is the traditional name of the month of August in the

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and a

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ese

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player *, Japanese actress and voice actress *, Japanese

player *, vocalist for the band Lynch *, Japanese wrestler

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*, the father of Ryo Hazuki in the video game series

Shenmue is an action-adventure game series created, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki. '' Shenmue'' (1999) and ''Shenmue II'' (2001) were developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for Dreamcast. '' Shenmue III,'' developed by Suzuki's company Y ...

*, a character from the

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, 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 Japane ...

Free! ''Free!'' is a Japanese anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation and Animation Do. The series is loosely based on the light novel, , written by Kōji Ōji, which received an honorable mention in the second Kyoto Animation Award ...

*, a character from the anime

Love Live! Superstar!! is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by Kadokawa Corporation, music label Lantis, and animation studio Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly known as Sunrise). The project is the fourth installment in the ''Love Live!'' franchise after ''L ...

*, the protagonist of the video game series,

*, a character from the manga New Game! *Hazuki Shiina, a character in the anime and manga series

Legend of Light is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Aso about a girl named Hikari Kamijou who dreams of becoming a national rhythmic gymnastics champion. The manga series title translates into English as "Legend of Light" (the female ...

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and eroge

Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito , also known as ''Yamibō''/''Yamibou'' for short, is a Japanese Eroge, adult visual novel published in December 2002 by Root. A 13-episode anime series produced by Studio Deen aired between October and December 2003. Although the characters a ...

*, a character from the

visual novel A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with sta ...

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, whose code name was "Lotus" *, a character from the Japanese light novel series Baka and Test

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