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Risa Tsumugi
is a Japanese voice actress, DJ, rapper and singer from Okinawa Prefecture who is affiliated with Hibiki. She is a member of the band Raise A Suilen (RAS), and plays the character CHU²/Chiyu Tamade in the multimedia franchise ''BanG Dream!''. She also portrays Tazusa Andō in ''Assault Lily'' and Saki Izumo in ''D4DJ''. Biography Tsumugi was born in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 5, 1996, and moved to Okinawa Prefecture after her birth. From kindergarten to fourth grade of elementary school, she attended an international school where she learned to speak English. After graduating from high school, she moved to Tokyo for university and studied in the school's law department. As a second-year middle school student, she became interested in voice acting after watching a video of voice actress Aya Hirano perform a Dubbing (filmmaking), live dubbing of ''Haruhi Suzumiya''. Her parents initially opposed her decision, prompting her to secretly register for auditions but she was unable t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okinawa Prefecture
is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. It consists of three main island groups—the Okinawa Islands, the Sakishima Islands, and the Daitō Islands—spread across a maritime zone approximately 1,000 kilometers east to west and 400 kilometers north to south. Despite a modest land area of 2,281 km² (880 sq mi), Okinawa’s territorial extent over surrounding seas makes its total area nearly half the combined size of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. Of its 160 Island, islands, 49 are inhabited. The largest and most populous island is Okinawa Island, which hosts the capital city, Naha, as well as major urban centers such as Okinawa (city), Okinawa, Uruma, and Urasoe, Okinawa, Urasoe. The prefecture has a subtropical climate, characterized by warm temperatures and high rainfall throughout the year. People from the Ryukyu Islands, Nansei Islands, including Okinawa Island, Okinawa, the Sakishima Islands, and parts of Kagoshima Prefecture, are often collectively referred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anima Yell!
is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Tsukasa Unohana. It was serialized in Houbunsha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Manga Time Kirara Carat'' from its April 2016 to October 2020 issues and has been collected in five ''tankōbon'' volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Doga Kobo aired from October 7 to December 23, 2018. Plot The story focuses on Kohane Hatoya, a girl who is constantly helping others. Taking an interest in cheerleading, Kohane decides to start up her own Cheer Club upon entering her freshman year at Kaminoki High School, recruiting her best friend Uki Sawatari and veteran cheerleader Hizume Arima. Characters ; : :A peppy girl who constantly comes to the help whenever someone is in trouble, often getting hurt in the process. She takes a strong interest in cheerleading, despite having a fear of heights from her childhood. ; : :A veteran cheerleader who was thrown out of her old cheer squad for being too good. She is convinced by Kohane to take up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okinawa De Suki Ni Natta Ko Ga Hōgen Sugite Tsurasugiru
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Egumi Sora. It began serialization on Shinchosha's ''Kurage Bunch'' website in January 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by Millepensee aired from January to March 2025. Plot Nakamura Teruaki, a boy from Tokyo who transfers to Okinawa as a student, meets, and develops a crush on, his new classmate, Kyan Hina. Talking to her, however, is a problem because she mostly speaks in the Okinawan dialect. He would not understand her at all if not for another classmate of his, Hina's friend Higa Kana, who translates for him. Unbeknownst to Teruaki, Kana has a crush on him, and has been translating for him as an excuse to get near him. With them and their friends, Teruaki becomes more exposed and learns a lot about Okinawa, its people, and its culture. Characters ; : :A transfer student who moves in to Okinawa from Tokyo. He has a crush on Hina, but does not understand her Okinawan dialect. Over the course of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue Starlight
is a Japanese media franchise created in 2017 by Bushiroad, Nelke Planning and Kinema Citrus. It primarily consists of a series of musicals, debuting between September 22 and 24, 2017 at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo; a 12-episode anime television series directed by Tomohiro Furukawa which aired between July and September 2018; and two animated films, released on August 7, 2020, and June 4, 2021, which abridged and continued the story of the anime. It has received three manga adaptations, all of which began serialization in January 2018. A smartphone game titled ''Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight: Re LIVE'', developed by Ateam, launched in October 2018. Six years after the game's launch, the game ended service for all servers in September 2024. Premise The ''Revue Starlight'' franchise includes stage musicals, a musical animated series, musical films, and a mobile game each telling original, interconnected stories about the training, personal lives, and growth of several gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One-Punch Man
is a Japanese superhero manga series created by One. It tells the story of Saitama, an independent superhero who, having trained to the point that he can defeat any opponent with a single punch, grows bored from a lack of challenge. He sets out to find powerful opponents, while making allies of other heroes as well. One wrote the original webcomic manga version in early 2009. A digital manga remake, illustrated by Yusuke Murata, began publication on Shueisha's '' Tonari no Young Jump'' website in June 2012. Its chapters are periodically compiled and published into individual volumes. , 33 volumes have been released. In North America, Viz Media licensed the remake manga for English language release and has serialized it in its '' Weekly Shonen Jump'' digital magazine. An anime adaptation produced by Madhouse was broadcast in Japan from October to December 2015. A second season, produced by J.C.Staff, was broadcast from April to July 2019. A third season, also by J.C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon News
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics 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 Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opening Act
An opening act, also known as a warm-up act, support act, supporting act or opener, is an entertainment act (musical, comedic, or otherwise), that performs at a concert before the featured act, or "headliner". Rarely, an opening act may perform again at the end of the event, or perform with the featured act after both have had a set to themselves. The opening act's performance serves to "warm up" the audience, making it appropriately excited and enthusiastic for the headliner. In rock music, the opening act will usually be an up-and-coming group with a smaller following than the headliner. On long concert tours, different opening acts may be used for different legs of the tour. In comedy, a warm-up comedian or crowd warmer is a stand-up comedian who performs at a comedy club or before the filming of a television comedy in front of a studio audience. More rarely, a comedian will open for a music concert. Their role is to make the audience feel integral to the show and enco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reo Kurachi
is a Japanese voice actress and keyboardist previously affiliated with S Inc. She plays the keyboard for the band Raise A Suilen of the ''BanG Dream!'' franchise, which includes portraying the character Reona "Pareo" Nyubara. She also voices Esora Shimizu in ''D4DJ'' and Kina Asaka in '' Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki''. Biography Reo Kurachi, a native of Saitama Prefecture, was born on 22 May 1997. She learned to play the Electone and piano during her youth, while her interest in voice acting began in junior high school after watching the anime series ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' and ''K-On!''. She joined S Inc., a talent management agency run by singer Hiromi Satō, after passing their 3rd Newcomer Audition in 2016. In 2018, Kurachi became a member of the ''BanG Dream!'' band Raise A Suilen, serving as its keyboardist. She voiced the character Reona "PAREO" Nyubara, the keyboardist of Raise A Suilen's fictional counterpart of the same name, in the second and third seasons of the fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takaaki Kidani
is a Japanese video game developer and entrepreneur born in Kanazawa, Japan. He is the founder, CEO and president of Bushiroad. Kidani has also served as the chairman of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He continues to be involved with NJPW through Bushiroad, in which owns the company. Early life After Kidani graduated from Musashi University with a degree in economics, he worked at Yamaichi Securities. He handled American duties. Broccoli Kidani formerly from Yamaichi Securities in 1994. On March 25 of the same year, he founded Broccoli as a startup company. At first, his business focused on event management, but from 1994 to 1998, he started Comic Castle for dōjinshi. In 1996, he established his first chain of retail stores . His company has its center focus on anime and video games. Their company performance increased after producing the anime series Di Gi Charat and his company was then listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange. Bushiroad He founded Bushiroad in May 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famitsu
, formerly , is a line of Japanese Video game journalism, video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, Kadokawa. ''Famitsu'' is published in both weekly and monthly formats as well as in the form of special topical issues devoted to only one console, video game company, or other theme. the original ''Famitsu'' publication, is considered the most widely read and respected Video game journalism, video game news magazine in Japan. From October 28, 2011, the company began releasing the digital version of the magazine exclusively on BookWalker weekly. The name ''Famitsu'' is a Portmanteau#Japanese, portmanteau abbreviation of ''Famicom Tsūshin''; the word "Famicom" itself comes from a portmanteau abbreviation of "Nintendo Entertainment System, Family Computer", the dominant video game console in Japan when the magazine was first published in the 1980s. History , a computer game magazine, started in 1982 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
also known as ''Garupa'', is a mobile rhythm game developed by Craft Egg and published by Bushiroad for the Android and iOS platforms. Part of Bushiroad's ''BanG Dream!'' music franchise, it was released in Japan in March 2017, and worldwide in April 2018. The game was also released by Mobimon Inc. in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan in October 2017, by Kakao Games in Korea in February 2018, and by bilibili in mainland China in May 2019. A Nintendo Switch port of the game was released in Japan in September 2021; unlike the free-to-play mobile version, it is a premium game. ''Girls Band Party!'' has enjoyed success in Japan and worldwide, and is credited with helping the franchise grow in popularity. A spin-off anime series based on the game titled '' BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico'' began airing in 2018. Plot The game's setting mainly follows the ''BanG Dream!'' universe after the anime's first season. ''Girls Band Party!'' consists of the main story, band stories, and even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
