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MF Ghost Anime's 3rd Video Unveils Cast, More Staff, Initial D Cameos

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The cast are:

• Yūma Uchida as Kanata Katagiri (Kanata Livington)
• Ayane Sakura as Ren Saionji
• Daisuke Ono as Shun Aiba
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Michael Beckenbauer
• Daisuke Namikawa as Daigo Ōishi
• Junichi Suwabe as Kaito Akaba
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Fūjin Ishigami
• Ryota Ohsaka as Kōki Sawatari
• Yashiro
• Yū Serizawa as Nozomi Kitahara
• Tooru Sakurai as Yūdai Sakamoto
• Kaito Ishikawa as Yōsuke Ōtani
• Yūichi Nakamura as Jackson Taylor
• Takumu Miyazono as Kazuhiro Maezono
• Shōgo Sakata as Takuya Yanagida
• Kenta Miyake as E. Hanninen
• Tasuku Hatanaka as Ogata
• Taku Yashiro as Sena Moroboshi
• Takehito Koyasu as Ryō Takahashi
• Keisuke Takahashi
• Osamu Hosoi as Fumihiro Jōyū
• Yasunori Matsumoto as Wataru Akiyama
• Mitsuo Iwata Itsuki Takeuchi
• Kazuki Yao as Kōichirō Iketani
• Wataru Takagi as Kenji
• Shūhei Sakaguchi Hiroya Okuyama
• Nobutoshi Canna as Kai Kogashiwa
• Yōji Tanaka
• Yūko Iida as Kyōko Kurihara
• Coco Hayashi as Mami Satō

The newly announced staff are:

• Prop Design: Mahiru Shinya
• Art Director/Setting: Seiko Akashi
• Color Key Artist: Chiharu Tanaka
• Compositing Director of Photography: Color & Smile)
• Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose (editz)
• Sound Effects: Sound Box)
• Sound Production: Techno Sound
• CG Animation Production: directrain

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The anime's visual above features protagonist Kanata Livington's red GT-R.

The series takes place in the 2020s, when self-driving cars are ubiquitous in Japan. The manga centers on Kanata Livington, a Japanese driver who goes back to Japan after graduating at the top of his class at a racing school in England. The series also focuses on the MFG, a racing circuit on public roads that has garnered attention worldwide.

The anime will premiere in 2023.

Shuuichi Shigeno (Initial D) announced in November that the manga is on an indefinite hiatus due to Shigeno's poor health.

Shigeno films, the third of which opened in February 2016.

Sources: MF Ghost anime's website, Mantan Web