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Pyxis (idol Unit)
Pyxis（）is a Japanese idol unit consisting of voice actresses Miku Itō and Moe Toyota. Biography The unit was formed in May 2015, and they performed their first live concert in February 2016 titled "Pyxis Party 2016 〜Happy Valentine's Day〜". After that, they continued their activities as an indie unit, working in magazines and radio shows. In May 2016, in the units' first anniversary concert, they announced a major label debut under Teichiku Records' new label "Rockin' Music". Discography Single Albums Tie-ups See also * StylipS Stylips (stylized as StylipS) is a Japanese pop idol group, specialized in performing anime soundtracks. Career In 2011, four voice actresses: Arisa Noto, Yui Ogura (from the pop idol group YuiKaori), Kaori Ishihara (also from YuiKaori) and Mah ... References External links * テイチクエンタテインメントによるオフィシャルサイト* Japanese musical duos Anime singers Japanese pop music ... [...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] |
Anison
, also shortened to , is a genre of music originating from Japanese pop music. Anime songs consist of theme, insert, and image songs for anime, video game, and audio drama CD series, as well as any other song released primarily for the anime market, including music from Japanese voice actors. The anime song genre was first defined as a musical category in the 1970s. It later gained popularity from the public when mainstream artists begin releasing songs as tie-ins for anime series. By the 1990s, it became redefined as a separate genre when companies began creating record labels that would exclusively produce anime songs for their series and artists. The increase in voice actors beginning in the mid 2000s led to growing market interest in the genre. History 1930-1970: Early influences ''The Dull Sword'' (1917), by Jun'ichi Kōuchi, is regarded as the earliest surviving animated film in Japan. Noburo Ofuji's ''Kuroi Nyago'' (1929) is the first Japanese animated work to include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teichiku Records
is a Japanese record label, run by , that specializes in enka, kayōkyoku, and similar music. Teichiku is an abbreviation for , the former name of the company. Teichiku Entertainment also runs the record labels Imperial Records, Takumi Note, and . It is a division of commercial karaoke manufacturer XING Inc., itself a subsidiary of Brother Industries. Offices of Teichiku Entertainment, Inc. *Head office - Shiba Park Building, 2-4-1, Shiba koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan *Osaka office - Sankyu Building, 2-14, Azuchimachi Sanchome, Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan History *February 11, 1934 - Teikoku Chikuonki Company (帝国蓄音機株式会社) was founded in Nara, Japan. *September 1951 - Contracted with Decca Records. *February 1952 - Started to sell Decca records. *February 11, 1953 - Teikoku Chikuonki was renamed Teichiku, Inc. (テイチク株式会社). In the same year, the company began using magnetic tape for recording. *1954 - Began selling LP records and EP records. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miku Itō
is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Style Cube. Her major voice roles include Nanako Usami in ''Locodol'', Ann Akagi in ''Action Heroine Cheer Fruits'', Kokoro Tsurumaki in ''BanG Dream!'', Miku Nakano in ''The Quintessential Quintuplets'', and Hougetsu Shimamura in '' Adachi and Shimamura''. She joined StylipS on April 28, 2013 along with Style Cube Kenshuusei client Moe Toyota. She is also a member of Pyxis with Toyota. Itō's hobbies and preferences are related to ''Super Sentai'' and ''Kamen Rider''. Biography Itō belongs to Style Cube as a trainee and in 2012 she passed Style Cube's 1st Voice Actor Audition. In 2013, she joined the StylipS voice acting unit with Moe Toyota, a fellow trainee. In 2014, she debuted in a television anime as Nanako Usami in ''Locodol''. In May 2015, Itō formed a new unit Pyxis with Moe Toyota. In February 2016, she held her first one-man live performance, and in October 2016 she released her debut single "Awa to Berbane" f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moe Toyota
is a Japanese voice actress signed to Style Cube and a member of the musical unit StylipS. Her major voice roles include Sapphire Kawashima in ''Sound! Euphonium'', Kanon Matsubara in ''BanG Dream!, Vivi Lin in '' idol Memories'', Fumi Kujo in ''Jinsei'', and Fuyumi Fukagawa in ''Pan de Peace!''. Filmography Anime *'' Nakaimo – My Sister Is Among Them!'' (2012) – student *'' So, I Can't Play H!'' (2012) – Girl *''Beyond the Boundary'' (2013) – Sakura Inami *''Chronicles of the Going Home Club'' (2013) – Referee *'' Polar Bear Cafe'' (2013) *''Jinsei'' (2014) – Fumi Kujō *'' Love, Tenchi Muyo!'' (2014) – student *'' Recently, My Sister Is Unusual'' (2014) – Mei-chan, tennis staff B *'' Saki – The Nationals'' (2014) – Kurumi Kakura *''Sound! Euphonium'' (2015) – Sapphire Kawashima *''Pan de Peace!'' (2016) – Fuyumi Fukagawa *'' Idol Memories'' (2016) – Vivi Lin *'' Sound! Euphonium 2'' (2016) – Sapphire Kawashima *'' Action Heroine Cheer Fruits'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Acting In Japan
Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, audio dramas, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs. In Japan, and actresses have devoted fan clubs due to a crossover with the idol industry, and some fans may watch a show merely to hear a particular voice actor. Many voice actors have concurrent singing careers and have also crossed over to live-action media. There are around 130 voice acting schools in Japan. Broadcast companies and talent agencies often have their own troupes of vocal actors. Magazines focusing specifically on voice acting are published in Japan, with '' Voice Animage'' being the longest running. The term character voice (abbreviated CV) has been commonly used since the 1980s by such Japanese anime magazines as ' and ''Newtype'' to describe a voice actor associated with a particular anime or game character. Definition and role A p ... [...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] |
Alice Or Alice
is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Riko Korie. It has been serialized since September 2013 in Media Factory's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Comic Cune'', which was originally a magazine supplement in the ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Comic Alive'' until August 2015. It has been collected in three ''tankōbon'' volumes. An anime television series adaptation by EMT Squared premiered on April 4, 2018. Characters ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : Media Manga ''Alice or Alice'' is a four-panel manga series by Riko Korie, a Japanese artist who mainly illustrates light novels and visual novels. The series was initially published in ''Comic Cune'' as a one-shot in 2013. It began serialization in ''Comic Cunes November 2013 issue released on September 27, 2013; At first, ''Comic Cune'' was a "magazine in magazine" placed in ''Monthly Comic Alive'', later it became independent of ''Comic Alive'' and changed to a formal magazine on August 27, 2015. Three ''tankō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
StylipS
Stylips (stylized as StylipS) is a Japanese pop idol group, specialized in performing anime soundtracks. Career In 2011, four voice actresses: Arisa Noto, Yui Ogura (from the pop idol group YuiKaori), Kaori Ishihara (also from YuiKaori) and Maho Matsunaga, formed their new musical project. On December 18, they made their first appearance with the song . On February 8, 2012, they made their major debut with their single "Study x Study", which is used as the ending theme to the 2012 TV anime ''High School DxD''. Their second single "Miracle Rush" was released on May 16, 2012 and is used as the opening theme to the 2012 anime ''Saki Achiga-hen Episode of Side-A''. On August 22, they released their third single "Choose me Darling", which is the opening theme to the 2012 anime '' Nakaimo - My Sister Is Among Them!''. On April 20, 2013 it was announced that both Yui Ogura and Kaori Ishihara would graduate from StylipS on the 21st of April to focus on studies and in their career as vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Musical Duos
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Singers
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics ( manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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