Here’s another post covering those wacky Japanese animated commercials.
Yamamotoyama Tea
Green tea is consumed regularily in Japan, so there are commercials for it. Here’s one
Sanwa Chicken
A series of commercials from the 1970s for chicken meat. Nothing’s more marketable than showing cartoon chicken happily serving cooked remains of their kin to little kids.
Chugoku Shimbun
A 1985 ad for Chugoku Shimbun newspaper, serving Chugoku region in Hiroshima.
Asahi Shimbun
From 1989, it’s another ad for a newspaper, this one is for Asahi Shimbun, one of the national newspapers in Japan. The ad features characters from “Gatapishi”, a 4-koma comic strip by Shunji Sonoyama (creator of “Gyatoruzu”) that was running in the newspaper at the time.
A TV series based on “Gatapishi” was later produced by Shin’Ei Doga, airing on TV Asahi (Asahi Shimbun owns about 25% of the network) from 1990 to 1991.
PSAs
Some of the PSAs from Japanese television. Some of them have really unusual drawing styles.
Charles Brubaker is a cartoonist originally from Japan. In addition to his work for MAD Magazine and SpongeBob Comics, he also created Ask a Cat for GoComics. You can also follow him on his Tumblr page.
One of the Japanese PSAs that I’ve seen involved excerpts from Leroy Anderson’s Sandpaper Ballet and shows how not to leave our canine friends in the rain.
The others in that mix includes on how to be tidy, two involving how to cross the street safely and how not to pollute your neighborhood with unsightly graffiti.
Look like PSA’s ABC missed the boat on telling their young viewers every Saturday morning 30-40 years ago.
Woodsy owl did a PSA on graffitti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwhJwRamVKQ
That shoe PSA has a weird art style. Charles, who made the PSAs?