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Ayasa (violinist)
, known professionally by the mononym Ayasa, is a Japanese rock musician and voice actress. She is the violinist for the band Morfonica of the ''BanG Dream!'' multimedia franchise, which includes portraying the character Rui Yashio. In addition, she posts YouTube videos where she plays violin covers of anime songs while wearing cosplay and has released several albums with the record label Dreamusic. Biography 1991–2015: Early life and career, Sword of the Far East Ayasa Shimamura, a native of Tokyo, was born on 19 October 1991, and at the age of three, she started playing the violin. While studying at Toho Girls' High School, Ayasa was ranked 4th place in the 2009 Japan Classical Music Competition's high school violin section. She attended summer seminars at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and Tokushima Bunri University. In April 2008, under the name , Ayasa made her first acting appearance in a Suntory commercial for their Minami-Alps no Tennensui brand, playing the Vittori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seibu Dome
(official name: ) is a baseball stadium located in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. It is home to the Saitama Seibu Lions, a professional baseball team. The stadium has a roof over the field and the stands, like other indoor ballparks. However, it lacks a wall behind the stands so that natural air comes into the field. This makes it possible for home runs to leave the stadium, something not possible in typical domed stadiums. The stadium was built in 1979 without the roof and named as the new home field of the Lions that moved from Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka to Tokorozawa that year. Initially an open-air stadium, the installation of its roof took place in two phases: the first phase after the 1997 season, and the second phase after the 1998 seasons. At the beginning of the 1998 season, the stadium was renamed Seibu Dome although the domed roof had not completed yet. Originally, the Lions had planned to build a new stadium in Odaiba, but due to requiring to get approval from the three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Xperia X Performance
The Sony Xperia X Performance is an Android smartphone produced by Sony. Part of the Sony Xperia X series, the device was unveiled along with the Sony Xperia XA and Sony Xperia X at MWC 2016 on February 22, 2016. It was Sony's flagship smartphone for the first half of 2016. Specifications Hardware The device features a 1080p screen, also features a 64-bit 2.0 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 64-bit system-on-chip with 3 GB of RAM. The device also has 32 GB and 64 GB internal storage with microSD card expansion up to 200 GB and includes non-removable 2700 mAh battery. The rear-facing camera of the Xperia X Performance is 23 megapixels with sensor size of 1/2.3 inch and an aperture of f/2.0, featuring Sony Exmor RS image sensor with quick launch and also features hybrid autofocus that utilizes phase detection autofocus An autofocus (AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mockumentary
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of ''mock'' and ''documentary'') is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a Documentary film, documentary. Mockumentaries are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues in a satirical way by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. The term originated in the 1960s but was popularized in the mid-1990s when ''This Is Spinal Tap'' director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film. While mockumentaries are comedy, comedic, pseudo-documentary, pseudo-documentaries are their dramatic equivalents. However, pseudo-documentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Nor should either of those be confused with docufiction, a genre in which documentaries are contaminated with fictional elements. Mockumentaries are often presented as historical documenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is War (season 2)
Love Is War may refer to: * ''Love Is War'' (album), a 2006 album by Vanilla Ninja * ''Love Is War'' (1970 film), a 1970 Norwegian film * ''Love Is War'' (2019 film), a Nigerian film * "Love Is War", a 2007 song by Scorpions from '' Humanity: Hour I'' * "Love Is War", a 2008 song by Supercell from their debut album ''Supercell'' * "Love Is War", a 2010 song by Joe McElderry from '' Wide Awake'' * "Love Is War", a 2013 song by American Young * '' Kaguya-sama: Love Is War'', a Japanese manga and anime series See also * In Love and War (other) * Love and War (other) Love and War may refer to: Books *''Love and War'', a 1984 novel by John Jakes in the ''North and South'' trilogy * ''Love and War'' (Dragonlance), a 1987 anthology of ''Dragonlance'' fantasy short stories * ''Love and War'' (Cornell novel), a ... * War is peace {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Beats!
''Angel Beats!'' is a 13-episode Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works and directed by Seiji Kishi. The story was originally conceived by Jun Maeda, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the music with the group Anant-Garde Eyes, with original character design by Na-Ga; both Maeda and Na-Ga are from the visual novel brand Key (company), Key, who produced such titles as ''Kanon (visual novel), Kanon'', ''Air (visual novel), Air'', and ''Clannad (visual novel), Clannad''. The anime aired in Japan between April 3 and June 26, 2010, on Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, CBC. An original video animation (OVA) episode was released in December 2010, and a second OVA was released in June 2015. The story takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront, an organization she leads which fights aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Code Geass
, often referred to as ''Code Geass'', is a Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise. It was directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, with original character designs by Clamp. Set in an alternate timeline, it follows the exiled prince Lelouch Lamperouge, who obtains the "power of absolute obedience" from a mysterious woman named C.C.. Using this supernatural power, known as Geass, he leads a rebellion against the rule of the List of Code Geass characters#Holy Britannian Empire, Holy Britannian Empire, commanding a series of mecha battles. ''Code Geass'' was broadcast in Japan on Mainichi Broadcasting System, MBS from October 2006 to July 2007. Its sequel series, ''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2'', ran as a simulcast on MBS and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, TBS from April to September 2008. The series has also been adapted into various manga and light novels, with the former showing alternate scenarios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rozen Maiden
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Peach-Pit. It was serialized in '' Monthly Comic Birz'' between the September 2002 and July 2007 issues. The individual chapters were collected and released into eight ''tankōbon'' volumes by Gentosha. The eight volumes were localized to North America by Tokyopop between March 2003 and June 2007. The story follows Jun Sakurada, a middle school student who withdrew from society after suffering persecutions from his classmates. Following his withdrawal, he is chosen to become the master to a Rozen Maiden named Shinku. Rozen Maidens are seven sentient porcelain dolls who compete against each other to become a perfect doll dubbed as Alice. ''Rozen Maiden'' received a sequel under the series' katakana title. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Young Jump'' between April 2008 and January 2014. ''Rozen Maiden'' has spun off anthology manga and novel stories, art books, and four anime series; the four anime seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excite Japan
Excite is an American website (historically a web portal) operated by IAC that provides outsourced internet content such as a metasearch engine, with outsourced weather and news content on the main page. all of Excite's operations are controlled by services outside of the business. In the United States, the main Excite homepage had historically a personal start page and web portal called My Excite. Excite once operated a webmail service commonly known as Excite Mail until August 31, 2021. The original Excite company was founded in 1994 and went public two years later. Excite was once a popular site on the Internet during the 1990s, with the main portal site Excite.com being the sixth most visited website in 1997. The company merged with broadband provider @Home Network but together went bankrupt in 2001. Excite's portal and services were acquired by iWon and then by Ask Jeeves, but the website went into a steep decline in popularity afterwards. History Excite originally st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
