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Microsoft Japan’s Cloud Girl Sends You A New Year’s Card

Microsoft Developer Network(MSDN) runs a campaign for Japanese developers by featuring its cloud-technology poster girl Claudia. If you are living in Japan, you will be able to receive a Nengajou, new year's greeting postcard from Claudia and a special guest Hikaru Aizawa, who is another anime campaign girl from Microsoft Taiwan [Zn]. (It is not possible to receive the postcard in Taiwan.)

You need an hotmail account and to give your postal address to the site. The application will end on December 19.

Japan’s Web News Week 49

This week's Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Lawsuits news continues around web services. It is not so common to take a legal action in Japan if you compare with countries like U.S.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.

My Sweet Umadonna – Game To Date With Girls As A Racing Horse

Last month, we introduced a Japanese dating game on which you go out with several handsome pigeons. It was weird to play love-life with pigeons, but probably this one comes with more familiar theme, love with horse. The game is offered by Japan Racing Association (JRA, or "Nippon Chuo Keiba Kai"), a public company operates Japan's central horse racing.

My Sweet Umadonna (Uma = horse + Madonna) [J, start with animation with music] has been released today for PC browser and Japanese feature phones [J].

You are an unconfident and gutless 3 years old male horse. Your race debut is late because of delayed development, but this stable block accepted you with expecting your latent potential.

(from "Story" page)

You will meet three "Umadonna", a stabler girl Asuka Matsuda, a handler Kotobuki Yumeji and an equestrian Chris Fujisawa.

You, the horse, naturally make conversation with girls in the game...

The teaser was given on December 9 from JRA release [J], the game has just been released today around noon.

35 Series Of Power Rangers Color Chart

Nikkei Entertainment, an entertainment magazine under Nikkei newspaper made an interesting chart [J] around all 35 series of popular Super-Sentai-series, also known as Power Rangers oversea, has been made for 36 years since 1975, shows which series had what colors of heroes.

According to the article, colors and characters are closely related with Japanese people's impressions on each colors, like red-helmet one tends to play a leader role with lively energetic character.

The first Power Rangers exported matches 1992's Jyu-Ranger.

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Yupiteru’s Speed Camera Detector Lei01 Is A Virtual Girl Talks You When Driving

In Japan, carrying speed-radar detectors on your car is not illegal. People try to avoid speeding tickets by knowing where radar gun is pointing you beforehand. And when some machine is a commodity, there is always a room to ship a product with moe-flavor for people who love it.

Yupiteru's radar detector Lei01 [J, beware, the page talks in female voice] is the one which guide you where radar guns are with a virtual anime girl Lei Kirishima [J] with 1,600 recorded voice messages (of course by a professional anime voice actress) and more than 3,600 frames of pictures.

Those animations and voices include seasonal events. Extra data updates such like "winter cloths" is being offered.

If your driving is rough, she will have bad moods and change her attitude and how she talks to you.

This is a fan-taking video when a car with Lei01 passes a speed radar. The right one is an ordinary radar.

Another video, animation when Lei01 is positioning the car on the map by GPS,

The Lei01 is only made and sold 2,000 units on the website. The price is 46,800 yen(US$599). For a case you drive with someone whom you do not want to show your anime assistant, one-button-click will change it as a regular looking radar detector.

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Lei Kirishima's Facebook page [J] - you may be able to communicate with other Lei01 owners.