This October, anime street races are back, and it's time to meet the fresh faces tackling Japan's most treacherous roads! Four brand-new character portraits featuring the series' key characters and their vehicles were revealed for the anime adaptation of Shuichi Shigeno's Initial D sequel, MF Ghost.
Check out the new character visuals below! Comment below with your favorite.
Hiroshi Kamiya as Michael Beckenbauer, with his Porsche 718 Cayman S
Daisuke Ono as Shun Aiba, with his Nissan GT-R
Ayane Sakura as Ren Saionji
Yuuma Uchida as Kanata Katagiri, with his Toyota 86 GT
Check out the official lists of cast and crew members for the anime MF Ghost series below:
Main Cast
- Kanata Katagiri (Kanata Livington): Yuma Uchida (Megumi Fushiguro in JUJUTSU KAISEN)
- Ren Saionji: Ayane Sakura (Yotsuba Nakano in The Quintessential Quintuplets)
- Shun Aiba: Daisuke Ono (Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Mikhail Beckenbauer: Hiroshi Kamiya (Levi in Attack on Titan)
- Daigo Oishi: Daisuke Namikawa (Goemeon Ishikawa in Lupin The Third)
- Kaito Akaba: Junichi Suwabe (Keigo Atobe in The Prince of Tennis)
- Fujin Ishigami: Hiroki Yasumoto (Shingo Kinjo in Yowamushi Pedal)
- Kouki Sawatari: Ryota Osaka (Noir Stardia in The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter)
- Sho Yashio: Kosuke Tanabe
- Nozomu Kitahara: Yu Serizawa
- Yudai Sakamoto: Toru Sakurai
- Yosuke Otani: Kaito Ishikawa
- Jackson Taylor: Yuichi Nakamura
- Kazuhiro Maezono: Takumu Miyazono
- Takuya Yanagida: Shogo Sakata
- E. Hanninen: Kenta Miyake
- Ogata: Tasuku Hatanaka
- Sena Moroboshi: Taku Yashiro
- Ryo Takahashi: Takehito Koyasu
- Keisuke Takahashi: Tomokazu Seki
- Fumihiro Joyu: Osamu Hosoi
- Wataru Akiyama: Yasunori Matsumoto
- Tatsuki Takeuchi: Mitsuo Iwata
- Koichiro Iketani: Kazuki Yao
- Kenji: Wataru Takagi
- Hiroya Okuyama: Shuhei Sakaguchi
- Kai Kogashiwa: Nobutoshi Kanna
- Yoji Tanaka (announcer): Tatsuki Kobe
- Kyoko: Tomoko Iida
- Mami: Koko Hayashi
Main Staff
- Original story: Shuichi Shigeno (serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine)
- Director: Toshihito Naka (New Initial D the Movie - Legend 2 & 3)
- Series Composition: Kenichi Yamashita (Hensuki)
- Screenplay: Kenichi Yamashita / Akihiko Inari
- Character Design: Naoyuki Onda (PSYCHO-PASS 3)
- Chief Animation Director: Naoyuki Onda / Chiyoko Sakamoto / Tetsutaro Yui
- 3D Director: Hiroki Uchida
- Prop Design: Mahiru Shintani
- Art Director/Setting: Seiko Akashi (STUDIO uni)
- Color Design: Chiharu Tanaka
- Director of Photography: Koji Hayashi (Color&Smile)
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose (editz)
- Music: Akio Dobashi
- Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
- Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama (SOUND BOX)
- Sound Production: Techno Sound
- Animation Production: FelixFilm
- CG Animation Production: FelixFilm / directrain
- Production: MF Ghost Production Committee
Not familiar with the MF Ghost series? Crunchyroll, who is set to stream the series, describes it below:
The protagonist is a 19-year-old Japanese-British Kanata Livington, who was trained by Takumi Fujiwara, the protagonist of Initial D, at Royal Donington Park Racing School (RDRS), a prestigious British racing school. To find his missing father, he travels to Japan to take part in MFG, a closed-course car race on public roads, using sports cars powered by internal combustion engines. The characters in Initial D also appear as they have aged, or their names and biographies are mentioned in the story.
Be sure to check out the trailer for the series below!
What do you think of the new character visuals? Did you watch the trailer? Are you going to tunr in to the series premiere this October? Sound off in the comments with your thoughts and answers!