Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera Productions. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured teenagers Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and their talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.
We are what we watch-and over the last half century, we've watched some pretty fabulous TV. From Mary to Jerry, from Tonight to Today, from the sublime (Prime Suspect) to the ridiculous (Gilligan's Island), EW recalls everything you need to know about 100 shows that tell us who we are.
While not based on a story by Toriyama, the franchise's creator still played a role in the series' development. Taking place five years after the conclusion of DBZ -- ten years in the Funimation dub -- Goku completes training Uub just as Emperor Pilaff and his associates infiltrate the Lookout to steal the Black Star Dragon Balls, the original Dragon Balls created when Piccolo and Kami were a single being. Accidentally wishing Goku back into a child, the heroes were shocked to discover they only had one year to travel the cosmos and bring all seven Black Star Dragon Balls back to Earth to prevent its destruction. Accompanied by Trunks and his granddaughter Pan, Goku encountered many powerful enemies in his travels and achieved the new combat transformation Super Saiyan 4.
A series of heist films centering around the characters of John Hartley, Nolan Booth, and Sarah Black.
Based on the novel Startling by Each Step (Bu Bu Jing Xin, 步步惊心) by Tong Hua.
Nekketsu refers to a canvas and a genre used in manga (especially shōnen) and shōsetsu (novels). It is directly inspired by the concept of monomyth as described by Joseph Campbell. Osamu Tezuka is credited with having created the genre, through his manga New Treasure Island.
The DC Universe (DCU) is an upcoming American media franchise and shared universe based on characters from DC Comics publications. It was created by James Gunn and Peter Safran, co-chairmen and co-CEOs of DC Studios. The franchise is a soft reboot of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), a film franchise featuring DC characters.
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