What is the name of the person titled Drift King who helped with editorial supervision of the sports manga series, Initial D?
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Initial D Initial D (Japanese: Inisharu Dī ) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in "Young Magazine" from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 "tankōbon" volumes by Kodansha. The story focuses on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes and rarely in cities or urban areas, and with the drift racing style emphasized in particular. Professional race car driver and pioneer of drifting Keiichi Tsuchiya helped with editorial supervision. The story is centered on the prefecture of Gunma, more specifically on several mountains in the Kantō region and in their surrounding cities and towns. Although some of the names of the locations the characters race in have been fictionalized, all of the locations in the series are based on actual locations in Japan.
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Keiichi Tsuchiya Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋 圭市 , Tsuchiya Keiichi , born January 30, 1956) is a professional race car driver. He is also known as the Drift King (ドリキン , Dorikin ) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving.
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Akira Narita Akira Narita (born April 9, 1944) is a Japanese manga artist best known for writing about his experiences with the Japanese terekura (telephone club) industry.
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Nine (manga) Nine (Japanese: ナイン , Hepburn: Nain ) is a baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in "Monthly Shōnen Sunday Zōkan" from the October 1978 through May 1979 issues. The series was adapted into three anime television films and a live-action television drama. An altered version of the first anime was released in theaters, with new and re-arranged music.
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Pro Wrestling Superstar Retsuden Pro Wrestling Superstar Biography (プロレススーパースター列伝 , Pro Wrestling Superstar Retsuden ) is a shōnen manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and drawn by Kunichika Harada. The manga was serialized in Shōnen Sunday from 1980 volume 23 through 1983 volume 26.
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Barrage (manga) BARRAGE (戦星のバルジ , Sensei no Baruji , lit. "Barrage on the Battle Star") is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi, creator of "Oumagadoki Zoo" and "My Hero Academia". The story follows Astro, a dim-witted but kind young man from the slums, on a journey in the planet of Industria. He meets the prince who looks and sounds like him and, following a certain incident, ends up becoming the prince who defends Industria with his weapon called the Org (王具（オーグ） , Ōgu , lit. "King's Device"; translated by Viz Media as both "The Royal Relic" and "the Orgue") . The series was originally published in 2011 as a one-shot manga in the seasonally published Jump NEXT!, before beginning serialization in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from May 21, 2012 to September 10, 2012.
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Rockin' Heaven Rockin' Heaven (ロッキン★ヘブン , Rokkin★Hebun ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mayu Sakai. It premiered in "Ribon"' s December 2005 issue where it ran until its conclusion in the July 2008 issue. The individual chapters were collected and published in eight "tankōbon" volumes by Shueisha between June 2006 and November 2008. The story focuses on high school freshman Sawa Konishi, who transfers to a new co-ed school where she is bullied by the other students and teachers, but also meets and falls in love with Ran Matsuyuki.
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Di(e)ce Di(e)ce (ｄｉ［ｅ］ｃｅ-ダイス- , di[e]ce –daisu- ) , stylized di[e]ce, is a manga written and illustrated by Kana Yamamoto. Since 2007, it has been serialized in a "shōjo" manga magazine, "Monthly Comic Zero Sum". The story covers two best-friends, Kazuki Naruse and Haruki Koutake, which is on the advanced track of Seitoukou Academy. Though they are not connected by blood, these two whose faces are so similar coincidentally have their 16th birthdays on November 11. However, on that fateful anniversary, the game of fate—killing and surviving, which is called di[e]ce, started, revealing that they are the two kings that is supposed to kill each other in order to finish the game. The manga chapters ended on November, 2010, and the series has 6 collected volumes published by Ichijinsha. They are also available in French.
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Yu Kanda Yu Kanda (Japanese: 神田ユウ , Hepburn: Kanda Yū ) is a character from "D.Gray-man", a manga series created by Japanese artist and writer Katsura Hoshino. Kanda is a young adult who is an exorcist from an organization known as the Black Order. Like the other exorcists in the order, he is in charge of destroying demonic enemies known as Akuma, created by a man known as the Millennium Earl. For this, he uses an object referred to as "Innocence" sealed within a Japanese sword. Kanda sides with the Black Order in their fight against the Earl's group, the Noah Family. Kanda is often cold and antisocial toward his allies, even disliking it when people refer to him by his given name, Yu. He often engages in fights with his frequent ally, the series' protagonist Allen Walker. As the series proceeds, it is revealed he is the result of an experiment from the Black Order that created his artificial body and merged it with the brain of a deceased exorcist. Outside the main series and the two anime adaptations, Kanda has also appeared in the "D.Gray-man" light novels, the two video games of the series, and the crossover game "Jump Ultimate Stars".
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Daiki Kasho Daiki Kasho (嘉生 大樹 , Kashou Daiki , born November 2, 1976) (stylized as daiki kasho) is a Japanese video game composer who has worked on the Gran Turismo, F-Zero, Wangan Midnight, and King of Fighters series.
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Sonic Drift Sonic Drift (ソニックドリフト , Sonikku Dorifuto ) is a kart racing video game released in Japan only for the Game Gear on March 18, 1994. It features Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Amy Rose, and Doctor Robotnik.
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Be Blues! - Ao ni Nare Be Blues! - Ao ni Nare (BE BLUES!〜青になれ〜 ) is an ongoing Japanese association football "shōnen" manga series written and illustrated by . It is published by Shogakukan since 2011, with the chapters serialized on "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" and compiled into 28 tankōbon volumes so far.
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Isutoshi Isutoshi (いすとし ) is a Japanese manga artist, creator of erotic comic series "Slut Girl" and the non-erotic manga called "Tende Freeze!" (てんでフリーズ! ) . He started his career in 1994 producing work that would later be published in "dōjinshi" by the Gerumaru (ゲルマル ) circle. His stories typically involve both erotic and humorous situations, focusing on characters' personality and sexual interaction during the story.
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Keishichō Tokuhanka 007 Keishichō Tokuhanka 007 (警視庁特犯課007 , lit. " Metropolitan Police Department Special Offenses 007") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiri Kaji. It began its serialization on October 2006 in the magazine, "Ichiraci". The manga ended with a total of 11 volumes and 29 chapters.
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Children of the Sea (manga) Children of the Sea (Japanese: 海獣の子供 , Hepburn: Kaijū no Kodomo ) is a Japanese seinen adventure manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Igarashi, and serialized in Shogakukan's monthly seinen manga magazine "Ikki". Shogakukan has released five "tankōbon" volumes so far, between July 30, 2007 and July 30, 2012. The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media, who is serializing it online at Sigikki.com and who released the first "tankōbon" volume on July 21, 2009, and the second volume on December 15, 2009.
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Kuri-chan Kuri-chan (クリちゃん ) is a yonkoma manga series by Susumu Nemoto which ran from October 1, 1951 to March 31, 1965 in the Asahi Shimbun evening edition. Nemoto modeled the main character, Kuri-chan, after his oldest son who was born in 1948. The name of the main character is actually Ken (健 ) , and gets his nickname from his naturally ""kuri kuri"" (or "curly") hair. The manga is unusual in that, other than the images, it relies almost exclusively on onomotopeia rather than words to tell the story. In that regard it has been classified as a pantomime comic.
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Daijiro Yoshihara Daijiro Yoshihara (commonly known as "Dai", born December 24, 1978, Tokyo, Japan) is a veteran driver in the motorsport of Drifting, often regarded as one of the world's best. With 10 years of competition, Dai has always been a thrill seeker and it was only natural for him to get into drifting. At the age of 11, Dai discovered the excitement of throwing his bicycle around corners at high speeds and skidding along the curbs in tight turns. At age 16, Dai got motorized and took to nearby mountains on his 400cc motorcycle. Finally at age 18, Dai got into his first car, a 1985 Toyota Corolla Levin. He soon fell in love and gained the passion for driving on windy roads in the local mountains of Japan.
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Initial D Arcade Stage Initial D Arcade Stage (イニシャルディー アーケード ステージ) (commonly referred to as "IDAS", followed by a version number) is a racing game series developed by Sega, based on the anime and manga "Initial D". In the U.S., the games, which keep their version names in later entries, are otherwise known as simply "Initial D" without the "Arcade Stage" subtitle.
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Dan Doh!! Dan Doh!! (ダンドー , Dandō ) is a Japanese shōnen sports manga written by Nobuhiro Sakata and illustrated by Daichi Banjou. The story has been adapted into an anime series that first aired on April 3, 2004 in Japan.
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Saint Tail Saint Tail (怪盗セイント・テール , Kaitō Seinto Tēru , Mysterious Thief Saint Tail) is a phantom thief magical girl manga and anime series. Originally a twenty-four part manga by Megumi Tachikawa, the story was adapted into an anime television series by producer Tokyo Movie Shinsha, with forty-three episodes and one short, broadcast by ABC. Tokyopop translated the manga series, and subtitled and partially dubbed the anime series.
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Days (manga) Days is an ongoing Japanese slice of life comedy sports "shōnen" manga series written and illustrated by Tsuyoshi Yasuda. It's published by Kodansha, with serialization on "Weekly Shōnen Magazine" and with 23 volumes compiling the chapters released so far.
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Wild 7 Wild 7 (Japanese: ワイルド7 , Hepburn: Wairudo Sebun ) is a Japanese manga series by creator Mikiya Mochizuki that debuted on 1969 on "Weekly Shōnen King" where it ran until 1979. The creation of the manga had been based on the condition that Japan and other non-communist countries were facing in the 1960s and 1970s with the rise of militant student activists and politicians being caught and seen as corrupt with their economies recovering from the days of World War II.