Surprise: Cartoon Porn!

So I have become quite the soda connoisseur since cutting all that booze out of my diet.  All the while it's been my assumption that soda- be it of questionable nutrition- is a relatively unfuckedup commercial entity.  By that I mean that it doesn't market "sex in a bottle" as explicitly as its alcoholic counterparts.  The pictures I took below are only a sampling of that 'larger than life' trend. 

("we will" what???)

But soda too?  Well, it looked innocent enough in the vending machine.

But as I turned the bottle around, a figure appeared to be emerging from within.

Surprise!  It's cartoon porn!

This marketing technique has filled me with questions, such as:

This can't be the same bottle design that Dr. Pepper uses back in The States, can it???

And, now that I don't drink alcohol, am I going to appear just as "sexually available" if I'm sipping on a Dr. Pepper instead???

And why is that woman's hat way too small for her head???

I wish I could have brought this can into class when we were discussing the regionalization of marketing to Asia back at school.  I can just picture the board room meeting now. 

Exec A: Now we need to alter our can design slightly for the Japanese market.  Who knows what the Japanese like best?

Exec B: I know, the Japanese love cartoon porn!

Exec A: Exactly, the answer is cartoon porn.

Exec B: Wow, I'm exhausted from all this critical thinking.  Let's go out and get some hookers and a hotel room. . .

Exec A: Great idea.  Meeting adjourned!

Comments

[postpaleo]

There a lot of kids collecting soda cans in Japan? Kind of hard to hide under the mattress, I suspect.

[pejo]

This is a funny way of advertisement. Is there a lot of similar type of advert in japan? How can the small children grow up decently there.