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Itsuki Takeuchi

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Itsuki Takeuchi (武内 樹 Takeuchi Itsuki, known as Iggy in the Tokyopop version) is Takumi's best friend and a member of the Akina SpeedStars.

He provides the comic relief in the series, and is generally quite loud and obnoxious. Itsuki works part-time at a gas station with Takumi and Iketani; Itsuki plans to use the money he earns to buy an AE86 Corolla Levin (to complement Takumi's AE86 Trueno) but mistakenly buys an inferior (less power, poor brakes, less chassis bracing, and looser suspension) AE85. This upsets him until Takumi takes him for a drive (ultimately racing it downhill), demonstrating that the driver's skill can make a difference. With a car, he is a self-proclaimed member of the Akina SpeedStars. Unlike Kenji and Iketani, Itsuki is the most optimistic and excitable "member" of the SpeedStars. He eventually purchases a turbocharger for his Eight-Five. Self-proclaimed "Lonely Driver".

History[]

Childhood[]

The White Ghost of Akina[]

Emperor[]

The New Eight-Six[]

Project D - Tochigi[]

Saitama and Ibaraki[]

The Kanagawa Expedition[]

MF Ghost[]

Main article: Itsuki Takeuchi on the MF Ghost Wiki

Itsuki remains in Shibukawa, and continues to work at the gas station (now a charging station). He is married with children.

Information[]

Itsuki's Information Page

Height: 163cm (5'4")

Weight: 55kg (121lbs)

Likes: A Taiwanese banana, race cars, racers

Dislikes: FFs, automatics, diesel engines.

He admires Takumi's driving technique and dreams of a day when the two of them will gain notoriety as the Eight-Six duo.

Speciality: Getting air on a hilly road (little help in a race).

Vehicle: Pre-Facelift (Zenki) White Toyota Corolla Levin SR (AE85)

Battles[]

Race Vehicle Opponent Opponent's Vehicle(s) Course Outcome
Itsuki Takeuchi vs Shingo Shoji (Impromptu) Itsuki Takeuchi's Toyota AE85 Shingo Shoji Shingo Shoji's Honda Civic Akina Itsuki crashes after getting bumped by Shingo.

Relationships[]

Love Interests[]

Saori

His first love interest, in the anime, whom Natsuki introduced him to. While driving her home, Shingo starts an impromptu battle with Itsuki (thinking it is Akina's Eight-Six) which resulted to a crash. Although Saori wasn't badly hurt, she dumps him due to bad memories.

Kazumi Akiyama

His first (second in the anime) love interest. At first, she mistook Itsuki as a vandal when he was flirting with her older brother's Eight-Six Levin. The following day, she took a liking after covering her the coin shortage in the taiyaki stand. She also taught Itsuki how to drift and found it easier to learn from her whereas he finds learning from Takumi difficult. As she parts to Saitama with her brother, Itsuki became heartbroken. He eventually saw her again during Project D's battle against Sakamoto. Kazumi eventually dumped him, leaving Itsuki disheartened.

Family[]

Itsuki's Parents

Not much is known about them. They were first seen in Takumi's childhood chapter, where he first meets Itsuki. They are very friendly. It is later on known that his father owns a diesel sedan, which Itsuki very much dislikes.

Project D[]

Takumi Fujiwara

Takumi was his best friend since middle school as well as his workmate in the gas station. After discovering he is Akina's fastest, he envies his driving skills and bought an Eight-Six, which, upon closer inspection, is actually an Eight-Five. After feeling embarrassed and humiliated by the rest of the SpeedStars members, Itsuki gained inspiration after Takumi drove his car in an impromptu downhill battle and would practice driving to one day follow his footsteps. He is a caring friend to Takumi who is with him whenever anything significant happens to him.

Keisuke and Ryosuke Takahashi

Itsuki respects Keisuke and Ryosuke Takahashi for being the fastest racers of Akagi and one of the best in the whole of Gunma. He first met them when the RedSuns arrived at Akina to to confront to SpeedStars about their battle to them.

Akina SpeedStars[]

Koichiro Iketani

He is his workmate at the gas station as well as a friend whom joined his team the Akina SpeedStars after Takumi demonstrated his driving skills on his Eight-Five. Him and Itsuki often forms a group called 'lonely drivers' after they both got broke up by their girlfriends and became single.

Kenji

Kenji is another SpeedStars member and occasionally comes to the gas station to talk about cars, races and other stuffs. Him and Itsuki are friends, much like he is to Iketani. Itsuki respects him as a senior and a better driver, despite occasionally making fun of him for being single.

Myogi NightKids[]

Takeshi Nakazato

He first met Nakazato in his gas station when Nakazato wanted to fix the battle between him and Akina's AE86. Itsuki was the only SpeedStars 'member' there, so he agreed on the battle. He later realized Takumi was not interested and was scared and traumatized on the promise he fixed. He nearly went to apologize Nakazato on the time of their battle, only to be cut short by Takumi actually arriving there to battle him.

Shingo Shoji

In the manga, he met Shingo on a meeting with SpeedStars on Akina when he came to confront Takumi to a battle. In the anime, he first met Shingo in an impromptu battle while he was returning Saori to her house. Shingo bumps Itsuki's car, causing him to crash and to be hospitalized, though escaped with minor injuries. Takumi, to avenge Itsuki agrees to battle Shingo that day.

Impact Blue[]

Mako Sato

Sayuki

Emperor[]

Kyoichi Sudo

Itsuki first met him when he along with Takumi went to Lake Akina when Kyoichi and Seiji was commenting about Akina's fastest racers. He first disbelieved Itsuki when he said an AE86 was the fastest car in the Akina, but was shocked to find out it was the truth when Ryosuke later confirms to him that he was beaten by an AE86 itself.

Seiji Iwaki

Seiji was also there with Kyoichi when they first met Itsuki and Takumi. He made fun of Itsuki when he said the fastest car in Akina was an AE86. But was surprised when Kyoichi later confirmed from Ryosuke it was the truth. He still didn't believe it until he raced the AE86 himself.

Northern Saitama Alliance[]

Wataru Akiyama

He is the brother of Kazumi, Itsuki's first girlfriend (in the manga). Itsuki liked Wataru's Levin AE86 when he first saw it. Later on in the Saitama arc when he meets Kazumi and dates her, Wataru pulls up in his car with Kazumi's 'former' boyfriend who wanted to be with her again. Despite doing this, he feels bad for Itsuki and later on tells Takumi to tell Itsuki he should find a better girl than his sister.

Other[]

Natsuki Mogi

A classmate in one of his classes as well as a good friend. He adores her good looks but always gets envious whenever she is together with Takumi.

Yuichi Tachibana

Yuichi is the owner of the Esso Gas Station, which makes him as Itsuki's boss. He is very helpful and caring towards his employees. He also sometimes gives facts and information about cars and driving techniques. He was the first one to realize Itsuki's new car was not an AE86, but instead an AE85. He occasionally spectates some battles with the SpeedStars.

Trivia[]

  • Itsuki is the first character to appear in the Initial D manga.
  • Itsuki is the only character in Initial D Gaiden to have four character images. Every other character has three.
  • Itsuki's Zodiac sign is Aries, placing his birthday between March 21st and April 19th.[3]
  • Itsuki's blood type is O.[3]

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Childhood[]

The White Ghost of Akina Arc[]

Emperor Arc[]

The New Eight Six Arc[]

Tochigi Arc[]

Saitama and Ibaraki Arc[]

Kanagawa Expedition Arc[]

Manga Volume covers[]

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Extra Stage 2[]

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Final Stage[]

New Initial D the Movie Trilogy[]

Legend 1: Awakening[]

Legend 2: Racer[]

Legend 3: Dream[]

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Initial D Characters
Project D Takumi Fujiwara • Keisuke Takahashi • Ryosuke Takahashi
Akina SpeedStars Koichiro Iketani • Kenji • Itsuki Takeuchi
Akagi RedSuns Kenta Nakamura • Keisuke Takahashi • Ryosuke Takahashi
Myogi NightKids Miyahara • Takeshi Nakazato • Shingo Shoji
Impact Blue Mako Sato • Sayuki
Emperor Seiji Iwaki • Ren Nogami • Satake • Kyoichi Sudo
Seven Star Leaf Atsuro Kawai • Shinichi • Toru Suetsugu
The Todo School Daiki Ninomiya • Smiley Sakai • Tomoyuki Tachi • Todo
Northern Saitama Alliance Nobuhiko Akiyama • Wataru Akiyama • Kyoko Iwase • Sakamoto
Tsuchisaka Lan Evo Team/
Men in Evos 		Aikawa/Man in Lan Evo V/Kuro Waru • Ichijo/Man in Lan Evo VI/Shiro Waru
Purple Shadow Kozo Hoshino • Toshiya Joshima
Team 246 Satoshi Omiya • Kobayakawa
R.T. Katagiri S.V. Kai Kogashiwa • Hideo Minagawa
Team Spiral Ryuji Ikeda • Junichi Sakamoto • Hiroya Okuyama
Sidewinder Go Hojo • Rin Hojo • Shinji Inui
Other Characters Kazumi Akiyama • Kazumi's Ex-Boyfriend • The Altezza Guys • Fake Project D • Former Bosozoku Leader • Bunta Fujiwara • Fumihiro • Mrs. Iketani • Itsuki's Parents • Mrs. Inui • Kaori • Kaori's Father • Ken Kogashiwa • Eiji Kubo • Kyoko's Friend • Shuichi Matsumoto • Miki • Natsuki Mogi • Nao • Old Man • Papa • Shiraishi • Masashi Suzuki • Yuichi Tachibana • Tomiguchi • Tomoko • Tsugumi • Tsukamoto • Two Guys From Tokyo • Mika Uehara
Non-Manga Mamoru • Katsuragi Mika • Saori • Shigeru • Eikichi Shimamura • Legend 3 86 GT Driver

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 019 - Itsuki's information page - The Tokyopop version changes his height from 183cm to 162.6cm and his weight from 55kg to 54.9kg
  2. ↑ Seen in a Legend 3 Height Chart
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 First Stage - Act 19
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