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Meiko (given Name)
Meiko (めいこ, メイコ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings Meiko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 芽子, "sprout, child" * 芽心, "sprout, heart" * 迷子, "lost child" * 姪子, "niece" * 盟子, "alliance, child" * 明子, "bright, child" * 明衣子, "bright, garment, child" * 芽衣子, "sprout, garment, child" * め以子, "compared with, child" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People * , Japanese actress * , Japanese actress and singer * , Japanese actress * , great grandmother of Emperor Shōwa * , Japanese manga artist * , Japanese singer * , Japanese professional wrestler * , Japanese professional wrestler * , Japanese former tarento Fictional characters * , a humanoid persona for Yamaha Corporation's vocaloid singing synthesizer application * , a character in the manga and anime series ''Marmalade Boy'' * , a character in the manga series ''Kurosaki-kun no Iinari ni Nante Naranai'' * , a charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiko (software)
Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer and the first engine released in the Vocaloid series. It was succeeded by Vocaloid 2. This version was made to be able to sing both English and Japanese. History The earliest known development related to Vocaloid was a project that had occurred two years prior and funded by Yamaha. The project was codenamed "Elvis" and did not become a product because of the scale of its vocal building required for just a single song. It is credited as the project that established many of the earliest models and ideas that would later be tested and tried for Vocaloid. Yamaha started development of Vocaloid in March 2000 and announced it for the first time at the German fair Musikmesse on March 5–9, 2003. It was created under the name "Daisy", in reference to the song "Daisy Bell", but for copyright reasons, this name was dropped in favor of "Vocaloid". The first Vocaloids, Leon and Lola, were released by the studio Zero-G on March 3, 2004, both of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison School
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from February 2011 to December 2017. Yen Press licensed the manga for English release in North America. The story takes place in a renowned and very strict school previously reserved for girls. But the establishment changes its policy and educates five young men who, by their behavior, will very quickly find themselves in quarantine. They will have to face all kinds of pitfalls to get out of this critical situation and escape the clutches of the Student Union. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, aired from July to September 2015. A live-action drama television series aired from October to December 2015. As of March 2018, the manga had over 13 million copies in circulation. In 2013, ''Prison School'' won the 37th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category. Plot Hachimitsu Academy, one of the strictest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Yamada-kun And The Seven Witches Characters
This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the Japanese manga series ''Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches'' by Miki Yoshikawa. Main characters Ryu Yamada is an apathetic delinquent who finds high school boring and is failing in his school's academics. That is until he crashes into Shiraishi, the student academic ace of the school, at the stairs and ends up swapping bodies with her. They discover the kiss activates the body swap, and Yamada can swap with others, although he later learns he has actually duplication power. He can copy the power of the witch he has kissed, and the manga profile describes him as the "Copy Guy". He later confesses his developed feelings for Shiraishi which she returns and the two began dating. After Yamada recovers his full memories, he remembers they became a couple during their first year. At the series conclusion set ten years later, Yamada works as a successful businessman in development. He proposes to Shiraishi who happily accepts and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detective Pikachu (video Game)
(known in Japan as ''Great Detective Pikachu'') is an adventure game developed by Creatures Inc., published by The Pokémon Company, and distributed by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. The game is a spin-off of the ''Pokémon'' franchise, in which the player works with a talking Pikachu to solve various mysteries. A shorter, downloadable version of the game called was released in Japan in February 2016, while the full version was released worldwide in March 2018. In contrast to previous ''Pokémon'' role-playing games, ''Detective Pikachu'' is an adventure game spin-off focusing on narrative storytelling, with a presentation comparable to the ''Pokémon'' anime series. A live-action film adaptation was released in May 2019. That same year, a sequel was announced for the Nintendo Switch. Plot The game begins with a peculiar talking Pikachu, who claims to be a great detective. One day, Pikachu encounters a boy named Tim Goodman, who is able to understand wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gochisōsan
is a Japanese television drama series. It first aired from 30 September 2013 to 29 March 2014. It is scripted by Yoshiko Morishita, who wrote such dramas as '' Jin'', and stars Anne Watanabe as Meiko Uno, a woman who lives through the Taisho and Shōwa eras and tries to excel at Japanese cuisine. Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries, moves to Osaka with her husband, and experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka. It is the 89th NHK Asadora. The word ''gochisōsan'' is an informal version of '' gochisōsama'', a term used to thank a host or a cook for a meal. Cast Main characters *Anne Watanabe as Meiko Nishikado (her maiden name was Uno) **Hana Toyoshima as young Meiko Uno *Masahiro Higashide as Yūtarō Nishikado, Meiko's husband **Ryūnosuke Hosoda as young Yūtarō Nishikado *Miyabi Matsuura as Fuku Nishikado, Meiko's daughter **Tomoka Harami as young Fuku Nishi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Takeshi Kitazawa which aired in Japan Monday through Friday mornings—it was also the only of such series to be aired for 20 minutes per episode. From 1975 onward, series aired in the first half of the year are produced by the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting station and series in the latter half of the year are produced by the NHK Osaka Broadcasting station; the Osaka branch's first ''asadora'' production was in 1964. Due to the practice of wiping commonly in practice around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, not all episodes of all pre-1980 ''asadora'' series survive, as the 2-inch Quad videotapes were often wiped and reused; 16 of the produced ''asadora'' series in total are incomplete in the NHK archives, with several series having no surviving e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digimon
, short for "Digital Monsters" ( ''Dejitaru Monsutā''), is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures, who inhabit a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks. The franchise was created in 1997 as a series of virtual pets, intended as the masculine counterpart to Tamagotchi. The creatures were first designed to look cute and iconic even on the devices' small screens; later developments had them created with a harder-edged style influenced by American comics. The franchise gained momentum with an early video game, ''Digimon World'', released only in Japan in January 1999. Several anime series and films including its first anime incarnation, ''Digimon Adventure'', which based on both video game and digital pet have been released, and the video game series has expanded into genres such as role-playing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solanin
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Young Sunday'' from 2005 to 2006. In North America, the manga was licensed for English language release by Viz Media. The manga was adapted into a live-action film directed by Takahiro Miki and starring Aoi Miyazaki as Meiko. It was released in Japan in April 2010. In the same year the band Asian Kung-Fu Generation released the single "Solanin", with lyrics written by Inio Asano, author of the manga. The song was featured in the movie version. The band also provided the ending theme to the movie. In October 2017, eleven years after the manga's original publication, a new epilogue chapter was published by Shogakukan as part of a new Japanese edition. Plot Meiko and Taneda graduated from university two years ago. Having no real goals or direction, they step into society, clueless. Meiko works as an Office Lady to pay the rent for her apartment, while Taneda works as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flower We Saw That Day
is a 2011 Japanese anime television series created by , an artist collective consisting of director Tatsuyuki Nagai, screenwriter Mari Okada, and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka. The anime was produced by A-1 Pictures and aired in Fuji TV's noitamina block between April and June 2011. It is currently licensed in North America by Aniplex of America. A novelization by Mari Okada was serialized in Media Factory's ''Da Vinci'' magazine from March to July 2011. A manga adaptation illustrated by Mitsu Izumi began serialization in the May 2012 issue of Shueisha's ''Jump Square'' magazine. A visual novel adaptation for the PlayStation Portable was released by 5pb. in August 2012. An anime film sequel was released in Japanese theaters on August 31, 2013. A live action television drama film adaptation premiered on September 21, 2015 on Fuji TV. Plot In Chichibu, Saitama, a group of six sixth-grade-age childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko "Menma" Honma, dies i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurosaki-kun No Iinari Ni Nante Naranai
is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga series written and illustrated by Makino. It is published by Kodansha since 2014, with serialization on ''Bessatsu Friend''. A live-action film adaptation with the international title ''The Black Devil and the White Prince'' was released on February 27, 2016, with a short Japanese television drama mini-series in airing on Nippon TV in December 2015 to promote the film. On October 15, 2020, it was announced the manga will end with the 18th volume in March 2021. Characters ; :; portrayed by: Nana Komatsu :She was bullied in her middle school years, thus resulting her to change. After being kissed by Haruto, she has become obedient to him. Unaware that she was already falling for him, she only remembers the bad things he made her do. ; :; portrayed by: Kento Nakajima :He is called the Black Prince since his hair was cut but Yū still calls him Black Demon. Even though he shows a bad expression, it is stated by Takumi that he is really kind. He st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Marmalade Boy Characters
The following article is a list of fictional characters from the Japanese manga and anime ''Marmalade Boy''. Protagonists Miki Koishikawa is the main protagonist of the series. She's a lively high school student who is on the Toryo High School tennis team. She is cheerful, friendly, supportive, outspoken, a big girly girl and good-hearted. On the other hand, she can also be insecure, whiny, clingy, and very emotionally dependent on others. She had a part-time job working in an ice cream parlor, called Bobson's. Later, she works in a small decoration shop. When she was in junior high, she confessed her love to a male friend of hers named Ginta, but it was a disaster and Miki ended up heartbroken. Eventually she got over it and became friends with him again. While Miki was in high school, her parents went on a trip to Hawaii and decided to swap spouses with another couple. The other couple had a son the same age as Miki, and they all moved into a large house to live together. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
