They then go to the meet and they meet the Agaki Red Suns, another car group, that then challenged them to a time trial battle on the mountain Initial D Vol.1 is a Graphic Novel by Shuichi Shigeno. they then go to work, and Iketani tells them about their car group's meet up that night, and that they should come along. Takumi doesn't understand why Itsuki wants a car, and to drive so bad. The book starts off with an ally, Itski talking to the protagonist Takumi, about what car he is going to get. Initial D Vol.1 is a Graphic Novel by Shuichi Shigeno. That first moment of the AE86 drifting pass the Mazda RX7 is some of the most badass/hilarious shit ever.more Still, there is awesome energy and contagious car enthusiasm here, well accomplished subculture vibes and tongue-in-cheek self awareness too. Of course the cheesiness is part of the fun and arguably makes Initial D even more fun to read, but in a shallow way. So the story is grounded in hilariously awesome concepts, but isn't very well told, and the dialogue especially is stiff and stale, with some attempts at emulating punkish teenspeak that don't work remotely well. Of course the cheesiness is part of the fun and arguably makes Initial D even more fun to read, but It's really really fun, but has the same problem I've felt in most of the (very little) manga I've read, that it was conceived and written by visual artists, not by skilled storytellers. It's really really fun, but has the same problem I've felt in most of the (very little) manga I've read, that it was conceived and written by visual artists, not by skilled storytellers.