Nakiri-Dono!

     While I love drift liveries, my journey with creating skins started by designing an Itasha. for those who don't know, in layman's terms, Itasha is an automotive sub-culture that originated in Japan, it involves putting an anime character on your car. most of these characters are women but there are also cases with males and even robot characters. back in the early 2000s, this culture was strictly popular only in Japan but now with the age of the Internet, it also can be found in many parts of the globe, mostly in America.

    I was (and still am) a massive Otaku or by today's definition, a weeaboo and Itasha was one of my bridges to get me hooked on car culture back then. This style is unique. I love every single detail about it, its simply "attractive" on my view, and so I dig out more and more about this painful styles.

    So who's the character on this car? her name is Ayame Nakiri, a Virtual Idol Talent from the Japanese Vtuber Idol Agency, Hololive. when I was making this livery back in 2020, Vtuber culture was blooming and one of my favorite Hololive members was her. I could write a 3 hours essay about her but the jist of it, I like her personality and design on stream.

    This GCorporation Nissan 180sx belongs to @tougeinsk on X (twitter). He's not a weeb but he said I could make Itasha for him. Drift car Itasha is just another Tuesday in Japan and since he doesn't mind his car being a weeb canvas essentially, one thing that connects both of us is our passion for grasroot drift style.

    The results are phenomenal, it's stylish, vibrant, and loud. Those 3 words are what Itasha is in my view, not just an Anime girl slap in the car. the reason why I love Itasha on drift cars is the livery just compliment the stylish nature of drifting.