BODY: Ever wished you could step into the purikura booth with your favorite anime boyfriend? Starting July 20, fans of Love and Deepspace can do exactly that. Furyu has announced a collaboration between INFOLD's blockbuster romance sim and its Bloomit purikura (photo sticker) machines, bringing five virtual love interests into Japan's beloved photo booths.
The collaboration adds a dedicated shooting course built around the game's five male protagonists. Players choose their preferred character and pose for a "two-shot-style" print designed to look as though they snapped the photo side-by-side with him — the digital-boyfriend fantasy made tangible on glossy sticker paper.
To sell the illusion, Furyu has packed the course with themed details. Each shoot features custom photo frames, freshly recorded guide voices from the characters walking you through the session, and in-game background music playing throughout. The result, according to Furyu, is a finished print that genuinely feels like a keepsake from a date.
Love and Deepspace has been a runaway success since its global launch, drawing an enormous, largely female player base with its cinematic 3D romance and immersive voice work. Tie-ins like this one extend that intimacy off-screen — a natural fit for purikura culture, which has always been about capturing a moment with someone you care about.
The insider take
Purikura remains a fixture of Japanese youth culture, especially among women, and Furyu's Bloomit brand is one of the category's biggest players — so pairing it with a female-targeted otome-adjacent hit is shrewd. Expect Tokyo game centers in Shibuya and Ikebukuro to see lines form, and for prints to flood Japanese social media within hours. These character purikura collabs have become a reliable engagement engine here: they turn a solo mobile game into a shareable, in-person ritual, and the limited-run nature means fans rush to booths before the course rotates out.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).