NChans Style

**NChans Style** is a free mobile app released on Android smartphone devices featuring the titular characters, the NChans. The app includes both free-to-use wallpapers and premium wallpapers lock behind a 1-time purchase item called Premium Pass. A premium version, called NChans Style+, released on Amazon AppStore 2 years after.

After 4 years of service and several problems with Google, the base free app NChans Style is ending its services on January 30, 2024. Since November 30, 2023, users can still use the app and set walpapers, but can not longer purchase the Premium Pass.

## Contents

*Sub article: List of Styles*

The main contents of NChans Style are the styles. A style is basically a wallpaper, featuring one or several Nindo Company's hostesses taking pinups poses and wearing seasonal and special outfits in addition to their original uniform appearance. Users can set these styles as their wallpaper following the setting process (that can differe depending on your device), allowing them to move and zoom styles.

Artist and designer Orcaleon is drawing the characters artworks, while Challengia hires several artists for the background artworks. Challengia contracted composer Nubia for the NChans Style theme for YouTube videos presentations.

The following themes are actually available in NChans Style:

In additions to the theme folders, tabs in the first screen allow users to have a direct dive to the styles filtered by most recent or by most viewed. Users can also search precise styles using keyword on the searchbar or find dedicated styles using the tag buttons (by color, by time, only duo styles or staff selection). There is a total of 233 styles currently availables as of March 13, 2023.

Users were able to creates accounts, comment and rates the styles, this feature was then removed in a later update due to lack of support.

NChans Style is available in 5 languages including English, French, Spanish, Japanese and Korean, although in-app and push notifications as well as styles descriptions are solely in English, and character's names are only translated into Japanese.

## NChans Style+

*Sub article: List of Stickers*

This premium version was made following problems between Google and Challengia, causing NChans Style to be withdrawn from the store due to its suggestive contents. NChans Style+ was release on Google Play and Amazon AppStore as a premium app but offers 3 advantages:

* Access to all styles, without advertising (like the regular NChans Style's Premium Pass)
* The availability of Pinups Legend styles 1 week in advance (releasing 1 week after on the regular NChans Style app).
* The use of stickers for the homescreens.

In addition, an exclusive tab allow users here to see styles ordered by the pinup class of the hostesses (5★ to 1★).

Pinups Legends is a theme introduced with the release of NChans Style+, featuring Nindo Company's historical ambassadresses such Honchan and Lawchan and also as Ninchan or Muhchan, wearing gold swimsuit.

Stickers can be found and used from the device's widget menu, to decorate your homescreens. They all have the same size dimension (minimum 2x2). There is a total of 221 stickers currently available.

Another problem with Google forced NChans Style+ to be withdrawn from their store. The app is still available on Amazon AppStore.

## Characters

*Sub article: List of Pinups*

NChans Style features the hostesses portrayed as pinups and posing in various scenes, wearing dedicated oufits. A total of 62 characters have appeared at least once in the app, including past hostesses no longer alive in the NChans's current present.

*Sub article: Top Styles*

Each year, NChans Studio releases a ranking featuring the top 3-5 most popular styles. The ranking is based on the most viewed styles.

## Development

NChans Style was the first NChans project conducted by Challengia since the focus shift in 2015. The project was to offer unique anime pinups wallpapers for users to use, based on the NChans characters fitting that theme.

The original NChans Style app was released in 2017. It was also a free to use app, with ads as monetization. At this time, Challengia hadn't a fix designer (artist Gumwad201 was not fully engaged) and contracted several artists including Vanquice, AsterCrow, Kainkout, Wanpuccino, Redjet to draw the characters artworks.

The app was removed by Challengia from Google Play Store 3 months later in 2018 to rework the concept and monetization. With exception of Gumwad201's works, the artworks made was then considered as fanarts.

With NeuronDigital's app assets, Challengia reworked and released the new version of NChans Style, refered as "NChans Style 2.0", in 2019 with a brand new monetizasation inclusing an in-app purchase to be able to use premium contents and remove ads.

A PC version of NChans Style was once in conception but Challengia never found a developer to properly work for a wallpaper engine, with other ambitions for the NChans series this version was put on hold.

## Reception

NChans Style received not great traction, suffering a lack of visibility on the Google Play Store.

## Trivia

* The name takes inspiration from a similar mobile app from The Pokémon Company released in 2015 in Japan, "Pokémon Style".
* Among the NChans originally created by Challengia, Taechan, Firchan, Fulchan, Chichan, Jamchan, Xiuchan, Yehchan, Dhuchan, Bumchan and Neschan are still not yet available in the app.
	+ Jamchan has appeared in NChans Style+ as sticker.
	+ Firchan did appeared in the original 2017 version of NChans Style.
	+ Depchan, Popchan, Vyschan, Cyochan and Itachan have appeared in the original 2017 app.

## Gallery

NChans Style (2017) icon1st Anniversary icon2nd Anniversary iconNChans Style+ iconEnglish logoNChans Style+ logo