Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Douga holds an event in Singapore

If you live in Singapore and are interested in Japanese web culture, you must not overlook this event. Today, Japanese video sharing site nico nico Douga(ニコニコ動画) announced that they held a real event "niconico KUNIKAIGI -Japan Internet Culture Festival-" in Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre in December 5 - 7.

"Niconico is set to take Singapore by storm, with exclusive offerings. Organizers of South-east Asia's biggest Japanese Pop Culture festival, Anime Festival Asia, have announced an area of the venue dedicated to Niconico's off-line event, niconico KUNIKAIGI. Come celebrate the first overseas realization of Japan's Present Internet culture!"

nico nico Douga is not a mere video sharing site anymore. LPer of games, Dancers, singers, cos-players, handmade lovers, tech developers, etc... nico nico Douga finds stars of the web culture that is totally different from the mass media. They hold the real events that can sense appearance of a world of their web site. They holds nico nico Chokaigi(ニコニコ超会議:nico nico super meeting) every spring at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, and its country version in various parts of Japan. niconico KUNIKAIGI is those International version. A lot of Japanese nico nico stars appear on the event day, but Singaporean local PR project and Singapore and the international exchange project of Japanese users are carried out, too.

New sale technique of virtual goods in Japan: game items are attached when you buy real curry

Another pleasure of Tokyo Game Show is a food area. There have many gourmet booths and you can enjoy various local foods in Japan.

In addition, in a recent tendency, the foods cooperating with games increase.

The shops make menus about game titles and sell these to game fans. It is right a way of enjoying only in Tokyo Game Show.

 This is curry of Japanese MMO for smartphones Logres. Aiming of the online game / mobile game developer cooperated with the go-go curry of a famous curry shop chain, and sold the curry which assumed their mobile games a motif(Because a print sheet is rice paper , we can eat this).

One curry is 1,000 yen(About 9USD). You may think it's so expensive. However, virtual goods of three kinds of mobile games are attached to it. Because the cash value of virtual goods is approximately 2,000 yen, as a result, it is reasonable. Besides, the curry is delicious! :) This is the means that is good to get new fans of game titles.

Is booth babes sexism? Suck! Tokyo Game Show has hot booth boys

Are booth babes in the trade show discrimination against women? I think that it is SUCK whenever I watch this opinion. The reason why you think that booth babes are discrimination against women is that there is only "babes". If there are booth "boys"? It is right gender equality.

Voltage is one of the Japanese main mobile game developers and release many romance sim for women. They exhibited Tokyo Game Show 2014 secondary to last year.

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[TGS 2013] Voltage in Otome Game Area(area of games for women)

They made their booth huger this year and it was completely optimized for women.

Many women came here and it became the topic, and even men visited and became prosperous very well.

The cause of the topic is them - hot and cute booth boys!

Voltage appointed booth boys last year, but increased them more this year(There were even models from foreign country). They expressed the appearance of romance sim titles in each booth and Visitors were able to really experience the atmosphere of the games. They treated visitors more than 5,000 in four days. This expresses demand of booth boys.

In addition, Sunsoft(They release mobile romance sims for women, too) exhibited an interesting booth, too.

They are not boys, cool "girls" dressed as boys. Sunsoft cooperated with male attire cafe Re.sty and appointed them as booth "boys". They were popular from the both sides of men and women, and naturally it became the topic.

Booth babes, booth boys, cool girls dressed as boys, and cute boys dressed as girls... It is a true gender equality that there are all of them.

D3 PUBLISHER became the topic at Tokyo Game Show 2014 by interesting booth

Large-scale showy booths, sexy booth babes and cute character suits are institution of Tokyo Game Show. In particular, the designs of the booths are very worth seeing. Japanese game company D3 PUBLISHER became the topic by the design of an interesting booth this time.

What a COOL booth! I think that the guy who hit on this must be a genius.

This is a demo kiosk of action game for PS4 OneeChanbara Z2 CHAOS, the latest Oneechanbara title(This is R18 game. There is an age confirmation message in the top page in Japanese). Players insert their heads into a gigantic pair of breasts to play this game.



This is the sexy & violence game that beautiful women in a sexy bikini kill zombies with Katana. Because it has sexual expression and cruel expression, it receive the severest censorship in the Japanese game industry. In Tokyo Game Show, such the games must hide play screens.

D3 PUBLISHER rather utilized this regulation. The play screens were surely hidden, and they were able to get effectiveness of advertising more than it at time when they showed play screens. Do regulation and the censorship make game industry boring? No! We can overcome them by cool ideas.

Photos: Tokyo Game Show 2014

On 18 - 21 September, Tokyo Game Show 2014 was held at Makuhari Messe  and 251,832 people gathered. The number of exhibition companies were 421, and the overseas companies were 202. This is the first time that such many overseas companies exhibited in Tokyo Game Show. Probably the number of the exhibition of Japanese companies and overseas companies will reverse next year. These are photos of booths.

Other photos are here. Please check it!

By the way, the sky of Makuhari is really beautiful. We were able to watch a rainbow this time.