Kitami is a fucking philosopher. Saying shit like "On the Wangan, there are no winners, it all depends on how much you are willing to risk and how far you're willing to push the pedal" and "It doesn't matter if it's a 100bhp family car or a 800bhp track monster, all of them are murder weapons. If you understand that, you won't die"
he's right. I believe he is also the devil incarnate. his "wisdom", his push/drive, his asking/motivating others to do what he wants, his controlling the racing when he asks Reina to hold back and let the boys go at it, his choosing to/not to tune someone's car, and the methods he uses to tune to give as much as the person asks for then says it's not on me if you die. All of the cars are sins/temptations that bring both joy and sadness/death. Someone in this is "Constantine", but I haven't figured out who....the epic battle of good vs evil, man vs the devil, etc....
As someone who recently bought a car that can be put to work like this IRL, it’s amusing to see people get annoyed by the characters leaving suddenly. The in and out nature of these characters is honestly how interstate racing is in real life. You might catch someone for a few days, maybe a month, but both intervals are only if you’re lucky. Sometimes you just see someone, chase after them, and regardless of what happens you’ll never see them again. They all have their own stories to tell, maybe you’ll be lucky to know who they are if you stop and crack open a soda after racing for a bit. But the reality is.. Hundres of millions of people travel on roads across the globe. Not everyone will return to the same place at the same time. I’d always get my window of opportunity with someone on the road, and that’s it. Only small towns have the privilege of knowing your opponent, but even then it pales to the bigger stages in these cities.
I can agree with this from experience, but the main difference is that you hardly get invested in who that other person is in real life highway races. You might do a pull or duck in and out of traffic for a mile but af the end you’ll just tell your friends “I ran into this cool mustang earlier”. That’s not at all what this show is doing, otherwise we wouldn’t even know who half the characters in this anime are. The writers are trying to get us invested a little bit into each character along the way, but there’s not enough introduction or conclusion given for anyone to really care- it’s a weird middle ground between reality and fiction that just feels like bad writing.
@@wi1dcard192 I know it's an old comment but... the show's based on Mid Night and two real cars (the ABR Hosoki S130Z and the Yoshida Specials 930 Turbo), so I think they would've known each other in real life. Wangan racing was a lot different from other kinds of racing (especially any racing outside Japan) because they didn't have to worry about police
Thank you for posting these shows. I have only discovered "Anime" in the last couple of years and was a Mechanic before I became disabled which is the main reason I discovered Anime. This show is great and I had to thank you for taking the time to post it and share it with me.
Mark Tongol obviously he could because 1) he knows the pass, 2) he has a car better tuned for drifting in mountain passes, and 3) the insane amount of horsepower Akio has would actually make it harder to maintain a stable hair pin drift.
Akagi's White Comet that might be the case but I personally don’t think that’s the case Cause the AE86 was tuned to 150hp Where as it’s said in one of the first episodes the tuner of hell was introduced in Wangan Midnight it was stated that he only made dangerous cars I.E. 600BHP+ cars
Akagi's White Comet that is indeed correct but all of Kitami Jun’s Machines were said to be uncontrollable where as anyone can control a 150hp car regardless of what it is tuned for And it is said in the second season of initial d that Bunta tuned the car himself
So the anime is set in the early 90's, Keiji's dad died 15 years ago which would be around the late 60's to mid 70's.. but the cars in the flashbacks look nothing like the cars from those periods... am I the only one bothered by this?
Manga: Haven't read either; can't decide Anime: Initial D. Wangan anime has a lot of missing stories Game: Wangan. It has multiplayer, can tune your car up to 835 horsepower, can change the look of car, story is more intense than the anime. Initial D is very boring and bland.
I believe that everyone else has noticed this but that porsche isn't suited for driving in japan because it's a left hand drive. in countries like japan you drive a car with a right hand drive for example look at the supra
in Japan if you driving left-handed car - it's a flag that you are really rich guy and its make sence for porsche since right handed ones have a tendency to steering on a straight line due to original chassis' weight distribution made for left hand
Reina's gtr was white from the very beginning. Only when it got tuned by Yamamoto, it turned to dark grey colour. But a few episodes later it turned to white again. Continuity kinda lost on the car models I suppose. 😂
Exactly what I thought. In previous episodes, the other white R32 uses low spoiler like Reina's use in this episode and Reina's spoiler were stock in the previous episode. But how come it reversed right now, well...
necro-posting: on i think she installed it for less drag coefficient and i think she got idea from Hiramoto's GT-R which was able to drive as fast as Blackbird and Akuma no Z
Yeah but can they produce 700 horsepower on a 3.6 liter turbo flat six? an Aventador need 6.5 liter v12 to produce 690 horsepower. The blackbird can reach top speed of 350km/h and can last for 15 minutes. In contrast, the Bugatti Veyron can maintain its top speed of +400km/h for 12 minutes. Wangan Midnight was based on the 1980s. Can you believe that in 1980s there was a car that was more powerful and more efficient than supercars today?
Mild gargle Car makers aren't pushing the engine to it's limit because it ruins the reliability, and these tuner cars need a complete rebuild frequently because the engine can't take the pressure for very long. By the way this series is very unrealistic, you shouldn't compare it to reality.
Anyone else think the supra guy deserved to win that race? he seems more skilled than Akio and he can even drift. Akio just had a faster car which wasn't even his own.
I like how everyone talks shit about akio being a shitty driver for crashing the z so many times but yet he is driving blackbird and just beat a Supra like it was nothing which makes sense because the devil z is an older car with no electronic assist and is as light as a feather with over 600hp of course he would crash in it🤣
@@tgipro6387 yeah, meaning that seat time in the devil Z really teaches him a lot as a driver, feeling and working with the car to learn it's reaction and then harness it when he understands it's characteristics
@@drifter3247 I thought It was DATSUN FAIRLADY Z S30Z as the japanese model for that market and NISSAN FAIRLADY as american model for the american market
Wait! Reina's R in the last episode has a Spoiler then the other one have the Tiny one THEN why in this Episode Reina have the SMAAL SPOILER???? Whats that Bruh
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Oooh great another akio looking character!!!
Lol hiramoto and haruda confused me with him
@@miguelchavez2126 same
@@miguelchavez2126 same! I was like wait....when did Akio get a pregnant GF at first then I realized lol
@@lawrenceyancy3364 bruh same XD
I think they are doing this just to mess with us
redbull the sponsor of this anime?
race until 4am and still can go to school and give the right prescription for patient
Well..I can play NFS Carbon or Undercover till 3AM and go to school at 7AM
I'm pretty surethey sleep in between and also it's an anime for god sake
Kitami is a fucking philosopher. Saying shit like "On the Wangan, there are no winners, it all depends on how much you are willing to risk and how far you're willing to push the pedal" and "It doesn't matter if it's a 100bhp family car or a 800bhp track monster, all of them are murder weapons. If you understand that, you won't die"
One of the best lines in car media
he's right. I believe he is also the devil incarnate. his "wisdom", his push/drive, his asking/motivating others to do what he wants, his controlling the racing when he asks Reina to hold back and let the boys go at it, his choosing to/not to tune someone's car, and the methods he uses to tune to give as much as the person asks for then says it's not on me if you die. All of the cars are sins/temptations that bring both joy and sadness/death. Someone in this is "Constantine", but I haven't figured out who....the epic battle of good vs evil, man vs the devil, etc....
kitami went from being a epic tuner to being fucking socrates or smth
Only one in this world is Kitami Jun. The famous Tuner from Hell!
Nissan GTR with a Supra... rivalry born in hell
So Hiramoto came in for literally 3 episodes with no backstory and he's gone now. Cool.
Yea pretty sad
He's a really minor character
Yeah i really wanted to see what happened to him
He gave up racing for his family? what more do you want
Wi1dCard yep. Pointless
As someone who recently bought a car that can be put to work like this IRL, it’s amusing to see people get annoyed by the characters leaving suddenly.
The in and out nature of these characters is honestly how interstate racing is in real life. You might catch someone for a few days, maybe a month, but both intervals are only if you’re lucky. Sometimes you just see someone, chase after them, and regardless of what happens you’ll never see them again. They all have their own stories to tell, maybe you’ll be lucky to know who they are if you stop and crack open a soda after racing for a bit.
But the reality is.. Hundres of millions of people travel on roads across the globe. Not everyone will return to the same place at the same time. I’d always get my window of opportunity with someone on the road, and that’s it. Only small towns have the privilege of knowing your opponent, but even then it pales to the bigger stages in these cities.
I really hope your last gen Celica has some serious engine and chassis modifications if you say “it can be to work like this IRL”
@@Da_one_tl All of those concerns are valid, but my dude, you should know I’m not trying to rip a 7th gen Celica. I have an ST205 GT-Four lol.
@@Cheaty_Four good cause you had me a little worried there
I can agree with this from experience, but the main difference is that you hardly get invested in who that other person is in real life highway races. You might do a pull or duck in and out of traffic for a mile but af the end you’ll just tell your friends “I ran into this cool mustang earlier”. That’s not at all what this show is doing, otherwise we wouldn’t even know who half the characters in this anime are. The writers are trying to get us invested a little bit into each character along the way, but there’s not enough introduction or conclusion given for anyone to really care- it’s a weird middle ground between reality and fiction that just feels like bad writing.
@@wi1dcard192 I know it's an old comment but... the show's based on Mid Night and two real cars (the ABR Hosoki S130Z and the Yoshida Specials 930 Turbo), so I think they would've known each other in real life. Wangan racing was a lot different from other kinds of racing (especially any racing outside Japan) because they didn't have to worry about police
"iS tHaT a SuPrA?!?"
No it's a yamaha
Awwww
The meme is a probal death its dead the meme is dead or is it the opposite?
That was my reaction too.
No it's a skyline, that meme is already stale
The z is gonna be mad at Akio for cheating with the Blackbird.
boi this aint christine
cars know and the devil z can smell it
Thank you for posting these shows. I have only discovered "Anime" in the last couple of years and was a Mechanic before I became disabled which is the main reason I discovered Anime. This show is great and I had to thank you for taking the time to post it and share it with me.
Reina's voice is so cute!!!!!!! Also the Supra is great too!
Jet Hammer Dedede The voice actress was a gravure idol.
...
Am I detecting a crushing Reina?
+Anderson Gutierrez I'd say so.
+Shane Wright I am too...
Anderson Gutierrez You are not the only one here.
We're all detecting it brotha.
8 years later, did you detect a crushing Reina?
This is iniitial d for rich people.
Mike Titz NANI?
more like Initial D for rich people who can't do hairpins.
Just a reminder hojo's R in initial D had 650hp and with slightly different tune it could prolly go on wangan
i bet takumi can beat akio on the akina hairpins even though akio’s Devil Z can reach 330kph
Mark Tongol obviously he could because 1) he knows the pass, 2) he has a car better tuned for drifting in mountain passes, and 3) the insane amount of horsepower Akio has would actually make it harder to maintain a stable hair pin drift.
Who thinks that this and initial d are intertwined somehow besides the voice actors
What if Bunta got his ae86 tuned by well... you know
Akagi's White Comet that might be the case but I personally don’t think that’s the case
Cause the AE86 was tuned to 150hp
Where as it’s said in one of the first episodes the tuner of hell was introduced in Wangan Midnight it was stated that he only made dangerous cars I.E. 600BHP+ cars
@@Lunus909 yeah but remeber Takumi's ae86 is tuned for touge
Akagi's White Comet that is indeed correct but all of Kitami Jun’s Machines were said to be uncontrollable where as anyone can control a 150hp car regardless of what it is tuned for
And it is said in the second season of initial d that Bunta tuned the car himself
@@Lunus909 well think of any other cars in initial d that were like that
It really annoys me that Akio has a 3 other characters that look like him ....
Waiting for akio to smash reina hehurhrhrhrhhrhrurururhrueueuuueueue
SAME LOL 😂
Same
...
The Z is like an angry x wife it just wont die
i'm a simple man, I see supra I like video
CaC .... wish they take out a sc400
ur not a normal man
10:48
It's fujiwaras tofu shop next to the bicycle shop!!!!!
Takumi!!!
Stop linking them.
lmao
Imagine 😂😂😂
i guess they started franchising in tokyo
I love this anime, the storyline and speeches are almost identical to the game
if you go to the games website, it says that each mission is the story.
Maximum Tune almost syncs up with the manga.
Yasutaka Watanabe well, one is high Speed highway Racing, the other is mountain pass touge.
They're not that similar
Yasutaka Watanabe no it's not. it's different
Zero World's Best Dogfighter! Nope
i totally miss initial D now huhuhuh
Ryan Abapo .... this show is weird as fuck
Kansei Dorifto?
So the anime is set in the early 90's, Keiji's dad died 15 years ago which would be around the late 60's to mid 70's.. but the cars in the flashbacks look nothing like the cars from those periods... am I the only one bothered by this?
CptnMerica Yeah but it looks like he drove an AE86.. (his father)
It was a Celica 2800 GT XX from 1980's
Its set after 1993 judging by the R33.
@@thecarenthusiast4562 The R33 debuted in '95
Lapua-Wolf My Bad. But I mean it’s still after 93 though.
"i don't know that guy, but he looks like a friend of mine" They all look alike my guy, they all do.
Dammit, I am getting addicted to the show way to much I think I'm a weeb now
5:53 **YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK**
2:36
Is that- *cleans glasses* is that a SUPRA?'
I wish I could see a German version of this manga, in which the protagonist finds an overtuned Golf GTI mk1 and races on the autobahn....
Nope he'll be crushed by some guy with 1000hp civic
I'd actually like to see that happen
Akuma Golf
*TEUFEL MARK EINS??!*
I'd think a 1800hp Buggy that has a will of its own would fit.
21:50 I can't match his entry speed!
That's what she said
Every Initial d fan watched wangan to cope with it until another Initial d series comes out
9:52 does this really need a translation? 😂
"...Silver Supra?" *AHEM* shit got down *AHEM*
「どんな時も自分の為だけに踏め！」シブいセリフ✨👍
Wingless GTR R32s with a truck lip are so good to look at
7:58 964.3 litre turbo?
Windows98 will it fit in my Honda
ATLAS GAMING why would your honda need it with *VTAK BOOST +++*
Windows98 rip gas mileage
Atlas sure it will
As in 964 Porsche 3.6 litre 🤵🏾🏎️💨
Initial D or Midnight?
Initial D all the way, battles are way more intense and gets you more hyped up
Manga: Haven't read either; can't decide
Anime: Initial D. Wangan anime has a lot of missing stories
Game: Wangan. It has multiplayer, can tune your car up to 835 horsepower, can change the look of car, story is more intense than the anime. Initial D is very boring and bland.
Rey Mejorada both
Both
I think they share a universe at 14:57 he talked to rouskie takahashi
10:45 I think Akio knows that Reina likes him but he just can't be with her as both their lives are 2 different worlds.
2:36 "IS THAT A SUPRA?!"
I believe that everyone else has noticed this but that porsche isn't suited for driving in japan because it's a left hand drive. in countries like japan you drive a car with a right hand drive for example look at the supra
in Japan if you driving left-handed car - it's a flag that you are really rich guy
and its make sence for porsche since right handed ones have a tendency to steering on a straight line due to original chassis' weight distribution made for left hand
@@MarciLMP2 wow
Lmao Reina is driving Hiramoto's gtr in this episode
Well she did lowkey stole the Devil Z when she first met Akio, so her stealing Hiramoto's whip is not entirely out of the question
Reina's gtr was white from the very beginning.
Only when it got tuned by Yamamoto, it turned to dark grey colour.
But a few episodes later it turned to white again.
Continuity kinda lost on the car models I suppose. 😂
@@aaryeshg.6526 there was an episode she said she was painting it white. and her co-anchor said white is good luck and you won't crash.
@@agustusx1 episode 7, after the Devil Z's final crash
Man I idolised that Silver Supra a few years ago
4:14
*Davy Jones intensifies*
Surprised you don't have more upvotes. Davy Jones was a great character.
imagine how sad this episode would be if instead of the old supra it was one of the new ones XD wouldnt stand a chance!
I actually like the new supra
It’s better than the old one(stock)
nah, some people already got it to 1000hp, which is more than the supra in this episode has
Gran Turismo 7 The Real Driving Simulator Tokyo Expressway Is Toyota Supra RZ '97 Black Its In Mzee 23 Philippines 2:35
ポルシェとスープラを追いかけて走るが🚙💨両方一歩の抜かされず熱い火花が高まる
So someone stole reinas spoiler 😅😅
Reina stole Hiramoto's spoiler
9:48 Reina's R32 doesn't have a spoiler?
She is known for driving a spoiler-less GTR
Exactly what I thought. In previous episodes, the other white R32 uses low spoiler like Reina's use in this episode and Reina's spoiler were stock in the previous episode. But how come it reversed right now, well...
BlackPanthaa not approves i guess.
Isn't that dangerous? A spoiler would help so much with the rear of the car.
Also, the mirrors of Akio's Z was changed due to errors, the mirrors supposed to be at the hood than on the doors.
どんな時でも、自分のためだけに踏め。
I got flashbacks from 86 turbo
2:34 please don't tell me I'm not the only one who screamed IS THAT A SUPRA!!!
Is ThAt a SuPrA?!?!?
Yes
Midnight Club Still Cancelled SOZ
20:47
The shape of that car reminds me of the AE86.
Dorifto time
its basically a second gen supra, in japan it was the Celica 2.8xx, but in the US it was a Celica Supra.
@@OwenXW Ah ok. Thanks for the info!
Why did Reina switch to a gts-t spoiler? Pretty sure it had the stock r32 wing
Actually its a nismo wing, you could get it as an addition to the standart wing
necro-posting: on
i think she installed it for less drag coefficient and i think she got idea from Hiramoto's GT-R which was able to drive as fast as Blackbird and Akuma no Z
wasn't her gtr black
but now theres lot of production cars that can run more than 400kmh stock.
joanes bryan example?
Mr . Vtech0 veyron,cyron,S7,ssc arrow, one:1, ccx, agera, regera, mclrn F1 & P1 without rev limiter, venomGt(lotus with LS), etc
Yeah but can they produce 700 horsepower on a 3.6 liter turbo flat six? an Aventador need 6.5 liter v12 to produce 690 horsepower. The blackbird can reach top speed of 350km/h and can last for 15 minutes. In contrast, the Bugatti Veyron can maintain its top speed of +400km/h for 12 minutes. Wangan Midnight was based on the 1980s. Can you believe that in 1980s there was a car that was more powerful and more efficient than supercars today?
joanes bryan aren't the one: 1 and the agera the same thing?
Mild gargle Car makers aren't pushing the engine to it's limit because it ruins the reliability, and these tuner cars need a complete rebuild frequently because the engine can't take the pressure for very long. By the way this series is very unrealistic, you shouldn't compare it to reality.
Whats the name of the song playing when they driving the blackbird
Anyone else think the supra guy deserved to win that race? he seems more skilled than Akio and he can even drift. Akio just had a faster car which wasn't even his own.
Then again, Akio beat the Supra with a car he never even drove before which is quite impressive
2:35 Is that a... IS THAT A SUPRAAAAA?!!!!!!!!!!!
10:00 Didn't Reina's GT-R have a spoiler?
Ye thats WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!! In the last Episode Reina have a Spoiler and the other Guy have the small spoiler BRUH whats that????? LOL😂🔰
I guess they lost the models of the cars.
2:52 IS THAT A SUPRA?!!!!😱
At 10:00 she drives the wrong gtr
Is that an AE86 Levin I see in the garage at 20:10
I don't think so since the side mirrors are on the front fenders
It is a celica XX or in the US, a celica supra
Supra has entered the chat
I like how everyone talks shit about akio being a shitty driver for crashing the z so many times but yet he is driving blackbird and just beat a Supra like it was nothing which makes sense because the devil z is an older car with no electronic assist and is as light as a feather with over 600hp of course he would crash in it🤣
The 964 is already a hard car to drive y'know? It's a direct descendants from the gut wrenching 934 911 turbo
@@gachaharemseries2029 indeed and akio was able to drive it pretty well and beat the Supra with it
@@tgipro6387 yeah, meaning that seat time in the devil Z really teaches him a lot as a driver, feeling and working with the car to learn it's reaction and then harness it when he understands it's characteristics
@@gachaharemseries2029 yep and unlike takumi akio actually does maintenance and even done work on the devil z and helped with tuning blackbird as well
@@tgipro6387 well takumi is still a great driver, he can recognize the changes in the car the moment he drive it, he's just doesn't know about tuning
everybody gangsta till the supra show up
Oh no.. A NEW CONTESTANT HAS ENTERED THE RING: THE SUPRA.
It's good they added a Supra in.
12:30 what is the name of the bgm playing ?
22:30 Too soon junior!
Wait so supra beat blackbird but with akio in it, it lost? Who's destroyed Porsche was it at the start?
My bad nvm, it's someone else turbo
2:35 my reaction:😯😎🙂😏
So who is his son??
21:50 NANI??.... K A S A N I D R I F T O ?
Wolf Films kansei no dorifto *
Wolf films pls go away and bring ur initial d cringe away as well
great
20:00 no data of the car but apparently the image shows an AE86 TOYOTA
Celica XX a.k.a. celica supra
20:49 is it Hachi-Roku?
pretty sure thats an old supra
02:40 IT S THAT A SUPRAAAAA
what happened to ishida?
ポルシェと悪魔のZとR３２型とR３２型が走る３２型が失速してポルシェと悪魔のZ３２型に抜かされる２台がデッドヒート３２型と悪魔のZが３２型を見事に抜くシーンが有った速い車が勝つ💪🏆️
They added a supra here OMG 😁
This episode reminds me of getting a Discarded Card
her reaction after watching that supra be like :IS TAHT A SUPRA
whats the name of this episode
How this movie can't slipstream
OK SO THE OLD Z DRIVER HAD A KID THEN DIED?! IS THERE ANYONE WHO HASN’T LEFT THERE KID?!
Does Hiramoto count?
The "Old Z Driver" was Hiramoto. I got confused aswell because he looks like Akio Asakura. Yeah they are 2 separate people.
I can't imagine what year is this if the supra is so rare in these series, might be 1994
Wow are they all related? Some of them are like brothers.
5:54
eh
*MASAKA*
アキオ 達也 ケイ
湾岸のハンサムトリオ
What's the real name of akios devil car in real life?
Nissan Fairlady Z S30Z
@@drifter3247 I thought It was DATSUN FAIRLADY Z S30Z as the japanese model for that market and NISSAN FAIRLADY as american model for the american market
Giancarlo Lugo datsun is old nissan
240z
Tha goose bumps ehen tha supra
The actually good Shinn Asuka
Wait! Reina's R in the last episode has a Spoiler then the other one have the Tiny one THEN why in this Episode Reina have the SMAAL SPOILER???? Whats that Bruh
Yo is this a SUPRA?
No this is Patrick
Is that a supra?
19:05 whats the ost name
Like Hell
+ remixed version.
イニシャルの方達に聞かせたいざますね
10:45 where is the wing of that 32😂
I think she swap it with a lip spoiler
Damn I ship Akio and Reina
I want a white Porsche like Blackbird and be called “Whitebird”
Supra entered the chat
I was waiting to see the supra