Initial D

Unfortunately, sport car is getting less popular in Japan. Regardless to say, motorcycle is getting much less popular, the industry is at stake. There are many reasons for this. One of them is obviously internet. I do not mean to say that internet is bad. I want to say that we got a lot of things in good meaning since internet came out. Young peoples do not have to enjoy motor sport. Second reason is surely long recession in Japan. Because of this, young people can not expect increase of salary and try to save money for future. Possession of car generally needs much money like tax, parking and maintenace. For example, one of my friend tried to find monthly parking in the center of Tokyo, monthly fee was $400 at that time. He gave up to buy a car. Yong people can not afford this unless he/she is really wealthy or he/she spent much % of salary on it.


However, there is still young peoples who like to drive sports car. Generally, these peoples are influenced by a manga and an anime, "Initial D". Initial D is about one guy who drives a car to help his father`s busiess for Tohu delivery and gets great technique without realizing it. He happens to race with some guy and beats him. So he gets interested in driving gradually and improves his drift technique as the story goes. The interesting point about this is that it is not impossible to do similar thing in Japanese load, especially in local mountain loads. So that`s a point. Young peoples try to do same thing. In the story, many existing car show up, and it drive peoples buy own favorite one. Cars which shows up in the story are old cars. So if you look at used car shops in Japan, there are many old sport cars with high price even though they are old. 


If you want to watch Initial D, it is available in Hulu for free at the moment. The earlier you can watch, the better it is. Hulu never guarantee that it is for free forever. I put the link below.




Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_D
Hulu
http://www.hulu.com/initial-d