Inprore was a Japanese video game publising venture initiated by Culture Convenience Club (CCC) in late 1996. They would release Iwatobi Penguin Rocky x Hopper and the Japanese version of Obsidian (1996). They would also release a line of software named DIGITAL MANGA with the licenses of Lupin III, Golgo 13, and Circuit Wolf. By the turn of 1998, they would be renamed Culture Publishers.