Definitely tastes like an herbal energy drink or something.  I got five of the limited boxes and didn't have enough money to get a sixth... I really wish I had as I'd probably have completed the set, then... the five I got are all different so I'm only missing one type of cap.  Gotta go catch a train now, but I'll post some pictures (and the couple I took at the Voices concert, I promise!) later tonight.  For some reason I think these are a really cool idea for a collectible/advertising ploy.

How many HP did you get after drinking it?

Nice!

Too bad I just walked by the convenience store a few minutes ago but didn't drop in.  Will have to try one out tomorrow.  Or better yet this weekend before going clubbing... see how well they really work

By the way, the commercials they're running for it here are pretty cool, if predictable.  A man and woman both reach for the last Potion in the store, give each other a mean look, then square off FF7~ battle style, complete with magic effects and the like.

That sounds like an awesome commercial. They do almost everything better in Japan, don't they?

No, they do almost everything different, and a lot of it seems better at first, but after you've been exposed to it long enough you realize that's not necessarily the case.

Nice commercial though

Actually, you're probably right about that, Adam. I remember reading the editorials on Outpost Nine, where our friend was teaching kids to speak english in Japan, and how a lot of the stuff there seemed absolutely bizarre, like something from another world, but now that he's entrenched in the culture, it seems (relatively) normal. He even mentioned at one point (albeit begrudgingly) that being kancho'ed doesn't even come as much of a surprise anymore, which absolutely terrifies me.

Definitely a place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Yeah, but they probably think our culture is just as strange.

(I want to try that drink...)

Did they, in fact, stick with the name 'Vaan's Juice'? Or is it just 'FF12 Potion'?

I personally like to veiw it as: they do a lot of things without as much fear of lawsuits.

I.....uh, really fear if they indeed kept that name. Of course, this fear is purely for minds like mine, for which there is no hope of getting out of the gutter...

SonicPanda: NO, and that was never an actual name to begin with.  That's just how I referred the the things here.  Because my mind is apparently as in the gutter as Schala's. 

Anyway, check out the last pic at http://www.highlyderivative.net/~joe/Voices/ for the bottles I have so far.

Adam, if you read this and you're collecting any of the limited boxed bottles, I'm so willing to nerd out and trade extra cards with you if you want. 

Wow! Really nice!

According to the commercial, it restores 100 HP:

Windows Media:
http://web-cache.stream.ne.jp/web/selec … player=wmt
Real:
http://web-cache.stream.ne.jp/web/selec … layer=real

Insert Credit also has a great post on FF XII and the potion:
http://www.insertcredit.com/archives/001012.html

I especially love this part:

The Potion costs 200 yen. In the original Final Fantasy, a Potion was 60 Gil. This gives us our first-ever real-world exchange rate for classic Final Fantasy currency: .3 Gil to the yen. At the day's exchange rate, this makes $1 US equivalent to 35.3124 Gil. This means that the Silver Sword we saved up 4,000 Gil to buy in 1987 is worth only approximately $113.27. I would assume the silver is not real.

Mother f'ing awesome

I made it one year w/o being kancho'ed.  Not for lack of trying on my kids' part....

I remember scoping around trying to find the Punisher sports drink because it was so bizarre.

Now if I could get some Max Payne painkillers.....

I believe the gil-to-real-money exchange rate is ever-fluctuating, if we are to look at the world of gilbuying and gilselling in FFXI.

Nonetheless, a hilarious post.

Ramza