Japanese company Onken made a tweet showing their “coworker HP badges” which began to spread on social media. As the name implies, the badges display an HP bar that workers can pin to themselves to show how much HP they have left in the tank.
Sekai Saionji, one of the heroines from the game and anime series School Days, has made her debut as a VTuber on the YouTube channel of Shiho Kawaragi, who voiced the character in the anime series.
Roopt神楽坂DAO (Roopt Kagurazaka DAO), a share house located in Tokyo that uses NFTs, will open in September. One NFT is worth 30,000 yen (around $220) and can be exchanged for a one month stay at the share house.
Restaurant chain Pronto are set to open their first エビノスパゲッティ(E Vino Spaghetti) restaurant in Tokyo’s Marunouchi Building on June 30. The restaurant will mainly serve pasta and alcohol, but what really sets it apart is that the pasta will be prepared by an automated robot
The Nihon Pro Mahjong association will be holding a test specifically for VTubers in February of 2023, with those who pass being qualified as professional mahjong players. VTubers with 1,000 or more subscribers on their YouTube channels are eligible for the test.
Chidoriashi, a bar operator in Japan, has started a crowdfunding campaign for a board game about running a sake brewery called Kurasaku. With limited resources such as funds and personnel, players will need to secure their ingredients, invest in equipment, brew their sake, and sell it to run their business.
Japanese publishing company Kodansha has announced the winners of their Trash Game Competition (known as kuso games in Japan) which was held in conjunction with the Shangri-La Frontier manga. One of the winners is a visual novel about eating tomatoes.
Free sound library Springin’ Sound Stock provides over 600 free sounds which are also free for commercial use. It includes 10 different categories covering everything from combat and vehicle sound effects to background music, 8-bit sounds, and button pressing effects.
The Langaku manga reader app’s key feature is that users can customize the amount of English that appears. Someone may start with only 20% of the text in English and increase the amount as they get more comfortable. The manga on offer includes Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, One Piece, My Hero Academia, Spy x Family, and more.
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Japanese YouTuber Takatin has issued an apology to fans after lying about one of his Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Let’s Play videos. He had initially claimed that the video in question was a first playthrough when it in fact wasn’t.
In a survey conducted by the Japanese government, 40% of single men in their 20s gave a response of “0” to a question asking how many people they have been on a date with. When looking at the response to the survey results on social media in Japan, it seems that the majority of people were not surprised.
