日本女性热衷恋爱手游 强势自私男性角色最受欢迎
时间:2024-03-27 14:43 来源:网络整理 作者:墨客科技 点击:次
日本的恋爱游戏应用越来越受女性青睐。有人甚至已经把游戏当成了一种“恋爱替代品”,她们在游戏中不仅能够填补前任离去所带来的空虚,还能够“获得”现实中很难得到的完美情人。 When Ayumi Saito was 22 she broke up with her boyfriend. But the Tokyo resident found an easy way to fill the void left by her ex lover's departure. She downloaded a romance gaming app onto her phone, and became one of the millions of women in Japan to swap real life intimacy for a fantasy. "I felt lonely," says Ito, now 31. "Japanese men are shy and not good at flattering women. But girls want to hear 'I love you'." The virtual boyfriends she found in games like "Metro PD: Close To You" -- which sees a female detective discover a life-changing romance while fighting crime -- did all the things her former partner hadn't. "When I was tired at the end of the day, before going to sleep, I was so relieved to hear his sweet and gentle words," she tells CNN. Saito is by no means unusual. In 2014, the romance gaming industry in Japan was worth $130 million. In a society where 44.2% of women - almost half of Japan's millennial singles aged between 18 and 34 - are virgins, this industry has seemingly tapped into a deep desire for simulated intimacy in Japan. The birth of romance gaming Dating simulation apps first appeared in Japan in the 1980s. Known as "bishoujo" they would generally focus on a male protagonist pursuing pretty anime-style female characters. In 1994, a team of female coders at Japanese gaming company Koei broke with tradition, launching the first romance game for women, "Angelique". Based on the quest of a blonde teenage girl, who is a candidate to be the next "Queen of the Universe", to choose her perfect suitor, it was wildly successful. Japanese businesswoman Nanako Higashi and her husband, Yuzi Tsutani, saw a niche in this lucrative sector. So, in the mid-2000s the duo pivoted their punk gaming business, Voltage, to cater to the female audience, debuting their first dating app for women "My Lover is The No.1 Host" in 2006. Today, Voltage is a world leader in female romance simulation apps, catering to female "otaku" -- intense fans of popular culture, such as anime and manga -- and other curious women. |