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Luna Haruna
, better known by her stage name is a Japanese singer and fashion model from Tokyo. Biography Luna Haruna was interested in anime and music from a young age. In her first year of junior high school, she became obsessed with Gothic Lolita manga characters, and started to collect Western clothes. In her third year of junior high school, she auditioned for the Internet radio program of ''Rental Magica'', and was selected to perform the opening theme. She became popular as an ''imoto-kei'' amateur model in the fashion magazine ''Kera'' when she was in her second year of high school, and also did tie-in modelling for Marui. She gained popularity when she became a finalist at the fourth All-Japan Anime Song Grand Prix. In an interview with Japanese entertainment website Nihongogo, Luna shares her inspiration behind her career "In terms of TV and anime, I grew up watching and singing the songs from Sailor Moon. As for music artists, I was really inspired by Chiaki Ishikawa and also ALI ... [...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] |
Hollow Realization
is a video game developed by Aquria and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Windows PC, based on the Japanese light novel series, ''Sword Art Online''. It is the fourth video game in the series and the successor to '' Sword Art Online: Lost Song''. ''Hollow Realization'' was released on October 27, 2016, in Japan, and on November 8, 2016, for North American and European territories. A Nintendo Switch version of the game was released on April 25, 2019, in Japan, and worldwide on May 24, 2019. Gameplay Unlike in '' Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment'' and ''Lost Song'', a party in ''Hollow Realization'' consists of four characters including the player, instead of three. While ''HF'' is played like a role-playing game and ''LS'' like an action role-playing game, ''HR'' is based on ''HF'' style, but with action elements integrated. Characters can be customized through in-game character creation, with gender, height, figure, weapons, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming in the United States. The weekly tracking period for sales was initially Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming, is readily available on a real-time basis, is also tracked on a Friday to Thursday cycle effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021 (previously Monday to Sunday and before July 2015, Wednesday to Tuesday). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by ''Billboard'' on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday. The first number-one song of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 was " Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TuneCore Japan
TuneCore is a Brooklyn, New York–based independent digital music distribution, publishing and licensing service founded in 2005. TuneCore principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to distribute and sell or stream their music through online retailers such as iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, Tidal, and others. TuneCore also offers music publishing administration services, helping songwriters register their compositions and collect royalties internationally. The company currently operates out of its Brooklyn headquarters with offices in Austin, Burbank, Boston, Nashville, Atlanta, Australia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. History and background TuneCore garnered media attention from ABC's '' World News Tonight'', ''The Daily Mirror'', and pitchforkmedia.com. TuneCore's first customer was Frank Black, lead singer of the Pixies. In 2008, TuneCore was utilized by Nine Inch Nails to deliver the music from their album, ''Ghosts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finale
Finale may refer to: Pieces of music * Finale (music), the last movement of a piece * ''Finale'' (album), a 1977 album by Loggins and Messina * "Finale B", a 1996 song from the rock opera ''Rent'' * "Finale", a song by Anthrax from ''State of Euphoria'' * "Finale", a song by Bikini Kill from '' Reject All American'' * "Finale", a piece of film music by John Williams from ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' * "Finale", a song by Patrick Wolf from ''The Magic Position'' * "Finale" (song), by Madeon *"Finale", a song by AJR from their album ''Neotheater'' * "Finale", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game ''Undertale'' by Toby Fox Places * Finale Emilia, a municipality in Emilia-Romagna, Italy * Finale Ligure, a municipality in Liguria, Italy Television * "Finale" (''Modern Family''), the series finale of the American sitcom ''Modern Family'' * "Finale" (''The Office''), the series finale of the American edition of ''The Office'' * "Finale" (''Skins'' seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of April 2020, iTunes offered 60 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,000 TV shows, and 65,000 films. When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of music to offer songs from all five major record labels. The iTunes Store is available on most Apple devices, including the Mac (inside the Music app), the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod touch, and the Apple TV, as well as on Windows (inside iTunes). Video purchases from the iTunes Store are viewable on the Apple TV app on Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices and certain smart televisions. While initially a dominant player in digital media, by the mid-2010s, streaming media services were generating more revenue than the buy-to-own model used by the iTunes Store. Apple now operates its own subscription-based streaming music service, Apple Music alongside the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuuna And The Haunted Hot Springs
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tadahiro Miura. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine from February 2016 to June 2020, and collected into twenty-four ''tankōbon'' volumes. In North America, Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the series for an English-language release under its Ghost Ship imprint with the first volume being released in May 2018. An anime television series adaptation by Xebec aired from July to September 2018. Plot The series follows the life of the luckless and homeless high school student Kogarashi Fuyuzora. In his search for a home, he is introduced to the Yuragi Inn, a cheap boarding house and former hot springs inn. The reason the rent is so cheap is because it is haunted by the beautiful ghost spirit Yuuna whose corpse was discovered at the inn. Kogarashi then helps Yuuna with her unfinished business, all while discovering the supernatural secrets of the rest of the female tenants. Characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urahara (anime)
''Urahara'' is an anime television series based on the webcomic ''PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team!'', which is written by Patrick Macias and illustrated by Mugi Tanaka. The anime adaptation was co-produced by EMT Squared and Shirogumi and aired from October to December 2017. Synopsis Three high school girls hailing from Harajuku band together to fight off culture thieving aliens from outer space. Cast Anime Production of the anime adaptation was announced in March 2017. Amika Kubo directed the series at EMT Squared and Shirogumi. The production staff consists of Masatsugu Arakawa as the chief director, Natsuko Takahashi is in charge of series composition, Mariko Fujita as the animation character designer, and Takahiro Yamada as the mechanical designer. It aired from October 4 to December 20, 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series. Funimation premiered the dub on October 24, 2017. The opening theme is "Antithesis Escape" by Sumire Uesaka, and the ending theme is by Luna Haruna ... [...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] |
Millennium Twilight
A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a kiloannum (ka), or kiloyear (ky). Normally, the word is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration (typically the year "1") and at later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after the start point. The term can also refer to an interval of time beginning on any date. Millennia sometimes have religious or theological implications (see millenarianism). The word ''millennium'' derives from the Latin ', thousand, and ', year. Debate over millennium celebrations There was a public debate leading up to the celebrations of the year 2000 as to whether the beginning of that year should be understood as the beginning of the “new” millennium. Historically, there has been debate around the turn of previous decades, centuries, and millennia. The issue arises from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disacode
DISACODE is a Japanese three-member visual kei rock band formed in 2007. History DISACODE was originally formed in January 2007, with female fashion model AKIRA as vocalist and the central focus. The band was dissolved at one point, however at that time AKIRA took over the band name and music composition. In 2010, three new members were added to the band - Shin, Marcy and Daichi. Their first live concert together was on April 9, 2010. In July of the same year, their first album ''Akashic Records ''was released. In 2011, the mini-album ''Kakkotsukezu ni wa Irarenai'' was released. In 2012, the full album ''Ryuu no Hige wo Ari ga Nerau'' was released. In March 2013, Daichi left the band. His spot is currently being temporarily filled by support members. Band Name The band name is a word that AKIRA came up with, referring to rock music that defies boundaries. It is made of three parts - "DIS", "A", & "CODE". "DIS" refers to the negative prefix used in English, and "CODE" r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachika Misawa
is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Yamanashi Prefecture who is affiliated with Stardust Promotion. As a singer, she is signed to Universal Music Japan. Some of her main roles include Kuroyukihime in ''Accel World'', Minami Azuma in ''Tokyo ESP'', Rin in the music video for ''Shelter'', Yukari Kohinata in ''Locodol,'' Sakura "Cosmos" Akino in ''Oresuki'', and Moca Aoba in ''BanG Dream!''. Biography Misawa began her voice acting career after winning the "Kadokawa×Up-Front Style Idol Seiyū Audition 2008" competition in February 2009. She debuted in the anime ''Shangri-La'', voicing the character Yuri Gamagori. She graduated from high school in March 2011 and entered university in April of that same year. She finally graduated from university in March 2016. She took a part-time job as a shrine maiden at the age of 20, having been fascinated with it since her childhood. Despite already being preoccupied with voice acting and furthering her studies, she accepted it as a lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
