DeNA releases a new running game for mobile. The title is "Hungry Bird"

It's not Angry, is "Hungry".

DeNA announced that they released a new running game for mobile. The title is very unique. This is "Angry Yoshida-kun and Hungry Bird". You would already notice. This is parody.

Who is Yoshida-kun? He is a character of Japanese popular Flush anime cartoon series Eagle Talon.


Eagle Talon performed a lot of media mix development until now. Mobile social games are kind of them. Various games about Eagle Talon have been developed so far. They had a common point. It is "parody". Eagle Talon keeps parody mind in what kind of works. Therefore this time, naturally they had their eyes on a Finnish game! :)

The contents of the game are action games of the horizontal scrolling. What is Hungry Bird? We do not yet understand it.

Sea fight simulation game Kan Colle opens a cafe in Akihabara

I wrote it about simulation game Kan Colle which personified battleships of the Japanese empire navy of WW II to cute girls.

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Its popularity still soars, and broke through 1 million users. Because half or more are active users, server enlargement does not yet catch up with it. The "real" business of Kan Colle continues increasing as if it is its substitute. they announced that they opened time-limited cafe MAMIYA(甘味処間宮) in Akihabara.

The "MAMIYA" was a food supply ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and become a character in Kan Colle.

Opening period is from October 16 ~ December 15. During this period, various original menus in connection with Kan Colle are contributed to visitors. Furthermore, the original goods are sold, too. It is sure to get the large prosperity.

Japanese popular mobile apps character Nameko becomes the Anime at last

This business model may resemble Angry Birds. However, in Japan, Nameko raises profit in extreme popularity than Angry Birds.

Developer of "Nameko Saibai Kit" series Beeworks and their goods sale company Furyu announced that they released a long piece Anime of Nameko "Nameko Family(なめこ家の一族)" on December 20. Interesting one is in release form. They sell DVD of 2,940yen(about 30USD) suddenly. Furthermore, it has been already decided that it is released to three volumes in future.

This is general business model of the  anime called OVA(Original Video Anime) in Japan. OVA are not shown in a movie theater and not broadcasted on TV. They are made only for sale from the first. They have many experimental works because they do not need to mind broadcast rating.

"Nameko Family" is an experimental work, too. It expresses a nostalgic Japanese lifestyle(Showa period). Furthermore, Nameko do not talk at all. This is very rare in the Japanimation. Because voice actors are very popular in Japan, and their performance is an important popular element in Anime.

On the other hand, a lot of cute motions of Naneko and music are expressed in Nameko Family. This is semi-silent anime. Reservation acceptance has already begun in Amazon.co.jp.

Even tanks become cute girls in Japan

I wrote it about simulation game Kan Colle which personified battleships of the Japanese empire navy of WW II to cute girls.

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Battleships of the Japanese empire navy are personified as girls in a social game
"Kan Colle" --- simulation game that personified battleships of the Japanese empire navy as girls

It is very popular now. However, Japanese game developer Polka Dot develops the smartphone game that personified tanks of WW II to cute girls. The title is "Battle Tank Girls". Surprisingly this is developed by the team of only 3 people. Furthermore, they collected development funds in crowd funding.

Battle Tank Girls is a battle simulation game for smartphonrs(native apps). Tanks of the nations which participated in WW II appear for the game. What many characters! All tanks become the different kinds of cute and sexy girls.

At first, they collected development funds with the goal of 100,000 yen in Japanese crowd funding site CAMPFIRE. However, it was accomplished in no time. Furthermore, they have already collected more than 900,000 yen to remain for another 32 days until the deadline. It is 9 times of the aim! and probably it exceeds 1M yen.

They use this for advertising costs mainly. Now, the advertising costs are increasing in the Japanese social game industry, and it is important. Battle Tank Girls made a good start.

Faster than SnapChat! Japanese messaging apps SeeSaw deletes photo in 1 sec

hw say "What for?". You are absolutely right! :D
Japanese classified advertisement, publication and human resources company Recruit Holdings released funny messaging application for  smartphones "SeeSaw".

SeeSaw is apps to communicate with friends with photos(There is a doodle function). Seemingly this looks like a copy of Snapchat, and most of its functions are the same. However, the big difference is photos deletion speed. SeeSaw deletes photos in a minimum period of 1 second. What can we confirm in only 1 second?! Furthermore, we can set photos watching time only 8 seconds even the longest. In the meantime, it is faster than Snapchat. May the Japanese discover the new communication using this?