Surprising knock-off goods from Japan
Nowadays, when it comes to knock-offs of popular products, most people think of China. We’re not just saying that to pick on our neighbors to the west, there’s just an awful lot of suspect copies . Korean bootlegs have had their time making the rounds as well, but everyone seems to leave Japan alone. That is until now. A video uploaded by Japanese YouTube user, msdoom99 , has surfaced with the goal of giving all those Japanese netizens who have laughed at Chinese and Korean knockoffs a taste of Japan’s little-known copies. Take a look at just a few and ask yourself, “So who’s laughing now?”
▼ Those are some nice looking cameras.
▼ That logo looks awfully suspicious…
▼ We’ve also seen some more recent copies of BMWs out of China.
▼ The Metrodome was reportedly the inspiration for the design of the Tokyo Dome, built six years later.
▼ Say it ain’t so! Peko-chan, beloved mascot of Fujiya Food Co., wasn’t the original.
▼ Another from Fujiya Foods.
Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese manga artist most famous for supernatural horror comic GeGeGe no Kitaro, released his very first hit, Rocketman, a blatant copy of DC Comics’ man of steel:
▼ We just wish Mr. Shigeru at least changed the ‘S’ to an ‘R’ for “Rocketman”…
Take a look at the video below for a full list of products. We’re not entirely convinced every single item is a knock-off (we know for a fact Star Wars characters were used in a commercial for Sea Chicken, not an actual rip-off of the entire movie, and The Planet of the Apes was so popular in Japan that a TV series was created based on the movie), but it’s still surprising to see so many products and intellectual property “borrowed” by Japanese companies.
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And here’s that Star Wars Sea Chicken commercial…because it’s hilarious.
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Source: Fesoku
