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IOSYS
is a Japanese musical ensemble and ''doujin'' circle from Sapporo, Japan. The group is primarily known for producing rearrangements of music from the '' Touhou Project'' series of shoot 'em up video games. They are not signed to a label, instead preferring to release their music through dōjin channels such as the Comiket convention and via their website. Their music frequently parodies characters or themes of games such as those of the ''Touhou Project'' or Atlus's '' Etrian Odyssey''. Flash videos IOSYS is best known for the Flash movies that go along with their songs. The first Flash movie was a music video for their original song "" sang 2channelculture, and was published in April 2006. It was created by a dōjin animation producer , also known as ''locker room production''. IOSYS offered Kagi to create animations for them after being impressed by Kagi's animation entitled "NANAME City". In May 2006, IOSYS released the first ''Touhou Project'' arrangement CD,. ARM, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doujin Music
, also called in Japan, is a sub-category of ''doujin'' activity. ''Doujin'' are non-official self-published Japanese works which can be based on official products or completely original creations. Such products are sold online on specialized sites, on the authors' own sites, and in conventions such as the popular Comiket. Genres and production ''Doujin'' music is not a musical genre in itself, but is indicative of a particular means of publication much in the same way as the term " indie" is used. Often, such music will consist of video game music fan arrangements. Much original ''doujin'' music also exists, and has been created both for ''doujin'' games and independently, spanning many musical genres such as pop, rock, techno, trance, hardcore and many more. By nature, ''doujin'' music is self-produced at low cost by independent artists. Home-studio software is typically advantageous to ''doujin'' music composers, as it is cheaper than studio-mastering live instrumen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touhou Project
The , also known simply as , is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by Indie game, independent Japanese Doujin soft, soft developer Team Shanghai Alice. The team's sole member, ZUN (video game developer), Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed programming, graphics, writing, and music for the series, publishing 19 mainline games and 13 Spin-off (media), spin-offs since 1997. ZUN has also produced related Doujinshi, print works and Doujin music, music albums, and collaborated with developer Twilight Frontier on seven of the official spin-offs, six of which are fighting games. The first five games were developed for the Japanese PC-98 computer, with the first, ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'', released in August 1997; the series' signature mechanics were introduced in the second game, ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'' (also 1997). The release of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' in August 2002 marked a shift to Microsoft Windows. Numerous sequels followed, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumekui Merry
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitaka Ushiki. The series was serialized in Houbunsha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Manga Time Kirara Forward'' from 2008 to 2020. An anime television series by J.C.Staff which aired in 2011. Plot Yumeji Fujiwara is a young male student like any other who, after an event that occurred 10 years previously, gained the power to see the aura of other people's dreams, and the ability to predict what kind of dream they will have next. Since then, he has started to have strange dreams of cats following him for an unknown reason. The boss of the cat army, John Doe, tells him that his body is needed to access the real world. One day, a mysterious girl fell on top of him as he was returning home from his errands. This girl, named Merry Nightmare, is a , searching for a way to return to her world. Yumeji decides to help her, and a gate to the world of dreams opens again, this time in full daylight. She appears in the daydream wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Musume
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tetsuya Takahashi. The manga was serialized in the shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' between May 2006 and November 2007. The manga was followed by ''Penguin Musume Max'', serialized in ''Champion Red'' from December 2007 to January 2010. An original net animation adaptation titled ''Penguin Musume Heart'' was streamed on Nico Nico Douga between April and November 2008. Plot The story follows Sakura 'Penguin' Nankyoku and her friends Kujira Etorofu and Nene Kurio through their daily lives. They are often corrupted by either Penguin herself, her economic rival Mary Whitebear, or other people who have interest in the Nankyoku family. Sakura Nankyoku is a total otaku. Due to a fluke, she gets elected as her class' student council president. Everything takes off from there into a series of crazy misadventures revolving around Sakura, her family, and her classmates. Characters Main character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūgen Gaisha
A , abbreviated in English as "Y.K." or "Co., Ltd.", was a form of business organization in Japan. were based on the Germany, German and were implemented in Japan in the of 1940. The Companies Act of Japan, implemented on May 1, 2006, replaced the with a new form of company called , based upon the American limited liability company. Following the implementation, no new YKs were allowed in Japan, but pre-existing YKs were allowed to continue their operations as under special rules. Whether the term is pronounced as or is up to the local dialect or the company's preference when it is part of the company's name. While it is pronounced in standard Japanese, the alphabetic abbreviation is always Y.K. by standard. Structure As of 2005, a Y.K. can have up to 50 investors, called . The members were required to provide at least ¥3 million in capital contributions, with individual valued at no less than ¥50,000. The minimum capital amount was much more permissive than the ¥10 m ... [...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] |
Musical Groups From Hokkaido
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) Musica (Latin), or La Musica (Italian) or Música (Portuguese and Spanish) may refer to: Music Albums * '' Musica è'', a mini album by Italian funk singer Eros Ramazzotti 1988 * ''Musica'', an album by Ghaleb 2005 * ), a German album by Giov ... * Musicality, the ability to perceive music or to create music * {{Music disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famitsu
, formerly , is a line of Japanese Video game journalism, video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, Kadokawa. ''Famitsu'' is published in both weekly and monthly formats as well as in the form of special topical issues devoted to only one console, video game company, or other theme. the original ''Famitsu'' publication, is considered the most widely read and respected Video game journalism, video game news magazine in Japan. From October 28, 2011, the company began releasing the digital version of the magazine exclusively on BookWalker weekly. The name ''Famitsu'' is a Portmanteau#Japanese, portmanteau abbreviation of ''Famicom Tsūshin''; the word "Famicom" itself comes from a portmanteau abbreviation of "Nintendo Entertainment System, Family Computer", the dominant video game console in Japan when the magazine was first published in the 1980s. History , a computer game magazine, started in 1982 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ZUN (video Game Developer)
, known professionally as ZUN, is a Japanese video game developer and composer, known for creating the ''Touhou Project'' Shoot 'em up#Bullet hell and niche appeal, bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series through his one-man doujin group Team Shanghai Alice. ZUN developed the first five ''Touhou Project'' games for the Japanese PC-98, NEC PC-9800 computer series, with the first, ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'', released in August 1997; the series' signature ''danmaku'' mechanics were introduced in the second game, ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'' (also 1997). The release of ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' in August 2002 marked a shift to Microsoft Windows. Numerous sequels followed, including several spin-offs departing from the traditional bullet hell format. He has also collaborated with other circles to produce related Doujinshi, print works and Dōjin music, music albums. ''Touhou Project'' has become more particularly notable as a prominent source of Japanese ''dōjin'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McDonald's Japan
Den Fujita (藤田 田, ''Fujita Den'', March 3, 1926 – April 21, 2004) was a Japanese businessman. He was the founder of McDonald's Japan. Background Fujita was born in Osaka, Japan to a Christian mother and father who worked in a foreign company. Fujita, who was entirely ethnically Japanese, was reared differently from most other Japanese children. With a command of the English language, he served as a translator during high school. However, after World War II, Fujita found his life altered by the death of his father and the destruction of his house. Fujita was educated at the University of Tokyo law school and after graduating in 1951, he decided to work at the importing business he started while attending the university. McDonald's Japan After his first McDonald's meal in 1967, Fujita was amazed by its efficiency and popularity. After selling imported bags and shoes, Fujita seized on the opportunity to start McDonald's franchises in Japan in 1971. His strategy for se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otaku
is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, such as anime, manga, video games, computers or other highly enthusiastic hobbies. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in '' Manga Burikko''. ''Otaku'' subculture is a central theme of various anime, manga, documentaries, and academic research. The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of ''otaku'' traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to what was then seen as inevitably becoming social outcasts. The subculture's birth coincided with the anime boom after the release of works such as ''Mobile Suit Gundam'', before it branched into Comic Market. The rise of the internet and media further expanded the otaku subculture, as more anime, video games, and other media catering to otaku interests were created. The definition of subsequently became more complex, and numerous classifications of ''otaku'' emer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
