lurkette

I don't know what they're saying, but all of a sudden I really want some Pocky...

http://www.glico.co.jp/pocky/cm/decorer1_qt.htm

Can anyone translate for me?

__________________
"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

- Anatole France

Squishor

Er...yeah, I see what you mean. I think I want a Pocky too!

I can't turn the volume up because I'm at work and it's hard to read the writing, but it says someting about doing "waku waku" and a decoration of some kind. Sorry I can't be more helpful...

maleficent

You can find out what kind of Pocky you are
http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/qu.../pockyquiz.htm

__________________

pocon1

Yum Yum Yum Yum!

(Had to lengthen it to ten characters because the message was too short).

Squishor

How fun! I am Cap Cap Ice Cream Cookies. crunch.

http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/qu...cky/capcap.htm

maleficent

tried using the translate this page function of google, and it seemed to confuse it...

http://translate.google.com/translat...ial_s%26sa%3DG

__________________

MooseMan3000

Hot damn. I always want pocky, but now I just want it more.

I've also taken 3 separate "What kind of Pocky are you?" tests. They always tell me I'm Milk Pocky. Now if only I could get that kind here.

lurkette

I am Green Tea Pocky - I didn't even know such a thing existed, but now that I do, it seems perfect!!!

__________________
"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

- Anatole France

maleficent

This seems to be the perfect ad campaign. We have no idea what they are selling, but yet -- for some odd reason.. we want it

__________________

lurkette

Dammit, they did something to my brain!!!

Can someone help me find where I can buy the damn green tea mousse pocky online? Hrumph. (Seems to be pretty rare.)

Edit: Crisis averted, I found asianfoodgrocer.com with a little more googling.

Damn them.

__________________
"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

- Anatole France

ratbastid

I'm Strawberry Pocky.

<p align="center">
<a href ="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/pockyquiz.htm">
<img src="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/strawb.gif" width="300" height="150"><br>
<br>
what flavor pocky are you?</a><br>
<a href="http://sugardew.com"><font color="#FFAED7">[c] sugardew</font></a></p>

Amano

They're speaking a mixture of languages ( I can catch English, Japanese Kansai dialect, I think French and I think Portuguese)

What's written as subtitles looks rather simple, except that the contrast is quite poor and I can't read some of the characters.

Here is what I can read:

1st line: Girls become nervous/tremble
2nd line: Decoration (the Pocky name) tastes especially like cake
3rd line: It tastes very good. That's how it tastes.
4th line: Pocky Decore, Pocky Decore
5th line: Let me tell you, it tastes like strawberry ***
6th line: Decoration tastes especially like cake
7th line: It tastes very good. It tastes very good.
8th line: Pocky Decore, Pocky Decore......

I don't know French or Portuguese so I can't say how accurate the subtitles are for those parts. The Kansai dialect seems to match pretty well, but interestingly, the English part ("Candy is especially great") is subtitled in line 5.

braisler

My Japanese colleague says that they are not singing in Japenese. The subtitles (which are hard to read) translates something like:
Pocky are very exciting,
They taste like cake.
Decorated Pocky, Decorated Pocky.

The text above the message says that they are singing about Pocky in French!

She also says that these two girls are famous stand-up comedians in Japan! What a culture, huh?

__________________
---
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
- Albert Einstein
---

maleficent

__________________

Supple Cow

Wow, I need a cold shower. And some Pocky.

I love that it's in French. This reminds me of the Japanese girl surf band in Kill Bill (I think they're called the 5, 6, 7, 8's). I didn't know they were singing in English until I turned on the subtitles to see if I could learn any Japanese words... in retrospect, a fruitless endeavor but hilarious nevertheless.

__________________
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

Supple Cow

I'm Chocolate Pocky...
<p align="center">
<a href ="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/pockyquiz.htm">
<img src="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/choco.gif" width="300" height="150"><br>
<br>
what flavor pocky are you?</a><br>
<a href="http://sugardew.com"><font color="#FFAED7">[c] sugardew</font></a></p>
..."Or just good at pretending" - haha!

__________________
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

ironmaiden7o7

I want, I want, I want, I want. That's not what the ad says, but I want dammit!

whocarz

I don't know. That just creeped me the fuck out.

__________________
If there exists anything mightier than destiny, then it is the courage to face destiny unflinchingly. -Geibel

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. -Marcus Aurelius

Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? -GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly

Irishsean

<p align="center">
<a href ="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/pockyquiz.htm">
<img src="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/capcap.gif" width="300" height="150"><br>
<br>
what flavor pocky are you?</a><br>
<a href="http://sugardew.com"><font color="#FFAED7">[c] sugardew</font></a></p>

__________________
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky

TexanAvenger

Whew... I was starting to thing I was the only one. I like Pocky, but those girls looked a little too vampire/cadaveresque to me... And the sing-speak in unison was just not helping the image.

IC3

Same as Supple Cow

__________________
"To win any battle, you must fight as if you were already dead" -Musashi

rainheart

yeah,
chalk another one up for chocolate pocky

go normalcy

TexanAvenger

<p align="center">
<a href ="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/pockyquiz.htm">
<img src="http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/quizzies/pocky/capcap.gif" width="300" height="150"><br>
<br>
what flavor pocky are you?</a><br>

I said I like Pocky... just not the creepy commerical...

asaris

Green Tea pocky. I didn't know they had flavors other than chocolate, but I guess I'm not really surprised.

__________________
"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."

"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Suave

Woohoo chocolate! I looooooooove chocolate.

__________________
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato

Redlemon

I still don't really understand what Pocky is, but anyway...

I happened to see this linked at Boing Boing: Sex sells Pocky snax. The text of that mentions a translation over at Dan’s Horrendous Waste of Bandwidth » Further Japanese Pocky Comercials: “Can you see that I am serious?”. So, I figured, let's see if they did a better job that the TFPers. And...
I'm getting dizzy following these links in circles.... but anyway, Congrats to Amano for being quoted!

__________________
I can't read your signature. Sorry.

maleficent

Could you imagine the look of absolute horror when people click on the TFP link and get treated to that lovely picture of Phred... What kind of site have the stumbled into?

__________________

lurkette

That's my boy - you should see the traffic on his site since Boing Boing posted the link to his blog.

__________________
"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

- Anatole France

ratbastid

That was me! I'm Dan!

You wouldn't believe what my site's traffic counter is doing right now! Something like 14,000 page views on that blog post in the last 24 hours.

Redlemon

Cool!
/ adds feed to RSS reader

__________________
I can't read your signature. Sorry.

TexanAvenger

haha... You mean they won't think we're strange already for having people who translate Pocky ads?

Amano

Wow, and to think I'm partly responsible for that! :-D

Craven Morehead

After watching that I do want something however I'm pretty sure its not Pocky.

hotness.................

Squishor

I knew "Dan" had to be one of us.

sadistikdreams

This is what they're talking about, I think:
http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com/index...OD&ProdID=2677

__________________
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
-Lin Yutang

hearts, by d.a.

thejoker130

Must...........eat.............braiiiiinnsss.....wait no.......pooooooocky



Yay! I build stong bones!

thejoker130 does a body good

__________________
WHAT MORE CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
-------------------------------------
I like you. When the world is mine your death will be quick and painless.

doodlebird

and now for some pocky haiku...

i too am green tea.
yet, i detest this flavor.
do i hate myself?

SpoilSport

"Maccha" = Green Tea

Haven't seen the Pocky commercial. .....Kind of afraid to. heh.

Incidentally - may I ask how you gaijin pronounce the name "Pocky"? "PAH-key" or "POH-key"? Just curious.

edit: props to doodle for the haiku - I had a headache wake me up at 0300 and the haiku made me laugh out loud and realize I feel better, thank you. =)

rockzilla

I'm plain old normal Chocolate Pocky. Some of the grocery stores around here carry something called Men's Pocky. Aside from it coming in a green box, I can't tell the difference between it and regular Chocolate. Maybe Men's Pocky has extra testosterone in it?

Edit - Asianfoodgrocer.com says Men's Pocky is for the dark chocolate lover, but the chocolate isn't any darker than the other Pocky... which I guess is only for ladies.

SpoilSport

Valentine's Day in Japan is sort of a spin on American Valentine's Day. On V Day in Japan, it has become custom for the women to give gifts of chocolate to men, hence the Men's Pocky.

Just watched the commercial - add me to those that were creeped out.