Initial D

Initial D (头 文字D jap (イニシャル·ディー) Inisharu dI, dt " Initial D ") is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno and basing anime series.

  • 5.1 main characters

Action

Initial D plays in the late 1990s and tells the story of Takumi Fujiwara, an 18 -year-old teenager who helps his father in Tofugeschäft by the hotel every morning on Mount Akina in the Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 - supplies - short AE86. Through his daily journeys Takumi is a very good driver, but for road racing, he is not interested at first.

One day, the Akagi Redsuns the Akina Speed ​​Stars to a race challenge. There is no one at the Speed ​​Stars, which reaches as even close to the capabilities of the brothers Ryousuke and Keisuke Takahashi, but suddenly appeared a completely outdated Hachi - Roku (German: Eight - six ) in Keisukes rearview mirror on and defeated superior to him. It is known that Takumi was the driver of the AE86. Keisuke wants revenge. The Speed ​​Stars are happy to have found a competitive man and send him into battle. Takumi does with reluctant because he does not believe in street racing. However, he wins a second time and the racers awakened in him. The rest of the series is about the duels against his opponents and how he slowly learns to control his car completely.

Most races run in Sudden Death mode. This is a winner, the leader must either sell far from the man behind this or overtake the leaders. In Initial D will find all the duels take place on mountain Beware, there being a distinction in Downhill - up the hill - - ​​hands down the mountain - and Hill Climb. Takumi has only been on the downhill a chance, because he is not quite as clearly comes at the beginning of the series there with his outdated AE86 behind. He and most of the other drivers rely here on their drift skills to be faster than the rest.

Manga

The manga has been published since 1995 in the weekly magazine of the Young Kodansha publishing house. To date ( April 2011), the Chapter 42 in Anthologies ( tankōbon ) were summarized.

In the U.S., published from 2002 to 2009 in 33 volumes Tokyopop in an English translation.

Anime

The anime is divided into stages.

April 1998 - November 1998

January 2001

In the U.S. Tokyopop had from 2002 to 2009 also licensed the anime, which then went over to Funimation Entertainment.

Synchronization

Music

The dominant form of music in Initial D is Euro beat. This is not surprising, since the avex group editor of Euro Beat Compilation Series Super Euro Beat is. In the U.S. version of the music was taken out by the local licensee Tokyopop and replaced by hip-hop, which led to protests among lovers of the series.

The opening and closing credits title were:

  • Every Little Thing: Jirenma
  • Dave Rodgers: The Race is Over

In addition, other pieces of Euro Beat artists came in every TV series, OVA and the movie during the act before, in the TV series, on average, three per episode. Avex also published a variety of Initial -D compilation albums with these works.

Video Games

There are several video games to Initial D.

  • Initial D Arcade Stage (Arcade Machine )
  • Initial D Arcade Stage Ver.2 (Arcade Machine )
  • Initial D Arcade Stage Ver.3 (Arcade Machine )
  • Initial D Arcade Stage 4 (Arcade Machine )
  • Initial D Arcade Stage 5 (Arcade Machine )
  • Initial D Arcade Stage 6 AA (Arcade Machine )
  • Initial D (Saturn )
  • Initial D (PS1 )
  • Initial D: Special Stage (PS2 )
  • Initial D Mountain Vengeance (PC)
  • Initial D: Street Stage ( PSP)
  • Initial D Gaiden ( Game Boy )
  • Initial D Another Stage ( GBA)
  • Initial D Collectible Card Game ( Collectible Card Game )
  • Initial D Extreme Stage (PS3)

Real movie

A live-action film which takes up the history of manga and anime, had on 23 June 2005 in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong premiere. The film was to be seen in much of the East Asian region. Initial D - The Movie was produced by the Japanese avex group and Media Asia in Hong Kong. The government was in the hands of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. Although the film for the most part based on the Initial D manga, the script was largely developed especially and the story falls differently; it lacks many characters who appear in the manga.

Main characters

  • Takumi Fujiwara - Jay Chou
  • Bunta Fujiwara - Anthony Wong Chau -Sang
  • Ryosuke Takahashi - Edison Chen
  • Natsuki Mogi - Anne Suzuki
  • Takeshi Nakazato - Shawn Yue
  • Itsuki Tachibana - Chapman To
  • Yuuichi Tachibana - Kenny Bee
  • Kyouichi Sudo - Jordan Chan
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