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Initial D

Also known as Initial D 1st Stage.

Studio: OB Planning , Funimation , Fuji TV , Studio Comet , Studio Gallop , Pastel , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop early in the morning. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina's highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over the Gunma prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend.



Tags: Cars , Male Protagonist , CGI , Primarily Male Cast , Rural , Seinen , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Age Gap

Overtake!

Also known as OVERTAKE!.

Studio: TROYCA , KADOKAWA , Tencent Games , Bandai Namco Music Live , AT-X , BS11 , Good Smile Company , TV Aichi
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Haruka Asahina is a 16 year old high school boy racing F4 cars while staying at Komaki Motors, an auto-body shop in Shizuoka prefecture. Komaki Motors is a family-run shop that regularly competes in F4 with the team comprised of: owner Futoshi Komaki who is also a mechanic, his son Kotarou Komaki, and now Haruka Asahina. Because this is a family-run business, they receive no support usually from any major manufacturers. Haruka Asahina boldly confronts the top teams head-on to get the attention of these revered companies in hopes of making it to the podium himself.



Tags: Cars , Male Protagonist , Photography , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Kuudere , Found Family , Coming of Age , Natural Disaster , Work , Rural , CGI , Achronological Order , Adoption

Wangan Midnight

Studio: A.C.G.T. , OB Planning
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Based on a seinen manga by Kusunoki Michiharu serialised in Young Magazine.

The story gets its roots from the actual street racing that occurs on Tokyo's Shuto Expressway, one stretch of which is known as the "Wangan", literally meaning "bay side" (although it is generally used to refer to the freeway), the longest, straightest road in the entire country. Of course, there's also lots of traffic to contend with, including a fair number of heavy trucks. Because of this, the action is inherently hazardous, and wrecks are common. Blown engines are also a frequent hazard, especially with the extreme-high power engines.

One day, Akio Asakura, a third year high school student, is driving his Fairlady Z (Z31) and is challenged by Tatsuya Shima, a doctor, in his black Porsche 964 Turbo (nicknamed the "BlackBird"). With a friend in the passenger seat and two girls in the back, Akio pitifully tries to win, but is defeated. Determined to become faster, he goes to the junkyard to buy parts for his car, when he sees a pristine, unscratched midnight blue Fairlady Z (S30) in the junkyard. Intrigued as to why such a machine is about to be junked, he buys it. He soon finds that the car is unnaturally fast due to a tuned L28 engine, bored and stroked to 3.1 liters combined with twin turbos, which produces 620bhp. He also finds that all of the car's previous owners had unfortunate accidents in it, starting with the first owner's death. The manga follows Akio's various encounters, though the central plot revolves around his constant battle with the BlackBird for superiority.



Tags: Cars , Urban , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Photography , CGI

Initial D SECOND STAGE

Also known as Initial D 2nd Stage.

Studio: OB Planning , Funimation , Fuji TV , Pastel , Avex Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Following his victory over RedSuns leader Ryosuke Takahashi, AE86 driver Takumi Fujiwara is challenged by the Lancer EVO-based "Emperor," a group known for taking decals of racing teams they defeat, cutting them up and placing them on their cars like a fighter plane kill board. Takumi's undefeated streak is on the line as his AE86 is virtually no match against the more powerful and more agile four-wheel-drive EVOs of the Emperor team.



Tags: Cars , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Rural , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , CGI , Work

capeta

Studio: Studio Comet , Delfi Sound , TV Tokyo , Sotsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Taira Kappeita, or Capeta, was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made a racing cart. Soon, they went to a circuit to drive the cart. However, Capeta found that its frame was bent and it could hardly run straight. But, with his technique he managed the cart. Furthermore, he followed soon after the fast cart and he could nearly leave it behind. The driver in the cart was Minamoto Naomoi, the champion of the East Japan Junior Cart. Looking at their chase, Naomi’s mother, Minamoto Nanako, advised Capeta to take part in the official race.



Tags: Cars , Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , CGI , Idol

eX-Driver

Also known as éX-Driver.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Actas , Genco , Ashi Productions , Media Blasters , A Line , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Ex-Driver is set in the future, when all transportation is easily controlled by AI. Though like all machines they tend to break down or lose control or re-programmed. This is where three high schoolers with non AI cars, Subaru WRX, Super 7, Lotus comes in to save the day and make sure the public is safe at all times.



Tags: Cars , Episodic , Urban , Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tanned Skin

Riding Bean

Studio: Youmex , AnimEigo , AIC , Artmic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Thriller

Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.



Tags: Crime , Urban , Fugitive , Cars , Guns , Foreign , Anti-Hero , Police , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Nudity

Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!!

Studio: Production I.G , Xebec
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sports

Based on the manga by Tetsuhiro Koshita, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! has 2 main seasons evolving around the Go brothers and the TRF Victorys. The 3rd season, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! MAX evolves more around 2 new main characters, but the primary idea is the same...Racing!

Let's & Go!! focused on Retsu and Go Seiba, two young brothers who recieve racing cars called "Mini 4WD" by Dr. Tsuchia. From there on, the series portraits those two boys, training and costumizing parts to later on participate on Japans Cup, where all of Japans racers enter to be the best of the best!

Tags: Male Protagonist , Cars , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

New Initial D Movie: Legend 1 - Kakusei

Also known as Initial D Legend 1: Awakening.

Studio: SANZIGEN , LIDENFILMS , Sentai Filmworks , Avex Pictures , Shouchiku , Ultra Super Pictures , Kodansha , Sammy
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

First of the three part theatrical film remake of Initial D First Stage.

Koichiro of the Akina Speedstars witnesses a mysterious driver outmaneuver rival Keisuke of the Akagi RedSuns. The race, he later discovers, was won by none other than his own co-worker, Takumi. What happens next is the stuff of street racing legend!



Tags: Cars , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Rural , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Two Car

Also known as TWOCAR.

Studio: SILVER LINK. , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Original anime by Silver Link commemorating their 10th anniversary.

Today's the opening day for the high school division of the racing kneeler exhibition! Ladies gather from across the nation, determined to win in the "kneeler race." Today's race is to introduce this season's contestants. No one will be pushing themselves to the limit just yet, but you can expect that at the competition. So begins the female racers' fight for first place!



Tags: Motorcycles , Primarily Female Cast , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coastal , Twins , Cars , Achronological Order , Love Triangle