Yuki Tsunoda has lifted the lid on his love for anime after he was requested about his watching habits forward of the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Japanese Formulation 1 driver was visibly joyful to be requested a query on a subject outdoors of racing.
“Thanks! Lastly, the good contemporary query,” he stated. “I like One Piece and One-Punch Man, lately watching Black Clover and Demon Slayer.”
Tsunoda continued, including that as a result of journey calls for of the trendy F1 season and the ensuing downtime throughout long-haul flights, he is had loads of time to dive into these in style sequence.
Every of the titles he talked about sits firmly inside the mainstream of recent anime. One Piece, Eiichiro Oda’s long-running pirate saga, stays one of many highest-selling manga and anime franchises within the style’s historical past, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has turn out to be a worldwide phenomenon lately, with the film Infinity Fortress seeing big box-office success.
Tsunoda is not the one Pink Bull driver to share his love for anime, together with his Racing Bulls’ team-mate Isack Hadjar additionally talking about his love for the style earlier this yr.
“It is one thing I do actually like since I used to be a child,” he advised Sky Sports activities F1. “All those [manga] I purchased, I purchased them in Japan. I by no means purchased one in France.
“That is my stuff,” he stated, pointing to Hunter x Hunter manga as he mentioned his love for the style with Rachel Brookes.
Yuki Tsunoda, Pink Bull Racing
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Tsunoda had a profitable FP1 underneath the lights of Sin Metropolis as he made a uncommon look forward of the reigning champion, ending third behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Williams’ Alex Albon. Regardless of this, the motive force shared his issues about his seat earlier this week.
“I am going to do as a lot as I can in that, whether or not serving to Max or the constructors’. I feel, anyway, being in qualifying as shut as doable to Max might be the primary factor. That is what I’ve to do. I feel, for instance, in Mexico, within the race, began P11 or P10, I used to be in a position to assist Max a little bit bit as effectively. So I feel I am going to simply maintain doing what I am doing. Ideally, even nearer most likely.”
Tsunoda sits seventeenth within the drivers’ standings whereas Verstappen sits third.
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