- (FBE) Can you give us your best impression

of the Long Long Man?

- ♪ (saxophone) ♪

♪ (dramatic intro) ♪

- (FBE) So today, we are going to be showing you

some Japanese commercials. - Yeah, baby.

- I love this.

- Oh man. - These are good.

- Those can get weird.

- (FBE) So, we've shown Japanese commercials

to YouTubers in the past, but this time,

we are actually going to be showing you a series

of commercials that all advertise the same product.

- Okay. - I'm excited.

- An internal lore, as it were.

- Nobody does commercials better than Japan.

- Best commercials in the world. - I'm very excited.

- (speaking Japanese)

- (narrator) Long Long Man!

- Oh, Long Long Man.

- I'm so confused.

- Oh my God.

- Oh, look at that tear.

- What did I just watch?

- She has that short gummy and he got that long gummy.

- Long Long Man. - Wow.

- I like... - They're talking about

gummies here?

- Did anybody else pick up on the innuendo in that commercial,

or is it just me?

- (speaking Japanese)

- "You like long things."

- The heck?

- Oh, Long Long Man.

- I mean, this is obviously wiener jokes.

- Ah, look at how long that is.

- Wow.

- I can't comprehend what I just watched.

- That's what I'm gonna say every time I get out

of the shower now. Long Long Man!

- (speaking Japanese)

- Oh, it's Long Long Man. - Oh no.

- It's this guy again. This guy's trouble, man.

Stay away from him.

- Oh no. That was symbolism

for her breaking up. - Yep, the chain broke.

- Oh man. She really wants that

long one, honey.

- Oh no, oh no. - Oh man.

- Each commercial kind of gets a little weirder and weirder.

- The storytelling is good. If I saw this on TV,

I would want to share it with everyone.

- Oh wow.

- Oh my God.

- Oh no, he's showing her how to do it.

Oh dear.

- What?

- What?

- Oh my God.

- Oh my gosh.

- This guy's trouble. I'm telling you.

- It's so sexual. I don't know what

to do with myself.

- This is great campaign. - I am so invested

in the story of the Long Long Man. - Right?

Will they, won't they?

- (speaking Japanese)

- It's her boyfriend, right?

- Uh oh. The confrontation.

- Long Long Man's inside.

- His longness is in the bed! - Oh my gosh.

- (gasps)

- Oh.

- She's a cheating woman.

- No. - Oh no.

- That is so stupid. - I don't know,

I actually wanna know what's gonna happen next.

- Can we just play the next one? This is--

I need to know.

- Oh, he's trying to stretch it out.

- I feel bad for the guy. - He feels so inadequate.

Poor guy.

- (gasps) - Oh no.

- She's gonna die? - Why is she dying?

- Whenever I look at long things, I feel assured.

Yes.

- Long Long Man, save her.

- She doesn't have that long to live.

So that's why she's attracted to long things.

- I'm just connecting that candy to death now.

- It makes you reflect on the mortality of our own life.

That's deep.

- What happens next? I wanna know what happens next.

- (speaking Japanese)

- Oh, she's got a lot.

- Oh, she knows how to do it.

- You could have one long man, or you could have a bunch

of short, short men.

- Is this a story of redemption? - It is.

- No way. - It's showing you that

short gummies can be just as good as a long gummy.

- They've been suggesting this whole time,

that these are wieners and if they're now saying

you can stack wieners to make it the size you want,

that is not a good suggestion.

- Flash mob?

- Call it off, call it off.

- Why is he just shouting in her face?

- What? His ear--

- Long Long Man's in the bunny costume?

- Storytelling, it's getting weird now.

- There was a lot going on in that.

- She just can't stop thinking of the Long Long Man,

so she hasn't seen the real Long Long Man in a while

and now everything she sees-- - Where is the Long Long Man?

- Where's the Long Long Man? - Dude.

- I bet you he killed him.

- Long seatbelt. - Okay, now the seatbelt?

- Is it the Long Long Man? - Where is he, though?

Where is he? - There he is!

He's back.

- It's the Long Long Man dude!

- She's hallucinating. - Yeah, she's just seeing

stuff now.

- If you're starting to have these hallucinations

every time you see something long, like a seatbelt,

you're flipping out all the time.

- She got married.

- Oh, a stretch limo.

- My God. - This is gonna be stuck

in my head all day. - Yeah, me too.

- I like the way he seductively tears the gummy.

- Oh, and he comes out tearing, oh wow.

- So long.

- She's so excited. Ooh, and his cape is long.

- He stopped the marriage.

- Do you really want to try this gummy at this point?

- Yes. - 'Cause I definitely do.

- (speaking Japanese)

- Yes! You got shut down.

- Oh no, what?

- What is this twist?

- Okay, so he's been after the dude the whole time.

- Ah.

- (gasps) - Oh.

- Plot twist.

- Oh my God. He was the rabbit?

- He was the rabbit.

- Yes, queen! Touch it, go ahead.

- Yeah, dude. - I don't mind one bit.

- That's what you get, Chi-chan.

That's what you get.

- Slow clap. That was so good.

- That was crazy though, man. I've never seen an arc

like that in the candy world. - I'ma say ad campaign of the year.

I loved it.

- (FBE) So, those were all commercials for

Sakeru gummy candy. - Uh huh.

- I wanna try it. It made me wanna try it.

- (FBE) The commercial was split into eleven different parts

and followed the story of Tooru-san,

who prefers the smaller bite sized candy

and his girlfriend Chi-chan, who struggles to suppress

her desire for the long candy. - Yeah, she does.

- I mean, as we all do.

- (FBE) So, what do you think about the story

that these commercials presented? - I loved this for so many reasons,

because nobody likes sitting through commercials.

Nobody. So, the fact that they're

so creative and made a storyline out of it is genius.

- It's smart to have those all come together at the end

into this whole plot twist.

- It was great. I thought it was super compelling.

I was invested from the get-go. - Absolutely.

- I really felt bad for short guy.

- People are probably like, "Oh, I wanna see

the next commercial. I wanna see the next commercial!

What's gonna happen? What's gonna happen?"

They think they figured it out at the very end,

and he was interested in the dude.

- It was the soap opera. It was the classic misdirection.

- (FBE) This has become incredibly popular

on the internet with a lot of people saying that this

is a really great love story full of lots of comedy

and the love story we never knew we needed.

- It's true. I respect that.

- I am all about progressive, inclusive advertising

and I think especially for Japan, where they are

sometimes a little bit more reserved.

I think it's daring and cool.

- (FBE) From what you've seen from other commercials here

or abroad, how does this series of commercials

compare for you? - I would say it's

on a different level. It's in a league of its own.

- This is one of the more interesting commercials I've seen.

- It's a really interesting format for commercials

to have commercial episodes.

- It's much better, because it's not as crazy

to the point where you're like, "I don't know what

I just watched. I don't even know

what it was about." Then they just threw an apple

at the screen and said it was an apple commercial.

This was-- this had substance to it.

- I can think of commercials here where we have

the Verizon guy, you know, or the Old Spice guy

or whatever, but I can't think of a commercial series like this.

- This commercial actually had an arc with endearing characters

that you wanted to see what happened next.

Most commercials here in the United States

with recurring characters, you learn to hate.

- The adherence to a multi part story and recurring characters

actually adds a lot to this, right? We live in a day and age

where you can binge watch anything for the most part

and so, there's no reason why commercials shouldn't

have an ongoing thread.

- (FBE) So, we do actually have something for you.

- Oh, no way. - No.

- No way! - You guys are the best.

- Long Long Man. - This is the best day of my life.

- Oh my God. No way.

I'm so excited right now.

- I'm so excited about this! - Yes!

This is the best. Yes!

- (both) Long Long Man.

- (FBE) So, we gotta ask, if you could only try one,

which one would you want? - I think I'd want

to try the long one.

- You can't just go for the big one, you know.

You haven't even bought me dinner yet,

so I need to go for the small one first.

- I don't want the commitment of the long one.

I wanna just try and nibble the short one.

- There's only so much candy sugary stuff I can eat at once,

so I'm going with the short one. - My favorite character

in the series is Long Long Man himself.

I gotta go long.

- (FBE) Since we do have the long ones available for you,

we do have to ask, can you give us your best

impression of the Long Long Man? - Yes, yes.

- Oh my gosh, of course.

- (narrator) Long Long Man!

♪ (saxophone) ♪

- This isn't very good. - I like it.

- That's 'cause you're easy.

- (both) Thanks for watching this episode of YouTubers React.

- All of our links to our YouTube channels

are down in the description below, so go click them.

- Bye, everyone.

- Hey, what's up guys, Ethan here from FBE.

Thank you so much for watching this episode

of YouTubers React. Big thanks to all

the creators who came in and shot this episode with us

and shoutout to some of our fans, Mia Almonte, Matias Escobar,

and whitedragon7. Bye, guys.