Saturday, May 14, 2011

F**n Holograms v2

Some of you should remember about Miku on this post, well apparently Toyota has started using her as the image for an advertising campaing for the Toyota Corolla in the USA as you can see on this, in my opinion, horrible commercial.


Why should I care? you might be wondering. The cool part is they will be also sponsoring her concert on the USA so the people in Los Angeles will be lucky and might get the chance to see the holograms in the Anime Expo convention on July 2. (If any of you actually go I'd like to see some pics please!!!)

Anyways, this seems like a risky movement for Toyota since otakus are well known to be unable to drive cars and will be asking their moms to drive them to the concert, so probably thinking on preventing this and not only aiming for otakus, they "americanized" her image as you can see here but I really don't think that will help a lot since they made her freaking creepy. Oh well she looks better on the image below but... Would that be enough to make the otaku's mothers buy Corollas? Only the time will tell.

 
Posted by Al3xaG at 5:52 AM
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21 comments:

  1. 123May 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM

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  2. Tony Van HelsingMay 14, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    What's an otaku?

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  3. LifeHacksMay 14, 2011 at 10:31 PM

    Toyota makes some of the best cars but this advertising is advertising.

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  4. Gambling DegenerateMay 14, 2011 at 10:38 PM

    still pretty cool that theyre implrementing that into commercials

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  5. Al3xaGMay 14, 2011 at 11:09 PM

    @ Tony

    Is in general someone obsessed with anime / manga (japanese animation and comic) and everything related to it.

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  6. Bob Ross Afro BlogMay 14, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    Don't like it too much. Just trying to appeal to a different crown.

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  7. Bob Ross Afro BlogMay 14, 2011 at 11:14 PM

    crowd*

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  8. NopeMay 14, 2011 at 11:32 PM

    All I can do is sigh. I don't even care, let them pull off this utterly pointless and ineffective marketing campaign. Why would they bother appealing to otaku anyway?

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  9. sp3nnyMay 15, 2011 at 2:38 AM

    that looks awful imo.

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  10. KevinMay 15, 2011 at 7:34 AM

    Looks pretty bad if i'm honest, not a great Toyota fan as it is.

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  11. An intellectual blogMay 15, 2011 at 5:55 PM

    that picture with the angel... kinda freaks me out

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  12. SkyBlueMay 15, 2011 at 8:53 PM

    lol interesting...yeah i do agree that is one horrible commercial to be made -.-

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  13. ReesesXMay 15, 2011 at 9:15 PM

    I'm not a fan of toyota to be for reals

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  14. JokkMay 16, 2011 at 5:51 AM

    OMfg.

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  15. Danny MurphyMay 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM

    Crazy stuff but then Japan is a strange place.

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  16. wastrelMay 17, 2011 at 6:24 AM

    strange stuff out there i never knew about

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  17. Jay ReidMay 17, 2011 at 5:03 PM

    Pretty weird, I like it though

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  18. m.m.May 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM

    toyota just seems to be slipping... i wonder if this will work

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  19. Professor OakMay 18, 2011 at 1:00 AM

    Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. We'll see.

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  20. Evren MastersMay 18, 2011 at 3:58 AM

    I'm surprised Toyota is using Miku, but even so, I think she's cool. I like some of 'her' music. And personally I think the hologram is spiffy.

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  21. nick.May 18, 2011 at 9:59 AM

    I doubt Toyota is overly concerned about losing sales on the Corolla, it's obscenely popular. Still, neat video

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