Initial D summed up

stage 1
>m-muh gutter run
stage2
>m-muh rap and evo
stage 3
cant remember because garbage
stage 4
>m-muh pop up blink attack

It's all shit.

thats my point

It really is a shit anime. The artwork is horrible and even the rendered CGI has absolute shit anti-aliasing. It looks like it was some chinaman's weekend project.

I'm convinced it's just an Veeky Forums meme and nobody actually unironically watches it.

>tofuboy cucked through the entire first stage

>tfw I never embraced the Initial D meme
looks like I missed out nothing.

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yeah the newer ones are
>m-muh wings

top-tier thread OP, you've really given me something to think about

Oh and
>m-muh pop ups and blind attack: electric boogaloo

What i hated most was the fact that they kept changing the art style and the look of the characters between some stages. Why do they do this shit? i couldn't even RECOGNIZE some of the characters because they changed everything. what was wrong with keeping one art scheme for the entire show? i actually liked the way the characters looked in the first stage best.

> some chinaman's weekend project.
lmao!

>the girls didn't look remotely feminine until Final Stage

They look like long haired men in the manga too so I guess they were just sticking to the source material

>i couldn't even RECOGNIZE some of the characters because they changed everything.
for example?

hey fuck you I liked sayuri

>I like men

That's cool man.

Did they change Iketani's VA after 2nd stage or did he just get really raspy sounding?

how can men have big fluffy tits and bitchy af? checkm8

At least 3rd stage music was bretty gud, way better than the j-pop from Legends

No one cares about betakani. I wouldve bargained a 3 some with mako and sayuri but nooo, virgin life

Overall, five different studios did Initial D throughout its run, as well as the director changed at the start of 4th Stage.

On top of that, animation throughout the anime industry was changing, for better or worse, and they went with the times considering how much time passed between later seasons of the show.

If they had left the 1st Stage style until it ended, it would have looked dated as fuck, and people would have had a hard time watching it.

5th Stage was probably the largest change in art style, but you have to consider there was a six year gap between that and 4th Stage.

How you managed to not recognize some of the character, I have no idea. I didn't have this issue.

Legends, despite having better overall animation and quality, is hard to watch because of having no eurobeat. I accept that the show overall is goofy and really not that impressive or feasible, but I still love it all the same, but eurobeat absolutely carries the majority of that show.

Stage 1 on the left stage 2 on the right. granted takumi was more easily recognizable but some of the characters like Ryosuke got a sudden change in hair colour and it triggered my autism.

takumi became a homosexual

rip dagumi aka fagumi

wtf, dagumi dagumi and ryosuke?

I can understand updating and polishing the drawings/animation but that change in hair colour is a complete mystery. i think he went back to a darker hair which once again kinda threw me off until i heard his voice. i haven't seen Initial D in awhile and i never made it to Stage 5 because i was watching it before stage 5 even came out and dropped it as i lost interest by the time it did.

Wasn't Ryosuke a red head for a stage?

>a girl offers her virginity for a fucking race
>also is obsessed with a guy she's never talked to
>somehow it's a bad thing Iketani never got with her

>I can understand updating and polishing the drawings/animation but that change in hair colour is a complete mystery.

Yeah, if you're talking about Ryosuke's hair change, I'll never understand it either. It did throw me off at first because I was like "Wait..."

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>that neck
lolwat

I'm so happy I stopped watching after 1st stage. That's how it should have ended, the way it was meant to be ended. If anything, the latter stages should have been the perspective though the eyes of the other racers.

are you 12?

>where the entirety of Final Stage's budget went

only 4 u bb

stage 1
>cow tits
stage 2
>no cow tits
stage 3
>no cow tits
stage 4
>no cow tits
stage 5
>no cow tits
final stage
>cow tits but not enough of them

There's not enough straight Initial D porn... as in there isn't any.

Initial K doesn't count.

sayuki truly is the best waifu

>kyoko fags BTFO

there are kyoko fags? must be gays

objectively best girl

Pixiv literally has more odd, chibi-esque fanart of Clarkson, Hammond and May than it has straight Initial D porn.

I counted.

>wanting to sexualized intial D
end yourself

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what are you implying?

She's pressing her tits against him.

omg im in diamonds

>not wanting to sexualize initial D

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>When Ecoboost kicks in

Left is stage 1 Takumi, middle is stage 2 Takumi, and right is stage 2 Ryosuke

INFINITYYYYYYYYY!

a fucking leaf

Fucking spoilers