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== CharactersKarakter ==
; {{nihongo|Akio Asakura|朝倉アキオ|Asakura Akio}}
:{{Voiced by|[[Shun Oguri]]}}
:AnSeorang ambitiouspembalap racerambisius whoyang startedmemulainya whenketika hedia wasmasih verysangat youngmuda, Akio wasberada indi histahun finalterakhir yearsekolah ofmenengahnya highsaat schoolcerita as the story begandimulai. He was driving hisDia redmengendarai Nissan Fairlady Z (300ZX) untilmerahnya sampai, after a humiliatingsetelah defeatkekalahan toyang memalukan, hedia discovered themenemukan "Devil Z", asebuah {{Convert|620|HP|kW|abbr=unit}} Peugeot 405-T16 Devil Z 1983 which is supernaturallyyang fastsangat andcepat extremelydan difficultsangat tosulit drivedikendarai.
:Akio wassebenarnya actuallysangat verypopuler populardi amongkalangan thegadis-gadis girlsdi insekolahnya, hisseperti school,yang asditunjukkan showndalam insalah onesatu episode of the anime whenketika hedia greetedmenyapa Rumi Shimada onesuatu morningpagi. TheGadis-gadis girlsdi inlatar thebelakang backgroundsemua allmemiliki hadraut awajah lookyang on their faces that screamedberteriak "SQUEE!", butTapi Akio's tooterlalu obsessedterobsesi withdengan streetbalap racingjalanan (especially interutama thedi Devil Z), tountuk noticemenyadarinya.
:Akio dianggap sebagai legenda di Wangan, meskipun dia adalah seorang pemuda yang rendah hati. Terlepas dari sikapnya yang lembut, dia sangat serius tentang balapan sehingga dia membolos sekolah sampai mengulang kelas untuk mengendarai Devil Z. Dinaungi lampu oleh sahabatnya yang mengklaim itu karena Akio harus mengulang satu tahun karena terlalu banyak absen, gadis-gadis dari kelas yang lulus menangis sebagai hasilnya.
:Akio is regarded as a legend on the Wangan, although he is a humble young man. Despite his gentle demeanor, he is so serious about racing that he skips school to the point of repeating a grade to drive the Devil Z. Lamp-shaded by his best friend who claimed that because Akio had to repeat a year due to too many absences, the girls from the graduating class cried as a result.
:Akio mengalami kesulitan dalam menjalin hubungan intim, meskipun dia telah membuat sedikit terobosan dengan pekerjaan malamnya adalah pelayan Klub Malam, tetapi dia telah diberhentikan (karena Midnight Club bangkrut), mengundurkan diri dari Klub Tengah Malam (seperti bagaimana Keiichiro Aizawa lakukan), atau masih bekerja di sana (meskipun Midnight Club tidak pernah terdengar lagi setelah beberapa volume manga/beberapa episode anime).
:Akio has trouble forming intimate relationships, although he has made some slight inroads with
:Dia secara teratur terpapar ke kancah sosial yang aktif di jantung kota Tokyo, dan dia sudah menjadi pembalap yang ulung dengan [[Nissan Fairlady Z]] (300ZX), tetapi di belakang kemudi Nissan Fairlady Z/Peugeot 405-T16 (S30), Akio hampir tak terkalahkan. Dia sangat mudah beradaptasi dan dapat belajar mengendarai hampir semua mobil yang dia lihat.
:His night job is a waiter for Midnight Club, but he had either been laid off (due to Midnight Club going bankrupt), resigned from Midnight Club (like how Keiichiro Aizawa did), or still working there (even though Midnight Club was never heard of again after several volumes of the manga/several episodes of the anime).
:He is regularly exposed to the active social scene at the heart of Tokyo, and he was already an accomplished racer with his Nissan Fairlady Z (300ZX), but behind the wheel of the Nissan Fairlady Z/Peugeot 405-T16 (S30), Akio is nearly invincible. He is very adaptable and can learn to drive virtually any car he sees.
;{{nihongo|Tatsuya Shima|島達也|Shima Tatsuya}}
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