{"id":391,"date":"2008-06-13T00:28:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-06-13T00:28:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:28:14","slug":"japans-biggest-cosplay-site-cure-overhauled-with-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/japans-biggest-cosplay-site-cure-overhauled-with-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s biggest CosPlay site &#8220;Cure&#8221; overhauled with English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.curecos.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/cure-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"cure-logo\" width=\"195\" height=\"82\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-392\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/livedoor.com\/\">livedoor<\/a> announced its popular Cos-Play (Costume Play, dressing up in fictional characters most of which are from Anime\/Manga) site&#8217;s renewal and English localization today, June 12th 2008.<br \/>\nThe site &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.curecos.com\/\">Cure<\/a>&#8221; was opened in 2001, has been getting 300,000 registered users including 60,000 &#8220;Cos-Player&#8221;, and now 50 million page views in a month, which is the biggest in Japan.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/en.curecos.com\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/cure-screenshot-362x400.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"cure-screenshot\" width=\"362\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-393\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCure, even though they have been having Japanese site only, got more than 10% of their users from overseas, and that ratio is still growing. So they decided to internationalize the site aiming for more users from America, Asia and Europe.<br \/>\nTheir mobile site ( http:\/\/m.curecos.com\/ ) has been also remodelled, however, the access to the mobile site is limited to Japanese major carriers, NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank Mobile.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/cure-mobile.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cure-mobile\" width=\"200\" height=\"556\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-394\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.livedoor.com\/pressrelease\/2008\/06\/0612-01.html\">Press Release<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>livedoor announced its popular Cos-Play (Costume Play, dressing up in fictional characters most of which are from Anime\/Manga) site&#8217;s renewal and English localization today, June 12th 2008. The site &#8220;Cure&#8221; was opened in 2001, has been getting 300,000 registered users including 60,000 &#8220;Cos-Player&#8221;, and now 50 million page views in a month, which is the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/japans-biggest-cosplay-site-cure-overhauled-with-english\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s biggest CosPlay site &#8220;Cure&#8221; overhauled with English<\/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":[17,29],"tags":[239,764,766,1151,2200],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-service","tag-anime","tag-cos-play","tag-cosplay","tag-fashion","tag-manga","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}