https://doyoubox.com/en/ Tests & mini-games to discover the real you en Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/kaomoji-ranking-simeji/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/kaomoji-ranking-simeji/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT Japanese keyboard app Simeji released its ranking of this year's most-used kaomoji, text faces built from letters and symbols, on October 9. Japan's No. 1 is a face with tears welling up. But in the survey, more people said they use it when they're moved or grateful than when they're sad. Outside Japan, a ribbon-shaped symbol made the top 5 in all 15 countries. https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/heard-everything/ https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/heard-everything/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT A night of voice chat with a friend who says they're muting to eat ramen, then belts out a song, thinking no one can hear. https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/almost-there/ https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/almost-there/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT A friend says they're almost there from under the covers, then races to meet up on a Saturday morning. https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/you-said-anything/ https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/you-said-anything/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT A four-panel lunch break with a friend who says anything's fine, rejects every suggestion, then pulls out a food spinner. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/mobile-game-chart-september/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/mobile-game-chart-september/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT In Mobileindex GAME's September user ranking for mobile games in Korea, released on October 7, the top five spots were the same as in August. Roblox stayed first with 3.23 million users, and Rummikub, a board game where you put number tiles together, came in new at tenth with 710,000. Minecraft, sixth in August, slipped to ninth. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/dave-the-diver-10-million-mobile/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/dave-the-diver-10-million-mobile/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT "DAVE THE DIVER", the game where you catch fish underwater by day and run a sushi restaurant by night, passed 10 million copies sold worldwide on September 9. It's the first single-player, buy-once game made in Korea to reach that milestone. The mobile version also arrived on the App Store and Google Play on September 17. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/japan-highschool-autumn-trends/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/japan-highschool-autumn-trends/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT A survey asking 200 Japanese high schoolers about current trends came out on October 2. The No. 2 slang term was "dopagaki", a way to poke fun at yourself for being hooked on short videos. In the snack category, malatang took first place, followed by Yoajung (ヨアジョン), the frozen yogurt dessert that started at a Korean shop. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/eu-kids-act-game-login-rewards/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/eu-kids-act-game-login-rewards/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT Login streak rewards that reset if you miss even one day. Reminders to come back when you haven't logged in for a while. The proposal the EU released on September 17 includes wording that relates to these designs. But it isn't law yet. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/zeta-crack-game-definition-gap/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/zeta-crack-game-definition-gap/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Last August, 1,586,178 people used Zeta, an app for chatting with AI characters. Teens or younger users made up 58.3% of its users, and average monthly usage was 40 hours. But no one has decided yet whether apps like this count as games. https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/one-more-game/ https://doyoubox.com/en/comics/one-more-game/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT A four-panel comic about two friends who agree to play just one game and are still holding the controllers at sunrise https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/trickcal-short-anime/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/trickcal-short-anime/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Trickcal Revive, a Korean game where you play with characters by pulling their cheeks, is getting a short anime titled 트릭컬 만화동산 (Trickcal Manhwa Dongsan). Laftel will release one episode for free every Monday from 8 p.m. Korea time on September 28, and a viewing event and a photo event at the Aniplus building in Hapjeong, Seoul, both start the same day. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/setlog-japan-vlog-app/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/setlog-japan-vlog-app/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT setlog, an app where you film a two-second clip whenever a notification arrives and it joins your clips with your friends' into a vlog of the day, hit No. 1 on Japan's App Store free chart on September 22. It was made by the Korean company New Chat, and its Japanese users reportedly grew sharply from around May, after it added Japanese. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/meccha-chameleon-japan-game-awards/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/meccha-chameleon-japan-game-awards/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT MECCHA CHAMELEON, a hide-and-seek game where you paint the background onto your own body to fool the Seekers, took the Movement Award at the Japan Game Awards 2026 on September 15. It came out on Steam first in June, and a Nintendo Switch 2 version followed on September 9. The Steam version has English support. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/heartsteel-live-my-life/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/heartsteel-live-my-life/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT HEARTSTEEL, the League of Legends virtual band that had been quiet since PARANOIA in October 2023, is back with a single called LIVE MY LIFE. It went up at 01:00 on September 19 Korean time, with Anderson .Paak on K'Sante, BAEKHYUN on Ezreal, Connor Price on Sett and Nic D on Kayn. Jon Bellion wrote and produced it. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/pokemon-go-hanbok-pikachu-korea/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/pokemon-go-hanbok-pikachu-korea/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Pokémon GO has announced two events that run only in Korea. From 10:00 on September 18 to 20:00 on October 11, an orange hanbok Pikachu shows up in parts of Seoul's Jongno-gu and Jung-gu and at the Hiker Station at Incheon International Airport. From September 24 to 26, the whole country joins in. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/minecraft-wilderness-bound/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/minecraft-wilderness-bound/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Minecraft's third game drop of 2026, Wilderness Bound, arrived on September 15. It brings the dappled forest with its rusty-toned poplar trees, abandoned camps where only an empty tent and a campfire remain, and straw beds that are used up after one night. For anyone who already owns the game, it's a free update. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/ame-nochi-hare-onna/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/ame-nochi-hare-onna/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Game Freak, the studio behind the Pokémon series, announced a new smartphone game called Ame nochi Hare Onna on September 14. Real weather data from Weathernews feeds into the game in real time, so which characters are strong depends on that day's sky. It launches in Japan for iOS and Android in winter 2026, and pre-registration opened on announcement day. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/chiikawa-movie-theater-gifts/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/chiikawa-movie-theater-gifts/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Chiikawa's first movie opened in Japan on July 24, and the gift handed out as you walk into the screening room has changed round by round. The fifth gift, from September 19, is a 52-page booklet with new drawings and manga by the creator, Nagano. By September 13, day 52 of its run, the film had drawn 10 million moviegoers. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/overwatch-season-5-support/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/overwatch-season-5-support/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Blizzard shared Overwatch Season 5 news at BlizzCon 2026. When Season 5 starts on October 6 (Pacific time), Sombra moves from Damage to Support, and Doctrine, Hero 54 with his bat-like drones, joins the roster as a new Support hero. His limited-time Hero Trial is already live through September 14, and his official debut comes with Season 5. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/lck-final-second-chance/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/lck-final-second-chance/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT The 2026 LCK final starts at 2pm Korea time on September 13 at KSPO Dome in Seoul, with Gen.G facing Hanwha Life Esports. Hanwha lost 1-3 to Gen.G in the upper bracket final on September 5, then beat T1 3-1 in the final qualifier on the 12th and climbed back in. That loss still left Hanwha one more series to play. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/roblox-creator-payout/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/roblox-creator-payout/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT On September 3, Roblox published the numbers for the people who build on it. Creators earned over $1.5 billion across 2025. The same report says more than 42,000 creators are in the program that converts what they make into real money, and that the one in the middle of them took home about $1,500 over twelve months. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/japan-kids-phone-survey/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/japan-kids-phone-survey/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Nifty Kids, a Japanese site for children, asked 1,949 elementary and middle school students how they use their phones. Asked whether they consider themselves addicted to their phone, 52.5% of middle schoolers said yes, while 63% of elementary schoolers said no. The moment that makes them feel that way most often is looking up and finding that an hour has gone by. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/nintendo-direct-two-nights/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/nintendo-direct-two-nights/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT On September 8 at 7am PT there is a roughly 30 minute Direct built around the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, and at the same hour the next day comes Nintendo Direct 9.9.2026, about 45 minutes long. Both times come straight from Nintendo's own Direct page. On the East Coast that is 10am, and in Seoul and Tokyo it lands at 11 at night. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/mobile-game-chart-august/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/mobile-game-chart-august/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT The August user rankings for mobile games in Korea are out. The app the largest number of people opened over the month was Roblox at 2.81 million, with Block Blast next at 2.02 million. Those two are opposites in almost every way, yet they sit at one and two, and the top six slots are in exactly the same order as last month. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/speedrun-marathon/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/speedrun-marathon/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Speedrunning means finishing a game as fast as it can possibly be finished. There are events where runners take turns doing that in a relay for days without a break, and donations that arrive during the stream go to a charity. One event this July collected more than 2.4 million dollars. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/harry-potter-25/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/harry-potter-25/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT The first film opened on 16 November 2001, which makes this year the twenty fifth. So it went back into cinemas worldwide at the end of August, with ten minutes of behind the scenes footage that had never played in a theatre before. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/taiwan-claw-machine-shops/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/taiwan-claw-machine-shops/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT Walk down a side street in Taiwan and you will hit a shop that is nothing but lit glass boxes with no staff anywhere. There are more than ten thousand of these unstaffed claw machine shops across the island. And every machine has to tell you the amount that guarantees you walk out with something. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/parapara-dance-meme/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/parapara-dance-meme/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT RESCENE's Minami started dancing out of nowhere on a beach in Geoje. The line she said in that moment now gets used after a bad exam, before a scary presentation, basically any time things feel like too much. Funny thing is, the dance itself isn't even Korean. https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/guzi-badge-economy/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/guzi-badge-economy/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT A whole mall floor turning into badge shops. In China those little things are called guzi. One thumbnail-sized badge runs about 15 yuan, and the whole market came to 168.9 billion. What sits between those two numbers? https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/photo-booth-30-years/ https://doyoubox.com/en/trends/photo-booth-30-years/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT The four-cut booth did not appear out of nowhere. A sticker photo machine that landed in a Tokyo arcade in 1995 traveled through Daegu and came back to Tokyo, and thirty years are folded into that one strip of paper.