Initial D #8 was published by Tokyopop on October 1, 2003, as part of a series that began in 2002. Shuichi Shigeno writes. It features Takumi Fujiwara, Keisuke Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi, Bunta Fujiwara and Itsuki Takeuchi, among 10 characters cataloged on VerseDB.