Manga of Nameko makes Japanese literature pleasant

I bought Manga "Nameko; complete series of literaturec".

The goods of the popular smartphone game apps Nameko Saibai Kit series overflow now in Japan. However, not only its goods but also Manga is published serially in Manga magazine for women Comic Spica. These Manga books are released to 2 volumes with the thing which settled it now.

The stories are not original. They arranged Japanese various famous novels by Nameko. Osamu Dazai's "The Setting Sun""Run, Melos!", Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's "The Spider's Thread", Sōseki Natsume's "Botchan", Ichiyō Higuchi's “Child’s Play”, Kenji Miyazawa's "The Restaurant of Many Orders""Gauche the Cellist", Atsushi Nakajima's "The Moon Above the Mountains", Takiji Kobayashi's "The Crab Cannery Ship", Kyūsaku Yumeno's "Girls' Hell"...etc... All of characters of masterpieces of various Japanese literature is replaced with Nameko!

It's humorous, funnily and very cute! and it has an effect to give friendly feeling to difficult novels. Furthermore, it derives readers to novels of the source.

1 Manga book is 650 yen(about 6.5USD). They already sold more than 250,000 books, and the release of Vol. 3 has been already decided, too.

Commemorative AR of Doraemon

Doraemon is Japanese popular Manga/Anime, and Movie of Doraemon is shown every year in Japan in March. The total audience mobilization number of them broke through 100 million people this year. This is a record more than the Godzilla series.

Therefore the commemorative AR contents of the Doraemon movie are shown now. AR apps for smartphones "mue Alive!" is necessary for watch this. Japan's Knowledge Works provides mue Alive! and is developed based on Aurasma.

At first, read Logo with a camera. Official Logo is here.

The first loading time is slightly long. We may wait for 1~2min.

Doraemon has begun to move!

And an commemorative video of Doraemon movie is played. *The sound is played, too.

Unfortunately only Japanese is supported, but it is very cute!

LINE has begun to sell music with a stamp(sticker)

Messaging apps LINE launched interesting music business. It is to sell a stamp(sticker) and music together.

They sell a stamp of G-DRAGON, the leader of Korean Boys band BIGBANG for 250yen(about 2.5USD). It is slightly more expensive than other LINE stamps. Other pay stamps are usually 170yen(about 1.7USD).

However, users who purchased a G-DRAGON stamp can listen his new song "Michi GO" in a LINE's talk room. In addition, this song is not yet released and is LINE monopoly offer. Users can get the audio file of the song by sending a stamp of G-DRAGON to his official LINE account. It will be easy for his fan to pay 250 yen for new song. Furthermore, they can get cute stamp, too. Now, music is virtual goods, and this is new style virtual goods business.

Invention of the Japanese university students: VR system which a sweetheart hugs from behind

This is invention letting us realize that we live in the 21st century. The students of Japan's Tsukuba University did interesting invention. At first please watch this video(from Noco Nico Douga).



This is the VR system which a sweetheart hugs from behind. One of the developers says "If I have a girlfriend, I think it's a good situation that she suddenly hug from behind me".

This VR system is comprised of a coat and headphones. The sound of headphones links arms installed in the coat, and brings sense of girlfriend hug from behind.

Nico Nico Douga users who saw this video say, "People who has no sense of direction of the effort" "If technology and academic ability are given to Hentai, it will become like this".

*In Nico Nico Douga, comment of users are displayed in a screen. If they are obstructive, click this icon which is under a screen.

mixi challenges a social game for smartphones again

Japanese social networking site mixi and Grenge, Joint venture of mixi and CyberAgent announced that they opens  new mobile social game platform of mixi "mixi collabo smage"(mixi collaboration smartphone game). It is going to open in the end of this month.

They releases puzzle game "Monpani" and a shooting game "Magical glider" as the first title. It is an interesting point that these are released as a native apps. mixi users can easily compete with a friend for score in these. Well, It is just similar to LINE Game and Kakao Game!

They offered a PC social games and a mobile social games until now. In the first place mixi was the social networking site that started a open platform earliest in Japan. However, unfortunately current mixi is the ruins. They yield to GREE and Mobage for a social game platform, and yield to LINE as community. Many people say that mixi is service of the old generation. This may be the key to revival of mixi.