Initial D
Japanese street racing manga and anime franchise.
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Initial D is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013. The series focuses on illegal street racing in Japan, emphasizing drifting on mountain passes, and was supervised by professional race car driver and drifting pioneer Keiichi Tsuchiya. It became one of the best-selling manga series in history, with over 55 million copies in circulation by April 2021, and spawned a major anime franchise, live-action film, and video games.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Action
- Coming-of-age
- Sports
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Background
The story follows Takumi Fujiwara, a high school student in Gunma Prefecture who works at a gas station and secretly hones his driving skills making early morning tofu deliveries in his father's Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86). After defeating Keisuke Takahashi of the Red Suns team in a downhill race on Mount Akina using an unorthodox 'gutter run' technique, Takumi becomes known as the 'Legendary Eight-Six of Akina' and attracts challengers from across the region. He later joins Project D, an expeditionary racing team founded by Ryosuke Takahashi, aiming to prove himself the fastest driver in Japan.
Did You Know?
- The manga was serialized for 18 years, from 1995 to 2013, and collected into 48 tankōbon volumes.
- Tokyopop's English release of the manga changed character names to match Sega's Initial D Arcade Stage video games and censored brief sex scenes.
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Initial D (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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