Saturday, January 25, 2014

Japan cm of the week - Meat!!



I think I just found it, what could be the ultimate form of perfection in Japanese advertising.

It has everything, unique cute animation, even more cute hiragana subtitles (so even the youngest kids can follow along), and what looks like a cow-person angel (with horns) and their friend the blue cow riding a cloud in what looks like a search for some meat to chomp on. Much like the ads you see all over the world for pork products that show a pig with a knife and fork I've always found this kind of advertising to be a little odd.

Anyway, the commercial is for Japanese meat, and is from... some company? Wait, I believe they are called JA Zenno tho I'd never heard of them before seeing this ad on TV.

If you want to see more ads they have a YouTube page here: おにくだいすき! ゼウシくん (JA全農). Or you can visit their homepage devoted to that character with the horns who is called Zeushi-kun (a play on Zeus and ushi, the Japanese word for cow?): zeushi-kun.jp. The page is worth a visit as it looks like an almost perfect mash up of Pokemon, Crayon Shin Chan, and every kiddie anime you've ever seen.

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