Hero car of 48 bound volumes of manga, more than 80 anime episodes and several related features, 20-plus arcade- and video-game titles, and a live-­action movie, the Initial D Sprinter Trueno is ...

Although Seiko doesn’t have an official Toyota collab on the horizon (that I know of), we are getting the next best thing.

In a high-octane celebration of nostalgia and fandom, TOMY Company Ltd has unveiled a collaboration between its ...

The AE86 is carried high on the shoulders of Japanese car culture thanks to its appearance as one of the central characters in Initial D, a comic that broke out of Japan in 1995.

It’s also why Toyota tapped Initial D ‘s original animator, Shuichi Shigeno, to produce a new series of video shorts advertising said GT86, along with real-life “Drift King” Keiichi Tsuchiya.

It’s not the first time the popular manga has received a live-action adaptation. In 2005, Initial D hit the screens in Asian markets, directed by famous Chinese filmmaker Andrew Lau.

Initial D, the Japanese manga that made an oversteering hero out of the Toyota AE86 is getting a big-screen adaptation. Speaking to the South China Morning Post last month, Sung Kang, the actor ...

Three years post-manga debut, Studio Comet and Gallop joined forces to create the Initial D anime series, premiering in April 1998. The series’ success led to multiple seasons, animated films ...