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Arsene Lupin III is the world's greatest thief, the grandson of Maurice Leblanc's fictional gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, and he does not need to steal. He could retire. He is already rich. He steals...
Read article →InuYasha is the protagonist of InuYasha (also known as InuYasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale), a manga and anime by Rumiko Takahashi serialized from 1996 to 2008. He is a half-demon (hanyo) — the son of a pow...
Read article →InuYasha is half human and half dog-demon in feudal Japan. Demons hate him for being part human. Humans fear him for being part demon. He was pinned to a tree for fifty years by the first woman he eve...
Read article →Mugen is one of the three main characters of Samurai Champloo, a 26-episode anime directed by Shinichiro Watanabe that aired in 2004-2005. He is a wild, unpredictable swordsman from the Ryukyu Islands...
Read article →Mugen is a vagabond swordsman in Edo-period Japan whose fighting style is a chaotic blend of breakdancing, capoeira, and pure improvisation. He has no formal training. He learned to fight on the stree...
Read article →Alucard is the protagonist of Hellsing, a manga by Kouta Hirano (1997-2008) adapted into two anime series: Hellsing (2001) and Hellsing Ultimate (2006-2012). He is the most powerful vampire in the ser...
Read article →Alucard is the most powerful vampire in existence and he is bored out of his mind. He serves the Hellsing Organization — a British agency that destroys supernatural threats — not out of loyalty but be...
Read article →Sanji Vinsmoke is the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates in One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. He is the third son of the Vinsmoke family, a royal lineage that rules the Germa Kingdom. His cooking skills are extra...
Read article →Sanji Vinsmoke is the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates. He fights exclusively with his legs because his hands are too valuable for cooking. He will never kick a woman, even if she is trying to kill him....
Read article →Armin Arlert is one of the three main characters in Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) by Hajime Isayama, alongside Eren Yeager and Mikasa Ackerman. He is Eren's childhood best friend and the strate...
Read article →Armin Arlert is physically the weakest member of the Survey Corps. He cannot fight. He vomits under pressure. He freezes when his friends are dying. And he is, by the end of Attack on Titan, the singl...
Read article →Nausicaa is the protagonist of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, a manga (1982-1994) and anime film (1984) by Hayao Miyazaki. She is the princess of the Valley of the Wind, a small kingdom on the ed...
Read article →Nausicaa is the princess of the Valley of the Wind — a small kingdom at the edge of the Toxic Jungle, a vast forest of poisonous spores that has been slowly consuming the Earth for a thousand years si...
Read article →Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American author known for his works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His most famous novel is Fahrenheit 451 (1953), about a future society where books are bann...
Read article →Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in nine days on a rented typewriter in the basement of UCLA's Powell Library. The cost was ten cents per half-hour. The total came to $9.80. The book — about a future...
Read article →Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American novelist and short story writer known for her Southern Gothic style and her exploration of morality, grace, and the grotesque. A devout Roman Catholic, sh...
Read article →Flannery O'Connor was a devout Catholic who wrote stories about serial killers, con artists, racist grandmothers, and people who find God in the most violent possible way. She lived on a farm in Mille...
Read article →Shota Aizawa, hero name Eraserhead, is the homeroom teacher of Class 1-A at UA High School in My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi. His Quirk, Erasure, allows him to nullify other people's Quirks by lo...
Read article →Shota Aizawa — hero name Eraserhead — teaches Class 1-A at UA High School while looking like he has not slept since the Meiji Restoration. He sleeps in a yellow sleeping bag during breaks. He drinks f...
Read article →Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer widely considered one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century. He defected from the Soviet Union in 1961 in a dram...
Read article →Rudolf Nureyev was born on a train crossing Siberia. He grew up in poverty in Ufa, Bashkiria, in a one-room apartment shared by his entire family. He began dancing late — at seventeen, far too old by...
Read article →Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom, meaning "Mighty Atom") is a fictional robot character created by Osamu Tezuka, first appearing in manga in 1952. He is a robot boy built by Dr. Tenma to replace his deceased...
Read article →Astro Boy — Tetsuwan Atom — is a robot child created by Dr. Tenma to replace his son Tobio, who died in a car accident. When Tenma realizes the robot cannot truly replace his son — it looks like Tobio...
Read article →Hinata Hyuga is a kunoichi (female ninja) from the Hidden Leaf Village in Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. She is the former heiress of the Hyuga clan and possesses the Byakugan, a visual ability that pro...
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