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UniteUp!
''UniteUp!'' is a multi-dimensional idol project presented by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It started with a YouTube channel created in November 2021, with songs from various artists released in the channel. An anime television series by CloverWorks ran from January 2023 to April 2023. A second season, titled ''UniteUp! -Uni:Birth-'', ran from January to April 2025. Characters Protostar ; : ; : ; : Legit ; : ; : ; : Jaxx/Jaxx ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : AneLa ; : ; : Media Anime As of , the ''UniteUp!'' anime television series is distributed internationally by Aniplex of America in North America with the series streaming on the Crunchyroll service and Muse Communication in Southeast Asia and Pacific. The series was announced during the Aniplex Online Fest 2022 event on September 24, 2022 and was produced by CloverWorks. The anime is directed by Shinichiro Ushijima, with Rino Yamazaki overseeing series scripts, Majiro designing the characters and serving as chief animation direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikunosuke Toya
is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Sony Music Artists. After spending some time doing comedy, drama, and piano as a high school student, he won the Special Award at Sony Music Artists' 6th Anistoteles' audition in 2017, and he made his debut in 2022 as Denji, the main character of the anime ''Chainsaw Man''. He has starred as Akira Kiyose in Sony Music Entertainment Japan's ''UniteUp!'' project, Donny in ''Four Knights of the Apocalypse'', Mikoto Yuzuki in ''The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons'', and Fubuki in ''The Elusive Samurai''. In 2024, he won the Best New Actor Award at the 18th Seiyu Awards. Early life Toya, born on November 30, 1998, is a native of Tokyo and of Kanagawa Prefecture. Toya has an older brother and older sister. As a young child, he lived for years in Thailand due to his parents' work. He began playing the piano at the age of three, and he was invited to accompany a chorus competition while in junior high school due to his skills and once unsuccessfully ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CloverWorks
is a Japanese animation studio that was rebranded from A-1 Pictures' Kōenji Studio. It is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan's anime production firm Aniplex. Establishment On April 1, 2018, A-1 Pictures rebranded its Kōenji Studio as CloverWorks, which has a unique brand identity, distinguishable from its main Asagaya Studio. The studio is based in Suginami, Tokyo. Four anime productions have changed the studio credited from A-1 Pictures to CloverWorks after the rebranding. They are '' Slow Start'', '' Darling in the Franxx'', '' Persona 5: The Animation'', and '' Ace Attorney Season 2''. ''Slow Start'' changed the credited studio after the original run ended, while ''Darling in the Franxx'' changed the credited studio during production. On October 1, 2018, CloverWorks announced that it had separated from A-1 Pictures, although it remained as a subsidiary of Aniplex Aniplex, Inc. (株式会社アニプレックス, ''Kabushiki-gaisha Anipurekkusu'') is a Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Hayashi (composer)
is a Japanese composer and arranger best known for his work on the soundtracks for anime, television series, and films. His notable works include ''Triangle'' (in collaboration with Hiroyuki Sawano), '' Zettai Reido'', ''Diabolik Lovers'', '' Asa ga Kita'', '' Haikyū!!'', and ''My Hero Academia''. Biography Hayashi was born in Kyoto, Japan. He used to be an athlete for Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics and then he became fascinated by background score when selecting gymnastics floor music. Although he had no experience in producing music before, he started learning to compose himself during college years. He sold one of his pieces for 5000 yen to junior players as their gymnastics background music, and progressively more orders came after other teams heard his works. After graduation, he became an apprentice of Hideo Kobayashi to learn beatmaking and meanwhile, he also began making background music for dancesport. He then joined the music agency Legendoor in 2009 with his first major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soma Saito
is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with 81 Produce and Sacra Music. Early life Saito was born on April 22, 1991, in Shōwa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. He is the eldest of three siblings, with two younger sisters. He wanted to become a voice actor in high school, inspired by Akira Ishida's role as Koyemshi in '' Bokurano''. Prior to that, he wanted to become a musician or a novel writer. Voice acting career Saito joined the second 81 Produce's Audition in 2008. In that audition, a total of 1,035 people participated with only 33 going to the final audition to decide who would win and stay training under the talent agency. He won the audition for the male category and started taking voice acting classes at ''81 ACTOR'S STUDIO'' afterwards, while still attending high school. In 2009, Saito won the "Judges' Special Prize" in the recitation competition at the 33rd . Veteran voice actor Nobuyo Ōyama was one of the judges present at that time. He started his career a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiki Nakajima
is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with 81 Produce. He is known for his roles as Tetora Nagumo in ''Ensemble Stars!'', Billy Wise in ''HELIOS Rising Heroes'', Jiro Yamashita in ''The Idolmaster: SideM'' and Yoshifumi Nitta in ''Hinamatsuri (manga), Hinamatsuri''. In addition to voice acting, Nakajima is also a member of UMake with fellow voice actor Kent Itō. He also provides vocals and guitar to the band Sir Vanity, a band he formed with Yuichiro Umehara and two other musicians. Biography Nakajima was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on June 26, 1993. He studied at the Voice Actor Department of Yoyogi Animation School in Yokohama. After graduating, he joined the vocal training school of agency 81 Produce. After the training period, in April 2012, he formally became affiliated with 81 Produce. In 2018, he performed the song , which is used as the ending theme to the anime series ''Hinamatsuri (manga), Hinamatsuri'', where he played the series' protagon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinichiro Ushijima
is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist, best known for directing the 2018 theatrical anime film ''I Want to Eat Your Pancreas''. Biography Ushijima was born in Fukuoka Prefecture. He majored in design at a college in Los Angeles and later started out working at animation studio Madhouse. Prior to ''I Want to Eat Your Pancreas'', he directed the opening of the anime series ''Sunday Without God'' (2013), participated as assistant director in the anime series ''One Punch Man'' (2015–, including the OVA ''One Punch Man: Road to Hero'') and ''All Out!!'' (2016–2017), and directed an individual episode of the anime series ''Death Parade'' (2015). As a storyboard artist, he worked on individual episodes of anime series such as ''My Love Story!!'' (2015). In 2018, the first theatrical anime film directed by Ushijima was released, the adaptation of Yoru Sumino’s novel ''I Want to Eat Your Pancreas'', for which Ushijima worked with Studio VOLN. About the production of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniplex
Aniplex, Inc. (株式会社アニプレックス, ''Kabushiki-gaisha Anipurekkusu'') is a Japanese entertainment company and a subsidiary of Sony, Sony Group Corporation, founded in September 1995 by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The company focuses on planning, producing, and distributing anime series, both its own and those based on licensed Intellectual property, intellectual properties (IPs). It also engages in related multimedia initiatives. Aniplex's operations include the development and distribution of Feature film, theatrical films, Video game, video games, and Merchandising, merchandise associated with its Media franchise, media franchises. It releases home media, produces original Soundtrack, soundtracks, and organizes events such as Musical theatre, musicals, stage performances, and live promotions. The company also manages Copycopyrights and License, licensing agreements. Through Aniplex Online, its e-commerce platform, the company sells products directly to consume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniplex Of America
Aniplex of America, or Aniplex USA, is an anime distributor based in Santa Monica, California that serves as the American distribution enterprise of Aniplex, an entertainment company owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, where its goal is to reinforce the parent company's licensing business in the North American market. They operate the English language version of the Aniplex+ store, and from 2013 to 2017 operated a streaming service called Aniplex Channel through their website. The company most of the time only directly releases its titles in the Americas, however, some of its titles have been released in other territories by other distributors, such as Anime Limited, MVM Films, Siren Visual and corporate siblings Crunchyroll UK and Ireland (formerly Manga Entertainment) and Crunchyroll Store Australia (formerly Madman Anime). Their home video sets are distributed in the North American market by its corporate sibling, Crunchyroll Store (formerly Right Stuf), and their titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an American Video on demand#Subscription models, subscription video on-demand Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Streaming media, streaming service owned by Sony, Sony Group Corporation. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian cinema, East Asian media, including Anime, Japanese anime, and is headquartered in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, with a Japanese branch located in Shibuya, Tokyo. Launched in mid-2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley, graduates, the service has over 120million registered users worldwide. Crunchyroll was previously a subsidiary of Otter Media, itself a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and from 2016 to 2018, the service partnered with Funimation, which Sony acquired in 2017 and would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll from AT&T in 2021. Crunchyroll is a member of The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA). "Crunchyroll-Hime", ... [...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 the United States, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in five separate regions: the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and India. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony, Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States–based Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the anime, Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid 1990s producing and licensing music for animated series such as ''Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
