is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

Shuichi Shigeno is a Japanese manga artist famous for creating ''Initial D''. Shigeno has also created ''Bari Bari Densetsu'', ''Dopkan'', and ''Tunnel Nuketara Sky Blue'' ("First Love in Summer") all prior to the manga that would make him famous in 1995. I ...

. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''

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'' since September 2017, with its chapters collected into fifteen ''

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'' volumes as of September 2022. An

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television series adaptation by

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is set to premiere in 2023. As of January 2023, the manga had over 4 million copies in circulation.

Plot

The series takes place in the 2020s, where self-driving electric cars have replaced internal combustion ones. However, in Japan, there is a large organization called MFG, founded by Ryosuke Takahashi (from the ''

Initial D is a Japanese street racing manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1995 to 2013, with the chapters collected into 48 ''ta ...

'' series), who does street racing with internal combustion cars. A new rookie, who is competing with the pseudonym , a 19-year-old Japanese-British young man, has showed up on the scene driving a

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, and beating European top-tier cars, such as the Lamborghini Huracan Performante, Ferrari 488 GTB,

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, Lexus LC500 and

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. Kanata has been trained by legendary downhill and rally racer Takumi Fujiwara (protagonist from the ''Initial D'' series) at the Royal Donington Racing School in the UK and is a

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world champion. He has only one motive: to find his long-lost father.

Media

Manga

''MF Ghost'' is written and illustrated by

. The manga began in Kodansha's ''

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'' manga magazine ''

'' on September 4, 2017. The series is connected to Shigeno's previous work ''Initial D''. In October 2018, Shigeno stated that the manga is 1/5 finished. In November 2022, it was announced that the manga would enter on indefinite hiatus due to the author's poor health. Kodansha has compiled its chapters into individual ''

'' volumes. The first volume was published on January 5, 2018. As of September 6, 2022, fifteen volumes have been released.

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and

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announced that they would publish the manga digitally starting on January 11, 2022.

Volume list

Anime

television series adaptation was announced on January 4, 2022. It is produced by

and directed by Tomohito Naka, with Kenichi Yamashita supervising the scripts co-written by Akihiko Inari, Naoyuki Onda designing the characters, and Akio Dobashi composing the music. The series is set to premiere in 2023.

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licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia.

Reception

As of January 2019, the manga had over 1 million copies in circulation; by January 2022, it had over 3.2 million copies in circulation; and over 4 million copies in circulation by January 2023.

References

External links

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