Pocari Sweat can

Pocari Sweat (ポカリスエット) is a popular Japanese soft drink and sports drink, manufactured by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. It was first sold in 1980. Download high resolution version (758x1528, 165 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (758x1528, 165 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ... A sports drink is a beverage designed to help athletes rehydrate, as well as replenish electrolytes, sugar, and other nutrients, which can be depleted after strenuous training or competition. ... Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Pocari Sweat is a mild-tasting, relatively light sweet drink. The "Arctic Shatter" variety of Powerade-brand sports drink very closely resembles it, in both color and flavor. Ingredients listed are water, Stevia, flavourings, acids, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium lactate and magnesium carbonate. It is sold in liquid form, in aluminium cans and plastic bottles, and also in powder form. POWERade logo Powerade (or POWERADE, as stylized on logos) is a sports drink by The Coca-Cola Company and currently number two in the sports drink market worldwide. ... A sports drink is a beverage designed to help athletes rehydrate, as well as replenish electrolytes, sugar, and other nutrients, which can be depleted after strenuous training or competition. ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ... Species About 150 species, including: Stevia eupatoria Stevia ovata Stevia plummerae Stevia rebaudiana Stevia salicifolia Stevia serrata Stevia (also called sweetleaf, sweet leaf or sugarleaf) is a genus of about 150 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical South America and Central... The aluminum can (North American English spelling) or aluminium can (other English spelling) is a popular beverage container introduced by the Coors Brewing Company. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Powder is a substance that has been crushed into very fine grains. ...

The drink is also produced and distributed in other regional countries, such as Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates. In addition the drink can be obtained in the ethnic Asian areas of many cities around the world.

Curious name

Bottle Package

The reference to the bodily fluid resulting from perspiration in the name of the beverage tends to have a certain offputting or humorous connotation for native English speakers (to the extent that it has been parodied by humorists such as Dave Barry). However, the name was chosen by the manufacturers originally for the purpose of marketing the product as a sports drink in Japan, where people generally do not mentally translate names appearing in English and are therefore not bothered by the connotation. It was largely derived from the notion of what it is intended to supply to the drinker: all of the nutrients and electrolytes lost when sweating. (The first part of the name, Pocari, means "like a cloud floating in the sky" or "a situation in which a cloud is floating in the sky" in Japanese, and has a connotation of lightness, buoyancy, and ease. "Sweat" was apparently intended to suggest diligence and its fruits - the idea intending to connote to the user that Pocari Sweat works to make one feel fresh and relaxed. However, some Japanese apparently drop "Sweat" from the name in common usage. [1]) Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (903x1962, 266 KB) A bottle of 500 ml Japnese imported Pocari Sweat from Nijiya Market. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (903x1962, 266 KB) A bottle of 500 ml Japnese imported Pocari Sweat from Nijiya Market. ... Sweating (also called perspiration or sometimes transpiration) is the loss of a watery fluid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and urea in solution, that is secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. ... The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking. ... Look up humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... A humorist is an author who specializes in short, humorous articles or essays. ... For the English musician, see Dave Berry (musician). ... An electrolyte is a substance which dissociates free ions when dissolved (or molten), to produce an electrically conductive medium. ...

Trivia

The arcade game Golden Axe featured a parody of Pocari Sweat. In the ending sequence when the characters run through the town, a variety of parody shops can be seen in the background, most notably a large "Hokari Sweat" sign (It should be noted, though, that the japanese katakana for Po (ポ) looks identical for the character Ho (ホ) except for the ring above the character). Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... Golden Axe is a side-scrolling arcade hack n slash game released in 1989 by Sega. ...

The manga Slam Dunk (by Takehiko Inoue) also features its characters drinking Pocari Sweat throughout the manga. Another manga, Crimson Hero (By Mitsuba Takanashi), features Nobara buying Pocari Sweat and sharing it with Tomoyo's ex-boyfriend, Haibuki. Manga )   (pl. ... Slam Dunk ) is a 31-volume Japanese manga and anime series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shohoku (Shōhoku) High School. ... Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦 Inoue Takehiko, January 12, 1967 - ) is one of the most famous Japanese manga artists. ... Crimson Hero (originally published as Beni-iro Hero in Japan) is a shōjo manga written by Mitsuba Takanashi, the author of Tenshi no Pocket and The Devil Does Exist (originally published as Akuma de Sōrō in Japan). ...

The vice-captain in the manga Battle Club (By Yuji Shiozaki) is obsessed with Pocari and always has Tomako get it for her.

In the cyberpunk novel Idoru (by William Gibson) the character Gomi Boy drinks Pocari Sweat. When the character Chia sees him drinking it, she wonders to herself what a Pocari is. William Gibsons Bridge trilogy is his second trilogy, after the successful Sprawl trilogy. ... There are a number of people who have been (or are) named William Gibson. ...

Squarepusher used it as a pun during the Fujirock Festival at Niigata in 2001.

In the 7th volume of the manga Wild Act by Rie Takada, the main character Yuniko has a drink called "Poccari Sweet". There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Rie Takada ) was born August 10th in Hokkaidō, her western zodiac is the Leo and her blood type is O. She made her debut with SP Girl in the 1990s Shojo Comic issue 17. ...

See also

• Calpis
• Oronamin C Drink
• Engrish
• foreign branding
• Cloud Nine (a term which has some similar connotations in English to pocari in Japanese, except that the idea in English is more of joy than of relief or calmness)

A bottle of Calpis Water Calpis ) is a Japanese uncarbonated soft drink, manufactured by Calpis Co. ... Oronamin C Bottle Oronamin C Drink ), produced by Otsuka Chemical Holdings Co. ... This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or examples of poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... Foreign branding is an advertising and marketing term describing the implied cachet or superiority of domestic products with a foreign or foreign-sounding name. ... Cloud Nine or Cloud 9 could refer to one of the following: The phrase on cloud nine or cloud number nine meaning happy, euphoric or high. Cloud Nine (song), a Grammy-winning 1968 song by The Temptations. ...

External links

• Otsuka's Pocari Sweat Site
• Pocari Sweat Site - The Waterlanders
• Pocari Sweat (Hong Kong)