Initial D Books


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Has anyone else read these or even seen them for sale in the shops? I was on my happy holidays in Glasgow there last week and came accross these for sale. Ive read the one with the ek9 in it first obviously. Have been searchin through the net and not to many places seem to be selling them. The books are all in manga-style which takes some getting used to!







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Initial D is a pretty popular manga.
TokyoPop's version of it is horrid! No, its worse than that! If there was a stronger word to use than horrid, than that word definately applies to TokyoPop's version of Initial D.
Initial D is partly based off of the exploits of real life driver "Drift King" Keiichi Tsuchiya. Tsuchiya also is part editor of the book and checks it for technical accuracy. You know, to make sure they got every thing right.
TokyoPop messed up the translation by trying to hard to make it cool. They gave everyone nicknames, and American names, messed up the names of the cars, etc...
Its so horrible that you shouldn't waste your time with it. You should boycott the TokyoPop version and get the fansub version of the manga off the internet. It maybe a fansub version, but it is more accurate than anything TokyoPop did. Also some of them come with linear note that help you understand some things that you would only know if you were Japanese.
So dont buy the TokyoPop version at all cost. Also, if you love Initial D you can also try Wangan Midnight. It is also partly edited by Keiichi Tsuchiya! It seems that only the best racing manga are edited by him.
Enjoy
 
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Yeah, TokyoPop tends to butcher **** pretty bad. I watched the anime in Japanese (Stages 1-4). The first 2 stages were the TokyoPop version but luckily the subs stay a more true than the english dub. But the stages 3 and 4 are fansubbed and a really good group, Live-eviL subs stage 4.
 
My mate has most of those books ive read a few there wicked! You can order them from Amazon, hope that helps. :nice:
 
i've got issues 1-14 and still collecting,
yeh i found that the nicknames were a lil annoying but i've watched a few episodes of stage one so i know the correct names of the characters, as for incorrect names for the cars i haven't seen any of this yet.
 
The books are cool. Better to just watch the TV series though, you can get more into it as you actually see the cars driving around and the tactics used to win rather than just looking at the pictures.
 
the match between the EK9 and the Hachi has two part actually, one is the first which the Hachi wins by the extra 2000rpm(11000rpm) it has thn the EK9's 9000rpm, while the second is by far the most ridiculous deus ex machina in Initial D as the second match has a professional racer racing in the team's demo EK9, and actually loses when a cat came out of the bush at the last straight and the EK9 dodge by natural instinct and let the Hachi goes through, the second match features the unpredictable element in road races than in track races, we all know that epi did a quite good job at portraying that element out, but a cat?!.........damn...
 
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