Giant Robo (ジャイアントãƒãƒœ, Jaianto Robo), is a tokusatsu, anime and manga series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama.
Robots may be constructed on the lines of human form, but most robots are machines designed to perform a task with no regard to their aesthetics.
Tokusatsu (特撮, Tokusatsu) is a Japanese loanword which originally meant both “special effects” in general and more specifically, a genre of live-action Japanese entertainment, encompassing many subgenres of film and television; however, in non-Japanese languages, it only refers to the second definition.
Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Under this brand Matsushita sells both plasma and CRT television sets, DVD players, telephones, projectors, VCRs, digital cameras, laptop computers under the sub-brand Toughbook, portable CD and analog tape decks and home stereo equipment, all of which are marketed under their slogan “Ideas for Life.”
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an image sensor, consisting of an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, light-sensitive capacitors. This device is also known as a Color-Capture Device.
Rie Miyazawa (Miyazawa Rie, 宮沢りãˆ, born April 6, 1973) is a Japanese actress and singer.
Hitachi Maxell (日立マクセル, Hitachi Makuseru), or Maxell, is a Japanese company which manufactures consumer electronics. The company’s most notable products are batteries — the company’s name is a contraction of “maximum capacity dry cell” — and recording media, including audio cassettes and video tapes, and recordable optical discs like CD-R/RW and DVD±RW. The company also sells electronics accessories, like CD and DVD laser cleaners.
Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. In virtually all cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds. Video tape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs or, more common, video cassette recorders (VCRs)) and video cameras. Tape is a linear method of storing information, and since nearly all video recordings made nowadays are digital, it is expected to gradually lose importance as non-linear/random access methods of storing digital video data are becoming more common.