Ryosuke Takahashi, the White Comet of Akagi, is back on the scene for one last race...to take on the "Grim Reaper" Rin Hojo! Once, they loved the same woman - but now, they're duking it out on a high-speed course that not even the locals have tested out to its upper limits. Filled with sorrow at failing to act on the love deep in his heart, Rin executes a brutal "side press" to take down Ryosuke for good!
Shuichi Shigeno (Japanese author profile: しげの秀一) is a manga artist, best known for the manga series Initial D. Shigeno has also created Bari Bari Densetsu, Dopkan, and Tunnel Nuketara Sky Blue ("First Love in Summer") all prior to the manga that would make him famous in 1995. In 1985, he received the Kodansha Manga Award in shōnen for Bari Bari Densetsu.
Storytelling structure is all the way down here. I can see what they’re trying to do with the constant flashbacks but it does not work and why are these two racing!?!? They should be fighting each other with hands.
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