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Wakakozake
is a Japanese manga series by Chie Shinkyu. It has been serialized by Tokuma Shoten in the ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Comic Zenon'' since the September 2011 issue; it is also available on ''Web Comic Zenyon''. The series has thirteen volumes so far; the first volume was released in May 2013, and the latest upcoming release in August 2019. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama by North Stars Pictures starring Rina Takeda, and an short-length anime television series by Office DCI aired from July 5, 2015, to September 20, 2015. Season 1 of the live action adaptation was aired April 3, 2015, followed by the second season, released on January 8, 2016, and the third season, released on April 7, 2017. After a year hiatus, the fourth season aired on January 7, 2019. On October 24, 2019, TV Tokyo and Monthly Comic Zenon simultaneously announced that the Season 5 of the live-action adaptation will air in January 2020. All adaptations, both anime and live-action of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Takeda
is a Japanese actress, singer and martial artist. hold black belt in Ryukyu Shōrin-ryū Karate. Life and career Takeda was born on June 15, 1991, in Kanagawa Prefecture. She has said that she became interested in karate as a 10-year-old when she saw her father lose in a karate match and decided that she had to avenge his defeat. In June 2008, the 17-year-old Takeda demonstrated her skills at her dojo for ''Shaolin Girl'' producer Fuyuhiko Nishi, and he was impressed enough to invite her to audition for the movie ''High Kick Girl!''. Takeda won the starring role as Kei Tsuchiya in the movie which was released in May 2009. In late 2010, Takeda appeared on television in the Mainichi Broadcasting System, MBS comedy tokusatsu series ''The Ancient Dogoo Girl'' as Doro-chan. Takeda had her second starring movie role in the February 2011 martial arts action film ''Karate Girl'' together with Tobimatsu Hina followed by another action film ''The Kunoichi: Ninja Girl'' in March 2011. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iyashikei
is a genre specific to Japanese works, primarily manga and anime. It is a sub-genre of slice of life, portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, and is intended to have a healing effect on the audience. The word ''iyashikei'' could mean "healing type" or just "healing" in Japanese. Shaenon K Garrity of ''Otaku USA'' wrote that in ''iyashikei'' works, "the focus is less on character and plot, more on worldbuilding and creating an immersive visual setting". Origins ''Iyashikei'' originated in the late 1970s, but it emerged as a distinct subgenre in 1995, in the wake of the Great Hanshin earthquake and the Tokyo subway sarin attack. These traumatic events, combined with the economic recession, would lead to what scholar Paul Roquet calls the ''iyashi'' trend, or healing boom. The trauma suffered by the Japanese public provided "the emotional context for the emergence of calm as a lucrative and marketable feeling." Examples * ''Adachi and Shimamura' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monthly Comic Zenon
is a Japanese manga anthology. It is marketed to ''seinen'' public (young adult men), edited and published monthly by Coamix. From 2010 to 2020, it was formerly published by North Stars Pictures and Tokuma Shoten. It was produced as a replacement for ''Weekly Comic Bunch'', Coamix's previous manga anthology. The collected editions of their titles are published under the ''Zenon Comics'' imprint. Overview After the drop of Shinchosha's ''Weekly Comic Bunch'' circulation numbers, Coamix, which edited the magazine, announced ''Bunch''s discontinuation. Coamix marked August 27, 2010 as the day of ''Bunch''s last release, and started to consider to launch a new magazine. In October 2010, Coamix announced a partnership with North Stars Pictures and Tokuma Shoten, stating that the new magazine ''Monthly Comic Zenon'' would debut on October 25, 2010. At the same time Shinchosha launched ''Monthly Comics @ Bunch'', a replacement for ''Weekly Comic Bunch'', but edited without Coamix's in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyuki Sawashiro
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator. She has played voice roles in a number of Japanese anime including ''Beelzebub'', Bishamon in ''Noragami'', Petit Charat/Puchiko in ''Di Gi Charat'', Mint in ''Galaxy Angel'', Sinon in '' Sword Art Online II'', Twilight/Towa Akagi/Cure Scarlet in ''Go! Princess Precure'', Izuna Hatsuse in '' No Game, No Life'', Amagi in '' Azur Lane'', Celty Sturluson in '' Durarara!!'', Kurapika in ''Hunter × Hunter (2011 TV series)'', Raiden Shogun/Raiden Ei in ''Genshin Impact'', Raiden Mei and Dr.MEI in ''Honkai Impact 3'' yet also in '' Gun Girl Z'', Akane Kurashiki in ''Zero Escape'', Ayane Yano in ''Kimi ni Todoke'', Fujiko Mine in later installments of ''Lupin the Third'', Queen in ''Mysterious Joker'', Jun Sasada in ''Natsume's Book of Friends'', Shinku in ''Rozen Maiden'', Haruka Nanami in ''Uta no Prince-sama'', Kotoha Isone in ''Yozakura Quartet'', Kanbaru Suruga in ''Bakemonogatari'', Saber of Red/ Mordred in ''Fate/Apocrypha'', Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta River delta. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub. In 1889, Hiroshima officially gained city status. The city was a center of military activities during the imperial era, playing significant roles such as in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the two world wars. Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in human history. This occurred on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city. Most of Hiroshima was destroyed, and by the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office Lady
An office lady ( ja, オフィスレディー, Ofisuredī), often abbreviated OL (, ), is a female office worker in Japan who performs generally pink-collar A pink-collar worker is someone working in the care-oriented career field or in fields historically considered to be women's work. This may include jobs in the beauty industry, nursing, social work, teaching, secretarial work, upholstery U ... tasks such as secretary, secretarial or clerk, clerical work. Office ladies are usually Full-time job, full-time permanent staff, although the jobs they perform usually have relatively little opportunity for promotion (rank), promotion, and there is usually the wikt:tacit, tacit expectation that they leave their jobs once they get Marriage in Japan, married. Due to some Japanese pop culture influence in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the term is also in common usage there. However, the meaning of the word is slightly different. The term is also sometimes seen in Anglopho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooking Manga
, also known as , is a genre of Japanese manga and anime where food, cooking, eating, or drinking is a central plot element. The genre achieved mainstream popularity in the early 1980s as a result of the "gourmet boom" associated with the Japanese bubble economy. Characteristics In ''Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics'', author Frederik L. Schodt categorizes cooking manga as type of "work manga", a loose category defined by stories about activities and professions that stress "perseverance in the face of impossible odds, craftsmanship, and the quest for excellence," and whose protagonists are frequently "young men from disadvantaged backgrounds who enter a profession and become the 'best in Japan.'" Individual chapters of cooking manga typically focus on a specific dish, and the steps involved in preparing it. While stories still incorporate standard narrative elements such as plot and character development, significant emphasis is frequently placed on the technical aspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BS Japan
BS, B.S., Bs or bs may refer to: Arts and entertainment *BS-, a prefix for all games broadcast for the Satellaview modem via the Japanese Broadcasting Satellite system * "B.S." (song), a song by Jhené Aiko from the album ''Chilombo'' *Team BS, French music collective founded by La Fouine that includes Fababy, Sultan and Sindy *NHK's satellite broadcaster mark, NHK-BS * ''Backstage'' (magazine) * Baritone saxophone, a musical instrument * Bullshit (card game), a card game Businesses and organizations *, a bank in Spain *, a bank headquartered in Spain * Beijing Subway, a transit system * BellSouth, a United States telephone company * Better Serbia (''Bolja Srbija''), a political party in Serbia * ' ("Cipher Bureau"), a Polish cryptography and signals intelligence agency known for its work on German Enigma ciphers in the 1930s * Boy Scouts; see scouting * British International Helicopters (IATA code BS) * British Shipbuilders, a public corporation founded in 1977 * British Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheers To Me
''Cheers'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television (original), Paramount Network Television, and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar and namesake Cheers Beacon Hill, Cheers in Boston, where a group of locals in the city meet to drink, relax and socialize. At the center of the show was the bar's owner and head bartender, Sam Malone, who was a womanizing former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. The show's ensemble cast introduced in the Give Me a Ring Sometime, pilot episode were waitresses Diane Chambers and Carla Tortelli, second bartender Coach Ernie Pantusso, and regular customers Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin. Later main characters of the show also included Frasier Crane, Woody Boyd, Lilith Sternin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
