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Rideback (song)
"RIDEBACK" is the fifth single of I've Sound singer, Mell Mell (stylized as MELL) is a female Japanese singer from Sapporo, Japan, who is signed to Geneon Universal Entertainment. She is a former member of the Sapporo-based I've Sound, and one of its main vocalists. Mell has contributed vocals to sever .... It was released on March 4, 2009 which serves as the opening theme for the anime series '' Rideback''. The single has a Japanese version, a remix version and the instrumental version of the title track in addition to the original English track. The single came in a regular CD-only edition (GNCV-0016) and a limited CD+DVD edition (GNCV-0015) which contained the PV for RIDEBACK. Track listing #RIDEBACK #:Lyrics: Mell #:Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase #RIDEBACK -Japanese ver.- #:Lyrics: Mell #:Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase #RIDEBACK -Re-mix ver.- #:Lyrics: Mell #:Composition: Kazuya Takase #:Arrangement: Ken Morioka #RIDEBACK -instrumental- Sales trajector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mell
Mell (stylized as MELL) is a female Japanese singer from Sapporo, Japan, who is signed to Geneon Universal Entertainment. She is a former member of the Sapporo-based I've Sound, and one of its main vocalists. Mell has contributed vocals to several anime soundtracks including ''Black Lagoon'', ''Hayate the Combat Butler'', '' Rideback'', ''Shakugan no Shana'', and ''Sky Girls''. After battling an unknown illness over a prolonged period, Mell left I've Sound after the release of her compilation album ''Entrust: The Name of Mell'' on March 20, 2013. Discography Albums Singles DVDs ;Mell First Live Tour 2008 Scope DVD :Released on April 29, 2009 # Under Superstition # Way beyond there # Kill # No vain # On my own # Permit # Proof # Kicks! # Scope # Red fraction # The first finale in me # Egen # Virgin's high! # Song list I've solo works * (February 5, 1999) * "Fall in Love" (September 24, 1999) * (October 16, 1999) * "Repeat" (October 16, 1999) * "Fly to the T ... [...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] |
Kill (song)
KILL is the 4th single of I've Sound singer, Mell. It is released on November 19, 2008, a year and almost two months after the release of her 3rd single. The title track will be used as the opening theme for Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including ''Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer'' (1984), ''Angel's Egg'' (1985), ...'s live-action film entitled while the B-side song On my own will be used as the ending theme for the same film. Since this single only reached #37 in the Oricon weekly charts and only charted for two weeks, this is Mell's weakest single to date. The single will come in a regular CD-only edition (GNCV-0012) and a limited CD+DVD edition (GNCV-0011) which will contain the PV for KILL. Track listing #KILL—4:53 #:Lyrics: Mell #:Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase #On my own—5:10 #:Lyrics: Mell #:Composition/A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rideback (manga)
''Rideback'' (stylized as ''RɪᴅᴇBᴀᴄᴋ'') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tetsurō Kasahara. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Ikki'' from April 2003 to October 2008, with its chapters collected in ten ''tankōbon'' volumes. Set in Japan in the 2020s, it follows the story of college student Rin Ogata, as she comes across a two-wheeled automobile robot known as a Rideback. It was adapted into a twelve-episode anime television series by Madhouse broadcast from January to March 2009. In North America, Funimation licensed the anime series for English release. Plot In the year of 2020 (2025 in the anime), an organization called the (GGF) has taken control of the world. Rin Ogata was a promising up-and-coming ballet dancer but suffered a serious injury while dancing and decided to quit. Years later in college, she comes across a club building and soon finds herself intrigued by a transforming motorcycle-like rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Singles
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Songs
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Songs
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 niche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mell Songs
Mell (stylized as MELL) is a female Japanese singer from Sapporo, Japan, who is signed to Geneon Universal Entertainment. She is a former member of the Sapporo-based I've Sound, and one of its main vocalists. Mell has contributed vocals to several anime soundtracks including ''Black Lagoon'', ''Hayate the Combat Butler'', '' Rideback'', ''Shakugan no Shana'', and ''Sky Girls''. After battling an unknown illness over a prolonged period, Mell left I've Sound after the release of her compilation album ''Entrust: The Name of Mell'' on March 20, 2013. Discography Albums Singles DVDs ;Mell First Live Tour 2008 Scope DVD :Released on April 29, 2009 # Under Superstition # Way beyond there # Kill # No vain # On my own # Permit # Proof # Kicks! # Scope # Red fraction # The first finale in me # Egen # Virgin's high! # Song list I've solo works * (February 5, 1999) * "Fall in Love" (September 24, 1999) * (October 16, 1999) * "Repeat" (October 16, 1999) * "Fly to the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
