MF Ghost

MF Ghost (MFゴースト) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It is a sequel to Initial D, and is also focused on the Japanese street racing scene. The series has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine since September 2017, with its chapters collected in 20 volumes as of June 2024. An anime television series adaptation by Felix Film aired in October to December 2023, with a second season slated to air in 2024.

Plot
The series takes place in 202X, 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 series), who does street racing with internal combustion cars. A new rookie, Kanata Rivington (カナタ・リヴィントン) who is competing with the pseudonym Kanata Katagiri (片桐 夏向), a 19-year-old Japanese-British young man, has showed up on the scene driving a Toyota 86, and beating European top-tier cars, such as the Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4, Ferrari 488 GTB, Lotus Exige, Alfa Romeo 4C and Porsche 911 Carrera (991). 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 Formula 4 world champion. He has only one motive: to find his long-lost father.

Manga
MF Ghost is written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. The manga began in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Young 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; it resumed publication on February 20, 2023, and entered on hiatus again on April 18 of the same year; on the same date, it was announced that the manga had entered its "final battle". The series resumed on June 19, 2023. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was published on January 5, 2018. As of June 6, 2024, 20 volumes have been released.

Kodansha USA and Comixology announced that they would publish the manga digitally starting on January 11, 2022. The series was added to Kodansha's K Manga online platform in May 2023.

Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on January 4, 2022. It is produced by Felix Film 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 aired from October 2 to December 18, 2023, on Tokyo MX and other networks. Yu Serizawa performed the opening theme song "Jungle Fire" featuring Motsu, while Himika Akaneya performed the ending theme song "Stereo Sunset". Medialink has licensed the series in Asia-Pacific, while Crunchyroll licensed it for the rest of the world.

Following the ending of the twelfth episode, a second season was announced, which is set to air in 2024.

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