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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. Bunta placed a cup of water in the cupholder of the car, so that Takumi could make sure he didn't break any of the tofu, and to train his driving skill. 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. Despite his own skill behind the wheel, Takumi is terrified by Iketani's driving, with him screaming the whole ride up and feeling sick once they stopped. At the top of the mountain, the SpeedStars are confronted by the Akagi RedSuns, who propose a race between the two teams. As the two teams race off down the mountain, Takumi asks Itsuki why he thinks racing is so enjoyable, with Itsuki questioning how cars don't excite him. With the SpeedStars demoralised from their practice run, Iketani gives Takumi and Itsuki a lift home, and tells them that even though losing is part of racing you dont have to like it.

At around 4AM the next morning, Takumi heads off on a tofu delivery run. On his way back home after making the delivery, Takumi runs into a yellow Mazda RX-7 driven by Keisuke Takahashi, the number two driver of the RedSuns. Despite all of his efforts, Keisuke is unable to lose Takumi's car, much to his own annoyance. Takumi pulls ahead of Keisuke, and performs an Inertia Drift to clear the corner, shocking Keisuke.

In the morning, Takumi is awoken by a call from Natsuki, inviting him to meet her in Ikaho to finally bury the hatchet. Upon finding out that Takumi has a driving license, Natsuki plans them a trip to the beach. On his way home afterwards, Takumi bumps into Iketani outside his house. Iketani offers Takumi a lift to work and asks him if he really doesn't know what an Eight-Six is, as there is one sat in his driveway. Itsuki is shocked by this when he is told, quickly asking Takumi if he would let him borrow it to watch the race between the SpeedStars and the RedSuns.

The next day Itsuki and Iketani decide to teach Takumi about cars, and ask him if he knows what a drift is. Despite Takumi giving a perfect description of a proper four wheel drift, Itsuki and Iketani laugh at him due to their own limited understanding of drifting. At school the next day, Itsuki reminds Takumi of the upcoming battle on Saturday, despite his disinterest. The two of them bump into Natsuki on the stairs, Natsuki tells Takumi that she has something important to tell him, with this being the news that she has bought a new swimsuit for their beach trip. At home, Takumi asks Bunta if he can use the car on Sunday, but is told that he cant due to a union meeting that Bunta must attend. After Takumi pleads with him, Bunta proposes that if Takumi goes up to Akina and races against the RedSuns on Saturday he will give him the car and a full tank of gas, an offer that Takumi decides to sleep on.

As Saturday rolls around, Itsuki reminds Takumi of his promise to bring the Eight-Six so that he can show off at the meeting. The two of them head home from school and Takumi tells Itsuki about the beach trip (making sure not to tell him that he is going with Natsuki). In the evening, Takumi sets off to Akina after a short conversation with his father. Takumi arrives at the top of the mountain just before the beginning of the race, much to the confusion of Iketani, Kenji and Itsuki. After he explains that his father sent him, he had already beaten the RX-7 before and he has been doing deliveries for five years, Iketani finally understands the situation and lets Takumi race. Keisuke and Takumi greet each other before the countdown begins. Despite his car being inferior to Keisuke's RX-7, Takumi manages to keep up with him through near professional technique and course knowledge. Knowing that his father wont let him have the car unless he can beat Keisuke, Takumi decides to overtake him in the hairpins. Takumi uses a gutter technique on the third hairpin and overtakes Keisuke, winning him the race as well as a full tank of gas.

The next day, Takumi heads to a beach in Niigata with Natsuki in the fully fueled Eight-Six. Despite usually needed car-sickness medicine for trips, Natsuki notes that she didn't need them because Takumi drives so smoothly. Takumi thinks back to the previous night, remembering how he had found driving fun for the first time when chasing Keisuke's RX-7. Pulling Takumi back to the real world, Natsuki asks him if he has a crush on anyone, to which he says that while he doesn't have a crush he has someone (Natsuki herself) that he thinks about a lot. When Takumi asks Natsuki the same thing, she mirrors what he had said, heavily implying that she feels the same. Later, Takumi drops Natsuki at her house, where she tells him that she would like to hang out soon and that his car is cute.

The next day at the gas station, Iketani invites Takumi to join the SpeedStars, an invitation he declines as he doesn't think of himself as a racer. Takumi then explains how he became so skilled at driving, he used drifting and techniques to make his journeys to and from the hotels quicker and to keep himself from getting too bored. After hearing all of this, Iketani asks Takumi if he could go on a downhill run with him in the passenger seat so he can see his technique up close. That night, Takumi and Iketani head off on their downhill run. Takumi decides to take the run easy, so that Iketani doesn't become sick, however even this is too much for Iketani, as he passes out on the third corner.

The next day, Takumi hangs out with Itsuki in Ikaho, where Itsuki brings up the complete contrast between the true racer that Takumi is behind the wheel of a car, and the airhead dork he is the rest of the time. Itsuki asks Takumi if he'd coach him when he gets his own Eight-Six, to which he accepts. Later on at work, while Takumi is off delivering a payment slip, Itsuki accepts a challenge from Takeshi Nakazato, the leader of the Myogi NightKids. Itsuki asks Takumi if he'd accept such a challenge (keeping it a secret that he had accepted one on his behalf), to which Takumi says that he wouldn't care.

A few days later, Kenji shows up to the gas station, wondering when and why Iketani had accepted a challenge from the NightKids, much to his surprise. Itsuki finally admits that he had accepted the challenge, and apologizes to Takumi and the SpeedStars. During his delivery run that night, Takumi runs into Keisuke, who tells him that he should accept the challenge against the NightKids, as he believes that he could easily beat them. Keisuke drives off into the night as Takumi contemplates what it means to be a racer.

After his shift, Yuichi sits Takumi down and attempts to trick him into racing, in the same way that he was able to get Bunta to race back when they were younger. Yuichi tells Takumi how powerful the R32 and tells him that he would have no chance of winning against one. Being told this makes Takumi want to race against the GT-R, much to Yuichi's satisfaction. Takumi returns home to get the Eight-Six when he notices that Bunta had closed up shop and gone out for the night. Takumi lays angrily in bed, thinking about why he is so enthusiastic to race against the R32 when he doesn't even like racing. Iketani and Kenji turn up, and Takumi explains the situation to them. Just as the three of them are about to give up hope, Takumi hears the Eight-Six coming. Bunta allows Takumi to take the car, and he hurries off to the mountain, losing Kenji on the way up. Takumi arrives five minutes before 10, and greets Nakazato before they start. Nakazato takes the lead early, but Takumi manages to keep close to his R32. Takumi figures out that his car is turning a lot easier, and realises that Bunta must have been changing the cars settings while he was out. Takumi makes his move against the R32 in the five hairpins, faking as though he was attacking from the outside before moving to the inside and overtaking using the gutter.

The next day, Takumi and Natsuki go to Lake Akina, where Natsuki asks Takumi what he is going to do with all of the money he has earned. After she nags at him for a bit, Takumi admits that he wants his own car, so he doesn't have to drive his dads car everywhere.

At work the day after, Itsuki reveals that he has bought his own Levin, to match with Takumi's Trueno. Because of the sound of the muffler, Yuichi quickly figures out that the car is actually an AE85, an inferior version of the AE86. Kenji and Iketani start laughing at Itsuki's mistake, causing him to run off upset, with Takumi following close behind him. Takumi tells Itsuki that, despite his car not being all that great, he's jealous, as he already owns his own car in high school. Itsuki and Takumi head to Mt. Akina that night, where Itsuki practices driving on their way up. After several members of the NightKids (Thunder Fire in First Stage) make fun of the Eight-Five, Takumi chases them down the mountain and manages to overtake them despite the Eight-Five not having much power.

A few days later, Iketani asks Takumi if he would drive his Silvia, so that he can see his technique up close again. Iketani again is shocked at Takumi's speed right out of the gate, and is amazed that his Silvia is able to perform like this. Iketani manages to stay conscious this time, however he once again is unable to learn anything from the experience. Out of nowhere, Shingo Shoji of the NightKids appears in his Honda Civic, and challenges Takumi to a duct tape deathmatch, a race where both drivers tape their right hand to the steering wheel of the car, which prevents them from turning effectively. Takumi accepts the challenge, going against the pleading of the SpeedStars. Takumi soon realises the difficulty of the race after entering into a turn too fast, only narrowly being able correct his error. Takumi is quickly able to pick up the subtitles of how to drive under these conditions, being able to corner as if he wasnt handicapped. Shingo decides to bump the back of the Eight-Six, causing it to spin out. Takumi manages to regain control of the car and becomes even angrier with Shingo, causing him to drive recklessly to catch up with him. Takumi overtakes Shingo in the five hairpins, much to his shock. In a straightaway, Shingo manages to pull up alongside the Eight-Six and attempts to ram him into a guardrail. Takumi dodges out of the way, causing Shingo to collide with the guardrail and break his wrist.

Early the next morning, Bunta chastises Takumi for damaging the Eight-Six. Takumi realises how much damage he had caused to the car the previous night before he heads off on his tofu deliveries. Later, at work, Itsuki asks Takumi what car he wants to get, with him saying that he doesn't know, as they're all too expensive for him at that point.

The next day, Takumi talks with Itsuki and Iketani about Ryosuke Takahashi's RX-7, as he had been thinking about how it had managed to keep up with him and Nakazato during their race. Iketani talks about Ryosuke's solo racing career before starting the RedSuns, and Takumi says that if Ryosuke wanted to race with him that he would accept.

A few days later, Takumi receives a bouquet of flowers at the gas station from Ryosuke Takahashi, challenging him to a battle on Akina that Saturday.

At Lake Akina, Takumi tells Natsuki about the race on Saturday, much to her shock. The two of them decide to talk in the Eight-Six a bit before they leave, with Natsuki telling Takumi that she knows he was defending her when he punched Miki. She apologises for being angry at him for the year, saying that she didn't know at the time. Mogi leans over to Takumi's seat and the two of them kiss for the first time.

Takumi and Natsuki hang out again at Ikaho, where Natsuki asks him why he likes cars. Hearing Takumi talk passionately about cars, she jokingly calls him a pervert. Later, Takumi and Itsuki drive up to Akina in the Eight-Five, where Itsuki asks him how far he has gotten with the girl he is seeing (as he is unaware that it is Natsuki). Itsuki believes the reason Takumi has been distracted is because of this girl, however Takumi tells him that he has been thinking about what happens after the battle with Ryosuke, confusing Itsuki. Takumi and Itsuki witness a battle between Keisuke Takahashi and Takeshi Nakazato, with the speed of the two cars amazing Takumi as he has only experienced a race from inside a car.

On Saturday, everyone is excited about the race, including Takumi. Takumi and Ryosuke greet each other at the start line. Although Takumi says that he feels he doesn't deserve his own hype, Ryosuke says that he might not know himself as well as he thinks he does, saying that perhaps one day they'll be able to sit down and talk. The battle begins and the two titans jet off down the mountain, with Takumi taking the lead. Ryosuke realises that Takumi has fixed his weaknesses, however he still manages to stay with him, piling on the pressure. Takumi starts to lose his confidence, believing that there is no way that he could lose Ryosuke. Takumi tries to use a gutter technique to lose his opponent but Ryosuke copies the move. Entering the five hairpins, Takumi understeers into the corner due to his tires being worn down, allowing Ryosuke to take the lead. Though things seem bleak, Takumi regains his confidence, and starts closing the gap between him and his opponent. During the last turn, Ryosuke slips from the inside to the outside, giving Takumi the opening he needed to overtake. Takumi and Ryosuke stop at the side of the road and talk. Takumi asks Ryosuke why he didn't leave him in his dust, and Ryosuke reveals that he was trying his hardest, but he had lost grip in his tires by copying Takumi's drifting technique. Ryosuke tells Takumi that he shouldn't limit himself to the small stage, before driving off into the night.

A few days later, Itsuki, Takumi and Kenji follow Iketani to Karuizawa so they can see the girl that he had met. Iketani notices them, and tells them that he will introduce them to her but then they have to leave. As they are in the area, the trio decide to check out Usui Pass, and hear about the fastest on Usui, a duo of female racers who drive a blue Nissan SilEighty. The three decide to stick around until the end of Iketani's date, so that they can all go and check out the local racers on Usui. They witness the SilEighty drift, which inspires Iketani to take a crack at the course. Iketani spins out after a corner, and the SilEighty almost collides with him. As Iketani gets out of the way, they all notice that the driver of the SilEighty is Mako herself.

Iketani meets with Takumi, and tells him that he had been asked by Mako to ask him if he would race against her on Usui. Takumi accepts the request, although he doesn't understand why Iketani still likes her when it appears like she was using him.

On the day of the race, Takumi takes the Eight-Six without his father's permission, leaving him with Itsuki's Eight-Five. During their ride over, Kenji and Iketani talk about Mako, with Kenji saying that the only reason this is happening is because Iketani is trying to get with Mako. They all pull over to a rest stop where they tell Takumi that he can back out if he wants to, but Takumi has already decided that he is going to race. He wants to experience racing on a different pass, and he doesn't care whether he wins or loses. Takumi greets Mako and Sayuki, who are both shocked at how young he is. Sayuki tells them that they will be having a cat and mouse race (as the pass is too narrow to have a traditional start), where two racers go one after the other into a pass, with the mouse attempting to outrun the cat. Against the advice of the SpeedStars, Takumi decides to start in the chase position. Takumi is able to follow the SilEighty closely, though only barely as a single break in his concentration would cost him the race. The two cars enter corner C-121 and both manage to drift all the way through it, something that no one had been able to do before. Mako enters a corner too hard, spinning out, and Takumi narrowly dodges the car, winning himself the race.

The next day, Mako and Sayuki invite the SpeedStars and Takumi to a waterpark. Sayuki spends most of the time with Takumi, who she is interested in.

Later, Takumi and Itsuki think back on their summer, with Itsuki calling it an unforgettable summer, due to Takumi's debut as a racer and his own purchase of a car.

On the first day of school, Takumi hangs out with Natsuki, and they talk about Takumi's plan of getting a car. Later, Itsuki breaks the news to Takumi that the RedSuns are travelling to Myogi to battle the NightKids. At the gas station, Iketani tells Takumi about a challenge from Kenta Nakamura of the RedSuns, who had come by on Takumi's day off. Before his tofu run, Bunta talks with Takumi about being able to take part of your home course with you, after he says that Usui was similar to Akina despite their major differences.

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

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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.

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.