As a result his skills in mountain racing were honed, and isable to drive under adverse weather conditions. Akina every morningto deliver Tofu to the summit five years before he even had hislicense. Set in the late 1990s in Japan's Gunma Prefecture,the series follows the adventures of Takumi Fujiwara, an eighteen yearold who helps his father run a tofu store by making deliveries everymorning to a hotel on Akina with his father's Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (AE86).It is revealed that Takumi has been driving on Mt. Although someof the names of the locations the characters race in have beenfictionalized, all of the locations in the series are based on actuallocations in Japan. The story is centered around the Japanese prefecture of Gunma, (mostly Shibukawawhere Takumi's home is) more specifically on several mountains in thekanto area and in and their surrounding cities and towns. Keiichi Tsuchiya helps with editorial supervision. The anime and manga focus on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes and rarely in cities nor urban areas, and the drift racing style is emphasized in particular. Both the manga and anime series were licensed for distribution in North America by Tokyopop the Tokyopop version of the manga is out of print as of August 31, 2009. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by Pastel, Studio Gallop, OB Planning, Frontline, Gainax and A.C.G.T which premiered in Japan on Fuji TV and Animax, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia. First starting its manga run in October 1992, the series has since been adapted into.long breath.an anime television series (1996), an anime film (1997), two live-action films (1995, 2008), a Taiwanese drama (2001), and Indonesian drama (2002), another Taiwanese drama (2002), a Japanese drama (2005), another Japanese drama (2007), (2009), and finally an Indian drama (2014) end long breath.Initial D (頭文字D, Inisharu Dī) is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine since 1995. 1) Hana Yori Dongo ( ) To call Yoko Kamio’s iconic manga a modern-day sensation would be gross understatement of the popularity this franchise has enjoyed over the years. So, to rekindle your battles on the forums about which interpretation was best, here are 9 mangas that have been remade way too many times. As a result, businessmen keep remaking them again and again to the point that non-fans just want to tear their hair off their heads in frustration, while fans are busy fighting over which one was best. However, some manga are so beloved that fans kind of.go crazy. There have been quite a few manga that have touched people it is, after all, one of the best art forms to ever come out of Asia and take the world by storm.