Initial D #5 was published by Tokyopop on April 1, 2003, as part of a series that began in 2002. Shuichi Shigeno writes. It features Takumi Fujiwara, Keisuke Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi, Itsuki Takeuchi and Koichiro Iketani, among 9 characters cataloged on VerseDB.