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Line 85: * ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' introduced the world to Hescafé brand instant coffee and Mational light bulbs. * In the ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' anime there's an audition for a movie by Raramount Pictures. * [[Bland-Name Product\|"WcDonalds"]], a stand-in for the rather obvious, is a fast-food chain non-specific to any particular anime (the chain has made appearances from [[Inuyasha]] to the American-produced ''[[Megas XLR]]''). Much like ~~the above~~this immediate example, anime "Brand X" brands are often created simply by switching or reversing a letter from their real-world counterparts ("Somy" and "Parasonic" have been known to pop up from time to time in various animes). WcDonalds' appears in the 2008 [[Rumiko Takahashi]] short anime ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf953nWYSlA It's A Rumic World]'', where it is depicted in its rarely seen fully spelled out form. The upside down golden arches also appear in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket]]'', but this time the W stands for "Wonderland Burgers".