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SHAKOTAN BOOGIE, COUNTACH, TOKYO BROKER, GRAND JDM, Other Japan Car Culture Mangas!
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I just roamed around the world wide web, and to my surpirse, there's actually another Japanse Car Culture Manga out there aside from Wangan Midnight and Initial D... Shakotan Boogie Its a story about low-riding street racers based on cars from 1970s-1980s platforms. Its cool as it features KGC10 (Classic Skyline GTR) and the Datsun 240ZG! and much much more! It also circles the lifestyle of picking up girls, cruising... Here's a captured caption from his website: Next up is my personal favorite, "Shakotan Boogie" which I use as my screenname on several car forums. This manga is was also written by Michiharu Kusunoki. This manga is actually based on a fairly unknown live action movie from the mid 80's. It is set in the small city of Kochi, on the island of Shikoku. This series is not only about racing like Initial D or Wangan Midnight. It is about picking up girls, getting in fights, cruising around , being goofy, and other things besides just racing. Three of the main cars of this manga include an S30Z G nose, GC10 Skyline, and an MZ10/11 Toyota Soarer. Other cars I have seen include-
Nissan Z31 Nissan Leopard Toyota TE27 Levin MA70 Supra AMG Benz FC3S RX7 Other European and American cars
Outside of Japan, few are familiar with Shakotan Boogie. Even in Japan, only car people are into it. There was also a four part anime series based on the manga that is available on VHS. Recently a number of model cars from the manga have been released in Japan.and here's another: Michiharu Kusunoki has done another manga called "Tokyo Broker" where a Dodge Viper GTS is featured prominently, though it is not really a racing or car manga.
Lastly, there is a more recent manga called "Countach" that features a number of 70's and 80's exotic cars like Porsche 928's, Ferrari's and of course Lamborghini's. Japanese cars are present as well. The one book I have has a mountain race between an AW11 MR2 and a Lancia Stratos. The artwork in "Countach" is more detailed than older manga. and one more he said he will discover! Besides the one's I mentioned there are other car manga in Japan, though I do not have any issues of these. One of them is called Garage Restore 251, which I saw on Grand JDM I hope to track down more hard to find car manga in Japan.
Unfortunately, as far as manga goes, these are nowhere near the top in popularity so they are extremely hard to find outside of Japan, and of course are only available in Japanese. Despite this, these car manga offer a unique look at Japan's car culture through creative and talented minds. To learn more about this car-guy, check out his webbie at: www.auto-otaku.com These car mangas keep on coming! I can't wait to see anime versions of these to emerge soon!!!
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Look at this list of manga about cars and bikes! RACING MANGAPEDIAthere are many info,images and japanese scans! it's an italian forum but there is also an english version.
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Also sorry to be reviving this thread. I'm looking for some good scans of Shakotan Boogie if anyone has them?
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