Are you familiar with itasha, the practice of decorating a car anime-style? We're talking a precise, clean, and probably hideously expensive paint job, not some smattering of decals here. The word is actually a portmanteau of itai (which is said when something causes pain) and -sha, which is a suffix for automobiles (like densha, train); the idea is that it's painful on the eyes...even when it's not. And what could be painful about this gorgeous (and official) Macross Frontier itasha? Intended to promote the upcoming movie, the left side is devoted to the green-haired moe girl Ranka Lee, and the right to the brazen and buxom Sheryl Nome. II'm a Sheryl girl, but I'm not too fond of her picture here-- she looks like she's been sitting in a cold bathtub too long. Or like a zombie. Hmm. Oh, and for good measure, Alto and Michael appear on the top of the car, where no one can see them, and they're holding hands. Awww...
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