TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--We are very pleased to announce that MIRAISHONEN Inc. (HQs: Showa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi Prefecture; President and Representative Director: Kazudaka Yonekura; hereinafter referred to as "MIRAISHONEN") set up an office in South Korea on July 12, 2012.
We MIRAISHONEN are an IT venture company that has deployed various types of entertainment services from our hubs in Shibuya, Tokyo; Nagoya; and Osaka in Japan. With considerable achievements in the expanding social application market, we are growing rapidly.

Recently, the entertainment market has grown considerably with the rise of social games in Japan. In addition, the global penetration of smartphones has given rise to a market for borderless content and now a mobile-centric giant market with a tremendous amount of potential is being established. In such a rapidly changing environment, we have expanded the sphere of our activities. For example, we have created many types of high-quality content based on our long history of mobile application development and contributed to the improvement of the industry's standards, taking advantage of our main strength, graphic creation. We opened an office in Seoul, South Korea to further expand our graphic package service "Dragon Graphic Box."

The Seoul office is our first overseas hub. It will play the key role of creating our global deployment strategies and forge the future of MIRAISHONEN. In a situation where the market is expanding globally and service providers all over the world are competing for higher quality, we will lead the market by pursuing world-class quality and delivering top-quality graphics.
We are planning to expand our business further by promoting partnerships with service providers in Asian countries through our Seoul office, while enhancing the global creator network we have developed.

[What is the graphic production package service for social apps, "Dragon Graphic Box"?]
This service provides a large amount of super high quality creative materials, especially character graphics for social applications, which is realized by MIRAISHONEN's unique graphic system. For order placement, the minimum order is 50 pieces and the price is 20,000 yen per piece.
[Feature 1] Quickly respond to high production volume
With our giant creative network consisting of over 8,000 creators from Japan and over 2,000 creators from abroad, and the overwhelming production capability through the control and management by our skillful staff, it can handle the wide range of works from the huge production volume in the initial development stage to the stable supply in the operation stage.
[Feature 2] Industry's highest quality taking advantage of product characteristics
The industry leader in terms of quality, built by our top-class creators at home and abroad and senior directors who have experienced various art directions for leading clients
[Feature 3] High quality service based on knowledge that only the cutting edge company can provide
Provide high quality products that only MIRAISHONEN, which have a rich experience in developing social applications, can provide: e.g., handling differences in the trendy evolution and composition-enabled card graphics, and producing background graphics.

We MIRAISHONEN have designed and developed hundreds of game and social applications, including our original ones and also those for leading platformers and application providers, since the dawn of the mobile content market. With the operation of our own products, we have achieved the cumulative number of over a million users, and have developed content products with ARPU of over 2,000 yen on average. In addition, we are a top class company in mobile market analysis and mobile content development know-how as well.
Today, the mobile content market has become a global one, and MIRAISHONEN will lead the future mobile content market and aim to be the world's best social application creation company by not only developing original applications but also providing high-quality, multilayered services.