Spotting cars at a popular anime shopping hub in Japan.
I think most of you know what Akihabara is popular for. Amongst most prominent anime advertisements, merchandise and heavy brand presence like YOSTAR, the district has a very long history with the medium, and like anything related to anime, the car scene around it is just as eclectic.
Sumimasen, I am myself a weeb but at tourist-y levels so prominent I might as well not comment on anything related to the scene. I won’t.
Constantly am I saying “I don’t have time” that I have allowed myself to not invest time into shows and games, so its a mistake completely on my end.
Even if you ask me about Blue Archive, I have little to say about the storyline. Paiseh.
Blue Archive’s Justice Task Force’s Mob-chan around random places
Blue Archive’s Justice Task Force’s Mob-chan around random places
Anyways yeah, I sat about with group photographing cars that passed by alongside buying merchandise.
Variety is a bit of a good one on this day, although “could be better”, says my social media-influenced brain that is so fixated on finding the best of the best that Tokyo can offer. But this lowly writer doesn’t have any planned shoots going, so its a complete given.
But back to the main point; the cars.
Several itashas, both full-body graphics and medium ones like a fender wrap or others. Again, its a really interesting medium that has a lot of variation, from shouty to discreet.
And of course, everything else in-between. Probably just because I like traffic cars.
Singaporean traffic has dwindled down so badly in recent years that it is simply just miserable trying to scout traffic with the only dry entertainment is a rare (but common elsewhere) Japanese sports car or an Italian supercar. “Please let us have interesting traffic” is what I would say, but COE and scrappage does not forgive, yet forget.
It must be so weird for locals to see the likes of someone like me desperately shooting some mundane box on wheels instead of a parked Skyline next to me. Guess it it s a biproduct of making everything nothing but shades of grey (of the same crossover shape) in Singapore.
Anyways, the best thing to see is simply just the DMC Delorean.
Maybe I’ve struck the spotting lottery or something, but hmm, we’ll see about the next day, because boy, apparently my lottery luck hasn’t run out yet. But I am not running into luck for the actual lottery.
~Efini
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