is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

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. It was serialized in

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''

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'' from 1986 to 1996, with its chapters collected in 32 ''

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'' volumes. It follows the adventures of two friends interested in ''shakotan'', the Japanese term for

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s. While getting into trouble, picking up girls, and street racing, these two guys have a blast in the world of Shakotan.

Characters

; :The main characters of the story and classmates, who cruise around in their Soarer getting into all sorts of trouble. They like to pick up girls, deal with bosozoku and chinpira, and run from police. Their Soarer has number "67" decals on bonnet and doors, and is white with blue and pink accentuations. They drive a

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2800GT (MZ11). Hajime also owns a Toyota Celsior (UCF10). ; :A driver of a dump truck, whose

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(S30) is always driving very fast (akin to Akio Asakura's

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). Akira's S30Z had a bored and stroked version of the original engine and was also bodykitted with "G-nose" package with "Yanky Mate!" label on its golden-colored chassis, thus called "Akira Z". He had a

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battle with Hajime's Soarer. ; :A man who owns a repairing shop (a reference to

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). He is also tuning people's cars (including his Skyline). His

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2000 GT-R (KPGC10) (known as Hakosuka, or Boxy Skyline) has a tuned L28 engine and some useful performance enhancements such as an external oil cooler and later turbocharging. However, during a battle with Mayumi the 7th, his Skyline quickly got wiped out, and crashed into barriers, but he managed to repair it. He had dreamt of driving his Skyline in

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, and was interested in cars and women. ; :A mysterious woman which was often called "The Legendary Street Racer", and works at

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, she drives a rotary engined

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, and is very fast in the

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racing even in corners. She defeated Junichi's C10 Skyline on

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, and also races with Akira and Hajime. Her RX-7 has two tone colorings, which was popular color design among 1980s with the introduction of AE86 and S13, and with red-colored bumpers. In the third episode of OVA anime, she appears to use a manual boost controller.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by

, ''Shakotan Boogie'' was first published as a

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for the

's ''

''s competition project, ''Kayō Manga Daizenshū'', which ran from 1984 to 1985. The series started its serialization in ''Weekly Young Magazine'' in 1986 and finished in 1996. Kodansha collected its chapters in 32 ''

'' volumes, released from March 14, 1986, to August 3, 1996.

Live-action film

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film adaptation produced by

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was released in 1987.

Original video animation

A four-episode

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(OVA), animated by

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, was released from February 6, 1991, to July 17, 1992.

References

External links

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