Initial D

Japanese manga series

Written workmanga seriesQ164883

Author: Shūichi Shigeno
Publisher: Young Magazine KC
, Tokyopop, Inc.
, Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Language: Japanese
Genre: action anime and manga
, coming-of-age anime and manga
, spokon
Followed by: MF Ghost

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Initial D 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 story focuses on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes and rarely in cities or urban areas, and with the drifting racing style emphasized in particular. Professional race car driver and pioneer of drifting Keiichi Tsuchiya helped with editorial supervision. The story is centered on the prefecture of Gunma, more specifically on several mountains in the Kantō region and in their surrounding cities and towns. Although some of the names of the locations the characters race in have been fictionalized, all of the locations in the series are based on actual locations in Japan.

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Main subject: motorsport
Characters: Takumi Fujiwara narrative role: protagonist
Bunta Fujiwara
Ryōsuke Takahashi
Keisuke Takahashi
Itsuki Takeuchi
Natsuki Mogi
Kōichirō Iketani
Kenji
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Yūichi Tachibana
Kenta Nakamura
Fumihiro
Takeshi Nakazato
Shingo Shōji
Kyōichi Sudō
Seiji Iwaki
Mako Satō
Sayuki
List of characters: list of Initial D characters and teams
Narrative location: Kantō region
Website: yanmaga.jp/spcontents/initiald_portal/index.html language: Japanese
initiald-portal.com language: Japanese
Title: 頭文字D name in kana: イニシャル・ディー · revised hepburn romanization: Inisharu Dī · reason for preferred rank: form in native language
Initial D
Country of origin: Japan
Derivative work: Initial D
Initial D Arcade Stage
Initial D: Street Stage
Initial D Arcade Stage 4
Initial D First Stage
Initial D Second Stage
Initial D Extreme Stage
Initial D Extra Stage
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Initial D Arcade Stage Ver.3
New Initial D the Movie
Initial D Third Stage
Initial D Battle Stage
Initial D Fourth Stage
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Intended public: seinen
Different from: Initial D
Depicts: Trueno
Illustrator: Shūichi Shigeno
Number of parts of this work: 719 manga chapter
48 manga volume place of publication: Japan · language: Japanese
Published in: Weekly Young Magazine
Media franchise: Initial D
Started: July 17, 1995
Ended: July 29, 2013

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