Sales Up About 20% Year on Year, With Performance of Mainstay Pachinko/Pachislot Business in Line With Forecasts

TOKYO--(Korea Newswire)--The company carries out planning and development for monthly comic HERO'S and pursue new projects.

We take measures to promote new movie development and multi-media expansion with the BERSERK series and others.

Social media

We deploy IP on a wide range of platforms so that they begin to contribute to earnings.

Consumer products

In addition to running a contents shop, the company carries out ongoing investigative research on an approach to shops that will contribute to IP acquisition and on development and distinctive product planning.

Sales of Monster Hunter, launched in Q4 of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, reached 40,000

One new pachinko and one new pachislot machine were released in Q1.

Part of the sales of Monster Hunter, launched in Q4 of the previous fiscal year, were recorded in Q1 and were generally in line with forecasts.

Number of Pachinko/Pachislot machines sold
Pachinko 20,928 machines (+ 13,821 machines YoY)
Pachislot　 43,862 machines (+ 7,612 machines YoY)
Total　　　 64,790 machines (+21,433 machines YoY)

About Fields
Fields Corporation and the Fields Group have a mission to provide “The Greatest Leisure for All People” in the form of products and services to meet the needs of a society with increasing leisure time. We are also identifying business opportunities through research, analysis and forecasting of lifestyle and environmental changes, and developing our business in a wide range of entertainment fields including the pachinko/pachislot field as well as video, mobile content, animation, publishing and sports.

Website: http://www.fields.biz/ir/e/

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