When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

Although the emperor has been a symbol of continuity with the past, the degree of power exercised by the emperor of Japan has varied considerably throughout Japanese history.

Alternately, other writers such as Frederik L. Schodt, Kinko Ito, and Adam L. Kern stress continuity of Japanese cultural and aesthetic traditions, including pre-war, Meiji, and pre-Meiji culture and art.

With his transformation into Galvatron, Megatron departed from the Japanese G1 continuity ( which took a different direction after the end of series 3, opting to replace the events of The Rebirth with those of Headmasters ), until five years later, in the manga-exclusive storyline, Battlestars: The Return of Convoy, which, although not animated itself ( told instead through one chapter of manga and color magazine spreads ), continues the tale of the cartoon Universe.

In the first episode the GRX's speedometer with a maximum speed of on it is shown in the beginning of the episode, however, due to a continuity error in the Japanese animation, as Speed drives it, the speedometer tops out at This would make the GRX slower than the Mammoth Car by the English dialog.

The licensed Japanese teacher is normally in charge of junior high school and high school classes regardless of where the ALT originates ; however in the case of elementary school classes, the ALT is normally responsible for the entire class, with the Japanese teacher either providing limited input or in some cases not being present in the classroom, and for that reason the continuity of school management is sometimes maintained with the school principal in compliance with any legal requirements, as the product being contracted itself is an abstract, education, and the contract basis for private language teaching corporations is to provide education and educational services.

This story has no continuity with any Japanese anime ( which didn't exist at the time ) and it was created to go along with the original UK ( and subsequently Australian ) release of model kits.

In the extended Japanese continuity, the master process can use either humanoids or robots to form the binary bonding component.

Although the American toyline offers no supporting fiction for the Alternators toys, the line's Japanese counterpart, Binaltech, has featured a growing storyline, a new chapter released with each toy, making it clear that the Alternators / Binaltech timeline branches off from the animated series continuity prior to Transformers: The Movie.

In response to this, the Maximals use the device to pluck Optimus Primal, referred to as " Convoy " in the Japanese continuity, from prehistoric Earth at a point prior to his becoming a transmetal to join with their leader, Lio Convoy to battle the demonic Transformer.

English television presenters Ant & Dec extend this continuity to almost all their appearances, with Ant almost always on the left and Dec on the right, as does the Japanese pop duo Puffy, with Yumi Yoshimura on the left and Ami Onuki on the right.

It is unknown, in the Japanese continuity whether Junkion still exists or whether or not Wreck-Gar is still its leader.

GEOS also teaches Japanese to foreigners living in Japan at their Kudan Japanese Culture, Research Center and Language Institute in Kudanshita, Tokyo GEOS uses a one-teacher system it calls " Tanninsei " where students keep the same teacher for an extended period of time and advertises this system as having benefits of promoting continuity and strong teacher-student relationship.

Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness was present within the series ' original chronology from its original release until 2002, when a timeline published on the official Japanese Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance website omitted it-as well as several other Castlevania games-from the series ' continuity.

The Corvette remold Ravage was a departure for most fans being that it was a Corvette as well as it having a humanoid robot form in a storyline that takes place in the middle of G1 continuity ( according to the BT story, Corvette Ravage was not an updated G1 Ravage, but his future, humanoid self from Beast Wars, powered by the dormant spark of G1 Ravage to sustain him ); thus, fan demand might have been the spark that set about the creation of a more traditional panther mode, as well as sporting a Jaguar vehicle mode ( as a nod to his Japanese name ), both of which were integrated into the second figure.

As with most Japanese cartoons of the period, Mahōtsukai Sally's main strength lays in its strong characterizations and detailed continuity.

Capitalizing on the publicity, the Japanese Legation in the USA asked the Kodokan to send more judo teachers to America, providing continuity to Yamashita's work.

Ban entertains several schools of architecture, first he is a Japanese architect and uses many themes and methods found in traditional Japanese architecture ( such as shōji ) and the idea of a ‘ universal floor ’ to allow continuity between all rooms in a house.

As the first series co-produced between the American toy company, Hasbro, and their Japanese counterpart, Takara, Armada begins a new continuity / universe for Transformers, with no ties to any of the previous series, including the immediately prior Transformers: Robots in Disguise in 2001.

Transformers: Armada was written and produced in Japan, with creative input from America ( the Japanese originally envisioned the series as set in the G1 continuity, but this idea was discarded by Hasbro, who also mandated the inclusion of Unicron, who had not been in the original story treatment for the series ).

According to the fictional continuity of Macross, Hikaru Ichijyo is Japanese.

* The Transformers, tractor-trailers appear in this 1980s cartoon as the Autobots ' leader Optimus Prime ( Convoy in Japanese version ), their second-in-command Ultra Magnus, and as the Stunticons ' leader Motormaster ( who considers himself Optimus Prime's rival for the title " King of the Road ").

In the Japanese Generation 2 manga, he was shown to have survived and, in a body resembling his " Hero " toy, once again opposed Optimus Prime.

The Japanese Continuity, however, is more diverse ; after Optimus Prime ( in G1 ), the succession of commanders include Rodimus Prime, Fortress Maximus, God Ginrai ( known in the US as Powermaster Optimus Prime ), Victory Saber, and Dai Atlas.

In 2005, Japanese toy company Takara released a special edition Transformers Optimus Prime ( known as " Convoy " in Japan ) figure in Pepsi colors with a bottle / can holding trailer.

During the Transformers: Generation 2 toyline, Optimus Prime received multiple toy forms in a relatively short period of time, and to explain these numerous bodies, the tech spec of his " Go-Bot " incarnation, credited an internal " Reconfiguration Matrix " with the change ( similarly, the original Matrix is credited with reformatting Prime from his " Hero " body into his " Laser " body in the Japanese G2 manga ).

* T. H. S .- 01 Galaxy Convoy ( 2005 ): A beautifully sculpted Japanese exclusive miniature of Galaxy Force Galaxy Convoy ( Cybertron Optimus Prime ).

Awakened in 2020 by Doctor Brian Jones and Primus, Omega immediately raced across space to join Optimus Prime ’ s team in battle against Megatron ’ s forces, combining with Optimus to form Optimus Supreme ( Omega Convoy in the Japanese version ).

In the Japanese Headmasters series, Alpha Trion's ghost appeared to Optimus Prime as he was fighting his way through Cybertron's underground defences, in order to reach Vector Sigma, which had grown unstable.

: The Japanese version of Powermaster Optimus Prime by Takara sports chrome and more die-cast metal parts than the Hasbro version.

In the Japanese series, Headmasters ( official the fourth season of the Transformers in Japan ), Jazz reappeared with a certain regularity in the first episodes, acting as right hand of Optimus Prime until the latter's death.

** Ginrai ( retooling of Powermaster Optimus Prime )-a 19-year-old Japanese immigrant in America.

" As Galvatron is dying, he places his fist on Optimus ' chest and says something to him, however in the Japanese dub he says Galaxy Convoy which is Optimus ' name in the Japanese version of the show.

Bloody Roar: Primal Fury, also known as Bloody Roar: Extreme on the Xbox and the Japanese GameCube version, is a fighting video game developed by Eighting and published by Hudson Soft in 2002, and later the same year by Activision in North America and in the PAL region.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

In is she Chinese or Japanese??

The Japanese sake is wine fermented from rice grain.

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

I was told that it is quite likely that Japanese soldiers would not fight again -- for why should they??

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

In Japanese, the abacus is called soroban (, lit.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

The use of the soroban is still taught in Japanese primary schools as part of mathematics, primarily as an aid to faster mental calculation.

This organization is used in Southeast Asia, Tibet, Korean hangul, and even Japanese kana, which is not an alphabet.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.

However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).