Bouncing Red Ball

03 Dec, 2008

Manga-themed trains in Japan

Posted by: brb In: Art| Manga & Anime ()

Pink Tentacle has posted a nice collection of photos of manga-decorated trains in Japan. Here are three cute samples:

Anpanman Train on JR Shikoku from Aizu no SL no Heya

Kitaro Train on Tottori Line from Sasazuka Nakano Douri

Pokemon Train on Tohoku Shinkansen from Dai Fukuya

More photos at Pink Tentacle.

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3 Responses to "Manga-themed trains in Japan"

2 | CP

December 4th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

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remember the “wan-man-train” going the waterfalls in tochigi? It was “anime-ish” right? I rode a JAL plane going to Italy once covered in pokemon and it was yellow!

3 | brb

December 6th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

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That I’d like to see: a pokemon JAL. :)

Yes, I remember the train, it was vaguely anime-ish.

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