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Happy Of The End
is a Japanese manga series by Ogeretsu Tanaka. It was serialized in the monthly boys' love digital manga magazine ''Qpa'' from January 24, 2020, to October 24, 2023. A live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast on Fuji TV from September 3, 2024, to September 24, 2024. Plot Disowned by his family for being gay and rejected by his recently married ex-boyfriend, Chihiro Kashiwagi meets Keito, a beautiful and mysterious man, at a bar, and suggests they have a one-night stand. However, at the hotel, Keito beats Chihiro unconscious. The next morning, Keito reveals that he was sent by Matsuki, Chihiro's former patron, to take back his cards after Chihiro had stolen them upon being evicted for sleeping with other men. With no place to live, Chihiro ends up staying with Keito. While living with each other as friends with benefits, Chihiro and Keito grow closer to each other and open up about their pasts: Chihiro tells Keito about his family and his failed aspirations of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Romance (novel)
''Romance'' is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It was the second of their three collaborations. ''Romance'' was eventually published by Smith, Elder & Co. in London in 1903 and by McClure, Phillips and Company in New York in March 1904. According to Max Saunders, Conrad, in his quest to obtain a literary collaborator, had been recommended by several literary figures. W. E. Henley pointed to Ford as a suitable choice for Conrad. Literary collaboration was not particularly uncommon when Conrad proposed it to Ford, but neither was it considered the proper way for serious novelists, as Ford was aware: "The critics of our favoured land do not believe in collaboration." The novel was adapted into the film '' The Road to Romance''. The collaboration In his biography of Conrad, ''Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance'' (1924), Ford alleges that some opponents and critics did not hold the same reverence for his "literary friendship" with Conrad as that which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Seme And Uke
, also known by its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for a female audience, distinguishing it from the equivalent genre of homoerotic media created by and for gay men, though BL does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. BL spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. Though depictions of homosexuality in Japanese media have a history dating to ancient times, contemporary BL traces its origins to male-male romance manga that emerged in the 1970s, and which formed a new subgenre of ''shōjo'' manga (comics for girls). Several terms were used for this genre, including , , and . The term ( ; ) emerged as a name for the genre in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of (self-published works) culture as a portmanteau of ''yama nash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Audio Drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatised works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR ( old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and museums, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. The company operates approximately 600 retail stores across the United States. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores. The company's headquarters are at 33 E. 17th Street on Union Square in New York City. After a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, Barnes & Noble is the United States' largest bookstore chain and the only national chain. Previously, Barnes & Noble operated the chain of small B. Dalton, B. Dalton Bookseller stores in malls until they announced the liquidation of the chain in 2010. The company was also one of the nation's largest manager of college textbook stores located on or near many college campuses when that division was spun off as a separate public company called Barnes & Noble Education in 2015. The company is known by its customers fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
Shinjuku
, officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world ( Shinjuku Station) as well as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administrative center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. , the ward has an estimated population of 346,235 and a population density of 18,232 people per km2. The total area is 18.23 km2. Since the end of World War II, Shinjuku has become a major secondary center of Tokyo ( ''fukutoshin''), rivaling the original city center in Marunouchi. "Shinjuku" is also commonly used to refer to Shinjuku Station. The southern half of this area and majority of the station are in fact located in the neighboring Shibuya ward. History In 1634, during the Edo period, as the outer moat of the Edo Castle was built, a number of temples and shrines moved to the Yotsuya area on the western edge of Shinjuku. In 1698, Nai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
Shu Watanabe (actor)
is a Japanese actor, famous for portraying the character Eiji Hino in the 2010 tokusatsu series ''Kamen Rider OOO is a 2010–2011 Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series, being the twelfth series in the Heisei period run and the twenty-first overall. It began airing on September 5, 2010, the week following the conclusion of ''Kamen R ...''. Filmography TV series Films Discography Under his character name Eiji Hino, Watanabe performed most of the insert themes for the 2010 tokusatsu series ''Kamen Rider OOO'' and the theme for the series' film. References External linksOfficial websitePersonal blogOld personal blog * Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors 1991 births Living people People from Yurihonjō 21st-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Seira Ryū
Liu Jingluo ( zh, s=劉婧犖, p=Liú Jìngluò; born November 25, 1985), known professionally as , is a Chinese voice actress based in Japan. She is affiliated with Aoni Production. Life and career Born in Beijing, she longed to become a voice actor from a young age. In high school she participated in the creation of doujin games, original drama CD, etc. and participated in voice actress/singer-related activities under the name of "kkryu". In 2006, she became a student of Beijing Foreign Studies University's Japanese language institute and in 2008 graduated from the university. During her time at BFSU, she was an exchange student in Japan, studying at Aichi Bunkyo University for ten months. After graduation she studied again at the Nippon Engineering College (NEEC) for two years. While studying, she appeared as a 7th grader in the show '. In an interview in 2016, Ryu said that she was influenced by the success of Romi Park in the seiyu scene, and realized that voice act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kentarō Itō
is a Japanese voice actor and stage actor who was born in Hachiōji. He is currently affiliated with Mausu Promotion and is representative of Theater Company K-Show. He has taken over some of the roles held by the late Kazuyuki Sogabe and Takeshi Aono. His range is baritone. Biography After graduating from Meijigakuin Higashimurayama High School, Itō had the opportunity to help out with a theater company that he knew, and became interested in the "world of performance" for the first time. In 1993, he entered the drama department of Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, and in the summer of the same year, he appeared on stage for the first time in ''Little Women''. In 1995, he joined Theater Company 21st Century FOX led by Kaneta Kimotsuki, and at the same time, he sought a performance-related career and made his debut as a voice actor. 2001 to April 2009, he belonged to Haikyo, and from May 2009 to 2010, he belonged to Mediarte. He has been a member of Amuleto (formerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Soma Saito
is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with 81 Produce and Sacra Music. Early life Saito was born on April 22, 1991, in Shōwa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. He is the eldest of three siblings, with two younger sisters. He wanted to become a voice actor in high school, inspired by Akira Ishida's role as Koyemshi in '' Bokurano''. Prior to that, he wanted to become a musician or a novel writer. Voice acting career Saito joined the second 81 Produce's Audition in 2008. In that audition, a total of 1,035 people participated with only 33 going to the final audition to decide who would win and stay training under the talent agency. He won the audition for the male category and started taking voice acting classes at ''81 ACTOR'S STUDIO'' afterwards, while still attending high school. In 2009, Saito won the "Judges' Special Prize" in the recitation competition at the 33rd . Veteran voice actor Nobuyo Ōyama was one of the judges present at that time. He started his career a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yosuke Asari
is a Japanese actor. He is represented with Beacon Lab Entertainment. Biography When he was young Asari danced to his parents' clapping after watching Charlie Chaplin's films and joined Gekidan Tohai, and debuted at the age of four in a television advertisement, and later he became a child actor. Afterward he moved to Beacon Lab Entertainment. In 1999, Asari played the childhood role of the heroine's rival (Shusaku Tsuda, Hakase) in the Asadora ''Asuka'', and he played the young Giraffe, the main character of the film ''Eien no Ko'' in 2000, and he continues to act in dramas since his childhood. In 2001, he gained attention when he played the juvenile delinquent Ippei in '' Kids War 3''. Asari made his first leading role in a film was ''Tenohira no Shiawase'', and his first starring role in a television drama in ''Hitori janai'' the following year. On 17 December 2015, it was reported that he married a non-celebrity woman who was his classmate in university. Filmography Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
