Carfuckers Unlimited

I popped my cherry with my r32--and I liked it.

[farasen]

Takahashi brothers doodles

[kemafili]

[greenswing]

What the hell happened

[initial-dream]

Green Departure

As I mentioned in my post about Sentimental White, Initial D has five chapters that were uncollected in the main volumes (instead being included in guidebooks), and so have been ignored by any export release of the series.

Back in 2023 we released the two chapters that make up Sentimental White, and I am thrilled to announce that we have now released the three chapters of Green Departure.

Green Departure was released 24 years ago in 2001, and was later adapted into 2008's Initial D Extra Stage 2. It follows Mako and Iketani meeting again after their heartbreak in the early part of the series.

You can read all three chapters right now on Mangadex.

I'm so glad all of Initial D is finally readable.

[masudaokada]

[ny0o0o0m]

you people are going to like, pay, for continuing to put mf ghost ryōsuke on my dash

[smash-or-pass-objects]

Smash or Pass: 1992 Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

smash

pass

Voting ended onJun 3, 2024

[masudaokada]

[masudaokada]

[sibmakesart]

no wonder this man hasnt had a thought in 5 years, waking up at 4 everyday and then school and then work....

ANYWAY

initial D fanat in 2024 bc i started watching it with a friend and its SO GOOD AND NOSTALGIC omg

[rubbersoul333]

[initial-dream]

Initial D Art Book

I've been excited to do this one for a while.

The Initial D Art Book was released by Kodansha in 2001, and features a lot of the art made by Shuichi Shigeno for the series up to the time of release (which would have been around the time of the Northern Saitama Alliance races).

The books 233 pages are split between pages of artwork, block coloured manga pages, art featured on cover pages of the manga chapters, and photos of the courses. Also included is a several page interview with Shigeno himself, and a look at merchandise that had been released up to that point.

It's a very interesting book, and I'm glad to have been able to scan it in full. A previous scan does appear to have existed, but it was likely made in the early 2000s and thus the quality isn't the best. The only surviving remnants of that scan are a handful of cropped pieces that have been archived, as well as a deck of cards that somebody made using the art.

I've uploaded the entire book onto the Internet Archive, which can be read here. I hope you enjoy it.

[sacred-portal]

[initial-dream]

Sentimental White

If you've known me for any period of time, you've likely heard me talk (read: complain at length) about the situation surrounding Initial D's extra chapters.

Now Initial D has 10 extra chapters (I won't bore you with the others but if you are interested, I have written about all of them on the wiki) five of which were never collected into a main tankobon volume.

These five chapters are the two parts of Sentimental White, and the three parts of Green Departure. They would later be adapted into Extra Stage - Act 2 (only a month after its release, apparently, which is rather cool), and Extra Stage 2 respectively.

Both saw releases in the 2014 and 2015 guidebooks "Trajectory Challenge Note" and "Trajectory Sprinting Note", their only releases outside of the pages of Weekly Young Magazine.

As they were never released in the main volumes, all five have gone untranslated into any language other than Japanese since their releases, 23 and 22 years ago respectively.

Until now, that is.

After, quite frankly, a lot of work, we (and by we I mean myself and the other members of the Project D scanlation team) have finally been able to get all of Sentimental White translated and presentable.

Sentimental White follows Mako Sato as she meets a guy, and the two try to start a relationship. If you've seen Extra Stage - Act 2, its pretty much the same, but it's nice to see it in its original manga form.

You can read both chapters right now on Mangadex.

I'm very happy to finally have this out, and I can't wait for Green Departure to be finished so I can show that too.

[bra-nch]

Happy Mogi Monday

It’s the first Mogi Monday of June

[bra-nch]

[toyota-supra]

Takeshi Nakazato is so funny. dude’s whole introduction is “I got in a big crash once and it made me wake up. that’s why I bought this sick fucking car that’s way beyond anything your 1982 car can achieve. [gets in a crash again] ok this time though [crashes again]”