2.13.2015

Zombies drive away employees working overtime and promote Work–life balance

CAPCOM provides interesting service as promotion of their latest game Resident Evil: Revelations 2. This is supporting "No overtime work" -zombies dispatch campaign-.


In Japanese companies, there are few employees who do not work overtime. The overtime work becomes common in Japan and is the situation that it is far from realization of Work–life balance. Therefore CAPCOM dispatches zombies to the other companies, and surprise and drive away employees working overtime.


This service is free, but video where zombies attacked offices is shown on web later. This becomes the promotion for both of companies attacked by zombies and CAPCOM. If zombies attacked a working office? In the meantime, it will not be a working feeling anymore.

You can do dōjinshi fair play in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

A certain Japanese game player made interesting MOD in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This is it.


They are a pipe chair and a simple long table. Even these are considerably funny, furthermore can add a posters to a long table.



This is a scene of dōjinshi fair(同人誌即売会) such as Comiket definitely! Dōjinshi is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga and novels. The fair where amateur creators buy and sell this are held in various parts in Japan(via Wikipedia). You can reproduce this if you use this MOD and place the object of books on long table. The situation that a soldier in armor waits on customers in dōjinshi fair is very funny, but it may be said that it seems to be Otaku event.

In addition, pipe chair and long table are usable as a weapon. Of course it is also funny :)

 via http://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1502/13/news100.html
      http://dragonporn.ldblog.jp/archives/8046337.html

2.12.2015

King showed a snow statue of Candy Crush Soda Saga in Sapporo Snow Festival

King makes efforts in various original marketing and promotion in Japan since they establish a Japanese branch in last April. These are the largest in them. They showed a huge snow statue of Candy Crush Soda Saga in Sapporo Snow Festival held to February 5-11 in Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido.


Sapporo Snow Festival is one of the largest and most distinctive winter events in Japan. Various huge snow statues are made by volunteer citizens and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces every year.
The size of the King's snow statue was 5m(h)×10m(w). They showed snow statue and showed the projection mapping every night. 2,700 audiences gathered here on the first day.


This is a part of the "Soda Planet campaign" that King performs in global. They have already carried out such large-scale promotion in London and New York.

2.08.2015

A new theater opens in Yokohama in this spring, but human do not appear at all


The theater where only virtual characters of 3DCG appear opens in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa in this spring. Human singers and actors do not appear at all. Area is 800 square meters, the capacity are about 400 people. In the theater, the shows of CG characters such as the living theater, concerts, games, traditional arts, company events are held for a medium-and-long term. The theater aims at gathering audiences from not only Japan but also the foreign countries. If Hatsune Miku's show come to be always seen, it will be cool!

via http://www.atpress.ne.jp/view/55981

The relaxation apps that put bath time and a karaoke together


Bath time and the singing are the best methods for relaxation. Music contents company Fuji Pacific Music and Della released karaoke apps for Android "Furooke"(Furo + Karaoke: Furo means a bath in Japanese). The downloading is free, and they release the iOS version in this spring.



Furooke is a support tool to wash away fatigue and stress in bath time. Users can sing with α wave music-box music while watching beautiful video on Furooke. This adds the relaxation effect from eyes and ears to the bath time that simple hygiene. Users can sing three songs for free and add it for 1 song for 100yen.