LINE sticker finding new talent. Even 7-year-old kids

Japanese tech media ITmedia shows a cool episode.

LINE Creators Market is the market place that users of message application LINE can sell with own illustrations as a LINE sticker. Many housewives, students and office workers draw LINE stickers as a hobby and a side business in Japan. Most of them do not receive education about the art.

Hanaka of a 7 years old girl living in Tokyo is one in them. She draws illustrations of the cuttlefish, and it was used by celebrities and became the unexpected topic.

It will be difficult to devise the design of one set/40 kinds of LINE sticker even in adults. However, Hanaka says "it was easy". Hanaka draws illustrations well in home and a school and they are popular among her classmates and neighboring adults. Her father thinks that the illustrations of his daughter are interesting and he wanted to send them to relatives with a messenger. However, LINE Creators Market opened in this February. He knows it and thought to make illustrations of his daughter LINE sticker. He says "I only wanted to show off my daughter's illustrations. It's doting parents".

Hanaka's cuttlefish sticker was sold in LINE Creators Market on April 17. Her relatives and friends purchased it at first, but popular model Yura talked in Twitter about using Hanaka's stickers in the beginning of June. In August, popular pop singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu used these. too.

良すぎてプロデューサー本人にLINEしてしまった、、、 pic.twitter.com/cdMVw8EWkK
— きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ (@pamyurin) August 17, 2014

Furthermore, the uncle of Hanaka Taisuke Fukuno(He is CEO of Japanese tech startup jig.jp) wrote an article about her sticker on his blog, and the reaction spread more.

As a result of these, she earns 10,000 yen(about 9.5USD), and bought a cool bicycle. She is full of creative enthusiasm, and she makes the octopus sticker now.

via http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1409/05/news057.html

Hello Kitty cooperates with panties for smartphones

Japan has panties for smartphones.

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Hello Kitty was known by handling any work, and announced that she cooperated with this today. The title is "Hello Pantty".

This is a special product released in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Hello Kitty. The price is 1,200 yen with set of polka dots, leopard pattern and white briefs. Because those material is silicon with elasticity, they can cope with a smartphone of various size.
Aside from utility, if you got this, you can show off this for your friends.

Japanese writer carried out super cool projection mapping for ass

Japanese comedy site Omocoro always shows interesting articles. In them, the article shown today is the coolest. It is Ass-Projection Mapping "Ketsu-jection Mapping". (Ketsu means ass in Japanese slang)

Japanese writer ARuFa thought that the projection mapping had further possibility and arrived at an answer called "ass". His novel idea produced a cool work.

ARuFa writes various interesting articles in his blog and Omocoro. You might have watched the fart cannon and the beautiful girl shower head which he made.

via http://omocoro.jp/kiji/30703/

Let's fall in love with scary creature boys! funny Japanese romance sim for women

For men or for women, anyway Japan have a lot of romance sims. In Japan, it is not a unusual case to fall in love with something except the human being. You can experience even the love with the scary creature school girl.

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Then, can we fall in love with scary creature school boy?---The answer is "Yes". Japanese indie game team nostalgia released new romance sim "Let's fall in love with creature! for girls" today. Free download is here(*Japanese. For Win XP/VISTA 32bit/VISTA 64bit/7 32bit/7 64bit).

nostalgia released "Let's fall in love with creature -Kokonoekokoro-" in last November and became the topic. Afterwards, they received demands of development "for girls" from many users.

In this game, a human being is only a heroine. Her friends, teachers, boyfriend candidates, everybody are scary creatures. One of the boyfriend candidates has a face such as Bathynomus giganteus and likes playing the electric guitar. On the other hand, another boyfriend candidate is like the creature of Cthulhu Mythos and has many eyes. However, he wears glasses and looks intellectual. Which do you like?

Japanese farming social game PiggLife cooperates with Moomin

PiggLife is Japanese farming social game linking virtual world Ameba Pigg, and cooperated with various characters many times. Their partner of this time is Finnish popular character Moomin.

moomin is right "Big in Japan". A theme park of Moomin will open next year in Japan.

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In this tie-up event, players can cultivate Cloudberry in own field and can cook menus of Moomin using them.

Berry Latte of Moomin is the menu which players can cook first. When players clear quests, they become able to cook a pancake and a cake of Moomin.

Furthermore, the special area that reproduced a house of Moomin and tent of Snufkin opens. Cute stuffed toy is displayed on railing of the bridge!

Players can get various items of Moomin when they clear quests. They are designed really cutely and seem to raise a login rate of players.

Japanese mobile game company Colopl developed a game for Oculus Rift

Colopl is one of the Japanese representative mobile game companies. They developed geolocation social games for future phones at first, and they are known by releasing cool game apps for smartphones now. Furthermore, they seem to be interested in VR. They released game apps for Oculus Rift "Kuma's Festival Marksman" this week.

This is a shooting game about the fairs of the Japanese style festival. Players can shoot various goods on the shelf in toy guns.

This originally released as a smartphone game called "Pop Cork!", and has been redesigned to be played with the Oculus Rift. This has new charm. You can enjoy not only the shooting game but also the atmosphere of the Japanese festival. This is the first time that a Japanese mobile game company released games for Oculus Rift.

Tragedy: Mobile game developer SummerTimeStudio in Okinawa had a game stolen by someone

SummerTimeStudio is a mobile game developer based in Okinawa of the southernmost prefecture of Japan. They were local developers, but they developed a lot of cool 3D mobile games using Unity and cooperated with Glu Mobile in March. However, they were hit by terrible tragedy recently.

Now, they push forward preparations to release their games for Amazon App Store. However, they found that an account named "SummerTimeStudio" had been already made in Amazon App Store. Of course this is identity theft. Furthermore, this pretending stole their game and released them for a fee in Amazon App Store.

As of August 26, seven games were released for 103 yen without permission by someone(All their games are originally F2P). Hirotsu Takeyasu of the SummerTimeStudio CEO sent this matter immediately in his Facebook page and warned that malware or spyware might be hidden in these.

Fortunately, Amazon deleted these immediately. However, this is the case that is really terrible for a small developer. Hirotsu asked for cause investigation and repeated crime prevention for Amazon.

Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo danced a samba in a local festival

Samba carnival is held every year in Asakusa, Tokyo and it is a traditional local festival lasting 33 years. GungHo, the company of popular mobile game Puzzle & Dragons is participates in this from last year. Their Samba team is GungHo Amigos.

GungHo Amigos was formed in the establishment tenth anniversary of the company.

They did Cos-Play of characters of the games which they ran, put on dress, T-shirt and paper crown of the Tama-Dra, the character of Puzzle & Dragons, and got on float with the logo of their games.

Of course GungHo CEO Kazuki Morishita  participated, too. He woar Tama-Dra hat and clothes with puzzle gems.

(Pfotos via Famitsu. They have more photos. Check it!)

Furthermore, GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE CEO Goichi Suda participated. They are subsidiaries of GungHo from February, 2013.

In addition, in commemoration of holding of the Asakusa samba carnival, players were given the samba ver. dragon in Puzzle & Dragons.

Stella of Angry Birds becomes Manga in Japan

I already wrote that Rovio Japan performs various measures to let Angry Birds be popular in Japan.

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This is one of them, too. Pink small bird Stella of Angry Birds becomes Manga from next month.

The title is "Stella～ナナと魔法の英単語～(Stella~Nana to Maho no Eitango~: Stella~Nana and magical English words~). This is a complete original story made separately from a story of conventional Angry Birds. The main character is Nana of the small Japanese girl. She moved to abroad for the business of parents, but she can't make friends because she can't speak English. Therefore Stella teaches her English words and helps her. Well, it may be said that this makes lower Japanese English ability and high Finnish English ability a motif. The writer is Hiyoko Hatano of the Manga artist and this is published serially in monthly Manga magazine for girls "Nakayoshi" released on September 3.

【１０月号】月刊少女漫画雑誌「なかよし」で、大人気アングリーバードのキャラクター「ステラ」の漫画【Stella～ナナと魔法の英単語～】の連載がスタートします！詳細はこちらから：http://t.co/AlhPoJP7P5 pic.twitter.com/MJ3feqR7rL

— Angry Birds Japan (@AngryBirds_JP) August 14, 2014

Nameko cooperated with a supermarket in Japan

Japanese mobile game superstar Nameko cooperates with a large shopping building for youths, convenience store, railroad and fashion brand in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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However, how about in Japan?  Nameko cooperated with a small inexpensive supermarket. You may wonder, but this may be a tie-up appropriate for Nameko. Because many foods including mushrooms are sold there and people come every day.

Photos via Nameko official site Namepara

Summitstore is local supermarket chain unfolding only in the Kanto area of Japan. They held various events with Nameko on August 13 - 17. The fruits and vegetables floor was decorated in banner and pennants of Nameko, quiz rally and art exhibition for children are held, participants of art exhibition were given an original sticker.

Furthermore, Nameko visited some stores and held the Meet & Greet.
We can check a event and the store in this video.