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    Hawaii Five-O is about a team of detectives in Hawaii that investigate and solve different crimes. The show uses witty one-liners for comical moments and creates drama with the characters through ongoing relationships. The show has tense moments that are full of action packed gun fights and it uses the beautiful backdrop of Hawaii. This crime show is a remake of the original Hawaii Five-O that was produced back in the 1960s. The show uses the same character names with updated stories for this generation. Hawaii Five-O was a popular CBS television show that ran from 1968 to 1980 and was updated to satisfy the viewing pleasure of today’s generation. The episode begins with a ranch owner finding her pigs eating a dead body. The five-o team arrives to investigate the murder and discovers that the person who was killed was a professor at the state college. There is no single protagonist in this show. The show has an ensemble that is made up of four characters. The main characters are Steve McGarrett, Danny “Danno” Williams, Chin Ho Kelly, and Kono Kalakaua. There are other characters within the stories, but they usually are just sidekicks to the ensemble. The antagonist in this episode is the person who murdered the professor. The complicating action in this episode begins when the five-o team discovers the body in the pig pen. There are also separate stories going on within the episode, such as the young boy having issues with his father. The five-o team decides that it…

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    Analyzing Kincaid's Essay

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    Kincaid’s (2015) article begins by making the argument that Dragon Ball Z was a major breakthrough for shonen anime in terms of entering the American/western TV viewing markets. Admittedly, Kincaid (2015) expresses his own limited knowledge of Dragon Ball Z by informing the reader that he found the series the most appealing due to the new “modern” anime series put out in 1990s Japan, and that he actually disliked the original Dragon Ball series of the 1980s. More so, he claims that watching the…

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    Hellsing Ultimate is a Japanese animated series that has been popularized for ultraviolence and gore involving vampire characters. It is based on the original manga, Hellsing, written by Kouta Hirano, which was published from 1997 to 2001 through Young King OURs magazine, while the collected chapters published by Shonen Gahosha. Hirano published Hellsing: The Dawn from 2001 to 2009, as a prelude to Hellsing to provide additional backgrounds to the original work. Hellsing is the story about…

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    Naruto Research Paper

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    Naruto: Shippuden, made on February 15, 2007, was a major boost in the anime world. Made by Masashi Kishimoto, a writer who works at Shonen Jump, Naruto made it to the big screens with 11 movies and 72+ novels. Naruto has won the Indonesia KCA for Favourite Cartoon Show and was even dubbed to English. Many love the 14-year-old main character and his unique story. Naruto: Shippuden is the best of the series because it has a compelling story that leaves you on edge, animation that is realistic and…

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    being in the key animation department and the writing department. Here Miyazaki worked on the animated film Taiyo no Oji Horusu no Daiboken (The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun) with his partner and friend, Isao Takahata. This was Takahata’s directorial debut and was a landmark in anime history because of its socialist themes and its ingenious animation techniques. In the end, Miyazaki and Takahata left Toei Animation and joined A Pro. Here the two co-directed several episodes of the…

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    Paranoia Agent Case Study

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    based upon a few of his concepts, which he had not used before, as much as upon newspapers' headlines, particularly their crime and social ones. The leadership of the company accepted, thus initiating the creation of the 13 episodes of Paranoia Agent. A series of attacks occur in Tokyo, seemingly to individuals irrelevant to each other. The victims do not seem to recollect any facial characteristic of the perpetrator; however, they all state that he looked like a high school student in terms of…

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    development of this project. For the first time, Sakurai isn't the only Lead Designer of the game, and Gregory McLeod, known for his fan game, Super Smash Flash and it's sequel, joined him as a Designer. This game is considered the biggest collaborative project by different companies, with developers like Atlus, Spike Chunsoft, and Nd Cube joining on the huge project. Like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Melee, this game is rated T by the ESRB. (being the 3rd game in the series to do so) Due to…

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    Discourse Community

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    1st being the genre of Shonen, which features a male main character and is action based with themes of friendship, teamwork, honor, and duty also sometimes with elements of humor. The 2nd being Shojo, it usually features a female lead character and has themes of romance and interpersonal relationships as its focus. The 3rd being Ecchi, word used to describe a more sexual form of anime or magna that does not show actual intercourse but leaves it to the viewer’s imagination. The 4th being Hentai,…

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    Naruto History

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    over 130 million copies in 2013, making it Shueisha’s (its publisher) fourth best selling series. The manga was even adopted into a parody series called Raruto by a Spanish web comic writer named Jesus Garcia Ferrer; this spinoff getting its own onslaught of readership. A writer from the LA times even ranked the series #3 for the top 10 anime of 2010. “As of October 2015, the manga has sold over 220 million copies worldwide, making it the third best-selling manga series in history”…

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    False Love Book Report

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    The book is called Nisekoi it is also known as False Love. It was written by Naoshi Komi, he was born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan on March 28, 1986. His work have debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine and its affiliates. The genre of the book is romantic comedy. It takes place in modern day in Japan during the Spring. The main characters of the book are Raku Ichjo, he is a nice and kind person and always thinks about others before himself. He is also the main protagonist of the book a normal…

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