"Amazon.co.jp Best of 2013" Adult PC Games Sales Rankings

This is the sales rankings on Amazon.co.jp of PC games for the matured between Dec. 1 2012 and Nov. 30 2013.
Clicking on game titles to jump to the game official websites.

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Amazon.co.jp 2012 Best Seller Adult PC Game Ranking

TYPE-MOON heroines

Amazon.co.jp revealed "Best of 2012" rankings. Here are the top ten best selling adult PC games on the website between 12/1/2011 and 11/30/2012.
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Amazon.co.jp 2011 Best Seller Adult PC Game Ranking

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Amazon.co.jp's "Best of 2011" rankings, the top ten best selling adult PC games on the website between 12/1/2010 and 11/31/2011.
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[2012 Winter] Comic Market 83, cosplayers

Tokyo Big Sight

Comic Market 83(C83), the largest manga, anime, game, music and subculture event in the world held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 29th to 31st attracted 550,000 fans marking the largest as the winter event.

TSUTAYA yearly game sales rankings [PS3/PS Vita/PSP/Wii/3DS/DS]

Pokemon Black and White

TSUTAYA, CD, DVD and game software rental and seller chain in its "TSUTAYA Yearly Ranking" announced game software sales rankings.
The time period for tallying the results is January 1st through December 2nd this year.

Yahoo! Japan Search Word Ranking 2012

Yahoo! Japan on November 26th announced "2012 Search Word Ranking" listing the most searched words in this year between January 1st and October 31st.

"DRAGON QUEST X" reached 400,000 paid players - SQUARE ENIX

Square Enix on November 6th announced that the number of paying members of its Nintendo Wii based online game "DRAGON QUEST X" reached 400,000 3 months after the release. It has already shipped more than 700,000 packages.
"FINAL FANTASY XI", Square Enix's another online game for PS2, Xbox360 and PC launched in 2002 on the other hand, acquired only 100,000 paid memberships in the first 3 months.


ドラゴンクエスト10:有料会員40万人突破　―毎日jp
http://mainichi.jp/mantan/news/20121106dyo00m200015000c.html


DRAGON QUEST X Promotion Video


FINAL FANTASY XI

What kind of sports do Japanese children like?

Typical court of dodge ball

Bandai asked parents who have a child between 3 to 12 years old about favorite sports of their children.
According to the parents 34.3 percents of children like football, influenced by recent success of Japanese women's football team on the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 and London Olympic Games.

What is your favorite sport?

Boys and Girls
1: Football
2: Swimming
3: Baseball
4: Gymnastics
5: Dodgeball

Boys
1: Football
2: Baseball
3: Swimming

Girls
1: Swimming
2: Football
3: Rope skipping


3-12歳の好きなスポーツは?　オリンピックが後押しか…バンダイ　―リセマム
http://resemom.jp/article/2012/09/13/9826.html

Comic Market 82 attracted 560,000 visitors in 3 days

Tokyo Big Sight

Comic Market 82(Aug 10-12) gathered 560,000 subculture fans to Tokyo Big Sight. 210,000, the largest number for a day visited during the final day alone.
The number 560,000 equaled the summer of 2009 2010, recovering from the last year's decrease after the greatest earthquake.
15,000 circles joined the final day.
The next Comic Market 83 will be coming to Tokyo Big Sight from December 29th to 31st 2012.


Sexy Cosplayers　―ロケットニュース24
Funny Cosplayers　―ロケットニュース24
Cosplayers Day 1　―ガジェット通信
Cosplayers Day 2　―ガジェット通信
Cosplayers Day 3　―ガジェット通信


コミケ82 ： 最終日は21万人が来場　3日間で過去最多タイの56万人　震災前規模に　―MANTANWEB
http://mantan-web.jp/2012/08/12/20120812dog00m200012000c.html

2012 London Olympic Game: Japan acquired 38 medals

Kohei Uchimura, medal gymnast in all-around(gold), floor(silver) and team(silver)

In the 2012 London Olympic Game, Japan acquired 38 medals in total(Gold:7/Silver:14/Bronze:17), the sixth place in the total number of medals acquired.


国別メダル数ランキング - ロンドンオリンピック Yahoo!スポーツ×スポーツナビ　―Yahoo!Japan
http://london.yahoo.co.jp/medal

"THE IDOLM@STER" occupied Akihabara Station

"THE IDOLM@STER" ads inside Akihabara Station

The social game for smartphones, "THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls" ads occupation of Akihabara Station began at August 6th.
Wall ads are everywhere at each entrance, escalators and in station premises.

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アイドルマスターシンデレラガールズ（モバマス） 秋葉原駅ジャック 【写真多め】　―アキバBlog
http://blog.livedoor.jp/geek/archives/51353517.html

Homare Sawa on TIME magazine

Homare Sawa on "TIME" magazine

Japanese female football player, Homare Sawa was on the cover of Asian version of "TIME" magazine July 30th issue.
She is now playing at Japanese Women's Football team in London Olympic game and was chosen for FIFA World Player of the Year at 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time as an Asian player.


米誌「TIME」表紙の澤穂希が「かっこいい」とネット掲示板で絶賛される　―livedoor ニュース
http://news.livedoor.com/olympic/london2012/images/6792781/

Amazon.co.jp best adult PC game rankings 2010-2012

"WHITE ALBUM 2"

Amazon.co.jp Adult PC Game Best of Scenario Rankings
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1 :WHITE ALBUM2 -introductory chapter- / -closing chapter-
2 :Little Busters! Ecstasy
3 :Subarashiki Hibi
   (Wonderful Every Day: Discontinuous Existence)
4 :Fate/Stay night
5 :Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shojo
   (Wheel Country, Sunflower Girl)
6 :Dies irae ~Acta est Fabula~
7 :G Senjo no Mao(The Devil on G-string)
8 :Aiyoku no Eustia(Eustia of the Tarnished Wings)
9 :Grisaia no Kajitsu(Le Fruit De La Grisaia)
10:Saya no Uta(Song of Saya)
11:Parfait ~Chocolat second brew~
12:Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!(Do Love Me Seriously!)
13:Mashiroiro Symphony: Love is pure white
   (Pure White Symphony)
14:Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a shooting star-
   (Memoria of the Stary Sky)
15:Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai(We Don't Have Wings)
16:Tasogare no Sinsemilla(Sinsemilla st Dusk)
17:euphoria
18:Irotoridori no Sekai(Varicolored World)
19:Fate/hollow ataraxia
20:Kud Wafter

This was resulted from customers' votes for adult PC games of top 100 sales on Amazon.co.jp from 2010 to 2012.


アダルトPCゲーム ベストオブシナリオ 結果発表！　―Amazon.co.jp
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=3077651836&plgroup=1

Hulu to stream "Pokemon" series

Hulu Japan's "Pokemon" lineups

Hulu Japan streams "Pokemon" series from August 1st.
Currently, "Pokemon(1997)" and "Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes!(2010)" are available on line. In addition, "Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! Season 2" which is now on TV will be available soon for people who missed the show.


「Hulu」にポケモンが登場　―ITmedia +D LifeStyle
http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/lifestyle/articles/1208/01/news136.html

Wonder Festival 2012 Summer gathered character figure fans

"KURATUS", robot revealed at Wonder Festival

Wonder Festival 2012 Summer known as the biggest figure event of anime, manga and game characters was held in July 29th at Makuhari Messe.
Copyright holders allow sellers to use their characters for sales only in the place during the festival day for about 5 percent of perfunctory royalties.

●Figure, EVA-02 PRODUCTION MODEL from "Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance"

●Figure, Ultimate Madoka and magical girls from "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"

●KURATUS, quadruped human type land-battle robot for sale at 106M yen

●Figure, competition at the "Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne" special booth

●3D Printing, Miku and Vocaloids

●Food, Accel Worl-don from "Accel World" and Last Night's Leftover-don from "TARI TARI"

●5 metre Space Battleship Yamato from "Space Battleship Yamato 2199"

●Figure, characters from "One Piece"

●Figure, characters from "Precure" series

●Cosplayers


ワンダーフェスティバル 2012[夏]開幕、全記事一覧まとめ
http://gigazine.net/news/20120729-summary-wf2012s/