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Ktimene's Lover
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This is so damn cool.
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dormcat
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I've heard another theory that the term itasha came from the extra registration fee an owner has to pay due to the extensive painting on the car, which is considered as "heavy modification" by Japanese DMV. The pricey fee really "hurts," hence the name.
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bjstaab
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I heard a third explanation from a Japanese envoy of some sort. He said it was ita in the painful sence. But he said it was painful "kind of like picking at a scab". Painful, but somehow pleasurable at the same time. And that it refered to being open about your otaku-dom in the public at large. He also showed examples of ita-jitensha, or bicycles with anime characters painted on them.
This was at an NDK panel last month. So who knows? |
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W-General
Posts: 280 Location: Ithaca, NY, USA / Taichung, Taiwan |
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Oh man, it's like the Itasha phenomenon on Forza Motorsports 2, except this is in real life!
That is totally awesome. I swear that if I ever do get loaded enough, one of my cars will be an itasha. |
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Desslar
Posts: 70 Location: Washington, DC |
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How disappointing. I was expecting cars designed after anime favorites like the Mach 5.
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musashi1600
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You have no idea how badly I wish I had the graphic skills to turn my car into a haibane-mobile right now. >_>;;
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d.yaro
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The Konata helmet was just plain odd... But I like it. The "Mahou Shojo Ririka Nanoha A's" car... To each their one I guess. I like it but man, wouldn't want to be the guy who did the paint job.
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LuckySleven
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Heh...I wonder how many accidents were caused where people turned their attention off the road to the designs. My favorite has got to be the Konata helmet.
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Jariten
Company Representative
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It's possible. The explanation in the article is the one from the original article on Mantan. |
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musashi1600
Posts: 198 Location: Hawaii |
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The Nanoha car has been out there a while. On top of the paint job, the guy who owns it went as far as sticking a monitor in the front passenger seat. |
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Case
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I love the logos under the mirror: LM Lyrical Magical Bardiche (ala Bridgestone!) Racing||| |||Heart BeLka Klarwind Although you'd have to be a pretty big fan of Fate to be OK with the 19 inch monitor instead of an airbag in the event of an accident. |
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musashi1600
Posts: 198 Location: Hawaii |
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It's a Japanese 1992-1995 Honda Civic. Do those have airbags to begin with? |
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tenkado-shujin
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痛車 itasha, i.e. ita(i) car, is a pun on イタ車 itasha, i.e. Italian cars, which are often considered to be made in a design-conscious way, like the point about 痛車 is their design. In that case, 'ita(i)' of 'itasha' is a Japanese slang expression which developed from ordinary 'itai'. Black marketeers used the argot word 'itai' which meant 'disagreeable', 'undesirable' and so on, and also entertainers in Kansai used the jargon word 'itai' in order to refer to a stupid person. The archaic word 'katawaraitashi' means 'shameful to see' or 'feel mean'. (It is interesting to see the archaism reemerge as the modern slang expression.) Possibly those words influenced the slang expression 'itai'. And 'itasha' may be also related to 'otasha', which means 'otaku's car' and is phonetically and semantically similar to 'itasha'. There are some usages of this slang expression 'itai', but, for example, one of them is like this: When a person self-complacently did a thing, considering it to be allowable, approvable, fine, cool or the like but on the contrary people don't think so and they have a negative opinion of it, the person or the thing he/she did can be described as itai. In the case of 痛車 itasha, owners of that sort of cars show off their cars and boldly display their otakish taste, but people tend to think that such cars or those car owners' action is unacceptable, absurd, ridiculous, shameful, in bad taste, weird, uncool and so on. Therefore those cars are described as itai and are called itasha. Though the term 'itasha' ought to have critical, derisive or derogatory meanings if the 'ita(i)' part in 'itasha' is taken seriously, actually also owners of that sort of cars themselves and people who enjoy such cars refer to that kind of cars as itasha self-deprecatingly, jokingly, and / or in a 'Let's enjoy this camp thing' attitude.
Well, I beg your pardon, but Jariten, assuming that you translated the Mantan Web article and wrote the ANN article based on it, could you show me where the Japanese equivalent of 'so cute that' is in the Mantan Web article ? Or is that a supplementary explanation which you thought of and added to what the writer for Mantan had written ? |
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SailorCapricorn
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I would love something like that on my car well not the one i have I would want something new and I already know what I would want on my car.
Sailor Moon |
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