Initial D: Extra Stage 2: Tabidachi no Green (OAV)
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Director: Tsuneo Tominaga Screenplay: Nobuaki Kishima Storyboard: Tsuneo Tominaga Music: Original creator: Shuuichi Shigeno Character Design: Minoru Tanaka Art director: Masayoshi Banno Mechanical design: Hideaki Yokoi Sound director: Masafumi Mima Editing: Shinji Kobukata Supervision: Keiichi Tsuchiya Theme Song Performance: m.o.v.e Unit Director: Hiroshi Kimura | Kazuki Yao as Koichiro Iketani Michiko Neya as Mako Sato Mitsuo Iwata as Itsuki Takeuchi Tomomichi Nishimura as Yuichi Tachibana Wataru Takagi as Kenji Yumi Kakazu as Sayuki Anri Katsu as Dyejob A Kyouko Terase as Iketani's Mother Shinichiro Miki as Takumi Fujiwara Tadashi Miyazawa as Old Man Tomoaki Ikeda as Dyejob B | |||||||
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2009-09-25
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