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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."
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.
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.
In the Initial D video game franchise, players race against different opponents through various mountain passes featured in the manga. Vehicles that are featured in the game are mostly Japanese cars, such as the Nissan Skyline GT-R, Mazda RX-7, Subaru Impreza, Honda Civic, as well as the Toyota AE86.
Initial D was released as a direct to video DVD in Australia on 21 October 2005. It was released in the United Kingdom on 28 April, and the Philippines on 12 July 2006. Tai Seng Entertainment, the distributor of Initial D in the United States, released Initial D on Blu-ray on 22 January 2008. This is an exclusive release for the Blu-ray format ...
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.
A Maryland man was arrested after authorities allege he admitted to killing his girlfriend, who had been missing. On Sunday, Jan. 19, police investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Alexis ...
The Toyota Corolla E80 is a range of small automobiles manufactured and marketed by Toyota from 1983 to 1987 as the fifth generation of cars under the Corolla and Toyota Sprinter nameplates. Production totalled approximately 3.3 million, and most models adopted a front-wheel drive layout.