Here’s how you can try to win hearts and minds – use media that’s familiar to them.
In the case of the US, last year’s campaigns saw the importance of the Internet in pushing forward advocacies. Now, it seems like Japan’s politician are also making the Internet a potential political battleground.
This anime political ad is sponsored by Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Ever since the LDP posted this video online on Friday, it has had well over 219,000 hits.
The ad features a man (who happen to look like Democratic Party of Japan‘s Yukio Hatoyama) proposing to girl in a restaurant. It is an attempt to question the DPJ’s proposals.
Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso of the LDP has been quite unpopular with the opposition and even with fellow party members and has called for parliamentary elections. The latest polls show that the DPJ is edging the LDP.
Here are (hastily-drafted :p ) transcript of the dialog:
Man: I am the one who will make you happy. Fill your life with roses. Ill take care of you, your maternity expenses, the expenses of your children, living expenses, and retirement expenses. We’ll speed into the highway of life as fast as you like.
Woman: But the money?
Man: We dont have to worry about anything once we get married.
Woman: What?
Groundless self-confidence or foundation?
Liberal Party Group
The car was neither an Aston Martin nor was it speeding, but it was still kinda impressive anyway. I like the schoolboy-look, complete with backpack Hehe, luksong baka lang yan!
Honestly, I was a bit shocked with what I read on the Sydney Morning Herald. Despite the fact that we know Japan to produce top-notch adult entertainment, it appears that the Japanese households in general are being less intimate over the years. Some Japanese mommas aren’t getting any love from the poppas. Like the article’s example with this one woman who has not had sex for 20 years. The last time she did it was when Hirohito was still alive.
Could you believe that? The nation that brought us classics like Urotsukidoji and La Blue Girl (with a live-action version nonetheless) and future classics like Maria Ozawa don’t give their moms the level of affection that they deserve.
Won’t have to tell you that this is one of the infamous Oricon surveys. If we previously had the list of Best in Suits for male celebrities, now we have one for the ladies.
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Hehe, luksong baka lang yan!
