Apparently Anime Cars Are A Thing

The other weekend, I took a trip out to Allentown to watch a ~~baseball~~ Banana Ball game.

While we were on the highway, an interesting car went zipping past us in the left lane:

Hatsune Miku-themed Toyota RAV4. — Credit: @christian_gsr2021 on Instagram.

Holy fucking shit, a Hatsune Miku car!

I wasn’t able to snap a picture in time, but with a little help from my good friend Lanzar, we did some light stalking and found the Miku car on Instagram (which is where the picture came from). I then made sure to share this with all two people who read the new Rantlister. Seriously, if you’re not reading Rantlister, then you’re a bedbug.

As it turns out, there’s an entire underworld of anime cars. It’s called “itasha“, and it’s fucking awesome as hell.

People spend anywhere between hundreds to thousands of dollars to wrap their cars in themes for their favorite anime characters. I don’t know how I never knew about this, but now that I do, I want in.

Unfortunately, since I have to use my car to visit clients, I can’t actually deck this thing out in weeb shit. So I’ve done the next best thing and asked ChatGPT to edit a picture of my car to make it look like it has an itasha wrap.

And since ChatGPT has rules against using it to have any fun, I can’t have it edit my car to include any actual anime characters. So I’ve done the next best thing and had ChatGPT come up with my own anime character. Readers, let me introduce you to AJnet Magazine’s new official anime mascot, Aiji-chan:

Aiji-chan, AJnet Magazine’s anime mascot, poses confidently with long orange twin ponytails, orange eyes, black bows, and a black-and-orange pop star outfit. — It’s cool, I made sure to tell ChatGPT that she’s 18 in the prompt.

But how would she look on my celestite blue 2022 Toyota Corolla? Luckily, ChatGPT was there to answer that for me:

A light blue Toyota Corolla with a custom orange, black, and white Aiji-chan anime itasha wrap featuring the orange-haired mascot across the doors and rear quarter panel. — Coming soon to a New Jersey highway near you?

I showed this to Lanzar, and he informed me that a TRUE and HONEST itasha car also had artwork on the hood.

So I had ChatGPT correct this mistake:

Front view of a light blue Toyota Corolla with an Aiji-chan anime hood wrap featuring the orange-haired mascot winking and making a peace sign. — Jeez, ChatGPT really phoned it in here…

Never one to sit out a good time, Lanzar decided to drag Señor Juan into this mess and created Señora Rosa for Juan’s lunch truck (which I apparently work at now while wearing a cowboy hat):

Illustrated Burrito Mobile food truck with a giant burrito on the roof, a cartoon girl on the side, a cowboy-hatted worker at the window, and a man holding a bottle beside the truck. — I’m only plugging your site one more time, Lanzar.

I’m not sure why Lanzar has such a thing for Juan. Frankly, I find it fucking weird. But whatever. I’m also not sure why Juan looks like he’s 5’2. Seriously, he looks like he just stepped out of a lifted Ford F-250 and is ready to open up a can of whoop-ass on me as soon as he gets his step stool out of the back. And what’s up with the burrito on the top of the truck? What the fuck kind of M.C. Escher angle is that thing at? Why is that cactus sticking through the roof?

You know what, these all look like shit. How the fuck am I supposed to compete with Miku Car Guy when ChatGPT is crapping out turds like this? Seriously, look at the hood one, the text is trailing off onto my headlight. And the ground has a dodgeball texture for some reason. Why did it even edit the ground? It’s okay for proofreading and light editing, but as far as image modification goes, ChatGPT has a long way to go.

Anyway, if you’re the guy I saw on the highway near Allentown on Saturday, August 8th, 2026 driving the Miku RAV4, I just wanna say that your car is fucking awesome.

Angry_Jerk

Adam “The Angry Jerk” Baker is the CEO of The AJnet Organization and Editor-in-Chief of AJnet Magazine. A grizzled internet veteran of over 20 years, he writes about politics, culture, and whatever else manages to annoy him that day.

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