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PSI-missing
"PSI-missing" is the sixth single released by the J-pop singer, Mami Kawada. This single was released on October 29, 2008, one year after the release of her fifth single, "Joint". The song was used as the first opening theme for the anime series ''A Certain Magical Index''. The B-side was used as an insert song on the twelfth episode of ''A Certain Magical Index''. The single came in a limited CD+DVD edition (GNCV-0009) and a regular CD edition (GNCV-0010). The DVD contains the promotional video for "PSI-missing". Track listing #PSI-missing—4:23 #:Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa #:Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki #:Lyrics: Mami Kawada #Ame—4:40 #:Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa #:Arrangement by: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki #:Lyrics: Mami Kawada #PSI-missing (instrumental) -- 4:23 #Ame (instrumental) -- 4:36 Reception It peak ranked 14th on the weekly Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Certain Magical Index
is a Japanese light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, which has been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2004 in a total of three separate series. The first ran from April 2004 to October 2010, the second from March 2011 to July 2019, and the third from February 2020 to present. The plot is set in a world where supernatural abilities exist. The light novels focus on Toma Kamijo, a young high school student in Academy City with an unusual ability in his right hand as he encounters an English nun named Index. His ability, which allows him to cancel other powers by touching them, and relationship with Index prove dangerous to other sorcerers and espers who wanted to discover the secrets behind him and Index, as well as the city. A manga adaptation by Chuya Kogino began serialization in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' since April 2007. J.C.Staff produced two 24-episode anime se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mami Kawada
is a former Japanese pop singer and lyricist who was signed to NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan and also a member of I've Sound, a musical group which produces soundtracks for ''eroge'' (erotic games) and anime. Born and raised in Sapporo, Japan, Kawada made her musical debut in 2001 after being discovered by her music teacher Eiko Shimamiya with the release of the song "Kaze to Kimi o Daite". She released her first single, a split-single with musician Kotoko (musician), Kotoko, in 2002, and her first solo single was released in 2005. Her first album, Seed (Mami Kawada album), ''Seed'', was released in 2006. She first performed overseas in Taiwan in 2007 and later appeared at the Bangkok Comic Con in Thailand in 2014. Kawada's songs have been featured as theme music for various anime shows such as the ''Shakugan no Shana'' and ''A Certain Magical Index'' series. She has performed theme songs for various eroge such as ''Love, Election and Chocolate'' and ''Aokana: Four Rhythm A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linkage (album)
''Linkage'' (styled as LINKAGE) is the third album by J-pop singer Mami Kawada. It was released on March 24, 2010 under Geneon Universal Entertainment. This album contains thirteen tracks which includes her singles " PSI-Missing", "Masterpiece" and "Prophecy". This album also contains the ending theme for the original video animation anime series ''Shakugan no Shana S'' entitled "All In Good Time" and a cover song of The Cranberries' hit song entitled "Dreams". This album came in a limited CD+DVD edition (GNCV-1017) and a regular CD-only edition (GNCV-1018). The DVD contains the music video for the title track "Linkage". Track listing #succession—0:56 #:Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa #:Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki #CLIMAX—4:05 #:Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa #:Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki # PSI-missing—4:21 #:Lyrics: Mami Kawada #:Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa #:Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki #TOY—4:10 #:Lyrics: Mami Kawa ... [...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] |
Geneon
(abbreviated as NBCUEJ) is a Japanese music, anime, and home entertainment production and distribution enterprise headquartered in Akasaka, Tokyo, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo. It is primarily involved in the production and distribution of anime within Japan. The company was founded in March 1981 by Pioneer Corporation as LaserDisc Corporation, a LaserDisc player production company. In 1989, the company was renamed Pioneer LDC, Inc. as it branched into the anime, music, and film industries, and later Geneon Entertainment Inc. (after being acquired by Dentsu in 2003). In 2008, Geneon merged with Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Japan to form Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan, LLC; in 2013, the company changed its name to the current NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan. Some of the well-known anime series the company has produced are ''A Certain Magical Index'', ''The Heroic Legend of Arslan (manga by Hiromu Arakawa), The Heroic Legend of Arslan'', ''Danganronpa: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I've Sound
I've Sound, or simply called , is a Japanese techno/trance music production group based in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Led by Kazuya Takase, it features the talents of seasoned "sound creators" and many different vocalists, known as to their fans. They have created the theme songs for many Japanese adult games, most famously the opening "Tori no Uta" to the visual novel ''Air'' by Key. More recently, they have been creating the theme songs to anime series. Among anime fans, I've Sound is well known for providing the theme songs to such series as the ''Please!'' franchise ('' Please Teacher!'' and ''Please Twins!''), ''Kanon'', ''Air'', '' Kannazuki no Miko'', ''Black Lagoon'', the ''Shakugan no Shana'' series, ''Starship Operators'', ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni'', the ''Hayate the Combat Butler'' series, ''Nanatsuiro Drops'', ''A Certain Magical Index'', '' Rideback'', ''Sky Girls'', ''High School DxD'', '' Jormungand'', ''Tokyo Ravens'', ''To Love-Ru'' series, ''Waiting in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint (song)
"Joint", stylized as "JOINT", is the fifth maxi single by Japanese J-pop artist Mami Kawada, with both its A-side and B-side featured in her 2008 '' Savia'' album. It contains four tracks in both regular and instrumental versions and spans 17:40. Both its A-side and B-side tracks are featured as opening and ending themes for the second season of the anime series ''Shakugan no Shana''. Geneon Entertainment released the single on October 31, 2007 in both a regular CD release and a limited CD and DVD that featured the music video for the track "Joint" bearing the catalog numbers GNCA-86 and GNCA-85 respectively. Context Two years prior, Mami Kawada had written the single "Hishoku no Sora" (2005), her second most successful single, title track of which was featured as the opening theme to the first season of the anime adaptation of the light novel series ''Shakugan no Shana''. In 2007, Kawada was pleased to be asked once more to write theme music for the upcoming second season of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masterpiece (Mami Kawada Song)
"masterpiece" is the seventh single released by the J-pop singer, Mami Kawada, and was released on February 4, 2009. The title track was used as the second opening theme for the anime series ''A Certain Magical Index'' which is her third tie-in with the anime series. This is also Kawada's first single to be produced by a female composer/arranger of I've Sound, which is Maiko Iuchi. The coupling song jellyfish was used as an insert song on the twenty-third episode of ''A Certain Magical Index'' making this Kawada's 4th tie-in with the said anime series. The single will come in a limited CD+DVD edition (GNCV-0013) and a regular edition (GNCV-0014). The DVD will contain the Promotional Video for masterpiece. Track listing #masterpiece—4:37 #:Lyrics: Mami Kawada #:Composition/Arrangement: Maiko Iuchi #jellyfish—4:26 #:Lyrics: Mami Kawada #:Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa #:Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki #masterpiece (instrumental) -- 4:37 #jellyfish (instrumental) - ... [...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] |
A Certain Magical Index Music
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Singles
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] |
2008 Songs
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] |
