I like the series ever since I was a freshman at college.
INITIAL D STREET STAGE MANUAL DRIVER
After a freak late-night encounter with Keisuke Takahashi, the number two driver of the infamous RedSuns team, Takumi is quickly, and unwillingly plunged into a high-speed world of white-knuckle contests on the most dangerous mountain passes in the Gunma prefecture. In doing so, Takumi has been unknowingly training to be the greatest mountain-pass drift-racer in all of Japan. Akina (the local mountain), every night at 4 a.m. To help his father's tofu shop, Takumi has been delivering tofu in his father's 'Eight-Six' Trueno (known as the Toyota Corolla GT-S in the US) to a hotel at the peak of Mt. Takumi Fujiwara is an average 18-year old high school student with an average job as a gas station attendant, and a not-so-average hand in the family business.