If you are a fan of cars and even more of Japanese culture, the name initial D it must be more than familiar to you. Highly regarded as one of the most important animated series in the world of cars, Initial D left a brutal legacy by immortalizing the drifting culture in Japan.in addition to cementing and internationalizing the fame of one of Toyota’s most interesting sports cars, the Sprinter Trueno AE86, or “hachiroku”.
Initial D’s original manga began to be published in 1995, concluding in 2013 with 48 volumes and always counting on the technical supervision of himself. Keiichi Tsuchiya (the “Drift King”). From that manga, the animated series (anime) was born in 1998, which had five phases and a movie, not counting an incalculable number of toys, video games, arcade, memorabilia and even a movie style “live action”.
From Initial D to MFG
But after the end of Initial D, during 2017, Shuichi Shigeno (the creator of Initial D) started publishing a new story called MF Ghost, which is set in the indefinite future, but where electric and self-driving cars have completely replaced combustion cars in Japan. The plot places us in the middle of an underground racing league with combustion cars and transmitted with drones, in which he participates kanata katagiria 19-year-old runner in a toyota gt86who comes to Japan in search of his father. Important Initial D characters are part of the story and let us know what happened to them after the Project D races, including, of course, Fujiwara Takumi.the protagonist of Initial D.
This 2023, still without a defined date, MF Ghost will go from the manga to the animation side and of course it already has its first trailerwhich brings back several memories of Initial D. Also, for those who have read part of the manga, the animation is completely faithful to the illustration.
If you want to know what happened to Project D, the Takahashi brothers or Takumi, you will like MF Ghost, in addition to the fact that it raises a very interesting and little-addressed theme about what will happen in the future when all cars are autonomous or electric. This theme had previously been touched on in another series called Ex-Driverwhere a group of specialist pilots are the only ones authorized to drive analogue and combustion vehicles in order to stop crimes and offenses associated with autonomous transport.
