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Raditz
keywords:
character
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dragon ball
related topics:
Dragon Ball
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Son Goku
explanation: Brother of Son Goku in Dragon Ball. He has been killed by Piccolo but brought back to life.
Ranma 1/2
alternative words: Ranma, Ramma 1/2
keywords:
anime
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manga
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ranma 1/2
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title
related topics:
Rumiko Takahashi
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Shonen Sunday
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Fuji TV
related web sites:
http://www.sa.sakura.ne.jp/~straydog/rumic/
explanation: This karate comedy has been written by mangaka Rumiko Takahashi, the same author as Maison Ikkoku. It tells the story about a karate kid (Ranma) who turns into a girl when he sprays himself with waters and into a boy with hot waters. Manga version has appeared between 1987 and 1996 in a weekly magazine, Shonen Sunday, while the anime version has been broadcasted by Fuji TV between April 1989 and September 1992.
Ranma Saotome
alternative words: Saotome Ranma
keywords:
character
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ranma 1/2
related topics:
Ranma 1/2
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Akane Tendo
explanation: Principal hero of Ranma 1/2. Born in a karateka family, this boy of 16 years old has gone to China in order to improve his karate technique and there he has suffered an unbelievable curse: he turns into a girl when he sprays himself with waters and into a boy with hot waters. After returned to home, his father has arranged a marriage with Akane, one of daughters of his old friend.
Rare Card
keywords:
goods
related topics:
Traiding Card
explanation: As its name indicates, it is very rare to find those cards when you purchase a bag of trading cards. "Otaku" collectors are ready to spend fortune and huge time to get them.
Raye Hino
alternative words: Rei Hino, Hino Rei
keywords:
character
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sailormoon
related topics:
Sailormoon
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Temple Hikawa
explanation: Alias Sailor Mars with black hairs. She wishes to become the main priestess of Hikawa temple. She gets her power from Planet Jupiter.
Real World
keywords:
anime
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diverse
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lain
related topics:
Serial Experiments Lain
explanation: Real world as opposed to the virtual world created by "Wired" in "Serial Experiments Lain".
Rei Ayanami
alternative words: Rei, Ayanami Rei
keywords:
character
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evangelion
related topics:
Evangelion
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Shinji Ikari
explanation: Girl of 14 years old and the first pilot of Evangelion robot. Speaking little, her presence in this story is mysterious. Later it will be uncovered that she is in reality a clone of Shinj's mother.
Reiin Iwakura
alternative words: Iwakura Reiin
keywords:
anime
,
character
,
lain
related topics:
Serial Experiments Lain
explanation: Principal character in Japanese cartoon, "Serial Experiments Lain". Rather shy high school girl in the real life, she becomes aggressive in a virtual world when connecting to "Wired". Please note that for Japanese, there exists few difference in pronunciation of her first name "Rein" and her identification of connection "lain".
Remi the Homeless Girl
keywords:
anime
,
title
related topics:
Nippon Animation
related web sites:
http://w3.cec-ltd.co.jp/na/ienakiko/index.htm
explanation: Adaptation to an anime of a novel of the famous French writer, Hector Malot (1830-1907). It tells the story about a child (boy in the original novel but a girl in the anime) who travels all over France with itinerant artists and finds finally her family. The cartoon has been realized by "Nippon Animation" and broadcasted by Fuji TV between January and December 1995.
Rental book
alternative words: Kashihon
keywords:
manga
,
publishing
related topics:
Osamu Tezuka
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Kazuo Umezu
explanation: After World War II, because of a lack of resources, the government had imposed a quota of paper to each publishing company and it caused a proliferation rental book stores, especially for manga. Most of the great mangaka born before the war such as Osamu Tezuka and Kazuo Umezu had contributed to a success of this industry. But once the quota has been suppressed and manga magazines began to appear, those shops declined quickly. It happened the late 50s.
Ridge Racer
keywords:
game
,
title
related topics:
Namco
related web sites:
http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/ps/ridgeracer/
explanation: Video game on a car race simulation, published by Namco. First it has been developed for arcade machine (October 1993) before being adapted for Play Station (December 1994). It is known to be the first car race game in 3D.
Rini
alternative words: Chibiusa
keywords:
character
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sailormoon
related topics:
Sailormoon
explanation: Child born between Serena Tsukino aka sailormoon and Darien aka Tuxido Mask. She has come from the future to protect her mother. She has pink hairs.
Ritsuko Akagi
alternative words: Ristuko, Akagi Ritsuko
keywords:
character
,
evangelion
related topics:
Evangelion
explanation: Girl of 30 years old and operational responsible of Evangelion project.
Riyoko Ikeda
alternative words: Ikeda Riyoko
keywords:
author
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manga
related topics:
Lady Oscar
explanation: Born on December 18, 1947 in Osaka, this very talented Japanese mangaka had already begun to write manga when she was a university student. After a huge success of her main work, "Lady Oscar" in 1972, she created a theater version in 1974 and a movie in 1976 (not a cartoon but with real actors). She has also written several essays and critics, and appeared very frequently in TV talk shows. Her last successful work is "Orpheus Windows" in 1979.
RPG
alternative words: Role playing game
keywords:
game
,
general
explanation: Contrary to American and European markets, RPG is more popular than action games in Japan. For that reason the titles like "Dragon Quest" and "Final Fantasy" have met a great success in the early period of video games.
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