Story of First Stage

   Initial D is a car racing story, it has comics, TV and video game for playstation.  The TV section is one of the best TV series around.  They used 3D animation for the racing part and with lots of pop musics.  The story is extremely realistic.
    The main character Takumi was a 18 years old teen, who had excellent driving skill.  His car Toyota AE86 was a turned Tofu delievery family car.  In model Japan, that car consided as no horsepower garbage, but with his excellent and CRAZY drfting skill he won every challengers in his home town AKINA mountain downhill racing.        

Fujiwara Takumi is only 18 years old

His first challenger Keisuko Takahashi  was from a well known racing group "REDSUNS".  The two best drivers in that group were brothers Keisuko and Ryousuko who both driving Mazda RX-7. One drove FD3S one drove FC3S.  They were the fastest two in his town AKAGI and their plan was to win every town in their city and becoming the fastest group in the city.  The first race was RX-7 FD-340ps VS Trueno AE86.  Everyone was thinking hopeless for Takumi..  But no one know he started driving at 13 and everyday he needed to deliever tofu to AKINA mountain.  His skill is taught by his father, his special way of teaching is to put a cup of water in the car before Takumi each delievery and he must not let the water splash out until he return.

His car Toyota AE86 have roughly 140-50ps

The race started at 10pm. The AKINA downhill road was clear and the race started.  RX-7 was in front because of much more powerful engine, but in the later part of the race Takumi caught up on every corner.  The five U-type corners considered the most important part of most races.  Takumi technique of let one wheel drop into the drain is his special technique of winning in AKINA all the time.  This can let the car drifted into the corners at a much higher speed and won't pull out by the G-force and got crash.  His first win became the legend in his town's racing group and the news spreaded out very quick which made more and more different people and cars came to AKINA to race with him.  But no one know how to race in AKINA better than him and his legend continues.........

Keisuko RX-7 FD3 and his REDSUN group

Ryousuko and  Keisuko Takahashi Brothers