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Seiyu Award For Best Rookie Actress
The Seiyu Award for Best Rookie Actress is one of the awards at the Seiyu Awards The are award ceremonies for the recognition of voice acting talent for outstanding performance in anime and other media in Japan. The first Seiyu Awards were held on March 3, 2007 at the 3D Theatre of the Tokyo Anime Center in Akihabara. Award .... Winners References {{Seiyu Awards Seiyu Awards Awards for actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taishō Baseball Girls
is a Japanese light novel series written by Atsushi Kagurazaka and illustrated by Sadaji Koike. Tokuma Shoten published four novels from April 2007 to June 2010. It has been adapted into a drama CD, a manga series serialized in ''Monthly Comic Ryū'', and an anime television series animated by J.C.Staff aired between July and September 2009. The anime had been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks and Section23 Films released the complete collection on November 16, 2010. Story In 1925, after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when having to find enough members, to get permission from their parents and also when learning about the sport itse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sora No Manimani
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mami Kashiwabara. The manga was serialized between the November 2005 and September 2011 issues of Kodansha's ''Monthly Afternoon'' manga magazine, and was collected into 10 ''tankōbon'' volumes. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Studio Comet and directed by Shinji Takamatsu aired in Japan between July and September 2009. Plot ''Sora no Manimani'' revolves around Saku Ōyagi, a bookworm who moves back to the town he lived in as a child after seven years. He had a childhood friend named Mihoshi Akeno who loved astronomy and would always take Saku outside against his will to look at the stars, or do other outdoor activities, whereas Saku would rather have stayed inside with his books. Saku broke his arm the day he moved away after trying to catch Mihoshi falling out of a tree; Saku resented her for this, and that she never saw him off. However, this was a misunderstanding since he was too stubborn to listen to the whole story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanae Ito
Kanae (written: , , , or ) is a Japanese given name generally given to girls. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese tennis player *Kanae Ikehata (born 1982), Japanese fencer *, Japanese voice actress and singer *, Japanese serial killer *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese singer and voice actress *Kanae Yagi, Japanese weightlifter *, Japanese politician *, Japanese idol, singer and actress Fictional characters *, character in the manga series ''Elfen Lied'' *, character in the manga series ''Skip Beat!'' *, character in the animated film ''5 Centimeters Per Second'' *Kanae, character in the game ''Akatsuki Blitzkampf'' *Kanae Aira, character in the book and anime '' Juni Taisen: Zodiac War'' *Kanae, a character from the PlayStation 2 horror video game Forbidden Siren 2 *, character in the manga and anime ''Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. It follows teenage Tanjiro Kama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Love-Ru
is a Japanese manga series written by Saki Hasemi and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine from April 2006 to August 2009, and the chapters collected into 18 ''tankōbon'' volumes. It chronicles the life of high school student Rito Yuuki after he meets and accidentally gets engaged to the alien princess Lala Satalin Deviluke. The title, , is a pun on the English loan words ("trouble") and ("love"), referencing the harem aspect of the series. ''To Love Ru'' is noted for its fan service, with Hasemi and Yabuki admitting that they tested the boundaries of what would be allowed in a ''shōnen'' manga. A drama CD was released in February 2008, featuring an original story along with character songs. Following a 26-episode anime television series adaptation that aired in Japan in 2008, Xebec produced six original video animation episodes and a 12-episode second season, titled ''Motto To Love Ru'', betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Shrine Maidens
Insanity, madness, lunacy, and craziness are behaviors performed by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity can be manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people. Conceptually, mental insanity also is associated with the biological phenomenon of contagion (that mental illness is infectious) as in the case of copycat suicides. In contemporary usage, the term ''insanity'' is an informal, un-scientific term denoting "mental instability"; thus, the term insanity defense is the legal definition of mental instability. In medicine, the general term psychosis is used to include the presence either of delusions or of hallucinations or both in a patient; and psychiatric illness is "psychopathology", not ''mental insanity''. An interview with Dr. Joseph Merlino, David Shankbone, ''Wikinews'', 5 October 2007. In English, the word "sane" derives from the Latin adjective ''sanus'' meaning "healthy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zettai Karen Children
''Psychic Squad'', known in Japan as is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''shōnen'' manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from July 2005 to July 2021, with its chapters collected in 63 ''tankōbon'' volumes. It is the story about three young problem girls with outstanding psychic powers and a young man with no special powers at all tasked to guide them properly while dealing with all the commotions they cause, including their obvious infatuation with him. A 51-episode anime television series produced by SynergySP was broadcast from April 2008 to March 2009, and had a special original video animation (OVA) released in July 2010. A 12-episode spin-off focused on main antagonist Kyōsuke Hyōbu, titled '' Unlimited Psychic Squad'', and produced by Manglobe, was broadcast from January to March 2013. As of July 2012, the manga had over 6 million copies in circulation. In 2022, ''Psychic Squad'' received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Ray'n
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid '90s producing and licensing music for animated series such as ''Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's '' Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, Tofu Records. Releases of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruka Tomatsu
is a Japanese voice actress and singer, employed by Music Ray'n. She received the Rookie of the Year award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards and the Synergy Award at the 9th Seiyu Awards. Tomatsu voiced Asuna Yuuki in ''Sword Art Online'', Zero Two in ''Darling in the Franxx'', Lala Satalin Deviluke in ''To LOVE-Ru'', Kyoko Hori in '' Horimiya'', Morgiana in '' Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic'' and Naruko "Anaru" Anjo in '' Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day''. Tomatsu began a singing career in 2008, performing the song "Naissance" which was used as the ending theme to the television drama series ''Here Is Greenwood''. Her second single "Motto Hade ni Ne" was used as the opening theme to '' Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens''. In 2009, she became part of the music unit Sphere, alongside Aki Toyosaki, Minako Kotobuki and Ayahi Takagaki. She released her first album ''Rainbow Road'' in 2010, and two compilation albums in 2016. Career Acting Tomatsu was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Her voice act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyo No Go No Ni
Kyo can refer to: ;Anime, game and manga * Kusanagi 'Kyo', KOF 1994, one of the main characters of the ''King of Fighters'' series of video games * ''Kyo'', a manga comic created by Ryōji Minagawa in 1996 * Kyo Sohma, a character in the manga and anime series ''Fruits Basket'' * Demon Eyes Kyo, a character in the manga series ''Samurai Deeper Kyo'' ;Music * An alias of English singer-songwriter Carol Leeming * Kyo (band), a French rock band ** Kyo (album) * Kyo (musician), Japanese musician, poet and singer-songwriter; vocalist for the Japanese metal band Dir En Grey ;Places * Three villages in County Durham, England: ** East Kyo ** West Kyo ** New Kyo * another name for Kyoto, a city in Japan ;Other * Kyō Fujibayashi, a character in the visual novel ''Clannad'' * Machiko Kyō Japanese actress * Kyō Noguchi Japanese former professional boxer * Kiuchi Kyō Japanese educator and politician * Kyo Koike Japanese-American poet * Kyo Yoshida Japanese rugby union player * Kyo Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidamari Sketch
is a Japanese ''yonkoma'' manga series written and illustrated by Ume Aoki, centering around a group of young female art students, and following their daily lives as close friends and neighbors at the nearby Hidamari Apartments. The manga has been serialized in Houbunsha's monthly ''seinen'' magazine '' Manga Time Kirara Carat'' since April 2004, with its chapters collected in ten ''tankōbon'' volumes as of March 2020. Since 2008, Yen Press has licensed an English translation of the series in North America under the title ''Sunshine Sketch''. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Shaft aired in Japan between January and March 2007. It was followed by three sequels: ''Hidamari Sketch × 365'', a 13-episode season between July and September 2008; ''Hidamari Sketch × Hoshimittsu'', a 12-episode season between January and March 2010; and ''Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb'', a 12-episode season between October and December 2012. Two special episodes for each of the first three se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
