Best commercial ever - Tanuki Balls

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Why can't we make commercials like this?








Link to video

http://eegah.coffeehaus.com/archives/003674.html

"This charming little animation has given a few chuckles and raised a few eyebrows depending on where you live, what role do you see yourself into, but is based on a purely folkloric Japanese story according to what tanukis (that big raccoon dog you see here) have big balls that bring them luck and many powers … And not always sexual ones in fact. Using this folkloric character, the Japanese building construction firm Anabuki has created the Little Red Riding Hood Anabuki Chan character and used her and the usual fairy tale animals in an advert campaign aimed at the habitation starved Japanese market. Here are those videos. An other page on stinky.com explains the whole ordeal.

So what are tanukis? Well they are Japanese dog-raccoons of the canis family (see pictures) distinct from pure raccoons, called araiguma. These little buggers are cute creatures that eat about anything like rodents, lizards, frogs, fruit, berries, insects… They are also the source of many cute tales, and now we enter the “Awwwwww” bit or our article"

[scarlet_owl]

1. I love tanukis!

You're right. We should have commercials like that.

[WeRQ4U]

2. Wasn't there a "Tanuki" suit that you could wear in Mario Bros. 3?

You could turn into stone and fly with it on. It didn't give Mario big balls though. Family game though... I can understand that.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. Yeah there was LOL !

I remember stopping in mid-air turning Mario into stone .