Fujiwara Takumi-TAKUMI-san (C.V. Resuraru) (Jinushi.ver) TTS Computer AI Voice

Takumi Fujiwara (藤原 拓海 Fujiwara Takumi, known as Tak in the Tokyopop version) is the main protagonist of Initial D. He acts as the delivery boy for his father's tofu business, driving his father's Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (AE86) up to the top of the mountain every morning to deliver tofu to the hotels for the day. After defeating Keisuke Takahashi in an impromptu battle he was nicknamed the "White Ghost of Akina" and began racing on his own, occasionally representing the Akina SpeedStars in battle. He was eventually invited to join Project D as their downhill ace. At the age of 13, Takumi was made to become the delivery driver for his father, Bunta's, tofu store. Although he was initially scared of driving, he eventually became accustomed to the task. Bunta placed a cup of water in the cupholder of the car, so that Takumi could make sure he didn't break any of the tofu, and to train his driving skill. Despite improving his skill drastically over the course of a year, he still found the task boring, and resented his father for making him drive, as it was a crime. In the second year of middle school, Takumi meets Itsuki Takeuchi, a talkative boy who would go on to be his best friend. Annoyed with his father's drinking and making him drive, Takumi decides to become a delinquent, wishing for his father to be arrested. His first act was driving without a license in public, however, even after driving around for 2 hours, he was not caught due to his skill at driving. On his 14th birthday, Takumi stays over at Itsuki's house without telling Bunta, drinking and talking about his dad, but he feels bad when he says that his father doesn't love him. At 5AM the next morning, Bunta comes to pick Takumi up, telling him that he was worried for him and was waiting to celebrate his birthday with him. Bunta then takes Takumi on a downhill run on Akina before heading home. One year, during the winter, Takumi figured out how to use the gutters on the side of road to turn the car easier in the snow. Bunta tells him that he has also used the gutters in this way, and tells him that the gutters can also be used to jump out of a turn. Gutter techniques would go on to become one of Takumi's specialties, allowing to make his deliveries much quicker. Takumi was a member of the soccer club at his high school, and was friends with Natsuki Mogi, the head of the club. After practice one day during his penultimate year of high school, Takumi punched Miki, Natsuki's boyfriend and a boy a year his senior, in the face, after he continued to brag about his exploits with Natsuki. After this Natsuki began to avoid Takumi. n the summer of 199X (1996 in the Tokyopop version) Takumi is 18 and in his last year of high school. Takumi is talking with Itsuki about cars when he is confronted by Natsuki. Surprised that she is talking to him after a year of being avoided, Takumi asks Natsuki if she wants anything, to which she asks how him and Itsuki get so little money. Natsuki is shocked that the two of them can work so much and only make so little. Before she leaves she suggests that maybe she and Takumi can hang out again after their exams. Takumi explains his relationship with Natsuki to Itsuki before the two leave school. Itsuki continues to talk about getting a car on their way home, before Takumi explains that he doesn't find the idea of driving on the mountain fun, to which Itsuki is shocked. At the gas station where they work Itsuki brings up getting an Eight-Six again, catching the attention of Koichiro Iketani. Much to Itsuki and Iketani's shock, Takumi says that he doesn't even know what an Eight-Six is, with the two of them telling him that it is a Toyota. Iketani invites the pair of them up to Akina to see his team, the Akina SpeedStars. Despite his own skill behind the wheel, Takumi is terrified by Iketani's driving, with him screaming the whole ride up and feeling sick once they stopped. At the top of the mountain, the SpeedStars are confronted by the Akagi RedSuns, who propose a race between the two teams. As the two teams race off down the mountain, Takumi asks Itsuki why he thinks racing is so enjoyable, with Itsuki questioning how cars don't excite him. With the SpeedStars demoralised from their practice run, Iketani gives Takumi and Itsuki a lift home, and tells them that even though losing is part of racing you don’t have to like it. At around 4AM the next morning, Takumi heads off on a tofu delivery run. On his way back home after making the delivery, Takumi runs into a yellow Mazda RX-7 driven by Keisuke Takahashi, the number two driver of the RedSuns. Despite all of his efforts, Keisuke is unable to lose Takumi's car, much to his own annoyance. Takumi pulls ahead of Keisuke, and performs an Inertia Drift to clear the corner, shocking Keisuke. In the morning, Takumi is awoken by a call from Natsuki, inviting him to meet her in Ikaho to finally bury the hatchet. Upon finding out that Takumi has a driving license, Natsuki plans them a trip to the beach. On his way home afterwards, Takumi bumps into Iketani outside his house. Iketani offers Takumi a lift to work and asks him if he really doesn't know what an Eight-Six is, as there is one sat in his driveway. Itsuki is shocked by this when he is told, quickly asking Takumi if he would let him borrow it to watch the race between the SpeedStars and the RedSuns. The next day Itsuki and Iketani decide to teach Takumi about cars, and ask him if he knows what a drift is. Despite Takumi giving a perfect description of a proper four wheel drift, Itsuki and Iketani laugh at him due to their own limited understanding of drifting. At school the next day, Itsuki reminds Takumi of the upcoming battle on Saturday, despite his disinterest. The two of them bump into Natsuki on the stairs, Natsuki tells Takumi that she has something important to tell him, with this being the news that she has bought a new swimsuit for their beach trip. At home, Takumi asks Bunta if he can use the car on Sunday, but is told that he cant due to a union meeting that Bunta must attend. After Takumi pleads with him, Bunta proposes that if Takumi goes up to Akina and races against the RedSuns on Saturday he will give him the car and a full tank of gas, an offer that Takumi decides to sleep on. As Saturday rolls around, Itsuki reminds Takumi of his promise to bring the Eight-Six so that he can show off at the meeting. The two of them head home from school and Takumi tells Itsuki about the beach trip (making sure not to tell him that he is going with Natsuki). In the evening, Takumi sets off to Akina after a short conversation with his father. Takumi arrives at the top of the mountain just before the beginning of the race, much to the confusion of Iketani, Kenji and Itsuki. After he explains that his father sent him, he had already beaten the RX-7 before and he has been doing deliveries for five years, Iketani finally understands the situation and lets Takumi race. Keisuke and Takumi greet each other before the countdown begins. Despite his car being inferior to Keisuke's RX-7, Takumi manages to keep up with him through near professional technique and course knowledge. Knowing that his father won't let him have the car unless he can beat Keisuke, Takumi decides to overtake him in the hairpins. Takumi uses a gutter technique on the third hairpin and overtakes Keisuke, winning him the race as well as a full tank of gas. The next day, Takumi heads to a beach in Niigata with Natsuki in the fully fueled Eight-Six. Despite usually needed car-sickness medicine for trips, Natsuki notes that she didn't need them because Takumi drives so smoothly. Takumi thinks back to the previous night, remembering how he had found driving fun for the first time when chasing Keisuke's RX-7. Pulling Takumi back to the real world, Natsuki asks him if he has a crush on anyone, to which he says that while he doesn't have a crush he has someone (Natsuki herself) that he thinks about a lot. When Takumi asks Natsuki the same thing, she mirrors what he had said, heavily implying that she feels the same. Later, Takumi drops Natsuki at her house, where she tells him that she would like to hang out soon and that his car is cute. The next day at the gas station, Iketani invites Takumi to join the SpeedStars, an invitation he declines as he doesn't think of himself as a racer. Takumi then explains how he became so skilled at driving, he used drifting and techniques to make his journeys to and from the hotels quicker and to keep himself from getting too bored. After hearing all of this, Iketani asks Takumi if he could go on a downhill run with him in the passenger seat so he can see his technique up close. That night, Takumi and Iketani head off on their downhill run. Takumi decides to take the run easy, so that Iketani doesn't become sick, however even this is too much for Iketani, as he passes out on the third corner. The next day, Takumi hangs out with Itsuki in Ikaho, where Itsuki brings up the complete contrast between the true racer that Takumi is behind the wheel of a car, and the airhead dork he is the rest of the time. Itsuki asks Takumi if he'd coach him when he gets his own Eight-Six, to which he accepts. Later on at work, while Takumi is off delivering a payment slip, Itsuki accepts a challenge from Takeshi Nakazato, the leader of the Myogi NightKids. Itsuki asks Takumi if he'd accept such a challenge (keeping it a secret that he had accepted one on his behalf), to which Takumi says that he wouldn't care.