Controlled Karaoke: Yellow Magic Orchestra Shill For The Sweet, Sweet Taste Of Pocky

ByPatrick St. Michel

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You probably love Pocky. If you don’t enjoy the delicious snack all the stereotypical otaku enjoy, check your head. It’s delicious. Chances are, fair reader of this blog, you also fancy the music of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Or you at least dig Perfume, who take a lot of musical cues from the group.

Now, the great taste of Pocky finally holds hands with the electro-bloopiness of YMO in the above commercial.

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