#Takako Shimazu

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Royal Birthdays for today, March 2nd:

Robert II, King of Scots, 1316

Margaret of Mosbach, Countess Palatine, 1432

Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Princess Napoleon, 1843

Takako Shimazu, Japanese Royal, 1939

Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne, 2016

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Takako, Princess Suga (later Mrs. Shimazu) skiing in Shiga Kogen, Japan, 1960

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“MA・WA・LE・MI・GI“ - Magical Angel Creamy Mami Tribute Album - Creamy Mami & Megumi Duet

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"Magical Angel Creamy Mami" Returns for Christmas Live Talk Event

Blue Moon, the official fan club of voice actress / singer Saeko Shimazu, is sponsoring a special live event in Tokyo that will feature the original cast of the classic magical girl TV anime Magical Angel Creamy Mami reprising their roles in an original voice drama performance.

    The event, which is entitled "Christmas Is! Magical Angel Creamy Mami", will be held at 3:00 PM in the Cherry Blossom Space on the 2nd floor of the Courtyard by Marriott Tokyo Ginza Hotel in Ginza, Chūō Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Guests for the event include:

  Saeko Shimazu (the voice or Megumi Ayase)

Takako Ōta (the voice of Yū Morisawa / Creamy Mami)

Yū Mizushima (the voice of Toshio Ōtomo)

Tetsuya Iwanaga.

Rumi Kasahara.

    In addition to the live voice drama recital, there will also be a special live talk event (exclusively for Blue Moon fan club members) as well as a sales corner with original character goods. Tickets to the "Christmas Is! Magical Angel Creamy Mami" event cost 7000 yen ($63.63 US).

  Sources:

Ota-suke

Saeko Shimazu official blog

  Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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Factbox: Commoners who have married into royal families

LONDON (Reuters) – In just over three weeks, U.S. actress Meghan Markle will join a select group of “commoners” to marry into a royal family when she weds Britain’s Prince Harry at Windsor Castle.

Mugs commemorating the wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are seen at the Prince William Pottery Company in Liverpool, Britain April 23, 2018. Picture taken April 23, 2018. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Markle, 36, follows the likes of Kate Middleton, who married Harry’s elder brother William in 2011, and another American actress Grace Kelly who gave up her Hollywood career to become wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Here are some recent marriages involving royals and commoners:

GRACE KELLY AND PRINCE RAINIER

Hollywood icon Grace Kelly, star of films such as “To Catch a Thief” and “Dial M for Murder”, retired from her acting career to marry Rainier, the sovereign of the principality, on April 18, 1956 after the pair met at the Cannes Film Festival a year earlier.

Kelly died in a car crash in 1982 and Rainier died in 2005.

PRINCESS TAKAKO SUGA AND HISANAGA SHIMAZU

Japan’s Princess Takako Suga, the youngest daughter of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, married financial analyst Hisanaga Shimazu in Tokyo in 1960.

She gave up her imperial title and relinquished her status to be a commoner, adopting her husband’s name to become Takako Shimazu.

HOPE COOKE AND PALDEN THONDUP NAMGYAL

American socialite Hope Cooke married Palden Thondup Namgyal, Crown Prince of Sikkim, on March 20, 1963. She went on a summer trip to India and met him in 1959 in the lounge of the Windamere Hotel in Darjeeling. He was a recent widower with two sons and a daughter and was nearly twice Cooke’s age.

She renounced her American citizenship after the marriage and Namgyal later ceased to be king after the region was absorbed as a state of India in 1975.

SONJA HARALDSEN AND NORWAY’S CROWN PRINCE HARALD

Sonja Haraldsen dated then-Crown Prince Harald of Norway for years before he told his father King Olav V he would never marry anyone but her, putting the throne in jeopardy as Harald was the sole heir.

They wed on Aug. 29, 1968, after King Olaf consulted the government and allowed the engagement.

FILE PHOTO: Spain’s King Felipe, Queen Letizia, Princess Leonor and Princess Sofia visit the village of Soller in the island of Mallorca, Spain, August 6, 2017. REUTERS/Enrique Calvo/File Photo

SILVIA RENATE SOMMERLATH AND SWEDEN’S CARL GUSTAF

Queen Silvia of Sweden was working as an educational host at the 1972 Olympics in Munich when she met the then-Crown Prince Carl Gustaf. She married the now King on June 19, 1976.

RANIA Al-YASSIN AND JORDAN’S CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH

Doctor’s daughter Rania Al-Yassin, born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, met Jordan’s Crown Prince Abdullah II at a dinner party. She studied in Cairo, and worked for Citibank and Apple in Jordan. The couple married in 1993 and Abdullah assumed the throne in 1999.

MASENATE MOHATO SEEISO AND KING LETSIE OF LESOTHO

Masenate Mohato Seeiso was the first commoner to marry into the Royal Family of Lesotho. She married King Letsie III in Maseru on Feb. 18, 2000.

METTE-MARIT TJESSEM HOIBY AND NORWAY’S CROWN PRINCE HAAKON

Norwegian commoner and single mother, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, married Crown Prince Haakon of Norway on Aug. 25, 2001. They had met at a music festival in the late 1990s.

MAXIMA ZORREGUIETA AND DUTCH CROWN PRINCE WILLEM-ALEXANDER

Maxima Zorreguieta, a former investment banker from Argentina, met Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander in April 1999 in Seville, Spain, during the city’s Spring Fair. Her father had served as Argentina’s Minister of Agriculture during the violent regime of General Jorge Rafael Videla.

They married on Feb. 2, 2002, and became King and Queen of the Netherlands in 2013 after Willem-Alexander’s mother Queen Beatrix abdicated. Maxima was the first Dutch queen consort since 1890.

MARY DONALDSON AND DENMARK’S PRINCE FREDERIK

Australian Mary Donaldson met Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark at the Slip Inn during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. They married in Copenhagen on May 14, 2014.

LETIZIA ORTIZ ROCASOLANO AND SPAIN’S PRINCE FELIPE

Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was a divorced journalist and well-known news anchor before marrying Spain’s Prince Felipe on May 22, 2004. She became Spain’s first commoner queen in June, 2014, when her husband was sworn in as king.

Slideshow (3 Images)

Ortiz, daughter of a journalist and a nurse and the granddaughter of a taxi-driver, dated Felipe in secret before their engagement was announced in November 2003. They met at a dinner organized by a journalist friend.

DENMARK’S PRINCE JOACHIM AND MARIE AGATHE ODILE CAVALLIER

Prince Joachim, fourth-in-line to the Danish throne, met French-born Marie Agathe Odile Cavallier at a private hunt in 2002. In 2005, Joachim divorced his Hong Kong-born wife Alexandra, with whom he has two sons, by mutual consent.

The prince proposed to Cavallier while they were on vacation in Turkey, and the pair married in May 2008, at a tradition-steeped ceremony in an ancient church in the tiny village of Moegeltoender. Cavallier became known as Her Royal Highness Princess Marie.

TATIANA BLATNIK AND GREEK PRINCE NIKOLAOS

Tatiana Blatnik, born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in Switzerland, was an event planner for Diane von Furstenberg before marrying Prince Nikolaos, son of Greece’s deposed King Constantine, in 2010.

The couple married in a lavish wedding ceremony on the island of Spetses.

OLYMPIAN CHARLENE WITTSTOCK AND MONACO’S PRINCE ALBERT

Charlene Lynette Wittstock was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in January 1978. She competed for South Africa at the 2000 Olympics before marrying Prince Albert II of Monaco on July 1, 2011.

The couple began dating in 2006 and married in an opulent ceremony in Monte Carlo attended by European royalty and the international elite. Prince Albert is the son of Grace Kelly.

JETSUN PEMA AND KING JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK

Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck married young commoner Jetsun Pema in October 2011.

Jetsun Pema was just 21, when she married the 31-year-old Oxford University-educated king. She is viewed as a style icon across much of Asia and gave birth to their first son, the crown prince, in February 2016.

SOFIA HELLQVIST AND SWEDISH PRINCE CARL PHILLIP

Sofia Hellqvist was a model and reality TV star before she became Princess of Sweden when she married Prince Carl Phillip on June 13, 2015

KATE MIDDLETON AND PRINCE WILLIAM

Kate Middleton, whose father is a pilot and mother an air stewardess who later set up a mail order business, met Britain’s Prince William while at St Andrews University in Scotland in 2001. They married on April 29, 2011, with Kate becoming the first commoner in more than 350 years to wed a prince in such close proximity to the British throne.

Compiled by Emily G. Roe; editing by Stephen Addison

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Factbox: Commoners who have married into royal families

LONDON (Reuters) – In just over three weeks, U.S. actress Meghan Markle will join a select group of “commoners” to marry into a royal family when she weds Britain’s Prince Harry at Windsor Castle.

Mugs commemorating the wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are seen at the Prince William Pottery Company in Liverpool, Britain April 23, 2018. Picture taken April 23, 2018. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Markle, 36, follows the likes of Kate Middleton, who married Harry’s elder brother William in 2011, and another American actress Grace Kelly who gave up her Hollywood career to become wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Here are some recent marriages involving royals and commoners:

GRACE KELLY AND PRINCE RAINIER

Hollywood icon Grace Kelly, star of films such as “To Catch a Thief” and “Dial M for Murder”, retired from her acting career to marry Rainier, the sovereign of the principality, on April 18, 1956 after the pair met at the Cannes Film Festival a year earlier.

Kelly died in a car crash in 1982 and Rainier died in 2005.

PRINCESS TAKAKO SUGA AND HISANAGA SHIMAZU

Japan’s Princess Takako Suga, the youngest daughter of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, married financial analyst Hisanaga Shimazu in Tokyo in 1960.

She gave up her imperial title and relinquished her status to be a commoner, adopting her husband’s name to become Takako Shimazu.

HOPE COOKE AND PALDEN THONDUP NAMGYAL

American socialite Hope Cooke married Palden Thondup Namgyal, Crown Prince of Sikkim, on March 20, 1963. She went on a summer trip to India and met him in 1959 in the lounge of the Windamere Hotel in Darjeeling. He was a recent widower with two sons and a daughter and was nearly twice Cooke’s age.

She renounced her American citizenship after the marriage and Namgyal later ceased to be king after the region was absorbed as a state of India in 1975.

SONJA HARALDSEN AND NORWAY’S CROWN PRINCE HARALD

Sonja Haraldsen dated then-Crown Prince Harald of Norway for years before he told his father King Olav V he would never marry anyone but her, putting the throne in jeopardy as Harald was the sole heir.

They wed on Aug. 29, 1968, after King Olaf consulted the government and allowed the engagement.

FILE PHOTO: Spain’s King Felipe, Queen Letizia, Princess Leonor and Princess Sofia visit the village of Soller in the island of Mallorca, Spain, August 6, 2017. REUTERS/Enrique Calvo/File Photo

SILVIA RENATE SOMMERLATH AND SWEDEN’S CARL GUSTAF

Queen Silvia of Sweden was working as an educational host at the 1972 Olympics in Munich when she met the then-Crown Prince Carl Gustaf. She married the now King on June 19, 1976.

RANIA Al-YASSIN AND JORDAN’S CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH

Doctor’s daughter Rania Al-Yassin, born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, met Jordan’s Crown Prince Abdullah II at a dinner party. She studied in Cairo, and worked for Citibank and Apple in Jordan. The couple married in 1993 and Abdullah assumed the throne in 1999.

MASENATE MOHATO SEEISO AND KING LETSIE OF LESOTHO

Masenate Mohato Seeiso was the first commoner to marry into the Royal Family of Lesotho. She married King Letsie III in Maseru on Feb. 18, 2000.

METTE-MARIT TJESSEM HOIBY AND NORWAY’S CROWN PRINCE HAAKON

Norwegian commoner and single mother, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, married Crown Prince Haakon of Norway on Aug. 25, 2001. They had met at a music festival in the late 1990s.

MAXIMA ZORREGUIETA AND DUTCH CROWN PRINCE WILLEM-ALEXANDER

Maxima Zorreguieta, a former investment banker from Argentina, met Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander in April 1999 in Seville, Spain, during the city’s Spring Fair. Her father had served as Argentina’s Minister of Agriculture during the violent regime of General Jorge Rafael Videla.

They married on Feb. 2, 2002, and became King and Queen of the Netherlands in 2013 after Willem-Alexander’s mother Queen Beatrix abdicated. Maxima was the first Dutch queen consort since 1890.

MARY DONALDSON AND DENMARK’S PRINCE FREDERIK

Australian Mary Donaldson met Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark at the Slip Inn during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. They married in Copenhagen on May 14, 2014.

LETIZIA ORTIZ ROCASOLANO AND SPAIN’S PRINCE FELIPE

Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was a divorced journalist and well-known news anchor before marrying Spain’s Prince Felipe on May 22, 2004. She became Spain’s first commoner queen in June, 2014, when her husband was sworn in as king.

Slideshow (3 Images)

Ortiz, daughter of a journalist and a nurse and the granddaughter of a taxi-driver, dated Felipe in secret before their engagement was announced in November 2003. They met at a dinner organized by a journalist friend.

DENMARK’S PRINCE JOACHIM AND MARIE AGATHE ODILE CAVALLIER

Prince Joachim, fourth-in-line to the Danish throne, met French-born Marie Agathe Odile Cavallier at a private hunt in 2002. In 2005, Joachim divorced his Hong Kong-born wife Alexandra, with whom he has two sons, by mutual consent.

The prince proposed to Cavallier while they were on vacation in Turkey, and the pair married in May 2008, at a tradition-steeped ceremony in an ancient church in the tiny village of Moegeltoender. Cavallier became known as Her Royal Highness Princess Marie.

TATIANA BLATNIK AND GREEK PRINCE NIKOLAOS

Tatiana Blatnik, born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in Switzerland, was an event planner for Diane von Furstenberg before marrying Prince Nikolaos, son of Greece’s deposed King Constantine, in 2010.

The couple married in a lavish wedding ceremony on the island of Spetses.

OLYMPIAN CHARLENE WITTSTOCK AND MONACO’S PRINCE ALBERT

Charlene Lynette Wittstock was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in January 1978. She competed for South Africa at the 2000 Olympics before marrying Prince Albert II of Monaco on July 1, 2011.

The couple began dating in 2006 and married in an opulent ceremony in Monte Carlo attended by European royalty and the international elite. Prince Albert is the son of Grace Kelly.

JETSUN PEMA AND KING JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK

Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck married young commoner Jetsun Pema in October 2011.

Jetsun Pema was just 21, when she married the 31-year-old Oxford University-educated king. She is viewed as a style icon across much of Asia and gave birth to their first son, the crown prince, in February 2016.

SOFIA HELLQVIST AND SWEDISH PRINCE CARL PHILLIP

Sofia Hellqvist was a model and reality TV star before she became Princess of Sweden when she married Prince Carl Phillip on June 13, 2015

KATE MIDDLETON AND PRINCE WILLIAM

Kate Middleton, whose father is a pilot and mother an air stewardess who later set up a mail order business, met Britain’s Prince William while at St Andrews University in Scotland in 2001. They married on April 29, 2011, with Kate becoming the first commoner in more than 350 years to wed a prince in such close proximity to the British throne.

Compiled by Emily G. Roe; editing by Stephen Addison

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Royal Birthdays for today, March 1st:

Robert II, King of Scots, 1316

Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Princess Napoleon, 1843

Takako Shimazu, Japanese Royal, 1939

Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne, 2016

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Anime Film Festival Tokyo 2018 Announces Its Screening Lineup

The Executive Committee of Anime Film Festival Tokyo announced that this year's event is scheduled to be held in Shinjuku, Tokyo, from October 6 to 22, with a list of its first screening lineup. More titles will be added at a later date. The organization was established last year as part of The Association of Japanese Animations' Anime Next 100 project to celebrate the 100-year history of Japanese animation since 1917.

  Last year's first event was held in the same area on October 13, 14 and 15, 2017 and attracted about 100,000 visitors. Thanks to its huge success, the second event's period is extended to 18 days from three days. In addition to screenings of the latest and classic anime, the event also includes anime song live concerts, collaboration cafes, stamp rally, and original merchandise shops. Advance entries for the tickets will be accepted on the festival's official website from August 11 (regular: 3,000 yen/all night: 4,500 yen).  

   『アニメフィルムフェスティバル東京2018』今年も開催決定！＼(^o^)／ 昨年よりもパワーアップして新宿の街を盛り上げます！ 期間：2018年10月6日（土）～10月22日（月） 詳しくはこちら↓ https://t.co/1bJcCKLxSf ぞくぞく情報が公開されていきますのでお見逃しなく！！！#AFFT2018

— AFFT (@afft_info) 2018年7月24日

    Screening schedule: -

    [Toho Cinemas Shinjuku]

 October 7: "BANANA FISH" (all night)

 October 10: "Today's Menu for the Emiya Family" (regular)

 October 20: TV series "Detective Conan: Hiiro series" (regular)

 October 20: TV series "Detective Conan: Toru Amuro selection" (all night)

     with Minami Takayama (Conan Edogawa), Toru Furuya (Toru Amuro)

    [Shunjuku Wald 9]

 October 6: "PreCure All Stars DX series" (all night)

 October 7: "Revolutionary Girl Utena" (all night)

     with Kunihiko Ikuhara (director), Chiho Saito (original story, manga illustrator)

 October 12: "Ojamajo Doremi" TV series (regular)

     with TV anime staff

 October 12: "PreCure All Stars New Stage series" (all night)

 October 13: "City Hunter" (regular)

 October 13: "Aho-Girl" (all night)

     with Hiroyuki (manga author), Tetsuya Fujikawa (Kodansha editor)

 October 19: "Ojamajo Doremi ~ from a poitview of films" (regular)

     with Hiromi Seki (producer)

    [Shinjuku Piccadilly]

 October 6: "Mobile Suit Gundam UC" (regular - night)

 October 12: "Mobile Suit Gundam F91" (regular - night)

 October 13: "Hinomaru Zumou" (regular - night)

     with Atsushi Abe (Hinomaru Ushio), Fukushi Ochiai (Shinya Ozeki), Shunsuke Tekeuchi (Sousuke Kuze),

     Takuto Yoshinaga (Shun Kariya)

 October 20: "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack" (regular - night)

    [K's cinema]

 October 20: "Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san" (regular - night)

     with Mamoru Kobe (director)

    [CineMart Shinjuku]

 October 7: "Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel" 35th anniversary event screening

     with Yuji Nunokawa (supreme counsel of Pierrot), Takako Ohta (Yu Morisawa & Creamy Mami),

     Yu Mizushima (Toshio Otomo), Saeko Shimazu (Megumi Ayase)

  ＊Anime Heritage screening program

 October 19: "Anne of Green Gables: Road to Green Gables" (regular - night)

     with Eiko Yamada (Anne Shirley), Gara Takashima (Diana Barry)

    [Kadokawa Cineme Shinjuku]

 October 13: "Overlord III" (all night)

     with Yuta Hattori (Madhouse producer), Nirifumi Kikushima (KADOKAWA)

    [Theater Shinjuku]

 October 20: "Betterman" (all night)

     with Yoshitomo Yonetani (director), Hiroshi Yamaguchi (main writer), Yuichiro Takeda (writer),

     Hiroaki Kitajima (writer), Kenji Ando (designer), Junko Iwao (Sakura)

    [Shinjuku Cinema Qualite]

     October 19: "Shippu! Iron Leaguer: Ginhikari no Hata no Shita ni" (regular- night)

      Anime Film Festival Tokyo Executive Committee Partner Companies:

   ASATSU-DK

 Aniplex

 Avex Pictures

 Sunrise

 Toei Animation

 TMS Entertainment

 Nippon Animation

 Pierrot

    Source: Anime Film Festival Tokyo Executive Committee press release

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com