The Independent reports on the Mixim, Nissan’s latest concept car, whose design is influenced by manga, anime — particularly, Ghost in the Shell — computer games and Second Life.
The car, which is being unveiled this week at the Frankfurt Motor Show, will be marketed to “the next generation of drivers.”
“Anime, video games, manga, all of this somehow creates a kind of generational background which is shared all over the world,” says François Bancon, general manager of Nissan’s Tokyo-based exploratory design studio. “It may have originated from Japan, but it’s now part of, say, any French kid’s culture. They probably don’t even know where it came from originally. It’s now a global vocabulary.”
