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Tomori Kusunoki
is a Japanese voice actress and singer who is currently affiliated with the Sony Music Artists agency. She made her voice acting debut in 2017 and in the same year, she was cast in her first main role as Kirara, the heroine of the Japanese mobile game ''Kirara Fantasia''. She has also been cast in main roles in ''Märchen Mädchen'', ''Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club,'' ''Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online'' and ''Chainsaw Man''. In 2019, she won the Best New Actress Award with Manaka Iwami, Coco Hayashi, Rina Honnizumi, and Kaede Hondo. Biography Kusunoki was born in Tokyo on December 22, 1999. She became interested in entertainment at an early age; when she was three years old, she began taking piano lessons. She was also a member of her school's brass band during her junior high school years, and a member of a light music club during her high school years. She was also the student council president of her junior high school. During her second year of jun ... [...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] |
Kaede Hondo
is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She took leading roles for each series, including '' Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama'' as Kokoro Yotsuba, ''Interviews with Monster Girls'' as Hikari Takanashi, ''Girlish Number'' as Yae Kugayama, ''Anime-Gatari'' as Minoa Asagaya, ''Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko'' as Kanami Eto, '' Comic Girls'' as Koyume Koizuka, ''Hinamatsuri'' as Hitomi Mishima, ''Zombie Land Saga'' as Sakura Minamoto, ''Bofuri'' as Maple/Kaede Honjō, and '' Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina'' as Elaina. She won the Best New Actress Award at the 13th Seiyu Awards. Biography Hondo was born in Aichi Prefecture. She had an interest in anime from a young age, in particular the ''Naruto'' series. She became interested in acting and modelling after an incident during her fifth year of elementary, when a woman came close to her saying she has "a face that goes well with makeup". Not knowing immediately what that should mean, she made some resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphogear
is a Japanese anime television franchise animated by Satelight. The original season aired on Tokyo MX between January and March 2012. The second season entitled ''Symphogear G'' aired between July and September 2013, The third season, ''Symphogear GX'', aired between July and September 2015, and the fourth season, ''Symphogear AXZ'', aired between July and September 2017. The fifth and final season, ''Symphogear XV'', aired between July and September 2019. A manga adaptation was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's ''Newtype Ace'' magazine between November 2011 and April 2013. A smartphone game titled ''Symphogear XD UNLIMITED'' was released in June 2017 in Japan. Plot Two idols, Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amō, collectively known as Zwei Wing, battle against an alien race known as Noise using armor known as Symphogear, which uses the power of music to counteract the Noise's destructive capability. However, Kanade sacrifices herself to protect a girl named Hibiki Tachibana, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassins Pride
is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Kei Amagi and illustrated by Nino Ninomoto. Fujimi Shobo have published the series since January 20, 2016 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Yoshie Katō was serialized in Shueisha's Seinen manga, ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Ultra Jump'' from May 2017 to August 2022. An anime television series adaptation by EMT Squared aired from October to December 2019. Plot Humanity has been brought to the edge of extinction and now exists solely in the last remaining city-state of Flandore, where individual city blocks are housed in separate glass domes. Travel between the domes is possible only via train lines running through glass tunnels. The world outside the domes has become one of eternal darkness and is completely infested with savage lycanthropes. Within the domes, humanity is divided into the nobility and the commoner classes. Through their blood, members of noble families are able to mani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Live!
is a Japanese multimedia project created by Hajime Yatate and Sakurako Kimino and co-produced by Kadokawa Corporation, Kadokawa through ASCII Media Works; Bandai Namco Music Live through music label Lantis (company), Lantis; and animation studio Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly known as Sunrise). Each of the individual titles within the franchise revolve around teenage girls who become "school Japanese idol, idols". Starting in June 2010 with ''Love Live! School Idol Project'', the franchise has seen multiple anime television series, two anime films, light novels, manga, and video games. The rhythm game series ''Love Live! School Idol Festival'' features characters across multiple ''Love Live!'' titles. Overview Each title in the ''Love Live!'' franchise focuses on groups of teenage schoolgirls who become "school Japanese idol, idols" as an extracurricular activity, and their main activities involve singing and choreographed dancing to self-songwriter, written songs they perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konami
, is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company, video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and List of Japanese arcade cabinets, arcade cabinets. Konami has casinos around the world and operates health and physical fitness clubs across Japan. Konami's video game franchises include ''Metal Gear'', ''Silent Hill'', ''Castlevania'', ''Contra (series), Contra'', ''Frogger'', ''Tokimeki Memorial'', ''Parodius'', ''Gradius'', ''List of Yu-Gi-Oh! video games, Yu-Gi-Oh!'', ''Suikoden'', and ''Pro Evolution Soccer''. Additionally Konami owns Bemani, known for ''Dance Dance Revolution'' and ''Beatmania'', as well as the assets of former game developer Hudson Soft, known for ''Bomberman'', ''Adventure Island (video game), Adventure Island'', ''Bonk (series), Bonk'' and ''Star Soldier''. Konami is the nineteenth-largest L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains many anime and manga with information on the staff, cast, theme music, plot summaries, and user ratings. The website was founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, and operated the magazine ''Protoculture Addicts'' from 2005 to 2008. Based in Canada, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in four separate regions: the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. History The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing editor-in-chief Isaac Alexander. On June 30, 2002, Anime News N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animate (retailer)
is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, video games and manga in Japan. The first and flagship store of Animate was opened in 1983 in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan. Retail stores Currently there are 117 Animate stores in Japan, four in mainland China (Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Chengdu), two in Taiwan (Taipei and Taichung), two in Thailand (Bangkok and Rangsit), and one in Seoul, South Korea. Online stores Animate currently has two online stores: the animate Online Shop, which has been active since 2005, and animate International. Former stores *Sakaihigashi Station, Osaka *Los Angeles, California (closed in 2003) *Hong Kong (closed in 2020) Subsidiaries *Animate Film (アニメイトフィルム): An animation studio. *Libre Publishing (リブレ出版株式会社): Originally part of Biblos Co., Ltd. (株式会社ビブロス) Following the bankruptcy of Biblos on 5 April 2006 caused by the chain bankruptcy started by its parent comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eromanga Sensei
is a Japanese light novel series written by Tsukasa Fushimi and illustrated by Hiro Kanzaki. ASCII Media Works has published thirteen volumes in the series under its Dengeki Bunko imprint from December 2013 to August 2022. A manga adaptation illustrated by Rin has been serialized in ''Dengeki Daioh'' from May 2014 to May 2021. An anime adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures aired from April to June 2017. Premise The story revolves around high school student Masamune Izumi who loves writing light novels. Having no artistic skill himself, Masamune always gets his novels illustrated by an anonymous partner using the pen name "Eromanga", who is known for drawing questionably perverted images despite being extremely reliable. In addition to balancing his passion and school, Masamune is also stuck with taking care of his only family member—his younger stepsister Sagiri Izumi. A ''hikikomori'' by nature, Sagiri shut herself in her room for over a year and constantly bosses Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kana Hanazawa
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. A prolific voice performer in anime, she has amassed several film and television credits since her debut in 1990. She won the Seiyu Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015, and won the Newtype Anime Awards for Best Voice Actress three times in 2015, 2017 and 2018. Hanazawa's voice roles include Nadeko Sengoku in ''Monogatari'', Anri Sonohara in '' Durarara!!'', Angel / Kanade Tachibana in ''Angel Beats!'', Kuroneko / Ruri Gokō in ''Oreimo'', Mayuri Shiina in '' Steins;Gate'', Akane Tsunemori in ''Psycho-Pass'', Kosaki Onodera in '' Nisekoi'', Marry Kozakura in ''Kagerou Project'', Kobato Hanato in ''Kobato'', Rize Kamishiro in ''Tokyo Ghoul'', Hinata Kawamoto in '' March Comes in Like a Lion'', Ichika Nakano in ''The Quintessential Quintuplets'', Mitsuri Kanroji in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', and Atsuko Hakari in ''Blue Archive'' Hanazawa's debut single, , was released on April 25, 2012 under the Aniplex/ Sony Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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