- Hayao Miyazaki
Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most famous and well-respected creators of anime. He has three brothers, he being the second oldest. His older brother, Arata Miyazaki , was born in July 1939. His first younger brother is Shirou Miyazaki. His youngest is brother is named Yutaka Miyazaki and was born in January 1944. In 1947, Miyazaki enrolled at a school in... More A - Rumiko Takahashi
Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. Takahashi is one of the wealthiest women in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Her works are relatively famous worldwide, and many of her series were some of the forerunners of early English language manga to be released in the nineties. - May
May, known as in Japan, is a fictional character in the "Pokémon" franchise, a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, toys and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. She is the daughter of the Petalburg City Gym Leader, Norman and sister of Max. She also appears in the manga series "Ash & Pikachu". She is not to be confused with May Oak (or Daisy Oak), … - Masashi Kishimoto
is the Japanese creator and author of the popular manga "Naruto". Nicknamed "Kishi" affectionately by most western fans. Born on November 8, 1974 in the Okayama Prefecture on Honshū Island, Japan, his first work as a manga artist was "Karakuri", which he submitted to Shueisha in 1996. In 1999, "Naruto" was serialized in the weekly "Shonen Jump" manga magazine, winning its monthly "Hop Step Award". - Chica Umino
is a Japanese female mangaka, based in Adachi, Tokyo. She is noted for being the author and creator of the "Honey and Clover" series, for which, in 2003, she received the Kodansha Manga Award, and has been adapted into an anime series, produced by J.C. Staff. Her pen name comes from her favorite location "umi no chikaku no yuuenchi" (海の近くの遊園地, lit. an amusement park by the sea), which is also the title of her dojin works prior to her debut. - Osamu Tezuka
was a mangaka (Japanese manga artist) and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion". He is often credited as the Father of Anime, and the Walt Disney of Japan. His prolific output and his pioneering techniques and genres earned him such titles as "the father of manga" and "the god of manga." The distinctive "large eyes" style of Japanese animation (anime) was invented by Tezuka, … - Megumi Hayashibara
born March 30, 1967 in Kita, Tokyo, Japan) is a very popular Japanese seiyū, lyricist and singer. She is married and has one daughter. - Yoko Kanno
is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many seminal anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, Vision of Escaflowne and Wolf's Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for JPop artists, … - Jubei-Chan
"Jubei-chan: The Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch" or "Jubei-chan: the Ninja Girl" ; "Juubei-chan: Raburii Gantai no Himitsu") is a 13-episode Japanese anime series written and directed by Akitaro Daichi. It is animated by Madhouse Production. A sequel called Jubei-chan 2 has aired in Japan and was released on DVD in the later half of 2005. - Satoshi Kon
is the highly-regarded director of the anime films "Perfect Blue" (1997), "Millennium Actress" (2001), "Tokyo Godfathers" (2003), and "Paprika" (2006), as well as the television series "Paranoia Agent" (2004). All of his works as a director have been made by Studio Madhouse, where he is a staff director along with Rintaro and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. His films are characterized by psychological complexity, realistic character and background designs, … - Range Murata
Renji "Range" Murata is a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series "Last Exile" and "Blue Submarine No. 6". Born October 2, 1968 in Osaka, Japan, he began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games. He still continues to do some work in this area today, … - Sorcerer Hunters
'"' is a 13-volume manga created by Satoru Akahori and Ray Omishi. XEBEC later adapted "Sorcerer Hunters as an anime television series, the 26 episodes of which aired on Japanese television in 1995 and 1996. In 1999, in the United States, ADV Films released the series in four volumes, both VHS and DVD. The TV series was followed up by a three episode original video animation (OVA). - Masamune Shirow
is an internationally renowned manga artist, born Masanori Ota on November 23, 1961. "Masamune Shirow" is a pen name, based on a famous swordsmith, Masamune. He is best known for the manga "Ghost in the Shell", which has since been turned into three anime movies, two anime TV series and several video games. Shirow is also popular for creating erotic art. Born in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts. - Go Nagai
is a Japanese mangaka and an important innovator of several genres within anime and manga. When he was 20 he created "Kuro No Shishi" ("Black Lion"). In his series "Harenchi Gakuen" (ハレンチ学園, "Shameless School", 1968-1972, "Shonen Jump" magazine) Nagai used eroticism and extreme, graphic violence in children's comics for the first time in Japan, thus breaking taboos and becoming quite controversial. - Miko Lee
Miko Lee (born March 30, 1980 in San Diego, California) is an adult film actress of Vietnamese and Chinese descent. She had breast implants midway through her career and is known for a buxom figure and numerous hardcore anal sex and lesbian scenes. She is also renowned for doing "anything" (to quote various websites) for the camera, though her work is typical of mainstream American pornography. Since her first adult film in 1999, Miko has appeared in numerous movies, … - Maaya Sakamoto
Name =Img = Maayasakamoto.jpg | Img_capt = Maaya Sakamoto on her latest album "30minutes night flight". | Background = solo_singer | Birth_name = | Alias = | Born = | Died = | Origin = Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan | Instrument = | Genre = Japanese Pop | Occupation = Singer, songwriter, … - Aya Hirano
Aya Hirano was born on October 8, 1987 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aya spent a few of her very early years of life in America before returning to Japan. She is a seiyu and J-pop singer who has had roles in several anime, visual novels, and TV commercials in Japan. At an early age she began to appear in commercials and got her first role as a seiyu in Tenshi no Shippo. From 2002-2003 she was a member of the short-lived girl band "Springs." - Naoko Takeuchi
born March 15, 1967, is a manga artist who lives in Tokyo, Japan. She is the original creator of the famous manga and anime series "Sailor Moon". Takeuchi lives with her husband, Yoshihiro Togashi, creator of "YuYu Hakusho" and "Hunter × Hunter". They have a son whom they have nicknamed "Petit Ouji". Takeuchi graduated from Kyoritsu University of Pharmacy, where she received a degree in chemistry. She became a licensed pharmacist. - Hideaki Anno
born 22 May 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan) is a Japanese animation and video director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series "Neon Genesis Evangelion". His style has come to be defined by the touches of superflatism and postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the psychological exposition of his characters and his thorough portrayal of their thoughts and emotions. He married comics artist Moyoco Anno in 2002. - Leiji Matsumoto
Leiji Matsumoto is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. He was born in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan on January 25, 1938. - Ash Ketchum
Ash Ketchum, known as in Japan, is the protagonist of the anime "Pokémon". There are also incarnations of him in the "Electric Tale of Pikachu" manga, the "Pocket Monsters Zensho" manga, and the "Ash & Pikachu" manga. He is loosely based on the male protagonist of the "Pokémon Red" and "Blue". The surname "Ketchum" is a pun of the anime's former tagline and slogan "Gotta catch 'em all!". - Eiichiro Oda
is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime "One Piece". - Naoki Urasawa
Naoki Urasawa (born January 2, 1960 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan) is a mangaka. He graduated from Meisei University with a degree in economics. He made his professional manga debut with "Beta!!" in 1984. Three of his series have been adapted into anime: "Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl", "Master Keaton", and "Monster". - Yuki Kajiura
Yuki Kajiura ( ) is a Japanese composer who has provided the music for several popular anime series, including . hack//SIGN and Noir. She has also provided musical compositions for Aquarian Age, Gundam SEED and one of the Kimagure Orange Road movies. Among her live-action soundtracks is Boogiepop and Others, based on the Boogiepop novels. - Isao Takahata
is one of the most famous directors of anime, or Japanese animated films. Born in Ujiyamada (now Ise), Mie prefecture, Japan, he is a long-term colleague of Hayao Miyazaki and co-head at Studio Ghibli. His four animated films at Studio Ghibli have spanned a remarkable range of genres: war-film ("Grave of the Fireflies"), romantic drama (Only Yesterday), comedy ("My Neighbors the Yamadas"), and ecological adventure ("Pom-Poko"). - Kazuki Takahashi
Kazuki Takahashi is the creator of the manga "Yu-Gi-Oh!", which led to the anime versions of it, Toei's "Yu-Gi-Oh!" and "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters" (Internationally known as "Yu-Gi-Oh!"), as well as a spinoff manga ("Yu-Gi-Oh! R"), a spinoff anime ("Yu-Gi-Oh! GX", "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX" in Japan), and several video games. Takahashi started out as a mangaka in 1982. - Sonia Leong
Sonia Leong (born May 7, 1982) is a freelance Manga artist, illustrator, & member of Sweatdrop Studios, who took 2nd place in the first Rising Stars of Manga United Kingdom & Ireland Competition. - Arina Tanemura
(March 12, 1978) is a mangaka who does mainly shōjo manga. She debuted in 1996 with the Nibanme no Koi no Katachi. To date, her works are published in the manga magazine "Ribon" and are distributed in several countries. Tanemura Arina is also her real name. Her most popular manga are "Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne" and "Full Moon o Sagashite" ("Searching for the Full Moon"), both of which were adapted into TV anime. - Younha
Younha, born April 29, 1988 in Seoul, Korea, is a K-Pop and J-Pop singer. Younha made her debut as an artist at the young age of sixteen. Nicknamed the "Oricon comet" for her success in Japan, she has currently released eight singles and one album in that country with varying degrees of success; however, many of her songs have been featured in anime/dramas. Although she is often compared to BoA because she is a Korean who is active in Japan, … - Takashi Murakami
is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist. Murakami works in both fine arts media, such as painting; as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies. Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, … - Nami Tamaki
is a Japanese pop singer, known for her young age and her powerful dancing. Her career took off when she was selected out of 5,000, singing and dancing to Destiny's Child's "Survivor" in a Sony Music Japan Audition in 2003. She has various commercial tie-ins with Japan anime and games industry, and also have performed a stage musical as well as a movie. - Yoshiyuki Tomino
is a Japanese anime creator, director, screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and studied at Nihon University's College of Art. Tomino began his career in 1963 with Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions, scripting the storyboards and screenplay of the first Japanese television anime series, "Tetsuwan Atomu" (also known as "Astro Boy"). He later became one of the most important members of the anime studio Sunrise, … - Makoto Shinkai
born (born February 9, 1973) is a Japanese anime director, animator, and principal voice actor. A native of the Nagano prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature in university. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he read while in middle school. His favorite anime is "Castle in the Sky" by Hayao Miyazaki. Shinkai has been called the new Miyazaki in several reviews including Anime Advocates and ActiveAnime, … - Clamp
CLAMP is an all-female Japanese mangaka group. Their manga series are often made into anime after release. More than 90 million CLAMP tankoubon copies have been sold worldwide. CLAMP originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member doujinshi circle. The former members of CLAMP included Tamayo Akiyama, Soushi Hishika, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Inoue Yuzuru, Sei Nanao, Shinya Ohmi and Leeza Sei. By 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven. - Nana Kitade
is a Japanese pop singer. She started learning the piano at 3, wrote her own lyrics at 12, and started on the guitar at 14. After junior high, she went to Tokyo to pursue her dreams in singing. In 2002, she passed a demonstration tape examination at the Sony Music audition of 40,000 application totals. From there, she was signed to SME Records Inc., and in October, she recorded her first single Kesenai Tsumi ("Inerasable Sin"), … - Vic Mignogna
Victor Joseph Mignogna (born August 27, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania) (Italian Name: Vittorio Giuseppe Mignogna) is a prolific voice actor who has done voice work for dozens of anime series, movies, and video games. Mignogna is best known for his dub role of Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist. Vic has also had the honor of receiving an award for his work in anime. - Kenji Kawai
Kenji Kawai, born April 23, 1957 in Shinagawa, Tokyo - Japanese composer, composes music for motion pictures, anime movies, videogames and televised programs. He has contributed to the musical scores of the Mamoru Oshii movies "Ghost in the Shell" and "Avalon", as well as Hideo Nakata's films "Ringu", "Ringu 2", "Dark Water" and "Kaidan". - Queen Emeraldas
is a four-episode Japanese anime OVA that continues the "Harlock" franchise created by Leiji Matsumoto. The anime was adapted from Matsumoto's 1978 manga of the same name. "Queen Emeraldas" is the story of the pirate spaceship, "Queen Emeraldas", which is captained by the mysterious and beautiful Emeraldas, a strong and powerful privateer. In practice, the character is also referred to as Queen Emeraldas or Pirate Queen Emeraldas, … - Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Yoshiaki Kawajiri is a critically acclaimed writer / director of Japanese animation. He is the creator of titles such as "Yoju Toshi (Wicked City)", "Jubei ninpucho (Ninja Scroll)", and "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust", and is considered one of the more revolutionary directors in Anime history. - Gen Fukunaga
Gen Fukunaga is the founder and president of FUNimation Entertainment, a company that distributes anime in the United States and Canada. Fukunaga was born in Japan and grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana. Fukunaga attended Purdue University and moved to Boca Raton, Florida to work for IBM. But he decided to go for a management-based career, so he went to Columbia University to get an MBA.
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