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Mandy Sekiguchi
Mandy Sekiguchi (関口 メンディー; ''Sekiguchi Mendi'', born January 25, 1991) is an American-born Japanese actor, dancer, rapper and a former member of J-Pop groups Generations from Exile Tribe, Exile and Honest Boyz. Early life Mandy Sekiguchi was born on January 25, 1991, in New Jersey to a Japanese mother and a Nigerian American father of Igbo descent. He grew up in Shinagawa, Tokyo, and was raised monolingual in Japanese. He started to study English later on in his career. Sekiguchi played baseball at the age of 6 and practiced it until his third year in high school. Career In April 2011, Mandy participated in the Exile Professional Gym (EXPG) audition produced by Hiro, and he was selected as a member of Generations from Exile Tribe. In April 2012, he became an official member of Generations and debuted in November of the same year. Mandy advanced into acting for the first time in April 2014, when he was selected as a cast member of Fuji TV's late night program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baban Baban Ban Vampire
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromasa Okujima. It began serialization in Akita Shoten's manga magazine ''Bessatsu Shōnen Champion'' in October 2021. An anime television series adaptation produced by Gaina aired from January to March 2025, and a live-action film adaptation is set to open in Japanese theaters in July 2025. Characters ; : : ; : : ; : : ; / : : ; : : ; : : ; : Media Manga Written and illustrated by Hiromasa Okujima, ''Baban Baban Ban Vampire'' began serialization in Akita Shoten's manga magazine ''Bessatsu Shōnen Champion'' on October 12, 2021. The series' chapters have been compiled into eleven volumes as of June 2025. Anime An anime television series adaptation was announced on Garlic Day on February 29, 2024. It is produced by Gaina and directed and written by Itsuro Kawasaki, with assistant direction by Takahiro Tamano, characters designed by Yukiko Ban, and music composed by Jun Ichikawa. The series aired f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GyaO!
is a Japanese web portal. It was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. According to ''The Japan Times'', as of 2012, Yahoo! Japan had a footprint on the internet market in Japan. In terms of use as a search engine, however, it has never surpassed Google. The company is the second largest search engine used in Japan as of July 2021, with a market share of 19% behind Google's 77%. The Yahoo! Japan search engine was a directory-type search engine, similar to Yahoo! in the United States. A crawler-type search engine was used as well, and as the popularity of the crawler-type search engine gradually increased, after October 3, 2005, Yahoo! Japan began utilizing only the crawler-type engine. On June 29, 2017, Yahoo! Japan announced that the directory-based search engine "Yahoo! Category", which had been in operation since its establishment, would be abolished on March 29, 2018. As a crawler-type search engine, Yahoo! Japan initially used technology from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Takeshi Kitazawa which aired in Japan Monday through Friday mornings—it was also the only of such series to be aired for 20 minutes per episode. From 1975 onward, series aired in the first half of the year are produced by the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting station and series in the latter half of the year are produced by the NHK Osaka Broadcasting station; the Osaka branch's first ''asadora'' production was in 1964. Due to the practice of wiping commonly in practice around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, not all episodes of all pre-1980 ''asadora'' series survive, as the 2-inch Quad videotapes were often wiped and reused; 16 of the produced ''asadora'' series in total are incomplete in the NHK archives, with several series having no survivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omusubi (TV Series)
is a Japanese television drama series and the 111th ''Asadora'' series, following ''The Tiger and Her Wings''. Plot Born in the first year of Heisei (1989), Yui Yoneda was influenced by the somewhat outdated culture during her high school years. Despite her aspiration to become a nutritionist, she never forgets her ''Gyaru'' spirit and navigates through the Heisei era with determination. Cast Yoneda family * Kanna Hashimoto as Yui Yoneda. She experienced the Great Hanshin earthquake during her childhood and later moved to Fukuoka. Her nickname is Omusubi. **Ameri Isomura as young Yui *Riisa Naka as Ayumi "Ayu" Yoneda, Yui's sister **Saki Takamatsu as young Ayumi *Yukiya Kitamura as Masato Yoneda, Yui's father * Kumiko Aso as Aiko Yoneda, Yui's mother *Yoshiko Miyazaki as Kayo Yoneda, Yui's grandmother * Ken Matsudaira as Eikichi Yoneda, Yui's grandfather. He is a big fan of the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. *Chise Niitsu as Hana Yoneda, Yui and Shoya's daughter **Ririsa Miyazaki a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ya Boy Kongming!
is a Japanese manga series written by Yuto Yotsuba and illustrated by . The series was serialized on Kodansha's ' website from December 2019 to November 2021, before being transferred to ''Weekly Young Magazine''; its chapters have been collected in 21 volumes as of April 2025. Set in Shibuya, Tokyo, the series centers on Zhuge Kongming, who is transported from ancient China to modern Japan and uses military tactics to transform his new friend, Eiko Tsukimi, into a music star. An anime television series adaptation produced by P.A. Works was streamed from March to June 2022 and aired on television from April to June of the same year. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series outside of Japan and streamed it on its Hidive platform. A live-action television drama aired from September to November 2023 on Fuji TV's programming block. Premise The famous military strategist Zhuge Kongming met his demise in the Battle of Wuzhang Plains in 234. On his deathbed, he wishes that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret × Heroine Phantomirage!
is a Japanese television drama series that aired from April 7, 2019, to June 28, 2020. It is the third installment of the '' Girls × Heroine Series'' produced by Takara Tomy and OLM, Inc. with the assistance of Shogakukan and EXPG Studio. The series stars Minami Hishida, Kira Yamaguchi, Toa Harada, and Ran Ishii. Additional cast members include Mandy Sekiguchi, Tsubasa Honda, and Takumi Saitoh, with narration provided by Toshiyuki Toyonaga. The plot is centered on ''Phantomirage'', a group of middle school gentleman thieves who fight the ''Gyakugyaku'' Police, and steal the treasures in people's hearts. This was the last installment of the ''Girls × Heroine'' series to be produced in the Heisei period, and the first to be produced in the Reiwa period. The show launched a brief idol career for the main cast, who hold music activities as the Japanese idol girl group Mirage, and Girls to promote the show. Following the show's end in 2020, it was succeeded by ''Police × Heroi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuji Television
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and-operated by , itself a subsidiary of , a certified broadcasting holding company under the Japanese Broadcasting Act, and affiliated with the Fujisankei Communications Group. It is headquartered in the Fuji Broadcasting Center in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo and is one of ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo''. Fuji Television also operates three premium television stations, known as "Fuji Television One" ("Fuji Television 739"—sports/variety, including all Tokyo Yakult Swallows home games), "Fuji Television Two" ("Fuji Television 721"—drama/anime, including all Saitama Seibu Lions home games), and "Fuji Television Next" ("Fuji Television CSHD"—live premium shows) ( "Fuji Television OneTwoNext"), all available in High-definition televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instagram
Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via Geotagging, geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, Like button, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal news feed, feed. A Meta-operated image-centric social media platform, it is available on iOS, Android (operating system), Android, Windows 10, and the web. Users can take photos and edit them using built-in filters and other tools, then share them on other social media platforms like Facebook. It supports 32 languages including English language, English, Hindi language, Hindi, Spanish language, Spanish, French language, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama Arena
is an indoor arena located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 17,000 and was opened in 1989. The arena was modeled after US sports venue Madison Square Garden in New York City. It is a five-minute walk from the closest station, Shin-Yokohama Station on the Japan Railways Group, JR/Yokohama Municipal Subway. As one of the largest concert venues in the Kantō region, it is a frequent location for artists to end their tours. The spacious stage allows for more complex set design and lighting, but the reasonable size makes it easier to sell out than the Tokyo Dome. History The Yokohama Arena was opened on April 1, 1989. At the exact day was held the opening celebration concert where performed renowned Japanese singer-songwriter Yumi Matsutoya, and the three upcoming days were additional dates of her concert tour. Many notable Japanese music acts performed at the arena, alphabetically: AKB48, Namie Amuro, Aqours, B'z, Babymetal, Band-Maid, Buck-Tic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquaman (film)
''Aquaman'' is a 2018 American superhero film based on the DC character of the same name. Co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the sixth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by James Wan from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, it stars Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, who sets out to lead the underwater kingdom of Atlantis and stop his evil half-brother, King Orm (Patrick Wilson) from uniting the seven underwater kingdoms to destroy the surface world. Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman also star in supporting roles. Development began in 2004 but did not gain traction until '' Man of Steel'' was released in 2013. In August 2014, Beall and Kurt Johnstad were hired to write competing scripts. Wan signed on as director in April 2015, and in July 2016, the film moved forward with Beall's screenplay. The main cast was confirmed through 2016 and early 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
