Japan. It's those wacky Japanese consumers who are now starting to sway the global top-10 app sales charts. According to brand new App Annie August survey, a "romance simulation" called "Kiss of Revenge" helped a company called Voltage to become the No.6 non-game app vendor globally on the Android platform. This means that in the month of August, Voltage surpassed vendors such as WhatsApp and Garmin in global sales on Android. Romance simulations are popular in Japan, but hold fairly limited appeal in other markets. The plot-line of "Kiss of Revenge" involves a woman who cannot decide whether to kill or kiss a doctor who helped cover up a medical malpractice case that led to the death of the heroine's mother. Earlier this year, Voltage made a splash with "10 Days with My Devil," a simulation where you have to sexually entice a demon from Hell over a 10-day period in order to prevent him from taking your soul.
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How does an app about falling in love with the doctor who killed your mom influence global sales charts?