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Cygames
is a Japanese video game development studio established in 2011 by CyberAgent. Mobile and e-commerce company DeNA acquired a 24% stake in the studio in 2012, and Nintendo acquired another 5% stake in 2018, leaving CyberAgent with 69% of the shares and as such, they are the parent company of Cygames. From its formation, the company produced mobile games, initially on the Mobage platform, and from 2013 on Android (operating system), Android and iOS. The company headquarters is located in Tokyo while other divisions are located in Osaka and Saga (city), Saga in Japan and Seoul, South Korea. Key Intellectual property, IPs include ''Uma Musume Pretty Derby'' (2021), ''Princess Connect! Re:Dive'' (2018), ''Shadowverse'' (2016), ''Granblue Fantasy'' (2014), ''The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls'' (2011, with Bandai Namco Entertainment), and ''Rage of Bahamut'' (2011). The company began development of console games in 2015. In 2016, Cygames announced the establishment of an anime studio Cyg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uma Musume Pretty Derby
is a Japanese media franchise created by Cygames. A mobile game for iOS and Android was scheduled to debut in late 2018 and then delayed to February 2021. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by P.A. Works aired from April to June 2018, followed by a second season by Studio Kai, which aired from January to March 2021, and then a third season, which aired from October to December 2023. An anime television series adaptation of the spin-off manga ''Umayon'' aired from July to September 2020. A short web anime titled ''Umayuru'' premiered in October 2022. A second web anime titled ''Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top'' premiered in April 2023 and ran for four episodes. An anime film titled ''Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era'' premiered in Japan in May 2024. An anime television series adaptation of ''Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray'' premiered in April 2025. A short web anime titled ''Umayuru: Pretty Gray'' premiered in April 2025. Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CygamesPictures
is a Japanese animation studio subsidiary of Cygames. Establishment In 2015, Cygames announced the creation of its own anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ... production division to produce anime for their gaming IP but also anime originals. A year later in 2016, Cygames announced the creation of its own anime studio called CygamesPictures to create and animate their own anime, at the same time that its anime production division now is part of the studio itself. Works TV series *'' Manaria Friends'' (2019) *'' Princess Connect! Re:Dive'' (2020–2022) *'' The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls U149'' (2023) *'' Brave Bang Bravern!'' (2024) *'' Uma Musume Cinderella Gray'' (2025) *'' Apocalypse Hotel'' (2025) *'' The Summer Hikaru Died'' (2025) Original net animation *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granblue Fantasy
''Granblue Fantasy'' is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Cygames for Android, iOS and web browsers, which first released in Japan in March 2014. The game reunites music composer Nobuo Uematsu and art director Hideo Minaba, who previously collaborated on ''Final Fantasy V'' (1992), '' VI'' (1994), and '' IX'' (2000) and '' Lost Odyssey'' (2007). Gameplay ''Granblue Fantasy'' plays as a role-playing video game with turn-based battles. The game also contains summons and a class system that alters the main character's move-set and growth. Characters gain levels and abilities by accruing experience; by collecting certain materials, some character may earn an extra star (which is called "FLB" or full limit break), resulting in new abilities and drastically improving their power. The player character, who is always a part of the party, can equip various classes to best suit the current challenge. Summons and weapons equipped also confer characters with bonuses on attack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
is a Japanese free-to-play simulation video game co-developed by Cygames and Bandai Namco Studios for the Mobage social network platform for mobile phones. It was first released on November 28, 2011, for feature phones, and compatibility was extended to iOS and Android devices on December 16, 2011. The game is based on ''The Idolmaster'' franchise, and features a cast of new idol characters. In September 2015, a music video game developed by Cygames titled '' The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage'' was released on the Google Play Store and Apple Store in Japan. The original game ended service on March 30, 2023, and was succeeded by its spinoff game and adaptations. The story in ''Cinderella Girls'' follows the career of a producer in charge of leading and training prospective pop idols to stardom. Its gameplay follows a digital collectible card game format in which each idol is represented as a card, which the player may use to form a unit of idols to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadowverse
''Shadowverse'' is a digital collectible card game developed and published by Cygames. It was released free-to-play for iOS and Android devices in June 2016. macOS and Windows versions were released in October 2016. ''Shadowverse'' employs an anime art style with some illustrations reused from the developer's previous title, ''Rage of Bahamut'', an earlier digital collectible card game released in 2012. The game has been compared favorably with ''Hearthstone'' (2014), a difference being that Cygames sought to minimize the impact of randomness on match outcomes. Another difference is ''Shadowverse''s "Evolve" game mechanic which allows players to grant played cards bonus stats and effects at the cost of an evolution point. An anime television series adaptation by Zexcs aired from April 2020 to March 2021. A second anime series titled ''Shadowverse Flame'' from April 2022 to September 2024. An RPG card game based on the anime, ''Shadowverse: Champion's Battle'' was released on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenichiro Takaki
Kenichiro Takaki (高木 謙一郎) is a Japanese video game producer known for his work on the ''Senran Kagura'' franchise. Career Kenichiro Takaki worked at Marvelous for 17 years, becoming head of subsidiary Honey Parade Games in 2017. In early 2019, Takaki discussed how recent restrictions on "sexualized" content had made releasing series such as ''Senran Kagura'' outside Japan difficult. In 2019, Takaki announced that he was leaving Marvelous to join Cygames is a Japanese video game development studio established in 2011 by CyberAgent. Mobile and e-commerce company DeNA acquired a 24% stake in the studio in 2012, and Nintendo acquired another 5% stake in 2018, leaving CyberAgent with 69% of the sha ..., citing increased restrictions on sexual depictions in games as part of his reason for leaving, and stated that at Cygames he would be working on a fantasy game, a genre he had been interested in as a child. Takaki described his relationship, position, and compensation wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rage Of Bahamut
is a digital collectible card battle game developed by Cygames and published by DeNA. It was a social card game released on Mobage's mobile game network, in Japan in 2011 and worldwide in 2012. The game exceeded three million players outside Japan on August 7, 2012. The game had over 10million players worldwide as of December 2012. ''Rage of Bahamut'' was launched worldwide in February 2012 and topped the Top Grossing Chart on US Google Play for over 16 weeks starting in April. The game had a monthly revenue of () in 2012. The original ''Rage of Bahamut'' (''Shingeki no Bahamut'') is a fantasy adventure game in which players roam the world, drawing out powers from cards. After choosing between 'Man', 'Gods' or 'Demons' cards, players build and strengthen themselves as well as their teams by collecting, synthesizing and evolving a variety of unique cards. The cards are then used in various team oriented activities such as order vs. order 'Holy Wars' or order vs. game events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeNA
is a Japanese provider of mobile portal and e-commerce websites headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It owns the Mobage cell phone platform and also operates other services, including the e-commerce website DeNA Shopping (formerly: Bidders). History DeNA was founded in 1999 in Tokyo, Japan. The same year, it launched the online auction site Bidders. In 2004, it partnered with Index Corporation to launch the mobile auction site Mobaoku. A year later, the company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In 2006, DeNA established the subsidiary Mobakore and launched the mobile gaming site Mobage Town as well as the mobile shopping site AU Shopping Mall. In 2010, it acquired the American game developer ngmoco, and a year later, it consolidated the latter's Plus+ with Mobage Town, which became known as Mobage. In 2011, the Japan Fair Trade Commission issued a cease and desist order against DeNA, finding that it had violated Article 19 of the Antimonopoly Act by pressuring or forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CyberAgent
is a Japanese digital advertising company, which was founded in 1998 by Susumu Fujita and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is owned by Susumu Fujita with 20.50% interest; Fujita is the representative director, while Yusuke Hidaka is the executive vice president. CyberAgent is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 since 2000. In 2016, it established a live streaming service called ''w:jp:FRESH LIVE, Fresh Live''. On April 1, 2016 it was transferred to CyberAgent subsidiary AbemaTV and its name was changed to ''AbemaTV Fresh!'', and on June 26, 2018 its name was changed to ''Fresh Live''. Termination of the service began on February 12, 2019, when the creation of new channels, in addition to archiving and other functions, was disabled for most channels. Complete closure of the service on November 30, 2020, was announced on October 9, 2020. Since 2019, CyberAgent integrated the service with Openrec.tv, another live streaming service operated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company to produce handmade ''hanafuda'' playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business and becoming a public company, Nintendo began producing toys in the 1960s, and later video games. Nintendo developed its first arcade games in the 1970s, and distributed its first system, the Color TV-Game in 1977. The company became internationally dominant in the 1980s after the arcade release of ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'' (1981) and the Nintendo Entertainment System, which launched outside of Japan alongside ''Super Mario Bros.'' in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, including the Game Boy (1989), the Super Nintendo Entertainment Syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandai Namco Entertainment
is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational video game video game publisher, publisher, and the video game branch of the wider Bandai Namco Holdings group. Founded in 2006 as it is the successor to Namco's home and arcade video game business, as well as Bandai's former equivalent division. Development operations were spun off into a new company in 2012, Namco Bandai Studios, now called Bandai Namco Studios. Bandai Namco Entertainment owns List of best-selling video game franchises, several multi-million video game franchises, including ''List of Pac-Man video games, Pac-Man'', ''Tekken'', ''Soulcalibur'', ''Tales (video game series), Tales'', ''Ace Combat'', ''Taiko no Tatsujin'', ''The Idolmaster'', ''Ridge Racer'' and ''Dark Souls''. Pac-Man (character), Pac-Man himself serves as the official mascot of the company. The company also owns the licenses to several Japanese media franchises, such as ''Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shonen Jump'', ''Gundam'', ''Kamen Rider'', ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
