800 Itashas gathered to Odaiba's Rainbow Town for the "2nd Ita-G Festa" on October 4th.
"Ita-G Festa in Odaiba" is Japan's biggest Itasha festival by Bungeisha's "Itasha Graphics", Itasha fanzine. The 1st event was held in 2008 and drew 500 itashas from all around the country.
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Contest and exhibits of itasha/itansha/ita-chari as well as stage events by m.o.v.e and Deadball P, company booth centered around adult game makers everything was powered up from the last event. The event opened to cosplayers making the event enjoyable for both owners and fans a like.
The main attraction was the "Ita-limo", that was done by the creators of the "Itasha Trance 2" CD cover. Shown by the team EXIT TUNES, that has made "Usshi-Uma-uma" Ferrari F430 Spider, and showed their stuff live by itasha-ing a limo.
The popular titles are still the same as last year, "Touhou", "Lucky Star", "Haruhi", "Nanoha", "Miku" and "Shana", while the growth of "Macross Frontier" were noticable. The reason for this might be due to the fact that there was little time the last time around but had more time to prepare for this year's event as well as the theatrical edition being released. Other titles seen were, "K-ON!"related designs (especially Mio's), and seiyu fan alliance(Yukari Tamura Itasya, Nana Mizuki Itasya).
A popular Itasha base, "Iyara-Cima" (Nissan Cima FGY33 x ToHeart2 Tamaki Kousaka) topped the votes for the most popular itasha and was covered by photographers. The cars and owners were introduced and the owners were awarded at th presentation ceremony.
The further report of the presentation and pics of the day will be published on "Itasya Graphics Vol.6" that will go on sale November 28th. For more details, check out the Ita-G official website.
