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Destination (FictionJunction Yuuka Album)
''Destination'' is the first album of J-pop duo FictionJunction Yuuka. It was released on November 23, 2005. This album includes their first three singles and their b-sides, as well as five brand-new songs. There are two versions of this album: the normal edition (with catalog number VICL-61792) and the limited edition. The limited edition, with the catalog number VIZL-159, includes a DVD with the PV of Honoh no Tobira, its making of and a commercial for the single (15 seconds and 30 seconds). The album, at its peak, ranked ninth on the 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 Nov ... charts. Track listings CD Track listing DVD External links *Victor Animation Network References and notes 2005 albums Victor Entertainment albums {{japan-album-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FictionJunction Yuuka
is a Pop music, pop duo from Japan consisting of Yuuka Nanri (vocals) and composer Yuki Kajiura (composition, lyrics and keyboards). It is part of Kajiura's solo project FictionJunction. Biography The pair first met at , a Stage (theatre), stage group for teenage girls where Kajiura wrote music for some of the plays and Nanri was a performer. Their first recording was , an insert song in the popular mecha anime ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'', though their debut single was the opening of Madlax, , released on May 8, 2004. On July 27, 2004, the ending theme to Madlax, "Inside Your Heart", was released. In the same year, because of its popularity and the fact that it was Gundam SEED's one-year anniversary, "Akatsuki no Kuruma" was released as a single, which at its peak placed at #10 on the Oricon weekly rankings and sold over 19,481 copies in the first week. After a hiatus of exactly a year, an insert song for Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, was released, becoming the first voice a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Kajiura
Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Yuki, Tokushima, a town in Kaifu District, Japan * Yuki, North Korea, now officially called 'Sonbong', a sub-division of the North Korean city of Rason People * Yuki (given name), including a list of people named Yuki or Yūki * Yūki clan, a clan in 14th century Japan * Yuki people, an indigenous people of northwestern California * Yuqui people, also spelled Yuki, an indigenous people of Bolivia * Yu~ki, a 1990s bassist of Malice Mizer Family name * Yūki (surname), Japanese surname (, , , etc.) * Hiroe Yuki (1948–2011), Japanese badminton player * Kaori Yuki, manga artist active since 1987 Characters * Yuki-onna, a character in Japanese folklore * Asuna Yuuki, a character in the ''Sword Art Online'' light novel series * Mikan Yuuki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoo No Tobira
is the fourth single of J-pop duo FictionJunction Yuuka. It was released on September 22, 2005. This single includes an insert song of the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, composed by Yuki Kajiura. There are two other versions of the song on the single (hearty and instrumental), along with its karaoke version. Its catalog number is VICL-35883. Coincidentally, the insert song of Gundam SEED (Gundam SEED Destiny's prequel), Akatsuki no Kuruma, was released exactly one year before this single. This single peaked at #5 on the Oricon weekly charts but is the first single in voice acting history to hit #1 on the Oricon Daily Rankings. Track listing # # # # Charts Oricon Sales Chart (Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...) External links *Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Your Heart
"Inside Your Heart" is the second single of J-pop duo FictionJunction Yuuka. It was released on July 27, 2004. This single included the ending and one of the two insert songs for the anime Madlax, both composed by Yuki Kajiura Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Yuki, .... Its catalog number is VICL-35646. This single debuted at #22 on the Oricon Weekly Charts and had 6 weeks on charts. Track listing # Inside Your Heart # I'm Here # # References External links *Victor Animation Net ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitomi No Kakera
is the debut single of J-pop duo FictionJunction Yuuka, from their debut album ''Destination (FictionJunction Yuuka album), Destination''. It was composed by Yuki Kajiura and released on May 8, 2004. The single debuted at #22 on the Oricon Weekly Charts and had 20 weeks on chart. Both Hitomi no Kakera and its B-side, ''nowhere'', featured in the Bee Train anime series ''Madlax''. Track listing # # nowhere # # ''Madlax'' Soundtrack ''Hitomi no Kakera'' was originally composed by FictionJunction Yuuka as a theme song for the anime ''Madlax''. The song originally featured on the OST for the series before it was released as a single, which gained the band significant fame on the J-pop scene. Both ''Hitomi no Kakera'' and its B-side track ''nowhere'' were used throughout the anime, ''Hitomi no Kakera'' being opening theme for the series, and ''nowhere'' being used mainly during the fights and action scenes. Both songs feature on the series' OST as well as on FictionJunct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. The ninth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, ''Gundam SEED'' takes place in a future calendar era, in this case the Cosmic Era. In this era, mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth, and Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans capable of amazing feats of intellect who emigrate to man-made orbital colonies to escape persecution by natural humans. The story revolves around a young Coordinator Kira Yamato who becomes involved in the war between the two races after a third, neutral faction's space colony is invaded by the Coordinators. The television series was broadcast in Japan between 2002 and 2003, on the Tokyo Broadcasting System Television and MBS TV networks, beginning a broadcast partnership with the ''Gundam'' franchise. The series spawned three compilations films and was adapted into a manga as well as light novels. A sequel series, ''Mobile Suit Gundam S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akatsuki No Kuruma
is the third single of J-pop duo FictionJunction Yuuka. It was released on September 22, 2004. This single includes an insert song of the anime Gundam SEED, composed by Yuki Kajiura. There are two other versions of the song on the single (piano and acoustic), along with its karaoke version. Its catalog number is VICL-35646. Coincidentally, the insert song of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Gundam SEED's sequel), Honoh no Tobira, was released exactly one year after this single. Originally, this song was released on "Suit CD vol.4 Miguel Ayman x Nicol Amarfi", an EP from Gundam SEED, under the name "FictionJunction featuring Yuuka". Due to the song's popularity and the fact that September 2004 was Gundam SEED's one-year anniversary, it was later released as a single obtaining the twelfth place on the Oricon charts, which later rose to the tenth. The song has been FictionJunction YUUKA's best-selling single. Track listing From ''Flying Dog''. # # # # Charts Oricon Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madlax
is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2004 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kōichi Mashimo directed ''Madlax'' and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura. The DVD version was released by ADV Films in North America and the United Kingdom and by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. The story revolves around the two young women Margaret and Madlax, who seemingly have little in common and do not know of the other's existence at the beginning. Madlax is a legendary mercenary and assassin in the fictional civil war-torn country of Gazth-Sonika, who cannot remember her past or indeed her real name before twelve years ago, when the war started. The other main character is Margaret Burton, the sole heir of a wealthy aristocratic family in the peaceful European country Nafrece. Twelve years before the story begins, an airliner Margaret and her mother were on crashed over Gazth-Sonika, and its passengers, as well as Margaret's father who led th ... [...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] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other trends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Making Of
In cinema, behind-the-scenes (BTS), also known as the making-of, the set, or on the set, is a type of documentary film that features the production of a film or television program. This is often referred to as the EPK (electronic press kit) video, due to its main usage as a promotional tool, either concurrent with theatrical release or as a bonus feature for the film's DVD or Blu-ray release. History Shorter behind-the-scenes documentaries are often used as a bonus on DVDs, as it offers more insight into the film, how it was made, and to credit the film crew. Occasionally, some films have included a "making of the making-of" as a joke. The making-of is also often released for TV as a part of the promotion of the film. Examples of feature-length making-ofs *''Burden of Dreams'', the ''Fitzcarraldo'' making-of *'' Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse'', the ''Apocalypse Now'' making-of *''Lost in La Mancha'', a making-of documentary of the failed ''The Man Who Killed Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoh No Tobira
is the fourth single of J-pop duo FictionJunction Yuuka. It was released on September 22, 2005. This single includes an insert song of the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, composed by Yuki Kajiura. There are two other versions of the song on the single (hearty and instrumental), along with its karaoke version. Its catalog number is VICL-35883. Coincidentally, the insert song of Gundam SEED (Gundam SEED Destiny's prequel), Akatsuki no Kuruma, was released exactly one year before this single. This single peaked at #5 on the Oricon weekly charts but is the first single in voice acting history to hit #1 on the Oricon Daily Rankings. Track listing # # # # Charts Oricon Sales Chart (Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...) External links *Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
