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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Is this a horror movie ?
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.
We just need to put a nice paper bag on all of those faces >.>
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.
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.
Man that is scary, even the girl at the very beggining is too much. Damn Japanese and their scary looking children.
said the guy with a pregnant naked girl avatar
Kawaii!
When it comes to erotica, it`s milfs & big curvy big boobed women to me.
This is something completely different.
I agree completely. This is just a harmless CM. People who get "excited" by this are the ones at fault here.
Just looking at it, it doesn't look that bad.
The part that is off-putting is how well they know the audience - they wish the girls had bodies like that.
Wow, and I just thought it was strange children without necks, but watching that second video, they wasted their time putting other peoples heads on these children?.. I don't get it.
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.
rent with what? Got no money or game.
who wants a whore anyway?
im a virgin and im gonna stay a virgin
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]
Fap fap fap?
holy friggin $hit that kid's mom's got chinception!
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.
Less bad doesn't mean not bad. They're all bad.
“This is just controversy marketing, and you guys have bought it hook, line and sinker.”
Best comment so far.
You think this is bad try watching Toddlers and Tiaras some time .Now thats sick
Both of them are weird..
YOu get arrested in the USA for doing stuff like that.
that is why japan is always superior then usa
for what, exactly? I think your imagination/presumptions shows more about you than this CM shows about anyone involved.
Just can't overlook the similarity to the music video for Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin.
Turrible. The CM would've been with just the chicks just dancin in their regular bodies.
I like how they're trying to portray them as "innocent" lolis....when in reality they're nothing but desperate whores >.>
... what is wrong with you?
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
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...
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.
OK, then. When you have sex with one of them, come back and let us know so we know you're right.
If they are, they are. If they are not, they are not. Either way, name-calling is best left unsaid.
@anon 02:32
I can't vote + enough!