A cellular recreation primarily based on Chiikawa is in improvement, with pre-registration now open in Japan. The title of the sport is Chiikawa Pocket, or Chiipoke for brief. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]
You may pre-register by way of the Apple Retailer and the Play Retailer. The idea of the sport is that you just’ll all the time have Chiikawa with you as you go about your every day life. Stuff you’ll be capable to expertise within the recreation embrace mini-games (which can be packed stuffed with Chiikawa’s distinctive worldview), merchandise assortment, residence web page customization, costume accumulating, and exterminating enemies.
You may take a look at the promotional video for Chikawa Pocket right here:
Chiikawa is brief for Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsu, which accurately interprets to “One thing Small and Cute.” It’s a Japanese manga collection that began serialization in 2020 (as on-line Twitter posts) and an anime primarily based on it got here out in 2022.
Although the characters are lovely little issues that don’t look misplaced when subsequent to Sanrio mascots, the story feels very completely different from different reveals within the “cute critter doing cute critter issues” style. For instance, some tales take care of the characters smashing their brethren with a hammer after they have been brainwashed and petrified. Others take care of characters taking an examination collectively, however solely certainly one of them passes.
Chiikawa Pocket is in improvement for cellular gadgets. Extra data on it’s going to come out sooner or later.
