Initial D……Drift Anime(頭文字D)

Initial D is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha’s Young Magazine since 1995. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by Pastel, Studio Gallop, and OP Planning, which premiered in Japan on Fuji TV and Animax, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia. Both the manga and anime series were licensed for distribution in North America by Tokyopop.
The anime and manga focus on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes and never in cities nor urban areas, and the drift racing style is emphasized in particular. Keiichi Tsuchiya helps with editorial supervision. The story is centered around the Japanese prefecture of Gunma, more specifically on several mountains in the prefecture and in and their surrounding cities and towns. 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 Gunma Prefecture.
In the anime you could see a variety of japanese cars. Between them the emblem of the anime the TOYOTA SPRINTER TRUENOAE86, also known by “hachi roku” (hachi=8; roku=6), the rotative engine MAZDA FDRx7, the powerful and legendary GTR, and more.
So if you like the anime and the cars……..this is what you had been waiting…….a fusion of engines, noises of tire, speed and aime.

~ by Homo Tecnologicus on November 28, 2007.