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Akira (1988 film)

Index Akira (1988 film)

Akira (Japanese: アキラ Hepburn: Akira) is a 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's manga of the same name. [1]

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Adult Swim

Adult Swim (stylized as and often shortened to) is the adult-oriented nighttime programming block of the American children's cable network Cartoon Network and programmed by William Street Productions.

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Akira (manga)

Akira (Japanese: アキラ Hepburn: Akira), often stylized as AKIRA, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo.

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Akira (video game)

is a visual novel adventure game based on Akira, the 1988 animated film version of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga, Akira.

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Akira Psycho Ball

Akira Psycho Ball (アキラ・サイコ・ボール) is a 2002 digital pinball game based on the popular Akira series created by Katsuhiro Otomo.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean-French filmmaker.

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American Anime Awards

The American Anime Awards were a series of awards designed to recognize excellence in the release of anime and manga in North America.

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Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Amiga CD32

The Amiga CD32, styled "CD32" and code-named "Spellbound", was the first 32-bit home video game console released in western Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil.

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Andrew Lazar

Andrew Lazar (born 1966) is an American film producer and graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

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Animaze

Animaze..

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Anime News Network

Anime News Network (ANN) is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, South East Asia and Japan.

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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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Ascential

Ascential plc, formerly EMAP, is a British business-to-business media business specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services.

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At the Movies (U.S. TV series)

At the Movies (originally Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, and later At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper) is a movie review television program produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television in which two film critics share their opinions of newly released films.

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Atari Jaguar

The Atari Jaguar is a home video game console that was developed by Atari Corporation.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

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Az Yet

Az Yet is an American R&B group from Philadelphia, best known for their songs "Last Night" and the cover "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" originally performed by Chicago.

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Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Bob Gale.

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Bandai

is a Japanese toy maker and a producer of a large number of plastic model kits as well as a former video game company.

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Bandai Visual

(Formerly known as AE Planing (August 1983–March 1989), Network Frontier (1984–1988) and Bandai Media (1988–October 1992), is a Japanese anime, film production and distribution enterprise, established by Bandai Company, Limited and a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings, Inc. Most of the anime and films that has been distributed and licensed by Bandai Visual has been released under the Emotion label. Since the reorganisation of Bandai Namco Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual now heads the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit. Its subsidiaries include the Emotion Music Company, Limited, (whose logos also include the Moai from Easter Island), and Lantis Company, Limited music publishing labels. Until 2012, it was involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio Sunrise, an alternate anime studio subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In September 2017, Bandai Visual has acquired the anime studio Actas.

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Barbara Goodson

Barbara Dale Goodson (born August 16, 1949) is an American actress who has done voice-over work in cartoons and shows.

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Bōsōzoku

is a Japanese youth subculture associated with customized motorcycles.

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Bids for the 2020 Summer Olympics

There were a total of six bids which were initially submitted for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Big Bang

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution.

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American-Hong Kong neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Bob Bergen

Bob Bergen (born March 8, 1964) is an American voice actor.

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Bob Buchholz

Robert Buchholz (Born June 1, 1957 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American voice actor, writer, story editor, and voice director.

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Bullet time

Bullet time (also known as frozen moment, the big freeze, dead time, flow motion or time slice) is a visual effect or visual impression of detaching the time and space of a camera (or viewer) from that of its visible subject.

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Cam Clarke

Cameron Arthur "Cam" Clarke (born November 6, 1957) is an American voice actor and singer, known for his voice work in animation, video games and commercials.

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Carl Macek

Carl F. Macek (September 21, 1951 – April 17, 2010) was an American screenwriter, script editor, voice actor, director, casting director, dialogue and voice director, storyboard artist and producer on numerous English-language adaptations of anime during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Cartoon Brew

Cartoon Brew is an animation news website created by Amid Amidi and Jerry Beck.

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Cel

A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation.

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Chicago Review Press

Chicago Review Press, or CRP, is a U.S. book publisher and an independent company founded in 1973.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Christopher Nolan

Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer who holds both British and American citizenship.

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Chronicle (film)

Chronicle is a 2012 American found footage science-fiction thriller film directed by Josh Trank and written by Max Landis based on a story by both.

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Cinefantastique

Cinefantastique was a horror, fantasy, and science fiction film magazine.

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Clone Wars (Star Wars)

The Clone Wars, occasionally referred to in the singular as the Clone War, are conflicts in the Star Wars franchise by George Lucas.

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Closed captioning

Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information.

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Collider (website)

Collider is an entertainment website and YouTube channel founded by Editor in Chief Steve Weintraub in July 2005 and February 2007.

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Complex (magazine)

Complex is an American New York-based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc (Ecko) Milecofsky.

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Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, films, television programs, shorts, commercials, videos, and simulators.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.

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Cryogenic storage dewar

A cryogenic storage dewar (named after James Dewar) is a specialised type of vacuum flask used for storing cryogens (such as liquid nitrogen or liquid helium), whose boiling points are much lower than room temperature.

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Cryonics

Cryonics (from Greek κρύος kryos meaning 'cold') is the low-temperature preservation (usually at −196°C) of human cadavers, with the hope that resuscitation and restoration to life and full health may be possible in the far future.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Dan Lin

Dan Lin is a Taiwanese-born American film producer.

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Daredevil (TV series)

Marvel's Daredevil, or simply Daredevil, is an American web television series created for Netflix by Drew Goddard, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.

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Dave Wittenberg

David Richard Paul "Dave" Wittenberg (born September 1, 1971) is a South African-born American voice actor from the Los Angeles area who provides voice-overs in English dubs of Japanese anime shows, as well as cartoons and video games.

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Deadline (magazine)

Deadline was a British comics magazine published between 1988 and 1995.

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Demon Music Group

Demon Records is a British record label, founded in 1980 by former United Artists A&R executive Andrew Lauder and Jake Riviera, who had previously started Stiff Records.

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Dolby TrueHD

Dolby TrueHD is a lossless multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories which is used in home-entertainment equipment such as Blu-ray Disc players and A/V receivers.

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Dragon Ball

is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984.

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Dyanne DiRosario

Dyanne DiRosario is an American voice actress, actress and make-up artist.

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Dystopia

A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia,Cacotopia (from κακός kakos "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 19th century works kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.

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Eddie Frierson

Edward Davies Frierson (born November 22, 1959) is an American voice actor, stage actor and writer.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Empire (film magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group.

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Epic Comics

Epic Comics (also known as the Epic Comics Group)Shooter, Jim.

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Fact (UK magazine)

Fact (stylised as FACT) is a music publication that launched in the UK in 2003.

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Fandango (company)

Fandango is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app.

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Fandom

Fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)

Fantastic Mr.

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Film School Rejects

Film School Rejects is an English-language blog devoted to movie reviews, interviews, film industry news, and feature commentary.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Film4

Film4 is a British digital television channel available in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, that screens films.

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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a 2005 Japanese computer-animated film directed by Tetsuya Nomura, written by Kazushige Nojima, and produced by Yoshinori Kitase and Shinji Hashimoto.

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Free-to-air

Free-to-air (FTA) are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in clear (unencrypted) form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription, other ongoing cost or one-off fee (e.g. Pay-per-view).

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Funimation

FUNimation Productions, LLC (commonly known as Funimation) is an American entertainment, anime, and foreign content distribution company that is majority owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Game Boy

The is an 8-bit handheld game console which was developed and manufactured by Nintendo and first released on the 100th anniversary of Nintendo in Japan on, in North America on and in Europe on.

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Game Gear

The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990 in Japan, in April throughout North America and Europe, and during 1992 in Australia.

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GameFan

GameFan (originally known as Diehard GameFan) was a publication started by Tim Lindquist and Dave Halverson in September 1992 that provided coverage of domestic and import video games.

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Gamelan

Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

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Gary Whitta

Gary Leslie Whitta (born 21 July 1972) is an English-born American screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist.

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi

is a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19, 1974 by Tsutomu Ōhashi, consisting of hundreds of people from all walks of life: journalists, doctors, engineers, students, businessmen, etc.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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George Miller (director)

George Miller AO (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker and former physician.

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George Takei

George Hosato Takei (born Hosato Takei, April 20, 1937) is an American actor, director, author, and activist.

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Get Out

Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut.

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GKIDS

GKIDS is an American film distributor based in New York with a focus on "sophisticated, indie" animation.

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Gravitational singularity

A gravitational singularity or spacetime singularity is a location in spacetime where the gravitational field of a celestial body becomes infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system.

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Hakuhodo

is a Japanese advertising and public relations company.

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Headache

Headache is the symptom of pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck.

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Helen McCarthy

Helen McCarthy (born 27 February 1951) is the British author of such anime reference books as 500 Manga Heroes and Villains, Anime!, The Anime Movie Guide and Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation.

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Hepburn romanization

is a system for the romanization of Japanese, that uses the Latin alphabet to write the Japanese language.

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Hideo Kojima

is a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and game producer.

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Hiroshi Ōtake

is a Japanese voice actor currently represented by Gin Production.

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Hughes brothers

Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes (born March 1, 1972), known together professionally as the Hughes brothers, are American film directors and producers.

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Hypersonic effect

The hypersonic effect is a term coined to describe a phenomenon reported in a controversial scientific study by Tsutomu Oohashi et al.,T.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Inception

Inception is a 2010 neo-noir science fiction heist film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan, and co-produced by Emma Thomas.

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Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square.

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Io9

io9 is a blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media, which focuses on the subjects of science fiction, fantasy, futurism, science, technology and related areas.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Izo Hashimoto

is a Japanese screenwriter and film director.

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James Robinson (writer)

James Dale Robinson is a British writer of American comic books and screenplays who is known for his interest in vintage collectibles and memorabilia.

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Jamieson Price

Jamieson Kent Price is an American voice actor, best known for his deep and booming voice for numerous anime and video games.

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Jan Rabson

Jan Rabson (born June 14, 1954) is an American voice actor and actor.

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Japan Self-Defense Forces

The (JSDF), occasionally referred to as the Japan Defense Forces (JDF), Self-Defense Forces (SDF), or Japanese Armed Forces, are the unified military forces of Japan that were established in 1954, and are controlled by the Ministry of Defense.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Japanese Movie Database

The, or JMDB, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel.

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Japanese popular culture

Japanese popular culture encompasses the modern popular culture of Japan.

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Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra (born 23 March 1974) is a Spanish film director and producer.

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Jerry Beck

Jerry Beck (born February 9, 1955 in New York City) is an American animation historian, author, blogger, and video producer.

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John Gaeta

John C. Gaeta (born 1968) is a designer and inventor best known for his work on the ''Matrix'' film trilogy, where he utilized and advanced methods and formats known as bullet time, virtual cinematography and Universal Capture (UCAP).

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John Snyder (actor)

John Snyder (born August 23, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American film, stage, television, and voice actor, who graduated from Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts with a BFA in 1974.

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Johnny Yong Bosch

Johnny Yong Bosch (born January 6, 1976) is an American actor, voice actor, martial artist and musician.

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Jordan Peele

Jordan Haworth Peele (born February 21, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, writer, film producer and director.

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Joshua Seth

Joshua Seth (born December 2, 1970) is an American voice actor, magician, comedian, keynote speaker, mentalist, and entertainer.

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Julie Ann Taylor

Julie Ann Taylor (born January 29, 1966) is an American voice actress who is best known for her role of Ai Tanabe in Planetes, Mutsumi Otohime in Love Hina, Yukari Hayasaka in Paradise Kiss and Taiga Fujimura in Fate/stay night among others.

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Justin Lin

Justin Lin (born October 11, 1971) is a Taiwanese American film director whose films have grossed US$2.3 billion worldwide as of March 2017.

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JVC

,, usually referred to as JVC or The Japan Victor Company, is a Japanese international professional and consumer electronics corporation based in Yokohama.

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JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment

, formerly and, is a subsidiary of JVC Kenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan.

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Kanye West

Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion designer.

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Katsuhiro Otomo

is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director.

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Kayoko Fujii

is a Japanese actress and voice actress who is affiliated with Seinenza Theater Company.

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Kōichi Kitamura

, better known by the stage name, was a Japanese voice actor born in Osaka, Japan.

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Kodansha

is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Lara Cody

Laura Ann Cody (born September 8, 1957 in Los Angeles, California), better known as Lara Cody, is an American voice actress.

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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Lewis Arquette

Lewis Michael Arquette (December 14, 1935 – February 10, 2001) was an American film actor, writer and producer.

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Limited animation

Limited animation is a process in the overall technique of traditional animation of creating animated cartoons that does not redraw entire frames but variably reuses common parts between frames.

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Lionsgate

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment company.

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List of films considered the best

This is a list of films considered "the best ever", so voted in a notable national or international survey of either critics or the public.

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Live action

Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses actors and actresses instead of animation or animated pictures.

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Looper (film)

Looper is a 2012 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Ram Bergman and James D. Stern.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Madman Entertainment

Madman Entertainment Pty.

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Mainichi Broadcasting System

is a radio and television broadcasting company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN), Japan News Network (JNN) and TBS Network, serving in the Kansai region.

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Mami Koyama

is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Aoni Production.

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Manga Entertainment

Manga Entertainment is a producer, licensee, and distributor of Japanese animation in the United Kingdom.

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Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are screenwriters best known for their work on Children of Men (for which they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay) and Iron Man.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment, LLC (formerly Marvel Enterprises and Toy Biz, Inc., and marketed and stylized as MARVEL) is an American entertainment company founded in June 1998 and based in New York City, formed by the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. and ToyBiz.

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Masashi Kishimoto

is a Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto which was in serialization from 1999 to 2014.

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Masato Hirano (voice actor)

is a Japanese voice actor from Iwate who works for Aoni Production.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Melora Harte

Melora I. Harte (born October 29, 1943) is an American voice actress.

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MGM Home Entertainment

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC is the home video arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Michael Forest

Gerald Michael Charlebois (born April 17, 1929), better known as Michael Forest, is an American actor who provides the voices for many animated titles.

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Michael Lindsay

Michael Lindsay (born May 9, 1963 in Washington, D.C.) is an American voice actor.

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Michael McConnohie

Michael D. McConnohie (born July 23, 1951 in Mansfield, Ohio) is an American voice actor, writer and director who has provided many voice roles in movies, anime, and video games.

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Michelle Ruff

Michelle Suzanne Ruff is an American voice actress known for her work in anime and video games.

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Michihiro Ikemizu

is a Japanese voice actor from Kanagawa Prefecture and a graduate of Waseda University who works for Aoni Production.

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Midnight Special (film)

Midnight Special is a 2016 American science fiction film written and directed by Jeff Nichols, and produced by Sarah Green and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones.

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Mike Reynolds (actor)

Michael Lee Reynolds (born November 21, 1929) is a voice actor and writer.

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Milan Records

Milan Records is a record label located in Los Angeles, California specializing in film scores and soundtrack albums.

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Mitsuo Iwata

is a Japanese voice actor and singer who was born in Tokorozawa, Saitama.

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Mizuho Suzuki

(born October 23, 1927) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Manchukuo.

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Motion Picture Association of America film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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Music of Japan

The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern.

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Naruto

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto.

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NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan

(formerly known as Geneon Universal Entertainment and previously Pioneer LDC – Pioneer LaserDisc Company, a former subsidiary of Pioneer Corporation) is a Japanese music, anime and home entertainment production and distribution enterprise headquartered in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

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Noh

, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent", is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Nozomu Sasaki

is a Japanese voice actor and Singer.

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Orion Pictures

Orion Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture producer and distributor that produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company.

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Patricia Ja Lee

Patricia Ja Lee (born July 19, 1975) is an American actress and model.

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Persona (series)

Persona, also known as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, is a video game franchise developed and primarily published by Atlus.

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Pinball

Pinball is a type of arcade game, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball table (or "pinball machine").

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Pokémon

is a media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, a Japanese consortium between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Protoculture Addicts

Protoculture Addicts was a Canadian-based anime and manga themed magazine published by Protoculture Inc., an Anime News Network company.

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Psionics

Psionics is the study of paranormal phenomena in relation to the application of electronics.

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Racebending

Racebending is a neologism that describes the changing of a character's perceived race or ethnicity during the adaptation of a work from one medium to another.

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Remake

A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier film or TV series and tells the same, or a very similar, story.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware and cars).

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Robert Axelrod

Robert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Ruairí Robinson

Ruairí Robinson is an Irish film director and writer.

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Sandy Fox

Sandra Marie Fox (born July 13, 1963) is an American voice actress who has had numerous roles in various animated cartoon, anime and video games.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

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Sega CD

The Sega CD, released as the in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory for the Sega Genesis video game console designed and produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles.

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Sega Genesis

The Sega Genesis, known as the in regions outside of North America, is a 16-bit home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Simon Prescott

Simon Prescott (born May 26, 1936) is an American actor who is best known for his work in the anime and film industries.

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Siren Visual

Siren Visual (formerly Siren Entertainment) is an Australian company which specialises in the distribution of Japanese anime, documentaries and off-beat cinema in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.

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Skip Stellrecht

Skip Stellrecht (born Henry M. Stellrecht, Jr.; September 5, 1958 in Fullerton, California) is an American anime voice actor who was born and raised in Orange County California.

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Snatcher (video game)

Snatcher is a cyberpunk-themed graphic adventure game written by Hideo Kojima and produced by Konami.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Space weapon

Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Starz Distribution

Starz Distribution (formerly IDT Entertainment and Starz Media) is the motion picture, animation, television, and home video operating unit of Starz Inc., a subsidiary of Lionsgate.

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Stephen Norrington

Stephen Norrington (born 1964) is a British film director and special effects artist whose credits include Death Machine and the comic book adaptations Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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Steve Kramer (actor)

Steven M. Kramer (born December 24, 1950, in San Juan Capistrano, California) is an American voice actor for many anime titles.

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Steve Staley

Steve Staley (born August 25, 1969) also known as Steve Cannon, is an American voice actor known for providing voices for Japanese anime and video games.

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Steven Blum

Steven Jay Blum (born April 29, 1960) is an American voice actor of anime, animation and video games known for his distinctive deep voice.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Storyboard

A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

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Stranger Things

Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror web television series created, written, and directed by the Duffer Brothers.

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Streamline Pictures

Streamline Pictures was an American media company that was best known for its distribution of English-dubbed Japanese animation.

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Stronger (Kanye West song)

"Stronger" is a song by American rapper Kanye West, released as the second single from his third studio album, Graduation (2007).

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Sumitomo Corporation

is one of the largest worldwide Sogo shosha general trading companies, and is a diversified corporation.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES, and colloquially shortened to Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Taika Waititi

Taika David Waititi (born 16 August 1975), also known as Taika Cohen, is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian.

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Taito

is a Japanese video game developer and publisher of arcade hardware and mobile phones, and an operator of video arcades.

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Takeshi Kusao

is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer who works for Aoni Production.

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Takeshi Seyama

is a Japanese film editor from Tokyo.

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Taro Ishida

was a Japanese actor and voice actor from the city of Kyoto.

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Tattoo

A tattoo is a form of body modification where a design is made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.

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Tesshō Genda

is a Japanese actor and voice actor.

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Tetsujin 28-go

is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk horror film written, produced, edited, and directed by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto, and produced by Japan Home Video.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films" and selling them to film aficionados.

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk-dieselpunk superhero action film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.

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The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis (credited as The Wachowski Brothers) and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.

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The Matrix (franchise)

The Matrix is a science fiction action media franchise created by The Wachowskis, about heroes who fight a desperate war against machine overlords that have enslaved humanity in an extremely sophisticated virtual reality system.

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The Nerdist Podcast

ID10T with Chris Hardwick (formerly The Nerdist Podcast) is a weekly interview show "about what it really means to be a nerd" hosted by Chris Hardwick, usually accompanied by Jonah Ray and Matt Mira.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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THX

THX Ltd. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1983 by George Lucas.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time Out Group

Time Out Group is a British media company which is publisher of magazines and travel guidebooks covering events, entertainment and culture in cities around the world.

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TMS Entertainment

, formerly known as, also known as Tokyo Movie or TMS-Kyokuchi, is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1964.

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Toho

is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Tony Oliver

Rafael Antonio "Tony" Olivier (born May 12, 1958 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American voice actor best known for voicing Rick Hunter from Robotech, Lancer from Fate/stay night and Arsène Lupin III from Lupin III.

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Tony Pope

Anthony Pope (March 22, 1947 – February 11, 2004), also known as "Anthony Mozdy", was an American voice actor.

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Toonami

Toonami is a television programming block that primarily consists of American animation and Japanese anime.

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Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (published monthly and a summer issue is added every year since issue 91, 2004 which is published between July and August issue) by Future Publishing.

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Tsutomu Ōhashi

is a Japanese artist and scientist.

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Unit 731

was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II.

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Universal Media Disc

The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is a discontinued optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on their PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia platform.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Vic Mignogna

Victor Joseph Mignogna is an American actor and musician known for his prolific voice-over work in the English dubs of Japanese anime shows, the most notable being Edward Elric from the Fullmetal Alchemist series, for which he earned the American Anime Award for Best Actor in 2007.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice is a Canadian-American print magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Viz Media

VIZ Media LLC is an American manga and anime distribution and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Wally Burr

Walter S. Burr (June 2, 1924 – July 9, 2017), also credited as Wally Burr and Walter Burr, was an American voice actor and director.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Weighted arithmetic mean

The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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Wendee Lee

Wendee Lee (born February 20, 1960) is an American voice actress and director in the anime industry and video games.

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Whitewashing in film

Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry of the United States in which white actors are cast in historically non-white character roles.

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William Frederick Knight

William Frederick Knight (born December 6, 1933), sometimes credited as William Knight, William Frederick, or Frederick Knight, is a voice actor who has lent his voice to the English dubs of anime and video games.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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World War III

World War III (WWIII or WW3) and the Third World War are names given to a hypothetical third worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and World War II.

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Yōsuke Akimoto

is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo.

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Yukimasa Kishino

is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production.

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Yuriko Fuchizaki

is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo.

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100 Cult Films

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(1988_film)

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