Dase! Ikevo Gakuen is an original anime produced by the ESP College of Entertainment Fukuoka Department of Voice Acting, in collaboration with Takashi Taniguchi. Set in Ikevo Academy, we follow the comedic love story of a young man aspiring to become a voice actor. In the spirit of promoting voice acting education, members of the general public auditioned to voice the characters in the show.
Dase! Ikevo Gakuen was broadcast irregularly on J:COM Fukuoka from February 2, 2019 to September 21, 2019. Episodes were posted in advance on the ESP College of Entertainment Fukuoka voice acting YouTube channel.
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Ban Banjou is an insolent wild boy who was raised on the rough sea in Tosa, southern Japan. He joined the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in Japanese pro baseball league such a baseball pitcher noted for the blazing fastball and the worst control. He fights hard battles against his rival batters, developing his incredible pitching magics.
In this ukiyoe-style flash anime, Isobe Isobee is a lazy, slacker samurai with big dreams. He lives with his mother, who thinks highly of him. He lays around the house, sneakily looks at Edo-period pornography without his mother noticing, naps at school, but he plans to become a respectable samurai one day!
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All of sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone is a simply play but it doesn’t work simply as it seems. He struggles by the rule he made himself.
1st year work 2013 from Yutaro Kubo, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
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The animated short film that inspired the artist’s first PC and mobile game. Like its predecessors, the film shows distinctively satisfying timing and motions. A boy does sit-ups with a dog standing over him. Another dog runs across a boy’s back as he bends forward. The boy and the dog run out of breath, and so on—really. The plain yellow background accentuates the characters’ comical movements.
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Various monsters from the Ultra franchise visit the "Monster Bar" every evening to drink away their troubles, whether they have fought a good fight against the Ultra heroes that day or if they've been beaten black and blue. The monsters all gather to refresh themselves, to gather their energy, and to come up with more sinister plans for tomorrow. Baltan is the shop manager of the "Monster Bar," his assistants are Dada and Kanegon, and his part-time worker is Pigmon. The bar's regular customers include: Red King, Eleking, Gomora, Gudon, Zetton, King Joe, and Twin Tail.
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The anime is set in postwar Japan between 1955 and 1964 and focuses on stories illustrating the humour and pathos of ordinary life in Japan of that era, mainly about the residents of the fictional Tokyo neighbourhood called San Choume (Third District).
The Kaiju of the ULTRAMAN series, are not just enemies defeated by the heroes. Each has their own special powers, looks, and characteristics which make them all unique. These characters are popular along with the Ultra Heroes.
The main characters of “KAIJU STEP” are the “little Kaiju”. The characters are designed as though the popular Kaiju in the ULTRAMAN series have become little kids. The story is set in the “little planet” where the unique “little Kaiju” try new things, meet new friends and portray each of their little “first steps”.
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Tamagon is a cute monster who is fond of eggs. He acts as a counselor to those in trouble, asking only eggs in payment. He goes to work as soon as he has eaten his fee. However, despite his schemes, his service usually ends in total failure and he winds up being chased by his irate clients. Short as it is, this program is full of laughs and lively humour.
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"Unbelievable" Zorori is a prankster fox determined to become the Prince of Mischief, with his very own castle and beautiful bride. While is notorious for his prank-making schemes, his ill-meaning plots often backfire against him, and can usually end up even benefiting or cheering up his targets, much to his dismay. Nevertheless, Zorori has the wits and intelligence to wriggle out of the tightest of all spots, and journeys with a pair of twin boars, Ishishi and Noshishi, in order to fulfill his long wished-for goal and at last prove to his deceased mother, Mama Zorori that he truly holds the potential to achieve his dreams.
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Souzou Haran was a brilliant scientist that was conducting research on Mars. He created a form of cyborg life with the ability to think for itself. These cyborgs, dubbed the Meganoids, soon ran out of control and killed Dr. Haran along with his whole family, save his youngest son, the 16-year-old Banjou Haran. Banjou escapes from Mars on a rocket with a solar-powered super robot called Daitarn 3, which was built with the special metals of Mars. Now eighteen years old and living on Earth in a luxurious mansion, Banjou fights against the Meganoids with the aid of his faithful butler Garrison and his two gorgeous companions Reika and Beauty. Together they must stop the evil Meganoids which aspire to turn all humans into cyborgs and thus "improve" the human race.
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The mobile content developer MTI released a series of mobile phone anime shorts inspired by the all-male musical group KAT-TUN. Animated versions of the singers Kamenashi Kazuya, Taguchi Junnosuke, Tanaka Kouki, Ueda Tatsuya, and Nakamaru Yuuichi appear in unintentionally romantic situations with their younger sister. Each of the mobile anime series five 50-second episodes highlights one KAT-TUN performer.
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