Wanted: Rampaging Hit-N-Run Truck
Posted by 0rion on December 19th, 2007 - 9:10 pm
RAMPAGING HIT-N-RUN TRUCK
Description: This deranged killer has been sighted in a number of different anime attempting to run down innocent pedestrians in the road. The majority of the victims are female, usually young, and usually distracted from the oncoming peril by some form of emotional trauma as they run blindly into the road.
Methodology: The killer is known to frequently honk his horn just prior to viciously running down his victim. If the kill attempt is unsuccessful, usually the result of a last second flying tackle executed by the nearest relative or osananajimi, the driver has also been known to yell at the intended victim before speeding away, in an attempt to intimidate or otherwise convince them that the incident is somehow their own fault for running into the street.
Witnesses have reported that there are no attempts to brake or take any evasive action, nor does the driver slow down or stop afterward. This a clearly the work of a deranged serial hit-and-run murderer. Be warned: this killer strikes without warning, and can appear at any time, in any anime.
If you have sighted the truck in question, please notify the authorities immediately. This renegade psychopath must be stopped at all costs.
I have seen this truck many times!
NINOMIYA-KUN!!!!
SENSEI!!!!
He’s in my Full Metal Panic reruns!
So, do you want to catch the truck or the one driving it?
Wait…Its possessed! Just Stephen King’s Christine. The driver is a lie.
This just in!
We’ve had an update on the wild hit and run case, it turns out a popular Mermaid girl by the name of Sun encountered this lunatic when he tried to run over one young Mawari Zenigata, daughter of the popular Lupin the III detective. (At least I like to think so.)
Witnesses describe the incident as a high level sonic attack that blasted the car off the road just seconds before running miss Zenigata down, whom sustained only minor injuries and was released from the hospital that night.
The demon car is still at large, so we advise our viewers to keep a stock of silver potatoes to shove up it’s tailpipe, as it seems to be it’s only weakness. That and teenage girls with super sonic voices.
And now we move off to Blacu-Weather forcast with Olie Williams, Olie?
IT’S COLD!
Thank you Olie.
haha, just how many times i’ve seen that evil truck i wonder ;p
Just so you know, $3 Canadian is pretty much $3 American right now….
Kabitzin got in before me with Minami-ke. Hit’n'run trucks are obviously an anime equivalent of Raymond Chandler’s ‘When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand’ rule for writing.
Also just as an aside, the above screenshot came from Darker than Black episode 14, Yin’s backstory.
@lh_sabre
I know, but Canuck money is funny and American money is not.
Probably because Canadian dollars are mostly used for buying weed and tickets to hockey games, whereas American money is mostly used for buying off and/or invading other countries.
@ IKnight
Heh, but his novels were always a bit tongue in cheek, so resorting to tropes that like is pretty much expected. If a man with a gun didn’t come through the door, and instead the detective calmly solved the case through basic forensics, the readers would all be horribly disappointed.
True. BTW, weed and hockey makes for interesting commentary and great fun if watching…and one heck of a fun time playing.
Whut?
Bonus internet for Family Guy reference though.
@ Martin
Hey wait wait wait…go to your own site if you want to give out internets, eh?
@ lh_sabre
I can only imagine. >_>
The paper actually makes me giggle more than what you have written on it, which is saying something. Does that make me a PhotoShop geek?
[...] What started off as a mere cameo developed into a great running gag that seems to have taken on a life of its own. In addition to serving as the set up for several jokes among the Minami sisters, it also employs some excellent comedy in its own right. In particular, it parodies many anime related cliches, such as recycling animation to cut costs, and the mysterious hit-and-run vehicle. [...]