La team Project D a commencé à sévir sur les tracés japonais. Sa première escale : la préfecture de Tochigi. Opposé à Tooru, le kamikaze des Seven Star Leaf, Takumi s’engage dans une course en descente sur un circuit hasardeux, parsemé de gouttières qui sont comme autant de pièges mortels… De la 86 ou du roadster B6, quel bolide en fera les frais ?
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.
This feels a little anticlimactic. It feels like its gone back to basics where everyone was finding their feet and being underestimated like the initial books. Instead of Tak being underestimated, it's the whole team.
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Shigeno’s art style - how he captures motion, speed, making the world warp around cars as they race, is fascinating and likely what the series needed as it continues to zip from one race to the next. Nothing to huge here on the story or character front, but the denser, chewier art style is very cool.
We are getting out of Akina! Hitting the road fast & furious! Awesome clash of approaches here, is it the ride, or the driver? When is it okay to push the limits? How does pride play into street racing? Is street racing even a sport? Love it, still loving it, can’t see myself stopping loving it!