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When The Anime World And Car World Collide In Japan

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Itasha Gathering in Odaiba, Tokyo on the 4th of October 2009. For those who are not aware, an Itasha is a car decked out with anime decals!

It translate to "painful car", which can be viewed as painfully embarrassing for the owner or painful to their wallets. It is a relatively new scene here in Japan and was very interesting to see. There were some nice example of nicely done up cars which also has the performance to match, so you can laugh at them until they whoop your ass on the track. There were close to 800 cars with not enough time to get the details but we did what was possible to show the event as a whole. Just about any type of vehicle participated in the event from VIP, Imports, Classics, K-Cars, Full tuned Sports, Wagons, Family and ECO.

Some may feel that the vehicles have been defaced and some may take a more light-hearted view. One thing that is for certain is that there are alot of creative ways to accent your vehicle with vinyl and many of the designs took alot of time and effort to create.

Hope you guy enjoy the pictures and get some creative inspiration out of them.

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More pictures can be found on our blog!!

Mayuri Krab Grand Master

Mayuri Krab

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I like it... :banana:

I want a put a nice decal of either Nemu Kurotsuchi (from bleach) or Saber (from fate stay night) or Mokka Akashiya (from Rosairo +vampire) on my car one day :D

I've already put anime pillows on the back seats in my car...

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Mike33GTR Apprentice

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I like it... :)

I want a put a nice decal of either Nemu Kurotsuchi (from bleach) or Saber (from fate stay night) or Mokka Akashiya (from Rosairo +vampire) on my car one day :P

I've already put anime pillows on the back seats in my car...

Yeah do it! Nemu is smokin!

Streeter Collaborator

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How could anyone in their right mind fag up an R32 GT-R like that? (the typemoon one). Oh I see, a GT-R bandwagon-jumping anime freak owns it. ;)

I must admit being into cars for so long and seeing so many nice cars with a set of horrible rims and ghey cartoon characters on it has got the inner snobby real car tuner in me grinding my teeth. Do not like.

the name for them here used to be bakasha which was just stupid cars

then changed to itasha (shortened from atama itai, headache/brain damage) loosely translating to retarded cars. And the name seems to have stuck LOL

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pegasus Apprentice

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wow to the detail on the wheel's..thats a hell of alot better then bling up ur ride :3some: i would love to see detailed wheel's like that in oz.... well like they say anything we do here the japs have done first when it comes to the car scene they are always on top with new trends etc

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75coupe Grand Master

75coupe

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Thats cool stuff, this is what Ive been designing for the last couple of months, Im into anime and manga so, I just love the idea of putting my fav characters on my car and others... if other people laugh thats cool, its the driver that needs to love it...

anime forever... thanks for the photos...

l_uk3y Proficient

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Personally whilst I would never ever do this to my own car. I do find this interesting, seen pics of this type of thing before. We can't all modify in the same way, so it makes for a humorous easy going break to all the pure hearted performance cars you normally see which are more track then street.

And what is it about all the jap girls at those events that is slightly awesome :D

(OO)SKYLINE(OO) Grand Master

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The Japanese sure know how to stylise (different) cars.

Always amazes me.

If we did it here in AUS or anywhere else in the world, it'd just look riced up and shit.

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