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A Sister's All You Need
is a Japanese light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka and illustrated by Kantoku. Shogakukan has published 14 novels since March 2015 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint. Two manga adaptations have been published by Shogakukan and Square Enix. An anime television series adaptation by Silver Link premiered on October 8, 2017. Plot The story follows the novelist Itsuki Hashima who is surrounded by various people, including a beautiful genius writer who loves him, a big-sisterly college classmate, a fellow male writer, a sadistic tax accountant, and his editor. As the story progresses, the underlying conflicts of dreams and goals surface, as each character attempts to achieve their dreams, in their own way. One such example is the rivalry between author Itsuki and his friend Haruto. Itsuki's stories are driven by a passion for stories about little sisters with praise from a selective yet strongly supportive fan-base, whereas Haruto's stories are driven by victory and romance th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typical romantic comedy, the two lovers tend to be young, likeable, and seemingly meant for each other, yet they are kept apart by some complicating circumstance (e.g., class differences, parental interference, a previous girlfriend or boyfriend) until, surmounting all obstacles, they are finally united. A fairy-tale-style happy ending is a typical feature. Romantic comedy films are a certain genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies. However, a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres, not a single new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies. Description The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and north-west of mainland Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of Bengal, to the east by Oceania and the Pacific Ocean, and to the south by Australia (continent), Australia and the Indian Ocean. Apart from the British Indian Ocean Territory and two out of atolls of Maldives, 26 atolls of Maldives in South Asia, Maritime Southeast Asia is the only other subregion of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere. Mainland Southeast Asia is completely in the Northern Hemisphere. East Timor and the southern portion of Indonesia are the only parts that are south of the Equator. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisako Kanemoto
, also known professionally as , is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is represented by Production Baobab. She released her first album ''Fantastic Voyage'' in 2014. Biography Kanemoto attended high school in Kamogata, Okayama, before enrolling in the voice acting course at the vocational school of Art College in Kobe. After graduating, she moved to Tokyo and joined Production Baobab. Kanemoto used her stage name Juri Aikawa. She made her anime debut under this name in ''Sora no Manimani'', after being selected to portray Shirley by an audience vote at that spring's DreamParty Tokyo convention. In 2010, Kanemoto announced that she would be using her real name in her professional work. She made her first leading role in the anime series ''Sound of the Sky''. Kanemoto won the "Best Rookie Actress" award at the 5th Seiyu Awards. Filmography Anime Original net animation Films Original video animation *'' Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma'' (Erina Nakiri) * Baby Princess 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nozomi Yamamoto
is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with VIMS. Voice acting roles Anime television series ;2011 *''Haganai'' as Yukimura Kusunoki *''Un-Go'' as Rie Kaishō ;2012 *''Girls und Panzer'' as Satoko Nakajima *''Joshiraku'' as Tetora Bōhatei *'' K as Sakura Asama *''Sword Art Online'' as Announcer; Yolko *''Tsuritama'' as Erika Usami ;2013 *'' Arpeggio of Blue Steel ~Ars Nova~'' as I-402 *'' Haganai NEXT'' as Yukimura Kusunoki *''Genshiken Nidaime'' as Chika Ogiue *''Love Live!'' as Fumiko *'' Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live'' as Ai Jōzenji, Coolun, Cosmo Hōjō, Sexiny *'' Sunday Without God'' as Muu *'' Super Seisyun Brothers'' as Shinmoto Chiko *'' Tanken Driland: Sennen no Mahō'' as Beast Goddess Gracia ;2014 *''Captain Earth'' as Ai *'' PriPara'' as Cosmo Hōjō *''Wake Up, Girls!'' as Moka Suzuki *''A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd'' as Senri Misono *''Yona of the Dawn'' as Sū Won (young), Ao ;2015 *''Absolute Duo'' as Julie Sigtuna *''Sky Wizards Academy'' as Misora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūsuke Kobayashi (voice Actor)
is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Yu-rin Pro. In 2017, he won the Best New Actor Award at the 11th Seiyu Awards. He was born in Tokyo, and is 1.64 m tall. Filmography Television animation ;2013 *''A Certain Scientific Railgun S'', Shun'ichi Kosako (eps 18–24) *'' Golden Time'', High School Student (ep 7); Male Student A (ep 2); Student (ep 6), Beautician *'' Little Busters! Refrain'', Student C (ep 8) *'' Strike the Blood'', Takashimizu (ep 9) *''White Album 2'', Action Committee Member (eps 1, 7); Male Student A (ep 6) ;2014 *''Argevollen'', Tsubasa Yamanami *''Magimoji Rurumo'', Tomoha Sakurai *''M3 the dark metal'', Schoolboy B *''Nanana's Buried Treasure'', Haijiki Sanada *''Selector Infected Wixoss'', Kazuki Kurebayashi *'' Selector Spread Wixoss'', Kazuki Kurebayashi *''Shirobako'', Daisuke Hiraoka, Young Masato Marukawa *'' Witch Craft Works'', Honoka Takamiya *''Yona of the Dawn'', Soo-Won *''Your Lie in April'', Opponent ;2015 *''Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Novel
A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a ''wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words, and is published in the '' bunkobon'' format ( A6, 10.5 cm×14.8 cm or 4.1"x5.8"). Light novels are subject to dense publishing schedules, with new installations being published in 3–9-month intervals. Light novels are commonly illustrated in a manga art style and are often adapted into manga and anime. While most light novels are published only as books, some have their chapters first serialized monthly in anthology magazines before being collected and compiled into book format, similar to how manga is published. Details Light novels developed from pulp magazines. To please their audience, in the 1970s, most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AT-X (company)
is a Japanese anime television network owned by AT-X, Inc. was founded on June 26, 2000 as a subsidiary of TV Tokyo Medianet, which is (in turn) owned by TV Tokyo. Its headquarters are in Minato, Tokyo. AT-X network has been broadcasting anime via satellite, cable, and IPTV since December 24, 1997. AT-X broadcasts many '' Comic Gum'' anime adaptations. ''Ikki Tousen'', ''Ah My Buddha'' and ''Juden Chan'' were shown on this channel first, before they were rebroadcast on Tokyo MX. As a premium channel, AT-X is also known for showing uncensored versions of several anime like ''Juden Chan'', ''Ah My Buddha'', ''Girls Bravo'', ''Elfen Lied'', ''Mahoromatic'', ''High School DxD'' and ''Redo of Healer'', which would normally get censored on free-to-air television because of the large amounts of mature content. History * December 24, 1997 - AT-X begins broadcasting on DirecTV Channel 270. * November 30, 1998 - Bandai Chara Net TV (owned by Bandai, which AT-X aired through) closes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nippon BS Broadcasting
() is a private satellite broadcasting station in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. It is an independent television station and is a subsidiary of Bic Camera. Its channel name is BS11 (''BS Eleven'') and was BS11 Digital until March 31, 2011. It was founded as on August 23, 1999, changed its name to Nippon BS Broadcasting on February 28, 2007 and high-definition television broadcasts commenced on December 1, 2007. BS11 gives high priority to news programs, sports, Korean drama, TV Show, anime including late night anime and 3D television 3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D-plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display. Most modern 3D television sets use an ... programs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Television
is a commercial television station headquartered in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations (JAITS). Office *the head office - Kobe Ekimae Just Square, 1-1, Higashi-Kawasakicho Itchome, Chūō-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan *Himeji Branch Office - Kobe Shimbun Building, 78, Toyozawacho, Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan *Tajima Branch Station - Kobe Shimbun Tajima Office, 7-23, Kotobukicho, Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan *Tamba Branch Station - Kobe Shimbun Tamba Office, 48-1, Kaibaracho-Kominami, Tamba, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan *Awaji Branch Station - Kobe Shimbun Awaji Office, 2-8, Sakaemachi Nichome, Sumoto, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan *Osaka Branch Office - Pacific Marks Higobashi Building, 10-8, Edobori Itchome, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan *Tokyo Branch Office - Nippon Press Center Building, 2-1 Uchisaiwaicho Nichome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan *Kyushu Branch Station - 2-10-1, Daimyo Nichome, Chūō-ku, Fuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
