[[Image:Nagarebosi01.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Run and Run!]]
'''Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin''' ('''銀牙　流れ星銀''') is a epic story starring [[talking animal]]s ([[dog]]s) created by [[Wikipedia:Yoshihiro Takahashi|Yoshihiro Takahashi]]. The [[anime]] follows the [[Wikipedia:Manga|manga]] produced by the [[Wikipedia:Toei Animation|Toei Animation]] studios, and was first aired on TV Asahi on April 7th, 1986, ending September 22nd of the same year. The show had 25 episodes in it's short airtime. Despite this, the show was a cult hit, and it aired in Korea and later in Europe under the name '''Silver Fang'''.

It's successor, Ginga Densetsu WEED (銀牙伝説WEED), is currently airing in Japan on Animax.

== Plot ==

Gin, the third generation of bear-dogs goes through many hardships for the purpose of stopping the terrifying bear, Akakabuto

== External links ==

* [http://www.gingaworld.net/ Ginga World: The Northern Europe Spirit of Silver Fang]
* [http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/lineup/tv/nagareboshi_gin/ Official Website (Toei)]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginga:_Nagareboshi_Gin wiki on Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]

[[Category:Anime]]

Cyber Fox:

[[Image:Zorori.JPG|thumb|right|Zorori with his troublesome friends Ishishi & Noshishi]]
'''Kaiketsu Zorori''' (or '''Legendary Zorori''') (かいけつゾロリ) is a [[Anime]] filled with gags & unbelievable pranks.

Zorori's Voice Actor is Koichi Yamadera, who did the voice of Spike for ''Cowboy Bebop''.

The series started as a [[Manga]] in 1987; ever since then Zorori has been a popular character.

The anime ''Kaiketsu Zorori'' premiered in Februrary of 2004 and just like the manga that started it was a huge success.

In one episode, Zorori kept making incredibly bad puns (plays on words), and many kids began to imitate their favorite [[fox]] by punning left and right at home and at school.

Sadly though, despite Zorori's success in Japan, Zorori never got licensed for a Stateside debut (or anywhere worldwide!)

In 2005, Zorori returned in '''Majime ne Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori''' (which is technically the second season of Kaiketsu Zorori).

Zorori may be a good example of a [[Kitsune]], considering his moderate disguising skill and love of trickery.

== Plot ==

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The show features a 119-year old kitsune (fox) called Zorori, who embarks on a journey to train in the art of mischief making together with his friends, a pair of twin wild boars. The three friends travel from place to place, sparing no effort to play practical jokes on those they meet. Zorori's pranks often backfire, which ends up making his target happy, but every time he finds himself in a pinch, he comes up with some clever idea that allows him to wriggle out of trouble. Zorori's dream is to become the king of mischief, build a castle all for himself, and marry a beautiful woman. Will he ever realize this dream?

== Video Games ==
during the success of the Kaiketsu Zorori anime
there were two video games (Japan Only)
*'''Kaiketsu Zorori to Mahou no Yuuenchi Ohimesama wo Sukue!''' (Game Boy Advance) - July 15th, 2004
Plot of game:Zorori and friends have made their way to an amusement park for this latest cartoon to game adaptation, called Kaiketsu Zorori to Mahou no Yuuenchi Ohimesama wo Sukue! In order to save the princess, you must clear 20 different mini games. Mini games are split into four areas of the park: adventure zone, sports zone, future zone and "Oyaji" (old man) gag zone. Your performance in the mini games rewards you with stamps that can be used to purchase items in a shop.
*'''Kaiketsu Zorori Mezase! Itazura King''' (PlayStation 2/Eye Toy) - April 28th, 2004
plot of game: Game based on the popular Japanese children's book character Kaiketsu Zorori, the "King of Mischief." Using the EyeToy camera, you can put yourself in the game and appear alongside Zorori, Ishishi and friends. There are nine different types of mischief you can cause -- the ultimate objective is to outdo Zorori himself. There is also a party mode where up to four players compete consecutively to become the King of Pranks.

== External links ==

* [http://www1.nagoyatv.com/zorori/ Official Site]
* [http://www.zorori.jp/ Official Site #2]
* [http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/cool/05-05/cool050502.html What's Cool In Japan article]

[[Category:Anime]]

Sly Cooper

2005-10-18T04:16:55Z

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[[Image:S23685 ps2 14.jpg|thumb|right|It's Sly Cooper!]]
Sly Cooper (known as Sly Raccoon in Europe) is the star character and anti-hero of three platform games developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the Sony PlayStation 2.

== Story ==

Sly is a young raccoon who is descended from a long line of master thieves. He grew up an orphan after his father was killed by a gang known as the Fiendish Five. This gang also stole the Thievius Raccoonus, a book containing the Cooper family's thieving techniques. Sly's quest to recover his family's book is the basis for the first game.

Sly's primary weapon in the games is his family's cane.

Sly Cooper is aided in his adventures by his friends Bentley, a brainy turtle, and Murray, a strong, muscular hippopotamus].

Sly and his friends make their home in Paris, but the nationality of the characters is never made clear in the games.

The world in which Sly Cooper and his friends live appears to be inhabited only by anthropomorphic animals.

Sly's archenemy is Clockwerk, a mysterious robotic owl. He is likely the only animal in the game that is sapient, but not anthropomorphic. Clockwerk is revealed to have been hunting Sly's family line for years, which led to his decision to replace his body with machinery. It is also revealed that Clockwerk spared his life in the attack on his family to prove that the Cooper Clan would be unable to be great thieves without the Thievius Raccoonus.

In the first game, Clockwerk serves as the final boss, as well as the man "pulling the strings".

The second game focuses on a different gang, the Klaww Gang, who has stolen the pieces of Clockwerk's body that were left over after the first game to use in their own plans, and Sly's attempts to recover them.

In both games, Cooper and his friends are pursued by Inspector Carmelita Fox, a detective from Interpol. Although the two are bitter rivals, they team up on occasion to defeat common foes. Carmelita is also portrayed as a possible love interest for Sly.

Sly Cooper and other characters from the games were also featured in a comic book published in 2004 by Gamepro Magazine to promote the release of '''Sly 2: Band of Thieves'''. Issue #2 was made in 2005 to promote '''Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves'''.

The third game, '''Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves''', takes place about a year after '''Sly 2: Band of Thieves'''. It's the first in the series where Clockwerk isn't the main enemy.

==Biography==
Born into a long line of thieves, Sly was destined to inherit the archive of their techniques, the Thievius Raccoonus. However, Sly is robbed of his family and his inheritance when a ruthless gang of thieves raids his home and kills his family, along with stealing and dividing the Thievius Raccoonus. Sly winds up in an orphanage, where he meets his two best friends, Bentley the turtle and Murray the hippo. After forming their brotherhood, they set out to make a name for themselves. In doing so, they earn the attention of Inspector Carmelita Fox, whom Sly becomes rather attracted too.

After years of searching, Sly finds out where the Fiendish Five are and takes them down one by one. He learns about Clockwerk's relation to his family, and retrieves the Thievius Raccoonus. Afterwards, he tricks Carmelita with a kiss, and her reaction, though unnoticed by Sly, shows that she in turn cares for him.

Two years later, Sly and co. return to destroy the Clockwerk parts to prevent their use by evil. After surving harrowing challenges, they defeat the Klaww Gang. Meanwhile, Sly's feelings of friendship with his pals and attraction towards Carmelita grow. This adventure ends in tragedy, as Bentley is injured.

A year later, Sly goes after the Cooper Vault, the location of his family's stolen fortune. Recruiting several new members to the team, Sly sets out to break into it. Along the way, Sly conflicts with the addition of Panda King to the group. Finally, druing a near fatal encounter with Dr. M's simian monster, Sly realizes how much Carmelita means to him. After the final battle with M, Sly is hit and then fakes amnesia, causing Carmelita to take him home with her. In reality, Sly did it to grow closer to her.

==Allies==

'''Cooper Gang'''

*'''Bentley'''- A turtle who Sly met at the orphanage, Bentley is the brains of Sly's gang. Originally a timid computer expert, Bentley evolved into a confident demolitions expert. During the final battle with Clockwerk, Bentley received an injury that left him confined to a wheelchair. Undaunted, he tricked out the wheelchair with bombs and heavy-duty sleep darts.

*'''Murray'''- A hippo who Sly met at the orphanage, Murray is the team's muscle. Like Bentley, Murray was rather nervous about field work, but worked as the gang's getaway driver. Two years after the Fiendish Five, Murray had transformed into a mighty wrestler known as "the Murray". Because he blamed himself for Bentley's injury, Murray attempted to find solace. However, he quickly returned to help out his buddies.

*'''The Guru'''- An Australian Aborigini and master of the mystic "Dream Time", the Guru served as Murray's teacher. He later joined the gang, serving as mystic expert. The Guru's gear consists of a walking stick and Moon Stone, and he speaks in an odd language that only other characters can understand.

*'''Penelope'''- A skilled pilot and tech expert, Penelope is a female version of Bentley except for the fact that she is a mouse. Under the alias of the "Black Baron", Penelope was a top pilot in Holland whom the gang recruited for battling Dr. M. She and Bentley later fall in love like Sly and Carmelita.

*'''Panda King'''- A former member of the Fiendish Five, Panda King now joins the Cooper Gang as their demolitions expert on the condition that they help him save his daughter, Jing King, from the evil General Tsao.

*'''Dimitri'''- A former KLAWW gang member, Dimitri now joins the gang as their frogman on the count that they help him find his grandfather's diving gear and stolen treasure from pirates.

'''Interpol'''

*'''Inspector Carmelita Fox'''- An Interpol inspector, Carmelita has devoted years of her life to pursuing Sly Cooper and his cohorts. Equipped with an electrical pistol, Carmelita is obsessive in her hunting of Sly. There is obviously more to this relationship than she is willing to admit, but she has worked with Sly several times.

==Enemies==

''Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus''

'''The Fiendish Five'''

*'''Clockwerk''' - An owl who some time in the distant past developed a hatred for the Cooper clan. Clockwerk founded the Fiendish Five, and personally wiped out Sly's parents. The giant bird has replaced his body with robotic parts to supplement his hatred of the Cooper clan, which kept him alive. Clockwerk then confronted Sly in battle, and Sly beat him by destroying his head. However, Clockwerk's spectre would return to haunt Sly in the form of his components, which were stolen by the Klaww Gang.

*'''Muggshot the Bulldog''' - Born the runt of the litter, Muggshot was mocked and teased by everyone in the neighborhood. The only friends he could find were on the big screen, where he saw his first gangster. Inspired, Muggshot worked out for the rest of his childhood, turning into a gigantic mass of muscle. Following his theft of Tennessee Kid Cooper's section of the Thievius Raccoonus, he took off for Mesa City to establish himself as a gambling kingpin. However, Sly and the gang were able to defeat him, and he was dragged off to jail. He later reappears in Holland at the ACES competition, fails in his attempt to destroy the Cooper Gang's plane and hangar, and is then busted by Inspector Carmelita.

*'''Mz. Ruby''' - As the descendant of a family of voodoo mystics, Mz. Ruby was feared as a child. Learning to summon the undead, Mz. Ruby turned to crime. After she stole Slytankhamen's section of the Thievius Raccoonus, she headed into the Haitian jungle. She established a massive voodoo facility, creating an army of voodoo zombies. However, Sly was able to penetrate her Skull Temple, and beat her in a voodoo face off. Mz. Ruby's zombie production (illegal worldwide) earned her a life sentence in jail.

*'''Panda King''' - A poor child growing up on the streets of China, the Panda King was fascinated with fireworks. He spent 10 years learning the art, then attempted to present his works to the noblemen of China, which did not go well. He was chased away, and took revenge by turning into a demolitions master. However, he would later end up joining forces with Sly to reclaim his daughter from General Tsao, and officially joined the Cooper Gang once that was accomplished.

*'''Sir Raleigh''' - Wealthy, priveleged, and living in luxury, Sir Raleigh nevertheless grew bored with his life. He tried piracy at one point, and found it to his liking. Becoming addicted to crime, Raleigh joined the Fiendish Five, establishing himself as Chief Machinist.

''Sly 2: Band of Thieves''

'''The Klaww Gang'''

*'''Arpeggio''' - Though he was a brilliant being, Arpeggio was dissatisfied. While attending a prestigious boarding school, he found himself to be physically infuriating: his tiny wings would not allow him to fly. Arpeggio turned to the works of the Italian masters of the Renaissance period, looking at their designs of flying machines in search of a way to make himself fly. He came into the Klaww Gang as mechanical expert, and serviced all the Clockwerk parts for use in the Klaww Gang's schemes. However, Arpeggio secretly planned to reassemble Clockwerk and merge with him, giving him not only the ability to fly, but making him immortal. He hired a young protege, but she also had dreams of grandure and betrayed him.

*'''The Contessa''' - A prominent hypnotist and prison warden working for Interpol, the Contessa first appeared at Rajan's ball in India. She then captured Sly, Murray, and Carmelita at Rajan's temple, following Neyla's betrayal. Bentley pursues them to the Contessa's clinic in Prague, where he learns of her secret membership in the Klaww Gang. The Contessa was married to a wealthy aristocrat but he died soon afterwards, very likely poisoned by his wife. She opened part of her newly accquired estate as her clinic. The Contessa's plot: using hypnotism to cure criminals of their unlawful conditions, while in reality forcing them to reveal the locations of their loot and clearing the field of competition. To this end, she uses Clockwerk's eyes to mesmerize her enemies.

*'''Constable Neyla''' - When Sly comes to steal the Clockwerk parts, he runs into Carmelita and her new partner, Constable Neyla. Neyla intentionally mentions the Klaww Gang in Sly's hearing range, to set him loose upon the criminals. She appears to be another love interest for Sly, until she betrays him to the Contessa at Rajan's spice temple. From that point, it seems that Neyla has her own agenda to fulfill, and is in truth a protege of Arpeggio, only to turn on him as well, and merges with the Clockwerk parts to become Clock-la. In the end, Sly, Murray, Bentley and Carmelita work together to put an end to Neyla's evil schemes once and for all.

*'''Dimitri''' - Once a passionate artist, Dimitri's unique "kinetic aesthetic" didn't sit well with the art community. In rage, Dimitri took to forging old masterpieces, punishing the world for his dismissal. Dimitri set up a sleazy nightclub in Paris, where he funneled Rajan's illegal spice through the city in preparation for Arpeggio's master plan. He also had set up a counterfeit money printing press beneath the club, using the Clockwerk Tail Feathers as plates. After his defeat, he tries his hand as a dance instructor, before returning to crime as a member of Sly's team.

*'''Jean Bison''' - A prospector from the 1850's, Jean Bison was frozen alive in an avalanche he set off by accident. After 120 years in the cooler, global warming thawed him out. Jean Bison remained true to his time, seeking to tame the wild by damming every river and chopping down every tree. He joined the Klaww Gang to bankroll his war on nature, and attached the Clockwerk Lungs and Stomach to his three best trains: the Iron Horses. He also holds the talons that he keeps on his walking cane as a showpiece.

*'''Rajan''' - Growing up poor on the streets of Calcutta, Rajan started his life of crime early, selling black market spices (technically drugs, though not said) that cause the consumers to become uncontrollably enraged, as well as making them hypnosis-susceptable. Rajan holds Clockwerk's wings as a decorative piece in his temple, and the heart as a water pump in his spice growing operation.

''Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves''
*'''Dr. M''' - Dr. M has been trying to get into the Cooper Vault for years without success. His increased frustration has led to his building an impregnable fortress around the Vault. This fortress leads Sly to recruit an army of world class thieves.
*'''Octavio''' - Octavio was one of the greatest opera singers of his time and was about to hit the big time when the tastes of society in music changed from "calm and beautiful" to "hard and metal". He was then taken into "the business" by his few remaining fans (Italian mobsters) and eventually rises in power to become infamous for his control over the city of Venice.
*'''Muggshot''' - See Fiendish Five.
*'''Penelope "The Black Baron"''' - The Black Baron is a mysterious pilot that holds a dog-fighting championship in Holland every year, little is known about him except that when thing don't go his way, he does what he does best. Cheat.
*'''Mask of Dark Earth'''
*'''General Tsao'''- A ruthless and evil general, Tsao is obsessed with tyranny and power. He kidnapped the Panda King's daughter and attempts to make her his wife in a forced marriage, as Tsao believes that this will honor his family's name and enable him to rule China with an iron fist. Usually found kicking puppies and being self-centered.
*'''Captain LeFwee'''- Reputed to be the smartest man on the seven seas, LeFwee stole Reme Lousteau's treasure map from Black Spot Pete.

== Awards ==
Sly Cooper won "Best New Character" at the Game Developer's Conference for 2002.

==External links==
*[http://www.suckerpunch.com Sucker Punch Productions, Creators of Sly Cooper]
*[http://slycooper.t35.com/index2.html Sly Cooper Fansite]

[[Category:Video games]]