translate this for me please?

[RiverSide]

I have just had a vehicle arrive and it is covered in japanese stickers......I am hoping someone will be able to tell me what each of them mean.

I apologise for the pics.

PS. The single black character pictured is actually written twice next to eachother but it is too large to get into one frame on my digi cam

Thanks in advance

[InspectorGadget]

According to my Japanese English teacher, she says that that large kanji is 'san' meaning 'Join'. As in 'join' a club.

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[Rezz]

Just hang on RiverSide, I had all this translated last night ready to post up, but then the forums went down... at work now so I'll do it when I get home.

[RiverSide]

Your a champ Rezz.........I will sitting here waiting patiently for your response

[InspectorGadget]

Your a champ Rezz.........I will sitting here waiting patiently for your response

Are you sitting in seiza?

:wassup:

IG

[akeenan]

I asked my girlfriend apparently it doesnt mean a great deal.....

[Rezz]

First pic:

1) Roppatsu Gundam - literally means "6 explosion team" <--- silly team name.

2) Omega - Oil brand

3) Hashitte iitomo - means: "it's ok to drive" <--- silly TV show title reference

4) dori you - means: "for drift"

5) sake ran or shuran (2 ways to read it) - means: alcohol induced confusion (???) or 'drunk' (?) not sure, looks like a made-up word.

6) ihou kyousou gata - means: illegal competition type... or 'mad driver' something along those lines. The guys who make these stickers use chinese characters together to form their own cool vocabulary.

Second pic:

The second pic uses some of the same Kanji (chinese characters) as the 1st pic, but with more very old largely unused Kanji... probably not worth worrying about other than they are club names, local area ones at that.

In fact, ALL those stickers are just stupid jibberish that uncool 'Yanki' put on their cars to show how anti-establishment they are, or how hooked up they are in their car club... or whatever. I dare say that if a Japanese saw you driving around AU with those stickers they'd laugh at you, then probably ask why in the hell did you think that those stickers were worth leaving on the car.

In a nutshell: take 'em off!

[yukz2daizzo]

i think the iitomo sticker is separate. hehehe. oh well right? where did you get the stickers btw?

[Rezz]

i think the iitomo sticker is separate.

No it's not... have you seen the show?

[yukz2daizzo]

yeah its at noon right. i use to watch that show during lunchtime but then they started playing stand up comedy at comedy central so i started to watch that. heheheheh

[Jshop]

The Roppatsu Gundan can also be - The Six Shot Army - Could have been their club name.

They sometimes use patsu to mean bullet.

[RiverSide]

i think the iitomo sticker is separate. hehehe. oh well right? where did you get the stickers btw?

They are attached to a vehicle that i have just had come in.......As you can see there are several of them, so i at least wanted to know what they mean.

Can anyone try an figure out the jiberish stuff in the second pic for me out of interest?

You seem to have missed out one phrase in the first pic Rezz........any idea what "oretachi dorift gundan" means?

[japtaxi]

just agree with rezz and take these stickers off ... then again what else are we gonna laugh at

since I can only read kanji.. here's my dodgy attempt with direct kanji->english translation on 2nd pic..

1) straight 6 cylinder lover(love you?) club(?) or association(?)

2) same as 1st pic's 6)

3) 6 open(?) or shoot(?) army country

4) some place name I think?

5) just a word by it self.. makes no sense to me

Pls correct if I made any bad translation along the way..

[RiverSide]

As i mentioned in my first post......the last one in the secnd pic is actually written twice on the front window......but it was to large to get into one shot on the digi cam.

Thanks for all your help people.

[Rezz]

You seem to have missed out one phrase in the first pic Rezz........any idea what "oretachi dorift gundan" means?

Means: "we are drift army".

[japtaxi]

oh so "gundam" means army hey.. I can only link it to the robot fighting cartoons I used to watch when I was youngie

[Rezz]

oh so "gundam" means army hey.. I can only link it to the robot fighting cartoons I used to watch when I was youngie

Yeah 'Army' or 'Army corps'...

[RiverSide]

Thanks for all your help with this guys.