dont say you watched the anime if you didnit read th emanga

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I respected what could be done with these cars, but there just wasn’t a whole lot out there to be excited by. There were tasteful and functional tuner builds in the US at this time, but it seemed that for every nicely built 240SX or Civic you encountered, there were a hundred more loaded up with neon lights, cheap APC parts and NOS decals. It all seemed like a whole lot of attitude and flash, but very little substance. This was the era of vinyl graphics, painted interiors, horrific body kits, giant spoilers and annoying mufflers – the stuff my friends and I would laugh at. To me tuner cars were the stuff you saw in the Fast & The Furious or at Hot Import Nights with cotton in the fender wells and surrounded by break dancers. This is the early 2000s we are talking about. In fact there were plenty of Japanese cars that I respected thanks mainly to video games, but my image of the ‘import scene’ here in the US was not a good one. I was never one of those die-hard USA guys that hated foreign cars. Where do the Japanese cars that I now love so much fit into all of this? That’s where Initial D comes in…

DONT SAY YOU WATCHED THE ANIME IF YOU DIDNIT READ TH EMANGA DRIVERS

Once I got my own drivers license in 2001, I drove a ’73 Plymouth Duster and later moved on to a series of 5.0 Mustangs and Z/28 Camaros through my high school days. There was everything from muscle cars to pickup trucks, VWs, and just about everything else.Īlthough I was brought up around all sorts of cars, it was the muscle cars that really rubbed off on me – especially after spending countless hours riding in the backseat of my dad’s ’70 GTO.

I spent my childhood watching dozens of cars coming and going from our driveway as my dad bought them, fixed them up and then sold them. Thanks to the influence of my dad, I’ve pretty much been fascinated with automobiles since birth. Initial D is not responsible for my love of cars, but it is something that dramatically changed the way I see them – specifically those that come from Japan. So in a way this is part retrospective, part editorial and part autobiography. With the Initial D manga series recently publishing it’s final volume, I thought now was the perfect time for me to share the story about how Shuichi Shigeno’s fictional saga of Japanese touge racers helped to shape my career path and my life in general.

Yes, it’s amazing and a little bit scary just how much this animation and comic book series from Japan has impacted my life.

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Not just writing this story I mean, but the reason I’ve found this amazing career as a Speedhunter and professional car maniac. As strange as this might sound, I’m pretty sure Initial D is the reason I am sitting here right now.

Dont say you watched the anime if you didnit read th emanga