Localization for North America of Japanese dating sim for women

Not only men but also women play dating sim in Japan. Voltage is a developer Dating sim for women of Japanese representative. They release dating sim application for smartphones for the North America market. They released "Be My Princess" yesterday. This is for North America localization of Japanese "Oujisama no propose(王子様のプロポーズ)". They largely changed graphic for North America.

Japanese ver.

North America ver.

Which do you like?

Next tie-up of Pigg Life and Disney is "Winnie-the-Pooh"

"Pigg Life"(Farming social game in Japanese popular virtual world AmebaPigg) tie-up with Disney twice in the past.

See also:
Social game of AmebaPigg enforced a tie-up quest with Disney
Disney is active in virtual business in Japan

They perform the third tie-up now. It is "Winnie-the-Pooh" this time.

We can plant an oak in one's garden. When time passes, we have hives on an oak.

We gather honey from them and can cook various sweets. Winnie-the-Pooh is designed in them.

Of course the avatar can eat this.

We can get virtual goods of various Winnie-the-Pooh when we handle a quest.

Furthermore, the cute special area opens this time. 

Let's learn how to fold origami by Chrome application "Origami Player"

Japanese "Origami" is one of the best time killing. If there is even the paper of the square, we can do it everywhere. It does not cost the money. In addition, it will be the best as a hobby of the children. Japanese children do Origami by the class of a kindergarten and the elementary school by all means. However, unfortunately we leave it as we become an adult. This Chrome application "Origami Player" is useful in such a case.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiomepakkenneiifjocbinkmmampfbdn?hl=ja

"Origami Player" is application teaching how to fold origami on 3DCG video. Of course it support English.

This is how to fold Crane, the basic of the origami.

My works

Made by Japanese gaily colored Yuzen paper.

In this way, Origami Player teaches how to folding more than 140 kinds. Virtual currencies are necessary for some, but we can get them by post a works photos and inviting a friend.

It is a pleasure to watch works of other users.

Let's study English conversation in zombies!

A Japanese is poor at English. Of course we notice it and spend vast time and money on English learning. However, we do not improve at all.

Therefore Japanese developer KAWASEMI Co., Ltd. released interesting iPhone application "Zombie business English".

It is the business English conversation learning application that expressed the businessman who must go to the company even if he becomes the zombie.

"Let's say at the time of meal after become a zombie"

"If the friends of the zombie increase, let's say"

"When expressing an early zombie-ized phenomenon to someone, let's say"

These are the very strange situation, but it is impressive. This is an aim of this application. We can utilize these in everyday life if we replace a word with the situation.

However, if I become a zombie, I'll not go to a company :)

Anonymous worked on cleaning in Comiket 82

Anonymous worked on cleaning last month in Shibuya, Tokyo. Following it, they cleaned today in Comiket 82.

via @Operation_ACS［Twitter］

Comiket(Comic Market) is world's largest self-published book fair. However, it becomes the festival of every expression activity now. Or it is a festival of world's largest Otaku. All of expression activity exists here. Comics, novel, criticism, illustration, photo, handmade product, game, music, cos- play etc...

However, some stupids criticize this grand event.(The reasons are young people protection and a problem of the copyrights) However, the most of the criticism are often irrelevant.

Anonymous did Tweet in this way in Twitter. "We fight thoroughly to keep the freedom of expression of all people". They did garbage picking in the Ariake big site of the place of Comiket. The activity is very cool.

via Kotaku Japan

Angry Birds seems to be adjusting to Japan

I found an interesting photo in Facebook.

This is a photo of the Star Festival of Asagaya, Tokyo. On the Star Festival of Asagaya, various big lanterns which residents made are displayed every year. They are often popular characters. Angry Birds joined them this year.

SlipKnoT holds a UGC contest in a Japanese illustration social network "pixiv"

pixiv is UGC social network of the biggest in Japan. Many users contribute the illustrations which oneself drew and share them. Recently, pixiv started the support of languages except the Japanese.

They aim at the global expansion. And they did tie-up with an overseas artist for the first time today.

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=28868928

Why with SlipKnoT? This is an illustration contest held in commemoration of release of best album "Antennas To Hell" of SlipKnoT. they are very popular in Japan and pixiv had a lot of illustration works of SlipKnoT than before.







Kawaii! :)
The contest is held until August 31. Various original goods of SlipKnoT are presented to winners of the contest.

It's Japanese style breastaurant: If you like a robot and big boob, go here!

I knew that breastaurant were popular in US. It may be said that this is breastaurant of the Japanese style.

This is the robot restaurant which opened in Shinjuku,Tokyo.

"robot restaurant" is the hot restaurant which young women steer huge robots and shows a performance. The cost of big boob robots is one 30 million yen. And the total cost of construction of the restaurant is 10 billion yen.

The charge is 3,000 yen. You may think it's expensive. However, all the services such as show view, foods, 1drink are included.

See Also:
Culture Japan
http://youpouch.com/2012/07/20/73975/

The Japanese developer made an active trash box

The Japanese developer made an intellectual trash box. Besides, he did all steps such as idea, design, assembling only in himself.

 

The trash box senses thrown garbage by a sensor of Kinect and moves.

This becomes the topic very much now in Japanese Internet community. Everyone says that he should commercialize this.

Nameko everywhere

Do you know a character of the most popular game application in Japan? Angry Birds? Plants vs. Zombies? Fruit Ninja? No! this is Nameko!

See also:
The game application which is the most popular in Japan is a "nameko mushroom"
Japanese popular game apps "Nameko" goes music! 


The Nameko spread now in every place of Japan. I wrote that Nameko goods were sold and a music CD was released. However, Nameko increased more. It is a game arcade in the large shopping mall of the workplace of my younger brother.

A lot of crane games of Nameko! Akita where I live in is the country that went to ruin most in Japan. However, the crane games of Nameko were placed at the same period as Tokyo. This is just popular manifestation of Nameko.


Furthermore, the fan art increase explosively, too. A lot of fan art of Nameko are contributed to Japanese illustration social network pixiv. Fan videos are uploaded in Youtube.


This is fan made original song and art.


The other user made cool 3DCG with this as material







In addition, Nameko jumps out of one's game application and multiplies in the application of other companies.

Nameko became the "LINE stamp". (LINE is a messanging apps for smartphone from NHN Japan)

And Nameko appeared in the social game for PC "Makiba Seikatsu Hitsuji Mura(Ranch life sheep village)".

It seems that Nameko is popular not only throughout Japan but Asia now. According to the official site of Nameko, he went to Taiwan recently.

By the way, Nameko is originally kind of the Japanese mushroom. 

via Wiki

Is Nameko eaten in countries other than Japan? 

Can Ameba Pigg beat Turntable.fm? They added a social music function

Ameba Pigg is the virtual world where is the most popular in Japan. They have users more than 20 million. Many entertainers and artists log in here, too.

They added a new function "channel floor area" yesterday.

Ameba Pigg users can share favorite Youtube video here. It is right DJ(VJ) play.

We can make one's playlist beforehand.

We search Youtube video and can put it in a playlist.

Like? or don't like? Let's evaluate video!

We can become a fan of favorite DJ.

The avatars shake automatically when we enter the floor. Such a direction is important to the virtual world. It lets us make the feeling that really listens to music.

There may be the people who noticed. This resembles Turntable.fm very much. Furthermore, this resembles Japanese new social music service Beatrobo very much.

See also:
Kawaii social music service "Beatrobo"


For Beatrobo, the new function of this Ameba Pigg is a menace. Ameba Pigg has users more than 20 million. Users of entertainers and artists are included in that, too. Furthermore, the tie-up with many artists were carried out until now in Ameba Pigg. They have already had know-how to join artists and users together. I think this new function to be conjugated by the tie-up with the artist.