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For lack of a more complex or nuanced term, I can really only describe some of these new ads in the aforementioned fashion. Among the many bizarre and undoubtedly well-financed sights are sexy kung-fu terrorists, a giant robot praying mantis, and some scantily-clad girls who are lounging around with an octopus with a skull for a head. We all knew that sex sells in America, but tentacles? Perhaps this is part of some larger “weird Japanese fetish awareness” project that Konami is spearheading.

Supposedly they are all fake adverts for the fictional private military companies in the world of MGS4, and some of them actually touch on the futuristic themes and kinds of technologies we can expect to see in the game.  What was accomplished is the generation of an increased amount of hype and discussion over the game’s release, so I guess he’s doing something right.

[Kotaku / via Destructoid]

In this Japanese TV ad you will see a woman getting nearly fondled by a mass of tentacles while she applies itch medicine to them. You wont find that so weird, proof of how jaded you have become by Japan. Worse even, you just might recognize this is as a reference to the earliest tentacle hentai in the world, a wood carving from 1820 called The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. I wish I could say the ad is the weirdest thing in here, but no, its the fact that its not weird at all anymore. You’re probably wishing there was a second part where they actually get down to business, aren’t you? What have we become?

[Pink Tentacle]

The last time we saw a Japanese anime TV ad it was designed to give you that warm fuzzy feeling. This time, however, its so trippy and confusing that you’d have a hard time trying to figure out what on earth sells with that. Not surpisingly its a fashion ad for Luis Vuitton. 

Awesome design, flashing colors, trippy patterns and a psychedelic panda, any more awesome and it would suck, but no, its perfect.

[Tokyomango]

Sure, it looks a bit fan made but it’s still damn good! It’s so overdramatic that it’s hilarious! And come on, a flying baby headbutting a group of guys? Hit play to see what I mean.

Bullets and their casings spread through the streets. Teeth placed in ashtrays. Corpses stuffed into garbage cans. Graves with feet sticking out. Hostages tied to chairs or bounded and thrown on the floor. If only I could find a reason to do all of these without seeming deranged or homicidal.

[AdArena]

Check out the advertisement for Killzone for the PSP. They’ve set up a red laser light that would move around the black drop of this adshel, like a sniper’s laser target. Of course, if you get into it’s line of fire, you could be marked as a “victim.” Tee hee.

You and your party board the elevator, the long lift to the top floor doesn’t help your nerves. What if you are not ready? Maybe you should have taken that side quest the old lady offered you at the last town. The extra exp definitely wouldn’t be a frivolity. Before you know it you are already at the door, you know there’s no stopping now, its coming. The boss battle is here, literally.

Yeah, bet you didn’t see that one coming. This is an ad for Jeanne D’ Arc, the PSP turn based strategy RPG released last year in Japan. The ad might be old, but its gold, real gold I tell ya’!

[The Reclusive Revenant]

What do McDonald’s, giant Parapa the Rapper, a bunch of Pipo Monkeys, Mona the cat and a giant Chocobo have in common? In an ideal world, nothing. But this isn’t an ideal world, and this is Dark Diamond, so surely this must, somehow, make sense.

Well it does, its a Japanese TV ad for McDonald’s, trippy stuff.

This must have been what Kutaragi meant when he said 4D gaming, damn, I’m glad I dont have a PS3. 

Ok, another anonymous tip! This is an entry for a Wii ad contest, apparently this came in second place, its so good I’d like to see the winning entry.

Anyone have any more details about this? We know the author is Theodor Berg and nothing else.

Super Mario Brothers Macaroni and Cheese! I remember those, they somehow made normal mac & cheese taste like crap. Maybe it was easy marketing anything-Mario to kids, but since I first ate it I realized the truth behind the success: The shape and size of pasta-mario was scientifically better suited to deliver the cheesy sauce to my taste buds.

[Overtime Comedy]

This is the first Wii TV ad that will hit American and European countries, its straightforward and simple. Try and find the word Nintendo in there.

Also, triforce cameo!

Here are the 3 latest japanese TV ads for the PS3, the first two are all about the PS3’s launch date of 11/11/2006. With people becoming enthralled as they see anything that resembles an 11. What about one of those in a sex shop Sony? Better than crying babies.

The second and third one (which is only dull game clips) after the jump.

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Back in the time of E3 Nintendo bragged that when the time of launch was nigh we’d see Wii ads everywhere. That everywhere you went online Wii would be there, pardon the pun. And it appears they’ve kept their word, Ive been seeing Wii flash ads everywhere all day.

They are your typical swat-the-fly-shoot-the-duck-kill-osama flash ads, you move the Wiimote and stuff moves around. The ads feature the slogan ‘Wii move you’, you can see screenshots of them on top and to the left (as Nintendo is playing hard to get by not advertising here, obviously).

Come on Nintendo, dont be shy!

In the near future… to be exact in 20XX, all the countries from the Americas have encouraged a Zero-Tolerance, anti-smoking policy. Try to picture it in your mind, because that’s what this company tries to tell the world. But they cannot reveal it wide and crisp as the truth should be meant to be told.

No.

They should be smart. They should get their message to the masses by means of Stealth! …And what’s better than a TV ad on National TV in the middle of the day, projected towards normal $alarymen?

By the way, does this machine really work? That must be a really powerful and noisy fan to keep the non-smokers from giving a shit.

[Japanprobe]

Before I commit a horrible crime in the name of the industry, here’s the PS3’s newest ad.

Who the fuck is in charge of marketing at Sony HQ?! Tell me while I load my shotgun. How does this sell the PS3? All Sony’s achieving is bringing back the painfully locked childhood memories of aunt Irma’s doll collection. What are you telling us Kutaragi? That the cell processor was Mephistopheles’ design?