
One Piece Anime’s Luffy Sells Life Insurance in TV Ad
Japan’s Nissay company airs commercial with letter to anime pirateJapan’s Nippon Life Insurance Company (Nihon Seimei, Nissay) began airing a 30-second “letter to Luffy” television commercial that features the One Piece television anime’s lead pirate character last month. The video features the Japanese pop duo Yuzu’s song “with you.”
The announcer in the ad says, “Dear Luffy-sama. Don’t look back, don’t be limited by common sense, don’t stop at any barriers, and move towards a future with eyes set on our dreams — that’s what you taught us. A future that only we can make for ourselves… Nihon Seimei.”
The American insurance company Progressive began airing a television commercial with the Sega mascot character Sonic the Hedgehog in January, and the GEICO insurance company used characters from the Speed Racer television anime in an advertising campaign in 2005. The Japanese company Totalsoft also launched a “Moe Hoken” (Moe Insurance) website in July dedicated to teaching men in their 20s and 30s about insurance.
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Since 1997, Eiichiro Oda has produced One Piece. According to a recent JapaneseJumpmagazine article, he has zero days off. And every night, he gets around four hours of sleep on average.
One Piece is the most popular manga in Japan. Initially, Oda planned to end One Piece sooner (after five years of serialization), but the manga, now in its 15th year, has become a cultural juggernaut.If the 37-year-old manga artist does ever end the comic, he’ll retire. “If I stop drawing One Piece,” Oda recently said, “I’m thinking I’ll quit being a manga artist.”
Continuing, he said, “To be precise, this isn’t going to be serialized for a long time, and that I swear on my heart.” What’s keeping him going, Oda said, is that he’s thinking of the work he’ll leave behind after he’s dead.
SOURCE : Kotaku
DATE : MAR 22, 2012 7:55 AM
URL : http://kotaku.com/5895485/one-pieces-creator-doesnt-sleep-much-sounds-totally-burnt-out
One Piece Film (tentative title) is the 12th One Piece movie expected to be released in December. The movie will be directed by Tatsuya Nagamine (Movie 8) and will be overseen by Eiichiro Oda, the same as Movie 10.
The film will be the first to take place in the New World where the Straw Hat Pirates will face their “strongest enemy yet,” a man named “Z.”
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Shueisha, the publisher and licensor of some of the most popular manga right now, is not only expanding online but internationally as well.
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In the train stations are posters advertising the anime premier of the newest One Piece arc, The New World! It starts on 2nd of October in Japan.
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An unconfirmed (but looks pretty legit art wise) image of post-timeskip Supernovas.
Edited the post with more clearer-ish photos.
An unconfirmed (but looks pretty legit art wise) image of post-timeskip Supernovas.
New One Piece opening is going to be “We go!” by Hiroshi Kitadani. The same singer as for the first opening (“We Are!”) with a similar song title.
