In my opionion, the best Anime for street reaceing fans (like there is must of a choice) is Initial-D. Anyone ever heard of it? Prolly not since, I believe, you can only get it in fansub (for us English reading folks).
Basicly (lil spoilder) its about this 18yo kid, Takumi, who helps his dad (Tofu shop owner) by delivering Tofu every day at 4am. He drives a Torono (Imagine around a '88 Chevy Nova or a Corolla GTS, hatchback) up and down a mountian... (big spolier comeing up) It gets interesting when a local raceing group is raceing against out of towners (Speed Stars vs. Red Suns[best raceing group in the area]) and is getting their asses handed to them when a two-tone grey "86" (as in "AE86-T" frame) comes up on the leader's ass (second best in Red Suns)... the Leader thinks its one of the Speed Stars and so starts to race him... after about 2 turns the 86 just blasts by him in a drift around a turn. Well people start to talk about the 86, saying its a ghost car.... well guess who is was? Funny thing is that Takumi doesnt know anything about cars or raceing, he just wants to finish the tofu run;p
Watch out, I must warn you this series is as addictive as crack. (BTW the series is 26 ep. and there is a second series called Initial-D Second Stage)
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In my opionion, the best Anime for street reaceing fans (like there is must of a choice) is Initial-D. Anyone ever heard of it? Prolly not since, I believe, you can only get it in fansub (for us English reading folks). Basicly (lil spoilder) its about this 18yo kid, Takumi, who helps his dad (Tofu shop owner) by delivering Tofu every day at 4am. He drives a Torono (Imagine around a '88 Chevy Nova or a Corolla GTS, hatchback) up and down a mountian... (big spolier comeing up) It gets interesting when a local raceing group is raceing against out of towners (Speed Stars vs. Red Suns[best raceing group in the area]) and is getting their asses handed to them when a two-tone grey "86" (as in "AE86-T" frame) comes up on the leader's ass (second best in Red Suns) ... the Leader thinks its one of the Speed Stars and so starts to race him... after about 2 turns the 86 just blasts by him in a drift around a turn. Well people start to talk about the 86, saying its a ghost car.... well guess who is was? Funny thing is that Takumi doesnt know anything about cars or raceing, he just wants to finish the tofu run ;p
Watch out, I must warn you this series is as addictive as crack. (BTW the series is 26 ep. and there is a second series called Initial-D Second Stage)