I’m clearly an anime fan and yet I found the Princess Robot Bubblegum spoof funny. It’s here to promote the must-be-a-hit-or-rockstar-dies game Grand Theft Auto but its heavily woven up with Microsoft – sorry everyone else. I’d also note that Princess Robot Bubblegum spoof the genre so well that it could only have been put […]
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Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture played by 1000 mobiles and 2000 text alerts
This is an ad for Vodafone New Zealand. It features 1000 mobile phones with their ring tunes carefully selected and synchronised to play the Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture. Of course; it would equally be possible to take a single mobile with an MP3 ringtone of the 1812 overture but that wouldn’t be so cool.
Leo Burnett is the devil
Leo Burnett is an advertising agency named after their founder Leo Burnett. Burnett, once named in the 100 most influential people in the 20th century by Time magazine, was the advertising guru who invented such powerful icons as Tony the Tiger, Pillsbury Doughboy and the Jolly Green Giant. Leo Burnett was years ahead of this […]
Phones4u ad pokes fun at LARPers, rips off Boxwars?
A recent TV ad from Phones4U suggests that people who dress up in homemade armour and whack each other with cardboard axes wouldn’t have enough friends to enjoy the popular tariffs. Does it? Kind of. The two combatants certainly aren’t traditional LARPers and resemble box carts more than anything else. Comments on one YouTube upload […]
Beckii Cruel will be big in Japan
Beckii Cruel, from the Isle of Man, started posting videos of herself dancing along to various anime themes to YouTube. The 14 year old is now approaching 4 millions views and according to the British Anime Network she will now be performing live in Japan. Go Beckii!
Ad: Alan you are a guitar hero
A rather odd but funky ad from Doritos in the United Kingdom. It follows the story of Alan, a frustrated guitar hero and successful zero, until his life takes a turn for the better in aisle eight.
Live action Gantz movie
According to the Anime Newsnetwork we’ll have two Gantz live action movies by 2011. They’re citing the Nippon News channel. The movies will feature Kazunari Ninomiya and Ken’ichi Matsuyama. We know Matsuyama from Death Note. Gantz is one of the few 18-rated anime movies that you can easily pick up in the UK. As well […]
Yu Gi Oh meets Pearl and Dean
This was produced just for Alcon 2009 and was shown before the opening ceremony. What do you think of the voice? Reminded me of Spongebob’s own version of this where he also sings along with the famous Pearl and Dean intro. It also reminded me why so many people prefer their anime in Japanese and […]
Growing monster used to sell SEAT Altea in Spain
Let’s just say you’re a marketing agency working in Spain. You’ve a challenge – it’s the economic downturn and yet you need people to go out and buy brand new SEAT Altea XL cars. What do you do? That’s right. You run a TV advert featuring growing monsters.
Halo Legends: 5 minute clip of the new Halo anime
Over the States Spike TV is has some of the forthcoming Halo Legends series. That’s right, Halo in an anime style. Hopefully the show will make it over to the United Kingdom where we’ve heard of both Halo and of anime! Tell us what you think – worthy of a transatlantic hop, or not? It […]
