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Before the license offer went out, the # of subscribers to the subreddit was part of the pitch deck for the new edition.

huh, neat, didn't know that

Kodansha referenced the Initial D Subreddit?

it's possible the unit was running an older version, I think thats quite common outside of Japan

頭文字D THE ARCADE｜ドライブゲーム｜セガ セガの ドライブゲーム 頭文字D THE ARCADE（イニシャルD ジ・アーケード）！全国のゲームセンターで！

The Suzuki Carry is also available as a playable car initiald.sega.jp/inidac/car/#...

at least it's series accurate

YouTube video by Ark-Z Eurobeat Archive Ken Martin - A Dance Song (2021)

A good a day as any to enjoy A Dance Song I suppose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxHr...

It's a sad day today, as #eurobeat legend Mauro Farina passed away at just 68 years old.
Farina was one of the godfathers of eurobeat, even coining the name and active in italodisco and eurobeat since the early 80s.
My condoleances to his family, friends and the #SAIFAM team.
You will be missed. 😭

hoping more people share this sentiment so i can find a single tokyopop volume that isn't selling for 2/3 times its original retail price

This is only true of the Tokyopop dub, the later dub by Funimation gratefully reincluded the Eurobeat again

I mean its in 5, I would be shocked if it wasnt in the game

It appears in Initial D Arcade Stage 5

next time on Initial D: these lesbians

There's no "would" about it, they went nuts, they still do. There's well over a thousand doujin works for the series

it's because Tokyopop sold the airing rights to MTV, who never aired it. dub was targeted at that audience, though they wouldn't ever see it

YouTube video by Keldor Disneyland EUROBEAT

Night of Fire appeared in several Disney themed skits on SMAPxSMAP, not sure if there is other precedent but theres a bunch of these

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSG...

fair lol, it would be nice if someone would do them someday, as it doesn't look like crunchyroll can be bothered

Initial D has six seasons though? 11 if you count ova

the only racing game i can think of prior to Initial D to have eurobeat is Sega Touring Car Championship

It was Sho by Shuichi Shigeno, vastly overshadowed by his later manga Initial D but definitely still findable

heard a manga called it once because they couldn't find anything about it, but they were looking for info in English... it was never translated and wasn't popular of course they found nothing

either way its not very "lost", I have the full three volume run on my shelf, and it was released digitally

great opportunity to call it Initial D Stage Stage

The 3DS game Perfect Shift Online had some gacha elements, its long gone now though

New Initial D the Movie New Initial D the Movie (新劇場版「頭文字D」Shin Gekijō-ban Inisharu Dī, also known as the Initial D Legends Trilogy) is a Japanese anime film trilogy based on the manga series Initial D. The entire trilogy co...

over ten years ago - initiald.fandom.com/wiki/New_Ini...

Chapters Chapters of the Initial D manga.

After (how has it been this long) 5 years I have finally made wiki pages for all (how are there this many) 719 chapters of Initial D.

You can see the fruits of my labour here: initiald.fandom.com/wiki/Categor...

Now to find something else to do on the wiki. Preferably something shorter.

Screenshot of Bari Bari Densetsu's Gun Koma being unlocked in MotoGP for the PlayStation 2.

Here's a Fun Fact for you all...

Shuichi Shigeno's official debut in English/North America was technically via Gun Koma, the main character of his first hit manga Bari Bari Densetsu, being an unlockable rider in MotoGP for the PS2 in 2000, two years before TokyoPop released Volume 1 of Initial D!

its been a problem since his last series MF Ghost started in 2017, they cannot let go of the Initial D nostalgia, it has to be mentioned in all promotional material because they don't seem to trust it to stand by itself (which I don't think it would). I guess they're doing that for the new one too

the Initial D art shown is from Volume 4, which came out in 1996. His new art isn't great but given they're promoting his new series you think they would go with art from that and not something drawn 29 years ago that looks nothing like his current style.

have to question their definition of "major american hit" in relation to Initial D, has never felt like it was one.

It is also weird to single out the manga that finished 13 years ago and not the manga to which this one is a direct sequel to. Odd decisions all around

Happy 30th Birthday to Initial D

Not sure if it's obvious that I'm a big fan of the series, but I'm very glad it exists