On the evening of June 22, App Annie announced the mobile games that entered the top 10 download list in Japan in May. Compared to the April charts, the May games charts have changed a lot, with some newly released games at the top of the list.
It is worth noting that "ONE PIECE Thousand Storm" (Chinese name: "One Piece: A Thousand Storms") and "Last Period" (ラストピリオド) (Chinese name: "The Last Terminator: Endless Spiral Story") launched by Chinese company Leyuan Interactive ranked third and fifth respectively. Piano Tiles2, published by Chinese company Cheetah Mobile, finished seventh; ranked tenth was Fantasy Chronicle (ファンタジークロニククル) developed by Chinese company Funcell123 (Chinese name: Chronicles of Fantasies). In contrast, other countries' May game lists haven't changed much.
Japan is a nation that sees games as its spiritual homeland, and japan has the world's largest publishers and the world's most fanatical gaming community. At the same time, Japanese game consumption has always occupied the top five positions of global game consumption. The 2015 report also shows that Japanese game manufacturers cover most of the Japanese user market.
Recently, App Annie and Dentsu jointly made a report on the Japanese mobile game market, which showed that Japan's mobile gamers are highly active, and Japan's total mobile game revenue in 2014 and 2015 was higher than that of the United States.
At the same time, the report pointed out that many of the games on the best-selling list are adapted through anime IP. For example, the newly listed "ONE PIECE Thousand Storm" and "The Last Terminator: Endless Spiral Story" and other games have a large audience and the brand effect of IP, making the game perform very well in the first release in Japan.
"One Piece: A Thousand Storms": IP adaptation has accumulated popularity
One Piece: A Thousand Storms is an RPG-type mobile game launched by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, which officially landed on the mobile platform on April 21.
One Piece: A Thousand Storms, as one of the One Piece series of games, continues the fighting mode of the previous games. The game uses a 3D portrait screen, which supports 3 players to fight online. Players experience the joy of battle with their partners by playing as characters in One Piece.
According to app Annie's April Global Game Index, the newly released One Piece: A Thousand Storms finished third on the Japanese app game charts and remained unchanged until May.
The game is based on the IP of the Best-Selling Japanese anime One Piece, which has been serialized since 1997 and has now become one of the most popular manga in the world. At the same time, according to Japanese media reports, the latest theatrical version of "One Piece" "ONE PIECE FILM GOLD" will meet with fans in July, with the help of the popularity of the manga "One Piece", coupled with the exposure of the latest theatrical version, have accumulated super popularity for "One Piece: A Thousand Storms".
Search for the keyword "One Piece" on YouTube and there are about 6 million results. At the same time, the highest click rate of related videos is as high as 11 million times.
Although the game was released in April 2016, as early as November 2015, the official website of One Piece published a 3D fan of the character of Dressrosa, a 3-player battle system screen. In November 2015, when the comic "One Piece" was updated to Dressrosa, Luffy's battle with Mingo touched the hearts of thousands of Pirate fans. Echoing the plot of the comic to promote One Piece: A Thousand Storms is a great way to gather fans.
"The Last Terminator: Endless Spiral Story": The number of reservations exceeded 250,000
The Last Terminator: Endless Spiral Story is an RPG-type mobile game launched by Chinese company HappyElements. It was officially launched in May.
Amusement Park Interactive Game Technology Co., Ltd. (also known as "Happy Elements") is a game company established in 2009 with R&D offices in Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing. It has long-selling games such as "Happy Aquarium Tank", "Happy Fun", "Meruko Monogatari", "Idol Dream Festival" and so on, among which the iOS version of "Happy Fun" has won the 1st place in the iPad free list and the 5th place in the iPhone free list respectively.
In the game "The Last Terminator: Endless Spiral Story", there are humans, orcs, witches, sky people and other people, who may be transformed into monsters, and the player plays a 14-year-old boy with purification ability to prevent such things from happening.
Soon after the game hit the shelves, it occupied the fifth place in the Japanese app game charts.
Previously, the number of reservations for the game exceeded 250,000 in the forecast stage, and the number of official Twitter account followers officially exceeded 50,000. Now the official launch of the game's official website, and the latest OP opening video is released on the official website for players to enjoy.
The game also invited many popular voice actors including Natsuki Hanae, Yukari Tamura, Mika Kikuchi, Murasebu, M.A.O, Kakuma and many other popular voice actors to participate in dubbing performances, in order to strengthen the promotion of the game.
Chronicles of Fantasy: Chinese companies develop sales back to Japan
Fantasy Chronicles is an MMORPG game developed by Funcell 123. Funcell123, a Chinese mobile game developer, announced in early June that it had partnered with YD Oline to develop a mobile version of the RPG game "Elf Kingdom".
Fantasy Chronicles is an ARPG game developed and sold back to Japan in China. Officially landed on the App Store on January 4.
According to relevant data, the game entered the second place in the free list of games on the same day it was launched, and it has continued to maintain good popularity so far. The game ranked tenth in App Annie's May Japan Game List.
There are four classes in the game: Paladin, Assassin of Darkness, Magician of Dragons, and Witch of the Dead, and players can ride beasts on adventures.
The "export" of "Fantasy Chronicles" to Japan indicates that China's local games have begun to counterattack, bringing prospects for domestic local games to enter the international market.