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Mari Iijima
is a Japanese actress and singer. She writes and produces most of her own music, and plays the piano and other instruments. After being signed to JVC Victor in 1982, Mari first became known for her voice-acting role as Lynn Minmay in the anime ''Macross''. Her debut original album, ''Rosé'', was released in 1983, which was produced by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Biography Iijima was born in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki. Her original demo tape was picked up by JVC Victor in 1982 and she was signed to the record company as a singer-songwriter. Soon afterward, she was asked to audition for the role of Lynn Minmay in ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' by the label and the producers chose her to play the role. The series quickly became a mega hit and brought Iijima to stardom. Her debut album, ''Rosé'', containing no ''Macross'' tracks, had lyrics and music written by her. It debuted at number 10 on the charts in September 1983, and she started h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Minmay (Macross)
Lynn Minmay (Japanese: リン・ミンメイ ''Rin Minmei'', Chinese: 鈴明美 / 林明美 ''Líng Míngměi / Lín Míngměi'') is a fictional anime character from the ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' television series and '' Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' movie.''Macross Perfect Memory'', pp. 110-116. She is also in '' Macross: Flash Back 2012'' music video collection. The first ''Macross'' series and its Minmay character was adapted as the first part of the ''Robotech'' television series. Minmay is the embodiment of the music that plays a crucial role in setting ''Macross'' apart; as such, she has become the iconic character of that series. In ''Macross'' (and ''Robotech''), Minmay is a love interest of the main character Hikaru Ichijyo ( Rick Hunter in Robotech) and becomes an idol singer and film star on board the spacecraft SDF-1 ''Macross''. Her songs, which cause confusion amongst alien Zentradi soldiers, play a critical role in Space War I against Boddole Zer's Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Minmay
Lynn Minmay (Japanese: リン・ミンメイ ''Rin Minmei'', Chinese: 鈴明美 / 林明美 ''Líng Míngměi / Lín Míngměi'') is a fictional anime character from the ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' television series and '' Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' movie.''Macross Perfect Memory'', pp. 110-116. She is also in '' Macross: Flash Back 2012'' music video collection. The first ''Macross'' series and its Minmay character was adapted as the first part of the ''Robotech'' television series. Minmay is the embodiment of the music that plays a crucial role in setting ''Macross'' apart; as such, she has become the iconic character of that series. In ''Macross'' (and ''Robotech''), Minmay is a love interest of the main character Hikaru Ichijyo ( Rick Hunter in Robotech) and becomes an idol singer and film star on board the spacecraft SDF-1 ''Macross''. Her songs, which cause confusion amongst alien Zentradi soldiers, play a critical role in Space War I against Boddole Zer's Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekkoshocon
Tekko (formerly Tekkoshocon) is an annual four-day anime convention held during July at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The convention has been held in various locations around the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and is run by a Nonprofit organization, non-profit organization, the Pittsburgh Japanese Culture Society (PJCS). Tekkoshocon's name was a blend of the Japanese language, Japanese word ''tekkosho'', meaning steel mill (a reference to Pittsburgh's industrial steel-producing history), and adapting the suffix "-con" (from ''Convention (meeting), convention''), which is a common nomenclature archetype among such conventions. Programming The convention typically offers an anime music video, AMV contest, anime viewings, concerts, cosplay masquerade, costume competitions, dance/rave, da ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Weekly
''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin, who served as president and editor until 1991. Voice Media Group sold the paper in late 2017 to Semanal Media LLC, whose parent company is listed as Street Media. The current Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director is Darrick Rainey. It covers Los Angeles music, arts, film, theater, culture, concerts, and events. In 1979 they established the LA Weekly Theater Awards which awards small theatre productions (99 seats or less) in Los Angeles. Starting in 2006, ''LA Weekly'' has hosted the LA Weekly Detour Music Festival every October. The entire block surrounding Los Angeles City Hall is closed off to accommodate the festival's three stages. Some of its best known writers were Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold, who left in early 2012, and Nikki Finke, who blogged about the film industry through the ''Weekly'' website and published a print column in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Angel
is a ''bishōjo'' science fiction, sci-fi metaseries composed of anime, manga and dating sim video games. It was created by Broccoli (company), Broccoli in July 2000, when it launched a multi-platformed project called ''Project G.A.'' The anime and ''Galaxy Angel Party'' manga comprise a comedy story in an alternate universe, while the games and the regular manga have a serious romance and action plot. A sequel game trilogy, ''Galaxy Angel II'', was released from 2006 to 2009 and stars an entirely new cast, the "Rune Angel Troupe", and a new feature that combines the new Brave Heart frame with any of the Angels. Each of the Rune Angels has a connection to one of the Galaxy Angels, such as Apricot Sakuraba, the younger sister of Milfeulle Sakuraba. Just like the original ''Galaxy Angel'', the ''Galaxy Angel II'' series has a manga adaptation and comedic anime spinoff. The success of the video game and anime series influenced the creation of a manga series based on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Oboete Imasu Ka
is the third single by Japanese singer-songwriter Mari Iijima, released on June 5, 1984, by Victor Entertainment. Written by Kazumi Yasui and Kazuhiko Katō, it was used as the theme song of the 1984 mecha anime film '' Macross: Do You Remember Love?'', which also featured Iijima as the voice of Lynn Minmay. The B-side is , which was written by Iijima and used as the film's ending theme. The single peaked at No. 7 on Oricon's singles charts and landed at No. 38 on Oricon's 1984 year-ending chart while selling over 270,000 copies, making it Iijima's best-selling single. "Ai Oboete Imasu ka" won the ''Animage'' 1984 Anime Grand Prix in the song category and the Theme Song Award at the 2nd Japan Anime Grand Prix. The song also ranked No. 1 on NHK's in 2019. Iijima re-recorded both "Ai Oboete Imasu ka" and "Tenshi no Enogu" in her 2002 self-cover album ''Mari Iijima Sings Lynn Minmay'' to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the ''Macross'' franchise. Track listing All music is ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Limit (Mari Iijima Album)
''No Limit'' is a pop album by Japanese singer and songwriter Mari Iijima. It was both her first English language album and first independent release. Iijima’s former recording label, Warner Music Japan Warner Music Group's labels include the following. Flagship labels *Atlantic Records * Elektra Records *Parlophone Records * Warner Records Atlantic Records Group * 1st & 15th Entertainment * All Money In * Artist Partners Group * Asylum ..., distributed the album as an independent album in Japan. She received a nomination for Best Pop Artist at the Los Angeles Music Awards in 2000 for ''No Limit''. Iijima's then-husband, James Studer, was a producer for ''No Limit''. The couple divorced in 2001. Track listing # “Us” - 4:12 # “Everybody’s Lonely” - 4:14 # “No Limit” - 4:23 # “Stop Keeping in Touch” - 3:19 # “More Than Yesterday” - 3:23 # “Sudden Kiss” - 4:38 # “”D”” - 4:59 # “Irony of Fate” - 4:30 # “For a Little While” - 3:5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronavirus Disease 2019
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher risk of developing seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo And Narcissus
Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the myth of the mountain nymph Echo into the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention. Ovid's version influenced the presentation of the myth in later Western art and literature. Story The myth of the goddess is told in Book III of the ''Metamorphoses'', and tells the story of a "talkative nymph" whom the goddess Venus admires for her magnificent voice and song. When she tricks Juno into believing that her husband, Jupiter, was in the city, Juno curses Echo by making her able to only finish a sentence not started, and unable to say anything on her own. "Yet a chatterbox, had no other use of speech than she has now, that she could repeat only the last words out of many." This is the explanation of the aural effect which was named after her. Sometim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Echo (; el, Ἠχώ, ''Ēkhō'', "echo", from ἦχος (''ēchos''), "sound") was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on Earth. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs. Echo, by trying to protect Zeus (as he had ordered her to do), endured Hera's wrath, and Hera made her only able to speak the last words spoken to her. So when Echo met Narcissus and fell in love with him, she was unable to tell him how she felt and was forced to watch him as he fell in love with himself. Classical depiction ''Metamorphoses'' In ''Metamorphoses'' (8 AD), the poet Ovid tells of Juno (Hera in Greek mythology) and the jealousy she felt over her husband Jupiter's (Zeus in Greek mythology) many affairs. Though vigilant, whenever she was about to catch him, Echo distracted her with lengthy conversations. When at last Juno reali ... [...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] |
Miyuki Sawashiro
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator. She has played voice roles in a number of Japanese anime including ''Beelzebub'', Bishamon in ''Noragami'', Petit Charat/Puchiko in ''Di Gi Charat'', Mint in ''Galaxy Angel'', Sinon in '' Sword Art Online II'', Twilight/Towa Akagi/Cure Scarlet in ''Go! Princess Precure'', Izuna Hatsuse in '' No Game, No Life'', Amagi in '' Azur Lane'', Celty Sturluson in '' Durarara!!'', Kurapika in ''Hunter × Hunter (2011 TV series)'', Raiden Shogun/Raiden Ei in ''Genshin Impact'', Raiden Mei and Dr.MEI in ''Honkai Impact 3'' yet also in '' Gun Girl Z'', Akane Kurashiki in ''Zero Escape'', Ayane Yano in ''Kimi ni Todoke'', Fujiko Mine in later installments of ''Lupin the Third'', Queen in ''Mysterious Joker'', Jun Sasada in ''Natsume's Book of Friends'', Shinku in ''Rozen Maiden'', Haruka Nanami in ''Uta no Prince-sama'', Kotoha Isone in ''Yozakura Quartet'', Kanbaru Suruga in ''Bakemonogatari'', Saber of Red/ Mordred in ''Fate/Apocrypha'', Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
