Major is a sports manga series by Takuya Mitsuda. It has been serialized in Shōnen Sunday and has been collected in 78 tankōbon volumes. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.
The manga series concluded in the 32nd issue of Shōnen Sunday for 2010, while the 78th and final volume of the manga series was released in the middle of December 2010 together with a special original video animation (OVA).
The series has been adapted as an anime series produced by NHK and Studio Hibari titled Major (メジャー, Mejā?) (using katakana instead of the manga's English characters). The first episode was broadcast on November 13, 2004 and has completed six seasons. The final episode originally aired on September 25, 2010. An animated film telling the story between the first and second seasons of the anime was released on December 13, 2008. Two OVAs were released on December 16, 2011 and January 18, 2012. They deal with The World Series chapter, which was skipped in the TV series.
The story of Major follows the life of Gorō Honda, from kindergarten to being a professional baseball player, seeking and overcoming tremendous challenges.
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Sam Weston, the owner of Weston Technologies is furious over the security breach in his Research Lab. The prototype of his latest weapon system "Mantera" or MAN - Transformable Exo-Robotic Armour was sabotaged and destroyed. Invaluable research data was stolen and deleted from the company's mainframe. His main scientist who is leading the research team, Dr. Natasya was missing. The buyer for the new technology is pressuring Sam to deliver the prototype or the deal is off. To make matter worse, the wreckage and debris from the destroyed "Mantera" was accidentally shipped to the other side of the world.... to a young man by the name of Azman, in Malaysia. Who is Azman, and what makes him the chosen one? Everything will be revealed in 'MANTERA'.
Keywords: battle, cgi, fiction, fight, ironman, movie, one-word-title, robot, robotic, transformers
Man Transformable Exo-Robotic Armour
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On September 11th 2001, four domestic flights are hijacked by terrorists in the United States of America. After the collision of three against selected targets, the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 fight against four terrorists to take back the control of the airplane.
Keywords: airplane, airplane-crash, answering-machine, bandanna, battle, beating, bomb, box-cutter, brawl, cell-phone
Four terrorists wanted to turn flight 93 into a weapon. Forty brave passengers and crew stopped it from reaching its target.
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It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him.
Keywords: army-life, boot-camp, conscription, dream-sequence, golf-course, journalist, military-exercise, restaurant, secret-identity
Hur man gör pojkar av män.
Jonas Gustafsson: I've started with camouflage
Oskar Löfgren: Mr. Larsson doesn't have a driving licence!
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Superintendent Stafford of the United Provinces Police, has his men arrest an entire tribe on vague allegations of poaching and theft in British India. Their leader, Sultan, father of a young boy, Munnu, whose wife, Tara, is expecting their second child, is also arrested and held in a cell with criminals in Fort Najibabad. Sultan, Tara, and many others manage to break out, but Tara and the newborn both pass away. Sultan, with the help of his men, decides to revolt against the oppressive British - who create a mobile unit, led by Freddy Young, to counter this revolt as well as announce a reward of Rs.500.00 - but Sultan manages to elude them. Then amidst clashes between Freddy and Stafford, and the entry of Jane Stafford, it is made known that Sultan's tribe will be transported by train to a compound in Delhi. This news reaches Sultan and he prepares to attack the train and free his people - little knowing the trap he and his men will soon be walking in to.
Keywords: army, bald, bald-hero, bald-man, battle, battlefield, bayonet, british, british-accent, british-army
A conflict of ideals - a conflict of arms - fought out in the Himalayas and across the scorching plains of India. [UK theatrical]
The blazing passions of a land... its proud warriors... its exotic women... bursting aflame in revolt!
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In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.
Keywords: airport, based-on-novel, englishman, father-daughter-relationship, housekeeper, innocent, island, sailor, spinster, united-states-marines
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Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia, Nicobar, and his military aides Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister and Audrey Quail, become involved in the plight of a young ballerina who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.
Keywords: 1940s, army, austria, ballerina, based-on-novel, british-accent, british-army, catholic-church, cigarette-smoking, citizen
Beautiful Maria...the four lives that touched hers were never the same again!
Mother Superior: [Referring to a previous conversation about religion and its inefficacy in Wartime] Like that ladder...::Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar: The ladder?::Mother Superior: There is the ladder, there is the ceiling and there is the paint. If you want the ceiling painted, someone must climb the ladder.::Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar: Yes, you, um, need a painter.::Mother Superior: But suppose the painter remains at the foot of the ladder? You cannot say that the ladder has failed you, or the paint has failed you, or the ceiling has failed you.::Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar: No, no you can't.::Mother Superior: I know about you more than you know about yourself. You want the ceiling painted but... all the cruelty in the world, all the horror and tragedy you see, these you do not oppose with your own courage. You do not try to replace them with your own high hopes for the world and the human race. You complain that God has failed you. No, my friend. God has not failed man- man has failed God. For every man knows what God wants him to do.
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U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, explaining the changes in this new model and taking the plane through its paces with full description of its flight characteristics.
[Solomon Childs]
Paint murder like Wesley, faggots
Your war stories don't impress me, warrants
So the ratchets broke as well as the next one
Larry Davis reinacting, we puttin' them niggaz
Who be talking to killas in comas
Death is so deep, you ever see a nigga eyes rolled back
On the block til I die with that medicine
I will emerge from rap, will emerge from mines
I want niggaz to learn, they can't stand me
So I won't feel guilty when I'm receiving my Grammy's
Counting my blessings, hoping my old Earth
Make it all the way to the top, asking Alllah
Give me strength if the nines gots to pop
Them feds put a bullet in the head of my great dane
Poverty child, I feel momma's pain
Walking in my daddy's shoes of shame
Creases in my state greens, criminal lives
Police know as the nine millimeter team
And we don't smoke poofie, find us where niggaz be climaxing
[Chorus x2: Solomon Childs]
We major players, all around the board
And done bent niggaz all around the board
Headliners, kill or be killed, so you better move
When it's time to move, or get filled
[Cappadonna]
Pillage for life team, we fight schemes
Nigga fall back, Staten Island
We all black, carry a mack, motherfuckers Osama Island
Been wilding, from Murder Hill all the way to Jungle Nilz
Fuck ya'll niggaz, we gotta pay the bills
Nigga move over, two-faced rappers, all you deep throaters
Underground niggaz right here, put this in ya range rovers
Staten Island soldiers, New York City post up
Gats out the hosters, we kill our enemies
We move like centipedes, we the stampede that crush the industries
Elminated the herpes for dirt g's
The mud might leak, we throw coles on Staten Isle, don't nobody speak
[Outro: Cappadonna]
My fucking word, fucking Staten Island pitbull, niggaz
Straight up and down, snatch pocket books and all that shit
Niggaz still hungry, Osama Island
Murder Hill, Body B., nigga
Straight gangsta, for all you crack heads, and cry babies
Word up, Killa B., what up, baby?
Stab that nigga... word up... take a nigga chain
Knowhatimsayin, nigga, we try'n -- nigga, we need meals
when I did first enlist
I tried to stay away
but after you get that kiss
you will miss it
I read all the history books
and I sat with silver screen
and I aways had to look
singin' na na na na na na na...
major - has this feeling all the time
major - soldier boys are so, so blind
major - maybe you're the next in line
veterans of the game
with their whiskey long-life scars
some will put the blame
on the pain
I am choosing a life of hate
with destruction down my path
I wanna disappear
singin' na na na na na na na....
major - has this feeling all the time
major - soldier boys are so, so blind
major - your revealing, how I am feeling, trying to
make
and I can't take it
stories of their tongues
you can't lose it in your mind
with a bottle in your hand
touching time
it ain't no paper moon
and I don't wanna a purple heart
or a suitcase full of regrets
singin' na na na na na na na....
major - has this feeling all the time
major - soldier boys are so, so blind
major - maybe you're the next in line
next in line
next in line
next in line
Haven't you heard I'm M.A.J.O.R.
Tell me where the party's at
And I'll be there
Jumping like a bunny with my hands in the air
Kissing babies like a billionaire
You say I can call you papa bear
But I could break into your house
I could break into your soul
Make your body gravitate can't say no
We can play game but I'm in control
Chorus
Do you like how this hits
Wanna see if it fits
Can you read my lips
Maybe just one kiss
Wanna have a little taste
Go back to my place
We could get it on (and on, and on, and on, and on)
I'm M.A.J.O.R.
So M.A.J.O.R.
I got the keys to your car
I'm the man on your arm
And this hand on my (aah!)
While you still at the bar
I'm M.A.J.O.R.
So M.A.J.O.R.
I'm gonna take what's mine
Cause you boys waste time
Haven't you heard I'm M.A.J.O.R.
(Boy you shoulda known I'm M.A.J.O.R)
Get your hands up
Tony dance up
I'm the boss now
So take your pants off
Do something freaky
Do something weird
Lose yourself in the atmosphere
Hold on someone is calling
Baby wants to walk but you be crawling
Bet you wanna know who's on the line
Let me break it down for you one more time
Chorus
(Jump!)
(Jump!)
(Jump!)
(Jump!)
Zigganana, your banana
(Jump!)
Zigganana, your banana
(Jump!)
Zigganana, your banana
(Jump!)
Zigganana, your banana
(Mmm! Mmm!)
Chorus
I, I never thought that I would see the day
Assuming I can see
It is shaping up to be a decent one, that is if there's a one
I, I'd like to think that I can find your way
If you have it
It, We're not about to waste a single day, you and me
If you wanna fall in love, if you wanna fall in love you can do it
If you wanna be with me, if you wanna see what I can see you can do it
What will happen to me if I lose my name, or is it know the law?
What if I don't get my chance to hug the flame, or even know the spark
Please don't try to be a victor in the end, it's not easy
And what kind of law you think you understand, hold my hand
If you wanna fall in love, if you wanna fall in love you can do it
If you wanna be with me, if you wanna see what I can see you can do it
(Guitar solo)
If you wanna fall in love, if you wanna fall in love you can do it
If you wanna be with me, if you wanna see what I can see you should do it
Do you want to know a secret, do you want to see the universe
If you want it, never in a million years never in a million singularities