Learn Japanese letters while playing cards!
Kazoku is an educational card game. It will help you learning Japanese letters, hiragana and katakana, while playing. Based on manga graphics, all cards are illustrated by professionnal mangakas.
The game consist in:
Words on thhe cards have been carefully selected according to the game constraints:
Cards are illustrated by professional mangakas. We asked each Japanese mangakas to illustrate a complete family so he or she give it his or her personal touch, chara design and culture. Drawings show mainly realistic situations in nowadays Japan.
To please everybody, Kazoku proposes 2 types of game: Happy Families and Happy Kanas.
The success of Kazoku is in your hands. Be an actor of this wonderfull story!
Raised funds will be used this way:
This is te minimum threshold to validate the campain.
This will let us start the printing of the games, posters and the making of the nafudas.
Addition of an “Illustrations” poster, from Orange Belt Pack.
Better game quality. The paper goes from 300gr/m to 320gr/m.
Ludovic Tousch (Japanese-French-English translator, computer scientist, Japan lover)
« After studying computer science, I studied Japanese language in Paris. Then, I worked in Japan for 5 years. Back home, I never stopped to love Japan. I created the web site www.japanophone.com where I share my passion for the Japanese language, its phonetics and writing. If one may consider Japanese language easy due to its pronunciation and its simple grammar, this is a different story about the writing and this is often what turns off people to start to learn this language. Thinking about how to change that, the idea came to my mind of an educational card game that would let you learn the Japanese basic letters and make you start to learn the language without noticing it. Enthusiast about manga in general, I used several professional mangakas to draw the illustrations of each families, each one with his or her own style »
They are male and female professionals who work either in agency or in free-lance. I choose them carefully, each one for his or her style to have a very rich graphical experience. The style is expressed mainly in the faces (chara design) and the colouring (anime, picture book, etc).
Tsubaki (Family Tradition)
Living in Fukuoka
Interested in everything around manga and anime
Kibi (Family City)
Living in Tokyo
Likes to draw parents and kids
Awanosuke (Family Cooking)
Living in Noto, Ishikawa prefecture
Specialised in backgrounds and landscapes
Hoshino (Family Country)
Living in Osaka
Likes to draw anime characters
Uroro (Family Home)
Living in Fukuoka
Likes to invent new characters
Samphy (Family Sport)
Living in France
Likes to invent new characters
Komakami (Family School)
Living in Saitama, Tokyo area
Likes to draw body portrait
Aoito (Family Art)
Living in Mito, Tokyo area
Passionate about heroic fantasy
Mimoto (Family Mystery)
Living in Nagoya
Likes to create video games