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Atekae_Grimm
Joined: 18 Jan 2013
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:56 am
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Akiba Drug & Cafe establishment... What, you can pop some pills while drinking an iced coffee and a omelet with your name on it?
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ZanraiKid
Joined: 10 Apr 2013
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:15 am
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most horrifying body suit known to man.
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Marzan
Joined: 29 Mar 2009
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:01 am
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I like Attack on Titan as much as the next guy, but doing that to a Ferrari is borderline criminal.
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formerroadie1
Joined: 31 Oct 2010
Posts: 126
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:30 am
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What a colossal waste of money.... *see what I did there....
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mewpudding101
Industry Insider
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Posts: 2210
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:05 am
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Atekae_Grimm wrote: | Akiba Drug & Cafe establishment... What, you can pop some pills while drinking an iced coffee and a omelet with your name on it? |
I knew... JUST KNEW that someone would say that. It's a drugstore with a ridiculous, Japanese name. Engrish. I'm so used to these kind of things since I live here...
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Correl
Joined: 11 Jan 2010
Posts: 42
Location: Redmond, WA
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:37 am
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formerroadie1 wrote: | What a colossal waste of money.... *see what I did there.... |
I actually come here to make that exact same joke. You have fine taste in punnery, sir.
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SthRandom
Joined: 09 Jun 2013
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:46 am
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formerroadie1 wrote: | What a colossal waste of money.... *see what I did there.... |
Hahaha xD
Well, I wonder if there's still any thing left that isn't AoT themed yet...
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dizzon
Joined: 22 Sep 2008
Posts: 338
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:42 pm
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I'm sure there's a way to make an AoT themed Ferrari look good, but that ain't it. Yeesh!
And to think of how much that had to cost. Double yeesh!
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TheAncientOne
Joined: 06 Oct 2010
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Location: USA (mid-south)
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:57 pm
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Atekae_Grimm wrote: | Akiba Drug & Cafe establishment... What, you can pop some pills while drinking an iced coffee and a omelet with your name on it? |
Once upon a time, it wasn't uncommon for drug stores here in the United States to have anything from a "soda fountain" (a counter with stools, serving cold drinks and ice cream treats) to effectively a small fast food cafe with a grill and seating.
We still had a couple of each type when I was a kid in the small town I grew up in.
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jree78
Joined: 14 May 2011
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 1:18 pm
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Is it just me or does this feel really macabre.
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LaSean
Joined: 10 Aug 2010
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 2:54 pm
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ZanraiKid wrote: | Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most horrifying body suit known to man. |
Glad I wasn't the only one creeped out by the body suit.
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taster of pork
Joined: 11 Nov 2008
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Location: My House
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:29 pm
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That poor car.
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noblesse oblige
Joined: 22 Dec 2012
Posts: 282
Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:03 am
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I find thinking about the differences between Japanese and US marketing strategies to be extremely interesting. I wish I could learn about this from someone a bit more knowledgable than myself. To someone like me, it just seems like Japanese companies have marketing departments that fail to make efficient use of their budgets with strange stunts like this, but then again I have next to zero knowledge of the Japanese consumer. Maybe there will be a panel about this at Otakon, which will be my first convention.
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samuelp
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Joined: 25 Nov 2007
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Location: San Antonio, USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:43 am
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noblesse oblige wrote: | I find thinking about the differences between Japanese and US marketing strategies to be extremely interesting. I wish I could learn about this from someone a bit more knowledgable than myself. To someone like me, it just seems like Japanese companies have marketing departments that fail to make efficient use of their budgets with strange stunts like this, but then again I have next to zero knowledge of the Japanese consumer. Maybe there will be a panel about this at Otakon, which will be my first convention. |
A stupid amount of marketing in Japan these days is literally getting people to retweet things.
Ever noticed how the top trending tweets often are from Japan, despite Japan having so much less population? That's because they retweet WAY more than westerners (also because kanji makes the character limit a lot easier)
If you can get something with 1 interesting picture that can be summed up in a tweet, and it gets retweeted 500,000 times, even ruining a Ferrari might be worth it.
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Tenchi
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 4548
Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
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Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:13 am
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Marzan wrote: | I like Attack on Titan as much as the next guy, but doing that to a Ferrari is borderline criminal. |
I'd say there's about a 99.999% chance it's a vinyl wrap. It peels off, then you wax the Ferrari and it looks as good as new.
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