Funny micro work request

Japanese microwork platform Crowdworks had a funny work request.

"Buy Anpan for me
Budget:10,000 yen
Delivery day: April 21
Please buy Anpan and send to my home. I show the concrete delivery place at the time of item establishment. The purchase price for Anpan, transportation expenses and a fee are included in a budget. I welcome the optional suggestion including milk matching Anpan. The number and the brand choice of Anpan entrust you. Please adhere rigidly to 12:00 from 11:00 a.m. at delivery time."

Anpan is a Japanese sweet bun most commonly filled with red beans(Azuki beans) jam.

via Wiki

The budget for such work contents is 10,000 yen?(about 123USD) It's good work! :) By the way, this item was concluded.

Pigg Life gives the 860,000 dollars for stricken area of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Pigg Life, the farming social game of Japanese popular virtual world Ameba Pigg collected donations more than 70 million yen.

Pigg Life carried out the charity program with Ryuuichi Sakamoto from January to April.
See also:
PiggLife does charity collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto
PiggLife collected 50 million yen or more donation in less than one month
PiggLife collected 8 million yen in February

They sold virtual cedar and manure for charity. 173,322 people joined in this charity program, and 300,359 cedars were planted. The collected donation is spent for the construction of the temporary house of the stricken area.

Disney is active in virtual business in Japan

DeNA and Disney agree to bring mobile social games worldwide the end of last month.
via http://dena.jp/intl/press/press-releases/dena-and-disney-agree-to-bring-mobile-social-games-worldwide/

However, that's nothing new. Walt Disney Japan was always aggressive in virtual worlds and a social game. Disney is popular among not only children but also adults in Japan. Therefore the Walt Disney Japan provided a license for a virtual goods. Ameba Pigg is the one of example.

They started a tie-up quest with Disney in farming game Pigg Life. It is the second in this that they carry out Disney quest(First is here).

We can grow the magical farm products and can cook the Mickey Mouse dishes. When we achieve a quest, we got special virtual goods of Disney.

Japanese Disney fans are lucky :)

Go hentai go! Japan has a porn social game platform

There are some of people who say that Japanese social game market is red ocean. However, this is a true start.

The social game platform specialized in porn "moeG" opened yesterday. The Japanese porn social game platform is the 2nd in this(1st is DMM.com mobile). moeG provides R-18 social games for adult.

Furthermore, it implement the avatar system and the general social network service function. The avatar design is Manga-style, but has much sexual virtual goods. Of course, only people 18 years or older can log in here. We can still use this only in a future phone, but become able to use smartphone soon.

I think that the social game platform may be subdivided. This is the beginning.

See also:
moeG: Japan Gets Yet Another Porn Social Gaming Platform [Social Games]

The Japanese old woman who endured a storm became the topic in huge BBS 2Channel

An intense storm attacked whole Japan  the day before yesterday and yesterday. And a certain image became the topic in Japanese huge BBS  2channel.

This is a capture image of the news programs. An old woman walks in a storm. Her body is driven by a storm and inclines. This storm had power more than typhoon. Many 2 Channel's users commented for this image with "Awesome! :D".

And a user said, "Give this image the speed". This comment attached fire to many users' creation volition.

Many images were made as well as these, but all these were uploaded on 1 day. Probably she will not know herself having become famous in the Internet.

via http://blog.livedoor.jp/himasoku123/archives/51707843.html

Doraemon became mobile social game in Mobage at last

Doraemon is one of the most famous Japanese characters. He became the mobile social game in Mobage at last.

The name is "Doraemon Hokkorina". this is web browser application game, and language support is only Japanese.

Doraemon Hokkorina is a funny game. We plant the "seed of the gadgets" in the vacant land and harvest various gadgets. It is very surreal! :) The basics of this game is Mobage's popular farming social game "Nouen Hokkorina". It's very popular with women. So, Doraemon Hokkorina is popular among women, too.

We fulfill every wish of various characters with the gadgets which we harvested with Doraemon. When we grant many wishes, Doraemon's  popularity level rises.

Furthermore, there is the element decorating vacant land.

When we push forward a game, Doraemon's younger sister Dorammi appears and takes us to the bonus stage. We can make friends with various animals there.

On the other hand, this has factor of the card battle game, too(It is popular enthusiastically now in Japan.). We compose gadgets and can strengthen it.

And we can fight against an enemy using them. A special event is held just now. We can get special virtual goods when we beat enemies.

I do not yet know whether this game succeeds or fails. However, this got users more than 400,000 from a service start in a few days.

Japanese famous character began Facebook

Japanese famous character "Mukku" began Facebook. He collected Like! more than 200 in several hours.

https://www.facebook.com/FaceMukku

He is a character of the kids program of Japanese TV company Fuji TV. However, since he is the character produced on April 2, 1973, he is loved by not only a child but the adult. A lot of his fancy goods is sold now, too.

ガチャピン&ムック モコモコ ムック


ガチャピン・ムック 武将 根付 ストラップ ( 足軽 )


By the way, he has a fellow called Gachapin. He has already used blog and Twitter, and both are very popular. Gachapin utilized social media until now than Mukku. Can Mukku beat him?

Japanese social game developer's hot April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day of this year was Sunday, but many companies told a funny lie.  The lie of social game developer KLab was very hot in these.

http://www.klab.jp/press/2012/120401kr.html (Japanese)

On April 1, they announced the press release "We open our popular social game“Koi-Shite-Kyaba-jyo(恋してキャバ嬢)” in the reality world!"
via http://www.klab.jp/press/2012/120401.html (Japanese)

“Koi-Shite-Kyaba-jyo(恋してキャバ嬢)” is Japanese hostess Club Social Game. It is contributed in mixi, Mobage and GREE and has more than 6 million users.
See also: Handbook of Hostess Club Social Game

Their lie was associated with it. Executives of KLab disguised itself as a women for this lie, and the exclusive Facebook page opened, too(Unfortunately we cannot watch it anymore). Furthermore, CEO Sanada changed the images of his Facebook profile into a drag style photos(We can still watch these).
It is not late now, Let's watch the courageous challenge of them early!

Louis Vuitton becomes the AR contents by a Japanese creator AR3Bros.

AR3Bros. is a Japanese creator developing various innovative works using Augmented Reality.

They are not true brothers

They did collaboration with the various companies, brand and artists until now.These are parts of their works.


AR3Bros episode-i | twitter & AR from ar3bros on Vimeo.


Eden of the east vol.1 from ar3bros on Vimeo.


Galaxy Express 999 + NHK + TV Bros. + AR3Bros vol.1 from ar3bros on Vimeo.


AR-FASHION SHOW_COMPLETE from ar3bros on Vimeo.


TVBros. × AR3Bros. -Augumented Reality for TV Guide（TV Listings）- from ar3bros on Vimeo.

They augmented Louis Vuitton with fashion magazine "MEN'S Precious".

When we put iPhone which installed AR application on the page of the magazine, we can open the fastener of Louis Vuitton's bag and display the product in the bag. The products in the bag are chosen automatically by a program and are displayed. As for them, a suitable thing is chosen based on the time, the place, and climate where we opened the fastener of the bag.

Magazine and the AR application are released on April 6.

By the way, this is a collaboration serialization plan of famous brand and AR. AR3Bros augments various brands from now on by AR for one year.

Japanese idol group "Perfume" shows motion capture data

Perfume is a Japanese popular technopop idol group. They go from this year into the global market.



They showed the motion capture data of the dance of their own today.

http://perfume-dev.github.com/

This is a part of their global market advance project. All the creators can make works using these data. Of course it is free!
24 hours do not yet pass since data are shown, but some works have been already uploaded in youtube.

SoftBank CEO began Facebook

Japanese cell-phone carrier SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son began Facebook today.
https://www.facebook.com/masayosison
Only several hours pass, but he collects Like! more than 16000.(He is Twitter user most popular in Japan)

By the way, Mark Zuckerberg appeared in sudden Japan today. Are these related?