This year marks the 30th anniversary of Shuichi Shigeno's massively popular street racing manga, Initial D. The series ...

Initial D: Fifth Stage is an animated, action-packed racing series centering on Takumi Fujiwara, a member of Project D’s racing crew. He competes against rivals and engages in fierce competitions with ...

Some fictional cars are so entrenched in the public imagination that their iconography transcends make and model. A bright-orange Dodge Neon with “01” painted on its door is obviously cosplaying as ...

Toyota and Acura are turning to anime — a niche form of Japanese animation — to market their new performance-oriented vehicles, presumably to the street-racing and enthusiast crowd that grew up on the ...

Fast cars, teen idols, and Japanese youth culture. Fans of any of these are in for a blast. There are legions of such devotees, and the movie will probably rank near the top of the 2005 box office ...