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Live-Action Doraemon Ad with AKB48's Atsuko Maeda, Jean Reno Posted
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The live-action ads from Toyota Motor Corporation, the fourth ad depicts the characters of the classic children's manga in live-action, two decades after they grow up. Reno plays the title robot cat himself.
The new "Nobita's What-If World" ad begins with Doraemon's owner Nobita giving up on getting a driver's license and saying that he would rather go online. (He wanted a license to MOSHIMO Box ("What-If Box," a well-known device of his from the original manga). With the box, Doraemon shows Nobita the "what-if world" where he did earn the license.
A compact hybrid car appears before Nobia in the "what-if world," but so does a mysterious woman. Nobita does not realize until the very end who the woman is — Jaiko (played by Maeda), his former childhood friend who might have been his wife, had Doraemon not intervened.
The other cast in the ads include actor Dark Water) as Nobita's female friend Shizuka.
Here are the three previous ads:
[Via 0takomu]
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