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The second in the new Initial D anime film trilogy, New Initial D the Movie Legend 2: Racer , is being previewed in a new teaser. The sequel hits Japanese theaters on May 23, and you can see another quick peek below.
The second part of the new Initial D anime film trilogy project has officially been given a title and premiere date. Shin Gekijo-ban Initial D: Legend 2-Tousou (with " 闘走 Tousou" literally meaning Battle Run ) opens in Japan on May 23, 2015. The update …Read more »
There's a lot going on for Initial D at the moment, what with a new film trilogy and TV anime in the works, but manga creator Shuuichi Shigeno also has a brand new series on the way. As this year's 14th issue of Kodansha's Young …Read more »
As previously reported , Initial D is hitting the road again with both a new anime series, Initial D Final Stage , and a feature film, New Initial D the Movie . Thanks to Avex Entertainment we now have a quick look at some of …Read more »
Shūichi Shigeno's Initial D manga has been running in Kodansha's Young Magazine for a whopping 18 years, and it's getting ready to come to an end in those very pages on July 29. While that may bum some out, the good news is there's more …Read more »
Initial D ’s brought us a lot of good times, hasn’t it? Shuichi Shigeno’s drift-racing manga magnum opus -- about a guy who could drive his Dad’s Sprinter Trueno AE86 better than anybody on planet Earth -- was adapted into a long-running anime series, inspired …Read more »
When Toyota designers and engineers were toiling away on the fifth generation Corolla coupe, it’s unlikely that they would have guessed that their humble car would become the cultural phenomenon that it did. Two decades later and the legacy of that humble car, otherwise known …Read more »
Mako and Sayuki, otherwise known as the racing team Impact Blue, are just a couple of girls trying to make it in the male-dominated world of Initial D. Much like real world racing, females in Initial D are few and far between, and the …Read more »
Initial D has always managed to entertain to some degree in spite of the myriad ways it attempts to turn its audience off. Seriously, both the anime and manga practically challenge me to dislike them on a regular basis, yet I keep coming back no …Read more »
One of many announcements at this year's New York Anime Festival, held this past weekend at the Javits Center in New York City, FUNimation's acquisition of Initial D covers the first through fourth stages of the mega-popular racing series, based on Shuichi Shigeno's original manga. …Read more »
2013 was a tumultuous year for the Japanese manga industry. Why, according to the ebookjapan.com newsletter I just got in my inbox, manga sales year-to-year in Japan are down to just 3/5ths of what they were during their peak way back in 1996. Something you …Read more »
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BULLET/BULLET was previously announced as an original anime from JUJUTSU KAISEN season 1 director Sunghoo Park, who has been conceiving it over the course of the past decade. Now we know to expect it in summer 2025, exclusively on Disney+, and we also have a …Read more »
Hot on the heels of the 2022 Urusei Yatsura anime, we’ve got the return of Ranma 1/2. Possibly the most famous and enduring of Rumiko Takahashi’s rom-coms, the series currently has a new lease on life on Netflix. And whether you’re new to the series or a …Read more »
The very first American Manga Awards will occur on August 22, right before the Anime NYC convention. Anime NYC and Japan Society are in on this together, and they’re revealed not only the nominees, but also that Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics author …Read more »
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