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Hibike! Euphonium
is a Japanese novel series written by Ayano Takeda. The story is set in Uji, Kyoto and focuses on the Kitauji High School Music Club, whose concert band is steadily improving thanks to the newly appointed adviser's strict instruction. A manga adaptation illustrated by Hami was serialized on the ''Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Web'' website. Kyoto Animation was in charge of its anime adaptations: it produced two seasons of a television series adaptation in 2015 and 2016, depicting the first high school year of the main character, Kumiko Oumae. Two animated theatrical films titled '' Liz and the Blue Bird'' and ''Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day'', both taking place during Kumiko's second high year, were released in premiered in 2018 and 2019 respectively. A third season focused on Kumiko in her third year of high school has been announced for 2024, preceded by the theatrical OVA ''Ensemble Contest'' in Q3 2023. Plot The Kitauji High School Concer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleven Arts
Eleven Arts is a film production and distribution company based in Los Angeles, California. The company has Japanese executives and has "a largely Japanese lineup". It specializes in importing anime from Japan to the United States. Company history Eleven Arts was founded by Ko Mori in 1997. In 2008, Eleven Arts partnered with Funimation to distribute '' Love and Honor'' (2006) in the United States. It also sold ''Man, Woman and the Wall'' to TLA Releasing for distribution in the US and the UK. In 2009, Eleven Arts acquired distribution rights to ''Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl''. In 2012, the company partnered with Edlead to produce and distribute several films a year for international audiences. The company releases Japanese anime films on home video in the United States market, though it has struggled with sales due to the prevalence of illegal downloads. It also filed in 2013 a lawsuit against a DVD distributor for distributing inferior copies of anime films based on po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Mendez
Erica Mendez is an American voice actress who has voiced in English dubs for Funimation, Bang Zoom! and Studiopolis. She studied graphic design in college for three years prior to becoming a voice actress. Career Mendez's first major voice role was the titular character Pac-Man in the ''Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures'' video game, which was released in 2013. In 2014, Mendez starred as Aladdin in the '' Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic'' series and Ryuko Matoi in the English dub of '' Kill la Kill'', the latter of which was broadcast on the Toonami block on Adult Swim. Some of Mendez's other major roles include Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus in the Viz Media English dub of '' Sailor Moon'', Maki Harukawa in '' Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony'', Gon Freecss in the English dub of the 2011 anime adaptation of ''Hunter x Hunter'' and Retsuko in the English dub of Netflix anime series '' Aggretsuko'', Annie in the fighting game '' Skullgirls'', Kamisato Ayaka in ''Genshin Impact'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoyo Kurosawa
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Chichibu, Saitama. Her major voice acting roles include ''Yuki Yuna is a Hero'' as Itsuki Inubozaki, ''Arknights'' as Amiya, ''Sound! Euphonium'' as Kumiko Ōmae, Rebecca in '' Cyberpunk: Edgerunners''. and ''Land of the Lustrous'' as Phosphophyllite. Biography Kurosawa began studying acting at the age of 3. In 2000, she began appearing in TV dramas, commercials and stage performances.Welcome to the Space Show Blu-ray commentary Kurosawa became a support member of Sound Horizon in 2008, appearing in their sixth CD story "Moira" that same year, and in Sound Horizon's seventh CD story "Märchen", released in 2010. She made her voice acting debut as Natsuki Koyama in the 2010 anime film ''Welcome to the Space Show''. In 2012, she moved from Space Craft to Mausu Promotion. In August 2020, Kurosawa moved again from Mausu Production to Toho Geino. On October 9, 2020, it was announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto Shimbun
is a daily newspaper published in Kyoto, Japan, and the company publishing that newspapers is also called . Kyoto Shimbun has two headquarters in Kyoto and Ōtsu, and three branch offices in Kumiyama, Tokyo and Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. .... External links The ''Kyoto Shimbun News''''Kyoto Shimbun'' Daily newspapers published in Japan Newspaper companies of Japan Mass media in Kyoto Newspapers established in 1879 1879 establishments in Japan {{japan-corp-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concert Band
A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar. On rare occasions, additional, non-traditional instruments may be added to such ensembles such as piano, synthesizer, or electric guitar. Concert band music generally includes original wind compositions, concert marches, transcriptions of orchestral arrangements, light music, and popular music. Though the concert band does have similar instrumentation to the marching band, a marching band's main purpose is to perform while marching. In contrast, a concert band strictly performs as a stationary ensemble. Origins The origins of concert band can be traced back to the French Revolution, in which large bands would often gather for patriotic festivals and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kensuke Ushio
is a Japanese composer, rock and EBM musician who performs under the moniker ''Agraph''. He is a member of Japanese rock band Lama. Together with Lama, he released two full-length studio records: ''New!'' in 2011 and ''Modanica'' a year later. Both albums charted on the Japanese Albums Chart. As an EBM musician, he released three albums, all of which peaked in the Japanese Albums Chart. He wrote and composed soundtracks for several anime television series and movies, such as '' A Silent Voice'', ''Space Dandy'', ''Devilman Crybaby'', ''Boogiepop and Others'', ''Ping Pong'', ''Liz and the Blue Bird'' and ''Chainsaw Man''. Biography As a child, Ushio learned playing piano. He studied arts and music at university. At the same time, he learned the usage of the audio editor software Pro Tools. At the age of 20, Ushio got his first contact with electronic music, such as techno. He started his solo career in 2007 under the moniker ''Agraph'' and began creating electronic music. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reiko Yoshida
is a Japanese screenwriter. She has written and supervised numerous screenplays for anime series, live-action dramas and films. Her major works include ''Kaleido Star'', ''Aria'', ''Maria-sama ga Miteru'', '' D.Gray-man'', ''K-On!'', ''Bakuman'' and ''Girls und Panzer''. In more recent works, she has supervised the screenplays for ''Majestic Prince'', ''Non Non Biyori'', ''A Town Where You Live'', ''Tamako Market'', ''Yowamushi Pedal'' and ''Castle Town Dandelion''. In films, she wrote the screenplay for ''The Cat Returns'', the original films that would make up '' Digimon: The Movie'', Kyoto Animation’s hit anime film '' A Silent Voice'', and the film adaptations of Osamu Tezuka's ''Buddha'', the second film of which was given a stamp of approval by the Dalai Lama. She wrote the story for the manga series ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' along with illustrator Mia Ikumi. Among her works, she was recognized for Best Screenplay/Original Work for ''Girls und Panzer'' at the Tokyo Anime Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
