Head Hugging And Silly Singing Promote Pocky Candy

Here’s a very weird Japanese commercial for a very weird Japanese chocolate product. If we knew Japanese French, maybe it would be more fun but watching these two girls hold each other’s heads and place sticks of candy in their mouths is oddly transfixing. See some other weird ones here. The more you watch them, the more you’ll like them.

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