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Before he knew it, Takumi is quickly, and unwillingly, plunged into a high-speed world of white-knuckle contests on the most dangerous mountain passes in Japan. Assisted by the Speedstars, his slightly obnoxious friend Itsuki, his good-hearted yet somewhat shady girlfriend Natsuki Mogi, and the sage-like words of Bunta, himself a retired ace drifter, he'll need all the help he can get to outwit and outmaneuver Japan's most talented underground drifters and outmaneuver his way to the top of the heap.

 

 

A live-action movie based on ''Initial D'' was released in 2005. There are also numerous video game adaptations of the material, most notably the ''[[Initial D Arcade Stage]]'' series, which brought the competitive arcade racing game scene to life.

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Bunta's Subaru Impreza WRX STi is supposed to be painted Gunmetal Grey, just like Shigeno's own Impreza. It appears as such in the manga, the first 3 versions of Arcade Stage, and in Special Stage. When the car made its anime debut in ''Fourth Stage'', the Impreza appears wearing the "555 Blue Mica" paint, and said color becomes the default paint for the car in subsequent games released from that point on.

** Due to animation mistakes in First Stage sometimes cars swap colors. There is one scene in particular where the Takahashis' RX-7s change color.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''Densha de D'' is a parody of ''Initial D'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH TRAINS!]]</small>

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Two words: Lonely driver. Takumi is one lucky guy to have actually gotten a girlfriend who stuck with him for so long. {{spoiler|And then he gets another one in the manga when the first one moves to Tokyo.}}

* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: In an rare male-to-male example, Team Emperor leader Kyouichi slaps Seiji for {{spoiler|refusing to follow a tactic that would've secured his victory against Takumi.}}

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Ryosuke Takahashi, one of the hero's main rivals, is said to be the only racing driver who trains on the computer. Not through simulations, but apparently by ''mathematical analysis of the performance of different cars''.

* [[Battle Aura]]: In the 2nd and 4th Stage seasons.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: In the first season, the car brand "Trueno" (in the front of the hero's car) is spelled as "Toreno", until Toyota allowed the use of the actual product name.

** There's also "Nisno", "Missan", and even later in Fourth Stage Dunlop becomes "Danrep"

* [[Cool Car]]: A lot of them, though in a bit of a subversion, the hero's has one of the lesser cool cars.

** The subversion is itself subverted, as real-life demand for the hero's car increased through drift contests and the show's popularity.

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Well known for it, and usually turns up in parody works through a blatant [[Art Shift]].

** ''[[Lucky Star]]'' spoofed it. The really funny thing is that the driver is a cop, and should know better. And drives at 40 km/h (25 mph for the metric-impaired).

* [[Secret Legacy]]

* [[Shower Scene]]: Mako in ''Extra Stage''.

* [[Subcultures in Japan]]

* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Takumi.

* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Guys From Tokyo]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The last team from Saitama. When you contact a group of bad-asses to beat someone up for you, make sure they're not a) fans of the team and/or b) former subordinates of the guy whose car you sabotaged.

** Not so. Especially since Bunta fills it half way\three quarters of the way, this is very possible. I wouldn't recommend street racing if this was what you're going for, but it certainly is doable.

* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Said tofu delivery runs are training for Takumi's road racing ability. This is not known to him until a few episodes/chapters into the series (at which point he had been delivering tofu for five years).

 

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