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Keekihime
, formerly known as , is an Austrian online streamer, YouTuber, singer, and cosplayer. In 2010, Keekihime began posting dance covers and live streaming on the Japanese video website Niconico (known as Nico Nico Douga at the time), becoming one of the only non-Japanese live streamers on the website at the time. She was also a member of the Japanese girl group Tone Jewel from 2012 to 2013. Early life Keekihime became interested in Japanese culture after playing the video game ''Tales of Symphonia'', which she received as a Christmas gift. At the time, she was also a fan of Japanese anime and manga, with her first manga series being ''Minami-ke'', as well as Japanese Japanese idol, idol singers, particularly Hello! Project. Keekihime also became interested in Niconico, Nico Nico Douga after watching dance cover videos on the website. Besides her native German, Keekihime is also fluent in English and Japanese. Keekihime also attended a language school to study Latin. Career When K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tone Jewel
is a Japanese idol girl group. The group was originally formed in 2012 by Victor Entertainment and have been performing independently since 2013. To reflect the group's name and concept, the members perform with microphones attached to the jewel on their pinky rings. The original member line-up made their major label debut with the extended play ''Kimiiro Note'' in 2012 and later released the song "Blooming Song" in 2013. History 2012–2013: Debut Tone Jewel was formed by Victor Entertainment in 2012. To reflect the group's name and concept, the members performed with wireless microphones attached to their pinky rings. With the lineup consisting of Kana Sakura, Riko Kayama, and Keekihime Yumi, Tone Jewel was marketed as a trio of "hardcore otaku" high school girls and built a fanbase on Niconico. Keekihime, an Austrian native, had been recruited through an online audition held by Victor Entertainment and prior to joining, she was a vlogger on Niconico. The group first recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Idol
An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese popular culture, Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by Talent agent, talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial relationship with a financially loyal consumer fan base. Japan's idol industry first emerged in the 1960s and became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to television. During the 1980s, regarded as the "Golden Age of Idols", idols drew in commercial interest and began appearing in commercials and television dramas. As more niche markets began to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it led to a significant growth in the industry known as the "Idol Warring Period." Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Net Idol
An Internet celebrity, also referred to as an Internet personality, is an individual who has acquired or developed their fame and notability on the Internet. The growing popularity of social media provides a means for people to reach a large, global audience, and internet celebrities are commonly present on large online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, which primarily rely on user-generated content. Some Internet celebrities are known as social media influencers, or simply ''influencers'', due to their social influence online. Certain internet celebrities may function as lifestyle gurus promoting a particular lifestyle or attitude. In this capacity they act as key amplifiers of trends across various genres including fashion, cooking, technology, travel, video games, movies, esports, politics, music, sports, and entertainment. As part of influencer marketing, companies and organizations may enlist internet celebrities to advertise their products ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Cover
Cover dance (also known as dance cover) is the act of replicating a dance choreography, particularly from Japanese idol or Korean idol music acts and Vocaloid songs. Cover dances may be uploaded onto video-sharing services like YouTube and TikTok in which dancers reenact the choreography of a song or music video or perform an original choreography for an existing song. History Cover dances first gained popularity online in Japan in March 2007, with many people posting videos of themselves performing the choreography for "Hare Hare Yukai" (colloquially referred to as the "Haruhi dance"), the ending theme song to the 2006 anime adaptation of ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya''. This later grew to include cover dances of Berryz Kobo and other Japanese idol singers and groups. Cover dance videos created through MikuMikuDance were also associated with the category. It became established as a genre known as on video-sharing websites, named after the search keyword on the video-shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello! Project
is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but has since then been used to represent all female recording artists at Up-Front Promotion. Until 2014, their songs were primarily produced by Tsunku. Hello! Project's main acts consist of Morning Musume, Angerme, Juice=Juice, Camellia Factory, Beyooooonds, Ocha Norma and Rosy Chronicle. Notable acts in the past associated with Hello! Project include Aya Matsuura, Maki Goto, Mini-Moni, W, Melon Kinenbi, Berryz Kobo, Cute, Country Girls and Magnolia Factory. Artists Yuko Nakazawa was Hello! Project's leader from April 15, 2001 to March 31, 2009. Ai Takahashi became the group's leader from April 1, 2009 to September 30, 2011. Risa Niigaki then became the leader from October 1, 2011 to May 18, 2012. After her departure, Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asuka Langley Soryu
is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise), ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise created by Gainax. She first appears in the Neon Genesis Evangelion, original anime series, and also appears in the franchise's animated feature films and related media, including List of Neon Genesis Evangelion video games, video games, the ''Rebuild of Evangelion'' films, and the Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga), manga adaptation by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. In Japanese, Yūko Miyamura voices Asuka in all her animated appearances and merchandise. In English, Tiffany Grant voices her in the ADV Films dub and Stephanie McKeon voices her in the Netflix dub. Within the franchise, Asuka is designated as the Second Child and the fiery pilot of a giant mecha named Evangelion (mecha)#Evangelion Unit-02, Evangelion Unit-02 to fight against enemies known as List of Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Angels for the special agency Nerv. Because of childhood trauma, she has developed a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neon Genesis Evangelion
, also known as ''Evangelion'' or ''Eva'', is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production, and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from October 1995 to March 1996. The story is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy recruited by his father Gendo to the mysterious organization Nerv. Shinji must pilot an Evangelion, a giant biomechanical mecha, to fight beings known as Angels. The series explores the experiences and emotions of the Evangelion pilots and Nerv members as they battle Angels. They are called upon to understand the ultimate cause of events and the motives behind human action. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre, and features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology and mystical Judeo-Christian traditions, including Midrashic tales and Kabbalah. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl Group
A girl group is a music act featuring two or more women in music, female singers who generally vocal harmony, harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups that flourished in the late 1950s in music, 1950s and early 1960s in music, 1960s between the Rock and roll#Decline_and_later_developments, decline of early rock and roll and start of the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop. All-female bands, in which members also play instruments, are usually considered a separate phenomenon. These groups are sometimes called "girl bands" to differentiate, although this terminology is not universally followed. With the advent of the music industry and radio broadcasting, a number of girl groups emerged, such as the Andrews Sisters. The late 1950s saw the emergence of all-female singing groups as a major force, with 750 distinct girl groups releasing songs that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azur Lane
''Azur Lane'' () is a side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game created by Chinese developers Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi, released in 2017 for the iOS and Android (operating system), Android operating systems. Set in an alternate timeline of World War II, players engage in side-scrolling shooter gameplay, using female moe anthropomorphism, moe anthropomorphic characters based on warships from the war's major participants. Other gameplay elements, like customizing a dorm and in-game characters, are also present. First released in China in May and in Japan in September 2017, ''Azur Lane'' was successful at launch, especially in Japan where the player count reached five million within four months after its release. Players have voted the game among the top five on Google Play's Best Game of 2017 list for the region. Critics have attributed the game's popularity to its original and well-designed gameplay system. An English version started open ... [...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] |
Minami-ke
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koharu Sakuraba. It has been serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine ''Weekly Young Magazine'' since March 2004. The series focuses on the everyday life of three sisters: Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki Minami. An anime series produced by Daume aired in 2007. Asread produced a second season in 2008 titled ''Minami-ke: Okawari'', a third season in 2009 titled ''Minami-ke: Okaeri'', and an original video animation (OVA) episode in 2009 titled ''Minami-ke: Betsubara''. In 2012, Feel produced another OVA titled ''Minami-ke: Omatase'', followed by a fourth anime series in 2013 titled ''Minami-ke: Tadaima''. A fifth anime series was announced in 2024. Plot A slice of life comedy about the day-to-day life of the Minami family, the story centers around the daily life of three sisters named Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki as they get into various kinds of shenanigans alongside their friends and classmates. Characters Minami sisters ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
