Domino's Pizza Japan cooperated with Hatsune Miku and released AR apps for iOS

Domino's Pizza Japan released pizza order application for iOS "Domino’s App feat. HATSUNE MIKU" which cooperated with Hatsune Miku.

Hatsune Miku is a singing synthesizer application "Vocaloid" which developed by Crypton Future Media. This is personified as a girl, and anyone can use her image. She embodies in User Generated Contents movement. In Japan, many creators composed songs, drew illustrations, made videos and made figures with her.

"Domino's App feat. HATSUNE MIKU" is one of these movements. This is apps to order of pizzas basically. We can see the menu of pizzas, order it and check the delivery situation.

However, this has the function that is more important than them. It is AR function.

When we watch a pizza with a camera of iPhone/iPad, HATSUNE MIKU appears on a pizza and shows a live performance. Surprisingly, most contents used in this apps are made by crew of Domino's Pizza Japan. They have many talented people! :)

Please check these videos.

Japan's CyberAgent group has more than 30 million of social game users

CyberAgent is a Japanese Internet ad agency. However, they has a lot of social game development subsidiaries and became the Japanese main social game company now. Today, they announced that users of their social game broke through 30 million.

"Rage of Bahamut" of Cygames contributes to this most.

This has 10 million users now in Mobage of all over the world. They occupy a one-third of the whole.

Grenge, joint subsidiary of CyberAgent and mixi provides "Sengoku SAGA" in mixi game and CyberAgent's platform Ameba. This is a card battle game that Japanese warring states period of the themes, and one of the popular social games of the mixi game.

Subsidiary CyberX provides sports social game "NBA 2K ALL STARS" in GREE.

Subsidiary Applibot provides gang smartphone game "Gang Road" for iOS and Android.

Subsidiary Sumzap provides monster upbringing social game "Monster Frontier" for iOS, Android and CyberAgent's platform Ameba. Furthermore, they released smartphone game "LEGEND OF THE CRYPTIDS" in the EU and US market, and it was ranked the 2nd place of the sales ranking of US App Store.


As well as these, CyberAgent has many social games and subsidiaries. They cover all of Japanese main platforms such as Mobage, GREE, mixi, iOS and Android. Furthermore, they run their own platform Ameba. By the way, the overseas ratio among their social game business sales is about 20%.

GREE starts the TV anime broadcast with release of new social game "Zettai Bouei Leviathan"

GREE announced their new original social game "Zettai Bouei Leviathan（絶対防衛レヴィアタン）". It is released in April.

This is the social RPG for smartphones which personified a character of the fantasy world such as a dragon and the fairy. They start the broadcast of the TV anime with the release of this. Anime studio GONZO deals with the production of this

Anime official site is here.

GREE made anime of their social game in the past.

See Also:
Social game anime of GREE
GREE propels the character business of their social games

However, they had the results of the hit as the social game. However, "Zettai Bouei Leviathan" is a complete new works. There is not the popularity beforehand. This is a big GAME for GREE.

News Flash: Apple started e-book sale in Japan

Apple just released iBooks 3.1ver. and it was important update in Japan. Because...

Japanese e-books were sold in iBookStore. Japanese iBooks had only overseas e-books and public domain e-books until now. However, there is full of bestseller books now. Popular comics ONE PIECE and popular light novel Haruhi Suzumiya are included in them, too! The main publishing companies participating in iBooks are Kadokawa group, Kodansha, Shueisha, Gentousha, PHP Institute, Kobunsha...etc. They are major publishing companies all.
This will become the big menace for Japanese e-book platforms.

"Nameko" is popular all over the world

Japan's Beeworks announced the number of the downloading of their popular smartphone game series "Nameko Saibai Kit(Mushroom Garden　a.k.a. Funghi Gardening Kit)". They release 3 Nameko game for smartphones now.

Mushroom Garden　a.k.a. Funghi Gardening Kit
Mushroom Garden Seasons
Mushroom Garden Deluxe
(All these links are iOS, but there are these Android versions, too.)

The total downloading number of Nameko series exceeds 28 million now.

Surprisingly all these are free apps. Besides, even as for the ads in apps, most are the ads of their games. Probably the most of the profit of Nameko are goods selling. They do not announce the details of the amount. However, it should be a vast. It just resembles business of Angry Birds.

By the way, Nameko Saibai Kit Seasons(Mushroom Garden Seasons) updated today. This theme is "North American spring". This is very cute!

Nameko wears a ten-gallon hat! :)