Kikkoman
Kitchen Adventures
To get their sauces in every cuisine in Europe, Kikkoman enlisted the awesome people at taste.de to create a new character - ‘Sensei Kikk’: Saucier ninja and conjurer of powerful soy-brewed magic. Together, we created a series of commercials showcasing his transformative powers over a range of European dishes.
Not only that! But we also created material for Kikkoman’s online portal where you can: watch the films! get recipes! grab gifs of Sensei crying or in Love!
KIKKOMAN were a generous and adventurous client to work with and the team at Taste were endlessly enthusiastic and collaborative (and anime heads, which helps)
Watch all five episodes: GERMAN, INDIAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, and TURKISH below.
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Client: Kikkoman Trading Europe GMBH
Marketing / Finance & Business Management: Tomoki Kawai
Sales & Marketing Manager: Ana Mijic
Senior Manager Sales & Marketing: Malgorzata Popielska
Agency: taste GMBHCreative Director: Ralf Richter
Account Management: Sonja Heymann
Conception/ Storyline: Kirsten Rollig
Art Direction: Anna Sowa
Art Direction digital: Katja Sinning
Director: Picnic StudioDirector: Liam O'Connor
Exec Producer: Mina Song
Storyboard: Louis Kynd
Character design: Thành Trần
Background art: Jonny Hutton
Lead 2D Animation: Tomas Kiyoshi, Yoon Jong Ha
2D Animation: Phương Pipou, Thành Trần
Additional 2D Animation and title design: Eric Diaz
2DFX: Seijin Thomas
Additional Colouring: Amix Film
Lead Compositor: Chris Sayer
Composer: Daniele Carmosino
Episodes
The soundtrack was composed by our frequent collaborator, Barcelona-based Daniele Carmosino who managed to locate the only Shimisen player in Spain to perform the main riff (on his custom built instrument no less).
