Shokotan and Norton Fighter!
Written by Jeshii on 2008.09.29 – 21:50 -
The Norton Fighter!
Oh man… Japanese marketing at its best.
しょこたん (Shokotan, Realname 中川翔子, Nakagawa Shoko) is known throughout the JP world as the most prolific blogger ever. Apparently, that’s how she rose to fame in the Akiba crowd, posting numerous times throughout the day.
Anyway, Norton Antivirus now has her and Norton Fighter (some sort of ultraman/power ranger-like hero) as their image characters. It’s so obviously targeted at the otaku crowd, it’s not even funny. On the website, there is even a “live” video from her room. It’s actually really, really weird videos of her and the Norton Fighter interacting… very strange.
And some obligatory videos:
In this one, she is listening to some disembodied voice talk about the benefits of new norton:
And then this one is like an interview about here computer experiences:
I admit it. She’s cute and her casual speaking is all too appealing, but I’m still not installing Norton! ><;
Tags: Akiba, Akihabara, anti-virus, アキバ, blogs, 秋葉原, girls, hero, Japanese girls, models, norton, otaku, technology, video
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