Chapter 229

Chapter 229
Kodansha USA
Kanji	短期決戦
Romaji	Tanki Kessen
English	Quick Decision (Part One)
French	Un Duel De Courte Durée
Release Date	July 17th 2000
Volume	20
Length	14 pages
Anime Episodes	Initial D Battle Stage 2
Battle	Keisuke Takahashi vs Smiley Sakai
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Quick Decision (Part One) (短期決戦, Tanki Kessen, "Short Battle") is the two hundred and twenty-ninth chapter of Initial D.

Plot

Keisuke and Sakai race through the corners.

Kyoichi and Seiji spectate along the course. Seiji is amazed by how Takumi beat Daiki on the downhill, and asks Kyoichi if he thinks the Todo School aren't as good as they used to be. Kyoichi tells him that according to some Todo graduates that he is friends with, Daiki's EK9 is one of the fastest cars the school has ever produced. He speculates that Takumi might have improved significantly since either of them had last seen it in action, and Ryosuke has likely attributed to that.

At the bottom of the course, Kenta is surprised that Ryosuke's advice to Takumi made sense, but doesn't understand why he hadn't offered any to Keisuke.

Sakai thinks back to a conversation he had had with Todo regarding adding a turbocharger to his car. Todo believed that adding a turbo to an engine with VTEC was a crazy idea, but Sakai argued that he wanted to stick with his Integra, instead of swapping it out to a higher displacement FR.

Keisuke is surprised that Sakai is able to get the traction he is out of an FF on the uphill. He apologises to Ryosuke, as he thinks the race will be tougher than he had anticipated.

Stats

Release Dates

Japan

• July 17th 2000 (Weekly Young Magazine, 2000 Volume 31)
• December 26th 2000 (Tankōbon, Volume 20)

Chinese

• March 22, 2001 (Tankōbon, Volume 20, Sharp Point Press)

English

• November 8th 2005 (Tankōbon, Volume 20, Tokyopop)
• April 17th 2019 (Digital re-release, Volume 20, Kodansha USA)

French

• December 19th 2012 (Tankōbon, Volume 20, Kazé)

Characters (in order of appearance)

• Smiley Sakai
• Keisuke Takahashi
• Seiji Iwaki
• Kyoichi Sudo
• Kenta Nakamura
• Ryosuke Takahashi
• Fumihiro
• Todo (Flashback)

Cars (in order of appearance)

• Mazda ɛ̃fini RX-7 Type R (FD3S)
• Honda Integra Type R (DC2)

Localisation Differences

Tokyopop/Kodansha USA (2019) version

• Seiji calls Kyoichi by his first name instead of using his nickname.