Yahoo! Japan Opens Figurine and Cosplay SNS “WONDER”

Yahoo Japan Corporation [J] has begun to offer “WONDER!,” [J] a SNS specialized in posting images and a place to express Japanese sub-culture such as figures and cosplay. “WONDER” is a service that first commercialized from the new business proposal system “Softbank Inoventure,” in which Softbank Group widely recruits employee’s ideas and aims to create… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Opens Figurine and Cosplay SNS “WONDER”

A Japanese Heavy Twitter User Pausing A Day Thought As Missing By Followers, Retweeted Frantically

Japan is increasing Twitter addicts everyday. Percentage of Japanese tweets is now about 20% and chasing USA’s 27% (by TweetSentiments). On May 30th, a Japanese girl cosplayer(= costume player, person whose hobby is wearing fictional characters costume) Jekyll Yui [J], who had been sending 50-250 tweets everyday on her Twitter account @_01 [J], stopped tweeting… Continue reading A Japanese Heavy Twitter User Pausing A Day Thought As Missing By Followers, Retweeted Frantically

Japan’s biggest CosPlay site “Cure” overhauled with English

livedoor announced its popular Cos-Play (Costume Play, dressing up in fictional characters most of which are from Anime/Manga) site’s renewal and English localization today, June 12th 2008. The site “Cure” was opened in 2001, has been getting 300,000 registered users including 60,000 “Cos-Player”, and now 50 million page views in a month, which is the… Continue reading Japan’s biggest CosPlay site “Cure” overhauled with English