Gaudy cartoon cars turn heads in Japan

Yosuke Takahata doesn’t care what folks consider his itasha automotive, which has his favourite anime character — a horny, red-eyed horse-woman — emblazoned on either side.

For him and others round Japan, plastering cartoon photos throughout their automobiles is simply one other means of paying homage to their two-dimensional true loves.

Itasha roughly interprets as “cringeworthy automotive,” reflecting the misfit picture the automobiles had after they first began showing on roads round 20 years in the past.