new marketing scheme?

Postby **Ashley** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:42 pm

So the other day, I was lounging on my couch, half asleep, and this commercial comes on. But it's not just any commercial, it's an ANIME style commercial! For a cell phone?!
Apparhently Team Mobile's picked up on the anime vibe, and they've started using a little mascot named Johnny Chase to do it. Anyone else slightly amused? Hopefully this'll mean more stuff like this? Or are you guys all freaked out that team mobile's gone too far this time?

Postby **Kirika** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:09 pm

well i don't know about team mobile....
But the other day, I was at "Simons" and I was totally freaked out...
There was a lot of clothing that looked exacly like the ones in some anime...
Maybe in a couple of years, we'll see people dressed like Heero Yuy walking down the streets :eyebrow:

brrrrrrr.. better not to think about it....

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:16 pm

I saw that commercial Ash! I thought it was neat :] I think it would be cool if we saw more anime in ads.

Postby **Ashley** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:49 pm

I loved his line, "save me a seat Aya". And yeah, I thought it was cool too!

Postby **Razgriz** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:54 pm

Ashley wrote:So the other day, I was lounging on my couch, half asleep, and this commercial comes on. But it's not just any commercial, it's an ANIME style commercial! For a cell phone?!
Apparhently Team Mobile's picked up on the anime vibe, and they've started using a little mascot named Johnny Chase to do it. Anyone else slightly amused? Hopefully this'll mean more stuff like this? Or are you guys all freaked out that team mobile's gone too far this time?

Very interesting I must say, but considering anime is getting to be well accepted here, I would say in 2-3 years we could see more of these advertisements. In 5-8 years we may even have an Anime cable channel...I mean, they already have G4, TV for gamers...

Kirika wrote:well i don't know about team mobile....
But the other day, I was at "Simons" and I was totally freaked out...
There was a lot of clothing that looked exacly like the ones in some anime...
Maybe in a couple of years, we'll see people dressed like Heero Yuy walking down the streets
brrrrrrr.. better not to think about it....

Hmmm....I think they are doing that right now, you can see usually see them around hotels and restaurants near an anime convention near you

Postby **Kenchii** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:14 pm

I hate it. Absolutally. What right do they have of getting little kids attention with 'dragonball z' characters? Its not right. NO MORE ANIME COMMERCIALS!

First, Ban all the Trolls. . . · Postby **MillyFan** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:20 pm

Kirika wrote:well i don't know about team mobile....
But the other day, I was at "Simons" and I was totally freaked out...
There was a lot of clothing that looked exacly like the ones in some anime...
Maybe in a couple of years, we'll see people dressed like Heero Yuy walking down the streets

LOL if that ever happens I don't think I'd like to see it.

Postby **andyroo** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:32 pm

I think that I've seen the commercial too. To me it looked like they were advertising for a spiffy little color PDA that had the screen flip-up; saw something like that last year (was monochrome). The most that I can remember from it was, "service starting at 30 dollars." Probably the part they didn't want you to notice... but oh well. Still waiting for that Anime Network to get beyond Phillie and NYC.

Anyone else slightly amused? Hopefully this'll mean more stuff like this? Or are you guys all freaked out that team mobile's gone too far this time?

Unphased.

Postby **Psycho Ann** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:49 pm

I actually found the animation quality quite good! As long as they portray a high quality look to anime, I'm cool. I remember another commerical, a public service thingy I think, which has an anime look to it but is badly done. Now THAT made me cringe....

Postby **Mithrandir** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 10:00 pm

There was a lot of clothing that looked exacly like the ones in some anime...

Um... You mean the 1800s European School Uniforms, or the 1980s California Chic?

(Or am I wrong. I thought that made up 90% of the clothes in anime....) :evil:

Postby **Ashley** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:43 am

[Quote=Oldphilosopher]Um... You mean the 1800s European School Uniforms, or the 1980s California Chic?[/quote]

Snicker, you forgot the close-fitting space suits and white tuxedos.

Postby **Gypsy** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 6:01 am

I haven't seen it. Oh wait ... you'd need cable for that, wouldn't you? Maybe I should call my cable company again ... it'll feel weird dialing their number and not razzing them about getting my DSL hooked up.

Postby **Spiritsword** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 11:23 am

I just saw the commercial, and I thought it was pretty well done. But for some strange reason when I saw the "hero" he reminded me of Vash...

Postby **Master Kenzo** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:31 pm

Ashley wrote:So the other day, I was lounging on my couch, half asleep, and this commercial comes on. But it's not just any commercial, it's an ANIME style commercial! For a cell phone?!
Apparhently Team Mobile's picked up on the anime vibe, and they've started using a little mascot named Johnny Chase to do it. Anyone else slightly amused? Hopefully this'll mean more stuff like this? Or are you guys all freaked out that team mobile's gone too far this time?

That's cool. But since I'm in Canada, I can't see it

I havn't even heard of Team Mobile.

On the other hand, if it's cool to see an anime-style commercial, wouldn't it be even cooler to se a commercial about God? And I don't mean foolish imitation with everything messed up, I mean the REAL God. Now that would be cool.

Sorry if I derailed the thread.

Postby **Spiritsword** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:09 pm

Originally posted by Master Kenzo:
On the other hand, if it's cool to see an anime-style commercial, wouldn't it be even cooler to se a commercial about God? And I don't mean foolish imitation with everything messed up, I mean the REAL God. Now that would be cool.

Yes, it would. But I agree, it would have to be done in the right way.

Postby **Ashley** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 3:12 pm

Ha! I'd like to see the politically correct, tolerant "god"...it'd probably be just a big white screen with black text, since we wouldn't want to show him as a male (to offend feminists/wiccans) or acknowledge him as the supreme deity (to offend atheists), or call him Jesus (to offend non-Christians)...no, I'd say it's better that commercialism keep it's grubby paws of the face of my Savior.

Postby **Spiritsword** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 4:41 pm

Hmmm...I can't speak for Master Kenzo, but I was thinking more along the lines of a commercial FOR God (outreach) than a commercial that used God to promote something else. But again, it would have to be REAL, yet done carefully.

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