Email Subscription

Comments

Posts

Cockroach boy band

Kincho uses a boy band in its latest commercial promoting cockroach extermination traps:

What the last line of the commercial sounds like: “Gokiburi (cockroaches) to the heaven!”

—

Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe)
dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)
Kirainet.com – A geek in Japan (Subscribe)

Related Posts with Thumbnails

9 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 25, 2009 at 7:44 am

Categories: General Japan Tags: cockroaches, commercial, japan, TV

himawari

That last line killed me when I first saw this commercial on TV, hahahah. It still does every time it comes on.

http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N

Me too! Glad I’m not the only one.

LP

Ditto on all accounts. For the longest time I kept trying to catch what he said whenever I saw the commercial.
majiimeaussie

and how do you know there is no cockroach heaven?

Sandy

Remind me again why Japan aren’t allowed in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Aside from them not being in Europe.

Garamon

Because they would win it every time maybe?

http://witzl.blogspot.com/ Mary Witzl

I’m with the two above commentators: this is straight Eurovision stuff and an absolute shoo-in. Too bad about the geography glitch.

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

Dito, would be really great. I’d even watch the contest if Japan would be included. At least their song. ^^

tracks

finally, what the music was intended for.