Shuichi Shigeno had a lot of success with his Initial D manga and a few years ago started the MF Ghost series, which is planned for roughly twenty or so volumes. The anime adaptation has seen two seasons so far, with a third already announced as well as of the end of December 2024.
With the 2017 start of the manga, everything wrapped up recently, and we’ve just been waiting for the final volume, which is set for a June 9th, 2025, release. Now, the next project in the larger work has been announced with Subaru and Subaru. It’s set to debut in Weekly Young Magazine in July 2025 with two characters that share the same name.
According to ANN, “In the new manga, the fate of the young female driver Subaru Satō is set in motion when she meets the Initial D character Bunta. The story also follows Subaru Kudō, a young man who appears before MF Ghost characters Ogata and Aiba. (The names of the two Subarus have the same pronunciation, but are written with different kanji characters.) The announcement previews some panels from the new manga which tease a possible connection between Subaru Satō and the Initial D character Mako Satō.”
The anime saw Tomohito Naka directing it based on the series scripts from Kenichi Yamashita and Akihiko Inari. Naoyuki Onda is adapting Shuichi Shigeno’s original manga designs with studio Felix Film handling the production for the animation. With plans for a Eurobeat-style soundtrack, Akio Dobashi of the Initial D films is handling the music composition.
The Japanese cast includes Yūma Uchida as Kanata Katagiri (Kanata Livington), Ayane Sakura as Ren Saionji, Daisuke Ono as Shun Aiba, Hiroshi Kamiya as Michael Beckenbauer, Daisuke Namikawa as Daigo Ōishi, Junichi Suwabe as Kaito Akaba, Hiroki Yasumoto as Fūjin Ishigami, Ryota Ohsaka as Kōki Sawatari, Kohsuke Tanabe as Kakeru Yashiro, Yū Serizawa as Nozomi Kitahara, Tooru Sakurai as Yūdai Sakamoto, Kaito Ishikawa as Yōsuke Ōtani, Yūichi Nakamura as Jackson Taylor, Takumu Miyazono as Kazuhiro Maezono, Shogo Sakata as Takuya Yanagida, Kenta Miyake as E. Hanninen, Tasuku Hatanaka as Ogata, Taku Yashiro as Sena Moroboshi, Takehito Koyasu as Ryō Takahashi, Tomokazu Seki as Keisuke Takahashi, Osamu Hosoi as Fumihiro Jōyū, Yasunori Matsumoto as Wataru Akiyama, Mitsuo Iwata Itsuki Takeuchi, Kazuki Yao as Kōichirō Iketani, Wataru Takagi as Kenji, Shuuhei Sakaguchi Hiroya Okuyama, Nobutoshi Canna as Kai Kogashiwa, Tatsuki Kobe as Yōji Tanaka, Yuko Iida as Kyōko Kurihara, and Coco Hayashi as Mami Satō.
The series features the main theme songs with ‘JUNGLE FIRE feat. MOTSU” from Yu Serizawa as the opening while the ending theme song is “Stereo Sunet (Prod AmPM)” from Himika Akaneya.
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Plot Concept: In the near future where cars have mostly switched over to sustainable power, combustion engine racing is a rarity. The MFG is the last major race for this dying breed, and half-Japanese Kanata Rivington has come back to try his luck. But that’s not all he’s come to Japan to do. He’s searching for his father, too. Can even the ambitious Kanata accomplish all he’s set out to do?
[Source: ANN]
