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Ponyo is a goldfish princess who lives at the bottom of the ocean with a father who is a wizard and a mother who is the sea. She escapes to the surface, meets a five-year-old boy named Sosuke, decides...
Read article →Ashitaka is the protagonist of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime), a 1997 animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. He is a young Emishi prince who is cursed by a demon-possessed boar god a...
Read article →Prince Ashitaka is cursed. A demon-possessed boar attacks his village in the opening minutes of Princess Mononoke, and Ashitaka kills it — but not before the curse transfers to his arm. The curse give...
Read article →Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) was an American author, poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and playwright. He is best known for his children's poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in...
Read article →Shel Silverstein looked like a biker and wrote like a child's best friend. He was bald, bearded, and built like someone who had been in a few fights. He wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the A...
Read article →Osamu Dazai is a main character in Bungo Stray Dogs (Bungou Stray Dogs), a manga and anime by Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa. He is a member of the Armed Detective Agency and a former executive of t...
Read article →Osamu Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs is a former executive of the Port Mafia turned detective who talks about suicide the way other people talk about lunch plans. He is brilliant, manipulative, charming, l...
Read article →Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French painter and the founder of Impressionism, the art movement that revolutionized European painting in the late 19th century. He is best known for his water lily pai...
Read article →Claude Monet spent the last thirty years of his life painting the same water lily pond in his garden at Giverny. He painted it in morning light, afternoon light, under overcast skies, in winter, in su...
Read article →Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist known for woodblock prints and paintings. His most famous work, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1831), is one of the most recognized artwor...
Read article →Katsushika Hokusai created The Great Wave off Kanagawa — the most reproduced image in the history of art — when he was approximately seventy years old. He had been making art for over fifty years at t...
Read article →Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist known as the Mother of American Modernism. She is best known for her large-scale paintings of flowers, New Mexico landscapes, and animal skulls. Her...
Read article →Georgia O'Keeffe painted flowers so large they filled entire canvases — not because she liked flowers, but because nobody really sees a flower. She said it herself: nobody sees a flower really, it is...
Read article →Yuji Itadori is the protagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami. He is a high school student with exceptional physical abilities who becomes the vessel of Ryomen Sukuna, the King of Curses, after sw...
Read article →Yuji Itadori is a high school student with abnormal physical strength who ate a cursed finger belonging to the King of Curses because his friends were about to die and it was the only weapon available...
Read article →Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was an English novelist and poet, best known for her only novel Wuthering Heights (1847). She was the middle sister of the Bronte literary family, alongside Charlotte (Jane Ey...
Read article →Emily Bronte published one novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1847, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. She died the following year at thirty. The novel was not popular. Critics called it wild, confused, and mo...
Read article →Rock Lee is a shinobi from the Hidden Leaf Village in Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. He is notable for being unable to use ninjutsu (ninja techniques) or genjutsu (illusion techniques), relying exclusiv...
Read article →Rock Lee has no talent for ninjutsu or genjutsu. In a world where ninjas define themselves through their supernatural techniques, Lee can do nothing supernatural. He can only punch, kick, and run. He...
Read article →Ebenezer Scrooge is the protagonist of A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. He is a wealthy but miserly London businessman who despises Christmas and treats his employee Bob Cratchit and every...
Read article →Ebenezer Scrooge is fiction's most famous miser, and A Christmas Carol is the most successful redemption story ever written. Charles Dickens published it in 1843, and it has not been out of print sinc...
Read article →Doraemon is a fictional robot cat and the title character of the manga and anime series Doraemon, created by Fujiko F. Fujio. First published in 1969, the series follows Doraemon, a cat-shaped robot f...
Read article →Doraemon is a blue robot cat from the 22nd century who lives in a ten-year-old boy's desk drawer. He was sent back in time because Nobita Nobi — the boy — grows up to be such a failure that his descen...
Read article →Madara Uchiha is a legendary shinobi and the primary antagonist of Naruto Shippuden. He was the leader of the Uchiha clan during the Warring States Period and co-founded the Hidden Leaf Village alongs...
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