This Ad Campaign is Already Dead
You are already dead.
–Kenshiro, star of Fist of the North Star
Atatatatatata!
–Also Kenshiro
This ad seems to be from a couple of years ago, but I couldn’t resist sharing. Here we see Kenshiro powering up; clothes bursting from the raw energy to reveal… a salary-man’s suit. Then he starts to hand out business cards like deadly punches. The subtitles up to this point say, “Getting the job! Townwork [a placement company's periodical], company-worker edition.” The next itteration of clothes-rippingness shows his new job as a delivery guy. The subs here say, “Change of career! Townwork, company-worker edition.”
This commercial requires a familiarity with the anime’s opening song, You は Shock, which I have embedded below.
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