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Japanese manga series by Shūichi Shigeno and its adaptations

Initial D
Cover of the start tankōbon volume, featuring Takumi Fujiwara
頭文字 ( イニシャル ) D ( Inisharu Dī )
Genre	Action[one] Coming-of-historic period[2] Sports[three]
Manga
Written past	Shuichi Shigeno
Published by	Kodansha
English language publisher	NA Tokyopop (onetime) Kodansha U.s.a.
Imprint	Immature Mag KC
Magazine	Weekly Young Mag
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	July 17, 1995 – July 29, 2013
Volumes	48 (List of volumes)
Farther information Anime television series Initial D First Stage Directed by Shin Misawa Produced by Ren Usami Written past Koji Kaneda Music by Ryuichi Katsumata Studio Studio Comet Studio Gallop Licensed past AUS Madman Entertainment NA Tokyopop (erstwhile) Funimation Original network Fuji TV English network AUS Adult Swim Ocean Animax Asia Original run April 18, 1998 – December 5, 1998 Episodes 26 (List of episodes) Anime television set series Initial D 2nd Phase Directed by Shin'ichi Masaki Produced by Kayo Fukuda Written by Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music past Ryuichi Katsumata Studio Pastel Licensed by AUS Madman Amusement NA Tokyopop (old) Funimation Original network Fuji TV English network Ocean Animax Original run October 14, 1999 – January 6, 2000 Episodes thirteen (List of episodes) Original video blitheness Initial D Extra Stage Directed by Shishi Yamaguchi Written past Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music past Ryuichi Katsumata Studio Pastel Licensed by AUS Madman Amusement NA Tokyopop (former) Funimation Released February 22, 2000 – February 29, 2000 Runtime 25 minutes (each) Episodes two (List of episodes) Anime movie Initial D Third Stage Directed past Fumitsugu Yamaguchi Produced by Takayuki Nagasawa Written by Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music by Ryuichi Katsumata Studio Studio Deen Pastel (production) Licensed past AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation Released Jan xiii, 2001 Runtime 105 minutes Original video animation Initial D Battle Stage Directed by Shishi Yamaguchi Produced by Takayuki Nagasawa Written past Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music by Ryuichi Katsumata Studio Studio Deen Released May 15, 2002 Runtime 45 minutes Anime television receiver series Initial D Fourth Stage Directed past Tsuneo Tominaga Produced by Kayo Fukuda Written by Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music past Atsushi Umebori Studio A.C.G.T Licensed by AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation Original network Animax PPV Original run April 17, 2004 – February 18, 2006 Episodes 24 (Listing of episodes) Original video animation Initial D Boxing Stage 2 Directed by Tsuneo Tominaga Written by Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music past Atsushi Umebori Studio A.C.G.T Released May xxx, 2007 Runtime 78 minutes Original video animation Initial D Extra Stage 2 Directed past Tsuneo Tominaga Written by Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music past Atsushi Umebori Studio A.C.Chiliad.T Released Oct 3, 2008 Runtime 55 minutes Anime boob tube series Initial D 5th Stage Directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto Produced past Kayo Fukuda Written past Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music by Atsushi Umebori Studio SynergySP Original network Animax PPV (Perfect Choice Premier ane) Original run November 9, 2012 – May ten, 2013 Episodes 14 (List of episodes) Anime idiot box series Initial D Final Stage Directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto Produced by Kayo Fukuda Written by Hiroshi Toda Nobuaki Kishima Music by Atsushi Umebori Studio SynergySP Original network Animax PPV (Animax Plus) Original run May 16, 2014 – June 22, 2014 Episodes iv (List of episodes) Films Initial D (2005) New Initial D (2014–2016)
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Initial D (Japanese: 頭文字 イニシャル D, Hepburn: Inisharu Dī ) is a Japanese street racing manga serial written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Kodansha'due south Weekly Young Mag from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters nerveless into 48 tankōbon volumes. The story focuses on the earth 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 person race motorcar driver and pioneer of drifting Keiichi Tsuchiya helped with editorial supervision. The story is centered on the prefecture of Gunma, more than 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 accept been fictionalized, all of the locations in the series are based on actual locations in Japan.

Initial D has been adapted into several anime television and original video animations serial past OB Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, A.C.G.T and SynergySP. A live activity film by Avex and Media Asia was released in 2005. Both the manga and anime series were initially licensed for English-language distribution in Due north America by Tokyopop (2002–2009),^[4] nonetheless, the anime license has since been picked upwards past Funimation, while the manga was relicensed by Kodansha Us in 2019.

Plot [edit]

The outset battle of the series, Keisuke Takahashi (FD3S) vs. Takumi Fujiwara (AE86), as seen in the anime.

Takumi Fujiwara is a student working as a gas station bellboy with his best friend Itsuki. Itsuki is enthusiastically interested in being a street racer. The squad he feels closest to and hopes to join is the Akina Speed Stars, whose team leader Koichiro Iketani is also working at the aforementioned pump station. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, Takumi helps out his father Bunta as a tofu delivery driver for his father's store earlier sunrise each forenoon, passively building an impressive amount of skill of over 5 years backside the bicycle of the family car, an aging Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86).

Presently after the story begins, the Red Suns, a highly experienced racing team from Mount Akagi led by Ryosuke Takahashi, challenge the local Speed Stars team to a set of races on Mountain Akina. Dispirited afterward watching the Ruddy Suns' superior functioning during a practice run, the Speed Stars look to lose. Later that night, the Crimson Suns' #ii driver, Keisuke Takahashi, heading home after the last practise run, is defeated soundly by a mysterious Sprinter Trueno, despite driving a much more powerful Mazda RX-seven (FD3S). An investigation into the identity of the driver leads to Bunta Fujiwara, Takumi's begetter. While trying to do his best for the team on Mountain Akina, Iketani suffers a crash and damages his machine and injures himself. He is unable to have part in the race to represent his squad. Iketani begs Bunta to assistance the Speed Stars defeat the Red Suns, and he initially refuses, subsequently relenting to "perchance" show up at the race. At the same time, Takumi asks Bunta if he tin borrow the automobile for a day to have a trip to the beach with a potential girlfriend (Natsuki Mogi), and Bunta seizes the moment by granting permission (plus a full tank of fuel) on the condition that Takumi defeats Keisuke.

On the nighttime of the race, the Trueno does not show up, and the Speed Stars enlist a backup driver (Kenji) for the first run. At the terminal moment before the race starts, the AE86 arrives. Takumi steps out of the car to the bewilderment of the Speed Stars, who were expecting Bunta. He hands defeats Keisuke by utilizing a dangerous "gutter run" technique (putting both the left/right tires into the gutters to prevent centrifugal force pushing the car outward) on the mount road's hairpin corners.

The Scarlet Suns' embarrassing defeat sets up the plot for the rest of the serial: drivers from neighboring prefectures come to challenge Takumi and the "Legendary Eight-Six of Akina" and thus evidence themselves as racers. Meanwhile, Takumi, who was considered spacey and disinterested in the world around him, becomes more passionate about racing with every opponent he faces.

However, soon Takumi faces a threat in the course of Emperors, a team that uses Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions. Takumi's old AE86 is no match and he loses to the squad's leader, Sudo Kyoichi (EvoIII), blowing his engine. The Akagi RedSuns come to the rescue and defeat both Seiji and Kyoichi, thus securing the pride of Gunma'southward racers. Meanwhile, Bunta replaces the AE86'south diddled engine with a new 1. Wataru Akiyama and Koichiro Iketani help Takumi to figure out why he is unable to control his motorcar.

Takumi presently faces graduation, just continues racing. He defeats Kyoichi in a rematch at his home course, the Nikko Irohazaka. He also defeats the son of Bunta'due south quondam rival.

Somewhen, the plot moves away from Mount Akina equally Takumi becomes bored with racing solely on that route. He joins an expedition racing team, Project.D, formed by Ryosuke Takahashi, (also including Keisuke Takahashi) one-time leader of the disbanded Ruby-red Suns and challenges more than hard opponents on their home courses in the pursuit of his dream to be "the fastest driver out there".

At one point, impostors in the grade of Takumi and Keisuke endeavour to defame Project D, Wataru comes to help and they dispatch the impostors, revealing them in front of the public. Projection D races many teams like Team Vii Star Leaf, Team 246, Squad Spiral, Team Sidewinder etc.

It ends spectacularly with a race of two evenly matched drivers, where Takumi blows his engine again, just steps on the clutch and wins the race by rolling backwards over the end line. He decides to get rid of his car only later on decides to go along it. Ryosuke disbands Project D and Takumi continues delivering tofu with his father'due south Impreza.

The Initial D events would be shown to pb up to the events of another manga past Shuichi Shigeno, MF Ghost.

Media [edit]

The Initial D franchise logo.

Manga [edit]

Written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, Initial D was serialized by Kodansha in the seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from July 17, 1995,^{[five] [half dozen]} to July 29, 2013.^{[7] [8]} Kodansha collected its chapters in forty-eight tankōbon volumes, released from November six, 1995,^[9] to November half dozen, 2013.^[ten]

In North America, the manga was licensed for English release past Tokyopop (along with the anime series) in 2001.^{[11] [12]} The visitor changed the names of the characters in the anime edition, and subsequently inverse them in the manga to friction match.^{[13] [14]} These proper name changes were to reverberate the name changes that Sega implemented into the Western releases of the Initial D Arcade Stage video games due to name length limits.^[13] Tokyopop also cutting out a character's enjo kōsai human relationship with another and censored the brief sex scenes from the original manga.^[i] In addition, "street slang" was interlaced in translations.^[xiv] The visitor released thirty-three volumes from May 21, 2002,^[15] to Jan thirteen, 2009,^[16] before they announced in August 2009 that their manga licensing contracts with Kodansha had expired.^[17] In April 2019, ComiXology and Kodansha Comics announced that they had released volumes one to 38 digitally, while volumes 39 to 48 were released in July of the same year.^{[18] [19]}

Anime [edit]

Avex has released the anime in several parts called Stages. Ane noticeable feature is that information technology uses Eurobeat music as background music in race scenes, especially by Italian singers.

• Initial D (referred to retroactively by fans as "First Stage") — 26 episodes (1998)
• Initial D Second Phase — 13 episodes (1999)
• Initial D Extra Stage — 2-episode OVA side-story focusing on Touch on Blueish (2000)
• Initial D Third Stage — a 104-minute moving-picture show (2001)
• Initial D Fourth Stage — 24 episodes (2004–2006)
• Initial D Actress Stage two — a 50-infinitesimal OVA side-story focusing on Mako and Iketani (2008)
• Initial D 5th Stage — 14 episodes (2012–2013)^[20]
• Initial D: Final Stage — four episodes (Telly), compilation movie (DVD/Blu-ray) (2014)
• New Initial D the Movie - Legend 1: Awakening — feature movie (2014)
• New Initial D the Movie - Fable 2: Racer — characteristic flick (2015)
• New Initial D the Flick - Legend 3: Dream — characteristic film (2016)

The Boxing Stages are Musical Films serving as a compilation of the racing action scenes in the preceding series, stripped of all just minimal grapheme dialog and featuring new music.

• Initial D Battle Stage — a fifty-infinitesimal movie (2002)
  • Boxing Stage is a compilation of races from the offset 3 serial, except for Extra Phase. The battles from Start Stage have been reanimated and remastered with the more advanced CGI used in Third Phase, still the graphic symbol fine art remains the same. A battle not featured in either the manga or the anime is featured, using the new CGI and onetime grapheme art.
• Initial D Battle Stage 2 — a 1-hour movie (2007)
  • Battle Stage ii is a compilation of races from Quaternary Phase with unchanged CGI, even for the subconscious battles. It features Keisuke'southward get-go two races as part of Project D, as they were not featured in Fourth Stage.
• Initial D Boxing Stage 3 — (2021)
  • Battle Stage iii features every race from Fifth Stage and Final Stage. Unlike the previous two battle stages, it does non feature any new battles, and doesn't feature any character dialogue.

In 1998, Initial D was adapted into an blithe telly series produced by OB Planning and Prime Direction. The first episode premièred on Fuji Tv set on April 8, 1998. The initial serial ran for 26 weekly episodes with the finale ambulation on December five, 1998.

The second series, named "Second Stage", aired from October xiv, 1999, to January 20, 2000, with a i-calendar week break over the New year menstruation. This was followed by animated feature film in 2001 and an OVA documenting all battles from the previous three stages, with the battles from Get-go Phase being re-animated.

Initial D: Tertiary Stage was a feature pic roofing the story arcs between the second and fourth phase, released in Japan on January 13, 2001. It earned a distribution income of ¥520 one thousand thousand ($6.52 million) at the Japanese box office.^[21]

In 2004, Initial D: 4th Stage aired on SkyPerfecTV'due south pay-per-view service, ambulation 2 episodes back-to-back every two months. 24 episodes were made until the final episodes were aired in February 2006.

Post-obit 2d Stage in 2000, Initial D: Extra Stage was aired every bit a spinoff to the original serial. This story focused on the all-female Bear upon Blue team of Usui Pass and their point of view of the contempo events of 2d Stage and the upcoming Third Stage movie. This was followed past Extra Stage two in 2008, which look at the relationship between Affect Blue's Mako Sato and Iketani of the SpeedStars (following on from the original side-story in the manga).

Eight years after the release of "4th Stage" in 2004, Animax aired "Initial D: Fifth Phase". Animax has aired the series on a pay-per-view footing on Sky PerfecTV!'southward Perfect Choice Premier ane channel.^[22] The commencement two episodes aired on November 9, 2012. The rest of the episodes were circulate ii per month till May 10, 2013.^[22]

In 2014, "Initial D: Final Phase" became the latest installment in the anime serial. Animax has aired its commencement two episodes on a pay-per-view basis on its own brand new ANIMAX PLUS aqueduct, on May 16, 2014, on its new subscription VOD (Video On Demand) service, which allows subscribers to sentry all the latest anime serial. Initial D Terminal Stage will start right later where Fifth Stage left off. There are a total of four episodes that makes up this mini stage.^[23] The last two episodes were broadcast on June 22, 2014.

Since the anime's original run, Japanese musical group m.o.five.e has performed all of the opening and some catastrophe themes of the serial. This followed on from the success of one of their commencement hits, "Around the World", which was used as the first opening of Get-go Phase. Their latest single to be used in the series is called "Outsoar The Rainbow" and information technology is used every bit Last Stage'south opening.^[24] They had another recent unreleased vocal, "Days". Information technology was played on the finale of "Final Phase".

Like in the manga, Tokyopop change elements of the anime to accommodate Western audiences. As well as irresolute the names and used western slang, the visitor also inverse the anime'due south music from the series' staple eurobeat tracks to originally developed tracks of rap and hip-hop via Stu Levy (DJ Milky), the Tokyopop CEO and an in-house musician.^[xiii]

In 2006, Funimation announced that it would exist distributing the DVDs of the anime (since Tokyopop'south original distributor went bankrupt). This new distribution was marked by slightly revised packaging and two box sets corresponding to the licensed seasons Tokyopop had dubbed, although the DVDs themselves were exactly the same as the original Tokyopop release.

Tokyopop had completed an English subtitled version of 3rd Stage, and reportedly screened it at the Big Apple Anime Fest on August 29, 2003.^[25] They briefly mentioned that their version of Third Stage would retain the original Japanese soundtrack, in contrast to their treatment of the anime series. This version of the motion-picture show was never released on DVD, nor was it ever mentioned past Tokyopop past the original announcement.

At the New York Anime Festival 2009, Funimation appear that it would be re-releasing and re-dubbing Initial D: First Stage, 2nd Stage, Extra Stage, Tertiary Stage, and Fourth Stage. Their release included a brand new English dub and retained the original music from the Japanese in an uncut format. Funimation released the serial out of order, with the Third and Fourth Stages releasing earlier the First and 2d Stages.^[26] The beginning Extra Stage was included in the Second Stage box set.

Blithe feature moving-picture show series [edit]

In July 2013 it was announced that some other feature motion-picture show titled New Initial D the Movie and a final anime series, Initial D Final Stage, will be produced.^[27] The flick is a retelling of the early Stages with a wholly new voice cast and is split into iii parts, with the first part released on August 23, 2014, titled Legend 1: Awakening, the second part was released May 23, 2015, titled Fable ii: Racer, the 3rd part released on Feb six, 2016, titled Fable three: Dream ^[28]

Games [edit]

• Initial D Gaiden — 1998 — Game Boy
• Initial D — 1999 — Sega Saturn
• Initial D — 1999 — PS1
• Initial D: Ryosuke Takahashi'south Fastest Typing-theory — 2001 — PS2
• Initial D Arcade Stage / Initial D — 2002 — Arcade (NAOMI 2)
• Initial D Another Phase — 2002 — GBA
• Initial D Arcade Stage Ver.2 / Initial D Ver.2 — 2003 — Arcade (NAOMI 2)
• Initial D Collectible Carte Game — 2003 — Collectible Card Game
• Initial D: Special Stage — 2003 — PS2
• Initial D Mountain Vengeance — 2004 — PC
• Initial D Arcade Stage 3 / Initial D Version 3 — 2004 — Arcade (NAOMI 2)
• Initial D Arcade Phase 4 / Initial D 4 — 2006 — Arcade (Lindbergh)
• Initial D: Street Stage — 2006 — PSP
• Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Express — 2007 — Arcade (Lindbergh)
• Initial D Arcade Stage 4 Kai — 2008 — Arcade (Lindbergh)
• Initial D Farthermost Phase — 2008 — PS3
• Initial D Arcade Stage 5 — 2009 — Arcade (Lindbergh)
• Initial D Arcade Stage 6 AA — 2011 — Arcade (RingEdge)
• Initial D Arcade Stage vii AAX — 2012 — Arcade (RingEdge)
• Initial D Arcade Stage eight ∞ (Infinity) — 2014 — Arcade (RingEdge / RingEdge two)
• Initial D: Perfect Shift Online — 2014 — Nintendo 3DS eShop (free-to-play)
• Initial D Arcade Phase Zero — 2017 — Arcade (Sega Nu2)
• Initial D RPG — Sony Ericsson mobile telephone
• Initial D Pachislot - 2021 - Arcade
• Initial D The Arcade — 2021 — Arcade (ALLS)

The Initial D Arcade Stage arcade video game series has sold approximately vii,111 hardware units in Nihon up until 2007, grossing approximately $24 million in hardware sales.^[a]

Live-action motion-picture show [edit]

Fujino Store Tofu Shop in Gunma, which was renamed and modeled to Fujiwara Tofu Shop for the live-activeness moving picture.^{[29] [xxx]}

A replica of Takumi's AE86

A alive-activeness film based on Initial D was released on June 23, 2005, in Asia. The movie was jointly produced by Japan's Avex Inc. and Hong Kong's Media Asia Grouping. It was directed past Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, whose credits include the 2002 Hong Kong blockbuster Infernal Affairs. The adaptation featured Taiwanese singer Jay Chou as Takumi Fujiwara and Hong Kong stars Edison Chen as Ryosuke Takahashi and Shawn Yue as Takeshi Nakazato. Despite many changes to the original story, the movie was met with critical acclaim and was nominated for multiple awards, including All-time Flick, at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Equus caballus Awards, winning many of them.

A sequel has been in discussion since the following year afterwards the movie has debuted. All the same, a concrete conclusion could not exist reached due to several obstacles which includes the storyline, filming locations, casts, and safety reasons. As of March 2015, director and producer, Andrew Lau, has one time again reconfirmed in an exclusive interview that a sequel will surely follow but is tight-lipped on the release date. Jay Chou and Edison Chen volition reprise their roles in the sequel.

Soundtracks [edit]

The anime series sold 700,000 soundtrack anthology units up until 2000.^[31] At a price of ¥3,146,^{[32] [33]} soundtrack album sales grossed approximately ¥2,202.2 million. The live-action film'due south theme songs sold ane.2million units, grossing approximately ¥i.232 billion.^[b] In total, the franchise sold approximately 1.9million soundtrack units, grossing approximately ¥3,434.two 1000000 ($43.04 million) in soundtrack sales. Some of their about famous soundtracks include "Deja Vu", "Gas Gas Gas", and "Running in the ninety'south", all of which are Eurobeat songs past Italian musicians.

Reception [edit]

Commercial reception [edit]

As of July 2013, nerveless tankōbon volumes of the Initial D manga series sold 481000000 copies.^[34] At an average price of ¥691,^{[35] [36]} the manga has grossed approximately ¥33.ii billion ($416.09 million) in tankōbon volume sales. In addition, the total circulation of its manga chapters in Weekly Young Magazine issues betwixt 6 November 1995 and 29 July 2013^[vii] amounted to approximately 1,037,447,413 copies, with those issues grossing approximately ¥228,994,579,120 ($2.856 billion) in sales revenue.^[c]

The Initial D anime series sold over 1million DVD units in Japan up until 2008.^[37] At an average price of ¥5,184,^{[38] [39]} video sales grossed approximately ¥5.ii billion upwardly until 2008. Initial D Fifth Stage (2012) sold 157,598 home video units, grossing ¥408.3 million.^[forty] In Japan, the live-action Hong Kong film sold 250,000 DVD units, grossing approximately ¥998 million ($13 million).^[41] In total, the franchise has sold approximately i.41million video units in Japan, grossing approximately ¥6.61 1000000 ($83 meg) in video sales revenue.

The Initial D 3rd Stage anime film grossed ¥520 million ($vi.52 million) at the Japanese box office.^[42] The anime New Initial D the Flick trilogy grossed $two,660,288 at the East Asian box office.^[d] The alive-action Initial D Hong Kong picture grossed US$11 million at the worldwide box office.^[43] Combined, the Initial D films have grossed approximately $twenty.02 million at the worldwide box part.

Critical response [edit]

Initial D received praise. The Anime Review rated it A−, with the reviewer calling it "just the all-time show I've seen in a long fourth dimension."^[44] Bamboo Dong of Anime News Network rated it B−, stating it "is the first time in a long while since I've been then fired up about a series, and so I recommend to everyone to at to the lowest degree check this out."^[45]

Some fans of Initial D reacted negatively to the Tokyopop's extensive editing and changes fabricated in the English-language version of the manga. Similar reactions were made towards their English dub's script and voice acting, and the removal of the original music from the anime series. Tokyopop said that it was trying to Americanize the series so information technology could exist aired on goggle box, while at the same fourth dimension keeping the Japanese spirit of the serial.^[xiii]

According to Funimation officials, the re-release of the anime has "done well".^[46] Reviews of the series notation a marked comeback from the Tokyopop iteration, with virtually complaints leveled against the lack of anamorphic widescreen on the DVDs.

Initial D has drawn comparisons to the later Fast & Furious film franchise (debuted 2001), particularly The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Migrate (2006),^{[47] [48]} for which Initial D 's consultant Keiichi Tsuchiya served equally a stunt coordinator and stuntman and also fabricated a cameo appearance in the film as a fisherman.^{[49] [fifty]}

See likewise [edit]

• MF Ghost — Another car racing-themed manga serial past Shuichi Shigeno, connected to Initial D.

Notes [edit]

1. ^ See Initial D Arcade Stage § Reception
2. ^ Run into Initial D (movie) § Soundtrack
3. ^ See Weekly Young Magazine § Circulation
4. ^ Come across New Initial D the Movie § Box role

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External links [edit]

• Initial D at Kodansha's official site (in Japanese)
• Avex webpage for Initial D (in Japanese)
• Initial D Fifth Stage Official Website - Animax (in Japanese)
• Initial D Arcade Stage Version 3.0
• Initial D Games Official Website - Sega
• Initial D Games Official Website - Sega (in Japanese)
• North America Premier of the Live-action Initial D film
• Initial D (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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