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  • Honda CMs

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    Paul has a nice little collection of links to great Honda TV commercials that can be viewed online. My favorite one has to be “Cog” — absolutely brilliant.

  • Where's the Dragon?

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    Microsoft’s pulling out the big guns! Just now, in the span of a few minutes, twice I saw a commercial that shows Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the FINAL FANTASY series, sitting in front of a computer with Akira Toriyama (with Toriyama’s face hidden, of course), and he says something like, “Toriyama, you really are great!”…

  • Mario as Okamura

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    I love the TV campaign for MARIO KART DS that stars my favorite Japanese comedians, the manzai duo 99, and Kotaku points to this page where you can watch them online.

  • Bunpei Yorifuji

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    Just now on TV I caught a fascinating profile of illustrator/designer/art director Bunpei Yorifuji. He’s done tons of book covers, but his most recognizable work for readers of this site would probably be the infamous JT “smoking etiquette” campaign. He has his offices in Ginza, and he does all his work on a ping-pong table.…

  • More Nano Advertising in Shibuya

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    More (with plenty of pictures) on Apple’s iPod nano ad campaign in Shibuya.

  • NWA Ad

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    The new NWA ad campaign. Update: The reason I took a picture of this is that I find it interesting how they’ve based the compaign around the use of the QR barcode. Just goes to show how popular it’s become — pretty much every ad you see includes a QR barcode that leads to more…

  • Where do Babies Come from?

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    This is an ad — and it also represents one of the mini-games — for Sega’s follow-up to the most excellent Nintendo DS game FEEL THE MAGIC. The game is called WHERE DO BABIES COME FROM? (AKACHAN WA DOKO KARA KURU NO?), and it’s out in Japan next week (October 20). This post from Kotaku…

  • Happy B-Day!

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    Mario turned 20 yesterday — coinciding with the launch of the Nintendo micro — and Nintendo has put up a page with web-only CMs from different companies (Shiseido, Tower, Parco, etc.) featuring micros that sport the company’s logos. Link via Kotaku.

  • Green Bird

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    I haven’t seen these around, but I do like the images they have up at this gallery. Here’s the lowdown from ODK: green bird is a non-profit organization which has been running these cute ads around tokyo promoting cleanliness and courtesy to the environment with the slogan “keep clean, keep green.” Their print ads are…

  • Darth & Friends

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    Scanned from last week’s edition of TOKYO WALKER.