Character Chowdown - Learn how to read Japanese

Character Chowdown is an educational puzzle game designed to teach players how to read Japanese characters. Troublemaking Nommons will challenge players by making characters players have a difficult time recalling appear more often to reinforce what they are practicing. Designed to be played on the go, Character Chowdown is ready to satiate anyone eager to learn a new language.

Key Features

Deliciously easy - Players can learn hiragana, katakana, and hundreds of kanji characters in a fun, quick, casual way.

Progressive performance - A sophisticated system recognizes which characters players mastered and which ones they need to work on.

Additional heroes - Heroes and villains from the Disgaea series will make guest appearances in future downloadable content.

Fill up on achievements - Game Center achievements will be awarded for events such as learning all of the characters in a language pack and flicking monsters off the screen.

Say “Hi!” with postcards - Players can create and send digital postcards by decorating Nommons with accessories unlocked by completing language packs. Custom postcards can be shared through a user’s Facebook profile.

Play while playing your favorite songs - We know you have awesome music on your iPod, iPad or iPhone and you can stream music right into Character Chowdown. Start a song using the Music app and switch to Character Chowdown to hear your tunes while playing!

Start learning for free - Katakana, a Japanese language set commonly used for foreign words, will be released for free.