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Joseimuke
''Joseimuke'' (女性向け) is a Japanese term that is used to refer to a category of media specifically intended to be “targeted towards women.” The Japanese word ''joseimuke'' (女性向け) directly translates to “aimed at women,” and joseimuke media includes but is not limited to video games, TV shows, comics, stage plays, or even pornography, though mostly tied to media in the ACG (subculture), ACG (anime, comics, games) community. Joseimuke itself is not a genre, but a media category, where the media forms under it can encompass various genres. The category of joseimuke and its patterns originated in Japan around the late 1900s and first spread to other East Asian markets, such as those in China, Taiwan, and South Korea starting from the 1970s.Yen, Chih-Ling (2020)"日式動漫風格應用於台灣女性向手遊市場男性角色設計之創作研究 - ProQuest"[Japanese Anime Style applied to the Creation of Taiwanese Josei-muke Male Characters in the Mobile Game M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chick Lit
"Chick lit" is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, the term has fallen out of fashion with publishers, with numerous writers and critics rejecting it as inherently sexist. Novels identified as chick lit typically address romantic relationships, female friendships, and workplace struggles in humorous and lighthearted ways. Typical protagonists are urban, heterosexual women in their late twenties and early thirties: the 1990s chick lit heroine represented an evolution of the traditional romantic heroine in her assertiveness, financial independence and enthusiasm for conspicuous consumption. The format developed through the early 1990s on both sides of the Atlantic with books such as Terry McMillan's '' Waiting to Exhale'' (1992, US) and Catherine Alliott's ''The Old Girl Network'' (1994, UK). Helen Fielding's '' Bridget Jones's Diary'' (1996, UK), wildly popular globally, is the "Ur-text" of chick lit, while Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Mori
was a Japanese author, best known for writing male homosexual romances. Early life and family Mari Mori was born in Hongō, Tokyo. Her father was novelist Mori Ōgai. Career Mori won the Japan Essayist Club Award in 1957 for a collection of essays called ''My Father's Hat''. She began a movement of writing about male homosexual passion (''tanbi shousetsu'', literally "aesthetic novels") in 1961 with ''A Lovers' Forest'', , which won the Tamura Toshiko Prize. Later works include ''I Don't Go on Sundays'' (1961) and ''The Bed of Dead Leaves'' (1962). She was greatly influenced by her father; in ''A Lover's Forest'', the older man can be seen as imbued with the same virtues and honor as she saw in her father. An older man and younger boy are trademarks of Mari Mori's work. The older man is extremely rich, powerful, wise, and spoils the younger boy. In ''The Lover's Forest'', for example, the older man, Guido, is 38 or so, and Paulo is 17 or 18. (However, he is not yet 19, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōjo Shōsetsu
is a genre of Japanese popular fiction aimed at an audience of girls that emerged in the early 20th century. The genre has been published across literary formats, including novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs. It is typically divided into four subcategories that correspond to chronological periods: * Japanese translations of foreign literary classics aimed at girls, e.g. ''A Little Princess'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett; * Prose fiction published in '' shōjo'' magazines of the early 20th century, e.g. ''Hana Monogatari'' by Nobuko Yoshiya; * of the 1960s and 1970s, e.g. the works of Seiko Tanabe; * Light novels published in ''shōjo'' fiction magazines such as ''Cobalt Cobalt is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. ...'', e.g. the works of Saeko Himuro. References Bibli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animate (retailer)
is the retailing arm of MOVIC, M and is the largest retailer of anime, video games and manga in Japan. The first flagship store of Animate was opened in 1983 in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan. Retail stores Currently there are 118 Animate stores in Japan, four in mainland China (Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Chengdu), three in Taiwan (Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung), two in Thailand (Bangkok and Rangsit), and one in Seoul, South Korea. Animate opened a store in the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California, in summer 2023. Online stores Animate currently has two online stores: the animate Online Shop, which has been active since 2005, and animate International. Former stores *Sakaihigashi Station, Osaka *Los Angeles, California (closed in 2003) *Hong Kong (closed in 2020) Subsidiaries *Acos Co., Ltd. (株式会社アコス): A subsidiary specialized in costumes. **ACOS animate costume kan (ACOS アニメイトコスチューム館): A chain of costume shops by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiko Erikawa
Keiko Erikawa is a Japanese businesswoman and video game designer Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the Video game development#Pre-production, pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the Video game development .... She co-founded Koei Tecmo Holdings Co., Ltd., a Japanese game development company, with her husband Yoichi Erikawa in 1978. Career and education Keiko is a design graduate of Tama Art University. She manages Koei Tecmo's assets across Japan, Hong Kong and the U.S. She retired from her place on Koei Tecmo's financial board, but is continuing to work as a CEO for one of their subsidiary projects. Philanthropy Keiko contributes to charity through the Foundation of Erikawa Education. The organisation focuses on providing scholarships to students from single-mother families. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Erikawa, Keiko Year of birth missing (living people) Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koei
Koei Co., Ltd. was a Japanese video game publisher, developer, and distributor founded in 1978. The company is known for its historical simulation games based on the novel ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'', as well as simulation games based on pseudo-historical events. The company found mainstream success in a series of loosely historical action games, the flagship titles of which are the '' Dynasty Warriors'' and '' Samurai Warriors'' series, also known as the ''Musō'' series. Koei also owned a division known as Ruby Party, which focuses on otome games. On April 1, 2009, Koei merged with Tecmo to create the Tecmo Koei Holdings holding company. After operating as subsidiaries of Tecmo Koei Holdings for exactly a year, Koei merged with Tecmo on April 1, 2010 and combined both companies as one under the name Tecmo Koei Games (with Koei as the actual surviving corporation). History Koei was established in July 1978 by (also known as ) and Keiko Erikawa. Yoichi was a stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Party
Ruby Party (, ''Rubī Pātī'') is the Japanese brand name of Koei Tecmo Holdings' women-based game development team.(jaRuby Party BrandKoei website (retrieved 17 April 2022. The team was established around 1990 by Keiko Erikawa. The team has mainly been producing the ''Neo Romance'' series, a series of otome games aimed at women. The first title released in this series is '' Angelique'', released in 1994, and which is known as the first otome game in the world.(jaInterview to Shibuya Ko and Keiko Erikawa(retrieved 25 February 2022) History In around 1985, Erikawa was developing various games with her husband Yōichi Erikawa. But the games in those days were all targeted to males. Erikawa thought it was strange that games aimed at women did not exist. There were almost no female staff in Koei at that point. Therefore, she started to recruit women as staff members, leading to an all-female development group within Koei, forming the Ruby Party team.(ja Interview to Keiko Erik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a Fourth generation of video game consoles, 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America. In Japan, it is called the In South Korea, it is called the Super Comboy and was distributed by SK Hynix, Hyundai Electronics. The system was released in Brazil on August 30, 1993, by Playtronic. In Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS, the system was distributed by Steepler from 1994 until 1996. Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent cartridges for one version from being used in other versions. The Super NES is Nintendo's second programmable home console, following the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The console introduced advanced graphics and sound capabilities compared with other systems at the time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelique (video Game Series)
' is a Japanese otome game series and media franchise. There are various OVAs, Drama CDs, Music CDs and Anime series, developed along with the base game, or broadcast on TV channels, etc. The series began in 1994 and has continued since. The latest entry in the series is '' Angelique Luminarise'', released in 2021. The first game was released in 1994 on Super Famicom. This is the first otome game (dating sim for women) known in the world.(jaFamitsu-news 190914/ref> The ''Angelique'' series is also the first otome game series of the '' Neo Romance'' series by Ruby Party. Currently, the games in this series are only published in Japanese. Plot The basic lore of the series is built around a Queen who fairly and wisely rules a Universe. By balancing elemental forces with the help of nine Guardians, she keeps the various planets in her domain stable and her people content. However, the powers of the Queen and the Guardians fade over time, and successors must be app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comiket
, more commonly known as or , is a semiannual Doujinshi convention, ''doujinshi'' convention in Tokyo, Japan. A grassroots market focused on the sale of ''doujin'' (self-published) works, Comiket is a not-for-profit fan convention administered by the volunteer-run Comic Market Preparatory Committee (ComiketPC). Inaugurated on 21 December 1975 with an estimated 700 attendees, Comiket has since grown to become the largest fan convention in the world, with an estimated turnstile attendance of 750,000 in 2019. Comiket is typically held at Tokyo Big Sight in August and December, with the two events distinguished as and , respectively. Program ''Doujin'' marketplace Comiket is focused primarily on the sale of ''doujin'': non-commercial, Self-publishing, self-published works. Approximately 35,000 Dōjin#Manga circles, circles (a term for groups or individuals who create ''doujin'') participate in each edition of Comiket. Different circles exhibit on each day of Comiket; circles produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June (magazine)
was a Japanese magazine focused on , a genre of male-male romance fiction aimed at a female audience. It was the first commercially published magazine, launching in October 1978 under the title ''Comic Jun'' and ceasing publication in November 1995. ''June'' primarily published manga and prose fiction, but also published articles on films and literature, as well as contributions from readers. The magazine spawned multiple spin-off publications, notably ''Shōsetsu June'' ('Novel June') and ''Comic June''. ''June'' targeted a readership of women in their late teens and early twenties, and at its peak had a circulation of approximately 80,000 copies. In addition to publishing established manga artists and writers such as Keiko Takemiya, Azusa Nakajima, Akimi Yoshida, and Fumi Saimon, the magazine launched the careers of artists and novelists such as Masami Tsuda and Marimo Ragawa from submissions curated and edited by Takemiya and Nakajima. As a nationally distributed co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
