http://www.pathfindersrecruitment.com/
A recruitment website for media companies in London.
Recruits for media companies, but also advertises jobs for these companies that do not involve media, for example, receptionists and cleaners.
http://www.christopherkeats.co.uk/
A recruitment site for those who are aiming for higher up jobs in the media industry.
http://www.pfj.co.uk/
A website designed similarly to monster.co.uk, constantly displaying UK-Based (mostly London and Manchester-based) media company vacancies, updated every day.
http://www.reillypeople.co.uk/
Primarily based in the south east of England, but also offers jobs abroad, such as in Europe, China, Russia, Australia, Singapore and the USA.
http://www.media-contacts.co.uk/
A media recruitment website based in the UK, running since 1993.
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Wednesday 10 March 2010
Shotaro Ishinomori Investigation
Shotaro Ishinomori
Shotaro Ishinomori was a Japanese comic book author, illustrator and tokusatsu (Japanese term for films and TV series that feature a large amount of special effects and often superheroes or villains) writer. He holds the Guinness world record for the most comics produced by a single author, totaling at least 128,000 pages.
He is most well known for creating both the Kamen Rider (Japanese for “Masked Rider”) series, which started in 1971, originally planned to be a tokusatsu adaptation of his highly successful 1970 comic book series, Skull Man, and the Super Sentai (Japanese for “Super Taskforce”) series, which started in 1975. Sentai, starting from its 16th series, 1992’s Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, was adapted by American company Saban Entertainment into Power Rangers until Saban was taken over in 2002 by Disney, who continued to adapt Sentai until 2010, choosing instead to re-edit the first series of PR for 2010 instead of adapting 2009’s Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. However, the newly-resurfaced Saban Entertainment has bought back the rights to Power Rangers and an 18th season has been confirmed, including a new movie. Saban also adapted the ninth Kamen Rider series, 1989’s Kamen Rider Black RX into the failed series Saban’s Masked Rider in 1995. Adness Entertainment later adapted 2002’s Kamen Rider Ryuki into Kamen Rider Dragon Knight for international audiences, which proved to be a lot more successful than Masked Rider, although it was later dropped by the network it was running on for unclear reasons. Kamen Rider was the show that first introduced the concept of transforming superheroes.
Ishinomori got his start in his career in 1955, after entering a competition seeking new artists for the Japanese magazine, Manga Shonen. His work caught the eye of manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka, who then asked the young Ishimori to assist him in writing the original Astro Boy comic. Tezuka subsequently became Ishimori’s mentor. The story of the two meeting was drawn up in the 1970’s reprints of Astro Boy.
In 1963, Ishinomori created japan’s first-ever superhero team, Cyborg 009, Ishimori’s first great work that was created by himself. Similarities can be drawn between Cyborg 009 and the early Kamen Rider series (and to a lesser extent, the first two Sentai series), as many plotlines and ideas were re-used later on for Kamen Rider. Cyborg 009 also was continued until 1985, butt since then, numerous anime series based on the comic have been produced, with the most recent of which being translated for international audiences, later ending in 2002.
In 1997, a very ill Ishimori got in touch with young manga artist Kazuhiko Shimato, asking him to help him create his last great work, a new manga adaption of Skull Man. Shimato accepted, delighted to be working alongside one of his boyhood heroes. The manga was also adapted for US audiences.
Ishinomori died of heart failure on January 28, 1998, just 3 days after his 60th birthday, however, after Kamen Rider Black RX’s end, he was determined to get Kamen Rider back on TV. The series was kept alive by a few movies, called Shin (1992) , ZO (1993) and J (1994), with Ishinomori himself receiving a cameo role in Shin. Almost exactly two years after Ishinomori’s death, on 20th January 2000, Ishinomori’s dream came true, and the Kamen Rider TV series was received in the form of Kamen Rider Kuuga. Kamen Rider continues today in the form of Kamen Rider Double, the 11th Heisei-era series (Referring to the current Japanese president, whilst all older series took place in the Showa era) and the next series, Kamen Rider OOO will soon debut, which will be the 12th series since Ishinomori’s death and the 21st series overall. Super Sentai continues as Tensou Sentai Goseiger, the 34th series, which unlike KR, has never stopped running, with the exception of the one-year break between series 2 (JAKQ Dengekitai) and 3 (Battle Fever J).
Shotaro Ishinomori was a Japanese comic book author, illustrator and tokusatsu (Japanese term for films and TV series that feature a large amount of special effects and often superheroes or villains) writer. He holds the Guinness world record for the most comics produced by a single author, totaling at least 128,000 pages.
He is most well known for creating both the Kamen Rider (Japanese for “Masked Rider”) series, which started in 1971, originally planned to be a tokusatsu adaptation of his highly successful 1970 comic book series, Skull Man, and the Super Sentai (Japanese for “Super Taskforce”) series, which started in 1975. Sentai, starting from its 16th series, 1992’s Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, was adapted by American company Saban Entertainment into Power Rangers until Saban was taken over in 2002 by Disney, who continued to adapt Sentai until 2010, choosing instead to re-edit the first series of PR for 2010 instead of adapting 2009’s Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. However, the newly-resurfaced Saban Entertainment has bought back the rights to Power Rangers and an 18th season has been confirmed, including a new movie. Saban also adapted the ninth Kamen Rider series, 1989’s Kamen Rider Black RX into the failed series Saban’s Masked Rider in 1995. Adness Entertainment later adapted 2002’s Kamen Rider Ryuki into Kamen Rider Dragon Knight for international audiences, which proved to be a lot more successful than Masked Rider, although it was later dropped by the network it was running on for unclear reasons. Kamen Rider was the show that first introduced the concept of transforming superheroes.
Ishinomori got his start in his career in 1955, after entering a competition seeking new artists for the Japanese magazine, Manga Shonen. His work caught the eye of manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka, who then asked the young Ishimori to assist him in writing the original Astro Boy comic. Tezuka subsequently became Ishimori’s mentor. The story of the two meeting was drawn up in the 1970’s reprints of Astro Boy.
In 1963, Ishinomori created japan’s first-ever superhero team, Cyborg 009, Ishimori’s first great work that was created by himself. Similarities can be drawn between Cyborg 009 and the early Kamen Rider series (and to a lesser extent, the first two Sentai series), as many plotlines and ideas were re-used later on for Kamen Rider. Cyborg 009 also was continued until 1985, butt since then, numerous anime series based on the comic have been produced, with the most recent of which being translated for international audiences, later ending in 2002.
In 1997, a very ill Ishimori got in touch with young manga artist Kazuhiko Shimato, asking him to help him create his last great work, a new manga adaption of Skull Man. Shimato accepted, delighted to be working alongside one of his boyhood heroes. The manga was also adapted for US audiences.
Ishinomori died of heart failure on January 28, 1998, just 3 days after his 60th birthday, however, after Kamen Rider Black RX’s end, he was determined to get Kamen Rider back on TV. The series was kept alive by a few movies, called Shin (1992) , ZO (1993) and J (1994), with Ishinomori himself receiving a cameo role in Shin. Almost exactly two years after Ishinomori’s death, on 20th January 2000, Ishinomori’s dream came true, and the Kamen Rider TV series was received in the form of Kamen Rider Kuuga. Kamen Rider continues today in the form of Kamen Rider Double, the 11th Heisei-era series (Referring to the current Japanese president, whilst all older series took place in the Showa era) and the next series, Kamen Rider OOO will soon debut, which will be the 12th series since Ishinomori’s death and the 21st series overall. Super Sentai continues as Tensou Sentai Goseiger, the 34th series, which unlike KR, has never stopped running, with the exception of the one-year break between series 2 (JAKQ Dengekitai) and 3 (Battle Fever J).
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