GREE's Social game "Tanken Driland" becomes Anime again

GREE, TV Tokyo, TOEI ANIMATION and Bandai announced that they performed media mix development of GREE's social game "Tanken Driland". As the the first project, they broadcast a new anime of "Tanken Driland" from April 6.

It is the 2nd time that this becomes the anime.

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The broadcast of anime began in the summer of last year.  This is popular from not only children but also adults, and it continues more than a half year. And a new story begins in April as the new series. They develop the game more about this anime. Game→Anime→Game... and real goods... They intend to utilize one content thoroughly.

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DeNA combined poker with their popular social game "Kaito Royal "

DeNA released a spin-off title of their popular social game "Kaito Royal（怪盗ロワイヤル）" in Mobage. This is "Kaito Royal SECRET POKER".

Kaito Royal is the social RPG that users become a thief, steal various treasure of the world, and fights against gangs. It was popular after the early days when Mobage became the social game platform. It is still one of the representative titles of Mobage.

In Kaito Royal SECRET POKER, an element of the poker is added to it. Users fight against enemies with poker. It is tactical than we tap a screen according to instructions. It is popular now in Japan to put social RPG and something together. In particular, there are many examples to put a social RPG and poker together. However, unfortunately this is not collaboration with a gamble and the social game(Japanese gamble is very complicated, and Japan does not have a casino). Probably this will be trendy one of the social games.

Nnf! nnf! "Nameko Saibai Kit" opened sites of Taiwanese and Korean

Nameko Saibai Kit(Mushroom Garden) series are popular popular in not only Japan but also the foreign countries. Then, Nameko official site "Namepara(Nameko Paradise)" opened a sites of Taiwanese and Korean yesterday.

They supported Japanese and English until now. However, many Nameko fans exist in Asia. Namepara posts contents about Nameko such as Manga, video, column, goods information, book information and event information every day. If this is performed by Taiwanese and Korean, fans of the two countries will be pleased very much.

In addition, Taiwanese Seven-Eleven carries out the campaign of Nameko-limited goods from today. Because these are the goods which are not released in Japan, I want this! :)

Japanese popular messaging apps LINE become Anime again. Besides, it's 30 min!

I wrote about popular message apps LINE became Anime in January.

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However, this is a 5-minute short anime.


On the other hand, "LINE TOWN" starting on April 3 is a long anime of 30 minutes.

LINE TOWN is the comedy which popular characters of LINE stamp(sticker) such as moon, coney, brown, James, Jessica and Sally appears. It is broadcasted in PM6:30~7:00 in TV Tokyo every Wednesday. Furthermore, popular idol Shoko Nakagawa sings the theme song of opening and the ending.

GREE enters the trading card business

Today, GREE announced that they entered the trading card game business. The brand name is "Siegkrone"(this means the "crown of the victory" in German).

GREE has subsidiary GREE Entertainment Products dealing with merchandising business. They dealt with the goods sale of social games of GREE until now, but run Siegkrone in addition to them from now on.

The first series is cards using artwork of social game of GREE "Cerberus Age（聖戦ケルベロス）", and released on June 27. The original illustration works drawn newly are included in them. GREE starts promotion activity from the end of April.