Angry Birds Seasons Cherry Blossom

Today, I played "Angry Birds Seasons - Cherry Blossom". It was very interesting! I enjoyed it!

 This is Angry Birds's first Japanese theme. Japanese custom called "Hanami" is designed.

 When overseas games takes in Japan in a design, it is usually strange and funny. Unfortunately, as for them, China, Korea and Japan were mixed and confused.

However, Angry Birds Seasons Cherry Blossom is natural. In an initial design of Rovio, there were the bird which dressed a Chonmage, the bird which did Kabuki make-up, a bird in judo wear, the bird which wore a protective gear of the kendo, the bird dressed in clothes of the ninja. However, there are not them in a game.
There were Mt. Fuji, Torii, cherry blossom, Norimaki(Kind of the sushi), Rice ball(Onigiri), Rice cake(Dango), Teapot(kyuusu) and wooden bowl(Owan) in a game. And Pigs wear a twisted Hachimaki.

The game is difficult, and it is hard to get three star. There are three bonus stages.

Dark fantasy card game for iPhone "Dark Summoner"

The social game of the card game(RPG) type is extreme popularity in Japan. I heard that a card game is some nerds' hobby in overseas. However, in Japan, everyone is familiar with it.

And the card game of very cool artwork was released.

It's "Dark Summoner". Dark Summoner is a dark fantasy. Various cool artworks are used for this.

These screenshot are Japanese versions, but there is the other languages support, too. Besides, it is free!

Official site
http://www.darksummoner.com/

Pre-registration for social game of Doraemon

DeNA releases the social game for mobile of Doraemon to this spring.
See also: Doraemon becomes social game in Mobage

This is a pre - registration screen. Kawaii! :)

Pre - registered users can gets a special virtual goods. This is "Japanese Manga artist style Doraemon". Kawaii! :)

Horror Bento became the topic among Japanese Twitter users

Japanese housewives are known by cooking artistic Bento.
Search "Japanese Kawaii Bento"

 However, such Bento became the topic in Twitter the day before yesterday.

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It's Bento of Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Nori and ketchup are effective! :) Eyeballs are eggs of the quails. This Bento is cool, but there is much only rice, and there are not vegetables at all.

Japanese geolocation game company Colopl develops various game application

Colopl is representative Japanese geolocation game company for futurephone. However, they develop the various game application for smartphones. Besides, they are 3D. This is one of them "Rhythm coin!".

 A bear of 2D(in the geolocation game)  becomes 3D and dances. Cute!

"Rhythm coin!" is simple coin pusher game. It is full 3DCG and physical operation is also included.

This is different from the geolocation game that they usually run. It seems that they are putting not only a geolocation game but all games into the view.

Japanese hoodlums social network service

Can hoodlums master social network service?  In Japanese hoodlums, it is possible. Japanese startup tasuke released social network service for hoodlums "Yanlove".

http://yanlove.jp/

The main function of this is profile, diary, message and footprint(access history ). There is no difference between the function of this and other social network services. However, the design is unique. All of the site is the showy design which Japanese hoodlums likes. If users turn into a charged fee user, they can decorate to profile page.
And the most individual point is that the entry item of the profile has "a guidance career" and "an arrest career".

I think that this is effective in logging in to a police officer in secret :)

AmebaPigg provides the virtual goods of new Doraemon movie to users

The 30th Doraemon movie is shown next month.

Doraemon - Nobita and miracle island

AmebaPigg performs collaboration with Doraemon from just one year ago. They added virtual goods of new Doraemon movie.

KAWAII!! :)

I got Doraemon figure! KAWAII!

Community "U2plus" which supports a melancholiac

Japan has melancholiacs more than 1 million people. The number of them is increasing, but prejudice and discrimination against depression are left in Japan firmly. However, this Web community may change the Japanese present conditions.

http://u2plus.jp/

U2plus was launched by Japanese Yasuhiro Toudou. According to his blog, once, he suffered from depression and thought about suicide. However, he made U2plus from this experience. He met the engineer and designer who have experience of depression like him in Twitter and a blog and started this project.

This is a slide of U2plus announced in 2012 Social Media Week Tokyo.

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View more presentations from Yasuhiro Toudou

Archive of Ustream is here 
Video streaming by Ustream

U2plus has the program which used cognitive-behavioral therapy as the base, and a function which the users of depression support mutually.  Users share the positive occurrence in a daily life mutually. And the feedback is carried out only through a buttons. Because it is not a free text, the negative chain does not occur. In addition, U2plus does not have the friend function either. Because friend application and the block produce the stress with pleasure. Therefore the timeline of U2plus resembles Tumblr than Twitter.

U2plus opens in January and has the registration of 1,000 users and 30 counselors now. Surprisingly they opened the English version of U2plus. This is rare in the Japanese community where weak in other languages.

http://u2plus.com/

This is Japan: Sex sleeve with the USB cable is extreme popularity in Japan

Now, Japan is the No.1 in the world by the invention about virtual sex. The gadget which could have sex with a virtual girl was commercialized at last. Besides, it is high-performance and low-cost.

  USBオナホールと3Dカスタム少女

"USB ona - hole" 7709 yen in Amazon Japan (about 96USD). This links game for PC "3D custom girl". Users can put various parts together, and customise one's favorite beautiful girl. If there is "USB ona - hole", users can virtual sex with this beautiful girl. It can detect size and speed and can let it link the motion of the virtual girl. The CG of the virtual girl plays a motion and a voice with it. This is not "USB ona - hole", but similar.



Now, it is too popular and out of stock.  The hacker who was able to get it also fortunately did interesting invention using it. It is "masturbation measurement software".

via http://blog.livedoor.jp/himasoku123/archives/51696310.html

Users can measure the time of masturbation, number of times of insertion and average number of hours. Furthermore, they contribute those data to Twitter and can share it with a friend. This became the topic among Japanese geeks very much. This should be called "USB ona - hole hack". If "USB ona - hole" and "3D custom girl" are exported to overseas, the movement that is more splendid than Kinect hack will arise.

In addition, the virtual deep kiss system is studied in Japan.

Let's compete for augmented reality big boobs

Ningen is very individual and funny Japanese startup. (Ningen means a human being in Japanese) They made many interesting products, web service, and artworks until now. There is "augmented rearity big boobs" in them. Augmented rearity big boobs is Kinect hack works. Anyone who play this can get big boobs.



They hold a contest "Kinect big boobs WORLD CUP 2012" more.

There are enjoy section and customize section in Kinect big boobs WORLD CUP 2012. videos enjoying augmented reality big boobs is examined in Enjoy section. And arrangement of the cord of augmented reality big boobs are examined in Customize sectionm.

Zynga's Japanese taste iOS game application

Zynga releases a lot of mobile game recently. They released new game application for iOS today.

This is "MONTOPIA". Frankly speaking, it is a game such as Pokemon.

Users can gather monsters, venturing various places. The kinds of monsters are more than 200.

Zynga Japan supervised the design of this. Now, it is given precedence only in Japan, but will be given global later.

A Japanese prominent old gamer says "I cancel all work if Resident Evil6 is released"

YuZo Kayama of the Japanese musician / actor is 75 years old, but he is a heavy gamer. He loves the Capcom's game "Resident Evil" series very much. He appeared in a program of local radio FM Okayama and said.

"I cancel all work if Resident Evil6 is released. Movies, Novels and games are entertainment. However, Games can make a story with myself. Dead or alive of a character are according to myself. Games has infinite possibilities. I can't play games in the interval of work. I have to secure time firmly and have to play a game from the front."

By the way, he is a friend with another Japanese old gamer Shiro Suzuki.

See also:
Awesome 72 years old gamer
Japanese 72years old gamer said, "Game has the effect to reduce crime"

They talked about Resident Evil series in the end of last month.
http://japan.gamespot.com/extra/biohazard_201201/35013022/

via
http://blog.livedoor.jp/himasoku123/archives/51699003.html

Let's play on a bald men's head

Japanese application developer Cyder released funny iOS application. It's “Hage-mu” ("Hage" means bald head in Japanese. Hage(bald) and game = Hage-mu).

hage-mu is game apps that gliding on the bald heads of guys from around the world. this is simple but difficult. we balance a snowboard on top of a bald men’s head and try not to slip off.

It’s supported on Game Center and you can share your score with other users.

In this sequel “Hage-mu 2”, we get the flag stuck on bald head.

Refuge administration game

Japanese politicians are really stupid. However, the citizen knows it enough. So, they control ourselves in emergency. 1 year passes from East Japan big earthquake disaster soon. The trial to simulate the administration of the refuge using a card game is carried out now in Tohoku.

Players learn a way of the administration of the refuge through playing a card game. The setting of a game is "an elementary school of the stricken area where all lifelines were severed". The player must take the refugee of various kind to the elementary school which became the refuge quickly. Furthermore, they must keep community after refuge.

How about commercializing this card game?