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R-15 (novel Series)
is a Japanese light novel series written by Hiroyuki Fushimi and illustrated by Takuya Fujima. The first volume was published by Kadokawa Shoten in July 2009 and eleven volumes have been released as of August 2012. A manga adaptation illustrated by Hayato Ōhashi started serialization in the June 2010 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's '' Monthly Shōnen Ace'' magazine. An anime television series adaptation animated by AIC aired in Japan from July to September 2011. Plot ''R-15'' is about a boy, Taketo Akutagawa, who attends a school for geniuses: Inspiration Academy Private High School. Taketo is a genius novelist and writes erotica. Despite negative perceptions many people have of him, he aims to be at the top of his class and be recognized as the world's greatest writer. Characters In this series, most of the names of the characters have some connection to that particular characters' field of interest. ; : :A genius at writing erotic fiction. He is looked down upon by most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harem (genre)
is a genre of light novels, manga, anime, and video games focusing on a main character surrounded by multiple potential romantic or sexual partners. Originating in Japan in the 1970s, its popularity increased during the late 1980s and 1990s with the advent of dating sim, dating simulator games. The genre often features a protagonist who's surrounded by three or more courtship, suitors, innamorati, love interests and/or sexual partners. Harem works are frequently romantic comedy, comedies that rely on self-insertion, self-insert protagonists which allow projection for the viewer, often accompanied with an ensemble cast of supporting characters. A story featuring a heterosexual male or homosexual female protagonist paired with an all-female/Yuri (genre), yuri harem is informally referred to as a or , while a heterosexual female or gay male protagonist paired with an all-male harem series is informally referred to as a , , or . Although originating in Japan, the genre later inspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation Portable
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PAL regions on September 1, 2005, and is the first handheld installment in the PlayStation line of consoles. As a Seventh generation of video game consoles, seventh generation console, the PSP competed with the Nintendo DS. Development of the PSP was announced during E3 2003, and the console was unveiled at a Sony press conference on May 11, 2004. The system was the most powerful portable console at the time of its introduction, and was the first viable competitor to Nintendo's handheld consoles after many challengers such as Nokia's N-Gage (device), N-Gage had failed. The PSP's advanced graphics capabilities made it a popular mobile entertainment device, which could connect to the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, any computer with a USB int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodypainting
Body painting is a form of body art where artwork is painted directly onto the human skin. Unlike tattoos and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, lasting several hours or sometimes up to a few weeks (in the case of mehndi or "henna tattoos" about two weeks). Body painting that is limited to the face is known as face painting. Body painting is also referred to as (a form of) "temporary tattoo". Large scale or full-body painting is more commonly referred to as body painting, while smaller or more detailed work can sometimes be referred to as temporary tattoos. Indigenous Body painting with a grey or white paint made from natural pigments including clay, chalk, ash and cattle dung is traditional in many tribal cultures. Often worn during cultural ceremonies, it is believed to assist with the moderation of body heat and the use of striped patterns may reduce the incidence of biting insects. It still survives in this ancient form among Indigenous Australians and in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde
In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an ''advance guard'' identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and Surrealism were ahead of their times. As a stratum of the intelligentsia of a society, avant-garde artists promote progressive and radical politics and advocate for societal reform with and through works of art. In the essay "The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist" (1825), Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues's political usage of ''vanguard'' identified the moral obligation of artists to "ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iori Nomizu
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer who provides voices for anime television series and video games. In anime shows, she voiced Yoshino Himekawa in ''Date A Live'', Nymph in ''Heaven's Lost Property'', Rinko Kuzaki in ''Omamori Himari'', Haruna in '' Is This a Zombie?'', Mirai Andou in '' A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives'', Inaho Kushiya in ''Maken-ki!'', Fuyumi Yanagi in Blood Lad, and Funco in '' Upotte!!''. In video games, she voices Celica A. Mercury in the ''BlazBlue'' series. Early acting career Nomizu started her acting career portraying Moe Kagami in the Fuji TV live-action drama series ''Densha Otoko'' that was broadcast in July 2005. In June 2006, she had a role in the TBS drama series '' Akihabara@Deep''. She will also appear in mobile phone content such as PlayStation 2 ''Girls Yoshitsune Densetsu-Tsuki Beyond'' and ''Chaku Voice''. She worked as a maid at the ''Amusement Cafe Meido'' in Japan, a maid cafe where an active idol opened in November work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hacker (computer Security)
A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching or bypassing defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, sabotage, information gathering, challenge, recreation, or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers. Longstanding controversy surrounds the meaning of the term "hacker". In this controversy, computer programmers reclaim the term ''hacker'', arguing that it refers simply to someone with an advanced understanding of computers and computer networks, and that ''cracker'' is the more appropriate term for those who break into computers, whether computer criminals ( black hats) or computer security experts ( white hats). A 2014 article noted that "the black-hat meaning still prevails among the general public". The subculture that has evolved around hackers is often referred to as the "co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming. The professional titles ''software developer'' and ''software engineer'' are used for jobs that require a programmer. Identification Sometimes a programmer or job position is identified by the language used or target platform. For example, assembly programmer, web developer. Job title The job titles that include programming tasks have differing connotations across the computer industry and to different individuals. The following are notable descriptions. A ''software developer'' primarily implements software based on specifications and fixes bugs. Other duties may include reviewing code changes and testing. To achieve the required skills for the job, they might obtain a computer science or associate degree, attend a programming boot camp or be self-taught. A ''software engineer'' usually is responsible for the same tasks as a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Icon
A pop icon is a celebrity, character, or object whose exposure in popular culture is regarded as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era. The usage of the term is largely subjective since there are no definitively objective criteria. The categorization is usually associated with elements such as longevity, ubiquity and distinction. Moreover, "pop icon" status is distinguishable from other kinds of notability outside pop culture, such as with historic figures. Some historic figures are recognized as having reached "pop icon" status during their era, and such status may continue into the present. Pop icons of previous eras include Benjamin Franklin and Mozart. Attributes and origins Historians Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, explained that term "iconography" would pass into high culture, and later in the twentieth century, into popular culture, where "icon" refers to a secular celebrity like Madonna. She probably had a catalyst role, as Marcel Danesi, a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanami Kashiyama
is a rather popular feminine Japanese given name which is also used as a surname. Written forms Nanami can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: ;as a given name *七海, "seven, sea" *七美, "seven, beauty" *七実, "seven, fruit" *七生, "seven, life" *奈波, "what, wave" *奈々美, "what, beauty" *奈々実, "what, fruit" *奈々生, "what, life" *菜々美, "greens, beauty" *菜々実, "greens, fruit" *菜々未, "greens, not yet" *菜々海, "greens, ocean" The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. ;as a surname *名波, "name, wave" People with the name *, Japanese figure skating coach and choreographer *, Japanese voice actress *Nanami Inoue (奈々朱, born 1989), Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese handball player *Nanami Ohta (ななみ, born 1993), a Japanese actress *Nanami Sakuraba (ななみ, born 1992), Japanese actress * Nanami Shiono (七生, born 1937), Japanese author and novelist * Hir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nosebleed
A nosebleed, also known as epistaxis, is an instance of bleeding from the nose. Blood can flow down into the stomach, and cause nausea and vomiting. In more severe cases, blood may come out of both nostrils. Rarely, bleeding may be so significant that low blood pressure occurs. Blood may also be forced to flow up and through the nasolacrimal duct and out of the eye, producing bloody tears. Risk factors include trauma, including putting the finger in the nose, blood thinners, high blood pressure, alcoholism, seasonal allergies, dry weather, and inhaled corticosteroids. There are two types: anterior, which is more common; and posterior, which is less common but more serious. Anterior nosebleeds generally occur from Kiesselbach's plexus while posterior bleeds generally occur from the sphenopalatine artery or Woodruff's plexus. The diagnosis is by direct observation. Prevention may include the use of petroleum jelly in the nose. Initially, treatment is generally the appli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aya Gōda
, also known , is a Japanese voice actress from Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan. She was affiliated with Production Ace Engi Kenkyuujo and graduated from Yoyogi Animation Gakuin. Kitaoka made her voice acting debut in Kiddy Girl-and (2009) under the stage name Aya Gouda. She went on to use that name until she left the Production Ace agency in September 2012. Filmography Anime ;2009 *''Kiddy Girl-and'' as Q-feuille ;2010 *'' Sora no Otoshimono: Forte'' as Chika Yanagisawa (eps 6, 9, 11–12), Girl (eps 4–5), Radio (ep 10) ;2011 *'' A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives'' as Saeko Suzae *'' Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?'' as Sarasvati / Kirara Hoshikawa, Female student (ep 6) *''Maken-ki!'' as Furan Takaki *'' R-15'' as Taketo Akutagawa ;2012 *'' Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead'' as Sarasvati / Kirara Hoshikawa *'' Recorder and Randsell'' as Takumi ;2014 *'' Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky'' as Threia Hazelgrimm *''Robot Girls Z is an anime television series created by Dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
