I received an email with this super pink & terribly cute Honda Airwave Itasha [痛車(い たしゃ)] attached. Kinda proud that there’s a significant increase in such interest in our small market now.
I was happily Ψ(`∇´)Ψ scrolling down the email and was pleasantly enthralled by each pic until. . . I reached the last one . . .
Even the engine’s pink!
Looks like a merchandise shop to me!
And the display can be changed! If i ever get kidnapped I’d wanna be locked up in this boot!
Yup this one showcasing the PSPs . . . (゚Д゚;≡;゚д゚)
The installed PSPs are STILL working its enigma on me and it felt as if I’ve been hit by a thunderstorm. Okok thats a bit too exaggerating but I was surprisingly put off by the bipolar mismatch of Niteno & PSP. It’s as if the clash of the titans just bulldozed me over. Wouldn’t a simple a DS or DS Lite do the trick? Having the PSPs installed there just threw off the entire balance of the whole universe! (・ω・ )モニュ?
Anyway I still don’t know why pink but this car’s definitely bright enough – certainly adds some flavour to the boring roads of Singapore
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Itasha(s) (痛車(い たしゃ))are cars that are plastered with huge anime or game characters stickies. Such effort would only be worth the passion of an Otaku as cars in Singapore are really Ka-ching Ka-chingly expensive also, people here usually want to avoid attracting too much attention (you know, just in case you happen to speed through a red light) !
Some other heavily plastered cars I’ve seen over the past few moons :
Vincent & Kingdom Hearts from an Autoshow last year
This one’s a real drifter!
You can find out more about Itasha at Danny’s blogs : Itasha Show and Itasha.
Kasumi
Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 at 13:46
Hehehe! I wouldn’t mind being kidnapped into a car like this too. :D
Zinc
Wednesday, 13 February, 2008 at 06:39
The truth is it looks too overdone, now it resembles more of a Nintendo mascot car. There’s a thin fine line separating a mascot car and a fan car and the biggest mistake I agree is meshing PSP in there, water and oil just don’t mix… Nice bodykit though but the pink… Let’s not get started on the pink…
Choo
Thursday, 14 February, 2008 at 06:25
Hohohoho! those are sweet cars! =S i like the hood of that red nissan. XD
Rokku
Sunday, 17 February, 2008 at 02:12
Wooo…
A pink mario car.
The last two look nice also
koy
Friday, 3 September, 2010 at 16:13
The Moehaku 2010 has lots of itasha
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/moehaku-2010-full-of-itasha-itansha-and-itachari/
cloudssh
Friday, 18 November, 2016 at 21:13
very nice car,i hope i have one,lol