Several trends of Japanese cars have made their way towards in the last decade — most of them captured United States (although extraordinarily, even though some may simply say ill) in the fast and the Furious film series.
But latest fad is not likely to catch the eyes of the Vin Diesel (unless it passes through a phase of "do for the children", as did Dwayne Johnson with "game plan" - oh, wait a minute) .the ' craze is called Itasha and his followers plaster their car with stickers of characters of Japanese animation and video games and comics logos.
"It is not come on the scene in standard setting," said Jonathan Wong, editor-in-Chief of the Super Street magazine, which emphasizes Japanese sports cars and tuning."There is no evidence of performance, just flashy graphics."
Word itasha has a complex background.An article on the Super Street, "Ita sha" has always been a short word for Italian cars. The most current use of itasha is derived from "Itai", the Japanese word for painful or slang, ugly.Itasha is therefore "laides cars."
"It is more fans geeks/players/anime,", said Mr. Wong by e-mail."Some spill in standard scene, stronger influence some graphical plans for some cars time-attack/circuit.Mais more or less, they are distinct from animals.
These flashy graphics also took the eye of a photographer in Tokyo, Tomoyuki Sakaguchi, who spent two years photographing cars Itasha and their owners.
Mr. Sakaguchi recently said he first learned about Itasha video for a Japanese website, which has led to explore the issue more in depth e-mailed.He has seen photos on a blog of news and that he led in Akihabara, electronic district in Tokyo.
Akihabara is the Centre of the universe of the Itasha, said Mr. Sakaguchi.Il is also known as Otaku ville.Otaku is the name given to the culture surrounding the Japanese anime or manga.There are also Itasha magazines and Festa Ita - G, an event in Tokyo.
Mr. Sakaguchi found his subjects events Itasha or Akihabara.Les photos are taken at a later date. ""It takes some time, long time to meet each other," he said.
Although pictures (see the slide show above) are similar to some are of a dark studio, Mr. Sakaguchi shoots his subjects in parking lots during the night, to nine small strobe.
He said: "I can only take one or two cars in one night".
Some of his photographs were collected in a book by iPad digital adventure .but Mr. Sakaguchi has said that he did not.
"I am progress still now", he said.
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