The Cars of Wangan Midnight manga:

While downloading an entire manga series rumored to have Bimota motorcycles in it (no, not that one, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, in case you’re wondering), I checked if the site had a series that has eluded me for years was readily available for download. Lo and behold, there it was: Michiharu Kusunoki‘s Wangan Midnight manga series, all 42 untranslated volumes of it.

Wangan Midnight tells the story of a group of expressway racers that usually focus around the long Wangan route, risking everything from their licenses to their lives in search to be the fastest. People from all walks of life are drawn to this: models, doctors, high-schoolers, businessmen, entertainers, etc., bring their personal cars (amateurishly or professionally tuned) and mix themselves with professional tuners that are directly and indirectly competing with each other with their latest demo cars. If you got a need for speed and can’t go down/afford to go to the racetrack, the expressways’ where it’s at.

One car stands out among them all: the Devil Z. The mix of notoriety and legendary performance despite its old-school tuning foundations and underpinnings will bring challengers out the proverbial woodwork and reunite numerous individuals in their quest to beat it and become the fastest on the expressways.

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