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Luck Life
is a J-pop band from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. From March 2007, they were known as "Maxim ☆ Tomato", until changing to their current name in Tokyo in 2008. Between 2013 and 2015, Luck Life was represented by Highway Star and at present by Lantis. The band is composed of Pon, Ikoma, Taku and Love Oishi. Story The band was formed in 2005 by Pon, Ikoma, Taku, and Love Oishi during their high school days. In 2008, they moved to Tokyo and changed their name to Luck Life. Their first single, "Haruka Hikari," was released in 2014 under the label I Will Music of Highway Star. Their major debut single, "Namae wo Yobu yo," was released in May 2016 under Lantis. Band members *Pon (Masumi Ueno; born September 7, 1988), vocalist, composer and guitar. *Ikoma (Takahide Ikoma; born January 20, 1989), guitar. *Taku (Takuya Kubo; born June 21, 1988), bass, vocalist. *Love Oishi (Yutaka Ōishi; born October 24, 1988), drums. Discography Albums *''World is you'' (2011, indie) *''Kimi no Koto'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara Prefecture to the southeast, and Wakayama Prefecture to the south. Osaka is the capital and largest city of Osaka Prefecture, and the third-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Sakai, Higashiōsaka, and Hirakata. Osaka Prefecture is located on the western coast of the Kii Peninsula, forming the western is open to Osaka Bay. Osaka Prefecture is the third-most-populous prefecture, but by geographic area the second-smallest; at it is the second-most densely populated, below only Tokyo. Osaka Prefecture is one of Japan's two " urban prefectures" using the designation ''fu'' (府) rather than the standard '' ken'' for prefectures, along with Kyoto Prefecture. Osaka Prefecture forms the center of the Keihanshin metro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the Beat (music), beat, arrangements, and original style of rock and roll (and sometimes doo-wop). It may be viewed as a distinct genre field rather than music that overlaps with Pop music, pop and rock. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product and less Authenticity in art#Authenticity of performance, authentic than rock music. Characteristics and etymology Much pop and rock music has been very similar in sound, instrumentation and even lyrical content. The terms "pop rock" and "power pop" have been used to describe more commercially successful music that uses elements from, or the form of, roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lantis (company)
is a Japanese music label owned by Bandai Namco Music Live. Originally a company, it was established on November 26, 1999, and became a subsidiary of Bandai Visual in May 2006, itself a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In February 2018, it was announced Lantis would be merged with Bandai Visual into a new company called Bandai Namco Arts. The reorganizing took effect on April 1, 2018. Lantis only remains as a label from the new company. Lantis merger with Bandai Visual In February 2018, it was announced Bandai Visual would be merged with Lantis into a new branch of BNH, called Bandai Namco Music Live. The reorganizing took effect as of April 1. Bandai Visual remains only as a label of the new company. Sublabels Lantis is composed of five labels: * Lantis (main label, formerly distributed by King Records (Japan), King Records, currently self-distributed) * Glory Heaven (distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Japan) * Kiramune (self-distributed) * Purple One Star (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively 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 in music, 1960s pop music, 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. Japanese rock bands such as Happy End (band), Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-pop was further defined by New wave music, new wave and Crossover music, crossover Jazz fusion, fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. () Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s1980s, and Eurobeat#J-Euro, J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro) and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junjō Romantica
is a Japanese boys' love manga series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on four storylines: the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and three other male couples that provide ongoing side stories ("Junjo Egoist", "Junjo Terrorist", and "Junjo Mistake"). It has expanded into several CD-dramas, a manga series running in ''Asuka Ciel'', a light novel series titled "Junai Romantica" running in ''The Ruby'' magazine, and a 37-episode anime series. Shungiku Nakamura has written a spin-off of ''Junjo Romantica'' titled ''Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi'' () focusing on a manga editor and his first love, which was also animated by Studio Deen in 2011. Characters Junjo Romantica ; :Voiced by Takahiro Sakurai :Misaki Takahashi (the of the Romantica couple) is Takahiro's younger brother. He is eighteen years old at the start of the series, nineteen in episode eight of the anime, and twenty-one in the third season. He is a textbook . At the start of the series, Misaki is about t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungo Stray Dogs
, also abbreviated as ''B-S-D'', is a Japanese manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa, which has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Seinen manga, manga magazine ''Young Ace'' since 2012. Each character is named after influential authors throughout history, and their powers are based on said author's books. The series follows the members of the Armed Detective Agency as they try to protect Yokohama from organizations such as the Port Mafia. The story mainly focuses on the weretiger Atsushi Nakajima (Bungo Stray Dogs), Atsushi Nakajima, who joins others gifted with supernatural powers to accomplish different tasks including solving mysteries and carrying out missions assigned by the agency. As of 2024, ten light novels have been published. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bones (studio), Bones aired in 2016 in two parts; the first season aired between April and June 2016, and the second season aired between October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheer Boys!!
is a Japanese novel written by Ryō Asai, first published on October 5, 2010, by Shueisha. It follows the members of a university's all-male cheerleading squad. The novel is loosely based on the real-life men's cheerleading team "Shockers" from Waseda University. The series was also adapted as a manga 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 ... by Kenichi Kondō for the ''Shōnen Jump+'' app starting on April 5, 2016. An anime adaptation started airing on July 5, 2016. It is directed by Ai Yoshimura and written by Reiko Yoshida for the studio Brain's Base. A live action film directed by Hiroki Kazama was released on May 10, 2019. Plot Disheartened with judo, college student Haruki "Haru" Bando was invited by his childhood boyfriend Kazuma Hashimoto to create "BREAKERS" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saiyuki (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuya Minekura. It was originally serialized in Square Enix's magazine '' Monthly GFantasy'' between February 1997 and November 2001, with its chapters collected in nine volumes. It was later republished by Ichijinsha, who released nine volumes with new covers from October 2002 to June 2003, and a five-volume edition which was released from April to August 2015. The story, which is loosely based on the 16th-century Chinese novel ''Journey to the West'', follows a monk named Genjo Sanzo who receives a mission to travel to the west with a group of three ''yokai'' (demons) to stop the revival of Gyumao, an evil god. The manga was licensed for an English release by Tokyopop, who published nine volumes between March and July, 2005. The most recent publication in North America is by Kodansha, the series receiving a hardcover release with a new translation between February 2020 and January 2021. Minekura's manga inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
