Japanese Pocky ad - need translation
 

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?

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...

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

Yum Yum Yum Yum!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 :D

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.

I'm Strawberry Pocky.

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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.

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?

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'm Chocolate Pocky...
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..."Or just good at pretending" - haha! :lol:

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

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

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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.

Same as Supple Cow

yeah,
chalk another one up for chocolate pocky

go normalcy

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

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

Woohoo chocolate! I looooooooove chocolate.

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!

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?

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

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.

Cool!
/ adds feed to RSS reader

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://sugardew.com/bloggalicious/qu...pocky/milk.gif

Yay! I build stong bones!

thejoker130 does a body good :D

and now for some pocky haiku...

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

"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. =)

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.

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.