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Last week on AdFreak, we posted one of the freakiest, most shocking ads we’ve seen this year. Most bizarre, perhaps, is that it’s a toy commercial. The spot promotes little alien-looking toy figurines made by a company called Alimana-and features a whole lot of blood, guts, nudity and sex. Done in the style of a fake movie trailer, it tells the story of a Japanese woman living in Mexico who falls in love with one of the toys after finding it in the garbage one day.

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