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Every year since 2014, PONOS Corporation has set up pranks for April Fools' Day, most of which involve fake articles.
List of Jokes
2014:
- PONOS posted an article about a Cat who is suspected of not actually being a cat after entering the real world.
2015:
- PONOS posted an article with an image edited to have giant Sexy Legs Cat statue next to the Statue of Liberty, built to celebrate the release of The Battle Cats POP!. It also states that there are plans to build a similar statue of Paris Cat in the city for which she is named.
2016:
- Let's Start Over was replaced with an easier version of Love and Death.
2017:
- All Anti-unstarred Alien Treasures from Into the Future Chapters 2 and 3 had their effects removed.
- PONOS posted an article announcing on the discovery of the Li'l Cats' True Forms, which were still unknown to players at the time.
2018:
- PONOS posted an article about a made-up game called “School Cat Club Idol Heart Live Plus!”, a parody of the mobile rhythm game series Love Live! School Idol Festival.
- The right-hand side of the article includes an advertisement for "Your Cat's Name"; a parody of Your Name; underneath the ad, there are headlines that mention Anyazon, Instantgram and DogeTube, parodying Amazon, Instagram and YouTube, respectively.
2019:
- PONOS posted an article about a made-up game called "In Shōwa! Nyanko Great War", a 4-bit game released on the Family Nyamputer. This game's continuation feature, which lets players resume play using a password, is touted as revolutionary.
2020:
- Players received 1 XP as a stamp reward.
- PONOS posted an article about an electronic pay service called "NyanPay", which allows you to make transactions by holding a koban to the cash register, and a large-scale cash back campaign to raise 222.2 billion yen.
2021:
- PONOS posted an article about the release of real-life AI Drone Cats, which are touted as being capable of deliving packages within 22 minutes of an order being placed.
Trivia
- 2016 is the only year since the April Fools' jokes began to have no article.
- The 2017 and 2018 April Fools' articles are the only ones to be available in English.
