Assorted Japanese Commercials

§ April 9th, 2008 § Filed under Japan, Weird § Tagged Advertisement, Commercials, Drinks, Food, Japan, Odd News, Pokemon, TV, Weird § No Comments

Here are three more weird Japanese commercials.

Pokemon Bread:

Now, Pokemon has been a global hit, proving that not only the Japanese are weird. However I think Pokemon bread would not sell here… and the voice at the very end is a classic, too.

More Pretz:

The pretz girl is always nice. Ironically, the two guys have way bigger tits than the chick… and I do find the commercial weird enough for inclusion here, even if it’s not as cool as some of the other Pretz videos.

Lemon soda:

Uhm…. right. One wonders whether to have sympathy for that lemon, or envy it. I am sure G. is in the later camp.

Tea Commercial

§ March 4th, 2008 § Filed under Japan, Weird § Tagged Advertisement, Advertising, Caterpillar, Commercials, Drinks, Food, Tea, TV § No Comments

I thought this was actually cute:

It’s not really wacky though - so consider it a bonus. ;)

(Via Weird Asia News.)

Japanese Chicks

§ February 15th, 2008 § Filed under Japan, Weird § Tagged Advertising, Commercial, Commercials, Drinks, Food, Humor, Tea, Television, TV § No Comments

Another fun (and pretty wacky) Japanese TV commercial:

Stress Relief Milk

§ October 13th, 2007 § Filed under Japan § Tagged Drinks, Food, Luxury § No Comments

A Japanese dairy company has announced a new product: Stress relief milk aimed at an adult market. 900 ml (a quart) of this milk costs 5000 yen (30 Euro). The milk is supposedly milked at the break of dawn, when the cows produce a lot of a hormone they call “maltonin” (do they mean Melatonin?), and bottled within six hours.

Tokyo is expensive. We all know that. But anybody who buys this has got to have too much money.

(Via Yahoo! News.)

PEPSI Ice Cucumber

§ August 14th, 2007 § Filed under Japan § Tagged Cucumber, Drinks, Food, Pepsi, Soft Drinks § No Comments

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words:

Daimaou of Akihabara News (who made this photo) says it tastes “certainly not like cucumber and certainly a lot like water with tons of sugar and some bubble too”.

Sounds… very Japanese.

(Via Akihabara News.)

Drink with Chunks

§ August 4th, 2007 § Filed under Japan § Tagged Drinks, Energy Drinks, Food, Suntory Capsela § 2 Comments

I’ve always known that they sell a lot of weird drinks in Asia. But this one looks… a little weirder than I had expected. Daimaou of Akihabara News posted several photos of the energy drink “Suntory Capsela”:

Chunky.

(Via Akihabara News.)