Just shows how garbage 5th stage was entirely FACT

@@hybridAbsol nah avex is just too stupid to leave initial d fifth stage to a small studio like synergysp. luckily enough, they were able to nail the ryosuke and reaper race as well as the race between takumi and shinji

@@OTGSanguine i didnt came all the way to see another 86 vs 86, its just boring and lame advert

@@hybridAbsol had it been animated by funimation, the last two stages would have been much better

Man, this should have been the final race with like 3 rounds with intense back and forths. Would be a fitting end.

Kogashiwa zone vs Fujiwara zone... if Kai my idol has been known how to run good plan preventing further damage as Mid-rear driver. Interesting revamped. Still Takumi has little edge, unless Kai can able to pulled off, in a small chance.

True, i prefer Kai as the final boss in the 5th arc instead of that kid in his near bone stock Ae86

I agree I would watch four episodes so long as they ended in a massive explosion and crash

@@caledonianrailway1233 bruh this aint FnF ☠️

@@hybridAbsol no but it would be entertaining

@@caledonianrailway1233 nah, the trading paint and wild overtakes is good enough for me, no need to end this in a collision *remember about some chav in a red Civic Si*

Except him spinning out due to recklessness is exactly what happened in the original... People tend to rely far too much on the animation rather than the writing itself and the context clues. Remember, the animators aren't the ones who've had real racing experience. The writers are. The same goes for all the other stages -- absolutely ridiculous things have happened in-animation but made sense if you ignored the quirkiness of the animation and paid attention to the dialogue. People tend to be hard on Initial D because that seems to be the cool thing to do right now. But if you pay close attention to the details and don't jump to conclusions you'll see that Initial D is far more realistic than it's made out to be. It was only around 5 years ago when people were laughing at Initial D's concept of drift winning over grip, and look who's laughing now. A person with more on-the-limit driving experience than any of those who laughed released a video on why it makes sense, and now everybody agrees it makes sense. Give it another 5 years from now, and people will probably be looking back on the other things they laughed at and realize how wrong they were.

@@undividual3891 the reason kai lost this race in the original was because he spun out due to snap oversteer. the mid ship platform of the mr-s is known to occasionally snap oversteer if handled incorrectly. the thing is, the previous generation mr2, a car that kai drove growing up was even more prone to snap oversteer than the mr-s. it's just not convincing to me that someone with so much experience with the toyota mr models would make such a rookie mistake, which is why the ending of the original race is not satisfying to me, as kai is always hyped up as one of the best drivers in the series. the other alternative reason for why he could have snap oversteered is that takumi may have purposefully slowed down in the middle of the corner to force kai to lift his foot off the gas, therefore causing his car to snap oversteer. this isn't really a satisfying option to me either, because it goes against takumi's moral code of always trying to play fair in the race. kai states after the race that he lost because he didn't drive recklessly enough, but the truth is that lifting his foot off the gas in the middle of a turn is probably the most reckless thing you could do in an mr such as the mr-s. i agree that the 5th and final stages are looked at too harshly in some aspects due to them being more technical than the other stages, but even from a technical standpoint, the way this race ends in the original is dissatisfying to me

​@@Lunar_Vortex Yea, I see where you're coming from. I don't remember Kai saying that he wasn't driving recklessly enough, I guess I've forgotten a lot of smaller details since it's been so long since I last watched the series. I can agree that the original battle was a bit stale, as a lot of 5th Stage battles were to an extent. I feel like that's an unfortunate consequence of making the races more technical and complex in that part of the series. Just like Shinji's technique, the fastest driving style is really the least flamboyant, which is hard for Initial D because that flashy style is such a big part of the excitement. I'd say this remake is a pretty interesting take on the battle, sacrificing realism to some extent for adrenaline-pumping action. I guess whether that's good or not is up to the viewers.

​@@Lunar_Vortex he did brake because he was unsure wether his car would turn or not, it's literally explained after the race

don't want to sound like a broken record, but the reason he spun out was to avoid crashing (which sounds a little ridiculous tbh but hey). He acted more reckless and because of it, he thought the line he took had the chance of making him crash. To get out of his reckless line, he chose to spin out, which he had more confidence in whilst realizing that would make him lose the battle. I'm still not satisfied with that battle but that's the 100% canon reason.

It wasn't exclusive to Takumi: Ryosuke, Kesiuke, Go Hojo, Shinigami, Shinji all had their own flow state scenes.

the zone state studied here is based on Takumi's as that's what Ryosuke mentions and based his fastest roads theory, but more racers have the zone state like Zero, who battle Keisuke and even Keisuke himself has that state.

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Agree, this version of the battle is 10 times better than the original one

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@@Darksupercool i also agree

Watched this again a few more times, it's so damn good, waaaaaaaaay better than the original race in Fifth Stage, I get goosebumps watching this now. Love how it starts getting heated up just as, I think, Ready Steady Go! really kicks in and Kai makes his comment about having faith that he is the fastest. There is something that in watching this I think the Project D part of Initial D missed out on, having Project D lose at least a single race and the outcome of that - say for instance if Takumi lost to Kai here (Bunta's rivalry with Kai's pops alludes to them trading victories), how would Project D proceed, would they have an extra race with Keisuke vs Kai?

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i think mf ghost is fairly similar if not a bit better thanks to it also using 2d at some times