Flipnote Hatena Strikes Back To USA, Plus Europe Assisted By Nintendo Fame

Hatena's Logo
Hatena, known by a million geekiest loyal users and the most popular social bookmarks service in Japanese [J], announced that their joint project with console game giant NintendoFlipnote Hatena” launches in North America on 12th, in Europe on 14th August (both in local time).
flipnote-hatena-top-screenshot
Flipnote Hatena is a CGM service on where users draw and share flipbook-like animations. Asiajin covered its first Japanese release before.

Worldwide Challenge

Although Hatena did make English version of few their services, this is their first challenge for other European languages and regions. FLipnote Hatena site has 6 language selections (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Japanese) and 4 regional choices (Japan, Americas, Europe and Oceania and All).
flipnote-hatena-geo-and-lang-selection-screenshot
If you chose “All(Worldwide)”, you see a lot of Japanese created and starred (=voted) over thousands flipnotes at the top, some includes Japanese languages, but if you filter by America or Europe, there are already many flipnote animations drawn by local users.

See Also:

Hatene’s release for North America
Hatena’s release for Europe

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