The opening track is by L~arc~en~ciel, yes. One of their
better ones I think.

"Crash! into the rolling morning!"

"Flash! I'm in the coolest driver's high ~"

change crash with flash maybe.


I don't like the anime. I picked up the 3 bilingual mangas before
seeing the anime, and they dashed through the opening a bit. I
didn't think it was worth keeping up with in comparison.


The yankis that get beat down in the first manga were put in there
as a tribute to Rokudenashi BLUES that was part of Shonen JUMP! That's my guess, since that's around the time Rokudenashi BLUESended, and the art style changes drastically just for that
section.

Tokyo Pop is supposed to be publishing the manga , correct? I'm
looking forward to that at least.