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Kotobuki Murata
Kotobuki (written: 寿 lit. "long life" or ことぶき in hiragana) a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese musician *, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer *, Japanese character designer and manga artist Fictional characters *, a character in the manga series ''Recently, My Sister Is Unusual'' *, a character in the anime series ''Project A-ko'' *, a character in the anime/manga series '' K-On!'' See also *Kotobuki (folklore), a yōkai in Japanese mythology *, Japanese manga artist and actor * Kotobuki Station, a railway station in Yamanashi, Japan *Kotobuki System Co., Ltd., better known as Kemco * Nakajima Kotobuki, an aircraft engine *''The Magnificent Kotobuki'', an anime television series *Shouka (mountain pass) Shouka (, alternatively 壽卡, el. 460 m), formerly known as , is a mountain pass located in southern Taiwan, transversing the Central Mountain Range. Administratively, Shouka is at the border of Shizi, Pingtung and Daren, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hikaru Kotobuki
is a Japanese musician who worked with artists like Susumu Hirasawa (P-Model), and Jun Togawa. In the early 1980s, Kotobuki joined Morio Agata's tour as a keyboard player and guitarist. After Agata's tour, Kotobuki and Agata formed a band which they called the Yukiyama Brothers. During his time with the Yukiyama Brothers, he played the keyboard on Shigeru Izumiya's tour. Kotobuki joined the band P-Model in 1987, which was formed by Susumu Hirasawa. In his time with P-Model, he played the keyboard as well. Hikaru Kotobuki played many concerts and released music videos with P-Model. The band took a four-year break, but came back together in 1991. Kotobuki resigned in 1993 in order to travel through Asia, which he eventually did for several years, but he stuck around in Tokyo long enough to form Phnonpenh MODEL Phnonpenh MODEL is an electronica band created by Hikaru Kotobuki, a former member of P-Model as somewhat of a joke in order to enter a P-Model cover band contest at a club. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minako Kotobuki
is a Japanese actress and singer. She played Tsumugi Kotobuki in the anime series ''K-On!'' about a high school girl band. The show launched her music career as she performed the opening and ending themes, and joined three other voice actresses as the music group Sphere. Acting career At the age of three years, Kotobuki, along with her parents, was caught up in the Great Hanshin earthquake. Not long after having seen a 1997 Japanese film entitled ''Chikyuu ga Ugoita Hi'' ("The Day the Earth Moved"), all of these events inspired Kotobuki to pursue her career as a voice actress. Kotobuki played Tsumugi Kotobuki in ''K-On!'', Karina Lyle/Blue Rose in '' Tiger & Bunny'', Rikka Hishikawa/Cure Diamond in '' DokiDoki! PreCure'', Mitsuko Kongō in ''A Certain Magical Index'' and ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'', Yūko Nishi in '' A Channel'', Lana and Cia from ''Hyrule Warriors'', and Natsumi Aizawa in ''Natsuiro Kiseki'', Touko Nanami in '' Bloom Into You'', Asuka Tanaka in ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsukasa Kotobuki
is a Japanese character designer for various games and anime series such as ''Saber Marionette J'', ''VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire'', ''Cyber Team in Akihabara'' and ''Battle Arena Toshinden''. He also did the art for '' Sword of the Dark Ones''. His real name is unknown; his title name is rather a pen name, majorly derived from animator Tsukasa Dokite. In 2003, he attended Otakon as a guest. Biography Around the age of nine and attending fourth grade, Tsukasa was introduced to anime with the initial series of ''Mobile Suit Gundam'', and was further inspired to go into anime upon the release of ''Mobile Suit Z Gundam'' in his second year of middle school. After going to his first Comiket, by the time of 1985, Tsukasa began his career as a manga artist through dojinshi circles, particularly through junior high and high school fanzine anthologies under the initial pseudonym . His current pseudonym is derived from the pronunciations of the individual kanji that make up the compound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recently, My Sister Is Unusual
, also known as , is a Japanese manga series by Mari Matsuzawa, serialized in Fujimi Shobo's ''Monthly Dragon Age'' since November 9, 2010. An anime television series premiered in Japan in January 2014. It was adapted into a light novel written by Kougetsu Mikazuki, which was published on January 18, 2014 under Fujimi Shobo's Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. A live action film adaptation premiered on May 17, 2014. Plot High school girl Kanzaki Mitsuki "inherits" an older brother when her mother remarries a fellow divorcée with a son. Soon after, her new stepdad is transferred overseas and her mother follows him there, leaving Mitsuki to live alone with her new stepbrother, Yuya. Feeling abandoned by her mother, she stays distant from Yuya, never really getting along very well with him nor even keeping a conversation with him. One day, Mitsuki is visited by an angel/ghost named Hiyori, who takes over her body and makes sexual advances towards Yuya. Hiyori is the lost spirit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project A-ko
is a 1986 Japanese action comedy science fiction anime film that had several sequels and a spin-off. This film focuses on a happy-go-lucky 16-year-old red-haired, sailor-suited teenage schoolgirl, A-ko Magami, who goes on her magical adventure from high school to outer space as she struggles to finish her homework, rescue her friend C-ko, and save the Earth from an evil alien invasion. This series references a number of other works of anime from the 1970s and 1980s, such as ''Macross'', ''Fist of the North Star'' and ''Gundam''. Plot An alien space craft crashes into Graviton City, wiping out the entire population and leaving a massive crater where the city is rebuilt. Students A-ko Magami, a perky, fun-loving red-haired, sailor-suited teenage girl, and her best friend C-ko Kotobuki, a bubbly, carefree optimist, enter a new year of school as transfer students at the all-girls Graviton High School. Although A-ko possesses superhuman speed and strength, she considers herself an av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-On!
is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Kakifly serialized in Houbunsha's ''Manga Time Kirara'' magazine between the May 2007 and October 2010 issues, and also serialized in Houbunsha's ''Manga Time Kirara Carat'' magazine. The manga relaunched from April 2011 to June 2012 with two separate storylines published in ''Manga Time Kirara'' and ''Manga Time Kirara Carat''. The manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press. A spin-off manga about a different band of high school girls, ''K-On! Shuffle'', began serialization in July 2018. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by Kyoto Animation aired in Japan between April and June 2009. An additional original video animation (OVA) episode was released in January 2010. A 26-episode second season, titled ''K-On!!'' (with two exclamation marks), aired in Japan between April and September 2010, with an OVA episode released in March 2011. An anime film adaptation was released in Japan in December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotobuki (folklore)
is a yōkai in Japanese mythology. The Kotobuki is a Japanese Chimera that has the parts of the creatures of the animals on the Chinese zodiac where it sports the head of a rat, the ears of a rabbit, the horns of an ox, the comb of a rooster, the beard of a goat, the neck of a dragon, the mane of a horse, the shoulders of a tiger, the arms of a monkey, the back of a boar, the hind legs of a dog, and the tail of a snake Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more j .... See also * Nue, a related Japanese Chimera References External links Kotobukiat Yokai.com {{myth-stub Yōkai Mythological hybrids ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotobuki Shiriagari
is a Japanese manga artist and actor. Life Shiriagari was born in Shizuoka in 1958. He studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo. In early 1981, after graduation, he began to work as an advertising illustrator for the beer company Kirin. He maintained his regular day job, while developing his manga work, until 1994. His first manga series, launched under his pseudonym Kotobuki Shiriagari, was ''Ereki na Haru'', a strip launched in 1985 by the publisher Hakusensha. His breakthrough as an artist was the series ''Yajikita in Deep'', which he published from 1997 until 2002 in the magazine ''Comic Beam''. His series nowadays still regularly in ''Comic Beam'' and experimental magazine '' AX''. He has been teaching at the School of Progressive Arts in Kobe Design University since 2006. Between 2007 and 2009, he was a jury member of the manga division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. Sttyle He is known for his dark humor and social criticism. Known for his "gag" man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotobuki Station
is a railway station on the Fujikyuko Line in the city of Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Fuji Kyuko (Fujikyu). Lines Kotobuki Station is served by the privately operated Fujikyuko Line from to , and is from the terminus of the line at Ōtsuki Station. Station layout The station is unstaffed, and consists of one side platform serving a single bidirectional track, with the station structure located on the south side of the track. It has a waiting room but no toilet facilities. Adjacent stations History Kotobuki Station opened on 19 June 1929, initially named . It was renamed on 11 June 1930 due to the name's similar appearance to , the Japanese word for "graveyard". Passenger statistics In fiscal 1998, the station was used by an average of 518 passengers daily. Surrounding area * * Fujimidai Junior High School * Fuji Elementary School * Chūō Expressway See also * List of railway stations in Japan References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemco
Kemco (abbreviated from Kotobuki Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese video game developer and video game publisher, publisher established in 1984. It is headquartered in Kure, Hiroshima. One of its best known franchises is the Top Gear (video game series), ''Top Gear'' series, developed by Sheffield-based English developers Gremlin Interactive, Gremlin Graphics. History 1980s Kemco was founded in 1984 as Kotobuki System Co., Ltd. to be the video game subsidiary of the multifaceted corporation Kotobuki Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (itself established in 1979). The Kemco name represents the initial letters of Kotobuki Engineering Manufacturing Co. Kemco started by developing video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Although technically called Kotobuki System until 2004, the company was already using the brand Kemco on its first game ''Dough Boy (video game), Dough Boy'' in 1985. In the late 1980s until the early 1990s, Kemco's video games wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakajima Kotobuki
The Nakajima Ha1 Kotobuki (寿, "Longevity") was an aero-engine developed by Nakajima. It was a radial piston developed under licence from the Bristol Jupiter. Design and development In 1917, Chikuhei Nakajima set up the "Airplane Institute" at Ojima Town in Gunma Prefecture. In 1918 they built their first airplane; the "Nakajima Type 1" with a U.S.A. made engine.Engine development at Nakajima 1923 - 1945 In 1920 the company sent Kimihei Nakajima to France to study European advances, and in 1922 started their own engine factory in Tokyo. This led to production of engines based on the Lawrance A-3 two-cylinder air-cooled horizontally opposed engine. At the time the Lawrence was an oddity. Most air-cooled engines at that time were rotary engines using cylinders that rotated together with the propeller, but Kimihei overheard that an engine with good cooling capability with fixed cylinders was being developed in England. He observed the English Gloster Gamecock fighter with its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magnificent Kotobuki
is an anime television series produced by GEMBA, which aired from January to March 2019. A smartphone game titled ''Kōya no Kotobuki Hikōtai - Ōzora no Take Off Girls!'' was released in February 2019. A compilation film titled ''The Magnificent Kotobuki Complete Edition'' premiered in September 2020. Plot In a desolate land, people trade goods with each other to survive. Goods are transported via huge zeppelins which hire squadrons of fighter pilots for defense against air pirates and carry their single-engine fighter planes on board. One of these is the Kotobuki Squadron, a team of six young women: Kylie, Emma, Kate, Reona, Zara and Chika. Characters Kotobuki Squadron ; : :She is a pilot with excellent skills, a natural aptitude for flying and a passion for pancakes. She first flew with Ol' Sab (Shioyama) when she was a young girl. Every member of the squadron has a personal emblem painted on their tail and variation of it on their wingtips, with Kylie's being a bird of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
