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Stories (Mayumi Iizuka Album)
''Stories'' (released on July 23, 2008) is J-pop artist Mayumi Iizuka's 12th album. Exposition * This is a concept album centering on the theme of "Stories," literally. This album, with an instrumental music and ten songs, expresses serial stories in turn, that is to say; ''prologue'', ''meeting'', ''unrequited love'', ''both love'', ''daily'', ''lost'', ''dream'', ''meeting again'', ''growing'', ''happy end'' and ''story.'' * This album also has an additional DVD with promoting movies of three songs, "Sincerely" (#2), "Wasurenai." (#6), and "Kitto Zutto" (#8). Track listing # Stories 〜prologue〜 #* Composition: Shinichi Asada #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Sincerely #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Shinichi Asada #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Ashita Hareta nara (明日晴れたなら / If it is Fine Tomorrow) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Hajimete no Ichi-page ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayumi Iizuka
is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and disc jockey who was born in Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment and her label is Lantis. She is an instructor at the Stay Luck training school Follow-Up. For her singing activities, she uses the alias . Her well-known roles as a voice actress include Kasumi (Misty) in the ''Pokémon'' series, Tron Bonne in the '' Mega Man Legends'' series and Claiomh Everlasting in the ''Sorcerous Stabber Orphen'' series. Career In 1980, at the age of three, Iizuka joined Theater Company Wakakusa through an acquaintance of her grandfather. The reason she joined the group was to learn etiquette. The company was stricter about greetings and etiquette than her lessons, and she remembers crying when she was told off. The following year, on January 11, 1981, she made her debut as a child actress playing the role of Tomiko in the TV drama ''Haru no Urara no Monogatari'' ( TBS Television Toshiba Sunday Theater). At Theater Compan ... [...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 trend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokuma Japan Communications
is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, manga and books. Companies that were part of Tokuma Shoten include Studio Ghibli, Daiei Film and the record label Tokuma Japan Communications. After the founder of the company, Yasuyoshi Tokuma died on September 20, 2000, an asset management occurred. Tokuma Shoten executed a corporate spin-off with Studio Ghibli, turning the company’s anime division as a separate company again in 2005. Tokuma Shoten sold off Tokuma Japan Communications to Daiichi Kosho in October 2001, and Daiei Films was purchased by Kadokawa Corporation in November 2002. Since 2005, the company has streamlined itself to focus solely on the publication of print media and the airing of its adapted properties to TV and feature film. On 17 March 2017, the company was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
