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found this when i was Google Image searching for pics for my new forum site. Some of the Initial D Manga art was even taken and redone for it. The main character drives a Yellow 86 Levin. anyway, you guys tell me, voice your opinions.

http://burapat.com/detail_gallery.asp?name...own%20Dangerous

Wow, ripoff to the max.......

All I can say is....

ummm.... wow....

kinda funny how all the characters has the same as ID's

Considering its made by someone in thailand and you cant read anything on the site, no wonder no one said anything before.

This post has been edited by AE86 Levin on Jul 1 2006, 11:21 PM

pretty good art nonetheless.

The art is pretty good. But like i said, some of the art was copied from Initial D

These 2 in partticular:
http://burapat.com/images/gallery/Downtown...rous/l/dd05.jpg
http://burapat.com/images/gallery/Downtown...rous/l/dd06.jpg\

If someone here can read Thai, we can figure out whats up with this.
All i can say for now about it is, WTF?

This post has been edited by AE86 Levin on Jul 1 2006, 11:31 PM

http://burapat.com/images/gallery/Downtown...rous/l/dd41.jpg

LOL@PIC! LMAO! I think some of the art is good.

someone should b*tch slap the guys that make that rip-off



look at this

http://burapat.com/images/gallery/Downtown...rous/l/dd36.jpg

not a little bit familiar?

This post has been edited by evo 45 on Jul 2 2006, 01:30 AM

It has a stupid title...Plus the character design looks stupid too

FTW!

If DD's "Takumi" based guy thing whatever can beat that in a Levin, then its more fixed and messed up than Initial D

I wouldnt mind seeing DD as an anime, probably will be entertaining for a while.

Just doing a perusal of the site made for interesting reading.

While I can't read Thai, the stuff they did have in English would suggest that the site is a legit company that licenses manga from Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Korea and translates it into Thai.

BuraPat's Current Licensed Roster (in English)

In the case of Downtown Dangerous, it is a Chinese Manga. Many of the cars here are familiar - considering that China shares the same markets with Japan as opposed to the US (so you see cars like the Skyline GT-R and no Acura cars badged as such). However, this racing manga has little problem showing other cars and situations that Shigeno has not and probably will not show - like the Honda NSX (piloted by a short-cropped blonde-haried girl, no less), a yellow Datsun 240Z, more than one S2000; more than one MR2; and a battle between the Yellow 86 and an RX-7 FD...in downtown traffic! Also, the driver of the AE86 is not a "young racing prodigy" like Takumi Fujiwara (whose character idea is a rip-off of Kazami Hayato of Cyber Formula), nor does it seem like any of the drivers of the other cars are "young-looking" as many of the drivers in Initial D.

What does not help Kwong's Creations are some of the cars that are used...like a Blue GC8V, albeit rally painted; a Black Evolution III; and a White/Silvery Evolution IV. However, I wonder about release dates and "car premiers" for some of the cars here. On the flip side of the "drawings," there are only so many ways that racing battles can be shown - and this is cut down even more when you consider the use of "real-life" action stills for the basis of drawing manga (for example, Slam Dunk creator Takehito Inoue found himself immersed in a controversy over his use of NBA stills for his action shots for his manga).

But since I have not read a single panel of Downtown Dangerous, I will reserve any "rip-off" comments until then. And if it turns out that the "DD" art is based on action photos of some touge run or D1 event or race, etc., then I have no complaints.

But, honestly, I need more to go on before I announce "rip-off."


Iketani Mako

The art is reminiscent of that "Max Boost" comic in Import Tuner. For instance:

http://burapat.com/images/gallery/Downtown...rous/l/dd17.jpg

Anyway, so what? It's pretty neat. Rather than say "zomg ripoff wtf!" just be like, "Oh, inspired by Initial D." After all, there's little difference between these drawings and the fanfics people are splooging over in these forums... except that fanfics are text-only, of course.

Hope more Initial D-inspired stuff pops up... keep people satiated while they wait for more official stuff.

I think OMGWTFBBQ~!!

lmao wow eh?

what a ripoff.. made me laugh

i actaully thought those were cool. like Nomake Wan we shouldn't be looking at it as "zomg ripoff wtf!" but as "Oh, inspired by Initial D." hell i bet if there were english scans most of us would be reading it, hell i know i would

wow

the drawings are pretty good and it looks kinda like initial d

at least they got an M3
http://burapat.com/images/gallery/Downtown...rous/l/dd16.jpg

big ripoff, atleat initial t doesnt try to copy too much

i don't really see it as a ripoff. i mean touge racing is pretty common. it's like saying "ripoff" everytime a fighting manga come out. and it's not only touge racing, aren't there some pics of wangan racing too?

This post has been edited by tivx on Jul 2 2006, 08:47 AM

but if they try to copy the cars of a current show/manga than i consider it a ripoff

ya that's understandable but the cars are pretty common as well

Did anyone notice the NSX? ^_~ I know people have been saying "I wanna see an NSX in Initial D!" forever... it should make some folks 'round here pretty happy.

I agree with tivx--if there were English scanlations for this, I'd read it in a heartbeat.

Like the AE86 vs FD RX-7 pic, right?

Besides, I somehow get the feeling that the creator of Downtown Dangerous isn't attached to a "Lonely Racing Samurai" concept as Shigeno-sensei is. That, the MR2 vs MR2 battle, the NSX, and the Datsun 240Z appearing in the CManga alone would be worth the read.

Quick, someone call a North American licensor for this manga. We need more racing manga...


Iketani Mako

yeah that one.

the MR2 vs MR2 race does look sweet! and that NSX

maybe someone will post it in the tokyopop forum

it wouldnt be bad but seriously, you can tell this is a rip.

Just compare these two pictures:
Initial D
Downtown Dangerous

They have the same haircut! WTF?