Mar 04

Sony – PlayStation Vita – “One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (Kaizoku Musou 2)” will be released March 20 with special limited-edition game cover

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The latest PlayStation Vita game based on the popular manga series, One Piece, called “One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (Kaizoku Musou 2)” will be released on March 20th.
To mark the release, a special One Piece cover film will be given as a gift to buyers of the game on a first-come first-served basis (numbers are limited). The cover film features One Piece characters, Luffy, Teach, and Kuzan. The design can be completed by downloading the matching wallpaper for PS Vita – This …

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Feb 07

SoftBank – “Heart of Artist” iPhone 5 case – designed by 5 famous Japanese artists – supporting victims of the Tohoku Earthquake

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SoftBank SELECTION will start selling iPhone 5 cases on February 8th, specially designed by 5 well-known Japanese artists. Those artists are Shigeru Izumiya (Musician, Actor), Naoki Urasawa (Manga artist), Satoshi Yoshida (Manga artist), Katsuya Terada (Manga illustrator), and Nizo Yamamoto (Art director for animated films).
A part of the sales will be donated to “Manaberu Kikin”, a scholarship fund to help high school students who reside in the Tohoku area with scholarships. …

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Nov 08

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite update optimizes your Manga mania, offers quicker settings

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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review

Amazon is on the cusp of launching the complete Kindle line in Japan, so it’s only right that the online retailer fine-tune its firmware for local reading habits. A new version 5.3.0 update for the Kindle Paperwhite puts much of that focus on Manga, introducing options to fit the stylized comics to the screen as well as tweak their page refresh interval separately from that of plain old text. Wider efforts to improve font rendering touch on Japanese characters in the process. Even if we’re a little rusty with our hiragana, there’s still some usability tweaks in store: settings are accessible directly from the menu, readers can purge their home screens of recommended content and sample books now sync their position relative to the full title. The bookworms among us that are too impatient to wait for an automatic update to 5.3.0 can hit the source link for the full skinny and a fast-track installation through USB.

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Sep 30

Sony shuts down PSP Comic Store after October 30th, leaves most of us in the lurch for now

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Sony shuts down PSP Comic Store after October 30th, leaves North Americans in the lurch

PSP Comic Store, we hardly knew ye. No really, we hardly knew ye — which is probably why Sony is warning PSP owners that its comic book portal is shutting down after October 30th. Come Hallowe’en, we’ll lose the option to download the necessary app or buy additional titles. Any currently owned comics will be available to download again until mid-January, but readers will be on their own to preserve existing libraries after that. Outside of Japan, that creates significant problems for literary PlayStation fans: while PS Vita owners in Sony’s home country will get a Manga store and reader in October, there’s no equivalent crutch for other countries (or any PSP owners) at this stage. The console maker is non-committal and says there’s nothing it can discuss “at the moment,” which to us is a hint that we shouldn’t plan our reading hours around a PSP or PS Vita in the near future.

[Thanks, Sooraj]

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Aug 24

Live2D demonstrates Interactive 3D animation of 2D images

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Live2D, developed by Cybernoids, is the world’s first drawing technology to enable 3D rendering of 2D images. This technology supports a variety of portable consoles and smartphones, and Live2D is already being utilized for games that take advantage of the unique characteristics of hand drawn artwork.
“In 3D, the unique attractions of 2D art like Osamu Tezuka’s can’t be rendered properly. But with Live2D, we’ve worked to enable smooth 3D motion using entirely the …

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Aug 24

NTT DoCoMo releasing limited edition JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Optimus Vu

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NTT DoCoMo releasing JoJos Bizarre Adventurebranded Optimus Vu next week

If you can’t get enough of the adventures of the Joestars and their various progeny, then you’re in luck. NTT DoCoMo knows how to keep hardcore fans happy, releasing a limited run of 15,000 LG Optimus Vu with the phablet carrying custom wallpaper and illustrations from the creators of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Beneath the surface, it’s the same phone we’ve seen before — albeit with support for mobile TV standard Nottv. If you’re now throwing your yen at the screen, we’d suggest going to your nearest store on August 30th, because online sales are limited to 750 on that day and a further 750 on September 1st.

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