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Aikawa (会川)[1], also known as the Man of Lan Evo V (ランエボVの男 Ran'ebo V no otoko)[2], or Black Evil (黒悪 Kuro Waru)[3] is the uphill racer for the Tsuchisaka Lancer Evolution Team that Project D races in the Saitama Prefecture.

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Wanting to promote a car shop they're affiliated with, and knowing that Project D will arrive to face them, Aikawa and his teammate Ichijo state about the money they'll earn depending on how many races they win. They state they'll earn 500,000 yen if they win both races, 250,000 if each of them win a single race, and 50,000 yen if its a draw and they don't win. However, Aikawa states that they both won't win easy, and he and Ichijo plan to play dirty in their upcoming race.

He faces Keisuke Takahashi on the uphill run on the Tsuchisaka pass. Unlike previous opponents, both Aikawa and his racing partner Ichijo are more than willing to use cheap, unfair tactics, such as spilling oil on the road, to defeat Project D (albeit they want to win only to promote a garage they are affiliated with). It is due to this team's slicking of the road with oil that leads to Keisuke spinning out on the road and damaging his FD to such a state that it cannot be used in the race. He is on the line with Shingo Shoji in terms of jerkiness.

As a person, Aikawa is depicted as being an "ugly", mid to late 20s, arrogant jerk, an example of which occurs when he confronts Project D after Keisuke crashes his FD, at which point he acts innocent in regards as to who was at fault for slicking the road. In his race versus Keisuke (who drove Kyoko's black FD), he displays little skill (Keisuke compares him to Atsuro Kawai, the ER34 Skyline driver of Seven Star Leaf) and considers the Lancer Evolution to be in a totally different class apart from the Mazda RX-7 FD. He loses when he was spooked as Keisuke takes the inside when the two cars drive along a long straightaway with a construction barricade on the left side of the road, much to his anger as he berates for nearly crashing. After losing the race in anger, he was humiliated when he was given a lecture by Keisuke when he complained of "reckless driving." After Ichijo loses the race to Takumi, Aikawa and the rest of the team decide to call a Bosozoku gang to beat up Project D. However, he finds out that the gang was from Gunma and former subordinates of Keisuke Takahashi. As a result, the gangsters turned on the losers, including Aikawa.

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Initial D Characters
Project D Takumi FujiwaraKeisuke TakahashiRyosuke Takahashi
Akina SpeedStars Koichiro IketaniKenjiItsuki Takeuchi
Akagi RedSuns Kenta NakamuraKeisuke TakahashiRyosuke Takahashi
Myogi NightKids MiyaharaTakeshi NakazatoShingo Shoji
Impact Blue Mako SatoSayuki
Emperor Seiji IwakiRen NogamiSatakeKyoichi Sudo
Seven Star Leaf Atsuro KawaiShinichiToru Suetsugu
The Todo School Daiki NinomiyaSmiley SakaiTomoyuki TachiTodo
Northern Saitama Alliance Nobuhiko AkiyamaWataru AkiyamaKyoko IwaseSakamoto
Tsuchisaka Lan Evo Team/
Men in Evos
Aikawa/Man in Lan Evo V/Kuro WaruIchijo/Man in Lan Evo VI/Shiro Waru
Purple Shadow Kozo HoshinoDr. Toshiya Joshima
Team 246 Satoshi OmiyaKobayakawa
R.T. Katagiri S.V. Kai KogashiwaHideo Minagawa
Team Spiral Ryuji IkedaJunichi SakamotoHiroya Okuyama
Sidewinder Go HojoRin HojoShinji Inui
Other Characters Kazumi AkiyamaKazumi's Ex-BoyfriendThe Altezza GuysFake Project DFormer Bosozoku LeaderBunta FujiwaraFumihiroMrs. IketaniItsuki's ParentsMrs. InuiKaoriKaori's FatherKen KogashiwaEiji KuboKyoko's FriendShuichi MatsumotoMikiNatsuki MogiNaoOld ManPapaShiraishiMasashi SuzukiYuichi TachibanaTomiguchiTomokoTsugumiTsukamotoTwo Guys From TokyoMika Uehara
Non-Manga MamoruKatsuragi MikaSaoriShigeruEikichi Shimamura

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  1. The name Aikawa was reportedly given on the Fourth Stage official website and on the Fourth Stage DVDs, but this has yet to be proven. The name Aikawa is given however in the Initial D Memorial Blu-ray Collection Vol. 2's information booklet.
  2. This name is used in most media, including guidebooks and the Arcade Stage series.
  3. This name is used in Initial D Battle Stage 2.
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