7.10.2014

[Photo Report] Nameko shop preview in Basement of Tokyo Station

I wrote that a real shop of Japanese mobile game superstar Nameko opened in the basement of Tokyo Station.

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Nameko's goods shop opens in Tokyo Station

Beeworks, the developer of the Nameko series held a preview of Nameko shop for press today. There was "Nameko heaven" definitely.


 The cute picture was drawn on the shutter, and it pleased passersby. Elderly people of the tourist who spoke Chinese photographed it early. Nameko is very popular now in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and Beeworks examines advance to Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.










Stuffed toys, figures, T-shirts, stationery, Books, candy, snack, Snacks, etc... This shop has every good of Nameko.

 This is T-shirts for adults. Well, Nameko fans are not only children. Rather adults are absorbed in it than children :)


What is this? This is Yaki-Nori(toasted seaweed: Japanese general food products)!



These cookies are just right for a souvenir. Japanese people share such boxes of cookies with family, relative and fellow workers.

This shop is very interesting as a research object of the real goods business in the Japanese mobile game industry. It opens officially at 10:00 of July 10. You can meet Nameko anytime if you go there.

Shop Info:
Place: Tokyo Station Ichibangai Character street
Open date: July 10, 2014
Time: AM10:00~PM8:30

7.08.2014

Voltage appealed to American for their Romance Sim in ANIME EXOP 2014

Anime fair ANIME EXOP 2014 was held last week in Los Angeles and various Japanese companies exhibited. A characteristic point of this year is that there was many exhibition of mobile games. One of Japanese mobile romance sim developer Voltage showed photographs of the booth.



They installed the booth which assumed the Japanese summer festival a motif. It reproduces a Shinto shrine of Japan.

American models did the cos-play of characters of romance sim. They were very popular, and there were a lot of visitors who wanted to take a photo with them.

Stickers of characters were given visitors. They were prepared for 1,300 pieces beforehand, but became out of stock immediately.



Voltage is a one of Japanese romance sim developer who did a global market advance and support smartphone/tablet quickly. "My Forged Wedding" came first in the top sales ranking of the entertainment category of App Store of 48 countries including the U.S.

Disney's Frozen in Japanese virtual World Ameba Pigg

Of course Disney's "Frozen" make a big hit in Japan. Therefore Disney Japan starts tie-ups in virtual worlds at once. Ameba Pigg deformed Frozen cutely.

 They open the Frozen area that reproduced a castle of the ice. We can listen to a karaoke ver. of "Let It Go" as BGM here.




There are characters deformed by Ameba Pigg-style in this area, and users can photograph screenshot with them.

Gacha -The gimmick that it is indispensable to Japanese virtual goods business- sells Various fashion items and furniture. One of them are about 2.5USD.



Users can reproduce such a room and avatars by collecting these. They are really pretty.

6.24.2014

Nameko's goods shop opens in Tokyo Station


Japanese mobile game superstar Nameko gets his own shop at last. Nameko Ichiba Tokyo Honten(なめこ市場 東京本店:Nameko market Tokyo head shop) opens in  Tokyo Station on July 10.

BeeWorks of the Nameko developer They were very popular, and events held at Tokyo Station were always topic in particular.held events to sell goods of Nameko many times until now. Therefore they decided to establish a shop of Nameko permanently at Tokyo Station.

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Nameko fair of winter in Tokyo station


This is the appearance of the shop. Pretty picture is drawn on the shutter and can please people after closing a shop.

Special Nameko for this shop is designed.


This is an open commemorative illustration. The postcard and the clear file using this are presented for visitors.

Business hours of the shops are from 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Please check the structure of the shopping mall in Tokyo Station if you want to go here.

6.23.2014

The Japanese personifies everything, even sushi

Fighters, tanks, battleships, weapons, castles... etc, The Japanese personifies everything. Japanese startup Koyonplete released romance sim for women "Love! Sushi Rangers".


Love! Sushi Rangers is an iOS/Android Otome game(乙女ゲーム: Romance sim for women). A main character is a daughter of the well-established sushi restaurant, she lives with six pretty boys and loves some among them. But all of them are sushi.

One day, suddenly, father of the sushi chef said that he’s going on a world tour for one month. Meanwhile, she must run a sushi restaurant alone, and she has been completely at a loss.


However, six materials of sushi turn into pretty boys to help her.

Boys whom we can capture are these four. Maguro (tuna) is the most popular of this group and hot-blooded man, Shake(salmon) is the Maguro’s rival, Ikura(Salmon roe) is the Salmon’s little brother, and Tamago(egg) is the Ikura’s best friend. In addition, there are shrimp and avocado as a support character.





Basic contents are Novell game. When we go on reading a story, we will occasionally come across multiple choice questions. Based on answer, we can get affection points of characters.

The setup of this game is surely crazy. However, this is general Japanese romance sim, and rather the system is simple and easy(The knowledge about fishes are occasionally reflected in a conversation).

In addition, the cool point of this game is language support. We can play this in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English. It is possible even to change languages every lines. We seem to be able to apply this in language learning.

This becomes the good guide if you are interested in Japanese romance sim for women.

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