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Riot Girl
''Riot Girl'' is the debut studio album by Japanese singer/voice actress Aya Hirano. It was released on 16 July 2008. It contains songs from her entire non-character song discography up until her 2008 single, "Unnamed World." It contains 7 all-new songs and the A-side songs from her first 7 singles (with the exception being the B-side of Unnamed World instead of the A-side). The album made its debut on the Oricon charts at number 6, selling approximately 23,000 units in its first week of sales. Track listing Re-release Bonus Tracks External links Information on Lantis' website * http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=2008&month=07&week=4&submit5.x=23&submit5.y=14 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aya Hirano
is a Japanese actress and singer. Beginning in the entertainment industry as a child actor in television commercials, she appeared in her first Voice acting in Japan, voice acting role in the anime television series ''Angel Tales'' (2001). In 2006, she became known for her role as Haruhi Suzumiya (character), the title character in the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' franchise, winning the Voice Acting Award at the 2007 Tokyo Anime Awards, the Best Newcomer Award at the 1st Seiyu Awards in 2007, and the Best Lead Actress award at the 2nd Seiyu Awards in 2008. In addition, she also provided the voice of Misa Amane in ''Death Note'', List of Lucky Star characters#Konata Izumi, Konata Izumi in ''Lucky Star (manga), Lucky Star'', and Lucy Heartfilia in ''Fairy Tail''. In 2010, Hirano began transitioning her acting career to television and stage plays, starring in ''Konna no Idol Janain!?'' (2012) and ''Muse no Kagami'' (2012). In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Hirano was regarded as an Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashita No Prism
is a Japanese actress and singer. Beginning in the entertainment industry as a child actor in television commercials, she appeared in her first voice acting role in the anime television series '' Angel Tales'' (2001). In 2006, she became known for her role as the title character in the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' franchise, winning the Voice Acting Award at the 2007 Tokyo Anime Awards, the Best Newcomer Award at the 1st Seiyu Awards in 2007, and the Best Lead Actress award at the 2nd Seiyu Awards in 2008. In addition, she also provided the voice of Misa Amane in ''Death Note'', Konata Izumi in '' Lucky Star'', and Lucy Heartfilia in ''Fairy Tail''. In 2010, Hirano began transitioning her acting career to television and stage plays, starring in '' Konna no Idol Janain!?'' (2012) and '' Muse no Kagami'' (2012). In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Hirano was regarded as an idol voice actor and is notable for being a voice actor who was able to cross over to mainstream entertainment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascada
Cascada (, Spanish language, Spanish, 'Waterfall'), is a German dance music act founded in 2004 by singer Natalie Horler and DJs/composers/ producers DJ Manian and DJ Yanou. They functioned as a trio from 2004 to 2021, with their last track together being “One Last Dance”. Since then Natalie has fronted the group as a solo project which was confirmed with the release of Cascada's fifth studio album “Studio 24” produced by Christian Geller. They are best known for the hit singles "Everytime We Touch (Cascada song), Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", "Evacuate the Dancefloor (song), Evacuate the Dancefloor" and "Miracle (Cascada song), Miracle". Cascada represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden with "Glorious (Cascada song), Glorious". While being one of the most successful acts of the dance music genre itself, Cascada was named as the third-most successful German act of the 21st century. In 2010, Cascada's music was the seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigma Harmonics
''Sigma Harmonics'' is a 2008 role-playing video game co-developed by Square Enix and Think Garage, and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS. An expanded port for mobile devices was released in 2010 under the title ''Sigma Harmonics Coda''. The storyline follows Sigma Kurogami, a member of a magical family based in Tokyo. He goes on a mission through time with childhood friend Neon Tsukiyumi after demons escape the family's imprisonment and rewrite history through a series of murders. The gameplay combines role-playing combat mechanics, and adventure-style investigation and storytelling. Production began following the release of '' Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII'' in 2006; that game's writer Hiroki Chiba acted as both director and writer for ''Sigma Harmonics''. Other returning team members included producer Yoshinori Kitase, artist Yusaku Nakaaki, and composer Masashi Hamauzu. The premise was inspired by Chiba's liking for Shōwa period mystery writers. The team use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neophilia (single)
"Neophilia" is a CD single by Japanese singer and voice actress Aya Hirano. It was released on November 7, 2007 and was produced by Lantis. This is Aya Hirano's fifth maxi single and her second release from her three-month consecutive single release campaign. Track listing # "Neophilia" -4:02 #* Vocals: Aya Hirano is a Japanese actress and singer. Beginning in the entertainment industry as a child actor in television commercials, she appeared in her first Voice acting in Japan, voice acting role in the anime television series ''Angel Tales'' (2001). In ... #* Lyrics: Shinya Saitou #* Guitar: Yutaka Ishii #* Bass: Katsuhiko Kurosu # "Forget me nots..." -4:05 #* Vocals: Aya Hirano #* Lyrics: Katsuhiko Kurosu #* Guitar: Daisuke Katou #* Bass: Katsuhiko Kurosu # "Neophilia" (off vocal) -4:12 # "Forget me nots..." (off vocal) -4:02 References 2007 singles Aya Hirano songs Lantis (company) singles 2007 songs {{2000s-Japan-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aki Hata
is a Japanese musician, singer, lyricist and composer. She is noted for having penned and composed songs for various anime and video games, including popular titles like '' Zettai Shōnen'', ''Azumanga Daioh'', '' Haibane Renmei'', '' Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu'', '' Rocket Knight Adventures'', '' Lucky Star'', the media franchise ''Love Live!'', and for various singers and voice actresses. She was a composer for Konami , commonly known as Konami, , is a Japanese multinational entertainment company and video game developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo. The company also produces and distributes trading card ... and Treasure. Aki Hata also sings herself. She is a member of the band Tsukihiko, providing the vocals and keyboard. In 2015, she formed the production team "Q-MHz" with Tomokazu Tashiro, Katsuhiko Kurosu, and Tomoya Tabuchi (UNISON SQUARE GARDEN). At the Heisei Anison Grand Prize announced in 2019, seven of her o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya (anime)
is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. It was first published in 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan with the novel ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', and has since been followed by 11 additional novel volumes, an anime television series adaptation produced by Kyoto Animation, four manga series, an animated film, two original net animation series and several video games. After the anime adaptation airing in 2006, publishing company Kadokawa Shoten received offers for licensing the novels and their adaptations. The novels are licensed for English language release in the United States by Little, Brown and Company, for young readers by Yen Press and the anime adaptation was licensed for North American distribution by Kadokawa Pictures USA division which then sub-licensed production and distribution to Bandai Entertainment. The anime is currently licensed by Crunchyroll. Plot Kyon is a sardonic, witty student a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Haruhi Suzumiya Albums
This is a list of albums attributed to the anime adaptation ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'' based on the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' light novel series. There have been three soundtrack singles released for the anime containing the opening, ending, and insert songs featured in the anime series. Three radio drama CDs were released, along with a single which contained the theme songs to the radio dramas. A drama CD was also produced and the final track on the CD contained an original music track. There are nine additional character song albums sung by the voice actors for not only the five main characters in the series, but four other minor characters were also given mini albums. Soundtracks Bōken Desho Desho? is the opening theme to the Japanese anime ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', as well as the movie, ''The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya''. It ranked #10 in CD sales on amazon.co.jp when the single was released. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #10 * Weeks in Chart: 28 we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakthrough (Aya Hirano Song)
"Breakthrough" is the debut single by Japanese singer and voice actress Aya Hirano. It was first released in Japan on March 8, 2006 by the record label Lantis. "Breakthrough" and "Ichiban Boshi" were the opening and ending themes of the Japanese PlayStation 2 visual novel A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustratio ... ''Finalist'', respectively. Track listing #"Breakthrough" # #"Breakthrough" (off vocal) # ReferencesAmazon.co.jp 2006 songs Aya Hirano songs 2006 debut singles Lantis (company) singles {{2000s-Japan-single-stub ... [...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] |
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] |
