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Teenage girl fattened and grilled in bizarre Japanese Eel farming ad

on Sep 27, 2016 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

A Japanese ad promoting the eel farming industry of Shibushi city has invoked criticism and been pulled after the creative showed a purporting to fatten up and eat a teenage girl (she’s later revealed to be an eel).

In the two-minute ad, a girl is seen playing by a pool side with a hula hoop as she is kept in a swimming pool while the narrator explains he is fattening her up. He said: “I fed her delicious food until she was full, and allowed her to get plenty of sleep.”

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Source: The Drum