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Bootleg (Kenshi Yonezu Album)
''Bootleg'' is the fourth album by Kenshi Yonezu, released on November 1, 2017. It is his first album with Sony Music and won the Japan Record Award for the Best Album, Album of the Year award at the 60th Japan Record Awards. Background August 30, 2017 is the ten year anniversary of Hatsune Miku, while Magical Mirai is the large Vocaloid concert held by Crypton Future Media. Crypton Future Media invited Yonezu to write "Dune (Kenshi Yonezu song), Dune" as the birthday song for Miku, and the theme song for Magical Mirai 2017. Miku's version is included in "Hatsune Miku "Magical Mirai 2017" OFFICIAL ALBUM ", which peaked No.13 in Oricon. While Yonezu self-covers the song in "Bootleg". The song reviews the history of Vocaloid with references to previous songs in the lyrics and metaphorizes the desertion of the Vocaloid community as a sand planet, soonly became viral in Vocaloid fandom. Besides, Crypton Future Media also invited some notable Vocaloid producers, such as Wowaka and Yoru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenshi Yonezu
is a Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator. He started releasing Vocaloid music under the stage name in 2009. In 2012, he debuted under his real name, releasing music with his own voice. He has sold at least 4.2 million physical copies and over 7 million digital copies in Japan. His 2022 single "Kick Back (song), Kick Back" is his most successful single to date outside Japan, debuting on international charts including Lists of UK Rock & Metal Singles and Albums Charts number ones, UK Rock & Metal Singles and US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA for 500,000 sold copies in the United States, becoming the first song with Japanese lyrics to achieve it. Biography Early musical career Born in Tokushima, Yonezu found it difficult to communicate with other people, especially his father. Yonezu typically felt that his mother understood him. He was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at the age of 20. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorushika
is a Japanese rock duo founded in 2017. The group is composed of N-buna, a Vocaloid producer, and Suis, a female vocalist. They are known for their juxtaposition of "passionate" and "upbeat" production and instrumentation fused with heavier lyrical content, which often explore ideas such as love and human emotion and draw from works of literature including Masuji Ibuse and Jules Verne. The duo is extremely secretive, never publicly revealing their faces. N-buna stated that he doesn't want the creator to take precedence over the work. Name The name "Yorushika" is taken from a lyric in their song "The Clouds and the Ghost", . The eye-designed logo mark is a motif of two moons facing each other and also serves as a clock hand, portraying the time "from 6:00 to night". History Prior to the formation of Yorushika, N-buna already had a sizeable following on Niconico, a Japanese video hosting website, first releasing vocaloid music on the platform in 2012. His 2013 song reache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yellow Monkey
The Yellow Monkey, sometimes abbreviated as , is a Japanese rock band originally active from 1988 to 2001, before officially disbanding in 2004. They announced their reformation in 2016. The band's name was derived from the ethnic slur that Japanese people look like monkeys, and that Asian people are said to be "yellow" in skin color. The Yellow Monkey is considered an important Japanese rock group, having achieved major success selling 10 million records, including 6.2 million singles. The group has had three consecutive number one albums, 18 top ten singles and in 2003 were ranked number 81 on HMV's list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. Outside Japan the band is best known for their song "Tactics", one of the many ending themes of the ''Rurouni Kenshin'' anime. History 1988–1994: The Beginning The Yellow Monkey has its roots in 1988, formed by Kazuya Yoshii when his previous band Urgh Police disbanded. When fellow heavy metal band Murbas disbanded, Yoshii ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9999 (album)
''9999'' (pronounced "Four Nine") is the tenth studio album by Japanese rock band The Yellow Monkey, released on April 17, 2019 by Atlantic Records. It is the band's first album of new material in 19 years and their first since reuniting in 2016. The album was produced by lead singer Kazuya Yoshii, who also wrote almost all of the songs. ''9999'' was a commercial and critical success, reaching number 3 on both the Oricon Albums Chart and ''Billboard Japan''s Hot Albums chart and winning several awards. An expanded version of the album, titled ''9999+1'', was released on December 4, 2019 and reached numbers 2 and 4 on the charts. Background and recording The Yellow Monkey held their last concert on January 8, 2001 at the Tokyo Dome, beginning an indefinite hiatus, before officially announcing their disbandment on July 7, 2004. After seeing The Rolling Stones perform in London in 2013, Kazuya Yoshii emailed the other members about reuniting, and the band officially announced their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suchmos
Suchmos is a Japanese rock group formed in 2013. Suchmos was inspired by African-American music such as rock, jazz, and hip-hop. The band's name, Suchmos, is adapted from a jazz musician Louis Armstrong’s nickname, “Satchmo”. History 2013: Formation and earlier days Yonce, Taiking, Hsu, OK, Kcee, and Taihei were playmates. OK and Kcee are brothers. OK, Taiking, and Hsu are childhood friends from elementary school. Kcee and Yonce are acquaintances from high school days; Taihei is Hsu's junior at college. They gathered at OK's and Kcee's house at night and watching YouTube, singing, dancing, and playing. In January 2013, OK formed Suchmos with Yonce, Hsu, Ayustat, and a support member, Taihei. Kcee accompanied the band as a video group. The band's name, Suchmos, comes from a jazz musician Louis Armstrong’s nickname, “Satchmo”. The first live appearance was decided prior to deciding the band's name. While Yonce was suffering at the rehearsal studio of Tokyo University at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Japan
''Billboard Japan'' is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine '' Billboard''. It is operated by the Japanese Osaka-based company Hanshin Contents Link (a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway), holding an exclusive licence from ''Billboard''s parent company to the Billboard brand name in Japan,"Hanshin Contents Link, the operator of Billboard Japan": and manages, among others, the website www.billboard-japan.com and several "Billboard Live"-branded music clubs located in the country. In February 2008, Hanshin Contents Link, under licence from ''Billboard'', launched the ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 music chart. As of 2025, the list of charts compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' also included an albums chart named ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, physical-sales-only-based charts Top Singles Sales and Top Albums Sales, download-only-based charts Download Songs and Download Albums, an animation music chart named Hot Animation, and a chart for foreign songs named Hot ... [...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] |
Masaki Suda
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor and singer. He won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the film ''Wilderness''. Personal life Suda was born in Minoh, Osaka Prefecture. His father, Arata Sugō, is a management consultant, journalist, author, and television personality. He has two younger brothers, including the singer and internet personality Kocchi no Kento, and model Araki Sugō. Suda is a close junior to Shun Oguri and Takayuki Yamada. His friends are Taiga Nakano, Fumi Nikaido, and Kento Yamazaki. He worked with Aimyon, Huwie Ishizaki, and Kenshi Yonezu in the music industry. Suda married fellow actress Nana Komatsu on November 15, 2021. They had reportedly been dating since September 2019. On March 9, 2024, Suda announced through his agency that he and Komatsu had welcomed their first child. Career Acting Suda met talent agents while at school. He had several auditions at Amuse Inc. and . He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaiza Ikeda
is a Philippine-born Japanese actress, fashion model and singer. She began modeling in 2009 after winning the "Grand Priz Nicola Model Audition 2009". Personal life Elaiza Ikeda was born on April 16, 1996, in the Philippines and was raised in Fukuoka City, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ..., to a Filipino mother and a Japanese father. Her family consists of her mother, father, two older brothers, and one younger brother. Ikeda has a pet parakeet named "Pijon". Filmography Film Television Music videos * ''sub/objective'' (2015) * ''CITI'' (2015) * ''Sunrise(re-build)'' (2016) References External links Official Profileat Evergreen * at Univeral Music Japan * at '' CanCam'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ikeda, Elaiza 1996 births Living people 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fireworks (2017 Film)
, also known as ''Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?'' is a 2017 Japanese animated romance film based on Shunji Iwai's live-action television film of the same name. It received mixed reviews from critics who praised it for music and animation, but criticized the narrative and characterization. It is the sixth highest-grossing anime film of 2017 and has grossed over worldwide. It was released by Madman Entertainment, Anime Limited, and GKIDS. Plot Norimichi Shimada and Nazuna Oikawa live in the town of Moshimo (Japanese for "if"). The students make a bet regarding whether the fireworks are either round or flat in the sky. After finding a small glass marble, Nazuna, Norimichi, and Yusuke compete in the swimming pool race. Yusuke wins and Nazuna asks him to go on a date. Nazuna packs a suitcase and plans to leave home. Yusuke bails on the date and Nazuna is taken home by her mother. Norimichi throws the marble, wishing for luck and causing it to rewind time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uchiage Hanabi
"Uchiage Hanabi" (; English title: "Fireworks") is a song by Daoko featuring Kenshi Yonezu released in August 2017. "Uchiage Hanabi" means "launching fireworks". The song is used for the 2017 anime film ''Fireworks'' and the album ''Thank You Blue''. There are two solo versions, Yonezu's solo version released for ''Bootleg'' for minimalist rearrangement, and Daoko's solo version for ''Shiteki Ryoko''. It ranked number one in ''Billboard'' Japan Hot Animation for 25 weeks. It won Song of the Year of Space Shower Music Awards in 2018. Reception The song received many positive reviews, and was described as merging the light sadness of summer and floweriness of fireworks, mixing delicate piano and strings with an electro effect and producing a beautiful scene. The music video for the song has garnered over 550 million views on YouTube. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from the CD liner notes * Kenshi Yonezu – music (track 1), lyrics (track 1), producer (track 1) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March Comes In Like A Lion
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chica Umino. It has been serialized in Hakusensha's manga magazine '' Young Animal'' since July 2007, with its chapters collected in 17 volumes as of August 2023. It follows the life of Rei Kiriyama, an introvert professional shogi player, who gradually develops both his play and his relationship with others. An anime television series adapted by Shaft aired on NHK G from October 2016 to March 2017 and a second season aired from October 2017 to March 2018, with each season consisting of 22 episodes. The English dubbed version was released in four parts by Aniplex of America between December 2017 and April 2019. A two-part live-action film adaptation was released in 2017. The manga has been licensed for English release by Denpa. A spin-off of the manga ran from 2015 to 2020. ''March Comes In like a Lion'' won the fourth Manga Taishō, the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in its general category, the 18th Tezuka Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
