Photo gallery: Itasha otaku car festival

What happens when anime geeks and petrolheads combine?

Photo gallery: Itasha otaku car festival

Nekoten Shokai, apparently...

Try not to avert your eyes as you scroll through this gallery of cars from the recent itasha gathering in Odaiba - things are about to get bright. 'Itasha' is a portmanteau of the words 'itai' (ouch) and 'sha' (vehicle) - a 'pain mobile', as Wikipedia neatly sums it up - that hints at the level of embarrassment you'd have to endure to drive one. Though not entirely the domain of the anime-loving otaku (geek) community, this little outing certainly proved that they've made the genre their own.

Photo gallery: Itasha otaku car festival
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Photo by Takeshi Tojo
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