Angry Birds seems to be adjusting to Japan

I found an interesting photo in Facebook.

This is a photo of the Star Festival of Asagaya, Tokyo. On the Star Festival of Asagaya, various big lanterns which residents made are displayed every year. They are often popular characters. Angry Birds joined them this year.

SlipKnoT holds a UGC contest in a Japanese illustration social network "pixiv"

pixiv is UGC social network of the biggest in Japan. Many users contribute the illustrations which oneself drew and share them. Recently, pixiv started the support of languages except the Japanese.

They aim at the global expansion. And they did tie-up with an overseas artist for the first time today.

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=28868928

Why with SlipKnoT? This is an illustration contest held in commemoration of release of best album "Antennas To Hell" of SlipKnoT. they are very popular in Japan and pixiv had a lot of illustration works of SlipKnoT than before.







Kawaii! :)
The contest is held until August 31. Various original goods of SlipKnoT are presented to winners of the contest.

It's Japanese style breastaurant: If you like a robot and big boob, go here!

I knew that breastaurant were popular in US. It may be said that this is breastaurant of the Japanese style.

This is the robot restaurant which opened in Shinjuku,Tokyo.

"robot restaurant" is the hot restaurant which young women steer huge robots and shows a performance. The cost of big boob robots is one 30 million yen. And the total cost of construction of the restaurant is 10 billion yen.

The charge is 3,000 yen. You may think it's expensive. However, all the services such as show view, foods, 1drink are included.

See Also:
Culture Japan
http://youpouch.com/2012/07/20/73975/

The Japanese developer made an active trash box

The Japanese developer made an intellectual trash box. Besides, he did all steps such as idea, design, assembling only in himself.

 

The trash box senses thrown garbage by a sensor of Kinect and moves.

This becomes the topic very much now in Japanese Internet community. Everyone says that he should commercialize this.

Nameko everywhere

Do you know a character of the most popular game application in Japan? Angry Birds? Plants vs. Zombies? Fruit Ninja? No! this is Nameko!

See also:
The game application which is the most popular in Japan is a "nameko mushroom"
Japanese popular game apps "Nameko" goes music! 


The Nameko spread now in every place of Japan. I wrote that Nameko goods were sold and a music CD was released. However, Nameko increased more. It is a game arcade in the large shopping mall of the workplace of my younger brother.

A lot of crane games of Nameko! Akita where I live in is the country that went to ruin most in Japan. However, the crane games of Nameko were placed at the same period as Tokyo. This is just popular manifestation of Nameko.


Furthermore, the fan art increase explosively, too. A lot of fan art of Nameko are contributed to Japanese illustration social network pixiv. Fan videos are uploaded in Youtube.


This is fan made original song and art.


The other user made cool 3DCG with this as material







In addition, Nameko jumps out of one's game application and multiplies in the application of other companies.

Nameko became the "LINE stamp". (LINE is a messanging apps for smartphone from NHN Japan)

And Nameko appeared in the social game for PC "Makiba Seikatsu Hitsuji Mura(Ranch life sheep village)".

It seems that Nameko is popular not only throughout Japan but Asia now. According to the official site of Nameko, he went to Taiwan recently.

By the way, Nameko is originally kind of the Japanese mushroom. 

via Wiki

Is Nameko eaten in countries other than Japan?