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Voice actress Aoi Yuki believes “kakin is on the same level with eating”.
\n(Screenshot\u00a0Source:\u00a0petit milady 2nd Live!)<\/em><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/18053008494334.jpg?resize=1000%2C987&ssl=1\" "\\"\\"")
Voice actress Maaya Uchida said\u00a0in a Final\u00a0Fantasy XI radio show that she “usually\u00a0kakin\u00a0at least\u00a05,000 yen\u00a0because otherwise it would be\u00a0disrespectful to the game that is free to begin with”.
\n(Picture Source: Amazon<\/a>)<\/i><\/h5>\nIn 2017, Japan Online Game Association found that the Japanese mobile game market size alone was worth 1.1517 trillion while the entire Japanese online market – mobile games included – was worth 1.2796 trillion. The Japanese Cabinet Office conducted a research in the same year, and they concluded that 70% elementary\/high school students were online game players.<\/p>\n
It seems almost certain that kids are the ones who spend more and more on kakin games, but Japanese media MoneyPost<\/a> recently reveals they are not the only ones.<\/p>\n“I used up the 100,000 yen I earn monthly from a part-time job. I used up all credits available in my credit cards. I didn’t pay for our pension insurance and health insurance, and that was how my husband found out.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe woman MoneyPost interviewed is a 42 years-old housewife addicted to mobile games about\u00a0virtual male idols. After her husband realised how serious the issue was, he decided he would move out to cool down a bit. In the end, he sent her a divorce letter.<\/p>\n
The rising number of middle-aged women mobile game players was proven when Sega, best known in the mobile industry for their otome rhythm game Yumeiro Cast, confirmed in 2016 that they had a large portion of female gamers who were at their 40s and 50s.<\/p>\n
![\"kakin\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/18053008290263.jpg?resize=1200%2C1067&ssl=1\" "\\"\\"")
Yumeiro Cast had\u00a0over 1.1 million downloads in 2016<\/em><\/h5>\nTracing back to the roots will take us to Japan’s common family\u00a0hierarchy. Married women are not expected to work full-time. They are expected to stay home and take care of the family.\u00a0Female journalist Yuki Ishikawa<\/a> notices, Japanese housewives have relatively more free time and that\u00a0leads to them killing time by playing mobile games.<\/p>\nGiven that Japan’s\u00a0workplace culture encourages working overtime<\/a> and drinking with colleagues\/business partners after work<\/a>, the\u00a0husbands who work full-time are less likely to spend time with their wives. The latter can only rely on mobile games for\u00a0fun time, and perhaps some love from handsome anime guys.<\/p>\n![\"kakin\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/18052912540995-e1527666737375.jpg?resize=800%2C420&ssl=1\" "\\"\\"")
The common after-work drinks\u00a0with colleagues as depicted in Wotakoi\u00a0ni Koi wa Muzukashii<\/em><\/h5>\nOf course, the housewife\u00a0in the interview may need to\u00a0practice\u00a0self control, and if she is planning to start a new relationship, she may also need to find a\u00a0fellow otaku that understands her love for anime characters. Love is hard for otaku after all.<\/p>\n
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Voice actress Maaya Uchida said\u00a0in a Final\u00a0Fantasy XI radio show that she “usually\u00a0kakin\u00a0at least\u00a05,000 yen\u00a0because otherwise it would be\u00a0disrespectful to the game that is free to begin with”.\n(Picture Source: Amazon<\/a>)<\/i><\/h5>\n
In 2017, Japan Online Game Association found that the Japanese mobile game market size alone was worth 1.1517 trillion while the entire Japanese online market – mobile games included – was worth 1.2796 trillion. The Japanese Cabinet Office conducted a research in the same year, and they concluded that 70% elementary\/high school students were online game players.<\/p>\n
It seems almost certain that kids are the ones who spend more and more on kakin games, but Japanese media MoneyPost<\/a> recently reveals they are not the only ones.<\/p>\n “I used up the 100,000 yen I earn monthly from a part-time job. I used up all credits available in my credit cards. I didn’t pay for our pension insurance and health insurance, and that was how my husband found out.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The woman MoneyPost interviewed is a 42 years-old housewife addicted to mobile games about\u00a0virtual male idols. After her husband realised how serious the issue was, he decided he would move out to cool down a bit. In the end, he sent her a divorce letter.<\/p>\n The rising number of middle-aged women mobile game players was proven when Sega, best known in the mobile industry for their otome rhythm game Yumeiro Cast, confirmed in 2016 that they had a large portion of female gamers who were at their 40s and 50s.<\/p>\n Tracing back to the roots will take us to Japan’s common family\u00a0hierarchy. Married women are not expected to work full-time. They are expected to stay home and take care of the family.\u00a0Female journalist Yuki Ishikawa<\/a> notices, Japanese housewives have relatively more free time and that\u00a0leads to them killing time by playing mobile games.<\/p>\n Given that Japan’s\u00a0workplace culture encourages working overtime<\/a> and drinking with colleagues\/business partners after work<\/a>, the\u00a0husbands who work full-time are less likely to spend time with their wives. The latter can only rely on mobile games for\u00a0fun time, and perhaps some love from handsome anime guys.<\/p>\n Of course, the housewife\u00a0in the interview may need to\u00a0practice\u00a0self control, and if she is planning to start a new relationship, she may also need to find a\u00a0fellow otaku that understands her love for anime characters. Love is hard for otaku after all.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Love is really hard for otaku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[772,777],"tags":[1131,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/18053009124728-e1527671582485.jpg?fit=1439%2C788&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8G4K-7Av","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Yumeiro Cast had\u00a0over 1.1 million downloads in 2016<\/em><\/h5>\nThe common after-work drinks\u00a0with colleagues as depicted in Wotakoi\u00a0ni Koi wa Muzukashii<\/em><\/h5>\n
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