Kenji (manga)

Kenji (Japanese: 拳児) is a manga series written by Ryuchi Matsuda and illustrated by Yoshihide Fujiwara. The series follows Kenji Goh, a practitioner of the Chinese martial art Bajiquan.

Matsuda drew from his own knowledge of the martial arts when writing the manga.Kenji features Bajiquan, Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Baguazhang, Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan, Piguaquan, Xingyiquan, Muslim Chinese martial arts, Shaolin Kung Fu, Hung Gar, Daito Ryu, Shotokan and numerous other styles, frequently featuring real-life practitioners, such as Master Su Yu-Chang 蘇昱彰, director and founder of the Pachi Tanglang Martial Arts Association, and Grand Master Liu Yun-Qiao 劉雲樵 from the Wu Tan Center (武壇國術推廣中心).

Kenji was serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday from 1988 to 1992, totaling 21 volumes.

Plot

The story chronicles the life of modern-day martial artist. Kenji Goh is a teenager fond of the martial arts particularly Bajiquan, which he studied from his grandfather at an early age. While Kenji's training in Bajiquan is not complete, he learns other martial arts to complement his skills. Kenji's rival is Tony Tan, a Chinese gangster skilled in Hung Gar Shaolin Kung Fu and Muslim Chinese martial arts like Xinyiliuhequan.

Kenji

Kenji may refer to:

Kenji (era)

Kenji (建治) is a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") which followed Bun'ei and preceded Kōan. This period spanned the years from April 1275 to February 1278. The reigning emperor was Go-Uda-tennō (後宇多天皇).

Change of era

Events of the Kenji era

Notes

References

List of Initial D characters

This is a list of characters from the anime and manga series Initial D.

Main characters

Takumi Fujiwara

Takumi Fujiwara (藤原 拓海, Fujiwara Takumi, "Tak") is the central character in the Initial D series. Although he appears to be just a high school senior with no remarkable traits, he had been subtly groomed by his father into becoming one of the best street racers in the area. This is due to his job of delivering tofu over the mountain roads to Lake Akina every morning for five years while driving an 1986 Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86. He works part-time at a gas station with his best friend Itsuki Takeuchi, and the leader of the Akina Speed Stars, Iketani. Although he is totally disinterested in racing, when his friends were discussing drift techniques and Takumi's suggestion of a technique is dismissed as amateur, his boss Yuichi Tachibana realizes Takumi's technique is a much more advanced. After passing Keisuke Takahashi on the roads, he begins to find himself involved in challenges to race, which he initially agrees to do for petty rewards from his father such as getting to use the car for pleasure and having a full tank of gas. He initially disregards comment about him being a street racer and loving to drive, but slowly he accepts the idea that he enjoys the thrill of street racing. Although he is not a member of the Akina Speed Stars, he soon races all sorts of challengers from teams over the region and nearby. In the Fourth Stage storylines, he joins Ryosuke Takahashi's Project D, which aims to conquer street racing teams in other prefectures.

Manga (magazine)

Manga magazine, formerly known as Takuhai, is a free quarterly magazine published by Tokyopop, which gives preview chapters of a selection of the company's new manga titles, as well as fan art, interviews, and short articles. The magazine is intended as a publicity vehicle, similar to Tokyopop Sneaks, free preview compilations of Tokyopop titles. It was first published in the summer of 2005, and readers can subscribe to the magazine through Tokyopop's official website. The magazine's original title, Takuhai meant "home delivery" in Japanese, but this was changed when Tokyopop discovered that many readers were accessing it through bookstores, comic stores, and newsstands.

The magazine has two parts, each with its own cover page. The front half is read left-to-right, while the back half is read in Japanese style, right-to-left. Manga also includes an online issue with completely different material to the printed publication, and which is updated every month.

References

Manga (band)

Manga (also stylized as maNga) is a Turkish rock band whose music is mainly a fusion of Anatolian melodies with electronic elements. In 2009, they won both the Best Turkish Act award from MTV Turkey and consequently the Best European Act award from MTV Networks Europe in MTV Europe Music Awards 2009. They represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "We Could Be the Same" and took second place.

Band history

Manga was formed in the year 2001, being named after the word for 'cool man', 'Manga'. Initially, they were mostly underground, playing covers of other rock and metal bands. They came into the public spotlight after finishing runner-up at the Sing your song' music contest. This caught the attention of artist manager Hadi Elazzi (GRGDN), who immediately promoted the band to Sony Music, which resulted in their first, self-titled album being published in 2004, becoming a mass hit.

Following this, they performed at various music festivals and have worked with such famous Turkish singers as Koray Candemir (of Kargo fame), Vega and Göksel. Most of their songs are written by the group members.

Mangas (TV)

Mangas is a French television channel dedicated to anime.

History of the channel

AB Cartoons was launched in 1996 as a youth channel on the AB Sat package. It showed Japanese animation (anime) already shown on Club Dorothée on TF1.

Due to the popularity of the genre with young adults and teens, and criticism of the violence shown in the programmes, the channel was renamed Mangas, on 1 September 1998 using the logo of the magazine D.MANGAS (the former Dorothée Magazine, although the show on TF1 had ended in 1997).

Organisation

Managers

President :

Vice-President :

Director of programmes :

Director of Marketing and Business Development :

Editor :

Budged

Mangas is owned by AB Sat SA with a budget of €24 million, provided 100% by AB Groupe.

Programmes

The programming is mostly classic reruns bought from the Club Dorothée era, such as Fist of the North Star, Ranma ½, Moero! Top Striker and Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. However, the channel also shows original programming such as One Piece and Wolf's Rain shown in the original version...etc