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When racing driver and former street racer Keiichi Tsuchiya came on hand from the first sequel, it had adopted an anti street racing message, therefore avoiding a ban. The series became a semi biographical piece about him, partially about his experience as a hashiriya (native term for "street racer") and that when he quit to go professional racing.
[1] [2] These exploits and street racing culture on the Shuto Expressway have made it a well-known location for street racing and speed records. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Due to this infamy, the Wangan is the setting for several entertainment franchises, such as the manga and arcade game Wangan Midnight , video games Shutokou Battle and Gran Turismo 5 , 6 ...
An ex-boxer races against various black cars on public roads in an effort to get revenge for the crash that killed his wife and child.Throughout the story, he compete with 4 black cars in total, a Mitsubishi GTO, RX-7 FC3S, JZX90 Mark II and a Toyota Chaser.
The Tokyo Xtreme Racer series focuses on highway street racing, primarily inspired by the underground Wangan racing scene in real-world Japanese expressways such as the Shuto Expressway and the Wangan Line in the 1990s, where players took control of a lone street racer aiming to be the best in the underground Wangan racing scene.
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Wangan Midnight (Japanese: 湾岸ミッドナイト, Hepburn: Wangan Middonaito) is a Japanese racing manga series written and illustrated by Michiharu Kusunoki. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits in 1990, but was later serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from 1992 to 2008. The manga was compiled into 42 ...
Best Motoring International was an English compilation of various video clips from all three of the Japanese video magazines, Best Motoring, Hot Version and Video Option. Initial releases were dubbed entirely in English, and some might say suffered from poor voice acting/editing.
Japanese police call them Maru-Sō (police code マル走 or 丸走) and occasionally dispatch police vehicles to trail the groups of bikes for the reason of preventing possible incidents, which may include: riding very slowly through suburbs at speeds of 10–15 km/h (6.2–9.3 mph), creating a loud disturbance while waving imperial Japanese ...