Big Bang news: GD + Guiseppe Zanotti collab, mobile game endorsement, Seungri likes Howl

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G-Dragon and Guiseppe Zanotti Collab and Design Together

G-Dragon and international brand Giuseppe Zanotti teamed up and designed 2 new shoe styles for men and women to be released in October. The shoes will be available online and in store upon release. Preview photos are below. No information yet on price or sizes.












YG does joint game business with China’s Tencent… BIGBANG is the model



YG Entertainment announced on the 1 this month that the company will do a joint game business with China’s biggest Internet and game service company Tencent, based on the partnership between the two companies.

YG decided to do the joint business for “全民超神” directly developed by Tencent Game to draw the biggest attention for the second half of this year. For the partnership, YG’s representative artist BIGBANG will become the exclusive model for the game, to help the collaboration between the two companies.

“全民超神” is world’s first 5:5 real-time MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, one of the game genres. World-famous League of Legend falls in this category) mobile game. Even before its official launching, it already took the No.1 on IOS free download ranking without any marketing. As such, it is drawing a keen attention from users from the point of CBT and is officially launched in China on September 1.

Tencent has actively promoted collaboration with artists, from the development phase of the game, including partnership with BIGBANG IP.

An insider of Tencent game said, “We’re really pleased to work with BIGBANG who is an artist with enormous influence in China. We will present a variety of events by BIGBANG and ‘全民超神’ and we’ve completed the preparation for active on/off-line marketing activities by using Tencent’s own platform.”

An YG insider said, “We have been doing businesses in a variety of fields since we singed strategic partnership with Tencent at the end of last year. This joint game business project is launched as part of those businesses. Starting from ‘全民超神’, YG and Tencent will continue with the collaboration using both company’s game contents and artist IP.”

The collaboration between “全民超神” and BIGBANG will be presented in different forms in Tencent’s new marketing activities, in the form of in-game items, events, and promotions. Large-scale marketing will be carried out on different platforms owned by Tencent.

ハウルになりたい。。ほんまに #ハウル pic.twitter.com/u57vOhJZqL

— Seung Ri (@ForvictoRi) September 1, 2015

"(I want to become Howl… For real #Howl)"

Source: Bigbangupdates 1, 2; yg-life, ForvictorRi

Zanottis ain't cheap so I imagine they'll be close to $1K when prices do get released.

Which Ghibli character is your favorite, Omona?

Comments

[canxi.livejournal.com]

I like the laceless gold ones. Would wear tbh.

I think my fave Ghibli character(s) are Ashitaka and San from Princess Mononoke (I still squeal when he tells her she's beautiful when I watch the movie for the umpteenth time), Haku, Howl and Calcifer and Sophie...do I have to choose? Lol, it's hard. But yeah, I think Ashitaka and San top the list.

[crystalheng.livejournal.com]

I swear I saw shoes like that selling for $20-30 somewhere

[anabelstars.livejournal.com]

probably that generic brand, Reflection/Bamboo. thats basically every chinese shoe store online lol

[kjc48.livejournal.com]

Read the first half of the title like *0* but then saw the actual shoes... no thank you. (not that I could ever afford them lol)

[canxi.livejournal.com]

Lol I think they look better on actual feet.

[tree-star123.livejournal.com]

i love howl, he was such a drama queen

[seulgibear.livejournal.com]

gjksng he looks so good in those pics. that picture where he's looking straight at the camera has me feeling some sort of way. i like the shoes, though i think not everyone could pull them off? i myself don't really know how to wear this type, so i'd pass.

last year we had a course where we looked into ghibli movies and i'm still in love with princess mononoke even after i had to write an essay on it, so i love the characters in it. i still haven't seen all of them yet... hopefully soon

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

but that's literally like 'let's put some glitter' and 'oh make it in two colors'. i even don't like the rubber soles
it does look good on GD's feet tho.

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

omg op i thought you mean howl the ginsberg poem and i was like well this is new
now i have this mental image of seungri reciting howl, talking about angel-headed hipsters

[bomsnose.livejournal.com]

one of the cheapest looking expensive shoes i saw. luckily no one here to force me to buy them lol
gd does look good in them, i guess he'd look good in anything.

[myrrhcat.livejournal.com]

i hate those ugly shoes sfm!! wasnt he wearing those in the good boy mv or whatever? they look like clown shoes i hate them

[typhlogirl.livejournal.com]

I kind of love how sparkly the shoe are, tbh - he actually looks quite good in these pics

Anyway, I don't really have a fav Ghibli character but Spirited Away >>>>>> all the other films

[leighbee333.livejournal.com]

Howl's Moving Castle is easily my least favorite Ghibli film (of the ones I've seen so far).

Of course, being a Miyazaki film, it's still gorgeously animated, with plenty of visually inventive touches.

[jyouzebin.livejournal.com]

My fav ghibli character is Haku

[samii3104.livejournal.com]

The laced up oxfords actually look unique. The loafers... not so much. It looks like you can buy a pair of these at the flea market and then glue glitter over it.

[maiihanii.livejournal.com]

wow those are some ugly shoes. and gd looks so slight but the shoes make him look like he's got huge feet.

[lycorisc.livejournal.com]

this just looks good on him. only a few people could pull this off i think

[antrea.livejournal.com]

Howl is awesome, his voice actor has to be my favorite voice of all time as well haha

[psharp10.livejournal.com]

the shoes are........ok
but gd ofc pulls them off well

[unicornios.livejournal.com]

This is kind of creepy but I've always noticed that GD's shoes are always so big.

I guess he just has big feet??
It's so weird tho, because he's not that tall.


They're ok, I guess. He certainly can pull them off.