This is English version of Japanese blog media "vsmedia". About Japanese Social Games & Apps, Augmented reality, Virtual Worlds, Avatar, Virtual Goods, Social Media, Fab Culture...etc...
SQUARE ENIX SMILEWORKS is the first Southeastern Asian subsidiary of Square Enix. They have already performed administration and the artwork drawing of social games of the Square Enix group.
In addition, they developed the mini-game of 2D virtual world Nicotto Town which a Smile Labo, one of the subsidiaries of Square Enix ran. They develop the new network game from now on. As the part, they are going to release an Indonesian version of Nicotto Town.
Many people miss this, but this is big news. Nicotto Town is the well-established virtual world of Japan. The number of the users are one-tenth of Ameba Pigg, but They open earlier than Ameba Pigg and continue service solidly more than 4 years. Japanese Virtual world have not succeeded until now any place other than Japan. Because virtual goods business was not established(purchasing will of Japanese virtual goods and the virtual currency is crazy!). However, a market and users of rising nations evolve every day. Probably SQUARE ENIX expect for it.
Because the form was too cool, many Japanese played with this. These are those parts.
Many Japanese associated foods to see MacPro somehow. They were called midnight foods terrorism because holding time of WWDC is the midnight in Japan time.
Of course there are the works except the foods, too. Such the fan art continue still increasing.
An important point of this suit is that Grani CEO Mr.Tani was a former project manager of gloops. Mr.Tani was a project manager and a director of "Dairenkei!! Odin Battle" and "Daisenran!! Battle of Records of the Three Kingdoms". He resigned from gloops in September, 2012 and established Grani afterwards. And they released "Shingoku no Valhalla Gate" on January 25, this year.
When I compile their claim, Grani imitated the social game of gloops, and gumi imitated the social game of Grani. It's a three‐cornered battle. Whose property is the idea of the game? Person? or company? The Tech industry has intense movement of talented people. This suit will produce new arguments in the Tech industry of Japan.
Japanese public broadcasting NHK reported shocking news this morning. According to it, a compulsory investigation into Japanese game company Index was conducted due to their reverse fraudulent accounting. Index announced the press release and accepted a raid.
Index is one of the Japanese famous game companies. They are parent companies of game brand Atlus and known for the mobile social game recently. However, unfortunately their recent achievements were bad.
They deny a fact of the window-dressing. According to them, the release schedule of latest games is not changed.
"What?! Rice-transplanting machine is stuck in mud? Wait, and I go to help you immediately!"---The local super hero of Akita Prefecture, plants rice and scatters popularity on the Internet in Japan.
His name is Chōjin Neiger(超神ネイガー: Super-God Neiger). He is a local super hero made by Tamotsu Ebina of an entrepreneur living in Nikaho city, Akita Prefecture. Ebina made Chōjin Neiger as a motif in tokusatsu heros such as Kamen Rider. However, his big characteristic is to be specialized in "local". The motifs of his design, finisher, and weapons are local specialty and the place name of Akita. His image source is Namahage of traditional folklore of Akita. And he always talks in a dialect of Akita(his Twitter is no exception, too).
It is the same in the business side. His show is held only in Akita, goods are sold only in Akita and TV CM where he appears is broadcasted only in Akita. Well, His fans must go to Akita to meet him. Ebina continued this business for 8 years, and it became the topic in all over the Japan as well as Akita. The local hero like him exists now in the all over Japan.
The character setting of Chōjin Neiger is that...
He is a young man of the farmer of Nikaho City, Akita. As for his family, ancestors are farmers from generation to generation, and he lives with a grandmother now. His favorite foods are rice and candied fig. Even if they are enemy, he does not attack women by the education of his grandmother.
He said in Twitter, "My name is Chōjin Neiger. I am the Guardian keeping peace of Akita. I am sorry, but am too busy now. The reason, as you see. But let's rush if there is a crying kids. I love your smile. See you." To see this photo, Japanese netizens understood the meaning. The rice-transplanting is a serious event for farmers.
He post continues doing a photos of the farming in Twitter. They are very funny! That a super hero works on a farm! :D It was shared in an instant in Japanese Internet world. Particularly, his photos were retweeted more than 4,000 times in Twitter. It was an opportunity to appeal to many people for agriculture. At last, the many newspapers reported his farming.
He has many suggestions about local business. Now, Japanese economy is the worst now. Furthermore, Japanese local economy is the worst. In Akita, the decline advances fastest in Japan. The sick people continue increasing, children are not born, the economy is lowest, the lands goes to ruin, and the people commit suicide. Can you imagine the living of farmers under such situation? It is the really WORST. However, the entrepreneur appears under such situation and can bring about interesting business and contents. And the social media can distribute them among Japan. We can study from him.
Please check his Twitter if you are interested in him. There are more photos there. You may not understand his posts, but most Japanese are the same as you, too. Because he talks in a dialect of Akita even in Twitter.
