Initial D (1998)
Initial D (1998)
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Plot.
Takumi’s job as a tofu delivery boy has turned him into one of the most formidable drivers around. Behind the wheel of his Eight-Six, he’s one with the road—and his life shifts into high gear when the underground street racing world takes notice. Drivers from across the region are lining up for a shot at the new guy. Takumi’s not just focused on winning—he’s out to prove he’s the best.
Where to Watch.

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Cast & Crew.

Shin-ichiro Miki
Takumi Fujiwara (voice)

Steve Blum
Keisuke 'K.T.' Takahashi

Atsushi Abe
Shinji Inui (voice)

Takehito Koyasu
Ryosuke Takahashi (voice)

Vic Mignogna
Shingo Shoji

Robbie Rist
Itsuki 'Iggy' Takeuchi

Jason Spisak
Kenji

Tomokazu Seki
Keisuke Takahashi (voice)

Crispin Freeman
Kouichiro 'Cole' Iketani

Hidenobu Kiuchi
Go Hojo (voice)

Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Saori

Ryu Hwan-suk
Art Direction

Todd Haberkorn
Keisuke Takahashi

Hiromi Yamaguchi
Other

Yasuyuki Kase
Eiji Kubo (voice)

Scott Menville
Goro

Osamu Mikasa
Color Designer / Art Designer

Yuuka Hirose
Shinji's Mother (voice)

Shinji Ikegami
Director of Photography

Mitsuo Iwata
Itsuki Takeuchi (voice)

Mitsuo Hashimoto
Series Director / Storyboard Artist

Colleen Clinkenbeard
Mako Sato

Kazuki Yao
Koichiro Iketani (voice)

Atsushi Umebori
Original Music Composer

Masaki Sato
Character Designer / Animation Director / Supervising Animation Director / Character Designer / Key Animation

Hideaki Yokoi
Mechanical Designer

Kanemori Yasuda
CGI Director

Fujio Yamada
Sound Mixer / Sound Designer / Sound Mixer

Kenji Koyama
Sound Effects / Sound Designer / Sound Effects

Kayo Fukuda
Producer

Masafumi Mima
Sound Director

Shuichi Shigeno
Comic Book

Kazuhiro Takahashi
Art Direction

Nobuto Sakamoto
Art Direction

Minoru Maeda
Art Direction

Susumu Kudo
Storyboard Artist / Director

Tsuneo Tominaga
Storyboard Artist / Series Director

Naruyo Takahashi
Storyboard Artist

Shin'ichi Masaki
Storyboard Artist / Series Director

Katsuyuki Kodera
Storyboard Artist

Masami Hata
Storyboard Artist / Director

Shin Misawa
Storyboard Artist / Series Director / Director

Kazunori Ikegami
Storyboard Artist / Director

Hiroshi Kimura
Storyboard Artist / Director

Akira Mano
Storyboard Artist

Hiroshi Kotaki
Storyboard Artist / Director

Naoyuki Kuzuya
Storyboard Artist / Director

Yoshimitsu Tsuda
Storyboard Artist / Director

Naoyasu Habu
Storyboard Artist

Yoshitaka Koyama
Storyboard Artist

Yuzo Sato
Storyboard Artist

Kenichi Kuhara
Storyboard Artist / Director

Kazuyoshi Yokota
Storyboard Artist / Director

NANAKO
Storyboard Artist

Ko Matsuo
Storyboard Artist

Hiroyuki Kakudou
Storyboard Artist

Yukihiro Makino
Storyboard Artist

Toshiaki Kanbara
Storyboard Artist

Harumi Tamano
Storyboard Artist

Takeshi Ushigusa
Storyboard Artist

Shinya Hanai
Storyboard Artist / Director

Masaki Nakamura
Director of Photography

Seiichi Morishita
Director of Photography

Sadanori Kaneda
Director of Photography

Kenji Akazawa
Director of Photography

Masayuki Nakajima
Special Effects

Yukitaka Shishikai
Special Effects

Toshiyuki Ito
Special Effects

Seiron Yasui
Special Effects

Koji Usui
Special Effects

Naomasa Fukuda
Special Effects

Teruo Naruse
Assistant Director

Osamu Sekita
Director

Taiki Nishimura
Director

Hiroshi Tsuruta
Director

Ikko Kobayashi
Layout / Animation Director

Shu Watanabe
Director

Yukihiro Shino
Director

Mihiro Yamaguchi
Director

Taiji Kawanishi
Director

Satoshi Nakagawa
Director

Ken Baba
Director

Yukio Nishimoto
Director

Akira Shimizu
Director

Yasuo Ejima
Director

Masayuki Matsumoto
Director

Yuichiro Miyake
Director / Animation Director

Hiroshi Ishida
Director

Tsuyoshi Imai
Editor

Kimio Nagaya
Editor

Shinji Kobukata
Editor

Ren Usami
Executive Producer

Kuniyasu ICHIKAWA
Producer's Assistant

Hiromichi Mogaki
Producer

Tadashi Shiobara
Production Assistant

Ryuichi Katsumata
Original Music Composer

Dennis Martin
Original Music Composer

Miyuki Seki
Sound Designer

Reiji Matsumoto
Sound Designer

Takao Ogawa
Sound Designer

Takeshi Takadera
Sound Designer

Noboru Furuse
Supervising Animation Director / Character Designer

Toshihiro Nagao
CGI Director

Naomi Anzai
Color Designer

Michiyo Iriomote
Color Designer

Akira Kano
Character Designer

Koji Haneda
Animation Director / Key Animation

Takahisa Ichikawa
Animation Director

Hatsuki Tsuji
Key Animation / Animation Director

Aki Tsunaki
Key Animation / Animation Director

Yosuke Kikuchi
Key Animation / Animation Director

Takeshi Yamazaki
Animation Director

Kuniyuki Ishii
Animation Director / Key Animation

Mariko Aoki
Animation Director / Key Animation

Toshio Hijikata
Animation Director / Key Animation

Ken Obata
Animation Director / Key Animation

Koichi Maruyama
Key Animation / Animation Director

Toshiyuki Komaru
Animation Director

Takashi Murai
Animation Director / Key Animation

Kim Yoon-joung
Key Animation / Animation Director

Ko Seong-woon
Animation Director

Shohei Kohara
Animation Director / Supervising Animation Director

Yuki Iwai
Animation Director

Koji Kataoka
Key Animation / Animation Director

Natsuki Egami
Key Animation / Animation Director

Masako Onozawa
Key Animation / Animation Director

Masahiro Yamashita
Key Animation

Junko Nakamura
Animation Director

Hisashi Kagawa
Animation Director / Key Animation

Park Myoung-hun
Key Animation

Kim Yoon-jeong
Animation Director / Key Animation

Masaharu Morinaka
Animation Director

Hideki Araki
Animation Director

Masahiro Sekiguchi
Animation Director

Tatsuo Honda
Key Animation

Yojiro Shigeru
Key Animation

Shinobu Nishiyama
Animation Director

Takaharu Ookuma
Key Animation

Sumio Mutoh
Key Animation

Toshikazu Motozumi
Key Animation

Hiroshi Kanazawa
Animation Director

Kiyotaka Iida
Key Animation

Shosuke Shimizu
Animation Director

Yukitoshi Morita
Key Animation

Yuichiro Masuda
Key Animation

Nobuaki Kishima
Writer

Hiroshi Toda
Writer

Unsho Ishizuka
Bunta Fujiwara (voice)

Ayako Kawasumi
Natsuki Mogi (voice)

Tomomichi Nishimura
Yuichi Tachibana (voice)

Toru Furusawa
Papa (voice)

Wataru Takagi
Kenji (voice)

Kenji Nojima
Man (voice)

Makiko Miyagi
Woman (voice)

Nobuyuki Hiyama
Takeshi Nakazato (voice)

Shogo Sakamoto
Man (voice)

Nobuyuki Tanaka
Man (voice) / Goro (voice)

Naoki Imamura
Man (voice)

Yuka Nagayoshi
Woman (voice)

Etsuko Tokunaga
Woman (voice)

Atsushi Suzuki
Man (voice) / Akio (voice) / Masahiko (voice)

Kunihiko Yasui
Hiromichi (voice)

Akio Suyama
Shoichi (voice)

Keiji Fujiwara
Shingo Shoji (voice)

Yumi Kakazu
Sayuki (voice) / Woman (voice)

Orine Fukushima
Saori (voice)

Osamu Hosoi
Fumihiro (voice) / Man (voice)

Michiko Neya
Mako Sato (voice)

Keiko Ikeda
Woman (voice)

Tomo Saeki
Woman (voice)

Keiichi Tsuchiya
Supervising Technical Director / Keiichi Tsuchiya (voice)

Masahiko Tanaka
Kyoichi Sudo (voice)

Kazuhisa Kawahara
Seiji Iwaki (voice)

Koji Yusa
Man (voice)

Takahiro Sakurai
Man (voice)

Yoshiro Fukui
Man (voice)

Kouichi Ikai
Man (voice)

Takeshi Hayashi
Man (voice)

Hidenari Ugaki
Papa (voice)

Yasunori Matsumoto
Wataru Akiyama (voice)

Ryoka Yuzuki
Kazumi Akiyama (voice)

Nobutoshi Canna
Kai Kogashiwa (voice)

Kinryu Arimoto
Ken Kogashiwa (voice)

Kousuke Okano
Kenta Nakamura (voice) / Junichi Sakamoto (voice)

Koji Ishii
Masashi Suzuki (voice) / Silvia S15 Driver (voice) / Man (voice)

Daiki Nakamura
Toru Suetsugu (voice)

Miki Nagasawa
Nao (voice)

Seiji Sasaki
Atsuro Kawai (voice)

Hiro Yuuki
Shinichi (voice)

Rintaro Nishi
Shuichi Matsumoto (voice)

Yuji Kishi
Man A (voice)

Kozo Mito
Man B (voice)

Makoto Yasumura
Man C (voice)

Eriko Kigawa
Woman A (voice)

Misato Fukuen
Woman B (voice)

Kazuhiro Nakata
Tomoyuki Tachi (voice)

Toshiyuki Morikawa
Daiki Ninomiya (voice)

Shintarou Oohata
Spectator A (voice)

Eisuke Asakura
Spectator B (voice)

Ryuzo Hasuike
Spectator C (voice)

Takaya Hashi
Mr. Todo (voice)

Tsuguo Mogami
Spectator (voice) / Man D (voice)

Akimitsu Takase
'Smiley' Sakai (voice)

Takashi Kondo
Nishiyama (voice)

Takayuki Yamaguchi
Todo School Student (voice)

Masaru Motegi
Todo School Graduate 'Old Boy' (voice)

Yoshinori Sonobe
Todo School Student (voice) / Yamashita (voice) / Spectator (voice)

Megumi Toyoguchi
Kyoko Iwase (voice)

Naomi Wakabayashi
Kyoko's Friend (voice)

Jin Horikawa
Nobuhiko Akiyama (voice)

Youto Kazama
Yokota (voice)

Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Saito (voice)

Hiroyuki Yoshino
Sakamoto (voice)

Mitsuaki Madono
Ichijou (Lancer Evolution VI Driver) (voice)

Shigeru Shibuya
Kazumi's Ex-boyfriend (voice)

Masuo Amada
Aikawa (Lancer Evolution V Driver) (voice)

Eiji Miyashita
Spectator B (voice) / Tsuchisaka Lancer Evolution Team Member B (voice) / Man (voice)

Ryokichi Takahashi
Miyaguchi (voice) / Man (voice) / Spectator (voice)

Atsushi Kakehashi
Spectator A (voice) / Tsuchisaka Lancer Evolution Team Member A (voice) / Purple Shadow Member (voice) / Restaurant Staf...

Tomoyuki Shimura
Former Motorcycle Gang Leader (voice)

Ryuuzaburou Ootomo
Kozo 'God Foot' Hoshino (voice)

Masashi Ebara
Toshiya 'God Hand' Joshima (voice)

Kenta Miyake
Purple Shadow Member (voice)

Taketora
Spectator (voice)

Anri Katsu
Spectator (voice) / Purple Shadow Member (voice) / Man (voice) / Fake Takumi (voice)

Kiyotaka Furushima
Spectator (voice)

Takashi Kimura
Spectator (voice)

Mototaka Segawa
Theme Song Performance / Spectator (voice)

Yuri Masuda
Theme Song Performance / Spectator (voice)

Kana Omura
Woman (voice)

Yoko Nishino
Woman (voice)

Yuka Akanami
Woman (voice)

Harumi Suga
Woman (voice)

Saori Hayami
Mika Uehara (voice)

Hirokazu Miura
Fake Keisuke (voice)

Megumi Satou
Girl A (voice)

Naoko Sugiura
Girl B (voice)

Hiroki Touchi
Satoshi Ohmiya (voice)

Hiroki Maeda
Team 246 Member A (voice) / Man A (voice)

Kenji Hamada
Kobayakawa (voice)

Katsuyuki Konishi
Hideo Minagawa (voice)

Kazuya Nakai
Ryuji Ikeda (voice)

Ryota Asari
Spectator (voice)

Yuya Murakami
Mika's Father (voice) / Mika's Coach (voice) / Team 246 Member B (voice)

Shuhei Sakaguchi
Hiroya Okuyama (voice)

Yuichi Nakamura
Rin 'Grim Reaper' Hojo (voice)

Aya Endo
Kaori (voice)

Masayuki Omoro
Kaori's Father (voice)
Media.










Details.
Release DateApril 18, 1998
Original Name頭文字D
StatusEnded
Seasons5
Episodes81
Running Time25m
Content RatingTV-14
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
car race
drifting
anime
Scripted
delivery boy
jdm
japan car culture
motorsport
mountain road
street race
prodigy
street racing
based on manga
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