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Takumi Fujiwara (藤原 拓海 Fujiwara Takumi, known as Tak in the Tokyopop version) is the main protagonist of Initial D.

He acts as the delivery boy for his father's tofu business, driving his father's Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (AE86) up to the top of the mountain every night to deliver tofu to the businesses on top. After defeating Keisuke Takahashi in an impromptu battle he was nicknamed the "White Ghost of Akina" and began racing on his own, occasionally representing the Akina SpeedStars in battle. He was eventually invited to join Project D as their downhill ace.

Childhood
At the age of 13, Takumi was made to become the delivery driver for his father, Bunta's, tofu store. Although he was initially scared of driving, he eventually became accustomed to the task. Despite improving his skill drastically over the course of a year, he still found the task boring, and resented his father for making him drive, as it was a crime. In the second year of middle school, Takumi meets Itsuki Takeuchi, a talkative boy who would go on to be his best friend. Annoyed with his father's drinking and making him drive, Takumi decides to become a delinquent, wishing for his father to be arrested. His first act was driving without a license in public, however, even after driving around for 2 hours, he was not caught due to his skill at driving. On his 14th birthday, Takumi stays over at Itsuki's house without telling Bunta, drinking and talking about his dad, but he feels bad when he says that his father doesn't love him. At 5AM the next morning, Bunta comes to pick Takumi up, telling him that he was worried for him and was waiting to celebrate his birthday with him. Bunta then takes Takumi on a downhill run on Akina before heading home.

One year, during the winter, Takumi figured out how to use the gutters on the side of road to turn the car easier in the snow. Bunta tells him that he has also used the gutters in this way, and tells him that the gutters can also be used to jump out of a turn. Gutter techniques would go on to become one of Takumi's specialties, allowing to make his deliveries much quicker.

Takumi was a member of the soccer club at his high school, and was friends with Natsuki Mogi, the head of the club. After practice one day, Takumi punched Miki, Natsuki's boyfriend and a boy a year his senior, in the face, after he continued to brag about his exploits with Natsuki. After this Natsuki began to avoid Takumi.

The White Ghost of Akina
In the summer of 199X (1996 in the Tokyopop version) Takumi is 18 and in his last year of high school. Takumi is talking with Itsuki about cars when he is confronted by Natsuki. Surprised that she is talking to him after a year of being avoided, Takumi asks Natsuki if she wants anything, to which she asks how him and Itsuki get so little money. Natsuki is shocked that the two of them can work so much and only make so little. Before she leaves she suggests that maybe she and Takumi can hang out again after their exams. Takumi explains his relationship with Natsuki to Itsuki before the two leave school. Itsuki continues to talk about getting a car on their way home, before Takumi explains that he doesn't find the idea of driving on the mountain fun, to which Itsuki is shocked. At the gas station where they work Itsuki brings up getting an Eight-Six again, catching the attention of Koichiro Iketani. Much to Itsuki and Iketani's shock, Takumi says that he doesn't even know what an Eight-Six is, with the two of them telling him that it is a Toyota. Iketani invites the pair of them up to Akina to see his team, the Akina SpeedStars.

Against Emperor
Everything up to Ryosuke vs Sudo

The New Eight-Six
Everything up to the end of third stage

Project D
Seven Star Leaf

Todo School

Saitama and Ibaraki
Northern Saitama Alliance

Tsuchisaka Lan Evo Team

Purple Shadow

The Kanagawa Expedition
Impostors

246

Katagiri

Spiral

MF Ghost
At the age of 20 Takumi left Japan for the United Kingdom in order to participate in the British National Rally Championship for Toyota. While he struggled on gravel he excelled on tarmac. After three years in the competition he finally won. He signed a contract with Toyota for the fourth year. During a test run before the first season opening, the drive shaft in his car broke, causing him to lose control and fall into a ravine. His injuries from the accident caused him to spend a long time in rehabilitation, which forced him to retire.

After his accident he began travelling around the UK as a driving teacher, giving lectures at schools around the country. He eventually became a teacher at the Royal Donington Racing School, where he eventually met Kanata Livington, who he would eventually become the mentor of. During free time Takumi took Kanata to rally courses, where he taught him how to shift a cars weight and how to drift, passing down his techniques.

Information
Likes: Green seasons, Rear end of his AE86, New Balance shoes, naps, racing, Mika, Itsuki, Natsuki.

Dislikes: Losing, impersonators, Miki, Shingo, Mercedes guy, cheaters, tormentors, racing (at first).

Special skills: Machinegun Shiftdown, Blind Attack, "Fujiwara Zone", Gutter Techniques, Absorbing and adapting the skills of his opponent while he’s following them, adapting to new courses

Blood type: A

Voted second coolest male student of all the third year students

Trivia

 * The kanji in his given name, Takumi, means "wide, open" and "ocean", it also means "artisan". His family name, Fujiwara, means "wisteria field".
 * He shares common ground with Shinji Inui. Both had driven on their home course for a long time since their younger days in order to help their parents.
 * He made a cameo in a print ad with an orange Toyota 86. (pictured) Ft86.jpgP1-1-.jpg
 * In the manga, Takumi wears a Maple Leafs jersey while dating Natsuki Mogi at Lake Akina.
 * In Legend 3: Dream, a driver of a Toyota 86 GT (ZN6) appears. He is voiced by Shinichiro Miki, Takumi's voice actor from the main anime series.
 * In the Animax version of Initial D: Fourth Stage Takumi is voiced by Matteo Guidicelli, an international car racer and local singer and actor for the broadcasting network, ABS-CBN.
 * Takumi currently has 21 wins throughout the series. He has lost twice, against Kyoichi Sudo and Dr. Toshiya Joshima.
 * Throughout the series, Takumi wears New Balance shoes when racing. In Fifth Stage, however, he wears sneakers, though he wears his New Balance shoes on a few occasions.