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Cartoon Network Founder Ted Turner Dies at 87 – News

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Media entrepreneur founded CNN, Turner Network, more


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Media entrepreneur Ted Turner died on Wednesday at 87 after a prolonged battle with Lewy body dementia. Turner’s official website announced the news on behalf of his family.

There is a private family service planned and a public memorial to come at a later date.

Turner was best known as the founder of CNN and the Turner Network, which includes Cartoon Network, TNT and TCM. He founded Cartoon Network in 1991 after purchasing Hanna-Barbera, and primarily focused on airing cartoons from the company at the time. Cartoon Network shares its channel with Adult Swim, the latter of which includes the Toonami and Toonami Rewind programming blocks that predominantly feature anime. Cartoon Network also previously aired the original Toonami block since 1997 before Adult Swim started in 2003.

After the Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner in 1996, he served on the board of directors as vice chairman and director through the years.

He was also known for his philanthropic work, including founding the Turner Foundation, which focuses on protecting natural systems and land preservation. He donated US$1 billion to help establish the United Nations Foundation. Turner co-founded the non-profit Nuclear Threat Initiative in 2001 with former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, which focuses on nuclear, biological, and emerging technology threats globally.

WarnerMedia announced a reorganization of its divisions in March 2019 that brought many of its subsidiaries and brands — including Otter Media (Ellation), Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and Boomerang — into a single “Global Kids & Young Adults” unit. The company announced in April 2021 that it united the Adult Swim and HBO Max adult animation development teams, and it appointed Suzanna Makkos in an expanded role as the executive vice president of original comedy and adult animation for both brands.

Sources: Turner Enterprises, Deadline (Ted Johnson, Greg Evans)


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Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret Manga Gets TV Anime in April – News

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An X (formerly Twitter) account opened on Monday to announce that a television anime of Kashiko Amane‘s Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret (Hōkago no Idol ni wa Himitsu ga Aru) manga will premiere next April.

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Image via Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret anime’s X/Twitter account

The main cast members are:

Hikaru Sato (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, Dropkick on My Devil!) is directing the anime at Gekkō, and Fumihiko Shimo is overseeing and writing the series scripts. Kibidango 14-gō (Azuma Tozawa) is designing the characters. Satoru Kōsaki and monaca are composing the music. Ryō Aizawa (Starry Cube) is producing.

Yen Press publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Hizashi Hiruno, a freshman at a super-elite high school, has just finished his first academic proficiency test of the year. He anxiously awaits the results, which will set the tone for his next three years at school. But due to a mistake on his answer sheet, he receives an abysmal score and gets sent to remedial lessons! If there’s one silver lining, he’s not the only one—and his comrade could be the girl of his dreams?!

Amane has been serializing the manga on Hakusensha‘s Young Anime Web site. Yen Press published the fourth manga volume in June.

Source: Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie


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4 of Dragon Ball Z’s Goku Voice Actors Perform Kamehameha Together – Interest

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If you thought a Kamehameha from one Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z was powerful, what about four? That very moment was captured by Mexican voice actor Georgina Sanchez last week. As four of the voices behind Son Goku, Masako Nozawa (Japanese, front and center), Mario Castañeda (Spanish, left), Sean Schemmel (English, center back), and Ankur Javeri (Hindi, right) performed the move before the Tokyo X convention in Houston.

Nozawa, Castaneda, Schemmel, and Javeri appeared at the Tokyo X convention at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas between September 26 and 27.

Dragon Ball Z was the second anime series to adapt Akira Toriyama‘s Dragon Ball manga. The anime series premiered in April 1989 and continued until January 1996. It spawned several feature-length films and the truncated Dragon Ball Kai anime series in 2009.

Nozawa holds the Guinness World Record for “voice actor who voiced the same character in a video game for the longest period” and “longest video game voice acting career,” for her work as Son Goku. She won one of the 71st Kan Kikuchi Prizes “as a traiblazing representative of Japanese voice actors” in 2023. In her acceptance speech, she confidently stated she will continue voice acting until she is 182 years old. The Japanese government honored her as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2025. She released a new line of merchandise in late August 2026 in celebration of her 90th birthday.

Sources: Georgina Sánchez’s Instagram account, Tokyo X’s website (link 2, link 3)


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Web Manga ‘Houkago no Idol ni wa Himitsu ga Aru’ Gets TV Anime in Spring 2027

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Production company Starry Cube opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Kashiko Amane‘s Houkago no Idol ni wa Himitsu ga Aru (Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret) web manga on Monday, revealing the main cast, staff, and a teaser visual (pictured). The anime series will premiere in April 2027.

Cast

Hiruno Hizashi: Reiji Kawashima (Fumetsu no Anata e)

Rei Kuromiya: Hikaru Tono (Make Heroine ga Oosugiru)

Sakura Akai: Iori Noguchi (=LOVE) (Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokatta tte.)

Sora Konno: Ami Maeshima (BanG Dream! 2nd Season)

Staff

Director: Hikaru Satou (Lycoris Recoil animation director)

Series Composition, Script: Fumihiko Shimo (Clannad)

Character Design: Azuma Tozawa (Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka.)

Music: Satoru Kousaki (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto), MONACA (Summertime Render)

Studio: Gekkou

Producer: Ryou Aizawa (Starry Cube) (Yuusha Party ni Kawaii Ko ga Ita node, Kokuhaku shitemita.)

Amane originally launched a preview serialization of the comedy romance manga in Young Animal magazine from July to August 2022. The series later began regular serialization on the Manga Park and Young Animal web service in September 2022. Hakusensha published the ninth volume on July 29.

Yen Press licensed the manga in English in August 2024. The fourth volume went on sale on June 9.

Synopsis

Hiruno Hizashi, a freshman at a super-elite high school, has just finished his first academic proficiency test of the year. He anxiously awaits the results, which will set the tone for his next three years at school. But due to a mistake on his answer sheet, he receives an abysmal score and gets sent to remedial lessons! If there’s one silver lining, he’s not the only one—and his comrade could be the girl of his dreams?! (Source: Yen Press)

Official site: https://idol-afterschool.com/

Official X: @idolafterschool

Source: animate Times

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