Convenience & stylish collage apps for iOS---"cameran collage"

I wrote it before about iOS camera apps "cameran" of photographer and movie director Mika Ninagawa.

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Camera apps for iOS of photographer Mika Ninagawa "cameran" is fabulous!

It became popular, and it broke through 3,5M downloading. Recruit Holdings which developed this apps decided on the series presenting this. And the second apps "cameran collage" is available now.(Japanese site is here)

cameran collage is photo collage apps for women. We can make the collage work of taste of Japanese fashion magazines and the the fashion brands using this. Now, this tie-up with fashion magazine " sweet", "InRed" and fashion brand "MERCURYDUO", "B:MING LIFE STORE by BEAMS". We can use the decoration material more than 300 kinds that they supervised.

 The operation is simple, but this has many functions. We can do all work of the collage in this. Placement of photos, resize, cut, filter, frame...

 Texts inputting... Because there are a lot of fonts and labels, I hesitate to put it together.

 Furthermore, there are various stamps in each magazines and brands.

 When we input a date and choose wall paper, it is completion! If you hesitate about photos placement, you can choose it among a template.

We can share the works in Facebook, Twitter, LINE and mail.

I tried this and thought that this is a choice of the collage apps. Anyway, this is convenient! Furthermore, all the decorations materials have good taste.

Now, it's only iOS version, but of course Recruit Holdings releases Android version in a few days. And cameran releases apps in the series as a visual apps brand from now on.

LINE started new e-novels portal "LINE Novel"

LINE started free novel service "LINE Novel". We can read original novels free in LINE. However, to our regret, it is still only Japanese.

At first, it is necessary to add an account of LINE Novel to our friends. It is similar to other official accounts.

Next, a message arrives from them, and tap a certain URL in that.

Then, we move to the portal page of LINE Novel.

And we choose the works which oneself wants to read.

Then each chapter arrives as a message on Wednesday, Monday and Friday in every week.

Cuts and the photos are attached to the chapter, too.

It is a totally new experience of e-book. Originally Japan had a custom to read a novel in mobile from the futurephone era - it is called ketai shosetsu(mobile novel)- so, the style to read a novel in mobile is not new in Japan. However, the novels of LINE Novel arrive every each chapter regularly little by little. It resembles magazine serialization and newspaper serialization. Besides, each novel are the original works which professional novelists wrote for LINE and all of them are free. It may be said that they are rich contents.

Popular manga Berserk becomes the smartphone game in GREE in this summer

Popular dark fantasy manga "Berserk" of Kentaro Miura becomes the social game for smartphones in GREE in this summer. It is released as iOS/Android apps. GREE starts pre-registration now, but unfortunately, it is only Japan.

Berserk is the popular manga more than 24 million of circulations in Japan and performed various crossmedia development such as TV anime, games, figures and movies. However, this is the first time that it becomes the social game.

It seem to based on a movie when we watch screenshots of under development. The genre is RPG. Users form a one's hired soldier corps and fight against hired soldier corpses of other users. Characters of Berserk appear as a helper by the battle. Most details have not been yet announced. However, this is one of the big titles surely for GREE.

Girls band Momoiro Clover Z dances on icecream cup by AR

Japan is rainy season now, and intense heat comes afterwards. Therefore Japanese ice cream maker Lotte Icecream performs an interesting AR tie-up with girls band Momoiro Clover Z.

At first, smartphone apps "Soukai! Mom-oclo no Futa no Ue Tour(爽快！ももクロフタの上ツアー)"(iOS/Android) is necessary.

This is representative cup ice cream "Sou" of Lotte Icecream. By this AR tie-up, the cover of this becomes the stage of the show.

We start apps and tap a "start(スタート)"(central icon).

And image recognition begins when we watch the cover of the cup with a camera.

Then 3DCG such as footlights, speakers, the logo appear...

Furthermore, members of Momoiro Clover Z appear, singing and dancing! It is very smooth, and the sound is clear, too. It is right a "show".

We shoot screenshot and can share it in Twitter and Facebook.

We can watch their video when we watch all the shows.

We can download this AR apps from the countries except Japan, and download image pdf of the cover of the cup ice cream from here.

iOS game apps that make boiled eggs of middle-aged Japanese men "Boiling OSSAN Eggs!"

Do you know the Japanese words called "OSSAN"? It means "middle-aged Japanese men" in Japanese. Japanese game startup comcept(It is the company which Keiji Inafune established!) released iOS game apps that make boiled eggs of Ossan "Boiling OSSAN Eggs!". And it broke through 300,000 downloading from release in one month.

"Boiling OSSAN Eggs!" is simple casual game that boild eggs in a boiling pot and make various boiled eggs. However, all boiled eggs are middle-aged Japanese men. When we peel off the egg shell, a face of OSSAN appears. And we collect various OSSAN eggs and complete pictorial record.

When we collect many different kinds of boiled OSSAN eggs, we can get a new boiling pot. We can make even more different kinds of boiled OSSAN eggs.

This is a general casual upbringing game in Japan. It is simple, but is still extremely popular. Those representatives is Nameko Saibai Kit(Mushroom Garden　a.k.a. Funghi Gardening Kit) series. Boiling OSSAN Eggs! is not cute unlike Nameko, but it is very surreal. So it gets popularity by only word of mouth.

By the way, according to them, this app demonstrates the irony of the modern day world. New egg (a baby) being thrown into the hot boiling water (the society), results in each unique boiled OSSAN egg. Unfortunately this has only Japanese support, but we can download this from App Store except Japan.