Japan has this amazing talent for getting away with being cute. I wish you could all just watch a 10 minute sample of randomly selected Japanese commercials, and you'd probably get a sense of how many jingles and talking objects I'm exposed to. I've been noticing the pattern of the ad campaigns, too. Usually it will just be a handful of commercials you see all the time for a few weeks, then some campaigns stop after that short period of time, new ones start, and some get different versions of their... read more
