My favorite Japanese CMs

Here’s a news report about the new Coca-Cola Zero CM featuring a Hip-Hop dancing Namie Amuro.  The CM actually starts broadcasting from today, February 11th.  She talks about it having been a while since she last portrayed herself as “cool”.  Some facts about the CM reported were that she repeated the routine more than fifty times and it took a total of ten hours to finish the shooting.  That’s a lot of hard work for a thirty second commercial.  Also, the song in the CM is Namie Amuro’s new single WILD. You can hear more of the song on the Coca-Cola Zero website.  And just like the title of the song, Amuro does some really intense dancing.

You can see a much clearer version of the CM at the Coca-Cola Zero website here.  You can also see the making of the CM on this page too.  It’s the the third video in the panel on the left.  It’s also eight and a half minutes long (^_^;)

I personally like this CM since it features some really cool dance moves being a Hip-Hop dancer myself.  Also, this CM is just another example of following the formula.

Here’s my favorite Valentine’s Day CM this year.  It’s from Meiji and includes Yukina Kinoshita (from the group Pabo) and Erena Mizusawa (from the Koizora drama series and GReeeeN’s Kiseki PV).  Besides Yukina being cute and all, I like the fact that she usd to be a yankeeヤンキー before she became a galギャル and before she became a talentoタレント.

Erena:  You know….

Yukina:  Huh?

Erena:  Aren’t you supposed to put a “you” in there?

Yukina:  Ah…It’s alright.

Erena:  It’s alright?

Yukina:  (Adds the letter “U”) This is alright.

Subtititle:  At that time, we still didn’t know.

Erena:  Yeah…

Yukina:  Ah!!! Truffles!!!

Erena:  Wrong!  Ishidatami Choco (Cobblestone Chocolates).  Surprisingly, they’re easy to make.

Yukina:  Oh…Is it alright to eat one?

Erena:  No!  I haven’t finished them yet.  (Yukina eats one ;p)  Ah!

Subtitlte:  Could it be that they like the same person?

Yukina:  It’s good!

Erena: Wait a sec!

Both: Home made Chocolates are made with Meiji Pure Chocolate.

Also, there’s a note on the commercial that their are recipes to make such chocolate sweets on the Meiji website.