Social game anime of GREE

Crossmedia of the social game is already common in Japan. Various goods about the social game are sold in Japan, and comics are published, and an anime cartoon is broadcasted.

Of course GREE is eager in them. GREE broadcasts an anime of their social game "Tanken Driland" now.

http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/Driland/

We can download Tanken Driland in US App Store. It is a card social game of the Japanese style.

 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/driland/id526595488?mt=8

The outline of the anime is a thing along the games, but more detailed settings are included. Surprisingly the episodes are uploaded free in Youtube. Of course they are official. This is very rare in Japan. Unfortunately it is only a Japanese sound, but you may enjoy an atmosphere.



Tanken Driland official Youtube Channel

The Peace Learning Archive in OKINAWA

Japan's Okinawa is the place where an intense ground war was carried out in Pacific War. And there are people killed in action of a large quantity of numerical private citizen. However, it is not known very much. Therefore Okinawa showed digital archive using Google Earth "The Peace Learning Archive in OKINAWA".

http://peacelearning.jp/

This is the archive which mapped data of the Okinawa ground war on Google Earth.

Many icons are displayed on Okinawa. The icons of the face of people show an interview video.

Click them, we can watch the interview Youtube video of the survivor of the Okinawa ground war.

Furthermore, we can watch photos of Okinawa at the time of the Pacific War. They are put on a map of current Okinawa.

An interesting point of these data are that not only the geolocation but also the time axes is given these. We can watch data with this "time slider".

For example, there are few data at the time of the Pacific War outbreak.

However, there are many data at the time of the Pacific War end.

In addition, Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum and Okinawa Archives Building cooperate with this archive production entirely. So many valuable data are collected. Besides, we can watch all this free.

This helps the peace learning of the school very much. Of course English is supported.

See also:
http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/49875/

The Japanese Finnish embassy personified their Twitter account

The Twitter account of the Finnish embassy(@FinEmbToky) is popular in Japan.

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Twitter account of the Finnish embassy is popular in Japan

Their Twitter account is called "Fin-tan(フィンたん)" to a Japanese Twitter user, and is loved. Therefore, they invited public participation for a personification character of Fin-tan.

Then such works gathered.

The works have been already used as their Twitter icon. In addition, these are used for the ticket design of a "Finland film festival 2012" started on September 15 in Tokyo.

via http://www.finland.or.jp/Public/default.aspx?contentid=255151&nodeid=41206&culture=ja-JP

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.

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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.