Capeta

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Capeta
カペタ
Genre	Sport
Manga
Authored by	Masahito Soda
Publisher	Kodansha
Serialized in	Monthly Shonen Magazine
Original run	2003 – Present
No. of volumes	12 (Ongoing)
TV anime
Directed by	Shin Misawa
Studio	Studio Comet, Delphi Sound (audio)
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 04, 2005 – September 26, 2006
No. of episodes	52

Capeta (カペタ, Capeta^?) is a sport anime about cart racing. Capeta is an 10 year old boy with a single-parent father who works for a paving company. While paving a go-kart track, his father got broken parts out of the trash pile and built a bent and poor example of a kart. Determined, Capeta mastered the mangled racer and impressed the manager of a racing team who helps his entry into the world of racing, secretly as a rival for her son. But can a hard-working but poor father and his talented son really make it in the big money world of kart racing?

The series consists of three seperate arcs. The first is of Capeta in his first experiences with kart racing. The next is Capeta a few years later having to deal with mounting monetary issues. The third is Capeta trying to realize his dream of beating his rival and becoming a professional racer.

Also be on the look out for Initial D and Best Motoring International references, many homages can be found.