Ichirō Nagai – MRQE https://mrqe.com Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:18:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Ichirō Nagai – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 “Master Keaton” https://mrqe.com/movie/master-keaton-tv-m100020094/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/master-keaton-tv-m100020094/ Master Keaton is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika and Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Original between 1988 and 1994 and ran for 144 chapters. The chapters were combined into 18 tankbon volumes. An anime adaptation was created, with 24 episodes airing between 1998 and 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television. An additional 15 episodes were created and released as OVAs, bringing the total to 39 episodes. The manga’s target audience was Japanese men in their 20’s and 30’s, a comparatively older target audience than is common for most anime series.

Though the manga series has not been translated into English, the anime and OVA series were dubbed into English and released by Pioneer Entertainment.

Naoki Urasawa will be writing a sequel to the series, titled Master Keaton Remaster, with writer Takashi Nagasaki. Beginning in the March 2012 issue of Big Comic Original, it will take place 20 years after the original series ended.

]]> Urusei Yatsura 1: Onri yû https://mrqe.com/movie/urusei-yatsura-1-onri-yu-m100026452/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/urusei-yatsura-1-onri-yu-m100026452/ Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle’s shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle’s culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum’s attempts to prevent the marriage. The film was directed by Mamoru Oshii who was mad at the many requests that the producer made of him to alter the movie. Rumiko Takahashi considers this film her favorite and it is the most true to the original series.

]]> Assenburu insaato (V) https://mrqe.com/movie/assenburu-insaato-m100001716/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/assenburu-insaato-m100001716/ A criminal group known as Demon Seed terrorizes Tokyo with its vast armies of mecha. The local police is afraid to confront them, but one person stands in their way: Maron Namikaze, a 13-year-old idol singer with a catchy voice and unbelievable superhuman strength.

]]> Kyûketsuki hantâ D (V) https://mrqe.com/movie/kyuketsuki-hanta-d-m100001620/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/kyuketsuki-hanta-d-m100001620/ In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.

]]> Burakku majikku M-66 (V) https://mrqe.com/movie/burakku-majikku-m66-m100049152/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/burakku-majikku-m66-m100049152/ A freelance reporter stumbles on a desperate military operation. An army chopper has crashed and its cargo has been activated. Now there are two killer androids running loose in the wilderness and have the daughter of their inventor as their target. Can the army stop them or can the reporter reach the little girl before the droids do?

]]> Makaitoshi Shinjuku (V) https://mrqe.com/movie/makaitoshi-shinjuku-m100035091/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/makaitoshi-shinjuku-m100035091/ Ten Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world into chaos! As Genichiro’s son, it falls to Kyoya to venture into the heart of Shinjuku and put an end to the sorcerer his father couldn’t beat. Can Kyoya exceed his father’s legacy, or will the demons of Shinjuku create Hell on Earth?

]]> Unico https://mrqe.com/movie/unico-m100021586/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/unico-m100021586/ Unico the Unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it’s because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. However, the gods become jealous of Unico, thinking that only they should be able to decide or allow people to be happy. Unico is banished to the Hill of Oblivion, and the West Wind is ordered to take him there. She can’t stand giving this fate to Unico, so Unico’s adventures begin, as the West Wind takes him from one place and time to the next, in a neverending journey to escape the wrath of the gods.

]]> Space Battleship Yamato https://mrqe.com/movie/space-battleship-yamato-m100107072/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/space-battleship-yamato-m100107072/ When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth’s atmosphere.

]]> Yonayona pengin https://mrqe.com/movie/yonayona-pengin-m100071533/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=71112 Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first “3D anime” that Madhouse has produced. Oh, and there are penguins.

]]> Totsuzen! Neko no kuni banipal witt https://mrqe.com/movie/totsuzen-neko-no-kuni-banipal-witt-m100043319/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/totsuzen-neko-no-kuni-banipal-witt-m100043319/ The story involves a boy and his younger sister whose dog Papadoll is missing. They find out that he has been abducted by anthropomorphic cats to be brought to a world called Banapal Witt, which is built on top of a giant sleeping cat. There the sun turns poor Papadoll into a bizarre giant monster. He becomes the weapon and beloved pet of a spoiled Princess who turns everything she touches into balloons. She plans to use Papadoll and a giant inflatable mouse to control the sleeping cat and thus Banapal Witt itself.

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