This photo of a rather erotic itasha depicting a girl of tender years has surfaced. Driving it in public would probably incite arrest for disturbing public morals, even in Japan… Surely it is a Photoshop job?
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A lady who was splashed in the face with an apparently unknown liquid by an unknown bike mounted assailant was lightly injured, we hear.
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Itasha fans seem to concentrate on bishoujo games and majokko anime, so seeing this Touhou itasha on the streets of Akihabara is something of an unusual sight. Nicely done, too.
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I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether the owner of this spectacularly emblazoned vehicle is brave or crazed to be seen behind the wheel of the dear witch’s striped not-pantsu. Certainly one of the more extreme examples of itasha around.
Found on the director’s blog, Vanishing Point, from a while ago when dubbing on the final episode of Strike Witches finished – I’m afraid the content is a little crude (he babbles about treading in excrement), so let us ignore it, and focus on the itasha he spotted. No wonder it took so long for this to come to light.
Japan’s largest sports car racing event, the Super GT, is set to see a full on itasha participant with this automobile, graced by the likeness of none other than ultimate virtual idol Hatsune Miku; the racer has just been completed (the all important chassis at least) and the photos ensuing are an impressive sight.
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Cars decorated with anime artwork, itasha, may be old hat, but an air of novelty still surrounds the rare ita-bus, perhaps due to the sheer amount of photoshopped buses floating around (see below for some interesting examples, especially the Shinku Liner), outnumbering the confirmed instances by far.
However, here we have a very definitely confirmed example, and it happens to be advertising a bishoujo game and mixed media franchise, 絶対衝激～プラトニックハート～ / Zettai Shougeki – Platonic Heart. Whether we can call it an actual eroge remains to be seen, although it is certainly not lacking in pretty ladies in CG form.
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A young lady (19), just learning to drive, drove through Matsue City at breakneck speeds, soon crashing her ride into a streetlight at high speed in truly spectacular fashion, tearing the SUV in half and killing the three back seat passengers who unwisely let her take them for a spin, we hear. She was only lightly injured, as was the fortunate young man sat beside her.
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A man (32) was so enraged at allegedly being pointed at and laughed at by a group of young boys that he decided to plough his car into them as revenge.
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The filming of an adult video, on top of a truck in broad daylight, in the middle of Tokyo, led to arrests on suspicion of public obscenity; police say AV production company “Hot Entertainment” staged a lewd performance on the back of a large dump truck driven through central Shibuya, and have conducted raids on the company’s four Tokyo offices in response.
Though apparently passersby could not see the performance occurring on the bed of the truck, those in overlooking buildings were treated to quite the spectacle, which prompted the vigourous police response.
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I couldn’t help but be astonished on seeing this enormous itasha convention (easily the largest in Japan, and also the world), the FSW Itasha Meeting, covered by Ascii.jp in detail in three parts here, here, and here. Veritable throngs were in attendance, and participation (including non-itasha observers) was around 300 vehicles, gathered from all over Japan, despite the bad weather.
All kinds of vehicles seem to be in evidence, from flatbed trucks to motorcycles, and the meet was held at a race track, the Fuji Speedway, so they naturally hit the track (great Shana paint job there), though not all look as if they belong there.
Itasha seem to be gaining prominence lately; there has been media coverage, of course they are omnipresent in Akiba, and now this. Not long before we see itasha paint jobs as options on the latest models? Still a bridge too far, I’d wager.
It seems all that hanging around in Akihabara looking for a breakdown in law and order has given the folks at Asahi TV an idea or two. Today on ナニコレ珍百景, loosely “What the hell is this, 100 views of the bizarre”, they aired a feature entitled “美少女の車軍団”, “Bishojo Car Corps”, covering the variety of itasha around - I couldn’t help but be reminded of Danny Choo’s article. This via Jabro, head on over there for more pictures.
