"Initial D: Second Stage" (1999) More at IMDbPro »TV series 1999-2000

Overview

User Rating:

8.2/10 96 votes

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Genre:

Animation | Action | Comedy

Plot:

Picking up right after the events of 'First Stage', 'Second Stage' continues to follow the underground... more

User Comments:

Greatest car racing ever seen more

Cast

(Series Cast overview, first billed only)

Shinichirô Miki	...	Takumi Fujiwara
Unshô Ishizuka	...	Bunta Fujiwara
Mitsuo Iwata	...	Itsuki Takeuchi
Ayako Kawasumi	...	Natsuki Mogi
Kazuki Yao	...	Koichiro Iketani
Wataru Takagi	...	Kenji
Tomomichi Nishimura	...	Yuichi Tachibana
Kôji Ishii	...	Masaji Suzuki
Takehito Koyasu	...	Ryosuke Takahashi
Kôsuke Okano	...	Kenta Nakamura
Nobuyuki Hiyama	...	Takeshi Nakazato
Tomokazu Seki	...	Keisuke Takahashi
Keiji Fujiwara	...	Shingo Shoji
Masahiko Tanaka	...	Kyoichi Sudo
Kazuhisa Kawahara	...	Seiji Iwaki

Runtime:

325 min (13 episodes)

Country:

Japan | Canada | USA

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Shoumaru Pass is located in Chichibu National Park in Saitama prefecture. Kazumi is dropped off at Seibu Chichibu Station, the main train station for accessing Chichibu National Park. Its accessible from the Seibu Line at Ikebukuro Station, in Tokyo. more

Quotes:

[As he passes the leader of the Emperors]
Ryosuke Takahashi: In short, you suck at right-handers.
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Movie Connections:

Remade as Tau man ji D (2005) more

Soundtrack:

Blazin' Beat more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-

Greatest car racing ever seen, 14 February 2003

Author: yautjarekcah (yautjarekcah) from Malaysia

After watching so many other car racing scene, either animated or even the 'real' movie, I would say that this is by far the best that I would recommend to anyone who are looking for adrenaline rush of a car racing. This is not something like you see in "Fast and the furious", where those punks only know how to upgrade their machines and run faster than the others in a rather straight street, no technique required there, dude.

Here in this series, though animated (but in CGI format), but it really shows to the car racing fans what a car racing scene should be. Not just over hype car crashing, car chasing where the car can fly, turn but landed still 4 wheels on ground stuff; amaze the audience with those nice looking or high tech car (like those in James Bond series). In Initial D, it is not necessarily the mean machines will win, but the one who can master the driving skills and techniques could even outrun the modern and better car. In this series, you could learn a bit of those cars characters, and also briefly how they could drift and swept those corners in a believable but stylish way. It doesn't have nonsense talking scene in the series. Most of the time, yeah, car racing. Since I love the series so much, I had bought the DVD collection and watch them again and again. Hey, it didn't bore me at all. Just really wonder if there's anyone in the movie industry could produce such an immense and almost impossible car racing/drifting scene using real machine and operated by stunt mans. If there's one, I would be the first to watch it. If you are interested in car chasing and racing, it is a must for you to go and watch it. Those japanese really know how to make an animated series so real and fascinating. I would give them 9 stars.

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