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Dame Na Watashi Ni Koishite Kudasai
is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Aya Nakahara. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''josei'' manga magazine ''You'' from April 2013 to August 2016, with its chapters collected into ten ''tankōbon'' volumes. A sequel series, titled ''Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai R'', was serialized in the same magazine from October 2016 to October 2018, and was compiled into six volumes. A Japanese television drama adaptation, officially titled ''Please Love Me!'' (stylized as ''PLEASE LOVE ME!'') in English, was broadcast on TBS from January 12, 2016, to March 15, 2016. Plot Michiko Shibata is a woman who is thirty years old, and yet she has no job, no money, and no real boyfriend. She was let go by her former employment after it went bankrupt. She meets her former supervisor Ayumu Kurosawa, who offers Michiko a job at his cafe "Himawari" until she gets back on her feet. With Ayumu's help, Michiko slowly gets her life back on track. Characters ; :A ...
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Tankōbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format. Manga typically contain a handful of chapters, and may collect multiple volumes as a series continues publication. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for of manga include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Magazine Comics, Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics, and Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion, Shōnen Champion Comics. Manga Increasingly after 1959, manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology list of manga magazines, manga magazines (such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or ''Weekly Shōnen Jump ...
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Dean Fujioka
, better known as (also ), is a Japanese actor, singer-songwriter, musician, model and film director / producer. Biography Dean Fujioka was born in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Moving with his family, he grew up in Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture. Although Fujioka is multilingual (fluent in Japanese, English, Cantonese, Standard Mandarin, Indonesian) and made his debut in a Chinese fashion show, he has clarified in some interviews and variety shows that his parents and grandparents are all Japanese, who used to work or live in foreign countries. Raised in such a family, he grew determined to explore the world himself. After graduating from Chiba Prefectural Funabashi High School, Fujioka majored in IT at a community college in Seattle, USA. After graduating from college, he traveled to different countries in Asia and came into contact with various ethnicities, cultures and languages. Fujioka has a wide range of hobbies such as Chinese martial arts, kickboxing, chess, ba ...
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Romantic Comedy Anime And Manga
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Manga Adapted Into Television Series
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ( and ), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologies) in Japan (equivalent to 1 ...
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Japanese Television Dramas Based On Manga
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2016 Japanese Television Series Endings
Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number) *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * ''Sixteen'' (2013 Indian film), a 2013 Hindi film * ''Sixteen'' (2013 British film), a 2013 British film by director Rob Brown Music * The Sixteen, an English choir * 16 (band), a sludge metal band * Sixteen (Polish band), a Polish band Albums * ''16'' (Robin album), a 2014 album by Robin * 16 (Madhouse album), a 1987 album by Madhouse * ''Sixteen'' (album), a 1983 album by Stacy Lattisaw *''Sixteen'' , a 2005 album by Shook Ones * ''16'', a 2020 album by Wejdene Songs * "16" (Sneaky Sound System song), 2009 * "Sixteen" (Thomas Rhett song), 2017 * "Sixteen" (Ellie Goulding song), 2019 *" Six7een", by Hori7on, 2023 *"16", by Craig David from ''Following My Intuition'', 2016 *"16", by Green Day from ''39/Smooth'', 1990 *"16", by Highly Suspect ...
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2016 Japanese Television Series Debuts
Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number) *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * ''Sixteen'' (2013 Indian film), a 2013 Hindi film * ''Sixteen'' (2013 British film), a 2013 British film by director Rob Brown Music *The Sixteen, an English choir *16 (band), a sludge metal band * Sixteen (Polish band), a Polish band Albums * ''16'' (Robin album), a 2014 album by Robin * 16 (Madhouse album), a 1987 album by Madhouse * ''Sixteen'' (album), a 1983 album by Stacy Lattisaw *''Sixteen'' , a 2005 album by Shook Ones * ''16'', a 2020 album by Wejdene Songs * "16" (Sneaky Sound System song), 2009 * "Sixteen" (Thomas Rhett song), 2017 * "Sixteen" (Ellie Goulding song), 2019 *"Six7een", by Hori7on, 2023 *"16", by Craig David from ''Following My Intuition'', 2016 *"16", by Green Day from ''39/Smooth'', 1990 *"16", by Highly Suspect from ''M ...
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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 ...
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Delcourt (publisher)
Delcourt () is a French publishing, publishing house that specializes in comics and manga founded in 1986 through the fusion of the magazines ''Charlie Mensuel'' and ''Pilote''. Guy Delcourt, chief editor of the latter, named the new publishing house Guy Delcourt Productions. Delcourt is the third largest publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, behind Média-Participations and Glénat (publisher), Glénat, and produces some 480 comics a year. Publications Bandes Dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) Delcourt * ''À l'Ombre de l'Échafaud'' (since 2001) * ''Aquablue'' (since 1988) * ''Amenophis IV'' (since 2000) * ''Asphodèle'' * '':fr:Angela (bande dessinée), Angela'' * ''Après la Nuit'' (since 2008) * '':fr:Baker Street (bande dessinée), Baker Street'' * ''List of artistic depictions of Beowulf#Graphic novels, Beowulf'' * ''Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis'' * ''Bienvenue en Chine'' * ''C.O.P.S.'' * ''Ceux qui rampent'' * ''Chasseurs de Dragons'' * ''Chronicles of The Dragon Knights'' ...
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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 o ...
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Shohei Miura
is a Japanese actor and fashion model. He belongs to the talent agency Burning Production. Career In 2007, Miura joined the 20th Junon Superboy Contest, and won the Photogenic Award as well as the Ideal Lover Award. Before he won these awards and started as an actor, he had appeared on television variety programs in 2006. He was on TBS's ''E Musume!'' four times and a regular on NTV's ''Good Lookin' Club''. He debuted in 2008 as an actor in the drama series '' Gokusen 3'', and was selected to play the role of one of the main students. He went on to make his debut on the big screen playing the same role in the movie continuation of the drama series, in ''Gokusen The Movie''. In 2010, he had his first starring role in a stage play titled ''Samurai 7''. It was his first time acting in a stage play. In 2011, Miura won the Best New Actor Award at the 34th Japan Academy Prize for '' Umizaru 3: The Last Message''. Appearances TV dramas *'' Gokusen 3'' ( NTV, 2008) as Shunsuke Ka ...
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Kyoko Fukada
is a Japanese actress and singer. She is represented by the agency Horipro. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for '' Kamikaze Girls''. Biography Kyoko Fukada was born and raised in Tokyo, on 2 November 1982. On 20 October 1996, she won the 21st Talent Scout Caravan Grand Prix Award as part of the "Pure Girl Audition" at the age of 13. She began her career as an actress in 1997 with the first appearance in the television series ''Sore ga Kotae da!'' as Kazune Mizuno. Fukada appeared in her first movie '' Ring 2'' as Kanae Sawaguchi in 1999 and in later in ''School Day of the Dead'', released in 2000. She graduated from Horikoshi High School in 2001. In 2002, she made an appearance in '' Dolls'' as Haruna. Fukada is also a J-pop singer and her debut single "The Last Fruit" led to her album "Dear…", both released by Pony Canyon , also known by the shorthand form , is a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966, which distributes m ...
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