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He easily defeats Keisuke by utilizing a dangerous "gutter run" technique (putting both the left/right tires into the gutters to prevent centrifugal force pushing the car outward) on the mountain road's hairpin corners. Takumi steps out of the car to the bewilderment of the Speed Stars, who were expecting Bunta. At the last moment before the race starts, the AE86 arrives.
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On the night of the race, the Trueno does not show up, and the Speed Stars enlist a backup driver (Kenji) for the first run.
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At the same time, Takumi asks Bunta if he can borrow the car for a day to take a trip to the beach with a potential girlfriend (Natsuki Mogi), and Bunta seizes the moment by granting permission (plus a full tank of fuel) on the condition that Takumi defeats Keisuke. Iketani begs Bunta to help the Speed Stars defeat the Red Suns, and he initially refuses, later relenting to "maybe" show up at the race. He is unable to take part in the race to represent his team. While trying to do his best for the team on Mount Akina, Iketani suffers a crash and damages his car and injures himself. An investigation into the identity of the driver leads to Bunta Fujiwara, Takumi's father. Later that night, the Red Suns' #2 driver, Keisuke Takahashi, heading home after the last practice run, is defeated soundly by a mysterious Sprinter Trueno, despite driving a much more powerful Mazda RX-7 (FD3S). Dispirited after watching the Red Suns' superior performance during a practice run, the Speed Stars expect to lose. Shortly after the story begins, the Red Suns, a highly experienced racing team from Mount Akagi led by Ryosuke Takahashi, challenge the local Speed Stars team to a set of races on Mount Akina. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, Takumi helps out his father Bunta as a tofu delivery driver for his father's store before sunrise each morning, passively building an impressive amount of skill of over 5 years behind the wheel of the family car, an aging Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86). The team he feels closest to and hopes to join is the Akina Speed Stars, whose team leader Koichiro Iketani is also working at the same pump station. Itsuki is enthusiastically interested in being a street racer.
Takumi Fujiwara is a student working as a gas station attendant with his best friend Itsuki. Takumi Fujiwara ( AE86), as seen in the anime. The first battle of the series, Keisuke Takahashi ( FD3S) vs.
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Both the manga and anime series were initially licensed for English-language distribution in North America by Tokyopop (2002–2009), however, the anime license has since been picked up by Funimation (now Crunchyroll), while the manga was relicensed by Kodansha USA in 2019. A live action film by Avex and Media Asia was released in 2005. Initial D has been adapted into several anime television and original video animations series by OB Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, A.C.G.T and SynergySP. Although some of the names of the locations the characters race in have been fictionalized, all of the locations in the series are based on actual locations in Japan. The story is centered on the prefecture of Gunma, more specifically on several mountains in the Kantō region and in their surrounding cities and towns.
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Professional race car driver and pioneer of drifting Keiichi Tsuchiya helped with editorial supervision. The story focuses on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes and rarely in cities or urban areas, and with the drifting racing style emphasized in particular. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 tankōbon volumes. Initial D ( Japanese: 頭文字 イニシャル D, Hepburn: Inisharu Dī) is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno.
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