Japanese TV company Fuji TV and Rovio perform a business tie-up

Yesterday, Rovio released Angry Birds Seasons Cherry Blossom. However they did another announcement about Japan today. It is a business tie-up with TV company Fuji TV. They opened a collaboration page "Angry Birds × Fuji TV" at once.

We can play an original episode "Sakura Ninja" here.

"Sakura Ninja" has 12 levels in total.

Sakura Ninja was developed based on Cherry Blossom. However, the placement of objects are different. And the biggest difference is that birds perform a cos-play. Rovio's Japanese-style design was a thing for this.

Company building of Fuji TV(It is known as a strange thing in Japanese modern buildings) comes up in a last level. We can destroy this :)

Even if you cannot speak Japanese, you  can play this game.

Henri Holm, senior vice president of Rovio comments on this business tie-up in this way
"Japan is a holy place of a video game and is the center of a pop culture. Rovio wanted to enhance presence in an important market for a long time. We repeated discussion with various company until now in Japan. And we thought that Angry Birds might make rapid progress more by making Fuji TV and partnership. And we thought partnership with Fuji Television, Angry Birds might make rapid progress more. We are looking forward to being able to raise the egg of new entertainment together by employing a mutual strong point efficiently from now on."

via Fuji TV's press release (Japanese)

Angry Birds Seasons Cherry Blossom

Today, I played "Angry Birds Seasons - Cherry Blossom". It was very interesting! I enjoyed it!

 This is Angry Birds's first Japanese theme. Japanese custom called "Hanami" is designed.

 When overseas games takes in Japan in a design, it is usually strange and funny. Unfortunately, as for them, China, Korea and Japan were mixed and confused.

However, Angry Birds Seasons Cherry Blossom is natural. In an initial design of Rovio, there were the bird which dressed a Chonmage, the bird which did Kabuki make-up, a bird in judo wear, the bird which wore a protective gear of the kendo, the bird dressed in clothes of the ninja. However, there are not them in a game.
There were Mt. Fuji, Torii, cherry blossom, Norimaki(Kind of the sushi), Rice ball(Onigiri), Rice cake(Dango), Teapot(kyuusu) and wooden bowl(Owan) in a game. And Pigs wear a twisted Hachimaki.

The game is difficult, and it is hard to get three star. There are three bonus stages.

Dark fantasy card game for iPhone "Dark Summoner"

The social game of the card game(RPG) type is extreme popularity in Japan. I heard that a card game is some nerds' hobby in overseas. However, in Japan, everyone is familiar with it.

And the card game of very cool artwork was released.

It's "Dark Summoner". Dark Summoner is a dark fantasy. Various cool artworks are used for this.

These screenshot are Japanese versions, but there is the other languages support, too. Besides, it is free!

Official site
http://www.darksummoner.com/

Pre-registration for social game of Doraemon

DeNA releases the social game for mobile of Doraemon to this spring.
See also: Doraemon becomes social game in Mobage

This is a pre - registration screen. Kawaii! :)

Pre - registered users can gets a special virtual goods. This is "Japanese Manga artist style Doraemon". Kawaii! :)

Horror Bento became the topic among Japanese Twitter users

Japanese housewives are known by cooking artistic Bento.
Search "Japanese Kawaii Bento"

 However, such Bento became the topic in Twitter the day before yesterday.

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It's Bento of Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Nori and ketchup are effective! :) Eyeballs are eggs of the quails. This Bento is cool, but there is much only rice, and there are not vegetables at all.