A recent event in Nagoya was held for itasha – cars carefully decorated to appeal to otaku sensibilities, while at the same time becoming repellent to commoners and thus earning the name of itasha, “pain cars”.
Some excellent examples of the art from the event, Ita-D Dorecon Matsuri, are shown below.
Before the inevitable question arises again, you may want to look at the Explanation of the “Ita” Prefix that I’ve prepared.
A Haruhi ita-truck!
A Hatsune Miku ita-bicycle.
A Lucky Star ita-motocycle.
I’m not certain what this is, but it looks very cute.
If itasha strike your fancy, there is also the Macross F ero-van, the Kagami Hiiragi ita-Porsche, the $500,000 eroge itasha, and the Chaos;Head ita-bus, among many other fine examples of this artform that we have covered.
See the rest of the coverage at Nagoya Otaku Report.
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First bikes... than motorcycles... than cars... now trucks... I cant wait until theres a monster truck XD
Transformers! (a.k.a. monster trucks)
Damn, now I want to see Ita-Gundam XD
meh it would have been nice if they use Strike Witches character on that E34 (1989-1995 5 series) BMW.
You might be interested in this older post of ours:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/08/27/pantsu-mobile/
I'm thinking about applying Barkhorn on my all-black BMW E30 3 series.
I didnt know pontiac exist in japan
also that nanoha civic is different as its EK9 than the regular EG6 civic
It is imported.
I have seen a couple of Aussie cars over there I know that ain't sold outside of Australia and New Zealand.
WOW those car's look awesome those people who painted those should be proud
Fires and skull-painted cars are out.Ita-cars are in.
Transformers! (a.k.a. monster trucks)
Damn, now I want to see Ita-Gundam XD
Forgot to mention excellent post! Can't wait to reading your next one!
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) Y U NO HAVE MOKA
The Subaru Impreza looks nicely done, especially with that nice wide body kit. Also liked the Lucky Star ita-bike and the BMW Z4. =D
those are some pretty itashas =3
once i have my own car...imma gonna itasha'd it lolz
I can't believe that the women in Japan are so terrible that men would rather spend a fortune (enough money to raise a family) on virtual girls than real ones. This is what societies get when they embrace modern lines of thought.
Time to get me an ita-sha myself actually.
the firebird was sold in japan officially..
I like all these itasha, but I especially love the Ranka Lee Lan-Evo hatchback.
Wow. Lots of nice cars with nice designs. I wouldn't drive it around on the streets but these kind of events look like fun. Kinda like a convention, only your car is the one that's cosplaying.
I would drive it around - hell ya!
I wouold like to own the Yoko Itasha (pic.16) & the Kagamine Itasha (pic.22)
The Ranka Lee one is pure win.
next step - me want a building in a city center
i want to see an ita-plane
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/03/01/pokemon-nightmare-jet/
I prefer:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/01/17/f-4-ita-phantom/
yeah, i saw this a while ago. fantastic.
Last image is a Hatsune roketto paipu.
go paint your toyota like that aoshi
Colored like a leek :)
I just now had the idea of making an ita-remote controlled car.
Seems GSC makes ita-sheets for model cars that would probably fit RC cars.
Quen, why no coverage of the Ita-car event at Akihabara earlier this year?
Tiger - I don't recall why we didn't cover that, but I think it happened during one of my mini breaks and perhaps the others didn't find a decent enough collection of photos.
I want to remote control that Hatsune Roketto Paipu!
Indeed, Hatsune Roketto Paipu 4tw!
A Lucky Star ita-motocycle. It's Cool and Miku Nendoroid .. XDDDD
Fuck, the amount of things I would sacrifice for that STI is staggering.
i think ill make an ita car some day. doubt id drive it too much
Do want the Vocaloid Z4 D:
The only itasha-like stuff I have is this:
http://touhou.us/nubira3.jpg
http://touhou.us/nubira7.jpg
http://touhou.us/nubira8.jpg
BTW: That Nanoha Civic seems to be everywhere... You can find so many pics of it on the net.
Wow, I wish I was rich enough to turn an expensive car into a mobile billboard...
I was hungry, and I was feeling foul after hearing about some man being screwed over again in the pro-woman anti-man system. So I pulled out a box of instant copy-pasta. I would like to share it with you!
Some say that \u201cmost women are not feminists\u201d this is untrue.
The majority of women are feminists today.
Most women are:
Pro-marital rape laws.
Pro-domestic violence laws.
Pro-being able to divorce their husbands.
Pro-abortion.
Pro-alimony.
Pro-child support.
Pro-sexual harrasment laws.
and ofcourse
Pro-women’s vote.
All these laws are anti-men, pro-women’s rights, and very much pro-feminist.
In addition most women are anti-gun. Men without weapons cannot fight police who enforce pro-women’s rights anti-men laws.
This is not only western women today either, when polls are done of third world women in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia women have the same opinion and stand in unison with their sisters against men’s rights and in favor of women’s rights.
Sure, you might find a few girls and women even here that are opposed to all of the above. They are a genetic abnormality, a very good abnormality mind you, but they are very few and far between. The rest of woman kind is rebellious and hateful towards men, the only thing they lack in many areas of the world is physical power to use against men. Women in our own area of the world have gained physical power through the police and the banning of military weapons from civilian life. Women in the west DO use their power against men.
Most women are feminists. Most women have see men as obstacles, adversaries, and nessasary evils. All around the world.
It would do us well to sequence the genome of those women and girls who do not hate men I think…
BrusselsLout said…
When the majority of women are not feminists, when feminism is out to castrate men and destroy masculinity, but feminism is still in our faces wall-to-wall, in every nook and cranny of the media, of government and the law, shomething shore is wrung.
you sir are a cockhead. if you truly believe that women shouldn't be able to take control of their own lives then you should just duck back to the darkages. more over, any women who are opposed to womens freedom only carry that opinion because they are living a life of fear already either through social climates or religion and simply aren't aware that there is another side to life.
you clearly don't understand what you are trying to argue. feminism is not a movement or a frame of thought, but rather the breaking of centuries old stereotyping that women have a set role in life and shouldn't expect anything more for themselves. it's about equality, that a woman should receive the same pay packet as a man for working the same hours of work a week, or if she wants to be a builder or a mechanic, then nobody can stop her. it's about men not sitting on their fat lazy arses and becoming involved in their childrens lives and ultimately, women being given the same choices in their lives as men have enjoyed for centuries.
also of note, this tripe you have garbled forth has nothing to do with this page, ita cars, anime/manga or the asian media, which leads me to believe that you need to go back to school to develop your history, social studies and cognitive thought as a whole...
I have finished eating the copy-pasta. It has digested abit and has given me energy. What I have learned from such is that women's rights is bad for men and good for women.
I think to myself, of what group or "class" am I existance in? And know I am in not the woman group. Thus I should be infavor of whatever is good for men and in disfavor of what is bad for men. I thus agree! Opress women. OPRESS THEM.
Opress girls worse.
Just never stop.
The question is germany.
I for one enjoy being abused by women.
anon is a sad, little man... he needs his dommy
It kinda sounds like that MikeeUsa fag.
Does anyone understand why this is here?
No idea, but I'm really starting to get a kick out of his religious crusade.
Must be on crack while spamming a lot of this troll stuff.
Guess he/she copy-pasta at the wrong board.
I guess he's too hungry to think straight... doesn't have anything to do with the topic.
By the way, the only ita-car I have is a Pikachu Tamiya Mini 4WD...
What Doriinatriix said.
Moe idols on cars= Oppression of women?
the cars in fast and furius are normal and nerdy shit compared to this XD