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Taira Capeta was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made a racing kart. Soon, they went to a circuit to drive the kart. However, Capeta found that its frame was bent and it could hardly run straight. But, with his technique he managed the kart. Furthermore, he followed soon after the fast kart and he could nearly leave it behind. The driver in the kart was Minamoto Naomi, the champion of the East Japan Junior Kart. Looking at their chase, Naomi’s mother, Minamoto Nanako, advised Capeta to take part in the official race.
This manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2005. |
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What? The monkey is in the manga. The anime is extremely faithful to the manga until the final episode, where they had to make up an ending.
Ugh, I watched the anime to catch up on the material missed and you can see the hatchet job the tv executives did to the series. Like adding the monkey... completely superfluous character just added for filler content (and possibly merchandising).
There's quite a lot of stuff you can see they have added which really detracts from the series. Even the way the characters interact is often changed to make it "more humorous."
I'm thinking they did this because it's published in a Shounen magazine when really the manga is probably aimed more at the Seinen market in terms of it's depiction of a career in racing which is actually fairly grown up.
They'd probably have been better off removing all the gag characters and aiming at a later timeslot than pushing the kiddification of the series and ultimately killing it's longterm viability as an anime. But that would have meant lower ratings earlier even though they would have been steadier so they went for the quick buck just like we've seen with so many Japanese anime adaptions.
How bout vol.6 or Vol.5 Chapter 3? :/
So now a rival team has a Capeta class driver AND a better engine? Looks like this next development is going to be interesting.
Thanks for the update.
Deadbeat-Scans, Thanks for the update
It's okay, Capeta likes older women.
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After a year of waiting, the story finally continues!!! I'm ecstatic to be able to read a new chapter of Capeta again...and I'm so disappointed to see Monami with Minamoto
thanks for the update
i was hoping for this series chapters
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That IS the reason. But as someone who doesn't watch the anime version I really hate it when they do that. Mad props to Deadbeat scans for filling in the blank
although really slowly
One of the manga/anime that got me hooked up to anime/manga in the first place! :3
It's finished. The last volume is v32.
is capeta still on going or is it finished?
I heard that the Anime covered the volumes 1-11.. soo the scanlators probably skipped it?.. dnt knw if thats the reason tho...
Where can I find the rest of vol.4 to vol.10?
naomi seems like a bitch, he has no manners and is a spoilt little boy, hope he dies
Awesome that we finally get another chapter of the early part of the series. Thanks Deadbeat Scans!
waahh! thanks for the upload.. appreciate it... XD