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"Heaven" ended up selling over 325,000 copies, making it Hamasaki's second highest-selling single of 2005 as well as her last single to date that has sold over 300,000 physical copies. "Heaven" was used as the theme of the Japanese film Shinobi Heart Under Blade , while "Will" was used in a television commercial for Panasonic .
Another video game franchise with a gyaru character is the Dragon Quest series. On the Nintendo DS game Dragon Quest IX there is a gyaru as the fairy character, Sandy. [307] The video-game company, Nintendo did not only cater to gyaru by the use of video-game promotions with gyaru or video games related to the gyaru subculture.
"Koakuma Heaven" (小悪魔ヘヴン, Koakuma Hevun) is the thirty-first single by Japanese musical artist Gackt, released on June 10, 2009. [1] This single was the first of four singles of the countdown to Gackt's 10th anniversary as a solo artist. [2] This single was titled The 1st Heaven. Each of the countdown singles were scheduled to be ...
Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ, Hamasaki Ayumi, born October 2, 1978) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and producer. Nicknamed the "Empress of Pop" on account of her influence throughout Asia, she is widely recognized for her versatile music production, songwriting, and live performances.
In the original Japanese title, dosanko is a word for a breed of pony native to Hokkaido, which was later extended to mean also "Hokkaido-raised" when referring to people, gyaru refers to a member of the gal subculture, namara is a Hokkaido dialect word meaning "very" or "super", [15] and menkoi is Hokkaido dialect for "cute" or "adorable."
The term is not used by the girls it refers to. They call themselves gyaru (ギャル), [7] a Japanese pronunciation of the English word "gal". [6] The term gyaru was first popularized in 1972 by a television ad for a brand of jeans. [8] In the 1980s, a gyaru was a fashionably dressed woman. [8]
Koakuma Ageha (小悪魔ageha, lit."Little-devil (or demon) Swallowtail [butterfly] " [3]) is a Japanese magazine that introduces the latest fashion and lifestyle trends popular among hostesses that is published twice a year, with the main target audience being women in their teens to 20s.
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