Itasha

In Japan, an itasha (痛車, literally "painful" or "cringeworthy"^[1][2] + "car") is a car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo games or eroge). The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers. The cars are seen prominently in places such as Akihabara (Tokyo), Nipponbashi (Osaka), or Ōsu (Nagoya), or Itasha-based events, such as Odaiba Itasha Tengoku.

Itasha only applies to cars. There are different names for vehicles that have features of an itasha, such as itansha (痛単車) for motorcycles, itachari (痛チャリ) for bicycles, itabasu (痛バス) for buses, itatorakku (痛トラック) for trucks, itadensha (痛電車) for trains, and itahikouki (痛飛行機) for airplanes.^[3]