Joseph Luster
January 4, 2023 
The official website for the anime adaptation of Initial D creator Shuuichi Shigeno’s MF Ghost manga went live with a new promo video today, taking the opportunity to show more footage and reveal more cast and staff. You’ll also be able to catch some cameo teases from Initial D in the video below, so let’s take a look!
Cast members involved in MF Ghost include:
CHARACTER – ACTOR
- Katana Katagiri – Yuma Uchida
- Ren Saionji – Ayane Sakura
- Shun Aiba – Daisuke Ono
- Michael Beckenbauer – Hiroshi Kamiya
- Daigo Oishi – Daisuke Namikawa
- Kaito Akaba – Junichi Suwabe
- Fujin Ishigami – Hiroki Yasumoto
- Koki Sawatari – Ryota Ohsaka
- Kakeru Yashiro – Kohsuke Tanabe
- Nozomi Kitahara – Yu Serizawa
- Yudai Sakamoto – Tooru Sakurai
- Yosuke Otani – Kaito Ishikawa
- Jackson Taylor – Yuichi Nakamura
- Kazuhiro Maezono – Takumu Miyazono
- Takuya Yanagida – Shogo Sakata
- E. Hanninen – Kenta Miyake
- Ogata – Tasuku Hatanaka
- Sena Moroboshi – Taku Yashiro
- Ryo Takahashi – Takehito Koyasu
- Keisuke Takahashi – Tomokazu Seki
- Fumihiro Joyu – Osamu Hosoi
- Wataru Akiyama – Yasunori Matsumoto
- Itsuki Takeuchi – Mitsuo Iwata
- Koichiro Iketani – Kazuki Yao
- Kenji – Wataru Takagi
- Hiroya Okuyama – Shuuhei Sakaguchi
- Kai Kogashiwa – Nobutoshi Canna
- Yoji Tanaka – Tatsuki Kobe
- Kyoko Kurihara – Yuko Iida
- Mami Sato – Coco Hayashi
Joining the staff, we have:
- Prop Design: Mahiro Shinya
- Art Director/Art Setting: Seiko Akashi
- Color Key Artist: Chiharu Tanaka
- Compositing Director of Photography: Kouji Hayashi (Color & Smile)
- Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose (editz)
- Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama (Sound Box)
- Sound Production: Techno Sound
- CG Animation Production: Felix Film/directrain
Initial D movie director Tomohito Naka is back at the helm for MF Ghost, with Kenichi Yamashita (Hensuki) on series composition, also writing scripts along with Akihiko Inari. Character designs fall to Naoyuki Onda (Berserk: The Golden Age anime films), who also serves as animation director alongside Chiyoko Sakamoto (The World God Only Knows). Other staff members include Hiroki Uchida as CG director, Masafumi Mima as sound director and Akio Dobashi as composer.
The MF Ghost manga has been running in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine since September 2017, and 12 collected volumes have been released so far. Set 15 years after Initial D, MF Ghost sees internal combustion engines discontinued in favor of electric and fuel cell vehicles. The series stars 19-year-old Japanese-British protagonist Kanata Livington, who was trained by Initial D protagonist Takumi Fujiwara in the art of racing. Kanata travels to Japan to find his father and participate in MFG, a closed-course car race on public roads that uses sports cars powered by internal combustion engines.
MF Ghost is currently set to premiere in 2023.
