Kaz

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Kazé

Kazé is a French publishing company that specializes in anime. Founded in 1994, the company debuted by publishing Chronicles of Lodoss War on VHS.

After 15 years, Kaze became Kazé in 2010, in hopes that the addition of an accent allowed for a better pronunciation of its name. It published numerous series of Japanese animations in French and became one of the largest independent publishers of video and manga in Europe.

In 2005, Kazé launched its music label, Wasabi Records, specializing in J-Pop. In the last few years, the company has diversified its activities by publishing Japanese animated feature films, such as Appleseed, Origin and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. In 2007, Kazé released Shinobi, its first live-action film, to theaters in France, and in July 2009, Kazé launched its own television channel, KZTV (Kazé TV), devoted to anime.

On August 28, 2009, Kazé announced its acquisition by Viz Media Europe, a subsidiary of Shogakukan and Shueisha.

Prior to the purchase, the company's manga was published under the Asuka imprint. Since January 2010, only yaoi titles have been released under the Asuka imprint; the majority of titles were moved to the company's new Kaze imprint, including later volumes of non-yaoi series started under the Asuka imprint. Asuka's current licenses include a broad spectrum of manga: popular shōnen and shōjo series such as After School Nightmare, more mature seinen and josei titles such as Bokurano, and classic manga such as Black Jack and works by Osamu Tezuka. They also publish a number of yaoi and yuri titles, including a French edition of Be x Boy magazine.

Frankie Kazarian

Frank Benedict "Frankie" Gerdelman (born August 4, 1977) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed with Ring of Honor (ROH) under the ring name Frankie Kazarian and is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with Christopher Daniels. He is best known for his work with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), under the ring names Kazarian and Kaz, he also wrestled under the gimmick of Suicide.

Kazarian also wrestled in the independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he is two time former world champion, having won the PWG World Championship in 2003 and 2004. Also, he is the inaugural PWG World Champion when he won the Bad Ass Mother tournament. Kazarian is also a five-time TNA X Division Champion and a three-time TNA World Tag Team Champion.

Professional wrestling career

Kazarian began training with Killer Kowalski in Malden, Massachusetts in 1998, and wrestled his debut match after one month's training, facing Freight Train Dan. After remaining at Kowalski's school for eight months, Kazarian returned to Southern California and began wrestling on the independent circuit, primarily in the Empire Wrestling Federation, where he continued his training and teamed with Josh Galaxy as "Bad Influence".

List of Dragonlance characters

This is a list of Dragonlance characters and their early life in the series.

Characters

Alhana Starbreeze

Alhana Starbreeze, Silvanesti Elf, is first introduced in Dragons of Winter Night as the daughter of Speaker of the Stars Lorac Caladon. During the War of the Lance, Alhana leads her people in exile to Ergoth. She later brings the Heroes of the Lance to Silvanesti where they encounter the nightmare and fight the dragon Cyan Bloodbane. Alhana fell in love with Sturm Brightblade and even gave him a starjewel, but their love could never be, and he died soon afterwards. She later marries Porthios Kanan and works with him to eradicate the dream from Silvanesti, although theirs is a chilly and mainly political marriage. Eventually they grow to love each other. During the Chaos War, she gives birth to a son, Silvanoshei. Years later during the War of Souls, Silvanoshei would fall in love with Mina and follows her to Sanction. There, he kills Takhisis and Mina kills him in turn. Alhana names her nephew Gilthas leader of the elven people and departs.

Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis

Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis, or Kaz (born 1959, Hoboken, New Jersey), is an American cartoonist and illustrator. In the 1980s, after attending New York City's School of the Visual Arts, he was a frequent contributor to the comic anthologies RAW and Weirdo. Since 1992, he has drawn Underworld, an adult-themed syndicated comic strip that appears in many alternative weeklies.

Kaz's comics and drawings have appeared in many alternative and mainstream publications including Details, The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, The Village Voice, The East Village Eye, Swank, RAW, SF Bay Guardian, Eclipse, N.Y. Rocker, New York Press, Screw and Bridal Guide. He has continued to contribute to comics anthologies such as Zero Zero.

Kaz has also worked on several animated television shows including SpongeBob SquarePants, Camp Lazlo and Phineas and Ferb. He was co-executive producer of Get Blake!.

With Derek Drymon, Kaz co-wrote and storyboarded the pilot episode for the forthcoming Diggs Tailwagger. In September 2006, Kaz left Camp Lazlo to work on another pilot for a Cartoon Network show, Zoot Rumpus, based on a character from Underworld.

List of Chaotic characters

This is a list of characters in the TV series Chaotic.

Main characters

Tom Majors

Thomas Anthony "Tom" Majors is the main protagonist. At his school, no one's a better Chaotic player than Tom. When he first heard about the real Chaotic from Kaz, he thought he was crazy until he experienced it for himself. Throughout the series, Tom learns various helpful strategies in his adventures through Perim with Kaz, Sarah, and Peyton. He used to only use OverWorlders, but has added scans of other tribes since entering Chaotic and exploring Perim, much like Kaz who uses all tribes in an UnderWorlder-dominant deck. He is always looking for BattleGear and Locations. So far, Tom has befriended Mezzmar, Najarin, Intress, Antidaeon, Frafdo, Yokkis (sort of), Tiaane, and his favorite OverWorlder, Maxxor. Tom lost his Maxxor card in a bet (his Maxxor for a Castle Bodhran scan) while trying to help a friend. But he gained a new scan of Maxxor after helping him regain all of his powers from the effects of the Decomposition Mugic. He later battled Codemaster Crellan for the second time and beat him, receiving a Location scan of Prexxor Chasm as a prize. His screenname in Chaotic is MajorTom, a reverse of his name, Tom Majors, which could be a possible influence from David Bowie.