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Makina-san's a Love Bot?!

Makina-san's a Love Bot?! (かくして!マキナさん!!, Kakushite! Makina-san!!) is a full-color comedy-romance manga by Yoshimi Sato, serialized in Futabasha's Monthly Action then Web Comic Action, with a 2025 BloomZ anime and Seven Seas Ghost Ship English release.

Making a Murderer

Making a Murderer is a 2015 American true-crime documentary series by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos following Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, convicted of murdering Teresa Halbach.

Making capacity

Making capacity is the rated peak current, including DC offset, that a circuit breaker can close onto during a short circuit, roughly 2.5 times its breaking current.

Making Fiends

Making Fiends is a 2003 flash-animated web series by Amy Winfrey about Vendetta, who terrorizes Clamburg with fiends, and cheerful Charlotte; adapted into a six-episode Nicktoons TV series in 2008.

Making History (novel)

Making History is a 1996 alternate history novel by Stephen Fry in which two men use a time machine to prevent Adolf Hitler's birth, with unforeseen consequences.

Making History (TV series)

Making History, Fox 2017 time-travel sitcom created by Julius Sharpe, starring Adam Pally, Leighton Meester, Yassir Lester; duffel-bag time machine, colonial Massachusetts, 9 episodes, canceled after one season.

Making It (TV series)

Making It is an NBC American crafting competition (2018-2021, 3 seasons) hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, judged by Simon Doonan and Dayna Isom Johnson, with a $100,000 Master Maker prize.

Making Love

Making Love is a 1982 American drama directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, and Harry Hamlin, about a married doctor confronting his attraction to men.

Making Love Out of Nothing at All

"Making Love Out of Nothing at All" is a 1983 song by Air Supply, written and produced by Jim Steinman, with lead vocal by Russell Hitchcock.

Making Movies

Making Movies is a 1980 studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, produced by Jimmy Iovine and Mark Knopfler, that reached number 4 in the UK.

Making Mr. Right

Making Mr. Right is a 1987 Orion Pictures sci-fi romantic comedy directed by Susan Seidelman, starring John Malkovich as scientist Jeff Peters and his android Ulysses, with Ann Magnuson as PR expert Frankie Stone; released 10 April 1987, 98 minutes, PG-13.

Making out

Making out is informal North American English for sustained passionate kissing and sexual touching; the 20th-century phrasal verb sits within romantic kissing, which cross-cultural research finds in only 46% of 168 sampled cultures.

Making Peoples

Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders is a 1996 book by James Belich, covering New Zealand's past from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century.

Making the Band

Making the Band is an American reality music-competition franchise that premiered on ABC March 24, 2000 with Lou Pearlman forming O-Town, then ran on MTV under Sean Combs until 2009, creating Da Band, Danity Kane, and Day 26.

Making the Cut (2020 TV series)

Making the Cut is an Amazon Prime Video fashion competition (2020–2022, 3 seasons, 26 episodes) hosted by Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn after Project Runway; 12 designers compete for $1 million and an Amazon Fashion mentorship, with winning looks sold on Amazon.

Makino

Makino (Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese machine tool manufacturer founded by Tsunezo Makino in 1937, known for Japan's first NC milling machine and machining center.

Makino herbarium

Makino herbarium is the name of two Japanese herbaria associated with botanist Tomitaro Makino: the Tokyo Metropolitan University herbarium (MAK), with about 500,000 specimens, and the Kochi Makino Botanical Garden herbarium (MBK).

Makino Nobuaki

Makino Nobuaki (牧野伸顕, 1861–1949) was a Japanese diplomat and court statesman, son of Ōkubo Toshimichi and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1925 to 1935.

Makinti Napanangka

Makinti Napanangka (c. 1930 – 2011) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian painter from the Western Desert, one of the leading women artists of the Papunya Tula cooperative.

Makio Shozu

Makio Shozu is a Japanese physician-scientist in obstetrics and gynecology, a professor at Chiba University known for research on aromatase and the genetics of gestational trophoblastic disease.

Makira

Makira (San Cristobal, Hanuato'o) is the easternmost major island of Solomon Islands, main island of Makira-Ulawa Province with capital Kirakira; 3,090 km2, mountainous, biodiverse, with new protected areas and a 2026 WCS ocean-governance MoU.

Makis Christodoulopoulos

Makis Christodoulopoulos (Μάκης Χριστοδουλόπουλος) is a Greek laiko singer born in 1948 near Amaliada, whose 1980s hit albums went platinum and who still performs live.

Makita

Makita Corporation is an independent Japanese manufacturer of power tools and outdoor equipment, founded in 1915 in Aichi Prefecture and one of the world's largest.

Makiyivka

Makiyivka (Макіївка, Russian Makeevka), industrial city in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine, near Donetsk; major coal-mining and metallurgical center, pop 351,820 (2014), under Donetsk People's Republic occupation since 2014.

Makkah 2 power plant

Makkah 2 power plant (محطة كهرباء مكة ٢) is an oil-fired power station of at least 779 megawatts in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, owned and operated by the Saudi Electricity Company.

Makkal Needhi Maiam (மக்கள் நீதி மய்யம்)

Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), a centrist Tamil Nadu party founded by Kamal Haasan on February 21, 2018 in Madurai, uses the battery torchlight symbol, polled 3.72% in 2019 and 2.52% in 2021 without winning seats, and joined the DMK-led alliance.

Makkan Singh Raj Thakur

Makkan Singh Raj Thakur (born 1971) is an Indian National Congress MLA from Ramagundam, Peddapalli district, Telangana, elected in 2023 by 56,794 votes over BRS's Korukanti Chandar Patel; former ABVP member, real estate businessman, district Congress president.

Makkaravjo

Makkaravjo is a historical North Sami spelling of Magerøya (Máhkarávju), the Norwegian island in Nordkapp, Finnmark, home to the North Cape, Knivskjelodden, Honningsvåg, and the 1999 Nordkapptunnelen link to the mainland.

Makkari (comics)

Makkari, also known as Hurricane and Mercury, is a Marvel Comics Eternal speedster created by Jack Kirby, first appearing as Makkari in The Eternals #5 (November 1976) with Golden Age retcons; the MCU's 2021 Eternals film made Makkari a deaf woman played by Lauren Ridloff, the franchise's first deaf superhero.

Makkhali Gosala

Makkhali Gosala (मक्खलि गोसाल), also Gosala Mankhaliputta, was an Indian ascetic who led the Ajivika sect, a contemporary of Mahavira whose order later enjoyed Mauryan patronage.