It created a pop culture phenomenon in Japan in 2007, much like Tae Bo did in the U.S. earlier, selling more than 200,000 copies in May of the same year alone.
[1] Billy Blanks visited Japan on June 21, 2007 to promote Bootcamp.
[3] Blanks appeared on many Japanese TV shows during his ten-day stay in Japan such as SMAP×SMAP where Shingo Katori, a member of popular Japanese boy band SMAP, impersonated Blanks.
[4] A tie-in video game based on the program, titled Billy's Bootcamp: Wii de Enjoy!
Diet (ビリーズブートキャンプ Wiiでエンジョイダイエット！), was released in 2011 exclusively in Japan for the Wii,[5] as the third and final installment of Rocket Company's Shape Boxing fitness game trilogy.