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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.It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 tankōbon volumes.
The AE86 was featured centrally in the popular, long-running Japanese manga and anime series titled Initial D (1995–2013)—as the main character's drift and tofu delivery car. In 2015, Road & Track called the AE86 "a cult icon, inextricably interwoven with the earliest days of drifting."
In Japan, an itasha (痛車, literally "painful" or "cringeworthy" [1] [2] + "car") is a car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo games or eroge). The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers.
Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a Japanese professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King (ドリキン, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport.
This sense of drift is not to be confused with the four wheel drift, a classic cornering technique established in Grand Prix and sports car racing. [ citation needed ] As a motoring discipline, drifting competitions were first popularized in Japan in the 1970s and further popularized by the 1995 manga series Initial D .
At the 2007 Tokyo Anime Fair, OB Planning announced the production of an animated series based on the manga, [1] and aired on a pay-per-view channel of Animax in June 2007. [1] The series was co-produced by OB Planning, A.C.G.T., and Pastel, under the direction of Tsuneo Tominaga. The anime consists of twenty-six episodes.
At the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, Mitsuoka unveiled the Orochi Kabuto (大蛇・兜) as a concept car. The Kabuto retained the Orochi's basic construction, but has been fitted with carbon fiber panels, a body kit, and a rear spoiler. [7] [8] The Orochi Kabuto was later released as a production car in 2009, and was limited to five cars. Like the ...
Highspeed Etoile (stylized as HIGHSPEED Étoile) is a Japanese original anime television series animated by Studio A-Cat, directed by Keitaro Motonaga and written by Takamitsu Kōno.