Introduction to "Engine and Sakura"
On a summer night in Osaka, the asphalt road is steaming with hot air. Sakata Takagi, the leader of the drag racing gang "Black Crow", always loves to seek excitement in the roar of the engine - until the girl holding an envelope crashes into his sight.
Her name is Qiu Yingying, she wears faded denim overalls, her hair is stained with moisture from the air conditioner in the convenience store, and she holds a foam box of takoyaki in her arms. In order to collect surgery fees for her hospitalized father, she took the risk of stopping a drag racing party late at night, just to have a letter addressed to the old post office delivered on time. Takagi originally wanted to play tricks on this ignorant little girl, but after seeing her white knuckles clearly as she clutched the envelope and hearing her plea with a Kansai accent, he accepted the "business" by mistake.
He is a "bad boy" who lives on the streets, and she is a "stupid kid" who holds on to the dream of the medical school; his world is only filled with the sound of the engine of modified cars and the flash of gangs' swords, and her schoolbag is stuffed with anatomy diagrams and payment slips; he is used to protecting himself with sharp edges, but she uses the softest warmth to open a crack in his scabbed heart.
When the racing gang began to suspect that Takagi had "relented", when debt collectors came to Yingying's house, when the two met again and again in the neon lights of Dotonbori and in front of the old post office in Tsutenkaku - those past events concealed by the sound of the engine, those spines bent by life, finally sparked unexpected sparks in each other's eyes.
This is a story about redemption and being redeemed: he uses speed to fight the world, and she uses stubbornness to fight fate; and when the roar of the engine interweaves with the fragrance of cherry blossoms, two souls that should never intersect are heading towards
