Initial D: First Stage - The Complete First Season

Initial D: First Stage - The Complete First Season

Initial D: First Stage - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Initial D
Brand: FUNIMATION PRODUCTIONS, LTD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 650 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Funimation Prod

Movie Reviews of Initial D: First Stage - The Complete First Season

Movie Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is Worth every pennie I saw this in japan and the funimation is way better they have it in english dubbed and the orginal japanese...
comes with the Akina stars racing sticker for your own car

Summary of Initial D: First Stage - The Complete First Season

The teenage street-racing adventure Initial D (1998) is set in a flyspeck town north of Tokyo, where the only thrill the local teens have is racing on the winding road up Mt. Akina. Takumi "Tak" Fujiwara isn't exited by racing like his friends Iggy and Cole. He doesn't realize that his ex-racer father has taught him all the tricks of driving by making him deliver tofu up and down Mt. Akina without spilling the water in a cup. The technical difficulties of performing various maneuvers and the challenges from members of racing gangs lure Tak into competition. Despite his skills, Tak isn't a terribly interesting character; as his friends note, when he's not racing, it's hard to tell if he's asleep or awake. Iggy and Cole feel like stock anime sidekicks, and the girls in the cast are little more than adjuncts to the boys. Initial D mythologizes street racing as if it were a martial art: Tak drives with a "powerful aura," and the road races become duels of honor.

Initial D scored a huge hit in Japan, generating two sequels, two spin-offs, numerous video games, a theatrical feature, and a live-action film. But the computer animation of the races that looked cutting edge in 1998 now feels pass?: any video game offers flashier car races. The Complete First Season set includes all 26 episodes of the original series and first installment of the first sequel, Initial D: Second Stage (1999). Although each episode is presented in both "classic" (original video, Japanese dialogue, original music) and "tricked out" (enhanced video, English dialogue, hip-hop soundtrack) versions, including only three per disc seems stingy. (Rated TV PG, suitable for ages 14 and older: minor violence, tobacco and alcohol use, street racing, profanity) --Charles Solomon


When Keisuke Takahashi of the infamous RedSuns racing team accidentally witnesses normal everyday tofu delivery boy Takumi Fujiwara's expert drift technique Takumi's life shifts into high gear. Keisuke challenges him to a racing battle and the race results in Takumi plunging headlights first into the white-knuckle adrenaline rushing world of underground mountain-pass street racing.With his incredible techniques and top notch AE Eight-Six Takumi blows the competition away battle after battle. As the word rapidly spreads about a new racer beating out the best drivers and cars that drift racing has to offer one by one new challengers quickly step out to battle him. Yet time and time again Takumi proves himself to be a force to be reckoned with. Can Takumi be the best?This 9 disc set contains the complete first season of heart stopping Initial D action! DVD extras include:Exclusie footage from Mount AkagiBonus episode from Season 216-pg Owners ManualOuttakes and much more!Format: INITIAL D Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM UPC: 704400086403 Manufacturer No: 1-4210-1028-3

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