Kantai Collection
On 12 December 2013, Twitter officially released the top hashtags of 2013; #艦これ was the most used hashtag among Japanese Twitter users. The game was also the eighth most searched term within Japan on Google in 2013. On 30 December 2013, GameSpark named "Kantai Collection" as the online game category title for its game of the year awards of 2013, ahead of runners-up "League of Legends", "World of Tanks" and '. A survey of 151 different prominent Japanese game developers conducted by 4gamer asked what each developer considered to be the best game of 2013; nine of these developers selected "Kantai Collection". Among these developers, Naoki Yoshida of Square Enix, who produced and directed "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn", stated that "Kantai Collection" is Japan's answer to "World of Tanks", and that he was impressed by the business model; meanwhile, ' director Seiji Hayashi of Sega referred to the game as "innovative". "Kantai Collection" was named "Rookie of the Year" during the 2013 Awards, as a new entrant to the games market.