#Initial d the game drivers#

#Initial d the game drivers#

Akina enough times that he’s one of the best drivers in Gunma Prefecture at the run, unbeknownst to his best friend and street racing enthusiast Itsuki Takeuchi. Takumi makes tofu deliveries by driving the family’s aging Toyota Sprinter Trueno, or AE86, and has built up enough driving skills that he regularly surpasses drivers with more recent cars. His father, Bunta Fujiwara, was also a notable street racer back in his time, and his son has almost inadvertently followed in his footsteps over five years of making deliveries for his father. The story largely follows Takumi Fujiwara, a gas station attendant and delivery boy for a tofu shop as he strives to become the fastest street racer in the Kanto region.

Takumi Fujiwara: Fastest Driver to Deliver Tofu However you found it, Initial D is a high-octane thrill ride, and largely regarded as THE street-racing anime. Many fans found it the good ol’ fashioned way, by stumbling upon VHS tapes and recommending the series to their friends in person and over the earliest of early internet forums. Others may have first been exposed solely through internet memes involving ‘Running in the 90s’, a song popularized by the Initial D anime. I think I’d heard of it before described as an anime about racing, but I think when I saw the game I had a chicken-or-egg moment wondering if this game had a whole anime based on it.

One of my first encounters with Initial D was with one of the arcade machines that made it over to the US.