When the Anime world and Car world collide in Japan

RHDJapan · Post by **RHDJapan** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:23 pm

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.

More pictures can be found on our blog!!

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:54 pm

My personal favourite is Z4 from those pictured in terms of the design and colours....not that bothered about the car! Interesting to hear that this is an emerging 'scene'......I thought anime and cars had been around for years (Sha-do? Was that the right name of that graphics designer who did the Need for Speed Celica a while back?)

Thanks for the link

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:51 pm

Thats insane.......but I actually quite like it !!! Think the whole manga/anime scene is great !!

Tell me though what is going on with this girls left knee ?!!!?

Wheres the blog though mate ?

Safety_James · Post by **Safety_James** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:56 pm

Facinating designs, not my cup of tea but the level of detail in some is inspiring and well thought out.

Post by **Ben** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:46 pm

Gareth, they're called tights !! ..

Have to say I actually quite like the look ...

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:16 pm

love it

i'd love to go to japan one day and take all this in

RHDJapan · Post by **RHDJapan** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:51 am

Thank you for the comments and we are glad to hear that some are enjoying our photo's. We have a couple more events lined up and we will be sharing once again!

Here is also a link to the Flickr Stream for those who want more!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhdjapan/s ... 423167699/