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Tomo-chan Is A Girl!
is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Fumita Yanagida. It was serialized on the Twi4 Twitter account and ''Saizensen'' website from April 2015 to July 2019, and published in eight volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Lay-duce is set to premiere in January 2023. Plot Tomo Aizawa is a tomboy who has had a crush on her childhood friend Junichiro Kubota for a long time, who sees her not as a woman but "one of the boys". Hilarity ensues when she tried many time in vain to show her love, but ended up physical at times. Also, their mutual friend, Misuzu Gundo, does things her way. Others are also mixed in the mess. Characters ; : :Tomo is a tomboy who excels in sports. She struggles to confess to her childhood friend Junichirou. ; : :The childhood friend that Tomo had a liking. He was oblivious to her advances, seeing her only as one of the boys. ; : :The third wheel of the trio, Tomo's other friend and Junichirou's ex-girlfriend. She loves me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typical romantic comedy, the two lovers tend to be young, likeable, and seemingly meant for each other, yet they are kept apart by some complicating circumstance (e.g., class differences, parental interference, a previous girlfriend or boyfriend) until, surmounting all obstacles, they are finally united. A fairy-tale-style happy ending is a typical feature. Romantic comedy films are a certain genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies. However, a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres, not a single new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies. Description The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due ... [...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] |
Tankōbon
is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or monthly manga anthology with other works before being published as volumes containing several chapters each. Major publishing imprints for include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Comics, and Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics. Japanese comics (manga) manga came to be published in thick, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology manga magazines (such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or '' Weekly Shōnen Jump''). These anthologies often have hundreds of pages and dozens of individual series by multiple authors. They are printed on cheap newsprint and are considered disposable. Since the 1930s, though, comic strips had been compiled into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pixiv
is a Japanese online community for artists. It was first launched as a beta test on September 10, 2007, by Takahiro Kamitani and Takanori Katagiri. Pixiv Inc. is headquartered in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. As of April 2020, the site consists of over 50 million members, over 100 million submissions, and receives over 3.7 billion page views monthly. Pixiv aims to provide a place for artists to exhibit their illustrations and get feedback via a rating system and user comments. Works are organized in an extensive tag structure which forms the backbone of the website. History Starting as the idea of the programmer Takahiro Kamitani, who is himself an artist known as Bakotsu on the website, Pixiv was launched on September 10, 2007, as a beta test. When the number of users exceeded 10,000 only nineteen days after launch, it became difficult for Kamitani to maintain Pixiv on his own, leading him to establish Crooc Inc. on October 1, 2007. The website underwent a major upgrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie (website)
is a Japanese entertainment news website that debuted on February 1, 2007. It is operated by Natasha, Inc. The website is named after the song of the same name by Julio Iglesias. ''Natalie'' has been providing news for such leading Japanese portals and social networks as Mobage Town, GREE, Livedoor, Excite, Mixi, and Yahoo! Japan. It has also been successful on Twitter, with 1,510,000 followers as of February 2017, being the third-most-followed Japanese media company, after '' The Mainichi Shimbun'' and '' The Asahi Shimbun''. History Natasha, Inc., a content provider, was founded in December 2005, becoming a limited company in February 2006 and being demutualized in January 2007. On February 1, 2007, Natasha, Inc. opened its own news website ''Natalie'', named after the song "Nathalie" by Julio Iglesias. It was dedicated exclusively to music news and created with the idea of updating on a daily basis, something that newspapers could not do. The website also offered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
is a Japanese voice actor from Hokkaido affiliated with the talent agency I'm Enterprise. Honored at the 6th Seiyu Awards for Best New Actor in 2012 and the 10th Seiyu Awards for Best Lead Actor in 2016, he is best known for being the voice of Kirito from ''Sword Art Online'', Bell Cranel from '' Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?'', Sorata Kanda from '' The Pet Girl of Sakurasou'', Sora from '' No Game No Life'', Arata Kasuga/Astral Trinity from ''Trinity Seven'', Sōma Yukihira from '' Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma'', Fūtarō Uesugi in ''The Quintessential Quintuplets'', Masamune Izumi from ''Eromanga Sensei'', Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti from '' Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World'', and Inosuke Hashibira from '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''. As of June 17, 2019, he is the current official ''Guinness World Record'' holder for the most unique sound bites provided by a voice actor, exceeding 10,000 words in '' Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōhei Amasaki
is a Japanese voice actor from Osaka prefecture. He is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. He won the Best New Actor Award and Singing Award at the 13th Seiyu Awards. Filmography Television animation Anime films Original video animation (OVA) Original net animation (ONA) Video games Radio programs * ''Lost Village ‟Public relations division in Nanaki village hall”(迷家‐マヨイガ‐「納鳴村 村役場広報課」, Mayoiga Nanaki Mura Mura Yakuba Kouhouka)''(2016) * ''Kentarō Tone with unpleasant company (利根健太郎とゆかいな仲間たち, Tone Keontarō to Yukai na Nakamatachi)''(2017) * ''Monthly: New “Handsome communication”(月刊 新・男前通信, Gekkan Otokomae Tsūshin)''(2017) * ''Kōhei Amasaki, Takeo Ōtsuka ‟Are We Friends Yet?”(天﨑滉平、大塚剛央の僕たちもうフレンドですよね？, Amasaki Kōhei, Ōtsuka Takeo no Bokutachi Mou Friend Desuyone?)''(2017-) * ''RADIO M4!!!!''(2017-) * ''THE IDO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Amaki
is an American singer and voice actress based in Tokyo, Japan. She is a member of the voice acting idol group 22/7 which debuted in 2017 and is the group's "overseas representative." Within the group, she appears both as herself and as the animated character Sakura Fujima, for whom she provides the voice and motion capture. In addition to 22/7, Amaki also provides the voices for other characters including Akubi from ''Pandora to Akubi'', Carol Olston from ''Tomo-chan Is a Girl!'', and Kiriko from ''Overwatch 2''. Career In 2016, Amaki moved from Los Angeles to Japan by herself to pursue voice acting, as she felt that anime brought a positive influence on her life and wanted to contribute back. She took and failed many auditions, in part due to her limited Japanese proficiency, until in December 2016, she successfully auditioned for Yasushi Akimoto's idol and anime girl group project, later named 22/7, despite her reluctance to become an idol in addition to becoming a voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jad Saxton
Jad Saxton (, born September 27) is an American voice actress and ADR Director who works for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Early life Her name is an acronym of her parents' names, Jimmi and David, and is pronounced "Jayd". She grew up with a good singing voice, which eventually led to her first voice role in '' Sasami: Magical Girls Club'' as Eimi Mori, and her first major voice role was Masako Hara in '' Ghost Hunt''. She graduated summa cum laude from Texas Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 2005. Filmography Anime Films Video games References External links Official agency profile* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saxton, Jad Living people American video game actresses American voice actresses Texas Wesleyan University alumni 21st-century American actresses American stage actresses American voice directors Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Hidaka
is a Japanese actress from Chiba Prefecture. Biography She became interested in the entertainment industry during kindergarten when she was watching television, and wrote on a script during Tanabata. Her grandfather, who saw the script, applied her to the Theater Academy, and Hidaka entered the entertainment industry. At the beginning of the program, she was mainly in extra roles to get used to the field. She became more dedicated when she passed the audition for ''Apparesanma Dai-sensei'' and ''Yokoko no Mikata'', in her first year of elementary school. Started performing as a voice actress when a voice actor selection lesson was opened at the Theater Academy. In 2008, she made her debut in the web animation '' Penguin Musume'', and since then her main focus shifted to voice acting. In 2009, Hidaka voiced Anne Shirley in '' Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables'' when she was 14 years old. She left AT Production on January 31, 2013, and moved to Office Osawa on February 1, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricco Fajardo
Ricco Fajardo is an American voice actor who has provided voices for English versions of Japanese anime series and video games. Some of his roles include Taiju Oki in ''Dr. Stone'', Itona Horibe in ''Assassination Classroom'', Mirio Togata in ''My Hero Academia'', Kotaro Tatsumi in ''Zombie Land Saga'', Daryun in ''The Heroic Legend of Arslan'', Tor Kokonoe in ''Absolute Duo is a Japanese light novel series by Takumi Hiiragiboshi with illustrations by Yū Asaba. Media Factory has published eleven volumes since 2012 under their MF Bunko J imprint. It has received two manga adaptations. A 12-episode anime telev ...'', Leon Luis in '' Garo: The Animation'', Kyousuke Munakata in '' Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy'' and Haruhiro in '' Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash''. Filmography Anime Animation Film Video games References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fajardo, Ricco Living people American male voice actors Place of birth missing (living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaito Ishikawa
is a Japanese voice actor. He is affiliated with Stay Luck. He voiced Nero in ''Devil May Cry'', Genos in ''One Punch Man'', Tenya Iida in ''My Hero Academia'' and Tobio Kageyama in '' Haikyu!!''. Biography Ishikawa performed in a production of ''Gamba's Great Adventure'' at a science society when he was in fifth grade. After graduating from high school, he joined a drama club. After making his debut, he was impressed when he heard about the concept of "living a role" from a colleague. After immersing himself in late-night anime like '' The Familiar of Zero'', he pursued roles in '' Kanon'' and '' Genesis of Aquarion''. He praised Hiroaki Hirata for voicing Jack Sparrow in ''Pirates of the Caribbean''. Ishikawa entered the Pro Fit Voice Actor Training Center with the money he earned from his part-time job. In 2012, he made his anime debut in ''Waiting in the Summer''. In April 2013, he played the first leading role in the anime series ''Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
