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2nd New Initial D the Movie's TV Ad Posted
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Avex began streaming a television commercial for BACKDRAFT SMITHS.
Text: Young Magazine's 35th anniversary work
Text: Original creator: Shuuichi Shigeno
Narrator: The legend doesn't end.
Text: The theater turns into the "mountain ."
Narrator: The theater is the "mountain "…
Narrator & Text: Feel the impact
Narrator & Text: That makes all your blood
Text: Come to a boil
Narrator & Text: Shin Gekijō-ban Initial D Legend 2 -Tōsō-
Text: Opens nationwide on Saturday, May 23
The film trilogy retells the beginning of the story from Shuuichi Shigeno's original car-racing manga. High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop during late nights. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina's highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over Gunma Prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend.
The cast from the first film returns for the second, with Shochiku distributes it.
The first film in the new film trilogy, New premiered in Singapore on December 4.
Shigeno's original manga follows Takumi Fujiwara, a high school boy with a talent for driving, in his racing pursuits on the public highways. The manga ended the manga in 2013. It has over 48 million copies in circulation.
The manga inspired several television anime series (ran in 2012), a live-action film, several original video anime projects, and a successful game line. The manga's final battles have also adapted into an anime series called Final Stage.
