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Kill Me Baby
is a Japanese four-panel gag comedy manga series written and illustrated by Kaduho which began serialization in Houbunsha's ''Manga Time Kirara Carat'' from July 2008. It follows the school lives of a high school girl Yasuna Oribe and her friends Sonya, an assassin, and Agiri Goshiki, a ninja. An anime television series adaptation animated by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between January 5, 2012 and March 29, 2012, with an OVA episode released on October 16, 2013. Characters ; : :A normal high school girl and self proclaimed friend of Sonya, who is often friendly to Sonya despite how dangerous she is. She tends to take on the brunt of Sonya's attacks whenever she takes her by surprise or goes overboard with her pranks. She is quite simple minded and is not afraid of Sonya at all, despite the fact that she is an assassin. ; : :A foreign trained assassin attending a regular high school. As she constantly takes on assassin work she is constantly alert and often attacks Yasuna when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Takabe
is a former Japanese actress and seiyū, voice actress. She is best known for starring as Fumiyo Nabekura in television series ''Guren Onna'' and voicing Agiri Goshiki in anime television series ''Kill Me Baby''. Career Ai Takabe won the Gravure Award at the 10th Japan Bishōjo Contest in August 2004. The following month, she joined , an idol group composed of Japan Bishōjo Contest winners (8th through 10th). In May 2005, she won the Grand Prix award at the 1st Miss Weekly Playboy, WPB Contest. Takabe's first acting role was in the 2006 P&G Pantene Drama Special: ''True Love''. She played a lacrosse player and acted alongside Yui Aragaki. She also played various minor roles in ''Gachi Baka'', ''Teru Teru Ashita'', ''Shimokita Sundays'', and ''Kosodate no Tensai''. In October 2007, she played a supporting character in the television series ''Flight Panic''. In 2008, Takabe played the leading role in ''Guren Onna'', as a high school teacher who dresses up as the ghost of a murde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Manga
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains many anime and manga with information on the staff, cast, theme music, plot summaries, and user ratings. The website was founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, and operated the magazine ''Protoculture Addicts'' from 2005 to 2008. Based in Canada, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in four separate regions: the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. History The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing editor-in-chief Isaac Alexander. On June 30, 2002, Anime News N ... [...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] |
4Gamer
''4Gamer.net'' is a Japanese video game website operated by Aetas Inc. It was launched in August 2000. The site initially focused on "western games" such as FPS and RTS genres,ゲームサイト大手の4Gamer.netを8億円で買収--デジタルハーツ (Major game site 4Gamer.net was acquired in 800 million Yen) CNET Japan the video gaming market, along with MMORPGs and s. Today, ''4Gamer.net'' is a comprehens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga Time Kirara
is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Houbunsha which mainly serializes Yonkoma, four-panel manga. The magazine is sold on the ninth of each month and was first published as a special edition of ''Manga Time'', another Houbunsha magazine, on May 17, 2002. Characters from this magazine have appeared in a Crossover (fiction), crossover role-playing game called ''Kirara Fantasia''. Manga serialized Ongoing Finished Anime adaptations * ''Dōjin Work'' – Summer 2007 * ''K-On!'' – Spring 2009 * ''K-On!!'' – Spring 2010 * ''Place to Place'' – Spring 2012 * ''Yuyushiki'' – Spring 2013 * ''Three Leaves, Three Colors'' – Spring 2016 * ''Slow Start (manga), Slow Start'' – Winter 2018 * ''Hoshikuzu Telepath'' – TBA Game adaptations * ''K-On!#Video games, K-On! Ho-kago Live!!'' – September 10, 2010 * ''#Kirara Fantasia, Kirara Fantasia'' – December 11, 2017 Kirara Fantasia is a free-to-play fantasy role-playing game developed by Drecom and Meteor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mochi
is a Japanese rice cake made of , a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. In Japan, it is traditionally made in a ceremony called . While eaten year-round, mochi is a traditional food for the Japanese New Year, and is commonly sold and eaten during that time. Mochi is a multicomponent food consisting of polysaccharides, lipids, protein, and water. Mochi has a heterogeneous structure of amylopectin gel, starch grains, and air bubbles. The rice used for mochi has a negligible amylose content and a high amylopectin level, producing a gel-like consistency. The protein content of the japonica rice used to make mochi is higher than that of standard short-grain rice. Mochi is similar to , but is made by pounding grains of rice, while dango is made with rice flour. History The process of steaming glutinous rice and making it into a paste is consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuchinoko
In Japanese folklore, the , literally translating to "child of hammer", is a snake-like being. The name ''tsuchinoko'' is prevalent in Western Japan, including Kansai and Shikoku; the creature is known as in Northeastern Japan. Tsuchinoko are described as being between in length, similar in appearance to a snake, but with a central girth that is much wider than its head or tail, and as having fangs and venom similar to that of a viper. Some accounts also describe the tsuchinoko as being able to jump up to in distance followed immediately by a second jump while still in the air.''Metropolis'', "Fortean Japan", 27 June 2008, p. 12. According to legend, some tsuchinoko have the ability to speak and a propensity for lying, and they are also said to have a taste for alcohol. Legend records that it will sometimes swallow its own tail so that it can roll like a wheel, similarly to the "hoop snake" of American legend. See also * List of cryptids Cryptids are animals that crypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work Work may refer to: * Work (human activity), intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the community ** Manual labour, physical work done by humans ** House work, housework, or homemaking ** Working animal, an animal t ..., often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as ''numbers'', ''parts'' or ''fascicles'', and may be released either as separate publications or within sequential issues of a periodical publication, such as a magazine or newspaper. Serialisation can also begin with a single short story that is subsequently turned into a series. Historically, such series have been published in periodicals. Popular short-story series are often published together in book form as collections. Early history The growth of moveable type in the 17th century prompted episodic and often disconnec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittney Karbowski
Brittney Marie Karbowski (born ; June 26, 1986) is an American voice actress who has voiced in a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series for Funimation, Sentai Filmworks and ADV Films. Early life Karbowski was born on June 26, 1986 in Sugar Land, Texas. She graduated Kempner High School in 2004 and attended University of Houston briefly where she majored in theater. Career Karbowski started her acting career in theater productions such as '' Little Shop of Horrors'', ''Seussical'', and ''Pirates of Penzance'' in Houston, Texas. While playing Janet in a local stage production of ''The Rocky Horror Show'', she was noticed by a director from ADV Films. Her start into the anime business occurred in 2004, when she was asked to be an extra in the series ''Gantz''. By December 2006 she stated that Fuko from ''Gilgamesh'' was her favorite dub as she thought the character was "cute and wicked, but wicked in a good way". She eventually received starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
