When was the Hunter × Hunter manga series developed?
Hunter × Hunter
Written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi, the "Hunter × Hunter" manga began its ongoing serialization in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine on March 3, 1998. Shueisha has compiled most of the chapters into 36 "tankōbon" volumes as of October 2018. In December 2011, Shueisha began republishing the manga into a magazine-styled "sōshūhen" format. The company published one volume per month for a total of six volumes, covering up to the end of the Greed Island story arc. In December 2012, Togashi wrote a two-part manga titled to act as a prequel to the first animated film. "Tokyo Ghoul" author Sui Ishida created a 69-page storyboard of a manga chapter depicting the past of "Hunter × Hunter"s Hisoka. The storyboard was released digitally via "Shonen Jump+" on June 2, 2016.
Seishi Kishimoto
Kishimoto's first manga was the one-shot "Trigger" published in Square Enix's "Gangan Powered" in 2001. With the story he wanted to write about "faith and parent-child relationships," but had trouble fitting it within the page limit. He began his first serialized work, "666 Satan", in "Monthly Shōnen Gangan" in 2001. The manga continued for six years and has been translated and released in several foreign countries, including in North America by Viz Media. A year after "666 Satan" ended, Kishimoto launched "Blazer Drive" in the debut issue of Kodansha's "Monthly Shōnen Rival", preceded by a prequel one-shot, "Tribal", in the final issue of "Comic BomBom"; Blazer Drive ran through 2010 and received a video game tie-in. He then created the one-shot "Jūniji no Kaneganaru", which was published in the monthly shōjo magazine "Aria" in 2011. In the January 2012 issue of "Monthly Shōnen Rival", Kishimoto debuted "Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji", which ran until 2013.
List of Pandora Hearts chapters
Pandora Hearts is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jun Mochizuki and serialized in Square Enix monthly "shōnen" magazine "GFantasy" from June 2006 to March 2015. The serial chapters were collected into twenty-four "tankōbon". The first was released on November 27, 2006 and the last on June 27, 2015. In English, the series was first licensed by Broccoli Books, but has since been dropped. It was then licensed by Yen Press and began serialization in the June 2009 issue of "Yen Plus", and followed-up by its first volume release on December 15, 2009. In Indonesia, the manga has been licensed by Elex Media Komputindo, and in France by Ki-oon.
Hunter (1967 TV series)
Hunter was an Australian espionage adventure television series screened by the Nine Network from Tuesday 4 July 1967 to 1969. The series was created by Ian Jones and produced by Crawford Productions.
Weapon X
"Weapon X" is the name of a 28-issue ongoing series published by Marvel from 2002 to 2004, featuring the third installment of the Weapon X project. It was written by Frank Tieri, who previously wrote the ongoing "Wolverine" title and had created the group's most recent incarnation in the pages of said book. The series began in 2002 and quickly gained critical praise for its use of minor characters as well as reviving characters such as Cable, who at the time wasn't featured in a monthly title. However, sales sagged as the removal of Cable from the book after the first year, on orders of Rob Liefeld, who was working on a new "X-Force" project. Frank Tieri was forced to drop nearly all of his subplots, including the introduction of a mutant concentration camp run by Mr. Sinister that featured many popular B-List mutant characters, and take the book into the controversial direction involving the introduction of X-23, and Wolverine and Sabretooth's quest to find the recently revived John Sublime. The new direction failed to catch on, mainly due to the books' over-exposure of Wolverine and the drastic change in tone of the book, and was cancelled with all of its storylines unresolved.
Hunter × Hunter
Before the first anime television series was created, a short film adaptation of "Hunter × Hunter" was shown as part of the 1998 "Jump Super Anime Tour" alongside similar adaptations of "Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi!" and "One Piece". Produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe, it depicts the early events of the manga up to Gon's ocean voyage from Whale Island.
List of Monster chapters
Written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, "Monster" was published in "Big Comic Original" from December 1994 to December 2001. The 162 chapters were periodically collected into 18 tankōbon volumes published by Shogakukan, the first on 30 June 1995 and the last on 28 February 2002. While writing "Monster", Urasawa began the series "20th Century Boys" in 1999, which would continue after "Monster" had finished.
Hayate the Combat Butler
"Hayate the Combat Butler" is written and illustrated by Kenjiro Hata. It began serialization in Shogakukan's "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" magazine on October 20, 2004, and concluded on April 12, 2017. Shogakukan published the chapters in 52 "tankōbon" volumes from February 18, 2005 to June 16, 2017. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America and released the first volume on November 14, 2006. The most recent English release is volume 31, on February 13, 2018. The English translations are done by Yuki Yoshioka and Cindy H. Yamauchi, and the English adaptation is done by Mark Giambruno.
King's Knight
Square Enix announced the game at the September 2016 Tokyo Game Show. Its promotional material placed the game in the "Final Fantasy XV" universe alongside "Justice Monsters Five", another mobile companion game to the series that Square Enix announced earlier in 2016. "King's Knight: Wrath of the Dark Dragon" was planned for release on Android and iOS platforms in Japan in 2016, with no announcement for a North American release. The game's release was then postponed to 2017. It was released worldwide on September 13, 2017. End of service was subsequently announced for the game to take place June 26, 2018 - less than a year after its worldwide release.
"King's Knight" is one of the video games was adapted by manga titled , published in the Gamest Comics collection from April 1999, drawn by Kouta Hirano.
Hunter-Killer (comics)
Hunter-Killer is a comic book series from Top Cow Productions, Created by Mark Waid and Marc Silvestri. Silvestri provided the art for the first story arc while Eric Basaldua and Kenneth Rocafort drew the remaining issues. The series started in March 2005.
Ghost Hunt (novel series)
"Ghost Hunt" also explores the paranormal abilities of the characters, particularly focusing on Mai's "latent psychic abilities," demonstrated by her dreaming about information relevant to their cases. She is often joined in her dreams by someone whom she assumes to be Naru, who acts as a spirit guide, but who is later revealed to be Naru's dead twin brother who had died long before.
Written and illustrated by Shiho Inada, the manga adaptation premiered in "Amie" magazine in 1998, then moved to sister publication "Nakayoshi". After this, the series moved to being published in volumes only. The series was completed in September 2010 with the twelfth and final volume. The manga is licensed for an English-language release in North America by Del Rey Manga, which has released 11 volumes of the series to date. "Ghost Hunt" is licensed for release in the United Kingdom by Tanoshimi.
Hunter × Hunter
Author Yoshihiro Togashi explained that one of his hobbies was collecting objects of all sorts, so he was inspired to create a manga involving collecting titled "Hunter". He came up with the final name "Hunter × Hunter" while watching the television variety show "Downtown", in which the hosts often repeated what they said to make the audience laugh. The "×" in the title is silent. As with his previous series, "Yu Yu Hakusho", Togashi used drafting ink and "Kabura" pens for his illustrations but began using an eMac to color them. Togashi uses few or no assistants in the manga's production; however, fellow manga artist and future wife Naoko Takeuchi assisted Togashi in adding screentone to single-color pages for the first volume. With the birth of their first son early in its publication, Togashi felt that this personal aspect of his life would be a great influence on his work, particularly the manga's theme of a young boy searching for his father.
Joker (character)
DC Comics was a hotbed of experimentation during the 1970s, and in 1975 the character became the first villain to feature as the title character in a comic book series, "The Joker". The series followed the character's interactions with other supervillains, and the first issue was written by O'Neil. Stories balanced between emphasizing the Joker's criminality and making him a likable protagonist whom readers could support. Although he murdered thugs and civilians, he never fought Batman; this made "The Joker" a series in which the character's villainy prevailed over rival villains, instead of a struggle between good and evil. Because the Comics Code Authority mandated punishment for villains, each issue ended with the Joker being apprehended, limiting the scope of each story. The series never found an audience, and "The Joker" was cancelled after nine issues (despite a "next issue" advertisement for an appearance by the Justice League). The complete series became difficult to obtain over time, often commanding high prices from collectors. In 2013, DC Comics reissued the series as a graphic novel.
Battle Hunter
Battle Hunter, known in Japan as and in Europe as The Hunter, is an anime-styled tactical role-playing game, released for the PlayStation in 1999. It was released in Japan as part of the SuperLite 1500 series of budget games. The game revolves around a player-controlled hunter that must compete with three other hunters in order to win a relic, and makes heavy use of traditional RPG conventions such as dice and tile-based movement.
Yoshihiro Togashi
Togashi's next major series , an action-adventure manga, began serialization in 1998. The story revolves around the protagonist Gon Freecss, a young boy in search of his father, who is a legendary, elite member of society called a "Hunter". This manga also performed very well commercially, with the first 20 volumes selling nearly 55 million copies in Japan as of August 2011. In 2008, Togashi tied with "One Piece" author Eiichiro Oda as the fifth favorite manga artist from a poll posted by the marketing research firm Oricon.
Dragon Hunter
Dragon Hunter (용잡이) is a long-running historical fantasy manhwa series created by Hong Seock-seo, set in a 6th-century Korea terrorized by dragons. The series began publication 10 June 2003.
Haunt (comics)
Haunt is a fictional comic book superhero who appeared in a self-titled ongoing series published by Image Comics. Created by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, the series debuted in October 2009 and ended in December 2012 after 28 issues. The comic was originally written by Kirkman with pencils by Ryan Ottley, layouts by Greg Capullo, and inks by McFarlane. Joe Casey and Nathan Fox took over as the book's creative team as of "Haunt" #19.
City Hunter (TV series)
City Hunter () is a 2011 South Korean television drama based on the Japanese manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo, starring Lee Min-ho, Park Min-young, Lee Joon-hyuk, Kim Sang-joong, Kim Sang-ho, Hwang Sun-hee, Goo Ha-ra, Chun Ho-jin and Lee Kwang-soo. It premiered on May 25, 2011 on SBS and finished broadcasting on July 28, 2011.
Hellsing
The series premiered in "Young King OURs" in 1997 and ran for eleven years until the final chapter was released in the November 2008 issue. The individual chapters are collected and published in "tankōbon" volumes by Shōnen Gahōsha, with 10 volumes (the complete series) having been released. The series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Dark Horse Comics. The first volume was released on December 1, 2003 and as of May 19, 2010, the company has published the entire translated series, at ten volumes. Chuang Yi is releasing the series in English in Singapore, with six volumes released as of October 2008, and through an agreement with the company, Madman Entertainment is re-releasing those volumes in Australia and New Zealand. "Hellsing" is also licensed for regional language releases in France by Tonkam, in Italy by Dynit, in Hungary by Mangafan, in Germany by Panini Comics, in Spain by Norma Editorial, in Poland by Japonica Polonica Fantastica and in Denmark and Sweden by Mangismo.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Written and drawn by Hiromu Arakawa, "Fullmetal Alchemist" was serialized in Square Enix's monthly manga magazine "Monthly Shōnen Gangan". Its first installment was published in the magazine's August 2001 issue on July 12, 2001; publication continued until the series concluded in June 2010 with the 108th installment. A side-story to the series was published in the October 2010 issue of "Monthly Shōnen Gangan" on September 11, 2010. In the July 2011 issue of the same magazine, the prototype version of the manga was published. Square Enix compiled the chapters into twenty-seven tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on January 22, 2002, and the last on November 22, 2010. A few chapters have been re-released in Japan in two "Extra number" magazines and "Fullmetal Alchemist, The First Attack", which features the first nine chapters of the manga and other side stories. On July 22, 2011, Square Enix started republishing the series in "kanzenban" format.
Hunter Hunted (video game)
Hunter Hunted is a side-scrolling action computer game developed by Sierra On-Line and published on October 31, 1996. The player controls a humanoid creature (either a muscular human called Jake or a minotaur-like creature named Garathe Den) who fights enemies, completes objectives, and tries to find the hidden exit in each level. Of the two, Garathe possesses superior strength and stamina, while Jake can take advantage of more sophisticated weaponry.
Dark-Hunter
Dark-Hunter is a paranormal romance series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Kenyon began writing the series in 1986 in Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction magazines.
Hunter × Hunter
In April 2005, Viz Media began publishing the manga in English in North America. Viz marketed the series as part of its "Shonen Jump Advanced" line for readers in their older teens and young adults. Viz included the "Kurapika's Memories" chapters in the December 17 and 24, 2012 issues of their digital English magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha". Thirty-four volumes have been released in North America as of March 2018. On April 22, 2014, it was announced that "Hunter × Hunter" would be joining Viz's digital English magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump". The manga has also been licensed and translated into multiple languages throughout Europe and other parts of Asia. For instance, it was serialized between 2001 and 2005 in "Banzai!", a German version of "Weekly Shōnen Jump".
Manhunter (comics)
The 1973–74 Goodwin/Simonson Paul Kirk Manhunter stories from "Detective Comics" have been collected several times: first in 1979 in oversized, black-and-white format by Excalibur Enterprises; then in color by DC in 1984; they were reissued yet again by DC in 1999 with additional material, namely a silent story illustrated by Simonson from a plot breakdown by Goodwin and him; the new collection was dedicated to Goodwin's memory, who had died before he could write the captions and dialogue (as explained in the book's text piece). This collection, titled "Manhunter: The Special Edition" (), won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Album in 2000.
Monster (manga)
Written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, "Monster" was published in "Big Comic Original" from December 1994 to December 2001. The 162 chapters were periodically collected into 18 "tankōbon" volumes published by Shogakukan, the first on 30 June 1995 and the last on 28 February 2002. While writing "Monster", Urasawa began the series "20th Century Boys" in 1999, which would continue after "Monster" had finished. "Monster" received a nine-volume "kanzenban" re-release between 30 January and 29 August 2008.
Hotarubi no Mori e
The manga was first published in the issue of Hakusensha's "LaLa DX" in Japan. It was first reprinted on in the "tankōbon" entitled "Hotarubi no Mori e", which included four previously published romantic one-shot stories by Yuki Midorikawa. In addition to the titular short story, the book included "Hanauta Nagaruru" (April 2003), "Kurukuru Ochiba" (November 2002), and "Hibi Fukaku" (January 2003). As part of the 2003 "tankōbon" short story collection, each of the four one-shot stories were set in a different season: "Hanauta Nagaruru" in spring, "Hotarubi no Mori e" in summer, "Kurukuru Ochiba" in fall, and "Hibi Fukaku" in winter. Within the "tankōbon", the stories were arranged in order from spring to winter, although they were originally published in a different order. As of , the "tankōbon" was on its 19th printing.
Ayaka Fukuhara
Fukuhara was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on December 31, 1989. Early in life, she dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, but after listening to a radio drama adaptation of the manga series "Hunter × Hunter", she became aware of the occupation of voice acting, and decided to pursue that career track instead. She then took correspondence training lessons to improve her voice skills, while also reading manga aloud in order to practice her acting skills. In high school, she was a member of her school's broadcasting club; she later participated in the national radio contest sponsored by NHK, becoming the first student of her school to make it to the contest, although she was unable to win any award. At the urging of her parents, she took a degree in nutrition at a university, while also attending the . During her time at the training school, she became part of the voice acting agency VIMS.
Those Who Hunt Elves
The manga was written and illustrated by Yu Yagami. It was serialized by MediaWorks in the manga magazine "Dengeki Comic Gao!" from June 1995 to
March 2003, and collected in 21 bound volumes. It is licensed in English by ADV Manga, with only the first seven volumes published in English in 2004, before the series went on indefinite hiatus. ADV's website makes no mention of the series in manga form, so it is unlikely the series will be continued.
Hikari no Densetsu
The manga was serialized in Japan in the weekly publication Margaret Magazine by Shueisha, with the first installment issued on February 1986. The manga series finished in 1988 collected in 16 small volumes. The manga series would at times contain parodies of famous 80s musicians that were popular of its publishing. For example: In the eighth volume of the manga series the author makes a parody of popular 80s singer Cyndi Lauper by drawing Hikari with the same hairstyle, skirt, and posture that the singer had on the "She's So Unusual" album cover. Recently in 2000 the manga series was reissued in Japan, collected in 8 volumes in bound tankōbon form, with less volumes, but with more chapters inside them and larger pages. The new reissued version of the manga also featured different covers from the original. These new covers feature a mixture of photos in black and white of rhythmic gymnasts performing, and black and white drawings of Hikari. The manga series was also released in Italy by Star Comics and serialized through Starlight (a publishing branch of Star Comics). Prior to the release of the manga in Italy, a Films comic version based on the TV series was made in the 80s was released in the country, but the images and dialogue were poor and not all the stories were covered, however it was appreciated by fans. The Italian version of the manga was titled ""La leggenda di Hikari"" (which literally means The Legend of Hikari) and collected in 16 small volumes with slightly altered covers from the original. Edizioni Star Comics re-released the manga series in Italy starting with the first volume released on May 2003 for the price of 3,10 Euro. The manga series was finished being released in 16 volumes in August 2004. The manga has yet to be released in Germany, France, and Spain, where the TV series was also very popular.
Hero Tales
Authored by the group Huang Jin Zhou, "Hero Tales" started serialization in Square Enix's "Gangan Powered" since 2006. After "Gangan Powered"'s last issue in 2009, the series continued serialization in "Monthly Shōnen Gangan". The series is also collected "tankōbon" volumes by Square Enix. The first volume was published on August 11, 2007. As of June 22, 2009, four volumes have been released in Japan. The first "tankōbon" was published in English by Yen Press in October, 2009 and began serializing in Yen Plus February 2009 issue.
Hunter × Hunter
The art and animation of the "Hunter × Hunter" anime have also been commended by the press. Kimlinger and Tucker were impressed by the art direction of "Hunter × Hunter", the former of whom critiquing the adaptation of Togashi's work by Furuhashi as having "understated energy and flair, making the most of the era's (1999) mix of traditional and CG animation to bring Gon and friends' physical feats to fluid, exhilarating life." Martin faulted both the artwork and the subtle differences in character design. "The artistry not only shows its age but, in fact, looks older than it actually is," the reviewer commented, "hearkening back to a day when digital coloring and CG enhancements were not ubiquitous and allowances for a rougher look were greater." Opinions of the series' sound and music have been somewhat mixed. Martin positively noted the soundtrack as the strongest production point of "Hunter × Hunter", and was satisfied with both the English translation of the script and Ocean's voice overs. Tucker found the music satisfactory and improved as the series progressed, but did not think it lived up to its potential. Kimlinger agreeably felt the musical score to be appropriate in most instances, but criticized the English dub as "a letdown since day one".
Hunter × Hunter
There have been two musicals based on "Hunter × Hunter". The first, , was originally performed during December 2000. It is an original story that appears to take place between the end of the Yorknew City story arc and the beginning of the Greed Island arc. The second, , was originally performed during August 2002. It is a retelling of when Kurapika, Leorio, and Gon go to fetch Killua back from his family estate after the end of the Hunter Exam arc. Both musicals have received separate DVD and audio CD releases, as well as a dual DVD release from Marvelous Entertainment. There is also a live-action play titled , which was performed 16 times at the Theater Sun-mall in Shinjuku, Tokyo during August 2004. The play is a retelling of the Phantom Troupe finale in the Yorknew City arc. It received a DVD release in Japan on December 10, 2004.
Hayate × Blade
"Hayate × Blade" began as a manga series written and illustrated by Shizuru Hayashiya which started serialization in ASCII Media Works' shōnen manga magazine "Dengeki Daioh" on November 21, 2003 and ran in that magazine until May 21, 2008. The manga restarted serialization in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine "Ultra Jump" on August 19, 2008, and continued until July 2013. The reason for the switch was not explicitly explained, but the reason given was due to "various circumstances". Eight "tankōbon" volumes were released in Japan by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Comics imprint between June 26, 2004 and January 26, 2008, though Shueisha republished the eight volumes under their Young Jump Comics imprint featuring new covers, new character descriptions and revised panels. Shueisha published the remaining 10 volumes through volume 18 between December 19, 2008 and September 19, 2013. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga for release in English, and the first six volumes were released between November 2008 and April 2010. As a result of the change of magazines in Japan, Seven Seas Entertainment lost the rights to continue publishing further English-language volumes of the manga series. A sequel manga, "Hayate × Blade 2", began serialization in the September 2013 issue of "Ultra Jump".
Hunter × Hunter
The background music for the first "Hunter × Hunter" anime and three OVA series was composed by Toshihiko Sahashi. A large number of audio CDs for the franchise have been released by Marvelous Entertainment. The three-volume soundtrack for the anime television series contains 129 instrumental and vocal songs. The "Original Video Animation Hunter × Hunter Sound Trax" for the first OVA series contains 18 songs and the "Original Video Animation Hunter × Hunter: Greed Island Original Sound Tracks" for the second OVA series contains 30 songs. In addition, character-specific and story arc drama CDs and a 17-volume radio drama titled "Hunter × Hunter R" have been published throughout the anime adaptations' release period.
Kouta Hirano
However, "Hellsing" was not the earliest Hirano series to be published in "Young King OURs" monthly. In 1996, the same year "Hellsing"'s precursor, "The Legends of Vampire Hunter", was first released as a single H short story in "Heavenly Pleasure" (a monthly H-centric manga magazine), another World War II-based short story named Hi-And-Low was being published in "Young King OURs" by a then lesser-known Kouta Hirano. The story takes place primarily at a train station in Russia and features two female characters that are strikingly similar to Integra Helsing from "Hellsing" and Yumiko/Yumie in "Crossfire"; and who are, in actuality, undercover Axis spies in-league with one another for a common purpose: the success of Operation Barbarossa. This story saw ink in one issue of "OURs" before being discontinued in favor of "Hellsing" itself.
Hunter × Hunter
"Hunter × Hunter" has been a huge critical and financial success and has become one of Shueisha's best-selling manga series, having sold 66 million copies in Japan alone as of 2014.
Dragon Quest VII
The manga adaptation of "Dragon Quest VII" was published by Enix's "Monthly Gangan" in Japan. It was illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara, who also worked on another franchise-related manga, "". Fourteen volumes were released between 2001 and 2006, though the series is currently on hiatus. In this adaptation, the hero is given the name "Arus". The manga follows the game story while adding in new characters and more detailed relationships, as the original hero was silent and a personality needed to be added for the comic version.
Dragon Quest (video game)
The manga series, , was written by Chiaki Kawamata and Junji Koyanagi, with artwork by Kamui Fujiwara, and was published between 1991 and 1997 by "Monthly Shōnen Gangan". Enix compiled the series into 21 volumes, which were later released on compact disc in 1994. It was released on December 11, 2009 for the PlayStation Store as part of the initial launch of Sony's digital comic distribution. In 1996, an anime movie based on the manga was released on videocassette. Square Enix started publishing a sequel series, , in 2005. wrote the first four volumes, and Takashi Umemura wrote the last five; Yuji Horii supervised the manga, while Kamui Fujiwara contributed the artwork.
Sorcerer Hunters
"Sorcerer Hunters" was later adapted into a 26-episode anime television series by Xebec, which was the studio’s first production, and aired on TV Tokyo from October 3, 1995 to March 3, 1996. In North America, the series is licensed by ADV Films.
Akira (manga)
Akira (Japanese: アキラ Hepburn: "Akira"), often stylized as AKIRA, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. Initially serialized in the pages of "Young Magazine" from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected into six volumes by its publisher Kodansha. The work was published in the United States by Marvel Comics under their Epic Comics imprint, becoming one of the first manga works to be translated in its entirety into English. Otomo's art is considered outstanding, and a watershed for both Otomo and the manga form.
Dark Horse Comics
Legend was a comic book imprint at Dark Horse Comics created in 1994 by Frank Miller and John Byrne as an avenue for creator-owned projects. Its logo was a moai drawn by Mike Mignola. Later on, other creators were asked to join them. The imprint ended in 1998.Dark Horse Manga is an imprint for Japanese manga. Publications include "Akira", "Astro Boy", "Berserk", "Blade of the Immortal", "Ghost in the Shell (manga)", "Lone Wolf and Cub", "Trigun" and "Blood Blockade Battlefront" by Yasuhiro Nightow, "Gantz", "Hellsing" and "Drifters" by Kouta Hirano, "Blood+", "Multiple Personality Detective Psycho", "FLCL", "Oreimo", and America's longest running manga series, "Oh My Goddess!" by Kōsuke Fujishima. Dark Horse also publishes a number of CLAMP titles, including "Clover", "Chobits", "Okimono Kimono", "Cardcaptor Sakura", "Magic Knight Rayearth", and "Gate 7". A manga magazine titled "Super Manga Blast!" was published by Dark Horse starting in the spring of 2000. It was discontinued in December 2005 after 59 issues.
Immortal Hounds
The manga started serialization in the sixth issue of Enterbrain's seinen manga magazine "Harta" on July 13, 2013. The first compiled volume was released on June 13, 2014, and , there are six volumes. Vertical announced that it had licensed the manga in North America at its panel for Katsucon on February 12, 2016, releasing the first volume on July 26, 2016. The manga is also licensed in France by Ki-oon.
List of Hayate the Combat Butler chapters
This is a list of chapters for the Japanese manga series Hayate the Combat Butler written and illustrated by manga author Kenjiro Hata. It is serialized in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine "Shōnen Sunday" starting from October 2004. The manga currently has 52 volumes released in bound volume form in Japan. 29 volumes have been translated into English and distributed in North America by Viz Media.
"Note: Viz's official English-translated titles through volume 30, unofficial Japanese translations thereafter."
Hunter × Hunter
There have been several instances in which Togashi has apologized to readers in Shueisha's "Weekly Shōnen Jump" for low-quality artwork and promised to redraw portions of the chapters for their "tankōbon" (collected volume) releases. In addition, the publication history of the "Hunter × Hunter" manga has been plagued with hiatuses, in which serialized chapters would be separated by extended periods of time. After returning from a two-year-long hiatus in June 2014, and joining the English-language "Weekly Shonen Jump" lineup, the manga went on another just two months later. The series returned from this hiatus, which has been its longest to date, on April 18, 2016. However, just over two months later, "Hunter × Hunter" began another hiatus on June 4, 2016, until resuming serialization again on June 26, 2017. Just over two months later, on August 31, it was announced the series will go on hiatus again, with plans to return by the end of the year. The series returned in the 9th issue of "Shonen Jump" on January 29, 2018, before entering in hiatus again on April 9, 2018. The manga returned on September 22, 2018, and went on hiatus again in November after issue #52.
Ghost Hunters (video game)
Ghost Hunters is a platform game written by the Oliver twins for the Amstrad CPC and published by Codemasters in February 1986. It was also converted and released for the ZX Spectrum (1987) and Commodore 64 (1989) platforms. The game combines platform-style action with shooting gameplay similar to that found in the game "Operation Wolf". The game is the second release by the Oliver twins, published when they were just seventeen years old and still going to school. It was conceived as a sequel to their first commercially successful game, "Super Robin Hood", although it has little to do with this game other than using a modified version of its engine. The twins have credited the film "Ghostbusters" and the cartoon series "Scooby-Doo" for influencing the game.
Like their previous game, "Super Robin Hood", the player controls a character (named Hunk Studbuckle) around the platform style screen using the keyboard or joystick. Uniquely, to attack the enemy, the player must temporarily use the cursor keys to move targeting cross-hairs to shoot ghosts and demons (in a similar manner to "Operation Wolf"), causing the character to stand still. This results in the player requiring to shoot the targets quickly and operate their character to move around the screen before more would appear. In addition to being able to walk, the character can also jump and climb ladders. In addition to enemies to be killed, the environment contains items that can be collected, including 'macho energy' top-ups and 'key' items that unlock further areas. The game is one of few available on the CPC and ZX Spectrum platforms to feature low resolution clips of human speech, although playing them was so CPU-intensive that the game was required to freeze for their duration.
Hunter × Hunter
There are ten Japan-exclusive video games based on "Hunter × Hunter", many of which are either developed or published by Konami or Bandai. They range from role-playing and strategy games to action and adventure games. These include titles for the WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation, and PlayStation 2. A game based on the second anime adaptation was released on the PlayStation Portable on September 20, 2012. Characters from the franchise have appeared along with other "Weekly Shōnen Jump" properties in the fighting games "Jump Super Stars" and "Jump Ultimate Stars" for the Nintendo DS, "J-Stars Victory VS" for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, and "Jump Force" for Windows, Playstation 4 and Xbox One.
Hunter × Hunter
A film adaptation by the second television anime's staff called "", featuring an original story, was announced in March 2012. It was released on January 12, 2013 by Toho. It centers around Gon and his friends efforts to retrieve Kurapika's eyes which were stolen by Omokage, the original person with the No. 4 spider tattoo. The film is based on an unpublished story manga creator Yoshihiro Togashi wrote around 10 years before.
Digimon
Digimon first appeared in narrative form in the one-shot manga "C'mon Digimon", released in the summer of 1997. "C'mon Digimon" spawned the popular "Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01" manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa, which began serialization on November 21, 1998.A Chinese manhua was written and drawn by Yuen Wong Yu (余 遠鍠 "Yu Yuen-wong"), who based its storyline on the television series. This adaptation covers "Digimon Adventure" in five volumes, "Digimon Adventure 02" in two, "Digimon Tamers" in four, and "Digimon Frontier" in three. The original stories are heavily abridged, though on rare occasions events play out differently from the anime. The Chinese language version was published by Rightman Publishing Ltd. in Hong Kong. Yu also wrote "D-Cyber".
List of Hunter × Hunter characters
The "Hunter × Hunter" manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Yoshihiro Togashi. The series takes place in a fictional universe where licensed specialists known as Hunters travel the world taking on special jobs ranging from treasure hunting to assassinations. The story focuses on eleven-year-old Gon Freecss and his quest to become a Hunter in order to find his father, Ging, who is himself a famous Hunter. While on his quest, Gon meets and becomes close friends with Killua Zoldyck, Kurapika and Leorio Paradinight who are also on quests to become Hunters for their own reasons.
List of Hellsing chapters
This is a list of volumes and chapters of the seinen manga series "Hellsing" written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. It first premiered in "Young King Ours" in 1997 and ran for eleven years until the final chapter was released in the November 2008 issue. The individual chapters are collected and published in "tankōbon" volumes by Shōnen Gahosha, with all 10 volumes released as of March 2009. In 2001, Hirano began publishing chapters of a prequel series, "Hellsing: The Dawn", in special editions of "Young King OURs", with six chapters released as of September 2008. "Hellsing" chronicles the efforts of the mysterious and secret Hellsing Organization, as it combats vampires, zombies called "ghouls", and other supernatural foes who threaten the United Kingdom.
Spy Hunter (2012 video game)
Spy Hunter is a vehicular combat racing game developed by TT Fusion, published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and released for the PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS. The game was the second reboot of the "Spy Hunter" series, following the first reboot of the franchise in 2001.
List of Vampire Hunter D novels
Known simply as the series in Japan, the first novel, "Vampire Hunter "D"", was written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published in 1983. To date, 31 novels have been published in the main series, with some novels comprising as many as four volumes; including the supplemental volume, "Dark Nocturne", a total of 44 volumes have been published. The series has also spawned anime, audio drama, and manga adaptations, art books, and a supplemental guide book.
Maverick Hunter
Maverick Hunter is the codename for a cancelled first-person shooter video game in the "Mega Man" franchise that would have been developed by Armature Studio and published by Capcom. It was intended to be a darker entry in the "Mega Man X" series. "Mega Man" artist and producer Keiji Inafune was responsible for establishing the western-designed game and Adi Granov was responsible for X's new design. It was intended to be the first of a trilogy of games, where players controlled its protagonist X in the first two games and then as Zero for the third. The game would have had similar platform elements found in earlier "Mega Man X" titles. It had a lifespan of about six months in 2010 before it was ultimately cancelled due to the aforementioned internal disagreements around the same time as Inafune departed from Capcom and other "Mega Man" titles were cancelled.
Dokapon: Monster Hunter
Dokapon: Monster Hunter, known in Japan as and known in Europe as Dokapon: Monster Hunter!, is a 2001 role-playing video game video game developed and published by Asmik Ace Entertainment for the Game Boy Advance in Japan on August 3, 2001. It was later published in North America by AIA on October 30, 2001, and in Europe by Ubisoft on June 21, 2002.
Hiro Mashima
Mashima serialized "Monster Hunter Orage", an adaptation of the "Monster Hunter" video games, in "Monthly Shōnen Rival" from 2008 to 2009. Also in 2008, he drew a remake of Atsushi Kase's gag manga "Chameleon" for the 50th anniversary of "Weekly Shōnen Magazine".
Monster Hunter
A series of anime shorts titled "MonHun Nikki Girigiri Airū-mura Airū Kiki Ippatsu" () was broadcast beginning August 10, 2010. A sequel, "MonHun Nikki Girigiri Airū-mura G", was produced. An anime series based on the franchise premiered on October 2, 2016.
Hunter × Hunter
In 1999, "Hunter × Hunter" was adapted into a 62-episode anime television series produced by Nippon Animation and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi. The show premiered on Japan's Fuji TV and ran until 2001. Three separate original video animations (OVAs) totaling 30 episodes were subsequently produced by Nippon Animation and released in Japan from 2002 to 2004. A second anime television series by Madhouse aired on Nippon Television from October 2011 to September 2014, with two animated theatrical films released in 2013. There are also numerous audio albums, video games, musicals, and other media based on "Hunter × Hunter". The manga has been translated into English and released in North America by Viz Media since April 2005. Both television series were also licensed by Viz, with the first series having aired on the Funimation Channel in 2009 and the second series premiering on Adult Swim's Toonami block since April 16, 2016.
2.5D musical
The first successful manga-based musical production was "The Rose of Versailles" in 1974 by the Takarazuka Revue. At the time, these plays were simply known as "musicals" or "anime musicals." Around the 1990s, a number of musicals and small stage skits produced were based on anime and manga series aimed at elementary school girls, such as "Sailor Moon", "Akazukin Chacha", and "Hime-chan's Ribbon", which performed moderately well, but were not popular and were known as . However, in 2000, "Hunter x Hunter" became revolutionary at the time because the voice cast for the original anime series had also played the characters on stage.
List of Hunter × Hunter (1999) episodes
"Hunter × Hunter" was produced by Nippon Animation and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi. A total of 62 episodes were broadcast on Fuji Television from October 16, 1999 to March 31, 2001. The series has additionally aired on the satellite television station Animax. Marvelous Entertainment has released all episodes of the series in Japan on DVD in 13 separate volumes between September 20, 2000 and September 19, 2001.
List of Vampire Knight chapters
This is a list of volumes and chapters for the manga series "Vampire Knight" by Matsuri Hino. The series premiered in the January 2005 issue of "LaLa" magazine and has officially ended. The individual chapters have been collected and published in "tankōbon" volumes by Hakusensha, with the series concluding with nineteen volumes released in Japan as of November 2013. "Vampire Knight" was adapted into a twenty-six episode anime series by Studio Deen. The first season aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 7, 2008 and June 30, 2008. The second season, titled "Vampire Knight Guilty", aired between October 6, 2008 and December 29, 2008. Two drama CDs and two Japanese light novels have also been created based on the manga series.
Monster Hunter
The franchise is a series of fantasy-themed action role-playing video games that started with the game "Monster Hunter" for PlayStation 2, released in 2004. Titles have been released across a variety of platforms, including personal computer, home console, portable consoles, and mobile devices. The series is developed and published by Capcom.
List of Soul Eater chapters
The manga initially began as three separate one-shots serialized between June 24, 2003 and November 26, 2003 in two manga magazines published by Square Enix. The first one-shot was published in the summer 2003 special edition of "Gangan Powered", the second following in the autumn 2003 special edition of the same magazine, and the third serialized in "Gangan Wing". The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's "Monthly Shōnen Gangan" magazine on May 12, 2004. The first "tankōbon" was released by Square Enix under their "Gangan Comics" imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan; as of December 12, 2013, 25 volumes have been released.
List of Love Hina chapters
Love Hina is a manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. The series was originally serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Magazine", premiering in the October 21, 1998 issue and running weekly until its conclusion with chapter 118 in the October 31, 2001 issue. The individual chapters were collected and published in 14 "tankōbon" volumes by Kodansha, with the first volume released on March 17, 1999 and the last released on January 17, 2002. The manga was also later released in Japan in a partially colored format known as "Iro Hina version" (literally "Color Hina version") at an increased price. In November 2010, all 14 volumes of "Love Hina" were offered for free in the beta test of Ken Akamatsu's J-Comi website. Kodansha has also published a bilingual (English and Japanese) edition under its Kodansha Bilingual Comics label, with the English translation provided by Giles Murray. Eight volumes were produced under the bilingual format. Kodansha stopped publishing the bilingual version in 2001.
Hunter Brown
Hunter Brown is a series of Christian fantasy books. The troubled teen is a sixteen-year-old boy named Hunter Brown who joins a group called the Codebearers and fights an enemy called the Shadow. The first book was released in 2008, the second in the fall of 2009, and the third and final book was released in the winter of 2011. The books are written by two brothers, Christopher and Allan Miller.
Haunter
Developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo, the "Pokémon" series began in Japan in 1996, and features several species of creatures called "Pokémon" that players, called "trainers", are encouraged to capture, train, and use to battle other players' Pokémon or interact with the game's world. Haunter was one of several different Pokémon designs conceived by Game Freak's character development team and finalized by artist Ken Sugimori. Called "Ghost" in Japanese, Nintendo decided to give the various Pokémon species "clever and descriptive names" related to their appearance or features when translating the game for western audiences as a means to make the characters more relatable to American children. Called "Spectre" in early drafts of the localization, the final version dubbed the species "Haunter", derived from the verb "to haunt".
Sui Ishida
In 2016, Ishida created a 69-page storyboard of a manga chapter based on Yoshihiro Togashi's "Hunter × Hunter" series. Depicting the past of the character Hisoka, the storyboard was released digitally via "Shonen Jump+" on June 2, 2016.
City Hunter
By 2016, the "City Hunter" manga series had sold over 50million tankobon volumes worldwide. In addition, the series was circulated in approximately 900million copies of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" manga magazine between 1985 and 1991. The series was voted the 19th "Most Powerful" series to have featured in Shonen Jump. In a 2005 poll held by TV Asahi, "City Hunter" was voted #66 out of the 100 most popular animated TV series, as voted by TV viewers. A TV Asahi web-poll put "City Hunter" at #65.
Hunter (rapper)
Robert Alan Hunter (1 October 1975 – 20 October 2011), better known as Hunter or Huntz, was an Australian rapper and hip hop artist. He was a founder of Perth's hip hop scene in the 1990s and a member of the MC collective Syllabolix (SBX) Crew. During his career, he released four albums: "Done DL" (2002), "Going Back to Yokine" (2006), "Monster House" (2010) and "Fear and Loathing" (2011).
Timothy Hunter
Tim Hunter was created by writer Neil Gaiman when DC Comics asked him to come up with a four issue prestige-format series "about our magic characters". Drawing on a childhood spent working his way through the children's section in his local library and a childhood love of magic and fantasy stories such as T. H. White's "The Once and Future King", Gaiman created a character reminiscent of Wart except that instead of being destined to be King, Tim Hunter's destiny was to become the world's greatest magician. Gaiman's story was structured to use different artists for each issue, and it was the artist for the first issue, John Bolton, who designed Tim's appearance, basing him on his own son. When "The Books of Magic" was initially released over 1990–91, it proved very popular and led Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger to make it a regular ongoing series under editor Stuart Moore.
Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge
In March 2012, a source linked to the "Hunter × Hunter" anime told "Mainichi Shimbun" that a theatrical film had been green-lit. The year's 34 issue of "Weekly Shōnen Jump", released in July 2012, included the first image for "Gekijō-ban Hunter × Hunter Phantom Rouge". It depicts Kurapika's "rouge" or scarlet eye with the number four reflecting in it, revealed that the "dramatic action" film would tell an original story and feature the Phantom Troupe. Days later, the official website for the movie went live and streamed a teaser trailer that was also shown on television. An August issue of the magazine outlined the story and revealed the second visual image. The first theatrical trailer was released in September.
List of Vampire Hunter D novels
On May 11, 2005, the first official English translation was released by DH Press and Digital Manga Publishing, translated by Kevin Leahy. To date, the first 19 novels have been released in English across 24 volumes, along with "Dark Nocturne", the "Vampire Hunter D: Reader's Guide", and two artbooks.
Tillie Walden
While growing up, Walden read a lot of manga. From this, she gained a lot of major influence in her work, mainly on her artistic focus on line, more so than shape or color. The biggest manga artist that had an impact on her was Yoshihiro Togashi, creator of the manga "Hunter x Hunter". Additionally, in an interview, Walden has even said "Studio Ghibli has completely shaped my visual vocabulary and how I think about stories." Walden is said to have also been influenced by graphic memoirs, such as "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel, "Blankets" by Craig Thompson and "Stitches" by David Small.
Yor the Hunter
Yor the Hunter (original: "Henga el cazador") is an Argentine comics character created in 1974 by Ray Collins (pseudonym of writer Eugenio Zappietro) and artist Juan Zanotto. It appeared for the first time in the Argentine comics magazine "Skorpio".
Inu × Boku SS
"Inu × Boku SS" was written and illustrated by Cocoa Fujiwara. It was serialized in Square Enix's "Gangan Joker" online magazine between the May 2009 and March 2014 issues. Square Enix published 11 "tankōbon" volumes between April 22, 2010 and July 22, 2014. Yen Press licensed the manga and began publishing the series in North America in October 2013.
Joker Game
A manga by Subaru Nitō adapting the anime was announced in the February 2016 issue of Mag Garden's "Comic Garden" magazine. It began its serialization in the March 2016 issue of Mag Garden's Comic Garden Magazine on February 5, 2016, which contained the first two chapters of the manga. The manga titled "Joker Game the Animation" has been collected into two volumes released on May 10, 2016 and October 8, 2016.
Enchanter (manga)
"Enchanter" is written and illustrated by Izumi Kawachi. Square Enix released the first "tankōbon" of the manga on January 27, 2003. Nine-teen "tankōbon" volumes have been released in Japan with the 19th volume released on March 27, 2009. The manga is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing. Digital Manga Publishing released the first "tankōbon" volume on July 1, 2006. Ten "tankōbon" volumes have been released in North America with the 10th volume released on February 25, 2009.
Tower of the Future
"Tower of the Future" is written and illustrated by Saki Hiwatari. The manga was serialised in Hakusensha's "Hana to Yume" and collected in eleven "tankōbon" volumes which were released between March 1995 and April 1999. The series has been licensed in North America by CMX Manga, which released the manga's eleven "tankōbon" volumes between August 16, 2005 and June 18, 2008. It is also licensed in France as "Mirai no Utena - La Mélodie du futur" by Delcourt which released the manga's eleven "tankōbon" volumes between July 12, 2007 and May 14, 2008.
Vampire Hunter D
In June 2015, a new CGI animated series tentatively titled "Vampire Hunter D: Resurrection" was announced, to be produced by Unified Pictures and Digital Frontier. The series will be produced by Kurt Rauer and Scott McLean, and directed by Yoichi Mori, with "Bloodlust" director Yoshiaki Kawajiri acting as supervising director and series creator Hideyuki Kikuchi providing editorial supervision. The series is currently in pre-production, and is being developed as an hour-long serial drama with the intent of being broadcast on a major American cable network or on-demand provider, with Japanese distribution to follow. As of June 2016 the series is still in pre-production, with plans to begin shopping the project to distributors by the end of the year. Given the abundance of source material, the current plan is to produce as many as seven seasons, without revisiting the source material that was adapted into the first two films. In February 2018 it was announced that the pilot episode would be written by Brandon M. Easton, writer for the "Message from Mars" comic book series. The first draft of the pilot was completed in October 2018.
List of Hunter × Hunter chapters
In North America, "Hunter × Hunter" is licensed for publication by Viz Media as a part of their Shonen Jump Advanced line of graphics novels, aimed at older teenagers (age 16+). The first volume of the English adaptation was published on April 5, 2005, and thirty-four volumes have been released as of March 6, 2018. Viz included the "Kurapika's Memories" chapters in the December 17 and 24, 2012 issues of their digital "Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha".
Ultraman
Harvey Comics Entertainment published two short comic book series based on Ultraman in 1993 and 1994. Bandai published the video game Ultraman for Super Famicom in 1990, and "PD Ultraman Battle Collection 64" for the Nintendo 64 in 1997. The games are released in Japan only. In 2011, a manga adaptation simply titled "Ultraman" began serialization in Shogakukan's "Monthly Hero's" magazine. It serves as a sequel to the television series. It was released on August 18, 2015 in North America by Viz Media, having received the rights earlier on February 18, 2015.
Ghost in the Shell (manga)
The original "Ghost in the Shell" ran from April 1989 to November 1990 in Kodansha's manga anthology "Weekly Young Magazine", and was released in "tankōbon" format on October 2, 1991. Dark Horse initially published it in English monthly into eight comic issues from March 1, 1995, to October 1, 1995, with the translation of Studio Proteus. It was later collected into a single volume in trade paperback format on early December 1, 1995. An uncensored version was later released by Dark Horse Comics on October 6, 2004. The censored version of the Dark Horse manga was later republished by Kodansha Comics on October 13, 2009.
Ghost in the Shell
The original "Ghost in the Shell" manga ran in Japan from April 1989 to November 1990 in Kodansha's manga anthology "Young Magazine", and was released in a "tankōbon" volume on October 5, 1991. "Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface" followed 1997 for 9 issues in "Young Magazine", and was collected in the "Ghost in the Shell: Solid Box" on December 1, 2000. Four stories from "Man-Machine Interface" that were not released in tankobon format from previous releases were later collected in "Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor", and published by Kodansha on July 23, 2003. Several art books have also been published for the manga.
Hunter × Hunter
A series of three film books based on the first anime series and authored by Nobuaki Kishikan has been released by Shueisha from December 3, 1999 to August 24, 2001. A guidebook to the anime titled was published by Shueisha in January 2001. A guidebook to the manga titled was published by the company on June 4, 2004. There is also an extensive trading card game by Bandai, action and trading figures, and various other collectables.
Hunter × Hunter
The "Hunter × Hunter" manga has been largely commercially successful; having sold over 60.6 million collected volumes in Japan as of February 2012, making it Shueisha's eighth best-selling manga series. This number had grown to 66.3 million copies by 2014. Several individual volumes have topped Oricon's list of the best-selling manga in Japan during their release week; such as volumes 30 through 36. Volumes 24, 27, and 30 through 34 were some of the top-selling volumes for their respective years. "Hunter × Hunter" was the eighth best-selling manga series of both 2012 and 2013, with 3.4 and 4.6 million copies sold those years respectively. In North America, volumes 23 through 27 have ranked within the top 300 best-selling graphics novels list of sales estimates by Diamond Comic Distributors.
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
The manga series is written and illustrated by Tadahiro Miura. It began serialization in Shueisha's "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine on February 8, 2016. As of December 2018, the series has been compiled into thirteen "tankōbon" volumes. The series has been licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment, who released the first volume under its Ghost Ship imprint on May 8, 2018.
Maverick Hunter
"Maverick Hunter" was in development by Armature Studio and was to be published by Capcom for the "Mega Man X" series. The collaboration was established by Keiji Inafune, who had previously worked on the Mega Man series as an artist and producer. He had since rose in the ranks at Capcom to become a producer. The goal was to attract a new audience to the "Mega Man" series. Its development would have been overseen by former Capcom producer Ben Judd. The redesign for the Mega Man character was to be done by Adi Granov (the concept artist responsible for the Iron Man redesign found in the 2008 film of the same name). An initial concept design showed X with a red glowing 'X' on his face.
Hunter × Hunter
Viz Media licensed the "Hunter × Hunter" anime for distribution in the Region 1 market, with English voice-work handled by The Ocean Group at Blue Water Studios in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The series was released on four DVD boxed sets from December 9, 2008 to December 1, 2009. Starting with the second set, Viz partnered with Warner Home Video to distribute the DVDs. "Hunter × Hunter" began airing in the United States on the Funimation Channel in the spring of 2009.
Super Sentai
The series was created by Shotaro Ishinomori, then known for the 1971–1973 "Kamen Rider" TV series and the long-running manga "Cyborg 009". He developed the first two Super Sentai Series "Himitsu Sentai Gorenger", which ran from 1975 to 1977, and "J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai", released in 1977. Toei Company put the franchise on hiatus in 1978, collaborating with Marvel Comics to produce a live action "Spider-Man" series, which added giant robots to the concept of "tokusatsu" shows. The giant robot concept was carried over to Toei and Marvel's next show, "Battle Fever J", released in 1979, and was then used throughout the Super Sentai Series.
List of Hunter × Hunter OVA episodes
Hunter × Hunter is an original video animation (OVA) series in the "Hunter × Hunter" media franchise. The story focuses on a young boy named Gon Freecss, who one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead is in fact alive and well. He learns that his father, Ging, is a legendary "Hunter", an individual who has proven themself an elite member of humanity. Despite the fact that Ging left his son with his relatives in order to pursue his own dreams, Gon becomes determined to follow in his father's footsteps, pass the rigorous "Hunter Examination", and eventually find his father to become a Hunter in his own right.
Hunter (video game)
Hunter is a 3D action-adventure game in which the player navigates around a series of islands. "Hunter" was developed by Paul Holmes and Martin Walker (music), and it was released by Activision for the Amiga and Atari ST home computers in 1991. The combination of the game's 3D graphics and sandbox-type gameplay has been subsequently compared to the "Grand Theft Auto" and similar sandbox games, such as "Far Cry 2".
Jake Hunter
The first game of the series, was released in 1987 by Data East for the Family Computer Disk System. Numerous sequels have been released since then, and the series marked its 20th anniversary in 2007 by releasing a new title for the Nintendo DS. According to Enterbrain, the franchise has sold over 2,220,000 copies in total, making it one of the longest standing and best-selling Japanese adventure game series in history.
List of Hunter × Hunter (2011) episodes
This new "Hunter × Hunter" anime was announced on July 24, 2011. It is a complete reboot of the series starting from the beginning of the manga, with no connections to the first anime from 1999. It is directed by Hiroshi Kōjina, produced by Madhouse, and features scripts by Jun Maekawa and character designs by Takahiro Yoshimatsu. Instead of having the old cast reprise their roles for the new adaptation, the series features an entirely new cast to voice the characters. The new series premiered airing weekly on Nippon Television and the nationwide Nippon News Network from October 2, 2011. An hour after each episode is aired in Japan, American website Crunchyroll provided English subtitled simulcasts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The series started to be collected in both DVD and Blu-ray format on January 25, 2012. Viz Media has licensed the anime for a DVD/Blu-ray release in North America with an English dub. On television, the series began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami block on April 16, 2016.
Monster (manga)
Urasawa later wrote and illustrated the novel "Another Monster", a story detailing the events of the manga from an investigative reporter's point of view, which was published in 2002. The manga was adapted by Madhouse into a 74-episode anime TV series, which aired on Nippon TV from April 2004 to September 2005. It was directed by Masayuki Kojima, written by Tatsuhiko Urahata and featured character design by Kitarō Kōsaka. The manga and anime have both been licensed by Viz Media for English releases in North America, with the anime having been broadcast on several television channels. In 2013, Siren Visual licensed the anime for Australia. "Monster" has been critically acclaimed, with the manga having won several awards, and its anime adaptation being called one of the best of the decade.
Sexy Sailor Soldiers
In late 2006 after finishing the Nami SOS! Naoko Black Bird manga which was the last contract with the editorial Fujimi Shuppan, Chataro associate to publish its famous manga in Sigma Comics under a sequence of small chapters from 8 to 12 pages each one with other erotic manga from the same magazine partner. the first work with sigma was Nami SOS! 5 Girls before Keiko and it was published monthly in Japan in the said magazine during the period of December 2006 to July 2008 totaling 21 chapters, this manga was never independent and it can be find on sale online or in older sigma comics. after story of 5 Girls before Keiko Chataro prepared its next step with the series publishing the next manga named Imma Hunters first published in the sane monthly magazine from February 2007 to December 2011 and days later it was published in an independent manga book with the association of Tenma comics editorial with all the chapters on it, this manga is the latest and long Chataro work until now with a total of 64 chapters.
Hunter × Hunter
Madhouse's 2011 adaptation has been met with near universal critical acclaim. Adrian Marcano from Inverse considered "Hunter x Hunter 2011" to be the one of the greatest anime series ever. He said that the anime set itself apart with one of the greatest story arcs in anime history in which the villain, not the hero, takes the anime to instant classic status. He also said that, "It is in the 2011 version where we see probably one of the best story arcs in anime history: the Chimera Ant Arc." According to "Movie News Guide" and "Latin Post", the Madhouse's 2011 version received more viewers not only in Japan but also around the world, particularly in North America. Digital Fox Media's Michael Basile of Fox Sports Digital Media praised the animation quality of the new adaptation, "the animation actually appears to get better and better as the series progresses. The color palette can shift from vibrant and inviting to grim and menacing at the drop of a hat, the character designs are unique and appealing, the CG is very minimal, and the action sequences are some of the best that the shonen genre has ever produced, on-par with the best works of Studio Bones. It's almost miraculous how consistently beautiful this anime is." He also considered it to be "one of the best anime of all time." Nick Creamer held similar sentiments, writing "the show's fantastic aesthetics elevate it above almost everything out there – in direction, in sound design, in pacing, in animation, in basically every relevant aesthetic metric, Hunter x Hunter triumphs. That it's been maintaining this level of quality for well over a hundred episodes is nothing short of astonishing."
UQ Holder!
Some of the characters from the "Negima" series make appearances in this series."UQ Holder!" is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It began its serialization in the manga magazine "Weekly Shōnen Magazine" on August 28, 2013. Its individual chapters have been collected into seventeen "tankōbon" volumes by Kodansha, the first released on December 17, 2013. The series is licensed for English language release in North America by Kodansha Comics, who published the first volume on March 18, 2014. As the series is published in Japan, it is also released simultaneously in English digitally by Crunchyroll. In October 2016, the series changed magazines from the "Weekly Shōnen Magazine" to the "Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine", and was renamed "UQ Holder!: Magister Negi Magi! 2" starting with the November 2016 issue.
Eiichiro Oda
In a 2008 poll, conducted by marketing research firm Oricon, Oda was elected fifth most favorite manga artists of Japan. He shared the place with Yoshihiro Togashi, creator of "YuYu Hakusho" and "Hunter × Hunter". In their 2010 poll on the Mangaka that Changed the History of Manga, Oda came in fourth.
Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge
"Hunter × Hunter" creator Yoshihiro Togashi wrote the two-part manga to act as a prequel to the film. A collected version of the story, referred to as "Volume 0" of the series, was given to the first million moviegoers. A light novel adaptation of the film was released by Shueisha on January 15, 2013.
Ghost in the Shell (manga)
Four chapters that were not released in "tankōbon" format from previous releases were later collected into a single volume titled "Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor". The manga was published in July 23, 2003, by Kodansha. It contained a booklet and a CD-ROM featuring the full stories, adding music to the manga scenes, and a screen saver. Dark Horse Comics announced an English version at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con. The series was released as eight individual comic issues from November 1, 2006, to June 6, 2007, and was the first of the "Ghost in the Shell" manga released in the United States to read right-to-left. The four original titles were each split into two each, to make up the 8 in this series. It was later collected in a single volume in trade paperback format on October 10, 2007. The manga was later republished by Kodansha Comics on September 25, 2012.
Hunter × Hunter
A new "Hunter × Hunter" anime adaptation was announced in July 2011. Instead of continuing the story from the OVA series, it restarts the story from the beginning of the manga in an attempt to adapt it more accurately. The series is directed by Hiroshi Kōjina, produced by Madhouse, scripted by Atsushi Maekawa, and character designs were created by Takahiro Yoshimatsu. The series began airing Sunday mornings on Nippon Television starting October 2, 2011. It switched to airing at 1:29 am on Tuesday nights from October 8, 2013 onwards. The series ended on September 23, 2014 after 148 episodes. An hour after each episode aired in Japan, American website Crunchyroll provided English subtitled simulcasts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The series started airing on Animax Asia and Animax India on April 24, 2012. On October 9, 2015, Viz Media announced their license to the reboot anime at their panel at New York Comic Con. They will release the anime on DVD/Blu-ray with an English dub. On April 1, 2016, it was announced that the series will premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami block, which began airing on April 16, 2016.
Hunter × Hunter
The first "Hunter × Hunter" anime series has enjoyed much more modest popularity than its manga source. "Newtype" listed it as having a Japanese television rating of 10.5 for the fourth quarter of 2000. The show's viewership was ranked number six among the top ten anime television series in Japan for February 2001. The series was voted as the 16th best anime of 2000 in the "Animage" Anime Grand Prix, but rose to fourth place the following year. In 2001, the staff of the magazine listed "Hunter × Hunter" as the 94th most important anime of all time. In a 2006 web poll conducted in Japan by the network TV Asahi, the "Hunter × Hunter" television series was voted 28th best anime of all time. In 2010, Mania.com's Briana Lawrence listed "Hunter × Hunter" at number nine of the website's "10 Anime Series That Need a Reboot".