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Cross Game is the story of Kō Kitamura and the four neighboring Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyō, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. Wakaba and Kō were born on the same day in the same hospital and are close enough that Wakaba treats Kō as her boyfriend, though nothing is officially declared, while Aoba, one year younger than them, hates how Kō is "taking" her sister away from her. After Wakaba dies, Kō and Aoba slowly grow closer as they strive to fulfill Wakaba's final dream of seeing them play in the high school
The manga is divided into multiple parts. Part One, which consists of volume one, is a
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User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/4 High School! Kimengumi (ハイスクール!奇面組, Haisukūru! Kimengumi) is a manga series written by Motoei Shinzawa which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1982 to 1987. The title literally translates to High School! Funny-face Club or High School! Weird Face Club. An anime TV series (1985-1987) and movie (1986) based on the series were also released. The High School! manga series was preceded by Third Year Funny-face Club (3年奇面組, Sannen Kimengumi) (1980-1982), and followed by Flash! Funny-face Club (フラッシュ!奇面組, Furasshu! Kimengumi) (2001-2005).
Kimengumi is an episodic chronicle of the bizarre adventures of a group of misfit
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/5 Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科, lit. Kiteretsu Encyclopedia) is a
There are many similarities in the makeup and appearance of the main cast to the cast of Doraemon, which was also created by Fujio, though the content of the story is completely different.
The main character is a scientific genius grade school boy named Kiteretsu, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He frequently travels in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine he built. Miyoko is a girl in his neighborhood who is basically his girlfriend. Tongari is his rival, who happen to share some similar traits of Honekawa Suneo. Buta Gorilla (Kumada Kaoru) is a typical neighborhood bully, who also share similar traits of Gian (Takeshi Goda) except that he often antagonizes Korosuke.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/6 Cosmo Police Justy (Cosmo Police ジャスティ, Kosumo Porīsu Jasuti) is a
The lead character is also an esper, gifted with remarkable powers. He is able to moderate his psychic forces by the use of the headband that he wears. With this device, which acts only as a psychic damper, he can finely attenuate his powers to prevent collateral damage.
Viz comics translated the manga of Cosmo Police Justy into English and released it in the 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 comic book format for the North America market on December 6, 1988. The series cover title in North America was simply changed to Justy. There were nine issues released. The last issue the Blue Witch was released on April 4, 1989.
The OVA appears to be partly based on two stories from the comics: the Tears of Astalis, listed in the first page of the English comic book publications as volume’s one and two, and also Hostages which is listed as volume’s four and five.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/7 The Maison Ikkoku CD Single Memorial File (めぞん一刻CDシングルメモリアル・ファイル, Mezon Ikkoku Shīdī Shinguru Memoriaru Fairu) is a compilation CD box set released on 11 July 1998 featuring all of the opening and ending theme songs from the anime TV series Maison Ikkoku, and the theme song from the Maison Ikkoku theatrical movie. This box set is one of only three Maison Ikkoku music collections containing the theme song Hidamari by Kōzō Murashita, so this set is considered more collectable as a result.
The Maison Ikkoku CD Single Memorial File is contained in a large
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/8 Osomatsu-kun (おそ松くん) is a
This series helped establish Akatsuka's reputation as a gag comic artist, long before his other popular manga, Tensai Bakabon. Osomatsu-kun has appeared in numerous special issues of Shōnen Sunday. Akatsuka has also included several manga adaptations of routines from Charlie Chaplin movies in the series.
In 1964, Akatsuka won the 10th Shogakukan Manga Award for Osomatsu-kun.
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PiQ (
PiQ started with the Newtype USA staff and its 15,000 subscribers, who received two PiQ issues for every one of Newtype USA remaining on their accounts. The first issue was received with mixed reviews by readers and critics. After only four issues, the magazine was abruptly discontinued in July 2008, which the editorial staff blamed on low revenue, bad management, and lack of marketing.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/10 Play Ball (プレイボール, Purei Bōru) is a
Chiba originally wanted to make the series a
This eventually developed into the series Captain. Play Ball follows the story of the
Nearly twenty-five years later, in 2005 and 2006, the series was adapted into two seasons of an UHF anime TV series in 2005, which was broadcast across Japan by the anime satellite television network, Animax.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/11 Prefectural Earth Defense Force (県立地球防衛軍, Kenritsu Chikyū Bōeigun) is a
The evil secret society known as the Telephone Pole Gang seeks to take over the world by first taking over a certain prefecture on
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Queen Millennia (新竹取物語 1000年女王, Shin Taketori Monogatari: Sennen Joō) is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto which was serialized from 28 January 1980
through 11 May 1983 in both the
The anime series was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with episodes from the 1978 Matsumoto series, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and shown from 1985 to 1986 in the United States as the 65-episode Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years. The series was broadcast in Germany on Tele 5 during 1992 and on Magnus in France in 2004.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/13 Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae (佐武と市捕物控), sometimes translated as Sabu & Ichi's Arrest Warrant, is a manga series by Shotaro Ishimori originally published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday beginning in 1966. In April 1968, the series moved to serialization in the first issue of Big Comic, where it was published until the series ended four years later in the April 10, 1972 issue. The manga was adapted into an anime TV series which aired on NET from October 3, 1968 to September 24, 1969. The series won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award.
In addition to the manga and anime series, a live action
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/14 Taishō Baseball Girls. (大正野球娘。, Taishō Yakyū Musume.) is a popular light novel series written by Atsushi Kagurasaka and illustrated by Sadaji Koike. Tokuma Shoten has published two novels as of November 2008. The novels have been adapted to a drama CD, a manga series currently being published in Monthly Comic Ryū, and a TV anime series aired in 2009.
In 1925, after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when having to find enough members, to get permission from their parents and also when learning about the sport itself.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/15 Tokimeki Tonight (ときめきトゥナイト, Tokimeki Tunaito) is a
Ranze Eto (her given name is also Romanized as "Ransie" or "Ranzi" in some non-Japanese versions) may look like your average Japanese teenage girl, but in reality she lives in an extraordinary situation. Her mother is a
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/16 World Masterpiece Theater (世界名作劇場, Sekai Meisaku Gekijō) is a Japanese TV anime staple that showcased an animated version of a different classical book or story each year. It originally aired from 1969 to 1997 then resumed in 2007.
It was originally produced
To date, only three series were ever dubbed in English for the American market:
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/17 Yagami-kun's Family Affairs (八神くんの家庭の事情, Yagami-kun no Katei no Jijō) is a
Yagami-kun's Family Affairs follows Yūji Yagami, a high school student with a problem: his mother, Nomi, looks very young and Yūji has a crush on her. To complicate matters, his high school homeroom teacher is also infatuated with her due to how young she looks. Nomi is oblivious to all of this and is head over heels in love with her husband, Yōji, and frequently displays this affection very publicly, which causes more embarrassment for Yūji.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/18 Action Target is a manufacturer of custom shooting ranges for military, police, and commercial applications based in Provo, Utah. The company completed construction in mid-2009 on a new facility in a new industrial park at the southeast corner of Provo. The company moved due to incentives offered by the city.
John Curtis, an executive at the company and former executive at O.C. Tanner, ran a successful campaign to become Provo's mayor beginning in 2010 after announcing his candidacy in 200
Action Target was founded in 1986 by Kyle Bateman and Addison Sovine to address a need they saw with law enforcement training, and operated out of Bateman's bedroom at first. They soon moved to a larger facility near the Interstate 15 freeway in Provo before moving to a manufacturing facility nearby next to a residential neighborhood.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/19 Asahi Sonorama (朝日ソノラマ) is a
Asahi Sonorama was created as a division of
Even though the sound quality of sonosheets was lower than that of
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/20 Ancestry.com, Inc., formerly The Generations Network, is an
-related websites, listed below.In addition to their main sites, Ancestry.com, Inc., operates FamilyHistory.com, which contains basic information for free, but mostly serves as a portal to Ancestry.com. They also publish Ancestry Magazine and formerly published Genealogical Computing. They have a presence in the United Kingdom under the name Ancestry.com Inc., whose offices are located in Hammersmith, London, England and Munich, Germany.
In 1990, Paul Allen (not to be confused with Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen) and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University (BYU) graduates, founded Infobases and began offering LDS (Latter-day Saints — Mormon) publications on floppy disks. Allen's brother Curt and his brother-in-law, Brad Pelo, had founded Folio Corporation, where Paul Allen had worked in 1988. Infobases chose to use the Folio infobase technology which Allen was familiar with as the basis for their products.
The first products were floppy disks and
On January 1, 1997, Infobases' parent company, Western Standard Publishing, purchased Ancestry, Inc.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/21 Youmex (ユーメックス株式会社, Yūmekkusu Kabushiki Kaisha) was an
Some of the more well-known works for which Youmex released soundtracks and other CDs (under its Futureland label) include Kimagure Orange Road (Sound Color 1-3, Loving Heart, etc.), Bubblegum Crisis (Complete Vocal Collections 1-2), and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Vocal Collection).
In 1995, Youmex worked with
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/22 Animage (アニメージュ, Animēju) is a
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Shōjo Sekai (少女世界) was one of the first
According to Kiyoko Nagai, for the first ten years of its publication it was the best-selling shōjo magazine of the time, with peak circulations somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000 copies per issue. The final issue of Shōjo Sekai was the December 1931 issue.
User:Nihonjoe/Selected works/24 Weekly Manga Times (週刊漫画TIMES, Shūkan Manga Taimusu) is a Japanese weekly seinen manga magazine published by Houbunsha since November 1956. The publisher claims it was Japan's first weekly manga magazine, and the magazine is published every Friday. While its name resembles that of its sister magazine Manga Time, it does not publish yonkoma manga. The magazine is also known by the nickname Shūman (週漫), and uses the slogan "Live Happily Once a Week!" (一週間をユカイに生きる!, Isshūkan o Yukai ni Ikiru!). Manga Times has a weekly circulation of about 380,000.
Weekly Manga Times became known as one of the big three weekly manga magazines along with Weekly Manga Goraku, published by Nihon Bungeisha, and Manga Sunday, published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. From 1969 until 1980, the magazine advertised on the outfield fence at Meiji Jingu Stadium.
A one-panel manga by Sunao Hari titled Weekend Egao was published on the table of contents page until the spring of 2008 when it was moved to the last page. Additionally, the interior paper was changed to use a higher quality white paper rather than the standard lower grade newsprint.
The cover of Weekly Manga Times has featured a realistic painting of a young woman on every issue. The cover artist since the April 1970 issue has been
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