At the same time, Takumi asks Bunta if he can borrow the car for a day to take a trip to the beach with a potential girlfriend, and Bunta seizes the moment by granting permission (plus a full tank of fuel) on the condition that Takumi defeats the RedSuns driver. The Speedstars beg Bunta to help them defeat the RedSuns, and he initially refuses, later relenting to "maybe" show up at the race.
An investigation into the identity of the driver leads to Bunta Fujiwara, Takumi's father. Later that night, the RedSuns' #2 driver, heading home after the last practice run, is defeated soundly by a mysterious Sprinter Trueno, despite driving a much more powerful car. Dispirited after watching the RedSuns' superior performance during a practice run, the Speedstars expect to lose. Shortly after the story begins, the RedSuns, an amateur racing team from Akagi Prefecture, challenge the local Speedstars team to a set of races on Mount Akina. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, Takumi moonlights as a tofu delivery driver for his father's store before sunrise each morning, passively building an impressive amount of skill behind the wheel of the family car, an aging Toyota Sprinter Trueno. The protagonist, Takumi Fujiwara, is a gas station attendant working with his friend Itsuki to buy a car, which they plan to drift on the twisting roads surrounding nearby Mount Akina. The first battle of the series, Keisuke Takahashi ( RX-7) vs Takumi Fujiwara ( Trueno), as seen in the anime. Both the manga and anime series were initially licensed for English-language distribution in North America by Tokyopop (2002–2009), however, the anime license has since been picked up by Funimation Entertainment, while the manga is no longer available in English. A live action film by Avex and Media Asia was released in 2005 and sequel, Initial D 2 will be released in 2016. Initial D has been adapted into several television anime and original video animations series by OB Planning, Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, A.C.G.T and SynergySP. 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. 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. Professional race car driver and pioneer of drifting Keiichi Tsuchiya helped with editorial supervision. 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 drift racing style emphasized in particular. It was serialized in Young Magazine from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Initial D ( Japanese: 頭文字D(イニシャル・ディー), Hepburn: Inisharu Dī ?) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno.
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