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Yasuhiko Fukuda
is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. History and career Born in Tokyo's Itabashi prefecture, Fukuda began playing piano at the age of 4, and while at school became interested in anime ("We were the first anime generation"). He graduated from Takeheya Senior High School in 1976 and began attending the department of literature at Waseda University in 1978. Around this time, he won a prize for excellence in the Yamaha-sponsored band tournament EAST WEST 78. Graduating from Waseda in 1980, Fukuda went on to make his professional debut, playing keyboards in the band QUYS. The band was formed alongside bassist Yoshihiro Naruse (currently of Casiopea) and drummer Okai Daiji (ex-member of Yonin Bayashi). The following year marked his recording debut as a session musician on June Yamagishi's 1981 solo album All The Same, along with his major debut with Hideo Saito in the band YOU. In 1982 he was a participating member of Bakufu Slump prior to their debut, and in 1983 played wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson Soft
was a Japanese video game company known for releasing numerous titles across video game consoles, home computers, and mobile phones. Headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo, it also maintained an office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo. Founded on May 18, 1973, Hudson initially focused on personal computer products before expanding into video game development, publishing, peripherals, and music production. The company was best known for its series ''Bomberman'', '' Adventure Island'', '' Star Soldier'', '' Bonk'' and '' Bloody Roar''. It also developed games for other publishers, most notably the ''Mario Party'' series for Nintendo. Hudson partnered with NEC to create the TurboGrafx-16, TurboExpress, and PC-FX consoles, aiming to compete with Nintendo, Sega, and SNK, while continuing to release games on other platforms as a third-party developer. Hudson Soft became a publicly traded company in 2000. In 2005, Konami acquired a 55% controlling stake in Hudson, later p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Yamaoka
is a Japanese composer, musician, producer, and sound designer who composed for Konami's ''Silent Hill'' video game series from 1999 to 2009, and 2024 onwards. He also produced many of its installments, and composed for its three film adaptations. Yamaoka worked with Konami from 1993 to 2009, and rejoined in 2024. He has been the sound director at Grasshopper Manufacture since 2010. Life and career Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior design. Before working as a video game composer, Yamaoka initially sought a career as a designer, but instead became a musician after studying product design at Tokyo Art College. Yamaoka joined Konami on September 21, 1993. He immediately began to work on the games '' Contra: Hard Corps'', '' Sparkster'', and '' Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2''. Shortly thereafter, he worked on the music for the PC Engine and Sega CD versions of '' Snatcher''. When Konami began searching for a musician to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nami Sano. The manga follows a high school student named Sakamoto, who has a reputation for being the " coolest" person among the entire student body. The series has been licensed for an English release by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television adaptation produced by Studio Deen aired between April 8 to July 5, 2016. Plot The story is centered around the incredibly popular Sakamoto: a flawless boy genius who is well liked by fellow students and most of the faculty in the high school for his coolness. Despite the strange situations he often finds himself in, typically consisting of pranks set up by the envious male population of the school, Sakamoto always manages to emerge in absolute perfection and as a result makes himself seem even cooler. Characters ; : :The protagonist of the series who is a model student for all the other students in his school. He is the perfect man who can solve any problem with a kind, ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kocchi Muite! Miiko
is a Japanese '' shōjo'' comedy manga series by Eriko Ono. It has been published by Shogakukan in ''Ciao'' since 1995 and collected in 37 bound volumes. It is a sequel to an earlier series, , and depicts the home and school life of a cheerful and energetic fifth-grade girl named Miiko. ''Kocchi Muite! Miiko'' was adapted as a 42-episode anime television series by Toei Animation, which was broadcast on TV Asahi from February 14, 1998, to February 6, 1999, as part of the '' Anime Syuukan DX! Mi-Pha-Pu'' anime series. Characters * is the protagonist of the series. She is an energetic and short student in fifth grade. Miiko loves eating, which becomes a problem because she gets fat easily (as shown in much of the episodes). Her best friends are Mari Shimura, Yuuko Ogawa, and Tappei Eguchi. She's often found hanging out with her friends or fighting with a boy called Tappei who seems to like Miiko a bit but was too shy to say it to her himself. He called her names instead and so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
, is a 1993 Japanese science fiction anime television series. It consists of 51 episodes, and was directed by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. The series was first broadcast on TV Asahi (and its ANN stations). It is the fourth TV anime installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, first series in the franchise released in Japan's Heisei period, and the final full series to be set in the Universal Century calendar until '' Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX''. Plot ''Victory Gundam'' is set in UC 0153, and succeeds the Federation Force and Crossbone Vanguard conflict of '' Mobile Suit Gundam F91''. The Earth, still loosely controlled by the greatly weakened Earth Federation, comes under attack by BESPA, the armed forces of the space colony–based Zanscare Empire. Only a ragtag resistance movement, the League Militaire, stands in BESPA's way as they swiftly conquer much of space and start their invasion of Earth, with the advanced mass-produced mobile suit, the Victory Gundam, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Were Eleven
is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. It was serialized in three issues of Shogakukan's '' Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' magazine in 1975. The following year, it won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award in the combined and category. The series has inspired a live-action television film, an anime film, multiple stage plays, and an audio drama CD. It also inspired a sequel manga series, , serialized in ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' magazine from 1976 to 1977. ''They Were Eleven'' was originally licensed in English by Viz Media in floppy comics format in 1995, and published in the manga anthology '' Four Shōjo Stories'' in 1996. The series and its sequel have been licensed by Denpa for a new English-language release in 2022. The anime film was originally licensed in English by Central Park Media, but it was discontinued in 2004. Story Ten young space cadets are put onto a decommissioned spaceship as their final test. If they pass this test ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop'n Music
, commonly abbreviated as ''Pop'n'', ''PM'' or ''PNM'' and stylized as ''pop'n music'', is a music video game series in the Bemani series made by Konami. The games are known for their bright colors, upbeat songs, and cute cartoon character graphics. Originally released in 1998, the series has had 22 home releases in Japan as well as 30 mainline arcade versions. Gameplay Unlike most of Konami's Bemani series, the ''Pop'n Music'' interface is not designed to represent any actual musical instrument. Instead, it uses nine buttons, each three-and-a-half-inches in diameter, laid out in two rows (since the location test of Wonderland, a multitouch panel is added). Five buttons are the bottom row, the other four being the top. Like in most Bemani games, color-coded notes (in this game called "Pop-kun" (ポップ君) and anthropomorphized with faces) fall from the top of the screen in nine columns that correspond to the buttons. When a note reaches the red line at the bottom of the screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Chikuma
is a Japanese music composer and musician. She is most known for her various contributions to the ''Bomberman'' series, amongst other video game soundtracks. She has studied ney performance and Tunisian style composition under professors Slah Manaa, Ali Sriti and Zakia Hannashi at l'Institut Superieur de la Musique de Tunis, and studied riq under Haytham Farghaly of the same institute. She currently curates ''arab-music.com'', and has also made music for many T.V. shows, films and commercials. She is also a part-time lecturer at Kokushikan University, and has since performed many concerts with the classical Arabic music ensemble Le Club Bachraf, with oud player Yoshiko Matsuda and darbuka player Takako Nomiya. Musical style Her soundtrack for '' Bomberman Hero'' features drum and bass and acid techno styles, heavily incorporating fast breakbeats and sub-bass lines from the former genre. She has stated in interviews that she approaches her music with the philosophy of ‘art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Bomberman 5
is a video game released by Hudson Soft in early 1997. It is the fifth installment of the ''Super Bomberman'' series and the final ''Bomberman'' game to be released on the Super Famicom. The game was released in two variations: a standard cartridge and a gold cartridge, which was sold through CoroCoro Comic. The gold cartridge included extra maps in battle mode. Gameplay The single-player portion of ''Super Bomberman 5'' is nonlinear, giving players a choice of which level they'd like to complete next.''Super Bomberman 5'' 取扱説明書 (Super Famicom, JP) These phases are all based on the four previous ''Super Bomberman'' games for the Super Famicom, containing remixed music and the same sprites of the game, and the fifth phase is completely new. Depending on your path, you can accumulate 100% of completion. There are two endings available, depending on where you face the final boss. After finishing 100%, the game map is reset, which allows player to finish the maps 200%. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Bomberman 4
is an action-party video game developed by Produce and published by Hudson Soft. It was developed for the Super Famicom, released on April 26, 1996, in Japan. Part of the ''Bomberman'' franchise, it is the fourth installment of the '' Super Bomberman'' series. The story begins at an unknown time after '' Super Bomberman 3''. Bagular's brain escaped the explosion of his flying saucer and has summoned the Four Bomber Kings and Great Bomber to get revenge on White and Black Bomber. The two, along with other fellow Bombermen, are sent hurtling back in time to fight through different eras and ultimately stop Bagular. Gameplay Super Bomberman 4 is an action game in which players lay bombs to destroy enemies or other bombermen. Other than laying bombs, the game includes a number of power-ups, which allow players to increase the range of a bomb's explosion, punch or kick bombs already on the ground, or pick them up and throw them at another player. The explosions of the bombs can ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bomberman GB
''Bomberman GB'' is a sub-series of video games in Hudson Soft's ''Bomberman'' series released for the Game Boy. The first entry was ''Bomberman GB'', released as ''Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!'' in North America and Europe, later succeeded by ''Bomberman GB 2'', under the name ''Bomberman GB'' internationally, and ''Bomberman GB 3'', which was only released in Japan. Bomberman GB is the first game in the ''Bomberman GB'' series, developed and published by Hudson Soft in Japan, and published by Nintendo in North America and Europe under the name ''Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!''. It was released on August 10, 1994 in Japan and later in November 1994 in North America, and on June 29, 1995 in Europe. In ''Bomberman GB'', White Bomberman is out riding on his motorcycle, when he is suddenly ambushed by Black Bomberman and his gang, who rough him up and steal all of his power-up items. Now White Bomberman must chase them down to get them back! In ''Wario Blast: Featuring Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Featuring Bomberman!
The term guest appearance generally denotes the appearance of a guest in an artistic or pop-culture setting. The guests themselves (referred to as guest artists, featured artists, guest stars, or guest fighters, depending on context), are distinguished from the other real artists or fictional characters by not being part of or fitting the usual theme of the cast. They are usually recognisable on their own and only appear once or rarely within that cast. By medium Show business In show business, a guest appearance is the participation of an outsider performer (such as a musician or actor) in an event such as a music record or concert, show, etc., when the performer does not belong to the regular band, cast, or other performing group. In music, such an outside performer is often referred to as a guest artist. Classical performance arts Guest appearances have been known in theatre, ballet, and classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |