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Initial D is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. 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.
Original Release
04/18/1998
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Shin'ichirô Miki | Takumi Fujiwara |
Steve Blum | Keisuke 'K.T.' Takahashi |
Robbie Rist | Itsuki 'Iggy' Takeuchi |
Scott Menville | Goro / Shoichi |
Colleen O'Shaughnessey | Saori |
Crispin Freeman | Kouichiro 'Cole' Iketani |
Todd Haberkorn | Keisuke Takahashi |
Vic Mignogna | Shingo Shoji |
Ian Sinclair | Additional Voices |
Colleen Clinkenbeard | Mako Sato |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Ultimate Tofu Guy Drift | Saturday, 18 April 1998 |
2 | Declaration of Revenge! | Saturday, 25 April 1998 |
3 | Downhill Specialist Arrives | Saturday, 02 May 1998 |
4 | The Battle Begins | Saturday, 09 May 1998 |
5 | Dogfight! | Saturday, 16 May 1998 |
6 | A New Challenger | Saturday, 23 May 1998 |
7 | Pride of a Racer | Saturday, 13 June 1998 |
8 | Time's Almost Up | Saturday, 20 June 1998 |
9 | Battle to the Limit | Saturday, 27 June 1998 |
10 | The Five Consecutive Hairpins | Saturday, 04 July 1998 |
11 | Shingo Arrives | Saturday, 11 July 1998 |
12 | The FR Killer | Saturday, 01 August 1998 |
13 | Itsuki's First Date | Saturday, 08 August 1998 |
14 | Improving Genius of Drift | Saturday, 15 August 1998 |
15 | Takumi's Fury | Saturday, 22 August 1998 |
16 | The Angel of Usui | Saturday, 29 August 1998 |
17 | Sudden-Death Deathmatch | Saturday, 12 September 1998 |
18 | Hot Winds & Furious Driving | Saturday, 19 September 1998 |
19 | Super Drift! | Saturday, 26 September 1998 |
20 | The End of Summer | Thursday, 01 October 1998 |
21 | Challenge from a Superstar | Saturday, 17 October 1998 |
22 | Severe Uphill Climb | Saturday, 24 October 1998 |
23 | Downhill Rain Battle | Saturday, 07 November 1998 |
24 | Akina's Superstar | Saturday, 14 November 1998 |
25 | Last Battle! | Saturday, 28 November 1998 |
26 | New Downhill Legend | Saturday, 05 December 1998 |
Directors
Shin Misawa, Susumu Kudo, Rei Kotaki, Masami Hata, Hiroshi Tsuruta, Mihiro Yamaguchi, Yukio Nishimoto, Kazuyoshi Yokota, Naoyuki Kuzuya, Kazunori Ikegami
Writers
Kôji Kaneda, Shuichi Shigeno, Nobuaki Kishima, Hiroshi Toda, Eric Vale, Andrew Rye, J. Michael Tatum, Marc Handler
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shin'ichirô Miki | Takumi Fujiwara |
Steve Blum | Keisuke 'K.T.' Takahashi |
Robbie Rist | Itsuki 'Iggy' Takeuchi |
Scott Menville | Goro / Shoichi |
Colleen O'Shaughnessey | Saori |
Crispin Freeman | Kouichiro 'Cole' Iketani |
Todd Haberkorn | Keisuke Takahashi |
Vic Mignogna | Shingo Shoji |
Ian Sinclair | Additional Voices |
Colleen Clinkenbeard | Mako Sato |
Jason Spisak | Kenji |
Brina Palencia | Natsuki Mogi |
J. Michael Tatum | Ryosuke Takahashi |
Eric Vale | Koichiro Iketani |
Monica Rial | Sayuki |
Kate Higgins | Natalie |
Lex Lang | Ryosuke 'Ry' Takahashi |
Kyle Hebert | Keiichi Tsuchiya / Additional Voices |
Quinton Flynn | Shingo Shoji |
Wally Wingert | Takeshi 'Zack' Nakazato |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ron Klamert | Executive Producer |
Stuart J. Levy | Executive Producer |
Kayo Fukuda | Producer |
Hiromichi Mogaki | Producer |
Daisuke Kinouchi | Producer |
Jamie Simone | Producer |