2022.01.20 Press Release

“Lively Island,” a box garden application for living with mysterious pets, is released in Chinese (traditional Chinese characters) as the first step in its global expansion!

※This article is machine translated.

“Livly Island,” a smartphone application operated by Cocone Corporation (Tokyo office: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yosuke Tomita; hereafter “Cocone”), today, Thursday January 20, 2022, launched its Chinese (Traditional Chinese) version.

"Livly Island," a box garden application for living with mysterious pets, is released in Chinese (Traditional Chinese) as the first step in its global expansion!

■ “Livly Island” is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year after being transformed from a browser to an app!

“Livly Island” is a nurturing communication application that Cocone renewed and newly launched for smartphones in July 2021, based on the browser version (in service from 2003 to 2019) loved by more than 1 million customers.

Within a short period of six months after its distribution as an app, it won the Grand Prize in the “Entertainment Category” and the Top 5 in the “User Voted Category AppliCategory” in last year’s “Google Play Best of 2021”. In addition, the app has received high acclaim from many quarters, with a total of over 500,000 downloads (as of January 2022).

This year marks the 20th anniversary of “Livly Island,” which began public distribution of the mysterious pet “Livly” in 2002.

In this commemorative year, Cocone has released a Chinese (traditional Chinese) version as a foothold for the global expansion of its services, and plans to release an English version in the future.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the customers who have supported “Livly Island” up to now, and we would like to expand the range of services we provide so that more and more customers can enjoy “Livly Island” in the future, even if they live overseas, so that they can become new “Livly” owners. We, the entire management team, will make a wholehearted effort to provide a wider range of services so that more and more customers can enjoy “Livly Island”.

■Future developments

This international release is the first step in the ” global expansion ” that “Livly Island” has been aiming for since its initial release in Japan.

We will continue to focus on further global expansion so that we can bring the mysterious pet “Livly” to more and more people around the world.
Please stay tuned for further developments.

<Application Download>

[App Store] https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id1553045339
[Google Play] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.cocone.livly

■What is “Livly Island,” a boxyard application for living with mysterious pets?

” Livly Island ” is a communication service for raising mysterious pets born from alchemy called ” Livly “. You can enjoy living with Livly on a small island, taking care of Livly by communicating with your alter ego “Hom” enjoying changing Hom’s clothes, growing trees that grow on the island and harvesting nuts to make a transformation potion to another Livly species, and so on.

<Related URL>

[Official website] https://www.livly.com/
[ Official Twitter ] https://twitter.com/newlivlyisland
[Official Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/livlyisland/
[Official Youtube] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq693j6lt2pIpG1v7qboa9w

Application Overview

Title : Livly Island
Supported OS ： iOS 11.0 or later (Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) Android OS 6.0 or later Some devices may not be supported.
Genre : Social Network
Price ： Basically free (some items are charged)
Supported languages : Japanese, Chinese (Traditional)

About Cocone Corporation

Cocone provides a number of social network-based digital content, including “Pokecolo,” a character dress-up application for smartphones supported by more than 20 million customers, “Pokecolo Twin,” a sister application to “Pokecolo,” and “Livly Island,” which was released in July 2021 and has become a huge hit.

Digital contents based on social networks provided by Cocone are mainly “social services to enjoy coordinating” and “games with coordinating elements ” which have “Character” and “Coordinating” elements and customers can “Play”. At Cocone, we have pioneered this genre, which we define as “CCP(Character Coordinating Play)”.

In 2021, we will globally release “Cobalt,” an NFT marketplace based on blockchain technology that allows many creators and buyers to participate, guaranteeing the value of popular digital items and contributing to further economic expansion in the online world in the future. In addition, based on the existing CCP service, we are challenging to build a digital world and metaverse space that can give shape to “sensibility”, which is Cocone’s forte, rather than convenience and functionality.

As part of the Cocone Group, in April 2017, we opened “International Montessori Mirai Kindergarten ” a preschool operated by our subsidiary Cocone Education Corporation, which provides a future-oriented education with bilingualism, Montessori, and computer science at its core, In 2019, we acquired “Hange”,a long-established online gaming portal as a subsidiary.

Established in 2021, Cocone Connect Corporation is developing the “noen konkatsu(Marriage Hunting in the Farm)” series and the popular avatar service “Selfy” for further development of CCP services, and Cocone Fashion Corporation operates the EC service “choiceis,” which is oriented toward a new way of selling fashion as an IT company.

We aim to build a new digital world by combining our experience in avatar development, community management, and language education with technologies such as blockchain and NFT.

＜Main businesses operated by Cocone Corporation＞