Pepsiman is an official Pepsi mascot from Pepsi’s Japanese corporate branch. The design of the Pepsiman character is attributed to Canadian comic book artist Travis Charest, created sometime around the mid 1990s. A total of twelve commercials were created featuring the Pepsiman. Most, if not all, of Pepsiman’s commercials used foreign commercial actors and not Japanese commercial actors.
Pepsiman advertisement collection
Superhero qualities
Pepsiman has no distinguishing facial features, except when he opens his mouth to make a sound in the Pepsiman commercials. The sound he makes is supposed to be the sound similar to that of carbonation escaping a bottle of soda. His body however, is recognized as being an athletic build. His body is also made of a metallic silver compound with a distinguishing Pepsi logo on his chest.
His role in the advertisements is to appear with Pepsi to thirsty people or people craving soda. Pepsiman happens to appear at just the right time with the product. After delivering the beverage, sometimes Pepsiman would encounter a difficult and action oriented situation which would result in injury. Pepsiman’s injuries would not feature blood or gore, so the end result is slapstick in tone.
An advertisement every Tuesday
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Tags: advertisement, food and beverage, japan
Wow, thanks, man! I’m feeling kind of distraught over what’s happened to a friend, but this made me laugh. =) The music’s fantastic. Hehe.
by daryl (Jun 5, 2007 at 10 AM)