I'm surprised Hillsdale didn't catch this one first.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3037838

You ask me, it looks like the HHR's otaku cousin from Japan in the middle of a cosplay convention.

(BTW: I LOVE "Big Morgan"'s reply!)

 

What's that suppose to mean ? These kinds of cars are dime a dozen over there.

 

Well, y'know, you're the one with the stuff off of CNN or whatever, and that's where I found this.

What makes this 'un stand out is how aggressively Nissan is marketing this one toward the younger-20's female customers by making it uber-cute. The article also mentions Pinoshop.jp, where they sell especially girly accessories for the car such as plushie seat cushions and CD cases shaped like giant fat pairs of lips. I just happened to notice the similarities to the HHR in that it has the defined fender lines, the rounded front end and a blocky rear end. Truth be told it looks like what would happen if Sailor Moon bought an HHR and Japanified it.

 

humm ... the HHRs still the number one crossover/van.truck in my book!

 

"In the name of the Moon , I PUNISH you!"

 

Japanese Anime

 

Kind of. Otaku is a geek into anime if I'm not mistaken. I love anime so I guess I'm an otaku. Cosplay is where freaks (not meant in a bad way ) dress up like their favorite cartoon and video game characters. I like the snake guy so much he's my new avatar. Sailor Mars is hot!

 

You're close on "otaku," cap. Otaku, as I've heard it defined, is a fanboy/girl so much into it that they've become totally obsessed by it, a phenomenon which is not uncommon in Japanese pop culture. (Refer to the DVD "Otaku no Video" for a "documentary" on this subset of the population) For an American example ... let's say if you're so far into Star Trek that you have a hand-made uniform you wear to the office, use a Starfleet rank on your business cards, and spend hours on end downloading blueprints on the Internet in the hopes of building a life-size Deep Space Nine, that's otaku-level obsession.

Unless you spend probably 80% of your income on anime, cap, you're not an otaku. Myself, I'm a recovering otaku.

 

I'm out of my obsessed state so I guess I'm not that bad. I still like my Hentai and violence though. Give me something like Kite, the Cool Devices series, or the Urotsukidoji series any day. I like normal stuff too but nothing can beat a giant demon with nine laser shooting penises destroying cities and wild sh*t like that.