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The AE86 series of the Toyota Corolla Levin and Toyota Sprinter Trueno are small, ... long-running Japanese manga and anime series titled Initial D (1995–2013) ...
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.
Itsuki drives a Nissan Silvia K's (S13) which he soon crashes and is later seen driving a Toyota Sprinter Trueno . Itsuki mistakenly obtains a Toyota Corolla Levin SR , thinking it is a Toyota Corolla Levin (AE86), in contrast with Takumi's Trueno.
Toyota has grown fond of teasing fans. A recent episode of an anime series produced by the automaker lists the MR2 and Celica with new generation designations.
The movie opens with Koichiro Iketani driving a lime green Nissan Silvia S13 home on Mount Akina, where he witnesses an impromptu battle between Keisuke Takahashi of the Akagi RedSuns, driving a yellow Mazda RX-7 FD and a mysterious Panda Black/White Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 (known simply as the "Eight-Six"), which outmaneuvers and defeats Keisuke.
The Toyota Sprinter Trueno (トヨタ・スプリンタートレノ, Toyota Supurintā Toreno) is a series of compact sports coupés and liftbacks which were produced by Toyota from 1972 to 2000. The name trueno in Spanish means thunder . [ 1 ]
In the Initial D anime and manga, side character and Takumi Fujiwara's friend, Itsuki Takeuchi, mistakenly purchases an AE85 Levin SR liftback thinking it was an AE86 Levin GT-APEX liftback, which led to him being initially ridiculed by his co-workers (except for Takumi) and several other street racers in the process.
Since Shigeno was writing about cars, he used his first car, the Toyota AE86, to help him write Initial D. [2] After Initial D was published, it became a huge hit. In 2017, after Initial D was completed, he started a sequel series titled MF Ghost , which continues most of Initial D's legacy in focusing on racing theories and cars.