Watch Microsoft's insanely bizarre, anime-inspired Internet Explorer ad

Meet Inorie Aizawa, Microsoft's new mascot. According to her Facebook page — yes, a real thing — Miss Aizawa is the "anime personification of Internet Explorer." Her brief autobiography:

Now watch Inorie Aizawa starring in a new Microsoft ad. As you can tell, it's a bit of an outlier from other tech commercials. For one thing, it is animated. It is also insane.

The robots represent... malware? I guess that makes her magical medallion an anti-virus shield.

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Also, if the mechanized bad guys are shooting lasers at her, why doesn't she just stay in her cyberpunk Sailor Moon armor all the time? Why doesn't she just use her multi-touchscreen finisher blast from the very beginning and save herself from all that exhausting hand-to-hand combat?

Also, there is a cat at the end, lest there be any lingering confusion about who the ad's intended demographic is.

Nice Lumia! (via Facebook)

One thing is clear: IE was in dire need of an image makeover, and this, um, certainly counts. Will it convince geeky internet users to make the switch from Chrome?

I, for one, am de-activating all my Google accounts and burning all my Apple stuff immediately.