Chiho Komoriya

Japanese Location-Based Service Colopl Sells Special Card With Pro-Baseball Ticket

Colopl [J] is planning to implement the sports game watching “Pro Baseball! Colopl Series” [J] to link with their cell phone geo-location game “Koroni-na Seikatsu” (Colony Life). This will be their first attempt to collaborate with professional sports. The “Pro Baseball! Colopl Series” is for sales of special Colopl Card linked game tickets for 16… Continue reading Japanese Location-Based Service Colopl Sells Special Card With Pro-Baseball Ticket

Voltage’s Romance Game For Girls “Pirates In Love” Advance Overseas

Voltage company has begun to offer “Koi ni Ochita Kaizoku Ou,” one of their popular games from the “Koibito Game” series on their official website, in an English version intended for overseas applications on iPhone and Android as “PIRATES IN LOVE.” This marks the first part of the “Romance Sims” series aimed for North America.… Continue reading Voltage’s Romance Game For Girls “Pirates In Love” Advance Overseas

Opt Offers Social Recommendation Application Market “myappee” Also In Coordination With T-points

Opt has begun to implement the social recommendation application market “myappee,” which knows which Android apps are popular based on “Like this” and user tweets. New applications are also open for registration [J]. Myappee is a service which introduces popular applications for Android. It combines “ranking.” “recommended,” and “points” to introduce the truly most popular… Continue reading Opt Offers Social Recommendation Application Market “myappee” Also In Coordination With T-points

Japanese Twitter Users Play On New Japanese Hashtags

Official Twitter blog announced [J] that Twitter is capable of Japanese character hashtags. (our post reported it) Then, a lot of Japanese Twitter users started strange wordplay. This is a trend hashtags of yesterday’s Tokyo. What are these long hashtags? They are themes of wordplay. # like a game in “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” (Akky) For… Continue reading Japanese Twitter Users Play On New Japanese Hashtags

Japanese Virtual Diva Hatsune Miku First US Tour In July

[Update] Although first on hologram system, Hatsune Miku already had a regular screen concert in San Francisco. (hat tip to @miyagawa) Japanese virtual singing instrument application Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku will hold a concert at “ANIME EXPO 2011” in Los Angeles on July 2. This is the first time that she holds concert oversea. Recently, Toyota USA featured Hatsune… Continue reading Japanese Virtual Diva Hatsune Miku First US Tour In July

Japanese Media Artist Uses Poo And Fart To Explain Nuclear Crisis

I wrote “Poo is a magic word for primary-school children. It is an universal motif and will work even 100 years later” before. It does not change even at the disaster in Japan. A Japanese media artist Hachiya Kazuhiko has explained nuclear crisis in a Youtube video, using the poo and fart. English subtitles version… Continue reading Japanese Media Artist Uses Poo And Fart To Explain Nuclear Crisis

Japanese Artists Draw Catfish To Encourage The Earthquake Sufferers

Drawn by shigeokahide. Many Japanese artists drew Namazu-e(鯰絵) to encourage earthquake sufferers on Twitter. What is Namazu-e? Namazu-e is a motif drawn in ukiyoe (Wikipedia) during Edo period (Wikipedia). “Namazu” means a catfish in Japanese. In old days, Japanese believed that the earthquake occurs because of a catfish behaves violently in underground. In 1855, earthquake of magnitude 6.9… Continue reading Japanese Artists Draw Catfish To Encourage The Earthquake Sufferers

Virtual Economy During Oshogatsu (Japanese New Year) In Ameba Pigg

In Japan, New Year’s Eve and the New Year holidays are the biggest events of the year, and it is similar in virtual worlds. CygerAgent‘s virtual world “Ameba Pigg [J]” sold a lot of virtual goods on the end of the year and the beginning of the year. The Japanese eat “Toshikoshi-soba” on New Year’s… Continue reading Virtual Economy During Oshogatsu (Japanese New Year) In Ameba Pigg