What Chinese novel was the inspiration for the franchise where Sean Schemmel had his most famous or notable voice role?
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Sean Schemmel Sean Christian Schemmel (born November 21, 1968) is an American voice actor, ADR director, and screenwriter who has worked for Funimation, OkraTron 5000, NYAV Post, 4K Media Inc., Central Park Media and DuArt Film and Video. He has provided voices for a number of English adaptations of Japanese anime, as well as various animated series and video games. His most notable voice role has been the adult version of Goku in the Funimation dub of the "Dragon Ball" anime franchise.
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Dragon Ball Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール , Hepburn: Doragon Bōru ) is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama. The initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters collected into 42 "tankōbon" volumes by its publisher Shueisha. "Dragon Ball" was initially inspired by the classical Chinese novel "Journey to the West". The series follows the adventures of the protagonist, Son Goku, from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls.
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List of Mario role-playing games The "Mario" franchise has inspired a variety of Mario role-playing video games to be released on multiple Nintendo video game consoles. All the games feature Mario as the protagonist, who is often accompanied by one or more playable characters, including existing "Mario" characters and original characters introduced in each game.
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Pokémon Theme The "Pokémon Theme" (also known as "Gotta Catch 'Em All") is a song written by John Siegler and John Loeffler and performed by Jason Paige. It was the theme song for the first season of the English adaptation of the "Pokémon" anime. Since its release, the song has been virtually synonymous with the "Pokémon" franchise because the line "Gotta Catch 'Em All" has become its official slogan.
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List of Square Enix video game franchises Square Enix is a Japanese video game development and publishing company formed from the merger of video game developer Square and publisher Enix on April 1, 2003. The company is best known for its role-playing video game franchises, which include the "Final Fantasy" series, the "Dragon Quest" series, and the action role-playing "Kingdom Hearts" series. Since its inception, the company has developed or published hundreds of titles in various video game franchises on numerous gaming systems. Of its properties, the "Final Fantasy" franchise is the best-selling, with a total worldwide sales of over 110 million units. The "Dragon Quest" series has shipped over 66 million units worldwide and is one of the most popular video game series in Japan, while the "Kingdom Hearts" series has shipped over 22 million copies worldwide.
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Dragon Age: The Calling Dragon Age: The Calling is a fantasy novel written by David Gaider based on the role-playing video game franchise "Dragon Age", and was released October 13, 2009. It is a sequel to "" and a prequel to "", published earlier the same year. The novel is set approximately fourteen years after the events of "The Stolen Throne" and focuses on King Maric Theirin, a young Duncan and the Grey Wardens.
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The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, also translated as The Sword and the Knife, is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It is the third instalment in the "Condor Trilogy" and is preceded by "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Return of the Condor Heroes". It was first serialised from 6 July 1961 to 2 September 1963 in the Hong Kong newspaper "Ming Pao".
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Shanghai Girls Shanghai Girls is a 2009 novel by Lisa See. It centers on the complex relationship between two sisters, Pearl and May, as they go through great pain and suffering in leaving war-torn Shanghai, and try to adjust to the difficult roles of wives in arranged marriages and of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. This work marks a return to many of the themes the author addressed in her first major work, "On Gold Mountain", a memoir of her family's history. The novel is set between 1937–57 and matches Parts IV and V of the memoir.
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Yang Ren Yang Ren (Chinese: 楊任; Pinyin: Yáng Rèn) is a character featured within the classic Chinese novel "Fengshen Yanyi".
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Once Upon a Time in China (film series) Once Upon a Time in China is a Hong Kong film franchise directed, written, and produced by Tsui Hark. The stories are based on the life of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung, who is portrayed by Jet Li in the first three films and Vincent Zhao in the fourth and fifth films. The first two films in the franchise were among the most popular of the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema (usually dated from 1986 to 1993) and were known for their depiction of Chinese nationalism as well as action choreography. The "Once Upon a Time in China" films were among Jet Li's best known hits at that time.
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Lian Cheng Jue (TV series) Lian Cheng Jue is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel "A Deadly Secret". The series was first broadcast on NMTV in China in 2004.
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The Princess Weiyoung The Princess Weiyoung (Chinese: 锦绣未央) is a 2016 Chinese television series starring Tiffany Tang in the title role, alongside Luo Jin, Vanness Wu, Mao Xiaotong and Li Xinai. It is adapted from the novel "The Poisonous Daughter" (庶女有毒) by Qin Jian and chronicles the story of a former princess who struggles to live with a fake identity and strives again for the peak of power, after her country is colonized. It is a fictionalized account of Emperor Wencheng of Northern Wei's reign and Empress Feng (Wencheng)'s regency. The series aired two episodes per day (1 episode on Saturdays) at 19:30 (GMT) on Dragon TV and Beijing TV from 11 November to 9 December 2016.
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Madeline (video game series) Madeline is a series of educational point-and-click adventure video games developed in the mid 1990s for Windows and Mac systems. The series is an extension of the "Madeline" franchise, a series of children's books written by Ludwig Bemelmans, which feature the adventures of a young French heroine named Madeline. The series was produced concurrently with the TV series of the same name and featured characters and voice actors from the show.
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China Rich Girlfriend China Rich Girlfriend is the 2015 sequel to Kevin Kwan's "Crazy Rich Asians", a novel about the wealthy Singapore elite. Kwan was urged to write the sequel by his publishers after the initial success of "Crazy Rich Asians".
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Pao Tcheou Pao Tcheou is a fictional character from a series of French novels. Referring to himself as "Maitre de L'invisible" ("Master of the Invisible"), due to his ability to turn himself invisible, Pao is a megalomaniacal Chinese villain, evocative of the Yellow Peril and similar to the famous Fu Manchu; indeed he is supposedly his cousin.
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San zhi xiao zhu San zhi xiao zhu is the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of the Chinese language name for the popular folk-tale "The Three Little Pigs". In late 2005, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan listed the phrase in an appendix to its online "chengyu" (idiom) dictionary; media reports on the listing surfaced in Taiwan and later Hong Kong in late January 2007, generating a controversy over the definition of "chengyu" in which academics and members of the public criticised the Ministry of Education.
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Xiaoli Feidao The Xiaoli Feidao series is a "wuxia" novel series by Gu Long.
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Dynasty Warriors 3 Dynasty Warriors 3 (真・三國無双2 , Shin Sangokumusō 2 , Shin Sangokumusou 2 in Japan) is a hack and slash video game developed by Omega Force (ω-force) and published by Koei and THQ (PAL only). It is third in the "Dynasty Warriors" series in North America and the second in the "Shin Sangokumusou" series in Japan. It is a spin-off from the video game "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and based around a series of books by the same name, written by Luo Guanzhong. It contains a number of fictional and non-fictional elements from the same era in Chinese history that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is set but follows the main events of part of the story which is to unify China under the single rule of a kingdom.
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Durarara!! Durarara!! (デュラララ!! ) , often shortened to DRRR!!, is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda, that has also been adapted into a Japanese anime series. "Durarara!!" tells the story of a dullahan working as an underworld courier in Ikebukuro, an internet-based anonymous gang called The Dollars, and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in Ikebukuro. The series ran for thirteen volumes, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. In April 2014, a sequel series titled "Durarara!! SH" (デュラララ!! SH , Durarara!! SH ) and set two years after the events of the original series started.
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Fortress Besieged Fortress Besieged (Simplified Chinese: 围城; Traditional Chinese: 圍城; Pinyin: wéi chéng) is a Chinese satiric novel written by Qian Zhongshu, first published in 1947, and widely considered one of the masterpieces of twentieth century Chinese literature. The novel is a humorous tale about middle-class Chinese society in the late 1930s. It was made into a popular television series in the early 1990s.
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Mandarin (novel) Mandarin is a Robert Elegant historical novel published by Simon & Schuster in 1983. It is set in China during the Taiping Rebellion. It is the third to appear of Elegant's "Imperial China Trilogy", the first being "Dynasty" (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977) and the second being "Manchu" (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980).
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Chander Pahar (franchise) Chander Pahar is an Indian Bengali language franchise consisting of novels, graphic novels and a film series. The original work is a 1937 novel named "Chander Pahar", written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. It was translated to English in 2002 by Santanu Sinha Choudhuri and Pradeep Kumar Sinha, published by Orient Blackswan. The English version of the novel was titled "Mountain of the Moon". Bandyopadhyay’s story was adapted into a Graphic novel and a live-action film in 2013. A sequel to the 2013 film "Amazon Obhijaan", written by the director of the first film Kamaleswar Mukherjee, will be released in 2016.