The combination of T-shirt and AR is really cool!

Cospa is Japanese representative CosPlay fashion brand. They sell various CosPlay clothes and tie-up fashion items. In them, this T-shirts is very cool!

This is a tie-up T-shirt of popular novel/anime Accel World. Back print becomes AR marker, and the feather of the butterfly appears when we watch it using AR app Yousei for smartphones "Yousei Megane".

The another version is this.

Feathers are 3DCG, so we can watch them from all angles and take photo. These prices are 3,200 yen.

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Snack of popular game apps for smartphones "Nameko Saibai Kit"

Yesterday, I bought Nameko snack. However, this is not a nameko mushroom flavor snack. This is a snack about the game apps for smartphones "Nameko Saibai Kit" series.

KAWAII! Japan overflows with Nameko goods now. It spreads to a sweets.

The snack is chocolate flavor and shape is Nameko. According to the official site of Nameko, snack food company Tohato tested many times to make this shape and had a hard time.

Furthermore, there is suppulementg of the sticker in the snack. This is very durable and can put it on mobile, tablet and laptop.

May be only in Japan: Fusion of porn and social game

"Eroge" where por and a game fused is in Japan. It is the erotic game that only adults can play. It came for a social game.

DMM started pre-user's registration acceptance of new mobile social game "NOZOKIANA". The motif of this is a popular e-book. Users look in various girls from the peephole on the wall. Users can collect the figure of various girls. The voice of the voice actor sticks to the girl characters. Now, the social game with the voice is popular in Japan.

Social game platform moeG(Moe Game) specialized in porno started pre-user's registration acceptance of new mobile social game "Priget Plus". This is a general J-style card social game. However, all the cards are girls. Users collect various girls and train them. They are improved for training, and the area of their clothes decreases.

Both are released in the end of this month. Of course only adults can play neither.

LINE occupies Japan: LINE's mobile virtual world "LINE Play" got 2M users

NHN Japan's messaging apps LINE is occupying Japan. Mobile virtual world LINE Play got 2 million users in about two months.

LINE Play is the 2D virtual world like Ameba Pigg and iOS ver. and Android ver. are released.

LINE Play pre-opened on November 20, and grand opened on December 18.  They already got 1 million users during the period. And they got 2 million users on January 30, 2013. This is the most shorthand notes in the Japanese virtual world.

The pace of Ameba Pigg -the virtual world that has most users in Japan- was like this...


February, 2009 - Open
April, 2009 - 100,000 users breakthroughs
July, 2009 - 500,000 users breakthroughs
October, 2009 - 1,400,000 users breakthroughs
January, 2010 - 2 million users breakthroughs
...

Now, Ameba Pigg has about 14 million users. However, it took 11 months until 2 million users breakthrough. Does LINE Play win Ameba Pigg?

Community revitalization and social game

Now, The Japanese local economy is the worst. Tokyo may do well. However, the local citys, towns and Villages are suck! The economic disparity spreads steadily in Japan. Meanwhile, Kochi Prefecture found means of escape in a social game.

Kochi government supports a social game developer in prefecture from 2011. They established a social game developer support fund with local banks and held competition. And they did business tie-up with GREE.

They released 3 social games until now in GREE. All of titles developed by Tech companies in Kochi. Artists from Kochi were in charge of the artwork, the music, the scenario. The Kochi government succeeded in creation of the new employment by a social game.

Furthermore, Iwate Prefecture started a project similar to them. Iwate government, Morioka city government and  Iwate University started a digital content industry upbringing project recently. And Japanese game & AR developer Premiumagency join in it as the first support company, and  establish a development studio in Iwate.

Iwate is a stricken area of 2011 Aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Many human resources were lost, and the agriculture was destroyed. Therefore they are going to shift to technology industry and contents industry. These can conduct a business with a small number of people for world.

The appearance of the social game changed Japanese economy greatly. It offers a job to many people.

Damn it! Dropped a smartphone on a dish!!...No, This is the smartphone stands

Please do not be upset. Because this is not a genuine dish.

This is the smartphone stands made by a famos food model sample maker in Tokyo Maiduru.

The food models which they make are very precise, and overseas tourists purchase these as a souvenir. Therefore they devised various goods. The smartphone stands are the most new works.

They sell these as the goods which are most suitable to watching video. However, we may use it as joke goods surprising friends. The price is 2,625 - 5,670 yen(about 29 - 62 USD).

Other goods are here.

NHN Japan parts with CosPlay Social Networking Service "Cure" and "WorldCosplay"

This news may be important if you are interested in Japanese CosPlay. NHN Japan transferred CosPlay Social Networking Service "Cure" and "WorldCosplay" to pixiv.

Cure is Social Networking Service for CosPlayer which opened in August, 2001 and has 950,000 users. Users can share one's CosPlay photo.

WorldCosplay is CosPlay Social Networking Service of the world wide version which opened in January, 2012 and They support 12 languages. Many foreigners CosPlayer register here.

This business transfer may be business reorganization of NHN Japan. Now, NHN Japan is known as a company of popular messaging application LINE. On the other hand, pixiv runs popular illustration Social Networking Service "pixiv". pixiv supports 7 languages and has many overseas users. They establish a subsidiary for administration of Cure and WorldCosplay.

Doraemon in Ameba Pigg!

New Doraemon movie "Doraemon: Nobita and Secret Gadget Museum" is shown in Japan in March 9.



Therefore, a virtual goods tie-up is carried out now in popular virtual world Ameba Pigg. This is the third year in this year.

Kawaii!

Doraemon has Small-light(One of the gadgets of Doraemon). So...

Let's play smaller avatar size! We can become small by inputting it into "/min" in a chat window.

Various items that a movie became the motif are in Gacha. Gacha one time is 250Ameba Gold(250yen :about 2.74USD).

Such coordinates are possible when we get these.

Only in Japan: iPhone case made by a rice cracker

Souvenir company RAKKI in Yamaguchi sells interesting iPhone goods. t is iPhone cover made by a SENBEI(煎餅:rice cracker). They sell this as an edible survival rice cracker in emergency.

All rice crackers are made with manual labor by craftsmen, and there are the hole for cameras. However, it have a problem. It is very difficult to attach it to iPhone, and Possibility to fail is 76%.

However, it becomes the topic very much, 500 sold in instants when they started a Web mail order.

In addition, this is manufactured from unpolished rice. Of course its taste is delicious!

Japanese girl gives love to a lover by 3D scanner, 3D printer and chocolate

The manners and customs of Valentine's Day in Japan are strange. In Japan, women give chocolate to a sweetheart on St Valentine's Day. Probably, the sweets company thought of it for business. However, it has completely rooted in Japan.


Then, cafe "FabCafe" in Shibuya which has a laser cutter and 3D printer will hold an interesting workshop in February. Only a woman can participate in it.

Well, it is an event which makes the own face chocolate using 3D scanner and 3D printer.

The example of "3D Photo booth" which made own figure with 3D scanner and 3D printer existed until now. However, as for the example which uses chocolate as a material, this will be the first. This workshop is two days, and the tuition is 6,000 yen(about 67.7 USD). It costs time and money. However, this is very popular, and a reservation has been buried immediately.


Do you want the chocolate of a sweetheart's face?

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ものづくり女子限定！ハイスペックすぎる自分型チョコレートを贈ろうの会

Is this an object? No, it is costume.

Rovio does Angry Birds promotion in Japan. However, the method seems to be slightly different from other countries. These are the photo which Angry Birds Japan introduced in Twitter.

This is photos of a promotion event held in Osaka late last week. This big rea bird is not an object. A person in this, in other words this is "costume". Red bird does not have a foot and a wing, but this can move. Because a person having low height -probably woman- in this.

I watch such photo in overseas websites frequently.

Such a costume cannot be familiar in Japan. Because the face of the person of the inside appears. When we wear costume in Japan, we must turn into the character completely. And audience believe heartily that it is a character not costume. In the event of Osaka, red bird was not costume but a live bird.

By the way, a lot of companies making such a costume are in Japan, and it is called "Kigurumi（着ぐるみ）" in Japan. 

By the way, Rovio opened Japanese official site of Angry Birds today.

http://www.angrybirds.com/jp/index.html

Please check it if you are interested in Japanese.