When I found the picture of Fuji International Speedway I posted last week I got an Initial D feeling from the whole scene. So I could not resist modifying it with some comic sound effects from Initial D:

Comic version: Fuji Speedway International visit
Even better to keep this version in your family album, right?

Now this is a real happy meal: this guy eats his Mc Donalds meal while drifting the Ebisu North course! Not only does he eat it on the straights, but he also does it Bunta style and picks up and returns his milkshake into the cupholder! Now that is EPIC!

Now if only he could pick up his order on the drive through this way! :D

Also check out his extensive (and humorous) report on this trick on Youtube.

[ Found through Beeoneoneoh ]

I was browsing some videos on Youtube and came across this Japanese Candid Camera gag (at least that's what I think it is) putting some celebrity in a Fire Cola commercial where the taxi driver drives Takumi style with a Toyota Crown S130:

Yep, all the cola end up on that poor celebrity! Again and again, and again, and again, and again ... until some very well known cop arrives on the scene in Seibu Keisatsu style. :D

As you can see, it is very difficult to keep even a cup of Cola in your hands when the driver is doing 180s and you are sitting in the back. That's why Takumi has his cupholders up front and not in the back! ;)

Hachi-roku.com.au wrote about ClubCarisma doing new scantranslations of Initial D. This is partly true: officially Wangan Midnight Expressway is doing them and one of the members who translates also distributes them on ClubCarisma.

Translations are very good: no weird language usage which you may see in some other translations. Format is also excellent in size!

Two scaled down pages:

Currently they are up to chapter 476 of book 35. 36 and 37 are already available in raw, but not fully translated yet.

You can find all translated here:
Initial D Scanlated Manga on Wangan Midnight Express

And the attempt to translate book 36 can be found here:
Initial D Volume 36 Manga Translations and Scanlations on ClubCarisma.

I'm happy I can finally read on with the story! :)