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The Magnificent Kotobuki

Japanese anime television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Magnificent Kotobuki is an anime television series produced by GEMBA, which aired from January to March 2019. A smartphone game titled Kōya no Kotobuki Hikōtai - Ōzora no Take Off Girls! was released in February 2019. A compilation film titled The Magnificent Kotobuki Complete Edition premiered in September 2020.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Magnificent Kotobuki” as japanese anime television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Magnificent, Kotobuki and Japanese.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Magnificent, Kotobuki and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Magnificent Kotobuki”, the useful work is to connect “japanese anime television series” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2019 and 2020.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Magnificent Kotobuki”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Magnificent Kotobuki primary sources, The Magnificent Kotobuki archive and Magnificent research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Magnificent Kotobuki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.