21 kinds characters of Yo-Kai Watch and Level-5 CEO prayed at Shinto shrine

On January 8, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino and 21 kinds of Yo-Kai Watch characters went and worshiped at Kanda-Myōjin(神田明神) which is one of the representative Shinto shrines of Tokyo. It is really cute!

They prayed for the big hit of their movie "映画 妖怪ウォッチ エンマ大王と5つの物語だニャン！(Yo-Kai Watch the Movie 2: King Enma and the 5 Stories, Nyan!)". It beat Star Wars in a box-office records, but they aim at the further hit.

How ‘Yo-Kai Watch’ beat ‘Star Wars’ at the box office in Japan(The Japan Times)

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You may see these oddly. However, this is a serious holy ritual. When we pray for something to gods, we have the Shinto priest of the Shinto shrine advance Norito(祝詞: ancient Japanese Liturgy) for gods in place of us. The Shinto priest must read names of all attendants of the ritual aloud on this occasion. The Shinto priest of Kanda-Myōjin would be desperate to stifle laughter. Because he had to read aloud names of 21 kinds of Yo-Kais.
Another photos are here.

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The 72-years-old retirement old man makes LINE stickers and makes money than his active career

I wrote about the elderly person drawing cool pictures by Excel before.

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Now, the 72-year-old retirement old man who designed LINE stickers using Excel becomes the topic in Japan. The LINE ticker sets which he drew by Excel are 27 kinds and each of them is original.

Seiji Tazawa of the designer worked as a construction manager of the electric equipment construction. He at the age of 52 years old, he had to learn how to use PC because his workplace introduced PCs. However, his workplace had none of people who knew a lot about PCs, and he learned how to use of Windows 95 by self-education. He found that he could draw illustrations by Excel and it was convenient on this occasion. He opened own web site "Tazawa Enterprise" and showed the illustrations which ne drew by Excel. He has begun to make LINE stickers by the advice from his grandchild. He has not used smartphone and LINE till then, but he manages them and communicates with a grandchild in LINE now.

His individual LINE stickers became the topic among Japanese Twitter users. As a result, his LINE stickers made a big hit, and he got income 5 times as large as the his active career. His most confidence stickers are about the safety management of the construction area. These are designed based on his career.

This article has his photos
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Waste of a talent; Operate Puzzle & Dragons using ass

Puzzle & Dragons is a Gungho's popular mobile game. It passed 39 million downloading in Japan and passed 9 million downloading in North America. However, a certain Japanese developer developed the system which could play it with buttocks. It is so to speak "Buttocks & Dragons".

This is the motion system which can operate a puzzle panel by moving buttocks(Probably he uses Kinect). He projects his figure on the camera and play Puzzle & Dragons by letting it recognize the position of buttocks. He wore black tights to raise the recognition precision of buttocks. He developed it to show this as entertainment of the year-end party. He is surely a superior developer. The video is here.

Clip lens for mobile of the super wide-angle type

Do you want to take selfie photos which are a high quality by easily? Wide-angle lens OWL- MALENS02 is very simple. You only attach it to mobile by a clip, and can take selfie photos of the wide-angle than normal clip lens. Because it is available for the photography of the range that is wide at 0.4 magnification, it is convenient for photography of group photos. In addition, you can take bright photos because a lens reducing vignetting(darkening of the perimeter of a photos) is used for it. It is available to mobile that is less than thickness 2cm and with less than 3.5cm of length from the edge to the center of the camera lens. Its color variations are black and silver and released in the middle of January.

The charge cable which is stand close to mobile with a magnet

If there is an charge cable available in both of iPhone and Android, it is convenient. Furthermore, it is more convenient if it is changed in one-touch. This iina-inobe magnet cable is just such a charge cable. When we attach magnet-type small adapters to charging inlets of mobile, the cable just sticks to them by the power of the magnet and begins charge immediately. The cable is reversible structure without front and back, and have Lightning type and Micro-USB type. In addition, this is available for not only the charge but also data transfer. This is the project that started on December 28, 2015 in crowdfunding platform Makuake, and raised aim amount of money 300,000 yen in only two days. Afterwards, it raised 3 million yen in ten days. You can reserve this in 34%OFF of the general sales price until January 29.