the gothic lolita rock Queen~

~***NANA KITADE***~



Name: 北出菜奈 (Kitade Nana, 北出菜奈?)
Bloodtype: O
Height: 160 cm / 5'3"
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Her popularity is aided by her subscription to Gothic Lolita fashion, something she has in common with many of her fans.
She writes the lyrics for all of her music. Susumu Nishikawa and Akimitsu Homma deal with almost all composition of her music.
The song "pureness" was featured as the first ending theme to the Shounen anime Beet the Vandel Buster (Bouken'ou Beet).
The song "Kesenai Tsumi" was featured as the first ending for the anime Fullmetal Alchemist Hagane no Renkinjutsushi
The song "Kibou No Kakera" is the first opening theme for the anime Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z.



Nana Kitade (北出 菜奈, Kitade Nana?, born May 2, 1987 in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture) is a Japanese pop singer. She started learning the piano at 3, wrote her own lyrics at 12, and started on the guitar at 14. After junior high, she went to Tokyo to pursue her dreams in singing.

In 2002, she passed a demonstration tape examination at the Sony Music audition of 40,000 application totals. From there, she was signed to SME Records Inc., and in October, she recorded her first single Kesenai Tsumi (Inerasable Sin), which was used for the ending theme of the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist. By August 2005, her first album 18-eighteen was released. She held her first official concert after that.

Later came the fashion line of her signature Gothic Lolita look called Moon King. She soon became a fashion icon for many teenage girls.[1]


2003
October 29 - Debuted with the single Kesenai Tsumi, which was used as the 1st ending song for the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist.
November 1 - Appeared on the NHK Television program pop-jam.

[edit] 2004
July 25 - First national in store tour was performed until August 15. (7 cities, 8 public performances)

[edit] 2005
June 1 - 5th single KISS or KISS was released. It was the theme song of the Nippon Television drama anego. It ranked 11th place on the weekly Oricon chart.
July 20 - 6th single Kanashimi no Kizu was released. It was the theme song of PS2 game Fullmetal Alchemist 3 -Kami wo Tsugu Shoujo-. It ranked 29th on the weekly Oricon chart.
August 1 - Participated in the Hong Kong Comic Festival 2005. She was the first Japanese person to participate in the festival.
August 24 - 1st Album 18-eighteen- was released. It ranked 16th place on the Oricon chart. Track 6, Alice was used as the image song for the movie Shinku.
August 28 - Participated in Bokura no Ongaku LIVE on the Odaiba Bouken'ou specially installed stage. A part of this was shown to the public on Bokura no Ongaku 2
September 7 - Held her first one-man live show, which was entitled Nana Kitade Live Showcase '18-eighteen-', in SHIBUYA-AX.
December 7 - "NANA KITADE-18MOVIES-" DVD released. The DVD consists of all her music videos up until this point, clips from her one-man live show, commercials for her releases, and a studio recording of Kesenai Tsumi.

[edit] 2006
June 6 - American anime convention Otakon announced that she would be a musical guest for Otakon 2006 in August.
August 2 - Made an instore performance at San Francisco's Virgin Megastore. She did her first US radio interview with eigoMANGA's radio program, Shibuya Airwaves.
August 4 - Made her first East Coast performance at the Ram's Head Live at Otakon.
December 6 - 2nd album "I scream" was released in Japan.

Anime you should be watching: Maria sama ga miteru

this is one of my favorite anime's of all time. Maria sama ga miteru " the virgin mary is watching over us". is such a cute shoujo ai story that anyone would enjoy~



Genre: shoujo ai
date released 200-present
language- japanese (has also been dubbed to spanish and german)
fun fact: Spain was the first country to dubbed the anime and air it besides Japan.



History before the anime
In February 1997, Oyuki Konno, who was already an established author, (having won prizes in 1993 for the series of novels Yume no Miya) published in Cobalt magazine a short story called Maria-sama ga Miteru, that told of the experiences of preparatory students in an austere, elegant school called Lillian School for Young Ladies. The success of this story in the magazine inspired Konno to turn the story into a series of novels.

Thus, on May 10, 1998, the first volume of Maria-sama ga Miteru was published, with additional illustrations from Hibiki Reine, an artist who specializes in shojo. This volume is the true beginning of the Maria-sama ga Miteru story. (The short story of 1997 was republished in the ninth volume, in 2001.)

In February 2003, with already more than twelve volumes published, Oyuki began to publish short stories in Cobalt Magazine, as well as continuing work on the light novels. Towards the end of 2003, the adaptation of the novel series to anime was announced - a season of thirteen episodes to run from January until March 2004, produced by Studio Deen; also, in February 2004 a manga adaptation was to be launched, drawn by Satoru Nagasawa. Given the success of the first season of the series, and the fact that this season only covered to the sixth volume, it was decided to launch, between July and September of that same year, the second season of anime - ~Haru~, with thirteen episodes and with the same personnel that worked in the first season. Haru would cover to volume eleven of the novels.

Additionally in 2004, there began to be a more commercial character to the series with the publication of drama CDs of the series, using as voices the same voice actors of the anime series. Also in 2004, an omake was made that appeared in the DVD of the anime series, called Maria-sama ni wa Naisho マリア様にはないしょ Keep it secret from the Virgin Mary!). Maria-sama ni wa Naisho was a brief animated parody of the anime series, which were mostly faked "outtakes". Additionally in 2004 the OSTs of the two seasons were published with the aid of musical duo ALI PROJECT.

During 2005, there was not another anime series. Nevertheless, more volumes of novels, more short stories, CD dramas and new manga volumes continued to be released. In that year there were more releases of commercial products such as three CDs of Image Albums and various merchandise. Towards the end of 2005, "Project Maria 2006" was announced, and a publicity campaign was run to publicise the new series to come in 2006. Thus, at the beginning of 2006, Internet radio shows began starring the voice actors of the anime series, commenting with news of the series and other funny situations out of the main plot of the novel. In August 2006, the third anime series was announced to be presented in OVA format. It would take place just after the second season, and with the same voice actors. The OVA series will be aired in Japan between November 2006 and July 2007.

In May 2006 it was announced officially that the anime series had been licensed in Spain for dubbing, by Jonu Media. The manga has been licensed and officially translated in Germany, under the name Rosen unter Marias Obhut.[3] This translates to "Roses under Mary's care", and the Latin names for the Roses are removed, in favour of simply using the colour of the rose. (See The Yamayurikai.) The light novel series is also being translated into German under the same name.[4]

The complete series, including each season, has been translated and dubbed into English for broadcast across its English language networks across Southeast Asia by the anime satellite TV network Animax from March 2007, being the series' first English language television premiere.[5] Animax have also aired the series across its networks in Hong Kong and other regions.




Story of the Soeurs~~
The story revolves around the students of the Lillian Catholic school for girls (私立リリアン女学園, Shiritsu Ririan Jogakuen?).

The story of Maria-sama ga Miteru can be considered character-driven, focusing on interactions between the characters rather than any sort of ongoing plot or goal to attain. One reviewer has even called it "pure shoujo" due to its character-driven storylines.[6] One notable aspect is the occasional use of French (it is in fact subtitled La Vierge Marie vous regarde, "The Virgin Mary is watching you"), although one need not be fluent in French to understand the story.

The school, which is depicted as having been founded in 1902 in Musashino, Tokyo, is depicted as an elegant, clean, pure and very prestigious school. Among the facilities of Lillian, aside from the classrooms, there is a church, a greenhouse, a kendo dojo, an auditorium, a park, and the Mansion of the Roses, where the Yamayurikai meet. The students are very respectable and in good standing. The uniform at the school is a long, dark green sailor fuku with a white collar.

The Lillian Girls' School is based on a real school in Nishi-tokyo known as the Musashino Joshi Gakuin (Musashino School for Girls). Although it is a private school, it is not a Catholic but a Buddhist school. The author Konno Oyuki graduated from a Catholic kindergarten and Musashino Joshi-Gakuin. It is not strange for most Japanese if a person has gone to schools of different religions. The Lillian Girls school uses the lily symbolism as the white lily is the flower of the Virgin Mary. The white lily is a Christian symbol of virginity and purity, as well as a minor reference to Yuri.

At Lillian Girls school, there is a tradition known as the Soeur System (sœur being French for "sister"), in which a second- or third-year student, the grande sœur ("big sister"), will give her rosary to a junior student, the petite sœur ("little sister"), and promise to look after them and guide them. One reviewer has said that this 'gratuitous' use of French titles is distracting.[7] At the start of the story, new first-year student Yumi Fukuzawa is suddenly approached by the seemingly-cold second-year student Sachiko Ogasawara to be her petite sœur.

The story often has some strong elements of romance between female characters; the use of lilies reinforces this in subtext, as do the names of the student council and of the school itself.[7] (See the etymology of yuri for details.) It is only explicit about this sort of relationship once (in flashback), but many of the sisters have relationships that go beyond simple friendship — though not quite so far as to suggest romance between any of the primary characters (although the omake on the anime series' DVD release does, if only in jest). Nonetheless, this has not stopped fans of the show and dōjinshi creators from attempting to elaborate on these relationships as such: frequently, any artwork of the series is often placed in the yuri sections of image boards. The Marimite novels, anime and manga series have an enormous yuri fandom as well.

The art design of the anime series is very flowing and sometimes of questionable quality.[6][7] The color palette is significantly muted, taking advantage of the lesser palettes of fall and winter (such as yellowing ginkgo leaves and snow on the ground) to present a very minimal palette of colors. This is in sharp contrast to many other anime titles, like the bright and vivid Revolutionary Girl Utena, a show that Marimite is frequently compared and contrasted to because of their similar elegant natures revolving around school relationships. Another anime that Marimite is compared to is Oniisama e..., but Marimite is much less dramatic.[8] One reviewer has suggested that Maria-sama ga Miteru's "reduced capacity for epic drama" is due to the lack of malicious characters.[6] Newer anime titles that Marimite is compared to include Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru and Strawberry Panic!.[9][10]


The musical choices of Maria-sama ga Miteru are generally classical music -inspired.[6][7] A song that is often referred to in the anime is Maria-sama no kokoro, or "The Virgin Mary's Heart". In the context of the series, Maria-sama no kokoro is a children’s song taught to the students at Lillian

credits 2 wikipedia.com for the awesome review!!
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