On the plus side, Disney hired famous Japanese pop idol group AKB48 to do the Sugar Rush theme song which I found hilarious (the fact that they got an actual
Japanese pop group to do the song, even more than the song itself).
On start - up, the player is greeted with a guitar riff heavy face - melter intro song written by R.O.N. and performed by Matsunaga of
the Japanese pop group StylipS.
The other, AKB1 / 48: Idol to Guam to Koishitara..., the dating simulation that lets you canoodle with one of the girls from
Japanese pop group AKB48, also did quite well, selling more than 236,000 copies to PSP owners in search of romance.
Not exact matches
It features members of Nogizaka46, the
Japanese pop idol
group behind Naruto Shippuden 14 (the current opening).
His major
group exhibitions include «TOKYO
POP» (Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, 1996), «The Japanese Experience — Inevitable» (Ursula Blickle Stiftung Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, 2002; traveled to Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria in 2004), «POPjack: Warhol to Murakami» (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, 2002), «Japan Pop» (Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, 2005), «Portrait Session» (NADiff, Tokyo / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2007) and «Pathos and Small Narratives» (Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 201
POP» (Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, 1996), «The
Japanese Experience — Inevitable» (Ursula Blickle Stiftung Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, 2002; traveled to Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria in 2004), «POPjack: Warhol to Murakami» (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, 2002), «Japan
Pop» (Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, 2005), «Portrait Session» (NADiff, Tokyo / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2007) and «Pathos and Small Narratives» (Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 201
Pop» (Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, 2005), «Portrait Session» (NADiff, Tokyo / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2007) and «Pathos and Small Narratives» (Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 2011).
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous
group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (
Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional
Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the
Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A
group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
The exhibition includes a
group of Mr.'s new works that take kawaii (cute)
Japanese Pop art to a new dimension, known as moe (which literally means budding).
Japanese pop / metal
group Babymetal have won fans around the world with their music videos and live shows.
Kasotsuka Shojo, which means «Virtual Currency Girls» in
Japanese, was recently launched by
Japanese entertainment company Cinderella Academy, which also manages several other popular J -
pop groups.
A new music
group has captivated the
Japanese Pop scene, and they're capitalizing on cryptocurrency's rising popularity in Japan to step out into the spotlight.