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The story
On the 28th, a chatty thread on 5ch’s News Speed VIP board kicked off with reactions to the movie “Chiikawa” and rambled on from there — favorite game characters, complaints about endless restless nights, and anxiety over speeding tickets on residential streets — before finally settling on the original poster wrestling a stiff steering wheel cover onto their brand-new car, fresh off the lot. The saga played out with photo updates, and other posters chimed in with comments like “that looks tough,” keeping the mood good-natured right to the end.
What people said
Tell me some other good ones
Wanted to tell Ryu-san that Oncoris is amazing
Gorilla Technology has me curious
The rabbit was annoying, but it's a movie that makes you think about the wars going on right now — satisfied
Chiikawa had that deep a story?
Same here
And I get a different dream every time
Today I think I slept like 6 times in 12 hours
Adds up to about 8 hours total probably, but I don't feel rested at all
Yeah it's rough when you can't get deep sleep
Probably should just take sleeping pills, but that's kind of scary
Too scary, gotta drive extra safe
Seems like they were staking it out…
Cost me 5,000 yen…
You never know where the cops are hiding…
Don't panic if someone's riding your bumper — dealing with them is a pain, so if you get a tailgater, either pull over once and wait for them to leave, or note their plate and call the police
Got it
Even if I think someone's following too close, I'll just assume they're not actually going to hit me
Speaking of which, I need to get rid of my bike that I never use
Seriously? Come on, stop it
Top speed: 30 km/h
Looks like it'll putter along sipping a canned coffee
Wonder how Mr. Puttputt's doing these days ("Tokotoko" — a recurring meme nickname for something that plods along slowly)
Actually nah, if it's coming from Aichi the shipping would be brutal, forget it
It's a bike that doesn't even need air in the tires
That's the kind of thing that quietly kills your mood
Did that on delivery day
Bought one that's supposed to fit, but it's way too stiff……
Good luck getting it on, okay?
Guess I'll give it a shot……
Before that, let me look up how to put it on, on YouTube
Like this
Yeah, that does look stiff
Background and Talking Points
The chatter about speeding on residential streets ties back to Japan’s revised Road Traffic Act, which takes effect on September 1, 2026. Under the revision, the default speed limit on ordinary residential streets without posted signs drops from 60 km/h to 30 km/h — and since this thread went up on August 28, right on the eve of that change, it’s no surprise that worries about license suspensions and stepped-up enforcement came up. That said, the thread never really centered on one debate; it’s a classic “rambling” chat thread that drifted from movie impressions to small talk and finally to the OP’s personal saga of fitting a steering wheel cover on a new car. Because it never settles on a single throughline, readers may find it feels a bit scattershot.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed VIP) thread “lol, the guy who just watched the Chiikawa movie.”
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