NHN Japan parts with CosPlay Social Networking Service "Cure" and "WorldCosplay"

This news may be important if you are interested in Japanese CosPlay. NHN Japan transferred CosPlay Social Networking Service "Cure" and "WorldCosplay" to pixiv.

Cure is Social Networking Service for CosPlayer which opened in August, 2001 and has 950,000 users. Users can share one's CosPlay photo.

WorldCosplay is CosPlay Social Networking Service of the world wide version which opened in January, 2012 and They support 12 languages. Many foreigners CosPlayer register here.

This business transfer may be business reorganization of NHN Japan. Now, NHN Japan is known as a company of popular messaging application LINE. On the other hand, pixiv runs popular illustration Social Networking Service "pixiv". pixiv supports 7 languages and has many overseas users. They establish a subsidiary for administration of Cure and WorldCosplay.

Doraemon in Ameba Pigg!

New Doraemon movie "Doraemon: Nobita and Secret Gadget Museum" is shown in Japan in March 9.



Therefore, a virtual goods tie-up is carried out now in popular virtual world Ameba Pigg. This is the third year in this year.

Kawaii!

Doraemon has Small-light(One of the gadgets of Doraemon). So...

Let's play smaller avatar size! We can become small by inputting it into "/min" in a chat window.

Various items that a movie became the motif are in Gacha. Gacha one time is 250Ameba Gold(250yen :about 2.74USD).

Such coordinates are possible when we get these.

Only in Japan: iPhone case made by a rice cracker

Souvenir company RAKKI in Yamaguchi sells interesting iPhone goods. t is iPhone cover made by a SENBEI(煎餅:rice cracker). They sell this as an edible survival rice cracker in emergency.

All rice crackers are made with manual labor by craftsmen, and there are the hole for cameras. However, it have a problem. It is very difficult to attach it to iPhone, and Possibility to fail is 76%.

However, it becomes the topic very much, 500 sold in instants when they started a Web mail order.

In addition, this is manufactured from unpolished rice. Of course its taste is delicious!

Japanese girl gives love to a lover by 3D scanner, 3D printer and chocolate

The manners and customs of Valentine's Day in Japan are strange. In Japan, women give chocolate to a sweetheart on St Valentine's Day. Probably, the sweets company thought of it for business. However, it has completely rooted in Japan.


Then, cafe "FabCafe" in Shibuya which has a laser cutter and 3D printer will hold an interesting workshop in February. Only a woman can participate in it.

Well, it is an event which makes the own face chocolate using 3D scanner and 3D printer.

The example of "3D Photo booth" which made own figure with 3D scanner and 3D printer existed until now. However, as for the example which uses chocolate as a material, this will be the first. This workshop is two days, and the tuition is 6,000 yen(about 67.7 USD). It costs time and money. However, this is very popular, and a reservation has been buried immediately.


Do you want the chocolate of a sweetheart's face?

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ものづくり女子限定！ハイスペックすぎる自分型チョコレートを贈ろうの会

Is this an object? No, it is costume.

Rovio does Angry Birds promotion in Japan. However, the method seems to be slightly different from other countries. These are the photo which Angry Birds Japan introduced in Twitter.

This is photos of a promotion event held in Osaka late last week. This big rea bird is not an object. A person in this, in other words this is "costume". Red bird does not have a foot and a wing, but this can move. Because a person having low height -probably woman- in this.

I watch such photo in overseas websites frequently.

Such a costume cannot be familiar in Japan. Because the face of the person of the inside appears. When we wear costume in Japan, we must turn into the character completely. And audience believe heartily that it is a character not costume. In the event of Osaka, red bird was not costume but a live bird.

By the way, a lot of companies making such a costume are in Japan, and it is called "Kigurumi（着ぐるみ）" in Japan. 

By the way, Rovio opened Japanese official site of Angry Birds today.

http://www.angrybirds.com/jp/index.html

Please check it if you are interested in Japanese.