Delica L400's in Hajime No Ippo (Fighting Spirit Manga)

[Mr. Flibble]

I am reading Hajime No Ippo, (In English: Fighting Spirit) A Japanese Manga about Boxing. I found it amusing that from issues about 220 to 230, the characters drive into the mountains in 2 L400 Delicas. The Delicas are drawn in a number of the backgrounds of the issues.

The things you notice when reading Japanese Comics...

[danfromvan]

I would think that L300s would be more Manga-like!

Can you view them online?

[Mr. Flibble]

You sure can view them online, no mistaking the L400 though in these panels and the ones afterwards:

http://www.onemanga.com/Hajime_no_Ippo/231/11/

[Mr. Flibble]

An interesting side effect I have noticed about this comic, is that the characters only got into the Delica's to go on a "long" drive into the country. You almost never see them get into a vehicle for any other reason whatsoever. Even when going between major cities, they always get on a train.

[Green1]

An interesting side effect I have noticed about this comic, is that the characters only got into the Delica's to go on a "long" drive into the country. You almost never see them get into a vehicle for any other reason whatsoever. Even when going between major cities, they always get on a train.

That's Japanese culture. and that's why we can find so many genuinely low mileage 15 year old vehicles.

[marsgal42]

I love all the "sound words" in the background. I understand Japanese has lots of them.

The other comic you see lots of cars in is Tintin. Hergé was a car nut, and it shows. There is historical accuracy, like why the baddies in one story were chasing Tintin and Milou/Snowy in a 1938 Opel. Nazi Germany was trying to build up foreign currency reserves just prior to WW2, and knew then, as now, that German cars were highly exportable.

...laura