Anime Mascots' Day Off: Notes

Video: Various
Audio: Wazzup! commercial audio
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Okay, so it's a rip-off of a rip-off, but I thought people might find it amusing. You may have seen the "Superfriends" version of a certain Budweiser commercial.

After seeing the Superfriends version, I thought there should be an anime one too. A friend of mine suggested using anime characters -- animals or "mascots", specifically. Frankly, the animation in this version is more limited, but there was less to work with. The poses I used (with drinks, except the Pokemon one, where it was added in) were only onscreen for a limited time, and I had to close or open each mouth "by hand" in each case.

I made this very shortly after seeing the Superfriends version. I honestly didn't expect the "Wazzup phenomenon" to explode as much as it did. (there are dozens of these things on the Internet now, including Evangelion and Dragonball Z versions) A lot of the online parodies seem to "rip off" the Superfriends one directly, by including the added music in their version. The one that I made uses a different commercial in the Budweiser "series" ("Call Waiting"), so it's shorter, and just a little different.