AKB48′s latest marketing antics have earned yet more condemnation, with their transformation into kindergarteners being widely denounced as “sick,” “creepy” and “psychologically unsettling” – to say nothing of the obvious sop to their creepy lolicon fans.
The commercial at issue, for “Puccho”:
It was made by pasting the heads of a selection of AKB48′s identikit idols onto the heads of some hapless little girls dancing:
The reaction this has inspired online has been less than favourable:
“This is disgusting.”
“This is too much even for lolicon…”
“Another one of those CMs which have the opposite effect to that intended.”
“I think it is cute!”
“It’s just for show, and AKB48 are just for show, so it’s OK by me.”
“This is creepy beyond words.”
“I kept hearing people pan it for being gross and thought they were exaggerating, then I saw it and it was indeed disgusting.”
“This is just controversy marketing, and you guys have bought it hook, line and sinker.”
“This is what happens when you just force AKB into whatever campaign it is you have going…”
“What a freak show.”
“They won’t use dwarfs in drama or CMs, but this is OK? It’s in poor taste. Aren’t they just mocking little people?”
“The original with the little girls was better.”
“If they had just left the CM with the little girls it might have been cute.”
“Their expressions and movements don’t match at all.”
“Even the idea of pasting heads onto little girls dancing like this is pretty damn creepy. Poor kids.”
“How did they explain this to the parents…”
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I like how they're trying to portray them as "innocent" lolis....when in reality they're nothing but desperate whores >.>
all idols are whores that can be bought for the right price.
EVERYONE has their price. On the other hand, I doubt any company would be able to pay a respectable person to like this, let along act in it. I'm pretty sure they were never even shown the finished ad until it was on air anyways.
Some people can't be bought. Fanaticism and pride are extremely powerful motivators.
Have you seen japanese commercials before?
This is normal for japanese tv.
I don't see why the japanese would be okay with all the creepy stuff they have, but not this...
If they are, they are. If they are not, they are not. Either way, name-calling is best left unsaid.
Innocence is an industry.
It doesn't mean all of them are whores. It means there are idiots still ready to pay for fake innocence.
I wonder... when they gonna do a CM with voluptuos AV Idols bodies?
At this rate they sure will do somethig like that hahaha.
FAIL!!!
U. FAIL. LOL
@anon 02:32
I can't vote + enough!
OK, then. When you have sex with one of them, come back and let us know so we know you're right.
... what is wrong with you?
Well it isn't as bad as what I am seeing on American t.v with all of those child beauty pageant shows. Now THAT is creepy.
Also there was "Baby Bratz" cartoon one of the most F'd up things ever.
Future whores. Future whores everywhere!
And yet you`re not getting any!
Whores can be (as the name implies) rented.
who wants a whore anyway?
im a virgin and im gonna stay a virgin
rent with what? Got no money or game.
You gonna get burned at the stake at 29.
@17:12
There is nothing commendable about being a virgin. If you think being a virgin has some personal significance, keep it to yourself. Your ridiculous outdated christian ideology, just makes you look foolish. No one is interested in your (lack of a) sex life.
It's like someone who has never driven a car bragging about how they are a car virgin. What is impressive about a lack of experience?
In America, we have shows featuring "Prosti-tots."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPKePwj5afg&feature=related [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPKePwj5afg&feature=related]
holy friggin $hit that kid's mom's got chinception!
Fap fap fap?
I agree that "Toddlers in Tiaras" is about the most disturbing thing on T.V. right now but the above is intensly creepy in its own way.
It's creepy like a midget doll who is going to get an ax and place it in its hand then is going to kill you but first it needs to do a little dance with its fellow creepy dolls creepy.
Also check out Dance Moms, that's less disturbing than Toddlers & Stalkers but still weird....and good for meh CROTCH emotions.
“This is just controversy marketing, and you guys have bought it hook, line and sinker.”
Best comment so far.
Less bad doesn't mean not bad. They're all bad.
Is this a horror movie ?
Yeah, if you watch all of the videos in a row, you will die in one week as they crawl through your computer screen and drag you into their world.
This will replace that clown in my nightmares.
Dude, you can't replace the clown. You can NEVER replace the clown. I tried once and he saw what I did. And the rats! Oh god, the rats!
*goes off mumbling incoherently*
i believe in you,Sir,reading Stephen King's IT was too much even though it's fiction but in reality...you can't even tell.
Are you thinking of Chuckie ?
Oh god. I don't want to go down that nightmare trip again.
Anyway, this is indeed too sick- even for a lolicon.
Oh god, make it stop, make it stooop!!! ...Oh wait, pause button. I think that just scarred me for life.
I think they just invented a cure for lolicons, after watching that, no loli will look the same.
No! I tested it and I'm still a lolicon.
We just need to put a nice paper bag on all of those faces >.>
This isn't anything really. Do they showing "Toddlers & Tiaras" in Japan?
Now that's some seriously fucked up shit with parental approval.
American 2ch has nothing better to do in their live but stalk and troll every Asia blog post they see.
You think this is bad try watching Toddlers and Tiaras some time .Now thats sick
Both of them are weird..
If you see this as sick, then you are sick in the head. They are not promoting porn, just bubblegum.
It's just a harmless 16-second commercial. Everyone is reading too into it.
This thing is an insult towards all lolicons...
I guess that's their point. To make lolicons hate and avoid them like the plague.
That is actually a good thing.
MY BONER IT'S GONE!
Didn't ANYONE in the marketing department say this was a horrible idea?! ANYONE!?
Just as expected from an island of pedophiles.
Oh, yes, non-Japanese would never do something like that:
http://blognator.com/parents-and-children-switched-heads/
http://manbabies.com/
Racist jerk.
Actually it would be cheapper and more interesting for pedophiles and non-pedophiles if they had used just little girls without the uncanny heads that don't fit the body. Clearly this was made by someone who got it wrong!
Real pedophiles don't like these kinds of freak shows. We don't like women disguised as lolis or lolis dressed as total whores. That's for perverts, not for real pedos.