Japanese funny Flash anime Eagle Talon is broadcasted in the U.S.

Yesterday, Japanese Flash anime production company DLE entertainment announced the tie-up with U.S. TV company United Television Broadcasting Systems(UTB). They broadcast Flash anime Eagle Talon in UTB from the end of this week.

DLE is a pioneer of the Flash anime production in Japan. Particularly, Eagle Talon produced from 2006 is their masterpiece. It was shown at every place such as TV, Web and movie. Furthermore, It collaborated with contents of other companies, characters, companies, local governments and appeared in virtual worlds, social games, mobile games, smartphone apps.


Eagle Talon is an absurd comedy anime. Members of a weak secret society plotting world conquest create a funny disturbance every time. DLE has already established subsidiary DLE Amarica in the Silicon Valley, but goes into the U.S. market in earnest triggered by broadcast in UTB. Furthermore, they intend to carry out the development of the character business in the future.

The end of Sekai: AR apps Sekai Camera is over in January

Yesterday, Japanese startup Tonchidot announced that they shut down AR apps "Sekai Camera" on January 22, 2014.

Sekai Camera debuted vividly in TechCrunch 50 of 2008. Sekai Camera became the topic with eccentric personality of former CEO Takahito Iguchi.




Sekai Camera was a pioneer of the Japanese smartphone AR apps. When an iOS version of this was released in September, 2009, many Japanese changed to iPhone from futurephone to use this. And the Sekai Camera iOS version broke through 100,000 downloading in four days after it was released. They were cool speed and numbers in those days. Afterwards, Many geolocation apps and AR apps were developed in Japan. Unfortunately they have been overtaken by rivals of the late departure, but Sekai Camera affected many startups.

By the way, what is Takahito Iguchi doing now? He resigns as Tonchidot CEO in December, 2011, establishes new company Telepathy and develops a wearable device Telepathy One.

DeNA entered the education-related business

DeNA begins the business except the social game.

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A new genre was added to them today. It is education. They released education business for children "Applizemi".

They offer a digital textbook to children through apps of Applizemi regularly. Of course their social game know-how is utilized in this, but it's not F2P. It's monthly subscription and charges are 980 yen every month. At first they contribute this in free of charge as a trial until June, 2014. They begin with national language, arithmetic and English digital texts for primary schoolchildren, and release the digital text of the junior high school and high school student in the future.

This is a Japanese traditional correspondence education. After a school was over, many Japanese children go to the private supplementary school, and even a correspondence education studies more at home. In addition, adults study for various qualification by a correspondence education, too. However, they are textbooks of the paper and sent to the home with a parcel every month. Now, It's the 21st century! :D All of them can replace with smartphone, tablet and apps. Probably DeNA aims at it.

Everything becomes cutey in Japan. Even if it is Unity

Unity is a giant of the multi-platform game developement tool. Of course there are many users in Japan. So Unity Technologies established Unity Japan in 2011. And they just began Japan's original development. They are Moe(萌え) and personification of Unity. They provide Japanese original character Unity-Chan to users gratis in 2014.

Unity-Chan("Chan" is familiar title affixed to people's names via Wiktionary) is a free asset and developers can use her for game development. Of course she is not simple asset. She is person that it is like a mascot character of Unity. She has detailed setting and voice.

Real name: Kohaku ootori(大鳥こはく)
Birth date: August 13
Blood type: AO
Favorite food: Curry croquette
Voice actor: Asuka Kakumoto

Her debut is Comic Market 85(Comiket) held in Tokyo Big Sight in 29-31, December. It's the world's biggest Otaku event, and Unity exhibits a booth in these companies area. They sell limited goods of Unity-Chan and appeal to a large number of Otaku for her.

I would like to know the comment of David Helgason about this :)

Japan got romance sim which fall in love with a printer at last

A strange game was born again from Japan. It's an ad-game of home-appliance maker brother. The title is "Burao in love". Well, it's romance sim for women, and Burao is printer!

Burao said, "Nice to meet you, my name is Bura Burao. My hobby is futsal. My favorite ink is magenta."

Burao changes its clothes(?).

"Take that! Flying over-head scanner cover shoot!!!"

Unfortunately this is only Japanese support, we can play about ten minutes willingly.