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Itasha

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The word Itasha (痛車(いたしゃ))describes a car that has been plastered with anime stickers and other form of decoration. Literally means "pain(痛い(itai)) car(車(sha))" and for some reason the kanji for "pain" was chosen as it sounds like the "ita" from イタ車(itasha)which means Italian Car.
These pictures were taken by Yoshimu-san and you can see more at his blog. Personally I think these cars look cool and cant wait for my mascot to be ready so that I do my car up too ^^

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