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Crash! (manga)
is a Japanese manga series by Yuka Fujiwara. ''Crash!'' was serialized in the monthly manga magazine ''Ribon'' from the May 2007 issue to the December 2009 issue. A second part was serialized from the April 2010 issue to August 2013 issue in ''Ribon'' under the subtitle ''Brand New Happy Wave''. During the series' run, two vomics (voice comics) were released, and an anime adaptation was featured on the children's variety show ''Oha Suta''. Plot ''Act 1'' Hana Shiraboshi, a high school student whose mother is the CEO of the White Star Talent Agency, is assigned to produce an idol group for the agency's 10th anniversary. Hana's nosebleed occurs whenever her she sees potential in others, and she uses it to scout five boys: Kiri Kurose, Rei Shinozuka, Junpei Akamatsu, Kazuhiko Midorikawa, and Yugo Aoyagi. Together, the five debut as the boy band Crash, with Hana as their manager. To reach their goal of becoming the top idol group, with the help of Hana, Crash gains experienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Novel
A romance or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primarily focuses on the relationship and Romance (love), romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. Authors who have contributed to the development of this genre include Maria Edgeworth, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë. Romance novels encompass various subgenres, such as fantasy, Contemporary romance, contemporary, historical romance, paranormal fiction, Sapphic literature, sapphic, and science fiction. They also contain tropes like enemies to lovers, second chance, and forced proximity. Women have traditionally been the primary readers of romance novels, but according to the Romance Writers of America, 18% of men read romance novels. The genre of works conventionally referred to as "romance novels" existed in ancient Greece. Other precursors can be found in the literary fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Samuel Richardson's sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kishō Taniyama
is a Japanese Voice acting in Japan, voice actor, singer and lyricist affiliated with Ken Production. He is also the vocalist and lyricist of the Japanese rock band Granrodeo under his stage name Kishow. He is the official Japanese dubbing voice for Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo), Fred Jones in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. Filmography Anime Drama CDs Film Video games Live-action Other dubbing Discography ;Granrodeo * ''Ride on the Edge'' (2007) * ''Instinct (Granrodeo album), Instinct'' (2008) * ''Brush the Scar Lemon'' (2009) * ''Supernova (Granrodeo album), Supernova'' (2011) * ''Crack Star Flash'' (2012) ;Stella Quintet (Stella Quintet+) * ''Crescendo'' (single) (2006) * ''Stella Quintet Players Side'' (2007) * ''蒼穹のスコア ~The score in blue~'' (single) (2009) ;Solo * ''Daydreamin' '' (2005) (Single) * ''Warrior'' (2005) (Single) References External links Official agency profile at Ken Production * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taniyama, Kisho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iori Nomizu
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer who provides voices for anime television series and video games. In anime shows, she voiced Yoshino Himekawa in ''Date A Live'', Nymph in ''Heaven's Lost Property'', Rinko Kuzaki in ''Omamori Himari'', Haruna in '' Is This a Zombie?'', Mirai Andou in '' A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives'', Inaho Kushiya in ''Maken-ki!'', Fuyumi Yanagi in Blood Lad, and Funco in '' Upotte!!''. In video games, she voices Celica A. Mercury in the ''BlazBlue'' series. Early acting career Nomizu started her acting career portraying Moe Kagami in the Fuji TV live-action drama series ''Densha Otoko'' that was broadcast in July 2005. In June 2006, she had a role in the TBS drama series '' Akihabara@Deep''. She will also appear in mobile phone content such as PlayStation 2 ''Girls Yoshitsune Densetsu-Tsuki Beyond'' and ''Chaku Voice''. She worked as a maid at the ''Amusement Cafe Meido'' in Japan, a maid cafe where an active idol opened in November work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Novel
A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbreviation of "''raito noberu''" is or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words, and is published in the ''bunkobon'' format (ISO 216, A6, ). Light novels are subject to dense publishing schedules, with new installments being published in three-to-nine-month intervals. Light novels are very commonly illustrated in a manga artstyle, and are often adapted into manga and anime. Whilst most light novels are published only as books, some have their chapters first Serial (literature), serialized monthly in anthology magazines or via the internet as Web fiction#Web novel, web novels before being collected and compiled into book format, similar to how manga is published. Details Plots frequently involve roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elements Garden
Elements Garden is a Japanese group of music composers, or a "music production brand" as they call themselves. They generally produce music for video games, anime and recording artists. They are attached to Aria Entertainment. The group was formed in 2004 by Noriyasu Agematsu, Junpei Fujita, Hitoshi Fujima and Daisuke Kikuta, former members of ''Feel'', a band of composers that similarly composed music for games and anime that disbanded shortly after Elements Garden's formation. Agematsu acts as the lead representative for the group. Elements Garden released their eponymous first album in August 2008, a compilation of various game theme songs produced over the past years. A second album, ''Tone Cluster'', was released the following year in September. Both albums were released under King Records. Members Current members * Noriyasu Agematsu (上松範康) – ''founding member - leader'' * Junpei Fujita (藤田淳平) – ''founding member'' * Hitoshi Fujima (藤間仁) – ''fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tankōbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format. Manga typically contain a handful of chapters, and may collect multiple volumes as a series continues publication. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for of manga include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Magazine Comics, Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics, and Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion, Shōnen Champion Comics. Manga Increasingly after 1959, manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology list of manga magazines, manga magazines (such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or ''Weekly Shōnen Jump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie (website)
is a Japanese entertainment news website that debuted on February 1, 2007. It is operated by Natasha, Inc. The website is named after the song of the same name by Julio Iglesias. ''Natalie'' has been providing news for such leading Japanese portals and social networks as Mobage Town, GREE, Livedoor, Excite, Mixi, and Yahoo! Japan. It has also been successful on Twitter, with 1,510,000 followers as of February 2017, being the third-most-followed Japanese media company, after '' The Mainichi Shimbun'' and '' The Asahi Shimbun''. History Natasha, Inc., a content provider, was founded in December 2005, becoming a limited company in February 2006 and being demutualized in January 2007. On February 1, 2007, Natasha, Inc. opened its own news website ''Natalie'', named after the song "Nathalie" by Julio Iglesias. It was dedicated exclusively to music news and created with the idea of updating on a daily basis, something that newspapers could not do. The website also offered o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōki Uchiyama
is a Japanese actor who specializes in voice acting. He is affiliated with Himawari Theatre Group. He won Best Male Rookie at 5th Seiyu Awards. He also received one of Best Voice Actors at Tokyo Anime Award Festival in 2015. Uchiyama's voice roles include Roxas and Ventus in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, Neku Sakuraba in ''The World Ends with You'', Yuu Otosaka in '' Charlotte'', Kei Tsukishima in ''Haikyu!!'', Tomura Shigaraki in ''My Hero Academia'', Rei Suwa in '' Buddy Daddies'', and Meruem in ''Hunter × Hunter''. Biography Filmography Television animation Original video animation (OVA) Film Tokusatsu Video games Other dubbing Live action References External links Official agency profile * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uchiyama, Koki 1990 births Living people 21st-century Japanese male actors Japanese male child actors Japanese male video game actors Male voice actors from Saitama Prefecture Seiyu Award winners Waseda University alu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoki Takagi
is a Japanese voice actor. He is managed by I'm Enterprise, along with several other significant Japanese voice actors. Filmography Bold ''denotes leading roles.'' Television animation ;2003 * '' Princess Tutu'' as Umazurakoomorinosuke * '' Inuyasha'' as Young Miroku ;2004 * '' Futakoi'' as Nozomu Futami ;2005 * ''The Law of Ueki'' as Hayao Adachi * '' Gallery Fake'' as Haruo Kikushima * ''Damekko Dōbutsu'' as Uruno * '' Pokémon Advance'' as Koroku * ''Loveless'' as Loveless ;2006 * ''Doraemon'' as Moteo Mote * '' Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z'' as Pepper Monster ;2007 * '' ef: a tale of memories'' as Renji Asō * ''Claymore'' as Raki * '' Souten no Ken'' as Guang-Lin Pan (Young) * '' You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle'' as Yano * '' Toward the Terra'' as Jonah Matsuka ;2008 * '' Ef: a tale of melodies.'' as Renji Asō * '' Birdy the Mighty: Decode'' as Masayuki Hazawa * '' Neo Angelique Abyss'' as Kai * ''Hayate the Combat Butler'' as Male Classmate * ''Persona -trinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuya Kakihara
is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He is a former member of 81 Produce. His agency, Zynchro, was established on May 15, 2013. In 2010, Kakihara has been affiliated with Kiramune, a music label by Bandai Visual and Lantis, where he made his first mini album, ''Still on Journey''. His first single, " String of Pain", served as the ending theme song for the anime series '' Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East''. He has released two full albums, five mini albums and six singles. His third single, "咲いちゃいな (Saichaina)", was released on 15 April 2015. Kakihara has voiced young men with fiery personalities, including Natsu Dragneel in '' Fairy Tail''. He also starred in otome games, including Shin in ''Amnesia'' and K1-B0 in '' Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony''. He is also active in BL (boys' love) Drama CDs. Biography Kakihara was fascinated by Japanese entertainment culture and decided to become a voice actor. In 2001, Kakihara went to the Amusement Media Academy (a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
