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UFO Robot Grendizer , also known as Force Five: Grandizer in the United States, is a Japanese Super Robot anime television series and manga created by manga artist Go Nagai . It is the third entry in the Mazinger trilogy. The anime television series was produced by Toei Doga and Dynamic Planning and broadcast on Fuji TV from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977, and lasted 74 episodes. The robot's first appearance in the United States was as a part of the Shogun Warriors line of super robot toys imported in the late 1970s by Mattel , then in Jim Terry's Force Five series, both under the title Grandizer. It was widely popular in the Middle East , France, French-speaking Canada and Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendizer ------------------------------ Beer stein , or simply stein, is an  English   neologism  for either traditional beer mugs made out of  stoneware , or specifically ornamental  beer   mugs  that are usually sold as  ...

My Neighbor Totoro   is a 1988 Japanese  animated   fantasy film  written and directed by  Hayao Miyazaki  and produced by  Studio Ghibli . The film – which stars the voice actors  Noriko Hidaka ,  Chika Sakamoto , and  Hitoshi Takagi  – tells the story of the two young daughters (Satsuki and Mei) of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in  postwar rural Japan . The film won the  Animage  Anime Grand Prix prize and the  Mainichi Film Award  and  Kinema Junpo Award  for Best Film in 1988. It also received the Special Award at the  Blue Ribbon Awards  in the same year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro ------------------------------- Godzilla  is a fictional giant monster originating from a series of  tokusatsu   films of the same name  from  Japan . It first appeared in  Ishirō Honda 's 1954 film  Godzilla . Since t...

Attack on Titan  is a Japanese  manga  series written and illustrated by  Hajime Isayama . The series began in  Kodansha 's  Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine  on September 9, 2009, and has been collected into 22  tankōbon  volumes as of April 2017. It is set in a world where humanity lives in cities surrounded by enormous walls; a defense against the Titans, gigantic humanoids that eat humans seemingly without reason. The story initially centers on  Eren Yeager , his adopted sister  Mikasa Ackerman  and childhood friend  Armin Arlert , who join the military to fight the Titans after their home town is invaded and Eren's mother is eaten. However, as the story progresses and the truths about the Titans are slowly revealed to the reader, the narrative shifts to encompass Historia Reiss, squad leader Levi, Eren's father Grisha, and other supporting characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan -----------------------------...

Ichigo Kurosaki is a fictional character in the Bleach manga series and its adaptations created by Tite Kubo . He is the main protagonist of the series, who receives Soul Reaper powers after befriending Rukia Kuchiki , the Soul Reaper assigned to patrol around the fictional city of Karakura Town. These powers come at the cost of Rukia's own, and as a result, Ichigo concedes to work as Rukia's stand-in, fighting to protect people from evil spirits called Hollows and sending good spirits, wholes , to a dimension known as the Soul Society . In addition to the manga series, Ichigo appears in many other pieces of Bleach media, including the anime series, the four featured films, the two original video animations , rock musicals , several video games , light novels and the 2018 live-action film . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichigo_Kurosaki ------------------------------ Bleach (stylized as BLEACH) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo . Bleach fol...

Ryuk  is a  fictional character  in the manga series  Death Note , created by  Tsugumi Ohba  and  Takeshi Obata . He is a bored  Shinigami that drops a Death Note, a notebook that allows you to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, into the human world in order to have fun. It is picked up by  Light Yagami , an intelligent young man who uses it in an attempt to create and rule a  utopia cleansed of evil, with him at the helm as a "god". In the  anime  adaptation, Ryuk is voiced by  Nakamura Shidō  in Japanese and by  Brian Drummond  in the English version. Both actors reprise their roles for voicing the  computer-generated  version of the character in the live-action films, with  Jun Fukushima  voicing the CG version in the live-action television drama. In the musical, Ryuk was portrayed by  Kōtarō Yoshida .  Willem Dafoe  provided the voice acting and facial...

Carla is a white-furred Exceed who acts as Wendy Marvell's partner and caretaker; her name is Charles  in Japanese, spelled "Charle" in Funimation subtitles, which was changed to "Carla" in countries where readers would interpret "Charles" as a male name. Years before the series' present, she is evacuated to Earth-land as an egg along with Happy and 98 other unborn Exceed when her mother, the Exceed queen Chagot, has a premonition of their kingdom's destruction; to prevent a panic, the queen conceals the evacuation as a mission to kill Dragon Slayers. Carla is born with the unconscious power of precognition inherited from her mother, which causes her to misinterpret visions of Chagot's ruse as her real mission; despite this, Carla decides to protect Wendy. Although annoyed with Happy's obliviousness to their mission, Carla reconsiders after he ignores the Exceeds' orders. Eventually, after realizing her precognitive ability, Carl...