If you've known me for any period of time, you've likely heard me talk (read: complain at length) about the situation surrounding Initial D's extra chapters.
Now Initial D has 10 extra chapters (I won't bore you with the others but if you are interested, I have written about all of them on the wiki) five of which were never collected into a main tankobon volume.
These five chapters are the two parts of Sentimental White, and the three parts of Green Departure. They would later be adapted into Extra Stage - Act 2 (only a month after its release, apparently, which is rather cool), and Extra Stage 2 respectively.
Both saw releases in the 2014 and 2015 guidebooks "Trajectory Challenge Note" and "Trajectory Sprinting Note", their only releases outside of the pages of Weekly Young Magazine.
As they were never released in the main volumes, all five have gone untranslated into any language other than Japanese since their releases, 23 and 22 years ago respectively.
Until now, that is.
After, quite frankly, a lot of work, we (and by we I mean myself and the other members of the Project D scanlation team) have finally been able to get all of Sentimental White translated and presentable.
Sentimental White follows Mako Sato as she meets a guy, and the two try to start a relationship. If you've seen Extra Stage - Act 2, its pretty much the same, but it's nice to see it in its original manga form.
You can read both chapters right now on Mangadex.
I'm very happy to finally have this out, and I can't wait for Green Departure to be finished so I can show that too.
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initial d but its backgammon
shingo challanges takumi to a 7 point game. shingo wins 3 points while takumi is just getting the hang of it. theyre on game 3 right now. shingo goes 'haha i have the advantage right now im going to hand takumi the die to double the points, he cant say no or he's going to automatically lose' and takumi says 'alright bet' and doubles that to a x4 score, and shingo goes okay shit this is gettig interesting, decides that no way that takumi is going to win with the prime hes setting up and calls for a x16 because the odds are not in takumis favour, and takumi being buntas son rolls 2 double 6s in a row and then up the stakes to x64 of the points' and then shingo realises he has no way of winning and hes the one that explained point doubling to takumi in the first place and decides to kill both of them out of embarassment
shingo challanges takumi to a 7 point game. shingo wins 3 points while takumi is just getting the hang of it. theyre on game 3 right now. shingo goes 'haha i have the advantage right now im going to hand takumi the die to double the points, he cant say no or he's going to automatically lose' and takumi says 'alright bet' and doubles that to a x4 score, and shingo goes okay shit this is gettig interesting, decides that no way that takumi is going to win with the prime hes setting up and calls for a x16 because the odds are not in takumis favour, and takumi being buntas son rolls 2 double 6s in a row and then up the stakes to x64 of the points' and then shingo realises he has no way of winning and hes the one that explained point doubling to takumi in the first place and decides to kill both of them out of embarassment