Anime-related photographic evidence...

[mikey]

I didn't know where to put this, that's why the new thread... anyway, today, on a random trip to a random castle, I see this.
This proves that (if it wasn't obvious before) European lolis drive Japanese cars.

[yummy]

Haha Mikey, that just made my day
That guy sure had an interesting one, even if I'm pretty sure that was random. Imagine the day you receive that ID for your car
By the way, I heard you could do something like that in the States legally. Some sort of personal plate, that you just had to register. I wonder if it would be legal to have something like that

[luminarious]

I think it's in many countries. We can have up to 10 chars, I think, but one of them has to be a number.. And it's about 2000$, so a waste of money unless you realllly like to show off..

[mikey]

The plate isn't random, really - the Austrian system is City*4digitnumber+letter. So let's say "S*1234A" would be a plate. Customized plates have to have a city and the rest you have five places for letters or numbers yourself - at least that's my observation. And it costs money, of course.

I am more in favor of the explanation that it was really just someone named "Lothar Lindenberg" ^_^

[Samu-kun]

Swwweeeettt.... ^_^

Yeah, it's fully possible to have personalized liscense plates in the US. :3 I think generally they have 7 characters and cost under $150, but I could be wrong... All I know is that they're made in various prisons around the country. ^_^ What, you've gotta give them something to do, right? XD

[Mikan]

When I think of anime and cars, that itasha (痛車) fad that's been going on for a while now in Japan comes to mind.



You can read some more about it and see more of them here:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ ... 529f1.html
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/09/16/japanes ... #more-1265
http://kent446.exblog.jp/4244402
http://darkdiamond.net/web-notes/itasha ... aku-style/

Japanese wiki entry: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/痛車

[Samu-kun]

(wonders what would happen to him if he put the panty shot of a 12-year old girl on his car in the states...)

Hmmm... :3

[yummy]

(wonders what would happen to him if he put the panty shot of a 12-year old girl on his car in the states...)

Hmmm... :3

Maybe it would disappear one day and Mikey would take a photo of it as he finds it

[chronoluminaire]

I find it rather entertaining that "cars with anime girls all over them" are called "itasha", meaning "painful cars"

[mikey]

I find it rather entertaining that "cars with anime girls all over them" are called "itasha", meaning "painful cars"

Well, they are painfully embarrassing, so the name seems appropriate ^_^.

[Counter Arts]

Painfully embarrasing? It's painful to look at!

But I still love it! It a strange twist between pain and pleasure that I feel when I see one of those.

Go Nanoha!

[Blue Lemma]

Put hentai on your car and watch everyone around you crash
(...into you )

[Der Tor]

[rioka]

Woah~! A life-sized doll! :O

Speaking of license plates, I passed by a car one day in a parking lot - a black BMW convertible (don't remember the specific model) with Otaku on the plate. O_O I was almost tempted to leave the person a note saying that otaku's principally shouldn't have nice cars. ; )

[Der Tor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2xHtDA2vd4