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Hello Kitty no Ekikoyomi
Hello Kitty no Ekikoyomi | |
Publisher(s) | Imagineer |
Release date(s) | August 1, 2000 |
Genre | Fortune telling/Divination |
Platform(s) | Mobile phone (i-mode compatible) |
Disclaimer: It is suggested any form of fortune-telling/divination should be taken with a pinch of salt and is not to be taken seriously. It can also become potentially dangerous to one's well-being if one is sensitive and becomes dependent on it. This subject may also be seen as occult, taboo or controversial in certain religions or cultures. |
Hello Kitty no Ekikoyomi (Japanese: ハローキティの易暦), meaning "Hello Kitty's Fortune-Telling Calendar") is a Japanese Hello Kitty i-mode compatible mobile phone game for NTT Docomo, and divination software. It was released on August 1, 2000, and is similar to Imagineer's previous game Fairy Kitty no Kaiun Jiten: Yousei no Kuni no Uranai Shugyou for Game Boy Color. The information fee was 300 yen per month.
Gameplay
Hello Kitty will tell the player's fortune. There are a variety of menus, including the 365 Day Calendar where players can view a personalised calendar and have their fortune told every day. Hello Kitty will grow every time she tells the player's fortune, and the number of potential items (readings) will increase as she grows.
Menus
- 365 Day Calendar (365日の易暦): The 365 Day Calendar is able to predict lucky (大安) and unlucky (仏滅) days. The calendar is divided into 10 parts with biorhythm displays. It is possible for the user to analyze their luck based on their birth data.
- Good Luck Dictionary (開運辞典): There are 16 possible readings, both pertaining to the user's fortune and predicting the future of a relationship with a partner. More readings are available as Hello Kitty grows.
- Good Luck Forecast (開運予報): In this menu, Hello Kitty will email the user about their best days.
Second anniversary of service:
The following menus were later available in updates to commerate the second anniversary of the software:
- Mystery Fortune-Telling (August) (ねぞう占い)
- Love Fortune-Telling (September) (恋欲占い): Including the item "This Month's Love Fortune-Telling" (今月の恋占い).
- Wedding Fortune-Telling (October) (ウェディング占い)
- Hello Kitty and Akiyama Sensei's Fortune-Telling (キティと秋山先生の直々占い): This was a feature linked in with the website and the site's supervisor Masato Akiyama, in which Akiyama directly replies to worries based on user submissions.
Promotional giveaway
If users answered a survey, they would be be entered into a lottery to win Hello Kitty merchandise. If they also registered as a member of the free website i love Sanrio, they would receive benefits such as "love points" for premium gifts as a thanks for using the software.[1]
Trial version
- Fairy Kitty no Kaiun Jiten (Japanese: フェアリーキティの開運辞典) is a trial version of Hello Kitty no Ekikoyomi, published on Imagineer's official website circa 2000.[2]
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