Japanese 80-year-old composer uses Hatsune Miku

Masao Saiki is an 80-year-old composer reaching the debut 50th anniversary in this year.

He is a very famous man in the Japanese music industry, but he posts a works using vocaloid Hatsune Miku to video sharing site Nico Nico Douga from last year. Of course himself does ALL WORK. His nickname in Nico Nico Douga is "Masa-P"(P is a meaning of the producers. Most of Hatsume Miku composers add P to a nickname).





His works are slightly nostalgic. and styles of the old Japanese popular song.  However, the evaluation in Nico Nico Douga and Twitter is excellent.

GREE carries out promotion with Internet cafe

GREE started new promotion "GREE for Netcafe" with Internet cafes in Japan.

Main services of the Japanese Internet cafe are PC rental, comics rental and online game offers. The online game offer grows up from 2006 through 2012, and the offer time is postponed in particular till 3,500,000 hours from 500,000 hours. GREE paid its attention to this. "GREE for Netcafe" is the service that points are provided depending on the time when we stay in Internet cafes. We can change the points for the virtual goods of GREE's
social games. The the first title is a "Kin-Niku-Man: muscle collection".

GREE chooses social games having Internet cafes and affinity and does promotion. Well, they are the social games of comics source.

Social game developer Poppin Games Japan raised 100 million yen

Japanese social game developer Poppin Games Japan raised 100 million yen. Poppin Games Japan was established at Tsukuba, Ibaraki in July, 2012(It is unusual for Japanese Tech startup to be established any place other than Tokyo). CEO Hisashi Tsujimura is the staff of former DeNA. The marketing section is in San Francisco, and the development section is in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. 30% of them are the foreign staff.

Their representative game apps are Peter Rabbit's Garden and Alice's Mad Tea Party. Both support a language except the Japanese(Such as English, Chinese, Korean). It worked, Peter Rabbit's Garden broke through 1 million downloading and Alice's Mad Tea Party broke through 500,000 downloading.

They establish a branch office in Kyoto by the fund which they raised this time. They yet develop only iOS apps, but go into Android apps from now on.

Bandai Namco games released a new mobile social game of popular Manga/Anime "ONE PIECE" in GREE

Bandai Namco games released a new social game for smartphone "ONE PIECE; Adventure log" in GREE.

This is a social game of popular Manga/Anime "ONE PIECE". Users can combine a pirate ship with characters of ONE PIECE, and form a "my favorite" pirate corps. Characters have a finisher each, and they are reflected to game graphic.

It is the 2nd time that Bandai Namco games releases a social game of ONE PIECE. They released "ONE PIECE; Ground Collection" in Mobage in January, 2012. These two resemble very much. However, "ONE PIECE; Adventure log" was developed as a social game for smartphones more at first, because graphic is beautiful, and UI is optimized for smartphones. This will be very advantageous if they want to catch ONE PIECE fans of the smartphone users.

Developer of graphic technology "Live 2D" CYBERNOIDS raised 52,400,000 yen

Japanese startup CYBERNOIDS which developed graphic technology "Live 2D" raised 52,400,000 yen from Q-TEC,INC, Seibu Shinkin Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd. and other investors.

Live 2D is graphic technology to express an illustration of 2D like 3D.

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Live 2D is utilized in many mobile games and Web browser games now. In particular, it is popular in Dating Sims. They want to contribute this abroad and exhibit in GDC 2013. Please visit EXPO #643 booth if you go to GDC.