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Post by miwaneisan on Jul 27, 2013 10:48:44 GMT -5
I just found this news published by several sites in Feb: Fuji TV press bureau (2/8): www.fujitv.co.jp/fujitv/news/pub_2013/130208-054.htmlBIGLOBE news (2/7): news.biglobe.ne.jp/economy/0207/prt_130207_3984732949.htmlExcite news (2/7) : www.excite.co.jp/News/release/20130207/Prtimes_2013-02-07-6690-1.html?_p=1From 2/9, Fuji TV will start branding and promotion campaign of “Dapur Iron Chef (Kitchen of Iron Chef)” at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia that is a restaurant serving Japanese food. This is a part of Cool Japan Strategy standardization structure by Japanese Government and Indonesia is one of the most focusing areas. Fuji assumes major responsibility for image enhancement and branding structure of Japanese food by using “”Ryouri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef)”. As one of those promotion strategies, it is decided that the newest show of “アイアンシェフ(Iron Chef)” which Fuji TV is currently producing and broadcasting will be aired by one of the top TV stations in Indonesia “T rans TV” starting from the end of February. Furthermore, they made “RyoTetsu” Facebook page for Indonesian users (already more than 70,000 fans), information spread by Twitter, web broadcasting of the past Ryouri no Tetsujin, and also, develop the “Tetsujin collaboration dishes” by two Iron Chefs, Kenichi Chen and Hiroyuki Sakai and serve them at “Dapur Iron Chef (Kitchen of Iron Chef)”. Fuji TV will keep doing not only for sales promotion but also spreading wide range development.
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Post by okonomiyagi on Jul 27, 2013 13:21:35 GMT -5
Seems kind of strange, considering Indonesia has (had?) their own version of Iron Chef...granted, it pales in comparison to the other versions we've seen, but I don't think it's entirely their fault.
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Post by miwaneisan on Jul 29, 2013 9:53:21 GMT -5
Thank you, okonomiyagi, for the interesting video. Yeah, maybe it sounds a kind of strange. They had their own version of IC though. And also, the new show had only 13 regular episodes. Wondering why did they think of bringing it to the other country in spite of only 13 episodes? Why not in the US (the biggest market) first? Because of Government policy?
Fuji announced this info on 2/7. (the new ICJ show aired in Indonesia from the end of Feb.) 1/22: A tabloid published cancellation of the new show. 2/15: Wakiya vs. Hiromi Yamada (the exciting one for better or worse) 2/22: Suga vs. Irie 3/1: Suga vs. Yoroizuka (cancellation was officially announced) 3/22: Kurogi vs. Kinoshita. (the last battle)
I wonder when Fuji decided the cancellation?
By the way, IC Indonesia looks really interesting for me. Maybe it pales but the chairman's action, clothes and opening scene tends to be just like Kaga.
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