Nipponbashi Street Fest 2010 – Otaku Itasha Galore
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 23, 2010 04:26 JST
- Tags: Events, Image Gallery, Itasha, Nipponbashi, Osaka, Otaku
The recent Nipponbashi Street Fest 2010 provided many Kansai-area otaku a chance to celebrate their true colors in Osaka’s own version of Akihabara, an opportunity that can sometimes be quite rare for those living out of reach of Tokyo.
The metallic masses of itasha were one of the most visible signs of otaku presence, and a few dozen of the inspiring vehicles can be seen below…
The event only lasts for one day, and yesterday’s was the 6th annual holding of the festival.
The main theme of the event is merely the “pop culture” Nipponbashi is known for, just as its bigger brother Akihabara is, but in practice the event is mainly dominated by otaku of varying degrees – some of the individual event names read “Maid Parade” and “Cosplay Parade”.
Nipponbashi incidentally also happens to have its own mascot character, shown on the itasha in the second image above and in this picture below:
A clearer image of the oh-so-moe 音々ちゃん / Neon-chan:
The wonderful art is of course by gifted artist Noizi Ito, best known for illustrating the Haruhi and Shana light novels.
Neon-chan’s personal profile page at the Nipponbashi Project website can be seen here.
Now, back to the lovely itasha:
The one above is a Little Busters! itasha featuring Kudo on its side.
An itasha advertising Mosaic.wav, the former eroge music band known for their genki pop style as heard in the OPs for Kyouran Kazoku Nikki and other shows.
A cleverly disguised Kuroko itasha, looking like a normal car from the sides…
Another Neon-chan itasha.
This somewhat confusing itasha is actually quite fun to read – the top reads 炉利魂ワークス (Loli Soul Works) with “loli” written in kanji selected purely for their sound.
The rest is a show of support for works of loli ero art.
This itasha above is of an eroge, Koiiro Soramoyou (official website).
“Utawarerumono.”
Luckily for Akaneiro’s Minato, the sentiment means much more than precisely correct spelling!
It’s hard to tell without taking a good look, but this blue one is an Ef itasha.
This one is decorated with work from August, the eroge company behind Fortune Arterial.
Another cute K-ON! themed itasha.
And, another well-done Haruhi one.
The rest of the itasha photographed can be seen at the always interesting source, Senaka Blog.
Behold just one more photo from the event, also from Senaka, this time of a dog cosplaying Chopper:
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Quite a few of these are excellent examples that "lack of cash" and "otaku", are damn sure far from being Synonymous
I gotta admit that Subaru is pretty sick. I was never much of a car guy but this is pretty tight.
The last one made me laugh!!
This is how car becomes moe
I'd kill if I saw Mio driving that Mio-mobile around. :P
I'd want one!
Pretty. :l I'd trick out my ride like these, but where I live, envious people don't rage on the net like little bitches, they'd probably torch my shit. D:
Miku car!!! ♥¬♥!!!!
Pimp My Ride Japanese version.
For some reason I think an Alice Parade itasha would look nice.
nice, that´s a great idea, wrapping with manga stuff is cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMI4KQf5LF0
OMG HOW COULD THEY DESTROID A BMW Z3???!!
FUCKING LOSERS!!!!
Poor cars
I'd say that 1st-gen Impreza on #28 is minori itasha rather than ef itasha. ef/eden* at the very least.
смело-смело. мне вот работа с мангой понравилась
...why each mascot must be a loli ? :)
love the fucking silvia and rx7
I was, it'was amazing and cray, but extraordinary experience
I was at that festival, it was awesome.
Wow that dog is so cool.
it looks like the dog is cosplaying Chopper of One Piece
am i the only one that noticed the Jeep cheroke in pic 19?
oops...forgot to log in...ne way, ya im making one....itle be done by the end of the week.....ill post it on jewtube and name it first calgary itasha for ne 1 who wants to c it.
Needs more Miku and less k-on...
Or more Miku x K-ON!
No way. Miku is great but k-on is only ... they are just ugly (besides of Azusa, she is the only one that is actually moe).
And of coarse more Luka is not bad too :)
YES! An S13, S14, S15, FD, and 86!
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
...sorry I had to, it's my car up there...
I was so excited, I had to say it twice!
and to all those car lovers, its not really rice until you put 22 inch rims and a folgers exhaust, with a park bench wing, and a wide body kit with a bumper that makes it look like a snow plough
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
sorry I had to, it's my car up there...
But... I see no DeVille, no STS, no Continental, no Town Car, no Z28, no ZR-1, no Z08, no Trans Am, no Super Bee, no T/A, not a single SRT-8... T_T
Yes, indeed. It's great to see it no infested with shitty redneck cars!
NO, NO NO NO NO NO NO AND NO!
This needs American Motor City muscle! Japanese cars are for fucking faggots who like their engines that sound like blenders set to selfdestruct! American cars are for REAL MEN who like engines that roar like an angry lion!
only for people who drive in circles all day long for 5 fucking hours
The last one is not Konata smile, is Toro, the white cat from Sony's Dokodemo Isho.
You are indeed right, but I'll leave the post as it stands for now, since Konata's face and Toro are fairly similar in the end.
You should really change it, since it's really something completly different
Changed.
no! you have to do the right thing!
That was thoughtful hiding the plate numbers! Now, nobody will be able to recognize these in a lineup...
In some countries you can easily and legally find personal information about the owner of a car based on the license plate. The censoring was possibly meant to prevent that.
Um, that last one isn't Konata. It's clearly this thing: http://www.hlj.com/product/KYD01186
You are so lucky to have events like this in Japan.
Our nearest event was in Virginia last year and did not last all that long.
Cheers,
Patrick
I would put few decals like these on my car. But if I did, I would be shunned by my neighbors.
Was wondering why did Artefact wrote so many in-between quotes here and there, when I realized it was by Quen. lol.
Thx Quen ^^
Yes, that, along with the Author nametag at the top of every post, should be a dead giveaway. ^^
LOL at the S15 Silvia running on doughnut spares in the rear. (#27)
was that a panda trueno? :P (above 11)
Indeed it would be. Takumi would be displeased.
amen.
Any car enthusiast would be sadden to see such a good classic ruin.
How many people would Decal there cars with Anime Characters?
Some of these are a waste, especially on regular cars.
Just about the only "real" sports car I see there is the S2000. I always smile when I see a Porsche, lambo, vette, etc. done up.
See I would love to do this to my motorbike but.... due to my current location it would be stolen in 0.2 seconds and burned in 0.5 seconds....:/
This is what automotive enthusiasts call "rice."
This is not teh rice!!!
I want to see a Rolls Royce or Bentley itasha.
Rolls Rice?
The first one is Amazing!!!
When the Moe loving otaku moves on to initial D.
That Itasha Neon... is that a Hachiroku?
Yep, not for some old folks... nice event. There's a lot to like here.
#13 is awesome to ^^
and the last pic for Epic win!!!! yah!!!
cool
Now I want some flexible digital LED stickers to put on my car, so that it's animated and can easily be replaced with a new graphics.
Lol that would be the shyt. And also... Im amazed to see an ef- car. I so want that one! Or a clannad car... That would be smexy
I wonder how they do it... I want to do that too my car...!
Gotta say, don't really see the attraction of slapping anime images on cars.
If I had my car decorated with any stickers that represent anime... it wouldnt last a night in a parking-lot...
gangster nerds in your neighborhood eh?
This gives me a great idea for a new script...
Nerd Gangsters...
No Mercedes.
:(
I share your thought on that one :)
I think the new C-class leans itself nicely to get a paintjob like that.
I want an itasha someday.
well, they may be creepy otaku's but they've got some freaking kickass cars ^^
Oh man i wanna ride that dog!
im making one....itle be done by the end of the week.....ill post it on jewtube and name it first calgary itasha for ne 1 who wants to c it.
The first one looks pretty cool
#32 has messed up perspective, nice waste of money
See this article
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/07/30/haruhi-perspective/
To the bat...miomobile!
http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-iv/nipponbashi_street_festa_2010_itasha_neon.jpg
Way to fail in otaku-izing a vehicle. They should've made it into the Fujiwara tofu shop car instead.
actually the third kanji can be read as 'kon', so it's 'ro-ri-kon works' (lolicon works) a pun with the car model (k-works).
I like all the graphics but on 3/4 of these the car lets them down the best one's are: 4,24 and 28 others like 34 are really well designed but the car lets it down.
I was looking forward to the Shana one. Flames on a car are already a shoe in for potential sexiness. I'm disappointed in the one in the picture. Could be a better design on a better car :/
I lol'd at how they futilely tried to make these ricemobiles as badass as genuine Motor City muscle XDDD
American cars suck balls.
So very true.