

Auto company Autoc One has given a 2D twist to the tradition of car show companions by transforming popular car brands into adorable anime girls – not unlike renowned browser game Kantai Collection.
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Boorishly hopping onto the idol-simulation bandwagon, Taito have unveiled a PV for their upcoming new smartphone game “Idol Chronicle”, where players manage a team of 3 seductive idols looking to earn acclaim and popularity – a not unfamiliar premise.
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Top RPG-rehasher Square Enix have begun working on the “Final Fantasy Portal App” in an effort to keep fans up to date on all Final Fantasy developments – and also allowing players to enjoy Final Fantasy 8’s staple card game, Triple Triad.
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Smartphone developer GeePlus have unveiled their Android/iOS game “Nekomimi Survivor“, an RPG where players can transform their own cats into a party of nekomimi girls to fight off the evil forces of the inumimi wanko – sure to be a hit amongst cat obsessed Japanese mobile phone users, virtually the entire population of Japan.
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Shingeki no Kyojin’s gigantic popularity has seen it tackling ever larger foes in its merchandising line, this time in the form of a rather classy iPhone case by Sentinel, impressing fans and perhaps finally stopping users from holding it wrong for good…
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The latest outstanding exemplar of the Japanese teaching profession to surface emerges in the form of a teacher who introduced daily meditation sessions to his class specifically so he could shove his phone up the skirts of his female students.
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Tales will undoubtedly be reduced to tears of what must be joy with the news of “Tales of Asteria”, the latest entry in Namco Bandai’s Tales series, and now targeted at the casual-centric mobile platforms of iOS and Android – finally introducing Tales gamers to the joys of microtransactions and social gaming.
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Final Fantasy fans have been busily debating the merits of Square Enix’s suitably enhanced port of Final Fantasy VI to lucrative and reassuringly non-HD Android platform.
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Momentarily retiring from their sensha-do ambitions, the signature girls of Girls Und Panzer have formed a collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors and are to act as guides for the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show via an android app.
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A cop who repeatedly attempted to blackmail a woman he questioned for “suspicious” behaviour so he could pay off his huge social gaming debt has actually been jailed and fired.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2013 17:15 JST
- Tags: Chiba, Chikan, Crime, Keitai, Medical, Pantsu, Schoolgirls, Trains, Voyeurism

The latest creepy salaryman to fall victim to the voyeuristic temptations of the nation’s schoolgirls boasts the unusual distinction of actually being chased down by the very JK he sought to upskirt.
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Final Fantasy Tactics is the latest Square Enix property to to face up to its brave new future, in the form of the just-released Final Fantasy Tactics S – and even series fans who feared the worst have been surprised at what they got…
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