Takumi Fujiwara

**Takumi Fujiwara** (藤原 拓海 "*Fujiwara Takumi"*) is a former street racer and retired rally championship driver with a title and several records held, and currently Kanata Katagiri's and Emma Green's mentor. He is mentioned in several chapters and is briefly shown in Chapter 25.

## Biography

Takumi Fujiwara hails from Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture and went overseas to the United Kingdom at the age of 20 to participate in the British Rally Championship (BRC). On his 3rd year in the championship, he was finally awarded the title. Since that, many British National Rally Championship fans nickname Takumi as The Flying John or known as The Flying Man from Japan because of his exceptional speed. During his time in the British Rally Championship, Takumi took part in a few appearance of racing events in WRC where he produced stable results because he either only raced in certain rallies in an event or during a certain period, but probably not an entire event. At that time it was discovered that he had a weakness on gravel, but excelled amazingly on tarmac. Unfortunately, the driveshaft of his vehicle snaps during a works machine test run, sending him off-course into a ravine and crashing heavily, where he sustained critical injuries. The crash forces him to retire from competitive racing and go into rehabilitation with a long time until no one really knew what happened to him. Despite this, he still remained close to the sport. After his recovery, he became an instructor at Royal Donington Racing School (RDRS), where he trained Kanata Rivington and Emma Green. As an instructor, Takumi's teaching style was not to teach everything by hand, but to give students a vague task and then let them figure out the answer by themselves.

In the third round, it was revealed that he was married to a professional golf-player. In chapter 231, that golf player was Mika Uehara who appeared with a new full name "Mika Fujiwara" confirming that she's Takumi's wife.

Before signing up for the British Rally Championship, Takumi was a street racer who had illegally raced on the mountain passes of Gunma, Japan (and surrounding provinces) using an AE86 Toyota Sprinter Trueno.

## Gallery

### Manga

Takumi Fujiwara (left) on the cover of Chapter 25
### Anime

Takumi Fujiwara seen with Kanata in a flashback in Turn05
### Miscellaneous

Young Takumi in Initial D (Manga)Young Takumi and his AE86 (Initial D: Fifth Stage)
## Trivia

* This character is the same Takumi Fujiwara who features in author's previous series about street racing, Initial D.
* Takumi Fujiwara VAs Shinichiro Miki and Joel McDonald narrated the opening scenes of the first episode of the MF Ghost Anime in Japanese and English respectively.
* While not explicitly stated, it is heavily implied Takumi married Mika Uehara, a golfer from the Saitama Prefecture.
* Whilst he's usually reffered to as the 'Flying John' in a lot of translations and English subtitles for the Manga and Anime, his nickname is referred to in japanese as the 'Flying Jap', the reason why it was changed is due to the fact that 'Jap' is an offensive term to describe Japanese people.
* At the end of the english dub of Turn05, Yoji Tanaka says his name in the Japanese name order (Fujiwara Takumi), instead of the English name order (Takumi Fujiwara).
	+ However, when the same scene was being shown at the beginning of Turn06, it was fixed to the English name order.

## External Links

* Takumi Fujiwara on Initial D Wiki
* Bunta Fujiwara/Takumi's Father on Initial D Wiki