Overview
Cygames Inc. is a Japanese video game software development company, a subsidiary of CyberAgent and DeNA.
The company was founded in May 2011; since 2016 it has also entered the animation production business; in 2021 it celebrated its 10th anniversary.
It is a consolidated subsidiary of CyberAgent and has an equity method relationship with DeNA. On 6 February 2015, it also established Citail, a new subsidiary specialising in the development of game titles; in 2018, it entered into a capital tie-up with Nintendo in relation to the joint development of Dragalia Lost, making Nintendo the third largest equity shareholder after CyberAgent and DeNA.
It develops mainly social network games and smartphone application games for DeNA's Mobage, Ameba and DMM.
Main Titles
Social network games
- Rage of Bahamut
- The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls / Starlight Stage
- Granblue Fantasy
- Princess Connect! / Princess Connect! Re:Dive
- Shadowverse / Shadowverse: Champion's Battle
- Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
- Dragalia Lost - co-produced with Nintendo
- World Flipper - produced by subsidiary Citail
- Knights of Glory
- Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light
- LINE Paper Dash World
- Little Noah - produced by subsidiary BlazeGames
- Sangokushi Puzzle Wars
- Kindai Mahjong All Stars: Touhaiden
Console games
- Airship Q - first console (PlayStation Vita) game, produced by Miracle Positive
- Granblue Fantasy: Versus - Co-production with Arc System Works
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink - Co-produced with Platinum Games
- Shadowverse: Champion's Battle (console version of Shadowverse) - first Nintendo console (Nintendo Switch) production for a console title.
Other
- Hero Academy Hero Department! - First otome game
- Cycomics - web manga magazine
TV Anime
Indicates works that participated in production committees and works produced in-house.
- April 2016 - The animation production subsidiary CygamesPictures is established.
- Jun 2016 - Background art painting production company Kusanagi Inc. becomes a wholly owned subsidiary.
Sponsorship Activities
The company has been involved in sponsorship activities since its establishment, but became more active from 2015.
- 2015 J-League Sagan Tosu
- 2017 Juventus F.C.
The president of the company is from Saga Prefecture and has a will to enliven the declining Saga area, and several of the titles produced are related to Saga, including Yuri on ICE and Zombie Land Saga, as well as Saga's football team, Sagan Tosu.
TV programs
Since its founding, the company has launched a large number of TV commercials, and since 2015 it has achieved single-company sponsorship of variety show programs.
Video Research announced commercial trends for the first three days of the New Year 2017, and the number of commercials by company ranked third after Suzuki and Daihatsu. Incidentally, if the number of commercials of Starlight Stage is added to those of Cygames, it is calculated to be far ahead of second place and below.
Programs sponsored by a single company
As at end-December 2017.
- Design Code
- Summers x Sports
- Niciyou Chaplin
Comedy award programs
After gaining sponsorship of the M-1 Grand Prix at the end of 2015, the company became the title sponsor of THE MANZAI in the same year and the R-1 Grand Prix and King of Conte the following year, achieving complete sponsorship of major comedy award competition programs.
Sagan Tosu
A J-League football team whose home town is Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, with which Cygames has had a sponsorship contract since the summer of 2015. The Starigh-Tosu-Stage event is a collaboration with the Cinderella Girls.
RIZIN
A mixed martial arts event. Cygames sponsored the event in September 2016; it designed the winner's trophy and championship belt for the tournament on New Year's Eve 2018.
related Videos
Cygames Corporate Music Video "Follow Your Fantasy"
Cygames JUVENTUS OFFICIAL SPONSOR PV
Cygames Corporate Introduction Movie 2019
Cygames Corporate Introduction Movie 2020
Associated People
Game producers
Yuito Kimura, Koichi Haruta, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Kenichiro Takagi
Illustrators and designers
Hideo Minaba, Akihiko Yoshida
Ryosuke Aiba, Annindofu, Riko Ayama, LM7, Hitomoji Kiku, Kumajet, 77gl, Isuka Harada, Soji Hisakata, Ponzu, Mayoko, Mushimaro
Music producers
Tetsuya Uchida, Akihiro Honda
Animation Producers
Aisaku Chikaishi, Nobuhiro Takenaka
Professional gamers
Umehara (signed sponsorship deal on 2 March 2017)
Yuuki Ichikawa, Kentaro Yamamoto, Teruya Kakumae, Yuya Watanabe, Shota Yasooka (professional MTG players belonging to 'Team Cygames'. At the start-up, it was Ichikawa, Yamamoto and Kakumae, but later Watanabe from Team MINT and Yasooka from Hareruya Pros moved to the team. They have continued to this day).
Martial artist
Related Article
Video Game Industry Social network game Anime Production Company
List of Cygames-related content characters (Cygames関連コンテンツの登場人物一覧)
CyberAgent... the parent company.
Saga Television Station... a media company (TV station) which also has a content production base in the Saga area.
Juventus... Cygames announced in a press release that it will sign a sponsorship agreement for the period from July 2017 until the end of June 2020.
DMM.com... browser versions of game titles such as Grabble and Shadowverse have been launched here.
List of CP tags for BL in Cygames-related contents (Cygames関連コンテンツの腐向けCPタグ一覧)
(Cygames-related contents have numerous star systems, so they are grouped in the tags above. Always use the 'BL' or 'For Fujoshi' tag for related illustrations).
External Links
Official Twitter (@Cygames_PR)
Official Instagram (@cygames_inc)
