Bouncing Red Ball

The new year kicks off with an exhibition of custom cars at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 in Makuhari Messe. I went and took some pictures. Here’s one of my favorites: the customized μ-Dimension Acoustic Research anime-painted car.

μ-Dimension ELEMENT Series 4ch amp

μ-Dimension 12-inch subwoofer

μ-Dimension 50W/4ch AB-class power amp

In the winter of 1992, All Nippon Airways (ANA) held a contest to design one of its Boeing 747 jets. The result was Marine Jumbo, a whale-shaped airplane decorated with sea creatures and designed by Yukie Ogaki, then a 6th-grade schoolgirl.
The highly successful and much publicized design was soon followed in 1996 by another 747 [...]

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.

Awesome photo galleries from Mainichi, Asahi and Response about the recent anime car festival in Odaiba called Itasha G Fesuta and covered by major news media. {Also check out this great gallery by Otasuke. Thanks for the link Yamatologic!}
The festival features more than 400 cars adorned with anime and game characters. Surely an event that [...]