and some have been adapted into live action films and television programs.
Himura Kenshin (緋村 剣心, Himura Kenshin?), known as Kenshin Himura in the English-language dub, is a fictional character from the Rurouni Kenshin universe created by Nobuhiro Watsuki. He is the main protagonist for the series and has developed into a media franchise, which consists of a series of manga, anime, Original video animations (OVAs), movies, soundtracks, video games, and other collectibles. When creating Kenshin, Watsuki designed him to be the physical opposite of Hiko Seijūrō, a character that appears in Watsuki's first one-shot manga, Crescent Moon in the Warring States, and later in Rurouni Kenshin.
Set in a fictional version of Japan, during the pre-Meiji period, Kenshin is a former legendary assassin known as "Hitokiri Battōsai" (人斬り抜刀斎, "Hitokiri Battōsai"?).[1] At the end of the Bakumatsu, he becomes a wandering samurai, now wielding a sakabatō (逆刃刀, sakabatō? lit. "reverse-blade sword"), a katana that has the cutting edge on the inwardly curved side of the sword, thus being incapable of killing. Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan offering protection and aid to those in need, as atonement for the murders he once committed as an assassin. In Tokyo, he meets a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru, who invites him to live in her dojo despite learning about Kenshin's past. Throughout the series, Kenshin begins to establish lifelong relationships with many people, including ex-enemies, while dealing with his fair share of enemies, new and old. Through these encounters and relationships, Kenshin begins to find true atonement for his past enabling him to fully conquer his Battōsai nature. By the series end, he has found true peace and contentment as the husband of Kaoru and the father of their son, Kenji.
This is a list of episodes of the Japanese animated television series YuYu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書, YūYū Hakusho?, lit. Spirits Wander White Book, or "Ghost Files" / "Poltergeist Report", romanized as YuYu HAKUSHO), part of the YuYu Hakusho media franchise. The episodes are directed by Akiyuki Arafusa and Noriyuki Abe and produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising and Studio Pierrot.[2] The episodes were released in North America by FUNimation.[2] They are based on the YuYu Hakusho manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi, incorporating nineteen volumes of the source material over one hundred and twelve episodes. The series concentrates on the adventures of Yusuke Urameshi, who after his untimely death becomes a Spirit Detective, the protector of the Living World against supernatural threats.
The series aired from October 10, 1992 to January 7, 1995 on Fuji Television in Japan.[2] In North America, the episodes aired from February 23, 2002 to April 1, 2006 on Cartoon Network.[2] Initially, the episodes were shown on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block from February 2002 to April 2003, and switched to Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block for the remaining episodes.[3][4]
- April 07 - An publisher_en field has also now been added to and a licensor_en to {{Infobox animanga/OVA}}. Additionally {{Infobox animanga/Novel}} now has a chapter_list option and {{Infobox animanga/Drama}} has an episode_list option!
- March 26 - as the Anime and Manga project continues its efforts to improve our infoboxes, we've added yet another new option to {{Infobox animanga/Manga}}: publisher_en. Similar to the licensor field in the anime infobox, this field is specifically for listing all English language publishers of a manga series (with other languages continuing to go in the publisher_other field.
- March 6 - the {{Infobox animanga/Manga}} infobox template has some new options! You can use either chapter_list or volume_list to set the link for the series' List of X chapters (if there is one). It also inserts the text "(as of last_run)" after the number of volumes or chapters. The {{Infobox animanga/OVA}} infobox template has also been updated to include the ability to link to an episode, using the same episode_list or list_episodes options.
- March 2 - Some big changes here! The demographic field is being removed from {{Infobox animanga/Header}}, where it is often used inappropriately to set a demographic on an anime series. The demographic field has instead been added to both the {{Infobox animanga/Manga}} and {{Infobox animanga/Novel}} infoboxes instead. For the manga, the regular demographic options will be used, while for the novel boxes, we ask editors to limit this field to Male or Female. {{Infobox animanga/Movie}} has a new option, live_action, which can be set to yes to denote that the movie is a live action one rather than anime. When setting this option, the article will be put in Category:Japanese films instead of Category:Anime films and the box title will change from "Animated movie" to "Live-action movie". {{Infobox animanga/Movie}}
- February 18 - a new category is now available, Category:Lantis, for categorizing anime soundtracks produced by the Lantis music label.
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