Japanese Bunny

§ February 18th, 2008 § Filed under Japan § Tagged Bunny, Calbee, Candy, Commercial, Junk Food, Snacks, Television, TV § 5 Comments

I am still locating great Japanese commercials for your viewing pleasure. This one actually drove tears to my eyes, I laughed so hard:

If anybody knows what the girl (the voice-over) is saying, please post a comment!

Salty Snack II

§ February 10th, 2008 § Filed under Japan, Weird § Tagged Advertising, Candy, Commercial, Food, Pretzels, Snacks, Television, TV § 1 Comment

Pretz is at it again…

Not quite as hypnotic as this, but… still. I think my co-worker G. will enjoy this one.

Salty Snacks

§ February 4th, 2008 § Filed under Japan, Weird § Tagged Advertising, Candy, Commercial, Food, Pretzels, Snacks, Television, TV § 1 Comment

I guess this spot is trying to sell salty snacks:

However, I can only describe this as surreal. This is definitely going to make a whole lot more sense if you can understand Japanese.

Japanese Snack Characters

§ August 29th, 2007 § Filed under Japan § Tagged Advertising, Characters, Comics, Snacks § No Comments

Pingmag has a great posting about characters used as the logos of or in the advertisement for Japanese snacks. Want an example? Happy to oblige:

“Two lip-sticked seal-panda babes swimming through the seas of dried noodles while having a drink…”

Make sure to read the posting at Pingmag for more Snack Character madness.

(Via Pingmag.)