Virtual Goods of Japanese style Disney

Japanese popular virtual worlds Ameba Pigg sells virtual goods of Japanese style Donald Duck by Gacha.

Compu Gacha was regulated by the government, but there is still normal Gacha.

Gacha has male type and woman type and we win fashion items and the furniture items of the avatar in each.

When avatar wears fashion items, it becomes in this way. Sailor style of Donald Duck and the Japanese kimono style are combined.

Furniture items are very cute, too! Why does the stuffed toy of Donald Duck wear the snake costume? Because the sexagenary cycle of this year is the snake.

Gacha one time is 250 yen(about 2.9USD).

Japanese popular messaging appa LINE becomes Anime

There is LINE anywhere in Japan now. Book, stuffed toy, figure, stationery, capsule toy etc... At last, Anime starts broadcast  on January 7!

The title is "LINE OFFLINE -office worker-". It's the comedy which characters of the LINE stamp become Japanese office workers and presents funny daily life. Digest movie is here(Japanese).


Airdate and times are AM1:30 - AM1:35 of every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The broadcasting station is TV Tokyo.

In addition, there is the plan to make the LINE anime of 30 minutes as well as this. Do you want to see moving LINE stamp characters?

Sumo wrestlers appear in the street view of Google Maps

70 sumo wrestlers appear in the street view of Google Maps this year!

via Japan Sumo Association Twitter

Sumo wrestlers stand in front of Ryougoku Sumo Hall. This is a project by the partner program with Google. In late years, Street view collaborate with various institutions in the world such as museums and theme park. On December 25, 2012, the photography for this partner program was carried out for Ryougoku Sumo Hall. The popular yokozuna is included in them. It is not yet still decided it at the time, but we can meet sumo wrestlers in a street view as soon as data are reflected.

Steve Jobs revives! He became the cool action-figure

Japanese figure maker Legend Toys made cool action-figure of Steve Jobs.

His expression, clothes, shoes, all of life-like. The sculptor of Legend Toys Kato  produced this. The size is 12 inches, and the price is US $ 149.99. Shipment is due to begin the end of January and Legend Toys accepts a reservation. Order page is here.

(c)2012 Legend Toys Limited

Apple start selling e-books in Japan

Japan's Nikkei scooped. Apple start selling e-books in Japan on iPad next month.

via http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDD31011_R31C12A2MM8000/?dg=1 (Japanese)

According to Nikkei, Apple cooperates with Japanese main publishing companies, Kodansya, Shougakukan and Kadokawa group Holdings.
I think that this is timely. Because 2013 is big year of public domain in Japan. Writers more than 60 became the public domain only on January 1, 2013. A lot of popular novelist and famous scholars are included in them. Japanese e-books users will increase more if Apple really launches e-books business in Japan.

Japanese boys band ARASHI used AR in a music TV show of the last day of the year

A Happy New Year! In Japan, new year began and passed for 2 hours. Japanese public broadcasting company NHK broadcasts a music TV show "Kōhaku Uta Gassen" every year on the last day of the year. The Japanese boys idol group ARASHI showed real-time Augmented reality there.

I was not able to take good photos...

Sensors were attached to their hands, and the AR CG were displayed in link with their dance. There were many audiences in the stage of this TV show. However, they cannot watch AR CG. Only TV viewers were able to watch this. This is direction only TV, and it may be said that it was a project to give added value to TV.

"Real Steel" become "real"

Real Steel is exciting movie! It is a thrilled movie for robot geeks. Would the Japanese TV company obtain an idea in it? Nihon TV recruits the participants of the robot battle TVprogram "Real Robot Battle Nihonichi Ketteisen!(リアルロボットバトル日本一決定戦！)".

This is the TV program that robots of the life size fight in a tournament. Nihon TV says, "We appeal to children carrying the next generation that preciousness of searching technology, pleasure of the invention and Joy to grant a dream".

The rule size of the robot is 150*90*90(cm). The design is a humanoid type.

This is a very exciting project. There are already some of popular humanoid types robots in Japan. Especially, KURATAS became the topic.



However, KURATAS is too big. Size of Asimo is just right.

Japanese Style camera apps "Decola Komachi"

Do you look for camera application to substitute for Instagram? Then I recommend Decola komachi.

Decola Komachi is the application that can decorate a photos with Japanese taste frames, stamps and wall papers. It supports Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish as well as Japanese.

The usage does not change with other camera apps so much. At first, we trim a photo and coordinate contrast and brightness.

Next, we add frame. The kind of the frame are "Japanese-style", "Modern", "Ukiyoe" and "Funny".

Next, we put a filter. The filter is applied to only photo.

I did not use it, but this has the pen function.

Finally, we decorate photo by stamps. The kind of the stamps are "Japanese-style", "Japanese Stamp(Hanko)", "Message" and "Special".

We can change size and the angle of the stamps. By the way, a design sense is necessary for the placement of stamps:)

Completed! Did the stuffed toy become prettier?

And we can post the photo on Facebook and Twitter.

Furthermore, this has the collage function of photos. We locate 3 pieces of photos and can decorate these.

If you want to do different photo decorations, this is the most suitable camera apps.

Japanese New Year's card apps

"Nengajou(年賀状)" is a Japanese New Year's card. It's still the Japanese year-end and New Year important customs. However, it is very troublesome to make it. Many Nengajou design software was released until now. However, it is hard to use even it, especially elderly people.

Therefore many Nengajou design apps are popular this year in Japanese App Srote. These are apps ranked free ranking Top100 of the camera apps.

FUDEMAME NENGA 2013

FUDEMAME was one of the popular New Year's card design software, but it became the smartphone apps this year.

OSHARE NENGA - The best New Year's card

This resembles photo collage apps.

Shashin de Nengajou 2013

This resembles photo decoration apps.

Rakuraku Nengajou

This resembles photoframe application. However, the feature is that New Year greetings are designed beforehand.

Nenga Pic Frame

This resembles photoframe application, too. However, text inputting is possible.

Digipri Nengajou

This has all the elements of camera apps such as the collage, decoration and frame.

New Year's card of the Fuji Color

This is official apps of a famous photo print company. we can order a print from apps.

Character Nengajou

We can use the frame of the character of popular Anime.

You would notice. These are developed in know-how of the camera apps. Camera apps simplified the design using the photos. Anyone can easily make a cool image using filter, frame, stamp and collage function. photoshop and illustrator are unnecessary:) These Nengajou design apps are optimized to postcard size. Furthermore, they have the design subject of traditional Nengajou. We can post the image which we designed to Facebook and Twitter even if we do not print it on a postcard. Camera apps gave a change in the form of Japanese customs.