Manga Cars

Today I’m sharing one of my vices: reading Manga and spotting cars in the background! Yes, it’s really something odd that I can’t let go and sometimes you really find nice treasures: like the Nissan Skyline R30 that made me buy this book!
Manga Car Spotting - The Walking Man part one

The Walking Man by Jiro Tanaguchi

The Manga I’m reading here is called The Walking Man by Jiro Tanaguchi. If you wish to obtain this book yourself, you can find it here: The Walking Man by Jiro Tanaguchi @ Amazon
In this first episode I’ll introduce this new concept, before jumping into each and every car I could find. I just counted them and the grand total is 23 cars, plus one surprise car that magically changes when you flip the page!

You can find the video and the high resolution scans of the panels containing manga cars below:

Manga Car spotting video

Even though I spent a lot of time preparing this video and am convinced all cars have been identified correctly, I can always be wrong. Don’t hesitate to leave any suggestions or updates in the comments below! Also to make it easier for you to look in depth at these manga cars, I’ve includes the scanned panels in the next section below.

Scanned panels


Take notice that I only include the panels including the manga cars here: I think this is already borderline and including complete scanned pages would probably be copyright infringement.

Cars in this video

Page 15:

  • Toyota Sprinter E80
  • Honda Acty
  • Honda (Super) Cub moped

Page 16:

  • Mitsubishi Delica 1000
  • Mazda Familia / 323 (third generation)

Page 24:

  • Unknown
  • Mitsubishi Fuso Aero Midi bus

Page 25:

  • Suzuki Carry DA51
  • Toyota AE86 (probably a Sprinter)
  • Suzuki Carry flatbed
  • Toyota HiAce H11 flatbed
  • Nissan Gloria hardtop Y30
  • Toyota Chaser GX71
  • Honda Super Cub moped
  • Subaru Rex (3rd generation)
  • Unknown

Page 29:

  • Toyota Corona T140 or Carina AA63
  • Mercedes Benz 190

Page 39:

  • Third gen Mazda Bongo van
  • Toyota Crown hardtop S130
  • Mitsubishi Fuso Aero Midi bus
  • Toyota Sprinter AE100
  • Nissan Skyline R30 coupe
  • Toyota Starlet EP70/EP71

Page 53:

  • Toyota LiteAce M10 (first gen)

Page 57:

  • Nissan Gloria 430

Page 58:

  • Toyota Crown Royal Saloon MS120