This is such an interesting combination of topics. (Extremely minor side note: "ita-sha" cars, including the fan variety and not just the original meaning, predate ita-bags--in fact I remember when ita-bags were still a new thing.)
Oh thanks so much for that info! I do remember seeing ita-cars on the road a lot growing up. I have a hunch that there's a gender divide here, where ita-cars were started by male anime watchers and then girls popularised ita-bags in recent years, but I could be wrong..? And now that ita-bags left the anime circle, I wonder what they think about it being appropriated? Taken over? by the K-popers...
It seems like tou-lou “building takeovers” and Ita-bags are the actual metaverse. Not digital worlds taking up properties of the physical, but the physical world being taken over by digital products and fandoms.
This is such an interesting combination of topics. (Extremely minor side note: "ita-sha" cars, including the fan variety and not just the original meaning, predate ita-bags--in fact I remember when ita-bags were still a new thing.)
Oh thanks so much for that info! I do remember seeing ita-cars on the road a lot growing up. I have a hunch that there's a gender divide here, where ita-cars were started by male anime watchers and then girls popularised ita-bags in recent years, but I could be wrong..? And now that ita-bags left the anime circle, I wonder what they think about it being appropriated? Taken over? by the K-popers...
It seems like tou-lou “building takeovers” and Ita-bags are the actual metaverse. Not digital worlds taking up properties of the physical, but the physical world being taken over by digital products and fandoms.