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“Heartbroken Shun receives a letter from his past self, reigniting his dream to own a Countach and become a racer.”
Countach
カウンタック
7.41
4,090 rank · 3,404 readers · 47 favorites
Seinen
Racing
Comedy
Romance
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Synopsis
Heartbroken Shun receives a letter from his past self, reigniting his dream to own a Countach and become a racer.
The day after he finds himself dumped by his girlfriend, Sorayama Shun recieves a letter... from himself? The letter was from Shun 25 years ago for his future self. The letter reminds him of the time when he dreamed of owning a Countach and being a successful professional racer. With loads of luck and his ambition to make his childhood dream come true, he finds himself as a new owner of an LP400 Countach.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
8.7
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 0.94
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.94 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.67
Running avg · May 2018 → Apr 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I happen to find this here work of art while in a similar situation, its no Countach; but i love my rx8 dearly. (kind of in the timeframe there were 04 models and there is a c5 vette early in the...”
- 8 “A man salary-man meets up with his girlfriend after work just for her to say she's leaving him for a man that pulls up in a Porsche. Despite this horrible way to being your night, the man...”
- 8 “Im only about 5 chapters in so far but this has left a great impression, this manga is about a dude who pursues his dream car so far and the way it is executed is absolutely amazing it got me...”
Verbosity
Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 289 × 28 ch × vol
- Total read 38h 32m approx
- Published Sep 2004 – Sep 2012
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M12065 catalog