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Ignition Releases New Free Comic Apps for “Captain Tsubasa” “Jigoku Sensei Nube” ignition releases new free comic apps for “Captain Tsubasa” “Jigoku Sensei Nube” IGNIS LTD. Tokyo, Japan –December 24, 2014– IGNIS LTD. is pleased to announce that ignition, inc., the subsidiary of IGNIS has started to provide free comic apps which enables users to read through “Captain Tsubasa”, “Jigoku Sensei NUBE”, “JIN” , and “BIN”, originally published from SHUEISHA Inc. The features of the apps are as follows: ■You can read through famous titles This Apps enables you to read through “Captain Tsubasa”, “Jigoku Sensei NUBE”, “Jin” for free, up to 30 minutes a day. If you want to read more than 30 minutes, you can continue to do so by paying a fee. Further, for “BIN”, a popular title which is now appearing serially in Grand Jump (a weekly comic magazine), all but the latest story will be provided though the apps. ■You can read the latest titles appearing on “Grand Jump” Further, this apps enables users to read all the current stories appearing serially on Grand Jump, and the latest episode just one week after its original appearance on the magazine. ■Expansion going forward ignition is going to provide major titles published by SHUEISHA Inc. “Grand Jump”; we intend to switch titles every 3 months. New titles will be announced after consultation with SHUEISHA Inc. ■Initially released titles “Captain Tsubasa”:Author:Yoichi Takahashi ©Yoichi Takahashi/SHUEISHA Inc. “Jigoku Sensei Nube”:The Original:Makura sho/ Comics: takeshi Okano © Makura sho/ takeshi Okano/ SHUEISHA Inc. “JIN-仁-”:Author: Motoka Murakami © Motoka Murakami/ SHUEISHA Inc. “BIN 臏〜sonshiiden〜”:Author:Koji Hoshino © Koji Hoshino/ SHUEISHA Inc. Other titles appearing in “Grand Jump” magazine ■Summary of Applications Name of Apps: “Zenkan Kaikin! Captain Tsubasa, Jigoku Sensei NUBE, JIN-仁-, BIN 臏〜sonshiiden〜 by Grand Jump” Provided by: ignition inc. Starting from: December 22nd, 2014 OS Android™ 2.3 or later iOS 6.0 and after、iPhone、iPad and iPod touch applicable Price Free download(in-app purchase) Download Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manga.st ore.j.and iOS https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/id942853885 About ignition ignition was established as a 100% subsidiary of IGNIS LTD. in August 2013. It is a company that maximizes both the number of readers and the revenue from them, using the power of digital. ignition provides smartphone apps which has made popular comic titles (the complete series) into freemiums. The apps gained popularity by allowing people to read popular titles such as “Salaryman Kintaro” and “Rokudenashi BLUES” for free, for 30 minutes each day, and downloads have reached a cumulative 4 million in 9 months from the start of the service. This is an innovative freemium model in that, while there will be a fee charge after the initial 30 minutes, it has succeeded in collecting fees from the enormous amount of users who were initially attracted by the first “free” 30 minutes. We will continue to provide many comic titles that were enthusiastically produced by authors and publishers to as many readers as possible, and strive to create new revenue models. URL for ignition, inc.:http://ignition.tokyo.jp/ About IGNIS LTD. IGNIS is a leading smartphone application company that is involved in planning, development, operation and sales of products. IGNIS’s company philosophy is “Until we impact the world, we won't be satisfied.” Since its establishment in May 2010, IGNIS has launched a wide range of smartphone applications, including utility tools, entertainment, games and more, which have resulted in an accumulated total of 60 million downloads as of August 2014. IGNIS has succeeded to produce many smash hit applications which have exceeded 1 million downloads to date, precisely meeting a huge variety of needs for smartphone users. Through challenging and developing new genre, IGNIS aims to create internet services establishing “new standards” over and over again. URL for IGNIS LTD.:http://1923.co.jp/ Public Relations, IGNIS LTD. E-mail:[email protected] .
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