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  • - What the absolutely jeez is going on here?

  • - There is nothing in this video that will give me a clue,

  • so I purely just have to guess.

  • ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪

  • - (FBE) So today, we've got a classic YouTubers React episode

  • for you. - Ooh, classic?

  • - (FBE) We're going to be showing you a series of commercials

  • all coming from Japan. - Ooh, hey!

  • This is right up my alley.

  • I go over a lot of anime, otaku, and Japanese culture stuff

  • and I know that lots of weird commercials

  • come out of Japan.

  • - (FBE) So time, there's a twist. - What's the twist?

  • - (FBE) During each video, we're gonna pause right before

  • they reveal what the product is and we're gonna see

  • if you guys can guess what the product is

  • based on the commercial you just saw.

  • - Okay, I can tell you already that's gonna be a big fat zero

  • on the number score.

  • - I'm just going in confident.

  • - Yeah, because we make product commercials every day.

  • I've seen Japanese commercials though and they never make any sense.

  • - I'm excited but also curious.

  • ♪ (singing in Japanese) ♪

  • - ♪ Buh buh buh buh buh

  • - Hey, this is great.

  • - I'm speechless.

  • This is the most Japan thing I've ever seen though

  • at the same time.

  • - Okay, food?

  • - Maybe it's a new restaurant opening.

  • - ♪ (singing in Japanese) ♪

  • - (laughing) It's a [bleep] egg.

  • - (speaking Japanese)

  • - Eggs? What are those?

  • - What are those? Teeth?

  • - ♪ (singing in Japanese) ♪

  • - They need to relax.

  • - All I got was that they were saying something

  • along the lines of "eat with your friends."

  • - This is for a new restaurant opening.

  • Everyone's really excited for all of these new foods.

  • - It's totally for your teeth.

  • Teeth whitener or toothpaste.

  • - Silverware.

  • - Eggs?

  • - It's a place.

  • You go in and you just gobble.

  • - I think it's a microwave. - Frozen food.

  • - My guess is ramen. - Cheese cake.

  • - This is obviously a commercial for a fast food chain.

  • - A restaurant.

  • The only reason why I'm kind of pulling away

  • from that though is it's nothing specific.

  • It's just a whole bunch of random foods.

  • (buzzer)

  • - Okay, that doesn't help.

  • - What the [bleep] is that? - Coffee?

  • - I still have no idea what that was.

  • - (FBE) These are actually some sort of diet supplements

  • or carb pills.

  • - How were we supposed to get that?

  • - I would have never guessed that, even if it was in English.

  • - Where were the diet pills?

  • That just made me hungry.

  • That's a horrible commercial for diet pills.

  • - (speaking in Japanese)

  • (screaming) - (gasping) A pickle!

  • - Is that a cucumber?

  • - It's Japanese Pickle Rick!

  • - Another sweet beat here.

  • - This is a scary place to pause.

  • - That's gonna haunt my nightmares.

  • - If only I knew what that mascot was for.

  • I've seen it.

  • - It's gotta be something with cucumbers.

  • - I think it's a foot thing, like athlete's foot or something.

  • - Body wash.

  • - An anime?

  • - I'm a very literal person, so I'm gonna go for pickles.

  • - Panned asparagus.

  • - Green produce.

  • - Pickles.

  • - I think it's furniture just because there's a lot of furniture in the room.

  • - I bet he's giving her bad breath because she ate pickles.

  • He's like a bad breath ogre. - Oh!

  • - So it's for mint or gum.

  • - It's gonna be an ad for insurance on how to protect against

  • weird crazy burglars coming into your house.

  • (buzzer) - (speaking in Japanese)

  • - A phone? - A carrier, right?

  • (buzzer) - Mobile phones?

  • Of course!

  • - (FBE) This is Biglobe, a mobile phone company

  • similar to cellphone networks here in the U.S.

  • - The phones didn't appear until the final half second.

  • - Cell companies here in the United States

  • need to get with it!

  • Start to make commercials like this because I would switch carriers

  • if I saw something like this.

  • - (conversing in Japanese)

  • (dog barking) - (gasping) Rex?

  • - Yeah, you don't want a German shepherd barking

  • at you like that. - Don't put the girl in front!

  • You are not a gentleman!

  • - I have seen this one. What was it for?

  • (dog barking) - Holy [bleep].

  • - This has got to be a commercial for breast implants.

  • - Where's this going?

  • - (laughing)

  • - Oh, no.

  • - The dude is reacting like I am. - Oh, it's an old man.

  • - What?!

  • Oh, my god! That's actually terrifying.

  • - (snickering) This is the best!

  • - I'm so glad they revealed that was a wig

  • because I was gonna say that's a bad wig.

  • - I love this commercial and I hope it's for a wig company.

  • - Is it for sushi?

  • - Some anti-ID stealing software.

  • - Pads that go in your bra?

  • - Identity theft protection. - Yeah, I thought security.

  • - That weird bra that he/she had on.

  • - Padding, bra padding.

  • - I'm saying insurance. - Yeah.

  • - I'm gonna go with breast implants.

  • - That's an ad for Tinder.

  • You really have to make sure who you're dating

  • and not get catfished.

  • (ding) - Heck yeah!

  • I feel like I saw one with sushi, but I wasn't sure if it was this one,

  • so I got one.

  • - (FBE) It is a sushi delivering service.

  • - Okay, what does that have to do with a dog

  • just barking his head off and a gal throwing her wig?

  • - I love the randomness of this video in particular.

  • I love how creative it is and I love how funny it is.

  • - ♪ (singing in Japanese) ♪

  • - Oh, my god.

  • - (chuckling) - Oh, this is sick.

  • - Are those eagles? Birds? Hawks?

  • - Oh, this is the song by the artist Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

  • - (speaking in Japanese)

  • - I wish I knew Japanese.

  • - I love humanoid birds and staffs just as much as the next guy,

  • but what is this?

  • - Let's just pick a random thing. We may be right.

  • Tires.

  • - Some sort of hair product that would just keep your hair in place.

  • - Coca-Cola?

  • - An energy drink.

  • - It was a ginormous thing of ramen skirting across the floor.

  • It's ramen.

  • - Staffs with swords in them. Or wands.

  • - Jell-O. - Some kind of weird store,

  • like an antique store.

  • - It's for life insurance. Show me life insurance, please.

  • - KFC. - KFC-- (gasping)

  • I've heard that KFC's very popular in Japan.

  • It's like a weird Colonel Sanders.

  • - A car brand so you can drive as far away

  • from this monstrosity as possible.

  • (ding) - It's ramen.

  • - It's ramen. - I got it.

  • - (cackling)

  • - I had a feeling it was whatever was on his pin,

  • but I couldn't-- I was trying to see the entire commercial,

  • but it moved so fast.

  • - (FBE) This was an ad for UFO Noodles.

  • - You know, I'm not surprised anymore,

  • but I just picked the wrong random item.

  • - They look tasty.

  • I don't know about the whole beginning part,

  • with the birds and stuff, but the noodle shot looked great.

  • ♪ (creepy music) ♪

  • - A lady comes out with tea. Maybe it's a new tea.

  • Maybe it's a new soft drink.

  • - He's smelling something.

  • - (laughing) Ew!

  • - (man sniffing) - Oh, okay.

  • - I don't even care what this is for! I'm heavily into it.

  • Wait, can I do-- (sniffing)

  • (exhaling) No, more power to them.

  • - It's a shampoo commercial, something about hair.

  • - Vicks VapoRub? - Nair hair removal.

  • - Maybe it's a perfume!

  • - You going to go tea? - I'm gonna go tea.

  • - Let's go tea!

  • - Is it for coffee?

  • - A nasal reliever.

  • - A vacuum cleaner. - Some kind of sinus thing.

  • - A hair product for balding men.

  • - Frozen turkeys from Japan.

  • Everyone knows that's how you smell a turkey.

  • - ♪ (singing in Japanese) ♪

  • - So just rice crackers?

  • Rice crackers don't smell good. I hated that.

  • - To be fair, senbei, those rice crackers have

  • a really strong smell, but when I smell it,

  • it's not with the scent of (sighing) it's wonderful.

  • It's more like (snorting) oh my gosh, that's so strong.

  • - (FBE) This was an ad for a Japanese rice cracker.

  • - Rice crackers. You got me again!

  • - What did the inhaling of hair have to do with rice crackers?

  • How would you get anything advertised in Japan?

  • - (couple arguing indistinctly)

  • - Oh, Jesus Christ!

  • - Have you got clowns in your closets?

  • - (woman) I can't do this! - Oh, my god.

  • (nose rattling) - Oh, my god.

  • - (woman) I'm ready.

  • - ♪ (singing softly) ♪

  • (chuckling) I love this song. I love Karen Carpenter.

  • - This is the creepiest thing ever.

  • He just comes up and shakes his face at you.

  • - What is the connection? - It rattles.

  • Why do they bite it? - Why was he on a movie set?

  • - He's obviously the mascot for something.

  • Maybe he is the equivalent of Ronald McDonald in Japan,

  • so I'm going to say some fast food, maybe a burger establishment.

  • - Japanese McDonald's-- and that was Japanese Ronald.

  • - A soft drink that bubbles, that make you happy.

  • - Chocolate dessert. - A jawbreaker.

  • - There's nothing in this video that will give me a clue,

  • so I purely just have to guess.

  • Is it for Pocky?

  • - I think this is a commercial for one lamp,

  • and it's not even that bright.

  • - I think it's a hotel. - Allergy medicine?

  • - Oh, that's a good guess.

  • - Some sort of food that resembles his nose,

  • like maybe a tomato?

  • - What makes life better? - Some kind of--

  • - Candy. It's like a little candy or something.

  • - It's a candy.

  • - The [bleep] is that?

  • - Energy gum or something?

  • - What is it? Oh.

  • - Oh, it's snacks, like a snack company.

  • - (both) It's candy!

  • - We got it! - Yes!

  • - We did it.

  • - (FBE) So this is an ad for a gummy candy

  • made by Glico, who creates a variety of sweets,

  • beverages, supplements, and more.

  • - Why was Pennywise in a closet?

  • What does that have to do with gummys?

  • - I got it, that people were upset and then the clown

  • was making them happy and then she eats the nose,

  • so I was like, it's a food that makes you happy,

  • and it's sweets.

  • I get this because I'm all about the desserts.

  • - Now that I remember, Pocky always had love-based commercials.

  • They were just really weird.

  • - (man gasping)

  • - Okay, getting very Battle Royale vibes from this.

  • - (man whimpering) - Whoa.

  • - (man whimpering) - Oh, god.

  • - It's poop! (laughing)

  • - That's actually a very accurate representation

  • of how we all act when birds poop near us.

  • - This is like a movie.

  • - Oh, this is like that scene in Toy Story.

  • - They're holding hands. And they're going into the fire.

  • This is like Toy Story 3!

  • - They're in an oven. They're like food.

  • They have to be.

  • - I'm so invested into this.

  • - Okay, extreme temperatures? - Don't sleep.

  • - Where are they?

  • - (speaking in Japanese)

  • - Oh, my god.

  • - (speaking in Japanese) - What the absolute jeez

  • is going on here?

  • - (speaking in Japanese)

  • - What?! Earthquake?

  • Everything you're scared of, right here.

  • - "Standing strong together."

  • - I think that all of them are really tiny

  • and they make up something big.

  • - Okay, I can figure this out. I can figure this out.

  • Um, I'm not gonna figure this out.

  • - Insurance of some sort?

  • - I think it's car coating. - Like a windshield cleaner?

  • - Maybe like an insurance company?

  • - I was gonna say a mattress.

  • - Maybe it's something that settles your stomach,

  • you know, after you eat something that upset it.

  • Pepto Bismol.

  • - Swimwear. I don't know.

  • They're all in swimwear.

  • - Some freezer food.

  • - I'm gonna go with they're all hair follicles staying together.

  • Like, "Hold on!" - Done.

  • - It's a hair product. - We figured this one out.

  • - This is going to be a commercial for therapy.

  • This is like go see a therapist because this could be you

  • and everyone's standing strong together

  • because they're all in therapy together,

  • trying to figure out why their lives have turned to getting [bleep] on

  • and burned alive.

  • - Wine. Bringing people together after a hard day.

  • - (voice-over) Tsuruya, roofing tiles. - That is genius.

  • - (voice-over) ...roofing tiles. - Roofing tiles.

  • Wait, I get it. I like that one.

  • - I love that they even had an English narrator.

  • As a giant F you, say "roofing tiles," you idiot!

  • That's the first good commercial.

  • - (FBE) So Tsuruya is a roof and tiling company for homes.

  • - Yeah, and I regret saying what I said for the inside

  • of someone's stomach-- now I sound weird

  • and the Japanese commercial looks normal,

  • which is like, I'm not used to that setting at all.

  • - (FBE) Well, that was our last one. How do you feel you did?

  • - Um, horribly!

  • I feel like Super Bowl is the one opportunity

  • where American commercials can go a little nutty.

  • I feel like it's Super Bowl every [bleep] day in Japan.

  • - Guessing what products these commercials are for

  • is so difficult because they're so random.

  • They're super creative and sometimes they have nothing to do

  • with the actual product themselves.

  • - If you want to win at this challenge,

  • you have to go to that side of YouTube and dedicate a very long time to it.

  • - Thanks for watching this episode of YouTubers React.

  • - There's a lot of good creators in this episode,

  • so all of the links will be in the description.

  • Go subscribe to some of them.

  • - What should we react to next? Let us know in the comments.

  • - Buh-bye!

  • - Hi, guys, JC here, a producer here at FBE.

  • Thanks so much to all the creators who came down to shoot with us.

  • Make sure to support them. Check them out.

  • The links are down in the description below.

  • Bye, guys.

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