Domo @ Target - In Killed Fashion - It's Over
Domokun died at Target. Hit by a bus and left for dead. Imagine, licensee. I got the Domokun license... Chaching! We're going to blow it out as fast as possible because our license will expire. It's as if we're going to make the Roger Corman Fantastic Four film! So Domokun, the NHK character is now at Target, and exploited just for the Halloween section. Take a look at what came out of this.
This is looking terrible. It doesn't even look like Domo. I wonder if this candy tastes like Cola. If it does, then just maybe it'll get a pass on candy alone. Look at the mouth. It's as if Domokun is foaming. It's eyes look like toasted sesame seeds.
Candy Corn? Domo eats candy corn? Tattoo that one on your chest. It's not a good thing at all.
Domo pinata. Bad. Bad. Bad. What happened to 3d? This is two pieces of cardboard, and crappy tissue paper sides. My fart would rip open.
Domokun on a broom? It's way over.
Have your own Domo mouth. This is a poor excuse for a product. It looks like someone sat on it. 
Domokun candy. More candy that looks like Domokun stood outside during a nuclear melt down. A mummy and Frankenstein done Domokun. Who designed this stuff?
A misshapen Domokun hangs from the ceiling with an eyepatch, just so you'd think he's a pirate. 
This was the only item I thought was cute. Bracelets of candy with Domokun. Someone out there will buy this and that someone will think that Domokun is pretty lame. They'll think that Target invented this character. It's also interesting how it's just Domo. Maybe it's because it's almost like the brands, people, and label: Lomo (camera), Homo (the great label), Tomo (a hotel in SF - yea I worked on that), Nomo (Baseball pitcher), and Romo (the QB of the Cowboys).
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posted by gr @ PERMLINK: 9:53 AM
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this is kinda like watching your favorite band sell out. If they were brown, and had sharp ass teeth.
ugh.
-JX!
I am definitely going to vomit... and I didn't even eat any of that sickly sweet candy corn.
The Target Domo seems like a mix of the canonical Domo personality and the personality most of the Internet assumes that Domo has. I bought a folder at Target (the Domo News one) that actually says 'Raaar' on it. Domo gobbling up candy corn fits in perfectly with this.
The Halloween-dressed Domos are awesome. And the eyepatch Domo hanging from the ceiling isn't misshapen if he's hung right.
Most of the merchandise, though -- with the notable exception of the two-inch figurines that are sold out almost everywhere -- is awful.
i thought the Domo pumpkin plush was decent looking. the others are just weird....
Wow. So Target tainted cheesy Japanese advertising with cheesy American advertising? Isn't Domokun a TV station mascott? That's kind of like getting pissed becaue someone totally sold out the NBC peacock.
I was waiting for a comment like this!
Heh, you are paining me here. I *am a licensor of Domo-kun. We are pretty much the company that started bring all the fun stuff over. See our Domo-kun products here.
how can you guys be upset that domo "sold out"? He started out as commercial as possible, literally. and its for halloween. What kind of sad cave of condescension do you guys live in where fun, cute halloween goodies are that upsetting?
The only things I really want from Target right now are the Domo-themed cardboard cut-outs! At least those are actually cute, as opposed the the rest of the stuff they're selling.
is it even possible for anyone who was "into Domokun" years before the US license kicked in to be anything BUT pissed when he ends up at Target? And at Hot Topic? And on Nickelodeon?
What?! No! My giant Domo-Kun plushie/makeshift headboard is not amused! Doing It Wrong, Target! Totally Doing It Wrong!
Why is everyone here so butthurt over a damned cartoon character?
Is the world so obsessed with cutesy Japanimation characters that they must cry blasphemy at the acquisition of rights to use by American outlets?
Does knowing about Domo Kun before the character's debut into the American mainstream (Target, Hot Topic, etc...) give you some sort right to be angry? Maybe because you're SO FUCKING COOL UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE? lol @ unwarranted self importance.
Domo Kun started as a COMMERCIAL MASCOT. It's usage by other companies that are not NHK only conforms with the common practice of the exchange of intellectual properties. Welcome to the corporate world we live in. If you don't like it, well, you're in for a pretty bumpy ride in life.
Seriously, everyone here who is bitching should be beaten to death. With a waffle.
Considering myself a partial outsider, this is hilarious! I went to Target today and saw Domo plastered all over everything. After I saw this, I googled "Domo" and landed here. I first noticed Domo on the icanhascheezburger site and its affiliates. To me, they are the ones who took Domo mainstream.
Sorry bro, but your rants make you sound like you're still in middle school. Please come up with something a little more fulfilling and creative and make a decent point of this slapped together garbage you call making a statement. Besides, didn't you know exploitation is the only way to make quick cash? That's all anyone wants. Stop crying on the internet, its kinda...lame lol.
Only legit complaint I didn't see is the fact you can't buy the giant Domokun hanging from the ceiling. But instead you cry about stupid candy not looking exact? What are you some professional candy maker? Obviously you'd be busy doing that instead of crying about how Target is destroying some stupid cartoon's image that no one knows about anyways except anime enthusiast.
P.S. Get a life.
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