GundamFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the anime series. For the mecha themselves, see Mobile weapons.

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The RX-78-2 Gundam, by Hajime Katoki.
The Gundam Series (ガンダムシリーズ Gandamu Shirīzu^?) is a metaseries of space opera anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots (or "mecha") called "Mobile Suits" (MS); usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam.
The metaseries started on April 7, 1979, as a serial TV show called Mobile Suit Gundam. That first TV series has since spawned a franchise that has come to include works released in numerous media. Titles have appeared in the form of multiple television series and OVAs, movies, manga, novels and video games, among other modes. The story from the original 1979 series has been considerably extended with sequels, prequels, side stories and alternate timelines. As a result, the title Gundam has become a collective term for the seven distinct but related timelines that can be pieced together from the stories that appear in the Gundam franchise. Generally speaking, the timelines do not intersect, but they do contain a few common elements such as the titular war machines called Gundam. However, all Gundam timelines and worlds, long after their own anime series, do eventually intersect and combine in the series Turn A Gundam.^[1][2]The original timeline for the Gundam series was the Universal Century (UC) series, which included Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985). Since the 1990s, alternative timelines have been produced and developed, including the Future Century, After Colony, After War, Correct Century, Cosmic Era, Anno Domini and Advanced Generation timelines.
As of January 21, 2008, the Gundam franchise is a 50 billion yen trademark.^[3] A year 2000 press release stated that retail sales of Gundam items had totaled $5 billion.^[4] In the 2008 ranking of average sales figures for anime copies sold in Japan (1970-2008 total sales figures averaged by episode), Gundam series were in four of the top five places: Mobile Suit Gundam ranked second, with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny third, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED fourth, and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam fifth. Also, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ranked 18th and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ranked 20th.^[5] Gunpla's (Gundam Plastic model) holds 90% of the Japan character plastic model market.^[6]Academics in Japan have also viewed the series as inspiration, with the International Gundam Society being the first academic institution based on an animated TV series.^[7]

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Nami (One Piece)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nami
One Piece character
Nami by Eiichiro Oda
First appearance	One Piece chapter 1
Created by	Eiichiro Oda
Voiced by	See Voice actresses
Profile
Aliases	Cat Burglar Nami
Notable relatives	Bellemere (adoptive mother, deceased) Nojiko (adoptive older sister)
Affiliations	Straw Hat Pirates

Nami (Japanese: ナミ^?) is a fictional character in the One Piece franchise created by Eiichiro Oda. She is based on Ann and Silk, two characters from Oda's previous manga Romance Dawn. She is introduced as a thief and pickpocket who possesses skills to tell the climate and draw sea charts. At first, she is a subordinate of the fishman Arlong, but she is eventually freed of this service and permanently joins Monkey D. Luffy for her dream to write the complete map of the Grand Line. She is the first main character to appear in the anime series (excluding the intro).
In the series, Nami is the Straw Hat Pirates' navigator, who dreams of drawing a map of the entire world. Despite her initial distrust of pirates, Nami eventually changes her mind after being around Luffy and the rest of the crew. Nami is depicted as an intelligent girl who has an obsession of obtaining money. She is able to use her three-sectioned staff and use her climate skills to create powerful attacks; the most prominent of these staff weapons is the Clima-Tact, in which she manipulates the climate to create weather-based attacks.
Contents

• 1 Appearances

• 1.1 Appearances in other media

• 2 Conception and creation

• 2.1 Design

• 2.2 Voice actresses

• 3 Abilities

• 4 Reception

• 5 References

Appearances[edit source | editbeta]
Nami first appears in the manga chapter "Nami" (ナミ登場 Nami Tōjō^?), first published in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on September 22, 1997.^[1] She first appears as a thief stealing treasure, befriending Luffy in the process along with Zoro and Usopp. However, she eventually returns to Cocoyashi Village, her hometown, to meet up with Arlong, a racist fishman, when Sanji joins his crew. Luffy and the others learn of her past from her sister Nojiko. Nami and Nojiko are adopted on a war zone by the Marine officer Bellemere and taken to the village, raising them as her own. However, when Arlong arrives at the village, he kills Bellemere and forces Nami to become his cartographer. Nami harbors a deep resentment against Arlong for this. Realizing that Arlong is working for the Marines to cover his tracks, Nami turns on the fishman. Luffy and the others successfully defeat Arlong, freeing the village as a result. Nami rejoins the crew as they sail off to the Grand Line to pursue her dream of writing sea charts.
During the crew's journey, she meets Nefertari Vivi and becomes a close friend. However, after Nami falls ill, she is healed at Drum Island; there, she meets Chopper, who joins his crew. While visiting Alabasta, she confronts Miss Doublefinger and defeats her before Nico Robin joins the crew. When the Straw Hats rescues Robin at Enies Lobby, Nami gets a bounty on her head with the rest of the crew. When the Straw Hats travels to Thriller Bark, Nami is kidnapped by the zombie Absalom and forced to marry him, but Sanji eventually rescues her. At Sabaody Archipelago, Nami forgives Hatchan, a former member of Arlong's crew, while eating his takoyaki.
After being separated from the crew by Bartholomew Kuma, Nami ends up on Weatheria, another sky island. Two years later, Nami reunites with Luffy and the others and they head to Fishman Island, but get separated again. Nami regroups with the Straw Hats and meet up with Jimbei in the Sea Forest. After learning that Jimbei sent Arlong into the East Blue, Nami reveals that - apart from her resentment towards Arlong - she has no resentment towards fishmen. She uses her Mirage Tempo technique to help the Straw Hats and Jimbei to defeat the New Fishman Pirates while using her techniques she acquired from Weatheria to defeat some of them. After sending Luffy, Zoro and Sanji to retrieve stolen treasure from Caribou, she is outraged to learn that the three has taken the treasure to Big Mom, the island's protector. When the crew travels to Punk Hazard, Nami is captured and says that she will save the captive children and look for the beheaded samurai's son.
When Nami escapes with Sanji, Franky, and Chopper with the children, Tralfagar Law uses his devil fruit powers to swap the bodies of the four crew members. Nami is in Franky's body with Sanji in her own. Nami is later captured by Caesar Clown.

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Roronoa ZoroFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Roronoa Zoro
One Piece character
Roronoa Zoro by Eiichiro Oda
First appearance	One Piece chapter 3
Created by	Eiichiro Oda
Voiced by	See Voice actors
Profile
Aliases	Pirate Hunter Zoro
Affiliations	Straw Hat Pirates

Roronoa Zoro (ロロノア・ゾロ^?, spelled as "Roronoa Zolo" in some English adaptations), nicknamed "Pirate Hunter" Zoro (海賊狩りのゾロ Kaizoku-Gari no Zoro^?), is a fictional character in the One Piece franchise created by Eiichiro Oda.
He is one of the two swordsmen of the Straw Hat Pirates, the other being Brook. In the story, Zoro is the first to join Monkey D. Luffy after he is saved from being executed at the Marine Base. As a native to the East Blue, he came from the town known as Shimotsuki where he trained in a dojo. He is an expert swordsman who uses three swords for his Santōryū (Three Sword Style), but is also capable of the one and two-sword styles.
Contents

• 1 Creation and conception

• 1.1 Design

• 1.2 Personality

• 1.3 Voice actors

• 2 Appearances

• 3 Reception

• 4 References

Creation and conception[edit source | editbeta]
Design[edit source | editbeta]
Zoro commonly wears a white shirt (though he can be seen wearing other types of shirts), dark green pants, and a haramaki sash that holds his three swords. Zoro also has a black bandanna tied around his left forearm that he only wears on his head while in serious battle. Under his shirt, his torso is heavily scarred from many of the battles he has fought, especially since he joined the Straw Hats (like the one acquired during the battle against Dracule Mihawk, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea). Eventually, Zoro has a scar across his left eye and replaces his shirt with a long dark green samurai's coat.
Personality[edit source | editbeta]
Zoro is confident, but often acts in a very comical manner, he also has a lousy sense of direction. While the crew is out at sea, Zoro can be found sleeping or training towards his goal of becoming the world's best swordsman. He and Sanji have a great rivalry, often resorting to fighting (both verbally and physically) over issues from minor to extreme.
Though not a samurai, he appears to maintain a certain degree of bushido, and is frequently mistaken for one. Unlike Luffy and most of the other Straw Hat pirates, Zoro has been known to kill his opponents if he has to, though never in cold blood. It is shown that Zoro enjoys fighting a strong opponent (usually left to face down the second strongest villain in each arc, as Luffy faces down the strongest). When battling a worthy opponent Zoro tends to retain a maniacal grin and serious glare throughout.
Zoro has a stern, serious, and distanced personality, but unlike Robin, he often reacts in a goofy and exaggerated comic style due to his short-tempered and impatient attitude. On the ship, he normally either trains with weights or sleeps. The only work he is seen doing regularly is hoisting the anchor using his great strength and maintaining look out in the ships crow's nest (which on the Thousand Sunny ship also doubles as his personal gym). He also likes sake, almost to the degree that Luffy likes meat, but like Nami, he never gets drunk due to his inhumanly-high endurance and tolerance for alcohol. Another notable trait is his lack of orientation, as Zoro often gets lost, even in small, familiar spaces or when being led by someone. Despite this, he is often the first to sense an enemy or danger, and the first to react. He is often displayed being well aware of dangerous situations and people around him.
Zoro often also reminds others of the harsh facts, which often shocks some of the other crew members, although they usually decide he is right. Zoro has also stated that he is an atheist, and has never believed in anything except himself. He often comes across as arrogant and overconfident, but only because he knows he's a strong man with great fighting ability. Even so, Zoro knows that he still has a lot of untapped potential, and is constantly seen training and trying to improve his fighting skills. He also adheres to a strict sword master's code of honor, and never falsely brags or lies about his abilities, sometimes outright admitting a weakness, even to an enemy. He also never tries to escape from a fight or use trickery to win, believing that doing so is cowardly and scorning anyone who uses such tactics. Zoro is very vigorous, strong-willed, and determined.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel MonstersFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yu-Gi-Oh!
Cover of the first DVD volume, featuring the protagonist Yugi Mutoh and the Duelist Kingdom arc's antagonist, Maximillion J. Pegasus.
遊☆戯☆王デュエルモンスターズ (Yūgiō Dyueru Monsutāzu)
Genre	Action, Adventure, Fantasy,Supernatural
Anime television series
Directed by	Kunihisa Sugishima
Written by	Kazuki Takahashi
Studio	Studio Gallop, Nihon Ad Systems
Licensed by	AUS Magna Pacific NA 4Kids Entertainment (2001-2012) Konami (2012-Present)
Network	TV Tokyo Animax
English network	AU Nickelodeon, Network Ten CA YTV IE RTE Two, Nickelodeon, Sky1 UK Nickelodeon, Sky1, Nicktoons,ITV1 (CITV) US Kids WB (2001–2006) Cartoon Network (2002–2005) 4Kids TV (2006–2007) The CW4Kids (2008–2010) Toonzai (2010–2012) Vortexx (2012–present) Nicktoons (2013)
Original run	April 18, 2000[1] –September 29, 2004
Episodes	224 (List of episodes)
Anime and Manga portal

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (遊☆戯☆王デュエルモンスターズ Yūgiō Dyueru Monsutāzu^?) is a television anime series produced by Nihon Ad Systems and Studio Gallop, based on chapters 60-343 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga written by Kazuki Takahashi. It is the second anime adaptation of the manga following the 1998 anime produced by Toei Animation, adapting the manga from where that series finished. The series revolves around a card duelist named Yugi Muto, who faces various opponents in a game known as Duel Monsters. The series originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 2000 and September 2004, running for 224 episodes. An English-language adaptation by 4Kids Entertainment aired in North America between September 2001 and June 2006 on Kids' WB under the name Yu-Gi-Oh!, also releasing the series in various countries outside of Japan. Based on the success of the series, 4Kids also commissioned an animated film, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, and a mini-series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters. The series has spawned three main spin-off anime series; Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D'sand Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.
Contents

• 1 Plot

• 1.1 Duelist Kingdom

• 1.2 Legendary Heroes

• 1.3 Dungeon Dice Monsters

• 1.4 Battle City

• 1.5 Battle Ship

• 1.6 Noah's Virtual World

• 1.7 Duel Tower (Alcatraz)

• 1.8 Waking the Dragons (Doma Orichalcos)

• 1.9 Grand Championship (KC Grand Prix)

• 1.10 Dawn of the Duel (Millennium World)

• 1.11 Ceremonial Battle

• 1.12 Differences with the manga and original anime series

• 2 Localization

• 2.1 4Kids version

• 2.2 Southeast Asia version

• 3 Card game mechanics

• 4 DVD releases

• 4.1 Season One

• 4.2 Season Two

• 4.3 Season Three

• 4.4 Season Four

• 4.5 Season Five

• 4.6 Other releases

• 5 Cast

• 5.1 Japanese Cast

• 5.2 English Cast

• 6 See also

• 7 References

• 8 External links

• 8.1 English

• 8.2 Japanese

Plot[edit source | editbeta]
Main articles: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes and List of Yu-Gi-Oh! characters
Like the earlier series, Duel Monsters is mainly about the various battles of a high school freshman named Yugi Mutou. However, now it's through a card game known as Duel Monsters (Magic and Wizards in the original manga, although Duel Monsters is also used) instead of games in general. Duel Monsters features major differences to the manga's storyline, including some original story arcs. The plot of Duel Monsters is split up into several different storylines, or arcs.

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Duelist Kingdom

List of Slam Dunk charactersFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Shohoku High School basketball team along with other students from Shohoku, as seen in the spread cover for volume 276 of the manga.
The manga and anime series Slam Dunk features severalfictional characters created by Takehiko Inoue. The series takes place in Japan, with the main characters being high school basketball players from Kanagawa Prefecture.
The series tells the story of Hanamichi Sakuragi, a teenager who falls in love with Haruko Akagi after being rejected by 50 other girls. However, as Haruko is in love with Kaede Rukawa, a popular and talented basketball player, Sakuragi decides to join the Shohoku High School basketball team to surpass Rukawa and make Haruko fall in love with him. As he starts learning how to play basketball with Shohoku, Sakuragi starts liking the sport and becomes determined to be the best player. On the team, Sakuragi meets Haruko's older brother, Takenori Akagi, who is also Shohoku's captain, and two other player with a violent past which caused them to leave the sport some time ago, Ryota Miyagi, and Hisashi Mitsui. Together these five players help make Shohoku one of the best high school teams in Japan.