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Locks (album)
''Locks'' is the sixth studio album by Japanese band Garnet Crow. It was released on March 18, 2008, under Giza Studio label. Background The album includes three previously released singles, ''Kaze to Rainbow/Kono Te wo Nobaseba'', ''Namida no Yesterday'' and ''Sekai wa Mawaru to Iu Keredo''. Two were remixed under the title ''album ver.'', with instrumentation 30 seconds longer and more varied in comparison to the original singles. Locks is the group's first album which was released in three formats: regular edition, limited "A" and "B" CD+DVD edition. Limited "A" includes DVD disc with the short footage of their live ''Garnet Crow Special Live in Ninnanji'' and limited "B" includes DVD disc with three music videoclips. Commercial performance "Locks" made its chart debut on the official Oricon Albums Chart at #5 rank for first week with 31,555 sold copies. It charted for 6 weeks and sold more than 45,000 copies. Track listing All tracks are composed by Yuri Nakamura, writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garnet Crow
Garnet Crow (stylized as GARNET CROW) was a Japanese pop/rock band formed in 1999 and associated with the Giza Studio record label. Members included Yuri Nakamura (singer), Yuri Nakamura, Hitoshi Okamoto, Nana Azuki, and Hirohito Furui, with Nakamura leading on vocals. Music produced by Garnet Crow has its roots in the New acoustic music, neo acoustic genre, and representative works include "Flying", "Yume Mita Ato De", and "Spiral". Despite prolific early singles, the band neither performed live nor appeared on TV prior to 2002. The mixed composition of Garnet Crow and Nakamura's deep vocals set the group apart from its contemporaries. Each individual member has also seen industry success: Nakamura and Azuki often share the limelight for Garnet Crow, but Okamoto has achieved a solo career and Furui is a sought-after music arranger – one of the highest paid in Japan. On March 30, 2013, the band announced their disbandment, with their final concert scheduled to be held on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detective Conan
''Case Closed'', also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' since January 1994; its chapters are collected in 107 volumes as of April 2025. Because of legal problems with the name ''Detective Conan'', the English language releases from Funimation and Viz Media were renamed ''Case Closed''. The story follows the high school detective Shinichi Kudo, whose body was transformed into that of an elementary school-age child while investigating a mysterious organization. Generally, he solves a multitude of cases by impersonating his childhood best friend's father and various other characters. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and TMS Entertainment, which premiered in January 1996. The anime resulted in animated feature films, original video animations, video games, audio disc releases and live act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giza Studio Albums
Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah, Gizeh, Geeza, Jiza''; , , ' ) is the third-largest city in Egypt by area after Cairo and Alexandria; and fourth-largest city in Africa by population after Kinshasa, Lagos, and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 4,872,448 in the 2017 census. It is located on the west bank of the Nile opposite central Cairo, and is a part of the Greater Cairo metropolis. Giza lies less than north of Memphis (''Men-nefer,'' today the village of Mit Rahina), which was the capital city of the unified Egyptian state during the reign of pharaoh Narmer, roughly 3100 BC. Giza is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau, the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, among which are the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples. Giza has always been a focal point in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Japanese-language Albums
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtape In the modern music industry, a mixtape is a musical project, typically with looser constraints than that of an album or extended play. Unlike the traditional album or extended play, mixtapes are labeled as laid-back projects that allow artists mo ...s released in 2008. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2008 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2008 albums Albums 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kono Te Wo Nobaseba
Kono may refer to: Geography *Kono District, a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone **Kono people, an ethnic group in Sierra Leone *Kono, Nigeria, a village in Rivers State, Nigeria *Kōno, Fukui, a village in Fukui, Japan Languages *Kono language (Sierra Leone), a Mande language of Sierra Leone *Kono language (Guinea), a Mande language of Guinea *Kono language (Nigeria), a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria People with the surname *Kōno, a Japanese family name (including a list of people with the name) * Hiromichi Kono (1905-1963), Japanese entomologist and anthropologist *, Japanese voice actress Other *Gonu, Korean traditional board games *Jonas Saeed, a Swedish musician who goes by the stage name KONO See also *KONO (other) *Konno, a surname *Kouno (other) Kouno may refer to: * Battle of Kouno (1899) battle in Africa of Muslims versus French troops * Kouno, Chad, a sub-prefecture in the Chari-Baguirmi Region of Chad *Kōno, Japanese surname someti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MÄR
''Märchen Awakens Romance'', officially abbreviated as ''MÄR'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai, serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from January 2003 to July 2006, with its chapters collected in 15 volumes. The story follows 14-year-old junior high student Ginta Toramizu who is transported into a fantasy-based world known as MÄR-Heaven. As Ginta ventures in the world of MÄR-Heaven, he encounters allies and antagonists. A 102-episode anime television series adaptation titled ''MÄR Heaven'' was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 2005 to March 2007. In North America, Viz Media has licensed both the ''MÄR'' manga and anime for an English-language release. The manga was published between July 2005 and June 2007. The anime aired first in July 2006 on Toonami Jetstream, an online service from Cartoon Network, and then on the network itself, as part of the Toonami programming block in December 2006. A ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaze To Rainbow
is a video game industry developer headquartered in Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan. Founded on February 2, 1987, KAZe is well known for developing various pachinko and pinball video games. Their services include the development of Web sites, system consultation, and IT consultation. The planning, producing, and management of cell phones is another one of KAZe's secondary businesses as a part of their diverse business plan. Video games * '' Zombie Nation'' (1990) * ''Tenjin Oyasen 2'' (1992) * ''The King of Rally'' (1992) * ''Pachinko Monogatari: Pachi-Slot Moaru Deyo!!'' (Super Famicom, 1993, published by KSS) * '' Super Pinball: Behind the Mask'' (1993) * '' Uchuu Race: Astro Go! Go!'' (1994) * ''Pachi-Slot Monogatari: Universal Special'' (Super Famicom, 1994, published by KSS) * ''Pachinko Monogatari 2: Nagoya Shachihoko no Teiou'' (Super Famicom, 1995, published by KSS) * ''Pachi-Slot Monogatari: Paru Kougyou Special'' (Super Famicom, 1995, published by KSS) * ''Super Pinball I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
JORX-DTV (channel 6), branded as , is the flagship station of the Japan News Network in the Kantō region. It is owned-and-operated by , a subsidiary of TBS Holdings. TBS Television is one of the "five private broadcasters based in Tokyo." TBS produced the game show '' Takeshi's Castle'', which is dubbed and rebroadcast internationally. The channel was also home to '' Ultraman'' and the ''Ultra Series'' franchise starting in 1966—initially a spinoff of '' Ultra Q'', which was co-produced and broadcast in the same year. Most, if not all, of these series were produced by Tsuburaya Productions for the network. In the 2010s, the ''Ultra Series'' moved to TV Tokyo. Since the 1990s, TBS has been the home of '' Sasuke'' (''Ninja Warrior''), whose format inspired similar programs outside Japan. Sasuke itself was a spinoff of the TBS game show '' Kinniku Banzuke,'' which ran for seven seasons. On May 24, 2017, TBS and five other major media firms—TV Tokyo, Nikkei, Inc., WOWOW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s in music, 1960s pop music, pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene. Japanese rock bands such as Happy End (band), Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-pop was further defined by New wave music, new wave and Crossover music, crossover Jazz fusion, fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. () Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s1980s, and Eurobeat#J-Euro, J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro) and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekai Wa Mawaru To Iu Keredo
Sekai (Japanese for "world") may refer to: * ''Sekai'' (magazine), a Japanese political magazine * "Sekai" (song), a 2006 song by Japanese singer-songwriter Chara People with the given name Sekai include: *Koh Se-kai (born 1934), Taiwanese historian *Sekai Holland (born 1942), Zimbabwean politician *Sekai Nzenza (born 1959), Zimbabwean writer *Sekai Machache (born 1989), Zimbabwean visual artist and curator *Sekai (dancer) Sekai Yamamoto (山本 世界, Yamamoto Sekai, born February 21, 1991, in Hayama, Kanagawa), better known by his stage name Exile Sekai (Exile 世界), is a Japanese dancer. He is a member of Exile and also the leader of the J-pop dance and vocal ..., (born 1991), Japanese dancer See also * Sakai (other) * {{dab, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
