Initial D: First Stage (1998)
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The first anime series adapting Shuichi Shigeno's street-racing manga, following tofu delivery driver Takumi Fujiwara as he becomes a mountain-pass drifting legend. (IMDb)
Watches
- Casio G-Shock DW-6100
- The digital watch shown in Initial D: First Stage is a real-adjacent Casio G-Shock DW-6100-style match. Community G-Shock watch-spotting makes the comparison, but the scene does not show a readable model identifier or a production-confirmed Casio reference.
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- Casio G-Shock DW5600BAIT20-7
- Official product partnership, not an in-work appearance. Casio's DW5600BAIT20-7 is a real $200 collaboration with streetwear retailer BAIT, released December 26, 2020 through a U.S. lottery and later in Japan, styled after Takumi Fujiwara's Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno with black racing stripes, the Fujiwara family tofu-shop sign on the band, and an Initial D logo engraved on the case back and lit in the EL backlight. It is a licensed manga/anime-associated watch, rather than a model shown on a character's wrist in the series. (G-Central)
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- Seiko Initial D 30th Anniversary Collaboration Watch
- Official product partnership, not an in-work appearance. Seiko and licensee Imperial Enterprise sold this 1,995-piece chronograph through PREMICO from July 17, 2025 at ¥59,800 ex-tax, marking 30 years since Shigeno's manga began serialization in 1995 rather than this anime's own 1998 premiere. Its white-and-black "panda" dial echoes Takumi's AE86 Hachiroku and carries the Fujiwara Tofu Shop logo; it is not the digital watch Takumi wears in the series. (Watch LIFE NEWS)
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- Seiko Initial D Keisuke Takahashi RX-7 Chronograph
- Official product partnership, not an in-work appearance. Seiko and Imperial Enterprise released this 1,995-piece chronograph through PREMICO on August 3, 2026, its yellow dial and black bezel echoing rival racer Keisuke Takahashi's Mazda RX-7 FD3S, with a rotary-engine-rotor hour marker and red "RedSuns" team branding, numbered to the manga's 1995 serialization year rather than this anime's own 1998 premiere. It is licensed merchandise, not a watch shown on screen. (atpress; PREMICO)
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