Initial D

Initial D : First Stage(1998)
• A real treat for car drift lovers and action admirers.
• The amount of details given to the info, about cars and their functioning is baffling.

Introduction
Hello Anime OG's, As we want our readers to indulge into every kind of genres and let them know about all the animes that are fan favourite, cult classic and masterpieces. Following the line, we today bring you the review of Initial D: First Stage whose first season came in 1998.

Storyline
Initial D features the character of Takumi Fujiwara whose dad owns a Tofu Shop in the Seasme street. He delivers tofu in his dad's Toyota Tureno AE86 on the touge of Mount Akina. Being a highschooler in Japan, he gets invited to watch a race of the local group on the top of Mount Akina. Unlike his friends, Takumi Fujiwara is not particularly interested in cars, with little to no knowledge about the world of car enthusiasts and street racers.
The son of a tofu shop owner, he is tasked to deliver tofu every morning without fail, driving along the mountain of Akina. Thus, conversations regarding cars or driving in general would only remind Takumi of the tiring daily routine forced upon him.
One night, the Akagi Red Suns, an infamous team of street racers, visit the town of Akina to challenge the local mountain pass. Led by their two aces, Ryousuke and Keisuke Takahashi, the Red Suns plan to conquer every racing course in Kanto, establishing themselves as the fastest crew in the region.
However, much to their disbelief, one of their aces is overtaken by an old Toyota AE86 during a drive back home from Akina.
After the incident, the Takahashi brothers are cautious of a mysterious driver geared with remarkable technique and experience in the local roads—the AE86 of Mount Akina.

Synopsis
We personally, love the anime because of its one of a kind raw and in-depth racing style which requires a lot of animation with an idea in mind. When all these come in together, it becomes a heavenly experience for anime lovers and as the races progress, the thrill seems to build up constantly.
Takumi Fujiwara is on hell of a driver who can race effortlessly in any kind of course with any kind of car. We get to know in one of the episodes that Takumi has been delivering tofu for his dad since he was in seventh grade.
He has mastered the skill of drifting and has gain immortal control over his car that makes each of the losing rival and spectator love his driving. Music also plays an important role in race and driving based animes to bulid up the intensity of the scene and bring the true emotions out of it.
Initial D has such a large number of soundtracks that this would have been the conversation between the producer and composer:-
Music Composer: How many soundtracks you want for this?
Producer: Yes! About time you asked me that question. (Nice joke right??)

This Anime also gets a credit of popularizing Eurobeat trance which was fairly new for Asians in that era. Many popular tracks like RUNNING IN THE 90'S, DEJA VU, and GAS GAS GAS were included in this Anime that to this day are used in internet memes.

This Anime was based on the Manga with the same name released two three years back before it's making. One thing that interests us and is kinda good that the real location located in Japan have been used here like -Akina Pass, Usui Pass and Mount Fuji. On comparison we also find many similarities with the real locations and the locations in anime that makes this Anime a lot more fun to watch.

Initial D is a popular franchise spawning a sizeable number of racing games released for arcades, home consoles, handhelds, and PC. The series was also adapted into a live-action movie in 2005, co-produced by Japan's Avex Inc. and Hong Kong's Media Group.
While the film deviated considerably from the original story, it was nominated for multiple awards and won many of them, at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
This summarizes it's popularity and we would highly recommend to watch this adventurous and enthusiastic anime once.

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Link For Initial D: First Stage

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