I love autocars, as well as my dear, Queenny, but she is a beemer. :)
I'm a software developer, but all my friends don't think so, because I am a part time mechanic as well. Beside following up the computer technologies, I read car tech., home decoration/renovation often too, to learn some skills, fix the car by myself, it's really challenging and with satisfaction, feel proud of it.
Today I come across this, Possible revival of the Toyota AE86 in 2010, it looks so silly to me. 1st! The shape has not much different with Celica, 2-doors with almost the same top and body design. 2ndly, I think that Toyota is having this to gain more profit in the market. AE86 used to be a famous model among the 2-doors cars. I got to know this ToFu car in this cartoon show Initial D.
Initial D is an anime about street car racing and is based on a very popular manga by Shigeno Shuichi. The story is focused on Takumi Fujiwara, a 18 year old high school student who works part time at a gas station with his best friend, Itsuki. Their co-worker, Iketani, is a member of the Akina SpeedStar racers at Mt. Akina and while Itsuki is hyped learning about street racing, Takumi is disinterested.
One day, the Takahashi brothers Ryousuke and Keisuke of the RedSuns team challenge the Akina SpeedStars to a race on Mt. Akina. After seeing them in practice, Iketani realizes that no one in the SpeedStars are in the same league. His boss tells him that a mysterious driver driving an old Trueno 86 (Toyota) car has been seen every late night at Mt. Akina and that its skills are unbelievably fast.
This racer turns out to be Takumi. Takumi's father owns a tofu shop and has made Takumi deliver tofu at night in their Trueno 86 car ever since he was in middle school. Unknown to the unenthusiastic Takumi, his father has been training him to become a highly skilled drift technique driver. Takumi only agrees to race for the SpeedStars when his father promises him a full tank of gas the next day for his date with Natsuki Mogi, a girl he has feelings for. This is the mark of Takumi's racing days.
Initial D is definitely catered for car lovers, as a lot of the technical terms can be confusing. However, the racer's excitement is contagious and you'll find yourself watching along at each race with a similar excitement at the outcome.
Takumi is our typical Japanese hero though, he doesn't like to talk much, seems stoned out most of the time, and disinterested, yet has excellent potential and skills. There is also not much character development, except maybe with Takumi, Mogi, Iketani and Itsuki.
Characters in the cartoon.
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Cool.