Complaints over an animated Kirin beer CM from last summer has forced the animation to be taken down from the company’s official website, with the reasoning being that the CM supposedly “appealed to minors” due to its usage of anime characters – naturally insulting both anime fans and beer-loving sophisticates alike.
A majority of complaints stemmed from ASK (a non-profit dedicated to preventing alcohol and drug problems), who had accumulated enough signatures to convince the flaccid brewer to remove the video; horrifyingly demonstrating that petitions can apparently make a difference when the cause is pearl-clutchingly inane enough.
The Trigger-animated CM, which can still be witnessed by way of a third-party uploader:
Kirin did impose age-verification on the video, but this safe-guard was deemed “ineffective” by the aforementioned non-profit organization.
Drink beer. Get Triggered. 🙂
that pic is a way better ad than the video, though
yeah anime is for kids *buys legend of the overfiend for own kid* /the90s
Funny that they use the name “Trigger” for their animation team, and truly triggered Japan SJW extremist.
SJW always think that animation=cartoon, so cartoon=for kids, “MUH Children” and once the kid viewed the video they become drug/alcohol abuser forever.
Because the commercial’s characters all seem to be mature adults drinking beer, it must be appealing to the minors.
It’s not even a beer commercial…