Where is Initial D set?

Japanese manga series

Initial D (1995) — 1 real place Japanese Wikipedia files it under as its setting, in Japan. Wikidata’s own statement stops at the country, so this is a category rather than a statement, and it is labelled that way below. Where the manga takes place, not where it was made: a manga is drawn and filmed nowhere, so this is the only kind of location it has.

Part of the Initial D franchise

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Places per Japanese Wikipedia — “小田原市を舞台とした漫画作品” category

Japanese Wikipedia’s “小田原市を舞台とした漫画作品” category lists 1 place. A category is an editor’s judgement rather than a sourced statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Why there is no pin

Wikidata records this manga as set in Kantō region, and nothing finer. That is true and it is not a place: a dot in the middle of it would claim something nobody wrote, so the statement is left as a sentence.

This page exists because that is a better answer than silence. If a real place belongs here, it can be added to Wikidata, and this page fills in on the next rebuild.

Drawn from these real places

Nothing was filmed at these and the story does not happen in them. They are the real places this manga’s setting was modelled on, named in its Japanese Wikipedia article. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, so it is listed apart from everything above and never counted as a filming location.

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