The Most Mysterious Commercial
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The Search For Hitogata: Japan's Most Mysterious PSA
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Perhaps the Hitogatas are the friends we made along the way
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Is it possible that Hitogata is neither a PSA or an advert but an art piece? I remember, during a commercial break in the 70's, there was an art piece shown during an advertising break of a tap that was turned on and filling a tank of water but made to look like it was actually filling the screen. It kept going until the tank and tap were submerged. It turned out an artist had bought an advertising slot to show a piece of his work.
my favorite thing about lost media is when they never actually find what they’re looking for, but in the process they end up preserving many other pieces of obscure media.
It makes sense that the figures blink alternately left and right. The lights on a railroad crossing blink in exactly the same pattern.
This is one of those lost medias that I really hope is found. It sounds so creepy, but the creepier lost medias always end up being fairly normal when they are found, like Clockman or Cracks
The human memory is VERY imperfect. Especially a child's memory. I can recall at least two, or three times I've been talking to my mom about something that happened when I was a kid, and she has to correct my recollection. Even as an adult, I still have a vivid memory of listening to a specific song in a house that I moved out of before the song was released, making my vivid memory an impossible one. We can be so sure of something, yet be absolutely wrong. Humaning is tough.
I think what's really striking to me about hitogata is the sheer amount of other media that was airing at the time that had strikingly similar imagery to the original description of the video. It's some sort of really bizarre coincidence that a bunch of Japanese commercials from the time featured two white monochrome figures on a plain featureless background. It's no wonder so many people swore they really saw it.
if this was a commercial and not like, a PSA i can only imagine it was a life insurance commercial
Man the Hitogata Station lost media is so cool, I wish Japan was real
The most haunting PSA for me was the one that goes "every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes." chills
One of the greatest discoveries for me that came out of this video is the knowledge that "commercial yearbooks" are a thing, which is a really good idea.
I am absolutely convinced this is one of those cases like the Evil Farming game.
Hitogata proves that no matter who you are and where you came from, we will all strive to find what is lost in the world.
Hey, a Japanese/American from Tokyo here! As a Japanese person, JUNGLE is infamous in Japanese internet for more than a decade now. I doubt that the OP is mentioning about JUNGLE. However, when I heard about Hitogata, JUNGLE popped out of my mind immediately so it kinda makes sense…
musician nerd here. The video music and the rail sounds at
I always thought ''Hitogata'' was a Mandela Effect. There is no proof that AD/PSA have ever existed. I believe people just mixed stuff up. I have no doubts that ''Hitogata'' is just a compilation of vague memories that are all super similar. There's A LOT AD/PSA from Japan that are similiar to each other.
now that i've seen this video, i'm wondering if Hitogata is the Devil Child episode mixed with a completely different PSA that used the every 2 seconds line, like how you sometimes forget what order a sequence of memories happened. that, or a dream in which the two connected somehow - like how sometimes memories of dreams are so strong that they feel like they happened in real life. very interesting.
Hitogata is such a hauntingly beautiful mystery. It saddens me that even after all these years it remains between the realm of relative plausibility to bleeding false memories. However, seeing the Jungle ads definitely evoked the same feeling the 2004 recreation gave me when I first saw it, so that was a treat. Hopefully one day Hitogata can be laid to rest.
One thing to note is that we, the Japanese, usually call any ads shown on TV "commercials". It applies to non-profit PSAs too. So "commercial" videos do not have to advertise a product from a company, in a Japanese sense.