The Breaking Expert (ブレーキングの達人, Burēkingu no Tatsujin, "Breaking Expert") is the two hundred and eighteenth chapter of Initial D.
Plot[]
Daiki and Takumi continue the downhill.
Sakai thinks its funny that just the day prior everyone in the Todo School thought the Eight-Six would be an easy opponent to beat. He says he would have chosen to follow if he were in Daiki's position, as he would want to see the fastest downhill racer in Gunma up close. One of the old boys asks Sakai what Daiki's specialty is, and he's surprised to hear that he's a breaking specialist. He wonders what use that is in a downhill race.
Takumi thinks back on the advice that Ryosuke had given him, to not look into his rearview mirror, and to just focus on the road. Daiki is impressed with the Eight-Six, but thinks that he's ready to pass. He decides to put pressure on Takumi until he messes up, unaware that Takumi won't see him.
Stats[]
Release Dates[]
Japan[]
Chinese[]
- November 15th 2000 (Tankōbon, Volume 19, Sharp Point Press)
English[]
- August 9th 2005 (Tankōbon, Volume 19, Tokyopop)[3]
- April 17th 2019 (Digital re-release, Volume 19, Kodansha USA)[4]
French[]
Characters (in order of appearance)[]
- Takumi Fujiwara
- Smiley Sakai
- Ryosuke Takahashi (Flashback)
- Daiki Ninomiya
Cars (in order of appearance)[]
Quotes[]
Localisation Differences[]
Tokyopop/Kodansha USA (2019) version[]
- One of Daiki's sentences contains a spelling error: "I may as will finish this in one circuit". "Will" should be "well" here.
Notes & Trivia[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://comicvine.gamespot.com/weekly-young-magazine-939-no-19-2000/4000-872252/
- ↑ https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000008562
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090825175440/http://www.tokyopop.com/product/1040/InitialD/19
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NSLXT94
- ↑ https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B0794GMWK6