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Consolation (album)
Consolation is the fourth studio album by the Japanese girl group Kalafina released on 20 March 2013 under Sony Music Japan label.Official Discography (in Japanese) http://www.kalafina.jp/disco/category/?album Track listing Usage in media *Hikari Furu: ending theme for 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 Japane ... movie Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part II: Eternal Story *to the beginning: opening theme for anime Fate/Zero for 2nd season *Manten: insert song for anime Fate/Zero *Mirai: insert song for anime movie Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part I: Beginnings Story Charts References External links *Oricon ProfileLimited Edition ALimited Edition BRegular Edition 2012 albums Kalafina albums Japanese-language albums SME Records albums [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalafina
was a Japanese vocal group formed by composer Yuki Kajiura in 2007, mainly to perform theme songs for the anime ''Kara no Kyōkai'', but later expanded to include many other theme songs for other anime shows and films including the '' Madoka Magica, Black Butler, and'' '' Fate/stay night'' franchises. They released five albums that have charted in the top 10 for Oricon. They disbanded in 2018–19. History The group first appeared in January 2008 with two original members from Yuki Kajiura's FictionJunction project, Wakana Ōtaki and Keiko Kubota, whose membership was not confirmed until the first Dream Port 2008 concert held on April 29, 2008. In May 2008, it was announced that two more vocalists, Maya Toyoshima and Hikaru Masai, would be added to the project. Kalafina moved to the Sacra Music record label under Sony Music Entertainment Japan in April 2017. In 2009, Toyoshima left the group, resulting in a trio. In an interview with the group at Anime Central, the concept o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Japan
, 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. Release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalafina Albums
was a Japanese vocal group formed by composer Yuki Kajiura in 2007, mainly to perform theme songs for the anime ''Kara no Kyōkai'', but later expanded to include many other theme songs for other anime shows and films including the ''Madoka Magica, Black Butler, and'' ''Fate/stay night'' franchises. They released five albums that have charted in the top 10 for Oricon. They disbanded in 2018–19. History The group first appeared in January 2008 with two original members from Yuki Kajiura's FictionJunction project, Wakana Ōtaki and Keiko Kubota, whose membership was not confirmed until the first Dream Port 2008 concert held on April 29, 2008. In May 2008, it was announced that two more vocalists, Maya Toyoshima and Hikaru Masai, would be added to the project. Kalafina moved to the Sacra Music record label under Sony Music Entertainment Japan in April 2017. In 2009, Toyoshima left the group, resulting in a trio. In an interview with the group at Anime Central, the concept o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Albums ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2012. 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 for deaths of musicians and for links to other music lists, see 2012 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{Albums by release date Albums 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ... [...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 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 (as of April 2011) 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 Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is hand-drawn and 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, directly to home media, and over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and nic ... [...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] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also 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 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. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hikari Furu
may refer to: Places *Hikari Station, a station on Sanyō Main Line in Hikari, Yamaguchi *Hikari, Chiba, a former town in Sousa District, Chiba, Japan *Hikari, Yamaguchi, a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan People * Hikari (name), people and characters with the name Film and TV *Radiance (2017 film), original title ''Hikari'' * Hikari TV, IPTV provider and production company Music * ''Hikari'' (Maaya Uchida album) * ''Hikari'' (Oceans Ate Alaska album), or the title song by Oceans Ate Alaska, 2017 * "Hikari" (Mai Hoshimura song), a 2008 song by Mai Hoshimura * "Hikari" (Hikaru Utada song), a 2001 song by Hikaru Utada *"Hikari", a 2006 song by Yui Horie *"Hikari", a 2012 song by BT from ''If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I'' * "Hikari" (Pentagon song), a 2017 song by Pentagon Other uses *Hikari (company), a brand of flake-style fish food *Hikari danio The Hikari danio is a new species of danio recently discovered in Burma, and first exported in 2002/2003. It is st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonfesta
"Moonfesta" (stylized in Japanese as "moonfesta～ムーンフェスタ～") is a song recorded by Japanese trio Kalafina. The title track was used as theme song for the TV show Minna no Uta. It was the group's second single from their fourth studio album Consolation. The song was written by Yuki Kajiura, who also composed and produced the single, which she has done for the group since their debut. It was released in three versions: a limited CD+DVD edition (Type-A), a limited CD+Blu-ray edition (Type-B), and a regular CD only edition. Track list *Digital download single/CD single #"moonfesta" – 4:28 #"" – 4:29 #"moonfesta" (instrumental) – 4:27 *Limited edition CD track list #"moonfesta" – 4:28 #"" – 4:29 #"moonfesta" ( Minna no Uta version) – 2:24 #"moonfesta" (Minna no Uta version) (instrumental) – 4:27 *Limited edition Type-A bonus DVD #"moonfesta" (music video) *Limited edition Type-B bonus DVD #"moonfesta" (music video) #"moonfesta" (Minna no Uta version) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
