They say the car you drive is an extension of your personality. But if you thought bumper stickers say a lot about a driver, wait till you see a FD Mazda RX-7 decked out with bright orange Girl und ...

A new, animated style of vehicle customization is cruising metro Phoenix’s roadways and car shows – itasha. Itasha is a fusion of the anime (Japanese-based cartoons) and automobile tuning lifestyles.

You're mindlessly scrolling Instagram on the toilet, paying only half attention at best to the various cars the algorithm has decided you'll see, when you notice something that stands out from the ...

Japan has a strong heritage in not only pop art (like anime and manga), but also mobility, with inventive staples like Onikyan car wheels and Dekotora Trucks. And what happens when you bring those two ...

Imagine a Cars & Coffee where the organizers intentionally ask for all the most hideous cars in town. While the concept might not fly here, an event known as “Itasha Heaven” held in a parking lot in ...

I warned you about itasha, bro. I told you, dog. I promised that it was on its way up, that it would only become more popular as time went on and anime viewership grew, but you didn't believe me. You ...

The Itasha car show will be held as part of this year's Overload festival on Saturday. / Jason Oxenham Love them or hate them, these heavily anime-decorated cars are hard to ignore - and this Japanese ...

Yosuke Takahata doesn’t care what people think of his itasha, which has his favourite anime character – a sexy, red-eyed horse-woman – emblazoned across both sides. For him and other owners around ...

In Japan, if you cover your car with anime-character graphics you’re said to have turned it into an itasha, literally a “painful car,” since it’s now such an eyesore that it’s painful for non-otaku to ...