{"id":14117,"date":"2011-05-15T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=14117"},"modified":"2011-05-15T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T19:00:55","slug":"cloud-girl-microsoft-windows-azure-manga-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-microsoft-windows-azure-manga-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Girl &#8211; Microsoft Windows Azure Manga Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Japan is teasing its online comic series <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/ja-jp\/windowsazure\/claudia\">&#8220;Cloud Girl&#8221;<\/a>, which promotes Windows Azure cloud service.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-prologue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-prologue-400x373.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"cloud-girl-prologue\" width=\"400\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14118\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe first episode of this &#8220;Cloud Girl&#8221; with subtitle &#8220;Mado to Kumo to Aoi-sora&#8221;(windows, clouds and azure sky) is said to be released late this May 2011, on a prologue.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-claudia-madobe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-claudia-madobe.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"cloud-girl-claudia-madobe\" width=\"319\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14119\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe heroine, Claudia Madobe (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Claudia_Azure\">@Claudia_Azure<\/a> &#8220;madobe&#8221; means window-side in Japanese) was born on November 20, 1985, the date when Windows 1.0 was released, having a Japanese father and French-American mother.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-nanami-madobe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-nanami-madobe.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"cloud-girl-nanami-madobe\" width=\"326\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14120\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClaudia, who is visiting Japan and her cousin Nanami Madobe(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/windows7_nanami\">@windows7_nanami<\/a>), will solve several problems at a computer parts shop in Akihabara, where Nanami works for.<br \/>\nA sub-character Nanami Madobe has been serving as a Windows 7 promotion character since 2009, but she was not an &#8220;official&#8221; Microsoft character before.<br \/>\nMicrosoft Taiwan&#8217;s Silverlight promotion with a girl character <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/taiwan\/silverlight\/default.htm\">Hikaru Aizawa<\/a> made Japanese jaw dropped last autumn, as it was <a href=\"http:\/\/mangajet.com\/2010\/11\/microsoft-silverlights-moe-character-hikaru-aizawa-has-made-into-desktop-widget\/\">so Japanese-ish than Japanese<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis time Microsoft Japan (recently renamed from Microsoft K.K.) presses the manga-girl promotion for Japanese enterprise decision makers in orthodox Japanese way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Japan is teasing its online comic series &#8220;Cloud Girl&#8221;, which promotes Windows Azure cloud service. The first episode of this &#8220;Cloud Girl&#8221; with subtitle &#8220;Mado to Kumo to Aoi-sora&#8221;(windows, clouds and azure sky) is said to be released late this May 2011, on a prologue. The heroine, Claudia Madobe (@Claudia_Azure &#8220;madobe&#8221; means window-side in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cloud-girl-microsoft-windows-azure-manga-promotion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cloud Girl &#8211; Microsoft Windows Azure Manga Promotion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[664,675,678,1361,2200,2298,2302,2980,4094],"class_list":["post-14117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-claudia","tag-cloud","tag-cloudgirl","tag-girl","tag-manga","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-japan","tag-promotion","tag-windows-azure","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}