is a Japanese

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news

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that debuted on February 1, 2007. It is operated by Natasha, Inc. The website is named after the song of the same name by

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. ''Natalie'' has been providing news for such leading Japanese portals and

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s as Mobage Town, GREE, Livedoor, Excite, Mixi, and Yahoo! Japan. It has also been successful on

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, with 1,510,000 followers as of February 2017, being the third-most-followed Japanese

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company, after '' The Mainichi Shimbun'' and '' The Asahi Shimbun''.

History

Natasha, Inc., a content provider, was founded in December 2005, becoming a

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in February 2006 and being demutualized in January 2007. On February 1, 2007, Natasha, Inc. opened its own news website ''Natalie'', named after the song "Nathalie" by

. It was dedicated exclusively to music news and created with the idea of updating on a daily basis, something that newspapers could not do. The website also offered optional registration, that would allow commenting on news articles and creating a list of up to 30 artists to receive updates about. ''Natalie'' grew fast, opening a

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news sub-site, , on December 25, 2008, and a comedian news sub-site, , on August 5, 2009. It opened a cultural goods shop, , on August 1, 2012, a movie news sub-site, , on March 23, 2015, and a theater news sub-site, , on February 2, 2016. They also opened a snack news sub-site, , on May 18, 2011, but it proved to be short-lived and closed on August 31 of the same year.

Management

The founder and representative director of Natasha, Inc. is Takuya Ōyama. He is also the

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of the music news website. As of 2008, the board director and editor-in-chief of ''Comic Natalie'' was Gen Karaki, also a bass player for such artists as Speed, Ram Rider, Haruko Momoi, and Nana Katase. Since 2014, Natasha is a

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of KDDI.

Critical response

According to the news media outlet IT Media News, while the ''Natalie'' music website has much information for hardcore fans, the material is overly detailed and readers only glimpse at its content.

References

External links

''Natalie''
(main website) {{KDDI 2007 establishments in Japan Anime and manga websites Internet properties established in 2007 Japanese comedy websites Japanese music websites Japanese news websites Japanese-language websites KDDI