Initial D - Recommendations
If you're looking for manga similar to Initial D, you might like these titles.
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Fantasista
- Vol: 25; Ch: 222
- 1999 - 2004
Teppei Sakamoto is a boy living in the countryside. He loves soccer, and all his soccer skills were taught to him by his sister. Finally, his sister wants him to join in Mizumoto High School soccer team. Teppei's turn in life has come!! How will this soccer newbie fare in the new environment?
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Reasons you might like Fantasista...
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GingerCat says...
Fantasista and Initial D, have very little in common on the outside, for starters, ones about soccer and the other deals with drag racing. However, underneath this exterior, they have very specific things in common. Both have main characters with extreme amounts of raw talent for their specific sport. They are both too young to be that good, and have honed their talents by practicing their whole life on their own. The stories began this way, and develop with both characters going from great, to amazing to astonishing in their feats. Also, they both gather friends/rivals who equal them in skills, producing high tension, and action pact races/games.
If any of these things are what draws you to one, than I greatly recommend you check out the other.
Over Rev!
- Vol: 31; Ch: 349
- 1996 - 2004
Over Rev! is a manga about a senior graduate named Ryoko. A while back, she injured her ankle in a track meet. Since then, she didn't know what to do with her life, until she finds out about street racing...
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Reasons you might like Over Rev!...
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EratoTia says...
First of all both titles are about drifting. I believe this is enough to convince fans of this sport to read them. In both series there is a lot of attention to technical details and some parts might be hard to understand for some, while others will find absolutely nothing interesting in knowing about a character's car's horsepower. However, if you like cars and like drifting (and you really don't have to be that much of an expert to understand both mangas) you'll find both Initial D and Over Rev really interesting.
Both stories are entertaining and will have you wanting more. The main difference is that Initial D is generally more serious. There's a lot of fuss about what a street racer should and shouldn't do. Also, each volume ends with a cliche cliffhanger (although the story as a whole is by no means cliche) like before a race. That can get a little bit frustrating.
You have to remember that Over Rev is a few years younger than Initial D and the older title even gets mentioned in it. Both series are about people who are extremely talented in drifting, but another main difference is that Over Rev concentrates (quite surprisingly, for a manga about cars) on female drivers.
To sum up both titles have a lot in common are are worth a read. Still, both appeal to a certain audience and others will probably find them uninteresting. Give them a try, though! As Over Rev proves, drifting is also for girls. If you haven't read either, I suggest starting from Over Rev as it is lighter and less detail-packed.
Capeta
- Vol: 32; Ch: 119
- 2003 - 2013
Taira Capeta has spent his entire young life being a good and dutiful son to his hardworking but impoverished widower father. Only once has his father seen him show any personal wants or needs -- when he saw a model car in a toy shop. Despite his lack of cash, his father has hatched a naïve plan to give Capeta the ultimate gift: his dreams fulfilled. From a modest beginning, Capeta, with the help of his father and his good friends Nobu and Monami, embarks upon an amateur career as a go-kart racer, aiming for the ultimate prize -- graduation into the professional ranks of formula racing. But will his poverty cause his dreams to fail?
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Reasons you might like Capeta...
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Normandy says...
Capeta is about a boy, that starts racing on karts and then one-seaters when he's older. It's more realistic than Initial D and it's not about street racing, but if you like cars, I guarantee you'll like this.
It has awesome characters, great story and it gets gradually better and better.
Beware though, it's finished, but only translated up to volume 23.
Circuit no Ookami II: Modena no Ken
- Vol: 25
- 1989 - 1995
Speed Connection
- Vol: 4
- 1998
Zero Angel: Souheki no Datenshi
- Vol: 4; Ch: 26
- 2016 - 2018
Set in Yokohama and centers on high school student and pro driver, Aika Misaki. While she works as an idol in kart racing, she is also an undefeated street racer in her Subaru WRX STi.
Flat Out
- Vol: 3; Ch: 11
- 2005 - 2006
Drive-a-Live
- Vol: 3; Ch: 22
- 2008
Is the world in front of you real, or is it only a game? Nobuteru, a senior high school student who wandered into the street racing game world of Drive-A-Live, begins a series of hard races that he must win to survive. While everyone around him is talking about driver's licenses and cars, third-year high school student Nobuteru hates anything of the sort; when he was in elementary school, he and his younger brother Takahiro were involved in a car accident. While he came out with just a few scratches, his brother lost his leg. One day Takahiro suddenly disappears without a trace of leaving to be found in his room. When Nobuteru investigates the room, he sees Takahiro on the screen of a racing game he had left on, and once he grabs the controller.
F
- Vol: 28; Ch: 329
- 1985 - 1992
Gunma Akagi was born between Soichiro, the Chairman of the Akagi enterprise and his mistress. Gunma, one day realizes his amazing driving techniques and decides to pursue his dreams to become an F1 driver. A lot of obstacles come in his way but he doesn’t let anything or anyone ""get in front of his way"". In the first volume Gunma is kicked out of the Akagi family and is left with no choice but to move in to Tokyo, where he starts his journey with his best friend Tamotsu....
Goddamn
- Vol: 5; Ch: 49
- 1988 - 1990