What I'm Listening To

Another lazypost (a post where I quickly harvest Youtube videos or images and mangle them into an article that has the illusion of being deep and well-written but is just in fact a few sentences and some borrowed videos). I've been amassing favorites of songs I've been listening to, that just happen to have videos too, lately. And so I figured I'd share what's been my "life soundtrack" for the most part, as of late. I'm pretty obsessed with the new Fullmetal Alchemist anime at the moment, so Yui is at the top. ^^; But AIMI from Stereopony is so sexycutemoe. More Monster Hunter and assorted commercials tomorrow.




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Now playing: YUI - again
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McDonald's Japan's Advertising

McDonald's obviously has a giant warchest full of funds built on the backs of bulging, clogged arteries, so it comes as no surprise to me that they have a unique menu for the second largest economy in the world (as well as most other markets, McShawarma anyone?). It does, however surprise me that they localize their ads to the point of homogenization, and make "traditionally crazy" ads that you would never have guessed belong to a US-based company. Even if they hired a Japanese ad agency (which I'm sure they did) it's still amazing, what with the ever-fickle and saturated with culturally-singular Japanese market the way it was when McDonald's debuted attained the market penetration it did. For some reason I find Mickey Ds' Japanese ads really entertaining, even amongst other 'wacky' Japanese ads I've seen over the years. Here are a few notables that people have uploaded to Youtube:


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Now playing: Stereopony - I do it
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