Smartphone home screen customization community app "CocoPPa" get avatar function

Today, G-Crest and UNITED started pre-registration acceptance of new avatar service "CocoPPa Play" in Smartphone home screen customization community app "CocoPPa".

CocoPPa is popular apps of UNITED breaking through 18 million downloading. Users can make one's favorite image as the "one-touch icon" and place the icon on the home screen. Furthermore, users can customize home screens using image submitted by various creators and users. This is Japanese service, but 36% of users are American and popular in Asia, Europe, South America.

G-Crest is a subsidiary of CyberAgent, and develop online games, virtual worlds, avatar services and mobile games. In particular, the avatar of their casual virtual world @Games is known for a cute design. They released the Android version of this in last November, and it broke through 300,000 downloading.

According to the images of their press release, an avatar design of @Games is used for CocoPPa Play. Users make one's avatar in CocoPPa Play and can dress up in it with various fashion items. This may attract many CocoPPa users.

It was said that the Japanese virtual world business was over several years ago. However, CyberAgent's Ameba Pigg overcame it. LINE PLAY came up afterwards and succeeded in a global market. Now, virtual worlds and avatars must support smartphones and tablets.

The pre-registration to CocoPPa Play is possible all over the world as well as Japan.

Copy of Clash of Clans: DeNA releases a smartphone game of popular comics Attack on Titan

DeNA announced that they released a simulation game for smartphones of popular Manga/Anime "Attack on Titan(進撃の巨人)" in this winter.

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written by Hajime Isayama. It has become a big success, with over 28 million volumes in circulation as of 2013. (via Wikipedia)

The game of DeNA is one of them. The game is based on the world setting and image of comics. Players become a deportee from the community, build one's village in the wasteland and the wall, and prevent the attack of titan.

You will notice... well, This looks like a copy of Clash of Clans! This has the function to attack the village of other players and takes their resources. This seems to be the game that combined Attack on Titan with a Clash of Clans.

They accept the pre-registration in teaser site.

GMO Media performs global expansion of Live wallpaper of Doraemon

Live wallpaper is one of the popular contents for Android. Japan's GMO Media started global expansion of Live wallpaper of popular Manga/Anime Doraemon.

DORAEMON Secret Gadgets Ver. was released in Japan in July, 2012 and got the first place in Live wallpaper category and customize category in Japanese Google Play. In this wallpaper, Doraemon is playing with his secret gadgets freewheelingly. Furthermore, he does various actions when we tap and drag him. They are very cute!

GMO Media started Spanish, French, Korean, Malay, Chinese, Taiwanese, a Philippine word, Thai, Vietnamese, English support and sold this in Google Play of each country from today. Doraemon is popular in Asia, South America and Europe. They examine the support of other languages.

Ustream Asia broadcasts the Grand Sumo Tournament

Today, Ustream Asia announced that they broadcasted all programs of Grand Sumo Tournament in January12-26. This is the first trial during a history of the Japan Sumo Association.

However, some money is necessary that we watch these. The ticket cord is sold on official Ustream channel of Japan Sumo Association. Seasonal ticket is 120USD and daily ticket is 10USD(last day ticket is 15USD). All games and ceremony are broadcasted every day, and we can watch those archives until March 8.

Not only Sumo is sports, but also is traditional culture and is a ceremony of the Shinto. Official Ustream channel of Japan Sumo Association shows an English guidebook of the sumo.

The promoter of world's largest Otaku fair Comiket holds "Otaku summit" in 2015

Comiket(Comic Market) is the world's largest Otaku fair, and pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Otaku. You will understand if you watch this photo.

Usually, it held in the summer and winter at the Tokyo big sight, but the promoter of Comiket announced that they held "Otaku summit" at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on March 28 and 29, 2015.

http://www.comiket.co.jp/info-a/CS6/CS6announcementENG.html

Every five years Comic Market holds a Comiket Special, and this year's theme will be an "Otaku Summit." Japanese circles, general attendees, staff and corporate participants that are a regular feature at Comic Market will constitute the "Japanese delegates," who will be joined by overseas participants who are invited to participate in this "Global Comiket."

Originally they held Comiket Special every five years. They are held for an idea unlike normal Comiket. They invite creators, performers, event promoters and Otakus from the foreign countries this time. Events of Japan are poor at foreign language support. However, the support except Japanese is carried out at the Otaku summit.

I want to exhibit in this. However, the exhibition application battle will become the fierce battle.