Ryōsuke Takahashi

Ryōsuke Takahashi (高橋 良輔, Takahashi Ryōsuke, born January 11, 1943) is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, and producer. He is among Sunrise's most renowned and noted directors, with his work (together with character designer Norio Shioyama) epitomizing much of Sunrise's work in the 1980s, pioneering the real robot genre, with such noted works as Armored Trooper Votoms, Fang of the Sun Dougram and several others.

Takahashi is a graduate of Meiji University. He was also a part-time lecturer at the private Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts. Among his most recent works is Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto, which he created and directed.

Takahashi is on the selection committee for the annual Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award.

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List of Initial D characters

This is a list of characters from the anime and manga series Initial D.

Main characters

Takumi Fujiwara

Takumi Fujiwara (藤原 拓海, Fujiwara Takumi, "Tak") is the central character in the Initial D series. Although he appears to be just a high school senior with no remarkable traits, he had been subtly groomed by his father into becoming one of the best street racers in the area. This is due to his job of delivering tofu over the mountain roads to Lake Akina every morning for five years while driving an 1986 Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86. He works part-time at a gas station with his best friend Itsuki Takeuchi, and the leader of the Akina Speed Stars, Iketani. Although he is totally disinterested in racing, when his friends were discussing drift techniques and Takumi's suggestion of a technique is dismissed as amateur, his boss Yuichi Tachibana realizes Takumi's technique is a much more advanced. After passing Keisuke Takahashi on the roads, he begins to find himself involved in challenges to race, which he initially agrees to do for petty rewards from his father such as getting to use the car for pleasure and having a full tank of gas. He initially disregards comment about him being a street racer and loving to drive, but slowly he accepts the idea that he enjoys the thrill of street racing. Although he is not a member of the Akina Speed Stars, he soon races all sorts of challengers from teams over the region and nearby. In the Fourth Stage storylines, he joins Ryosuke Takahashi's Project D, which aims to conquer street racing teams in other prefectures.