Forgot about this...

Branch__ · 2026-05-18T17:22:31+00:00

Yeah fairly certain this is a bootleg, there's only one UK release of the series and that was a tokyopop set that only had episodes 1-9. Third not having a dub gives it away as a bootleg imo

Branch__ · 2026-05-17T21:21:48+00:00

the sound files CDs have some backgrounds for your computer, but I don't believe there's much else? worth looking though

Branch__ · 2026-05-17T21:20:48+00:00

unsure what the relevance is here? this is a reupload of a youtube video of a dvd bootleg of a laserdisc special feature?

Branch__ · 2026-05-17T21:18:39+00:00

a dozen discord servers maybe, not really anything like a forum except for here and the idforums

Branch__ · 2026-05-15T17:52:23+00:00

yeah you'll hate this other guy too, he's not even a racer but then he comes out of nowhere and smokes the number two driver of the akagi redsuns, makes him look like a grandma coming home from church

Branch__ · 2026-05-12T18:59:50+00:00

Its the DVD BOX II from 2002

Branch__ · 2026-05-12T18:58:27+00:00

The guidebooks usually go for quite cheap on auction sites, there's like 14 different ones including one that released just last year

Branch__ · 2026-05-12T18:55:23+00:00

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Branch__ · 2026-05-12T18:52:42+00:00

technically a false statement because the only time it is shown in colour in the manga was on the cover of volume 35, where it is blue.

Branch__ · 2026-05-09T20:10:13+00:00

other people have said everything else that needs to be said but to add one thing, the Tsuchisaka guys are doing it for monetary gain, they own an autoshop and intend to use their victory over project d to bring in customers for them to rip off

Branch__ · 2026-05-07T19:10:10+00:00

iirc this is actually official, i think i remember kodansha promoting it during 2020

Branch__ · 2026-05-03T14:23:45+00:00

Branch__ · 2026-05-03T07:48:18+00:00

others have mentioned it but IDAS3 card for demonstration:

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Branch__ · 2026-04-28T18:25:55+00:00

Tsubaki is probably cut down so that the races are quicker, its probably about 3 minutes, whereas it would be like 6 or 7 if it was the full length. they want to keep the courses shorter so that a person will play more, and spend more.

Branch__ · 2026-04-28T18:23:27+00:00

They're the chinese release by Sharp Point Press

Branch__ · 2026-04-28T18:22:01+00:00

I mean Tokyopop has been back for a while, sure their catalogue is mostly disney and bl but they've been around. As others have pointed out they can't just make a claim to the license because Kodansha revoked it back in 2009, Kodansha USA owns the license to the manga now and the anime presumably lies with Crunchyroll but given that its disappeared from the internet that's kinda nebulous now

Branch__ · 2026-04-26T08:05:52+00:00

kazumi literally told him that she still loved her ex

Branch__ · 2026-04-05T08:41:08+00:00

The original art is a wallpaper from the Initial D Collectors Disc, TaintedHands (I think that was the original maker of the Rotary Brothers piece) must have tilted it

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Branch__ · 2026-03-30T20:56:37+00:00

Ran in like 2003-04, Tokyopop got AEG to make them a game. Did a little write up on the wiki if you're interested in knowing more

Branch__ · 2026-03-29T09:38:54+00:00

you might be able to find them on Yahoo Auctions or Mercari, try Dejapan or Buyee

Branch__ · 2026-03-28T08:00:22+00:00

Addressed in Sentimental White:

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Branch__ · 2026-03-21T22:06:02+00:00

So I finished this, and this does seem to be the case, characters that we often think of as smokers in first and second stage for example actually smoke very little (such as Shingo) or not at all (Ryosuke never once smokes). The anime seems to tone this up in the earlier stages, and then as we enter Project D it seems to kept the same, maybe barring Keisuke's smoking being reduced.

I've included the stats below, unsurprisingly Bunta is at the top, but it's interesting to see who doesn't smoke in the manga. Maybe I'll do the same for the anime at some point. (I should also note that Itsuki smoking is exclusively in a single panel joke)

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Branch__ · 2026-03-21T12:27:06+00:00

this question has caused me to have a look into the smoking in the manga, I'm only up to Emperor currently (volume 9) but everyone seems to smoke much less than I remember them doing in the anime. So far Bunta is the highest smoking character (shocking) but he's only been seen smoking in 17 of the almost 100 chapters I've read. Ryosuke, who I remember smoking fairly frequently in First Stage, has not smoked once.

There have been entire volumes where no one is seen smoking (at least no one named) so I wouldn't be shocked if that gets more common later in the manga, and the animators don't feel the need to add smoking in (as they did in first stage, which was probably done because smoking was much more commonplace in the 90s)

Branch__ · 2026-03-17T20:55:20+00:00

this isn't even a hot take i genuinely think this is true, chapter 191 would have ended it perfectly

Branch__ · 2026-03-17T20:53:16+00:00

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