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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 novel or romantic novel generally refers to a type of genre fiction novel which places its primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and usually has an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Precursors include authors of literary fiction, such as Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë. There are many subgenres of the romance novel, including fantasy, gothic, contemporary, historical romance, paranormal fiction, and science fiction. Although women are the main readers of romance novels a growing number of men enjoy them as well. The Romance Writers of America cite 16% of men read romance novels. "Many people today don’t realize that romance is more than a love story. Romance can be a complex plotline with a setting from the past in a remote, faraway place. Instead of focusing on a love story, it idealizes values and principles that seem lost in today’s world of technology and instant gratification. However, roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kishō Taniyama
is a Japanese 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 in the ''Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animation, animated media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative List of Scooby-Doo media, media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the orig ...'' 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~'' ... [...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!'', 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 works as a maid. She became a freela ... [...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] |
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] |
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
is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ... term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or monthly List of manga magazines, manga anthology with other works before being published as volumes containing several chapters each. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for 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, and Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics. Japanese comics (manga) manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...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 optiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōki Uchiyama
is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Saitama Prefecture. 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. Filmography Television animation Original video animation (OVA) Film Tokusatsu Video games Other dubbing References External linksOfficial agency profile * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uchiyama, Koki 1990 births Living people Japanese male child actors Japanese male video game actors Japanese male voice actors Male voice actors from Saitama Prefecture Waseda University alumni Square Enix people 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Seiyu Award winners ... [...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 soul- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuya Kakihara
is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He was affiliated with 81 Produce before he became a freelancer in June 2013. He set up his own agency, Zynchro, in July 2014. Since 2010, Kakihara has been affiliated with Kiramune, a music label by Bandai Visual and Lantis, where he debuted as a singer with his first mini album, ''Still on Journey''. His first single, " String of Pain", released on 6 February 2013, is the ending theme song to the anime '' Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East'' in which he also voices the main role of Shino Inuzuka. 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 is well known for voicing roles as young boys with fiery personalities, like Natsu Dragneel from the anime ''Fairy Tail''. He's also particularly well-known for voice acting in otome games, such as voicing Shin from the PSP game series '' Amnesia'' and K1-B0 from Danganronpa V3: Killing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
