Japanese Animation and Video Game Website Layouts

It's all games, western games are also much more graphically intensive: <a href="http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield3" rel="nofollow">http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield3</a> <a href="http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/" rel="nofollow">http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/</a> <a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/" rel="nofollow">http://us.battle.net/wow/en/</a> <a href="http://www.callofduty.com/mw3" rel="nofollow">http://www.callofduty.com/mw3</a><p>Not too sure why this surprises anyone...

One key difference about web design in Japan versus the US is that Japanese consumers feel more secure with a lot of text on a page.<p>Here is a good example of how you need to have different designs based on your target audience:<p><a href="http://www.chatwork.com/ja/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chatwork.com/ja/</a><p><a href="http://www.chatwork.com/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chatwork.com/en/</a>

it's interesting how it's the complete opposite of what japanese design is known for...clean minimalism.<p>but I find that the marketing in Japan tends to reflect the emotions that are generally repressed in their daily lives. the beer ads for example are colorful and wild with joy...imho.

There's also <a href="http://www.dannychoo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dannychoo.com/</a> aka that Storm Trooper dude...

Its like web design in reverse...

Not going to lie...this is so much cooler than the boring pastels and usability-tuned shit we have.<p>It makes me wish that the frontpage of Amazon or Heroku had more &#60;blink&#62; tags.<p>EDIT: No, seriously, all the pretty happy colors and little cartoon bros and errything. It just seems so happy. ^_^