Four men who wanted to be Fujiwara Takumi were arrested for driving a van while admiring "Initial D"

On July 8, four men over 40 years old in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, were prosecuted by the police for speeding on the highway late at night for 10 consecutive days in a pickup truck and a van. After interrogation, they explained their motive for speeding - they liked "Initial D".

Initial D

On May 4, a 43-year-old Japanese company employee and three friends wanted to imitate the racing scenes in "Initial D" and drove a small truck and a van on a serpentine mountain trail in Saitama Prefecture, making a very loud noise. Most Japanese netizens were puzzled, "How can a 40-year-old man still do such a thing?", but some netizens also lamented how much influence "Initial D" has on readers, and some people said, "It takes a lot of skill to drift with a van."

Initial D is a youth manga created by the cartoonist Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Weekly Young Magazine from 1995 and ended on July 29, 2013. The electronic version is serialized by Manban Comics. It has been adapted into an animation and a movie of the same name, and there are also several peripheral books that explore car driving skills. Initial D manga became the top seller in Hong Kong Japanese comics with sales of more than 20,000 copies as soon as it was published.