Initial D

No Initial D topic? Shame on you guys. Here, I'll fix that.
>The episodes are divided like this:
1st Stage: 26 episodes;
2nd Stage: 13 episodes;
3rd Stage: movie;
4th Stage: 24 episodes;
(and a few other OVA's and Korean live action film)

The 1st Stage started airing in 1998, so it's a bit of an oldie. The 4th stage ended in 2006, but they currently keep producing OVA's (the Extra and Battle Stages). So yeah, it's a long running series. You can through the 4 seasons pretty fast though.

Watch at least the 5 episodes of the anime and you should be hooked by then. Don't dismiss this anime because it's about racing. Do yourself a favor, try it.

Haven't actually watched this series but I love the music in the series, planning on watching this some time soon though, too many series and ovas... Abit hard to get into it.

wow never heard about it but now im gonna watch it after this introduction 'cause seems pretty intresting ^^

You guys seriously never heard of it? What have you been doing?
The manga started running in 1995 and is still ongoing, even tokyopop licensed it!
This is one of the most famous long running animes out there.

well my first anime was elfen lied in 2004 so ^^' and usually i searched animes between 2000 & 2009 ^^ i'm not realy intrested in older ones ~ i know thats a bad thing about me ^^' ~ but as i told u this seems intresting so im gonna watch it ^^

Yes, that isn't a very good rule to follow by. There are some pre-2000 animes that are very good. Even better than most recent ones.

I've seen Initial D and played both the arcade and PSP. I liked it. This show got me interested in cars and I'm quite thankful for that. I think my favorite would be both the Second and Fourth Stage.

This scene is my absolute favorite.

Hahaha that scene is hilarious.

zomfg! now im sure im gonne watch this :lol:

Haha that was awesome.

Yeah! Initial D! This series is awesome. Coming from a gearhead's perspective it's pretty damn good. You guys should also try out one called Wangan Midnight. It's based on highway battles whereas Initial D is touge based.

Yes, I started watching that one now. ^^ but doesn't seem to be as good. well, i've only seen a couple episodes, so I can't really tell.

Everything about this anime is good but the only downside and thing that turns me off is the artist and how he draws the faces >..> , other then that its an awesome series.

Dohoho I love the way he draws the faces. Dem lips.


Although his style does improve over the seasons (or maybe it's different animators).

Bump for epic fucking win.

Does anybody else notice the lack of Initial D hentai?

BTW: For any of you who missed out by watching the english dub, the jap-dub has way fucking awesomer music:

What an unexpected necrobump. Hopefully people will try this though.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to clean up my OP for less faggotry.

This topic has been dead for a year, but I just want to add how much I loved this show. With the exception of the lips, I thought it was really good. Eight-Six ftw!

[font=verdana][color=green]Woah, necrobump.

However...this series probably won't be for me.

Man, I used to love this series a lot. Watched a lot of them and owned vol.1-32 of the Initial D manga (I think it stopped at 50-something, not positive though...)

This anime really got me into to cars and racing.

My favorite part of the anime though has to be the one with Mako and Sayuki with their Sil-Eightey. That part of the story was really heart-touching to me.

The manga is still ongoing actually; I tried to read it from the beginning after watching the whole anime on netflix a few months ago. I'll probably read it after another few months when the story's not so fresh for me.

Yea, necrobump. lol. I just didnt like the popular topics in this forum and wanted to see if people loved the anime as much as I did. I hadn't heard a thing about it and watched it just because. Lucky me. :) Woot woot *dance it out*