Copy of the Puzzle & Dragons? However, Puyo puyo Quest is popular in Japan

SEGA's smartphone game subsidiary SEGA networks released social game Puyo puyo Quest for iOS. It broke through 1 million downloading from release in 10 days.

Well..., You would think "This is Puzzle & Dragons!". Of course many Japanese of game clusters think so, too. SEGA networks announced the information of Puyo puyo Quest progressively before released it. And it was under fire. Many people blamed that SEGA ripped off Puzzle & Dragons. However, it broke through 500,000 downloading from release in 3 days and broke through 1 million downloading in 10 days.

Why? I think that it is the result of the brand power of Puyo puyo. Puyo puyo is a Japanese puzzle game of the 23rd from release in this year. Video game, arcade, PC, online, mobile etc ... It has been published in every platform. There are not the people who do not know Puyo puyo in Japanese gamers. On the other hand, Puzzle & Dragons was a totally new game. Puyo puyo Quest surely resembles Puzzle & Dragons. However, Puyo puyo is Puyo puyo.

In addition, SEGA networks releases the Android version of Puyo puyo Quest in a few days.

Japanese weird smartphone game "Alpaca Nisan" broke through 4M downloading from release in 3 months

Alpaca Nisan is the smartphone game that is the most weird and bizarre in Japan now.(iOS/Android) However, it broke through 4M downloading from release in 3 months by word-of-mouth.

What kind of game is Alpaca Nisan? It is very difficult to explain it. It may be a creature growing SLG game.

This is a start screen of the games. Some of alpacas appear in the ranch at first. However, when we tap a screen …

One alpaca attacks the other alpacas suddenly and begins to eat them. Well, the main work of this game is cannibalism.

To the alpaca which ate other alpacas, strange mutation happens in sequence.

There are innumerable patterns of the mutation, and the ending has 3 patterns. We can enjoy(?) those differences whenever we play this.

Many people say, "Weird", "Ugly", "We must never play this alone at night". On the other hand, there are the people saying "Kimokawaii(Grotes-Cute)". Anyway, this became the topic. And developer COCOSOLA of this starts the merchandise development of Alpaca Nisan.

Do you want these goods?

In Japan, even a Buddhism temple releases a mobile social game

Probably this is only in Japan.
Japanese Buddhism temple Ryohoji in Hachioji, Tokyo, releases a social game for smartphones. The title is "Welcome to Ryohoji!"(iOS/Android).

You may not believe it. However, this is really official contents of the Buddhism temple, and GMO Game is in charge of the publishing.


"Welcome to Ryohoji!" is a general J-style card battle social game. Players have an adventure in all over Japan with character of Ryohoji "Torobenten", fight against Yōkai, make Yōkai a friend and grind Japan peacefully. However, the design of Yōkai are cute all(those most are beautiful girls).

Originally Ryohoji is known as Moe-temple(萌え寺). It is the venerable temple which opened in 1489. However, the chief priest installed the signboard of the beautiful girl illustration in the entrance of the temple suddenly in May, 2009.

The chief priest asked his friend for a signboard design for the making of atmosphere that is friendly of the temple. The chief priest was surprised to watch the design first. however, his families and believers agreed to the design "Cute!". And worshipers increased remarkably since they installed a signboard. Since then the temple performs every media mix development.

Cute character Bento are shared in smartphones

CyberAgent is eager in a smartphone shift and releases much apps now. They ran handmade dish community for smartphones "Pecolly" and cooperated with anime movie "Crayon Shin-chan: Very Tasty! B-class Gourmet Survival!!".

Pecolly is Social Networking Service for smartphones that users upload and share the photos of one's dish. CyberAgent raised the photos of the Character Bento(Chara-Ben: homemade bento containing food decorated to look like cute characters) of this movie in Pecolly. Then works more than 500 gathered in 3 weeks. These are award winning prize works.

These did not win a prize, but are cute works.

Originally Character Bento was a popular cooking genre in Japan. Because Social Networking Service and smartphone appeared, works and the How to are shared rapidly.

Nameko cooperates with Anime studio

Now, Character of the popular smartphone apps Nameko spread in Japan. Developer of the Nameko series BeeWorks announced the new project about Nameko today. This the Anime promotion video.

This is a project to express charm of Nameko which they cannot express by the application. They will show new promotion video of Nameko regularly in Youtube in future. This project resembles Angry Birds Toons. However, they don't make all by themselves, and they cooperate with various Anime studios. The first is GONZO. Please check this cute video. GONZO made promotion video of Nameko in a motif of athletic meet.

Another social game quarrel in Japan: Grani warned gumi in an intellectual property theft

I wrote about trial of GREE  and  DeNA.

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Japanese social game developer Grani warned gumi in an intellectual property theft. Grani and gumi are social game developers both, and they offer a social games in GREE. gumi released a new social RPG "Dragon Genesis" in GREE on April 26.

On the other hand, Grani provides social RPG "Shingoku no Valhalla Gate(神獄のヴァルハラゲート)" in GREE from January 25. This is very popular in GREE, so they conclude a strategic business tie-up with GREE.

And, according to Grani, game system, balance design, user interface and image look of "Dragon Genesis" of gumi just resembles "Shingoku no Valhalla Gate" closely very much. Grani showed an inspection image in their Facebook page.

The large size image is here

Naturally gumi denies plagiarism and their claim does not intersect. This may be tried.

Gay-friendly bug occurred in Nintendo 3DS game "Tomodachi Collection:New Life"

"Tomodachi Collection:New Life(トモダチコレクション 新生活)" is popular game software of Nintendo 3DS.

"Tomodachi Collection:New Life" is an avatar game. Players can make one's avatar called "Mii", play with a friends, become them and lovers and can marry them. This is a life simulation game and may resemble the Sims series of EA.


This is released on April 18 and is very popular now in Japan. However, an interesting bug was discovered on May 2. It is that a male couple Miis can marry. Besides, childs are born.

Usually, same sex Miis cannot become a lover. However, male Miis are possible now(I do not know whether female Miis are possible). This was scattered in an instant by Japanese social media. It became the topic in Twitter in particular, and hashtag "#Homocolle"(It is a parody  of contracted form TomoColle of Tomodachi Collection) became the trend. The most of the reaction of Japanese Netizens were favorable. There were a lot of people who said "I want this!". I wish Nintendo does not revise this bug. Rather this should be adopted as an official game system. And I wish Nintendo become a Gay-friendly company taking advantage of this opportunity.

Source
http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2136754632718412601

Cute Spider-Man jacks a Japanese virtual world Ameba Pigg

Japanese virtual world Ameba Pigg cooperated with Marvel and cute Spider-Man appear.

 There is an area in imitation of a harem, NY in Ameba Pigg. Cute Spider-Man occupies there now.

 The area becomes the attraction. Harem became the flood temporarily, and we avoid it by go along the spider lines.

We can get a flag of Spider-Man free when we make a goal through all spider Webs.

Furthermore, there are vending machine and Gacha which can purchase virtual goods of Spider-Man. They are very cute all!