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Yoko Kanno
is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, Video game, video games, Japanese television drama, television dramas and movies. She has written scores for ''Cowboy Bebop'', ''Terror in Resonance'', ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'', ''Wolf's Rain'', ''Turn A Gundam'' and ''Darker than Black''. Kanno is a keyboardist and the frontwoman for Seatbelts (band), Seatbelts, who perform many of her compositions. Early life Yoko Kanno was born on 18 March 1963, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Her earliest experiences with music came from attending church with her parents. She studied keyboard on both the piano in her home and the organ at her kindergarten. In elementary school, she began participating in composition contests, but in high school, Kanno began to take more of an interest in literature than in music. Kanno attended Waseda University, where she majored in literature, but she transcribed music for various student group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Expo
Anime Expo, abbreviated AX, is an American anime convention held in Los Angeles, California and organized by the non-profit Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA). The convention is traditionally held annually on the first weekend of July, spanning the course of four days. Anime Expo is regularly hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center but has also been held in other cities such as Anaheim, San Jose, New York, and Tokyo. Anime Expo has events and activities during the convention for attendees to take part in such as guest panels, tabletop gaming, competitions, an arcade, and concerts. Convention history History The first Anime Expo was held from July 3–6, 1992 at the Red Lion Hotel in San Jose, California. Many of its original staff came from Anime Con, an anime convention held in San Jose in 1991, and later absorbed by the SPJA in 1992. In 1994, Anime Expo made a strategic relocation to the Southern California area and all subsequent conventions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowboy Bebop
is a 1998 Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series that aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. It was created and animated by Sunrise (company), Sunrise, led by a production team of director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno, who are collectively billed as Hajime Yatate. The series, which ran for twenty-six episodes (dubbed "sessions"), is set in the year 2071, and follows the lives of a traveling Bounty hunter, bounty-hunting crew aboard a spaceship, the ''Bebop''. Although it incorporates a wide variety of genres, the series draws most heavily from science fiction, Western film, Western, and Film noir, noir films. Its most prominent themes are boredom, existential boredom, loneliness, and the inability to escape one's past. The series was Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbed into English by Animaze and ZRO Limit Productions, and was orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Television Drama
, also called or J-drama, are television programs that are a staple of Television in Japan, Japanese television and are broadcast daily. Format All major Television networks, TV networks in Japan produce a variety of Drama (genre), drama series including Romance film, romance, Television comedy, comedy, Detective fiction, detective stories, Japanese horror , horror, jidaigeki, Thriller (genre), thriller, Boys' love, BL, and many others. Single episode, or "tanpatsu" dramas that are usually two hours in length are also broadcast. For special occasions, there may be a one or two-episode drama with a specific theme, such as one produced in 2015 for the 70-year anniversary of Surrender of Japan, the end of World War II. Japanese drama series are broadcast in three-month seasons: winter (January–March), spring (April–June), summer (July–September), and autumn or fall (October–December). Some series may start in another month though it may still be counted as a series of a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset. Most modern video games are audiovisual, with Sound, audio complement delivered through loudspeaker, speakers or headphones, and sometimes also with other types of sensory feedback (e.g., haptic technology that provides Touch, tactile sensations). Some video games also allow microphone and webcam inputs for voice chat in online gaming, in-game chatting and video game livestreaming, livestreaming. Video games are typically categorized according to their hardware platform, which traditionally includes arcade video games, console games, and PC game, comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ORIGA
Olga Vitalevna Yakovleva (, October 12, 1970 – January 17, 2015), better known as Origa, was a Russian singer who rose to prominence for her musical collaborations in Japan, especially her work for the Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. franchise. History Origa was born in the small urban village of Kochenyovo, 50 kilometres west of Novosibirsk. After graduating from music school in 1990, she took an opportunity to visit Japan in 1991 and finally contracted with the ROAD&SKY Organization in 1993. She later participated in several projects with various artists in addition to the Radio Japan Series and being part of the chorus for the Great Hanshin earthquake, Kobe earthquake disaster charity single. She released eight solo albums, three mini-albums, two compilation albums and 3 singles. She gained popularity outside Japan with the release of ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'' and the subsequent original soundtracks, ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex O.S.T.'' and ''Gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seatbelts (band)
is a Japanese band led by composer and instrumentalist Yoko Kanno. An international ensemble comprising both a stable lineup of musicians and various collaborators, the band was assembled by Kanno in 1998 to perform the soundtrack music for the ''Cowboy Bebop'' anime series. Their repertoire covered and blended many different genres, mainly jazz, but also a wide variety of rock, electronic, funk, blues, orchestral pop and other styles of genres. Band history The name of the band, according to the fictional description given in their first album ''Cowboy Bebop'', derives from how the performers wear seatbelts to be safe while they play hardcore jam sessions. The band performed the entire soundtrack of the anime series ''Cowboy Bebop'' and produced a total of seven albums (three new songs in '' Cowboy Bebop Tank! THE! BEST!'') and one live DVD. The band performed virtually in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to participate in new projects. In collaboration with Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May'n
, better known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer from Nagoya. Aspiring to become a singer since childhood, she began her music activities in 2003 upon passing an audition held by talent agency Horipro International. She made her major debut in 2005 under the Universal Music label with the release of her first single "Crazy Crazy Crazy". She would release two more singles under Universal Music, before transferring to Victor Entertainment in 2008. That same year, she had her break as the singing voice of the character Sheryl Nome in the anime series '' Macross Frontier''. May'n's musical style varies in genre, ranging from pop and rock, to dance music and R&B. Her music has been featured in anime series such as ''Macross Frontier'', '' Aria the Scarlet Ammo'', ''Accel World'', '' Aquarion Logos'', and '' Restaurant to Another World''. She has also performed at several music events in Japan, Asia, Europe, and North America. In 2013, she represented Japan at the ABU TV Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megumi Nakajima
is a Japanese voice actress and singer, who is affiliated with Stay Luck. In 2003, she joined the talent agency Stardust Promotion after passing their audition. Later, in 2007, she debuted as a voice actress and singer after passing an audition held by the music company Victor Entertainment; she was then cast as the character Ranka Lee in the 2008 anime series '' Macross Frontier''. Her first solo single "Tenshi ni Naritai" was released in 2009, which was followed by her first solo album '' I Love You'' in 2010. Apart from Ranka, Nakajima is also known for her roles as Kaede Sakura in '' Kämpfer'', Lyra in '' Fairy Tail'', Lyra and Meloetta in '' Pokémon'', Yuzuki Eba in '' A Town Where You Live'', Megumi Aino/Cure Lovely in '' HappinessCharge PreCure!'', and Tuuli in '' Ascendance of a Bookworm''. Her songs have been featured in series such as ''Kämpfer'', '' Tamayura'', '' Kotoura-san'', '' Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne'', and ''Ascendance of a Bookworm''. She is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maaya Sakamoto
is a Japanese actress and singer. She made her debut as a Voice acting in Japan, voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime ''Little Twins'', and became known as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in ''The Vision of Escaflowne''. Other major roles in anime include Leila Malcal in ''Code Geass: Akito the Exiled'', Jeanne d'Arc in ''Fate/Apocrypha'', Shiki Ryōgi in ''The Garden of Sinners'', Eto in ''Tokyo Ghoul'', Riho Yamazaki in ''Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective'', Moe Katsuragi in ''Risky Safety'', List of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle characters#Princess Tomoyo, Princess Tomoyo in ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', Haruhi Fujioka in ''Ouran High School Host Club'', Birdy the Mighty#Sayaka Nakasugi, Sayaka Nakasugi in ''Birdy the Mighty'', List of Black Butler characters#Ciel Phantomhive, Ciel Phantomhive in ''Black Butler'', List of Monogatari characters#Shinobu Oshino, Shinobu Oshino in ''Monogatari (series), Monogatari'', List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Pop
is a loosely defined form of Japanese pop music that emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in popularity during the 1980s. It was originally termed as an offshoot of Japan's Western-influenced " new music", but came to include a wide range of styles – including funk, disco, R&B, AOR, soft rock, and boogie – that were associated with the country's nascent economic boom and leisure class. It was also identified with (at the time) new technologies such as the Walkman, cars with built-in cassette decks and FM stereos, and various electronic musical instruments. There is no unified consensus among scholars regarding the definition of city pop. In Japan, the tag simply referred to music that projected an " urban" feel and whose target demographic was urbanites. Many of the artists did not embrace the Japanese influences of their predecessors, and instead, largely drew from American funk, soft rock and boogie. Some examples may also feature tropical flourishes or elements taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
