What was driving in the 90s like?

>>152048153
It was like being to the top.

You ever been to the top?
Just listen, let me tell you. Hear what your missing, shut up and listen.

>>152048153
Nobody in 4chan is that old.

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>>152048705
Y-yeah.

>>152048153
DO YOU LIKE
MY CAR

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>>152048705
There are 18 year olds on this board right now that were born after initial d aired

>>152048850
TAKE ME TO THE TOP

GET YOUR CREDIT CARD.

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COOL VIBRATIONS

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>Enter Initial D thread
>Eurobeat lyrics and shingoposting
>Remain in Initial D thread

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Shingo and Nakazato are best boys.

I'M GONNA STEP ON THE GAS

>>152048153

Paper maps were a bitch. Many trips to AAA to get maps for trips to new areas.

Internet print out turn-by-turn directions in the 00's were great until you missed a turn or the data was inaccurate.

What was running in the 90s like?

>>152051888

https://aww.moe/fgh6oe.mp4

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>>152048153
>1990 was 27 years ago
Just end it all family

In my opinion, Initial D would be better if:
>Itsuki was the protagonist
>Takumi was a one-trick pony who could only rek people on Akina's downhill in his dad's 86
>story focuses on Itsuki's gradual improvement and the local teams like the Red Suns and Night Kids instead of starting Project D and turning itself into a villain of the week battle shounen with races instead of fights
Prove me wrong

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>tfw

>>152053068
>s13 becomes the ultimate meme car
>no dagumi tax on 86
>no longer have to die without experiencing an 86

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posting memes

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ouch

>>152053068
>one-trick pony

I wouldn't go that far, but I do wish he actually got recorded losses. There were at least 4 races he should have straight up lost.

>>152053068
Alternatively it could even not have a single protag at all and just focus on the teams' relationships and their more important members. Less of a battle shounen with races and more of a space opera with races. Itsuki having a major role would still be useful for non-car people to get everything explained to them as he matures as a racer.

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Anyone have that pic of Takumi and Itsuki sitting against one of their cars and drinking coffee? I need that aesthetic

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>>152053350
>>152053442
Whoops, didn't see this pic was already posted

>>152053420
Itsuki already does that, along with Iketani and Yuuichi.

Which reminds me I was thinking Iketani is going to grow up to become the new Yuuichi. Works at a gas station, friend of a legendary driver, says he used to race in his youth, still sometimes rides in Takumi's car to shit himself at corners.

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>>152053512
kek

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>>152053442

>>152048705

If I had to guess I'd say the oldest people regularly on the board are early 30s.

I tried watching second stage but got turned off by the animation style,is it still worth a watch?

>>152053626
Thank

>>152053701
No, first stage is the only good stage

I WANNA DANCE

>>152048153
It was shit in 'murica
You were surrounded by shitty Ford Aerostars and pimped out 80s sports cars, like Pontiacs. If you found yourself a straight-away to drag race, some dumb guy in a pickup truck would ruin everything.
G-good times actually. We didn't have the god-teir nip cars though.
>>1485559

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https://youtu.be/1w4svZHsm0c?t=1333
Posting the best moment

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>>152054051
f-fuck

http://is.4chan.org/wsg/1484007694519.webm

SAVE ME
BABY I NEED YOU PLEASE SAVE ME NOW
From this spaghetti spilling

>>152054051
You obviously didnt live through the 90s

>>152048705
Hey I'm 18 but at least I can drive. A lot of people here don't even have a license and they're in their late twenties.

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>>152054064
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNlFauyO6pY

>>152053068
>Itsuki
No
Takumi is my self insert I need this

>>152053512
gonna get you
like a sleep boy
zz zz zz zzz

I'm in the middle of the third stage and just spoil me a thing.
Does Nakazato ever win a race or all the other characters keep pretending that he's good even if he never wins? Will he confess his true feelings for Shingo?

>>152054685
>in the middle of the third stage
isn't that a movie?

>>152054777
Yes but I have a short attention span. I watch 20 minutes at a time.

>>152054855
Oh, okay. I don't recall anything that important involving Nakazato but I haven't watched since 2014 so I could be wrong. If you don't already know, every single piece of animation after 3rd Stage will be worse and you'll be better off reading the manga.

>>152054685
Manga Night Kids aren't nearly as closeted.

>>152054685
I'm pretty sure you never see him in a race after he loses to Keisuke, although you do see him more generally later.

>>152054223
>A lot of people here don't even have a license and they're in their late twenties.
S-shut up

>>152054685
No. A lot of the old characters get the shaft in 4th and 5th stage when Ryosuke and Co become Dagumi's new BFFs

WELCOME TO THE NIGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCdlVKoyuo
Why was this a bad ending?

>>152056116
Reposting from the last thread:

>no race between Ryosuke and Keisuke to show that Keisuke surpassed his older brother, we're simply told and expected to believe that Keisuke surpassed him
>no rematch between Keisuke and Takumi after the end of Project D despite being alluded to several times since the start of the project
>no race between Takumi and Bunta
>no race in which Takumi races against a 4WD vehicle after beginning to drive the WRX
>no race in which Takumi applies things he learned about 4WD vehicles while driving the WRX

>instead, the last race is against some kid who's intended to be the same as Takumi but better, but is actually the same but worse, and the kid uses a vehicle and a driving style which make no sense and would have resulted in a quick loss in the real world.

>>152054223
>A lot of people here don't even have a license and they're in their late twenties.
Because I live in a place with good enough public transportation to make having/driving an expensive vehicle redundant.

>>152056282
But did any of that happen in the manga?

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>>152052929
>I'm going to turn 27 this year

end it please

>>152056378
Will you be canonized into the wizardly order this year?

>>152056436
No, I can no longer become a wizard.

>>152056333
I didn't read the manga, but the only races I'm aware of getting cut from the anime are some of Keisuke's races in the early half of 4th Stage.

Then again, I know the equivalent of the start of 4th Stage occurs before chapter 200 in the manga, while the manga goes on for over 700 chapters. Maybe some things did get cut.

I do, however, know the final race is the same in both the manga and anime. It's not like Takumi raced Keisuke or Bunta after the project finished.

>>152056282
Initial D has no friendly races shown ever, mostly only to assert dominance over an area. Not that it couldn't have used some but it's not weird that some of those don't happen - people also complain about conditions or freak conditions in the races, but they retain some formidability for the opponents in the form of benefit of doubt.

>>152056282
Honestly, I feel like the biggest problems 5th Stage has is that it's a continuation of 4th Stage, and it still has Project D making the races have no narrative weight behind them. Ideally, 4th Stage would have Takumi finding a way to beat the WRX, since every previous Stage had him overcoming a hurdle that took him the entire season to overcome.

Less cars everywhere I was. Simple cars to work on. Simple controls that were minimalistic (in the cars I drove) Cars still had unique looks because they didn't care that much about aerodynamic coefficients of drag so much yet.

Uh, you could still spoof cops radar detectors with jammers... until laser came along. No cameras usually, they didn't have computers in the cars yet so they still needed proof of insurance.

You were much more engaged on the actual act and enjoyment of driving with less distractions. If you had a nice car in high school you could literally pick up chicks in another county and bang some middle schoolers and drive them home no biggie.

Rainx was great. There was less regulation in our state about what you could do with your car.

Uh, I'm 42 ask me anything. I drove 4 different Jap imports at the time.

>>152056691
how many bastards

>>152056683
What hurdle did he overcome in 3rd stage?

>>152056835
NTR

>>152056775
Somewhere between 2 and 3 million.

Why aren't you peeps answering the ops question?

>>152053626
God, The animation is so simple and yet complicated at the same time. It's like fluid fucking actual fucking true anime style.

>>152056683
>Ideally, 4th Stage would have Takumi finding a way to beat the WRX
Given who was driving it, that's really too soon for that to happen.

Perhaps he should have learned how to beat 4WD cars more generally, by racing against a 4WD car as the final race of the stage.

>>152056984
I mean, he did race Sudo in 3rd Stage, but that was a "draw." It would have been interesting to have Takumi actually acknowledge that he had a weakness against 4WD, causing him to seek out 4WD opponents outside of Gunma. That would have been significantly better that Project D's "car of the week" structure.

>>152056984
I don't think the purpose of the training was ever to beat 4WD, but to refine his driving to the point where it didn't matter. Near the end of the 5th stage, Kyosuke says that when Takumi is in the zone, he can drive at AE86 as though it were 4WD. Bunta also comments that he might not have much left to teach Takumi after he inspects the tire wear.

>>152056973

It's the shading. It's hard to find that kind of detail now that everything is in HD.

>>152056973
Digital coloring and lighting has ruined everything, even as a slideshow with bad CGI first stage is the second best looking stage behind 3rd.

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>>152052929
How do we stop the downward spiral?

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>>152054125
holy fuck that webm
What is he driving? Can anyone tell from the steering wheel?
I know he's going against a skyline. dat beautiful skyline butt

>>152057338
The wheel looks aftermarket so I don't think that'll tell you much.

>>152057338
The little camera in the bottom left is from the car tailing him. He's driving an FC

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>>152057338
RX7 FC
You can tell by the BRRRRAPs.

>Could never finish Fourth Stage

It just kinda wore off its welcome.
Great music still, but the plot goes down the shitter.

>>152057435
>>152057451
Thanks anons
Damn
Now I need to get myself one of those, teleport back in time and drift with some kids in Japan

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>>152056691
Bang some middle schoolers
is 42 and posts on /a/
sounds about right

How come the janky and obvious CG of first stage is somehow still better than how they handle it in most modern anime?

>>152058046
because it reminded you of Playstation and you know Playstation was fucking sick

>>152057837
I used to bang middle schoolers when I was in high school durrrr. I rarely have sex with children anymore.

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>>152057282
Without going that far, there's still a lot of ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ there that isn't regularly capped and posted.

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>>152058329
>rarely

>>152058814
Yeah. Very infrequently. It's much harder these days with mind washed, medicated kids, stupid laws and the fact I am getting older and becoming more of a shut in and inflexible/lazy in my ways.

>>152048153
>I will never drive dad's old Chevy Monza from the '89
Back then chevys were ok

>>152058339
>ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ
please never post again

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>>152059312
Aren't you serious

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>>152058329
>rarely

>>152053701
1 is best, 2-3 are watchable, Extra Stages gave my dick my Sayuki yearns, and pretend 4-5 never happened

I'm watching through First Stage right now and I'm curious about the lack of police presence in the show? You'd think they'd be braking numerous laws. Is there something I'm missing here like some kind of cultural context or does the show not care much about that angle?

did you know there are people on /a/ right now who don't know want to challenge the mountain passes

>>152060044

are you german just curious

>>152060044
Japanese police doesn't care at night so long as you're not bothering anyone

NIGHT OF FI YAH

Opinion: the manga is way fucking better than the show because you imagine it to be better than the CGI ever was

>>152060229
Only true if you listen to the right Eurobeat while reading the chapters

>>152048705
You're in for a sad surprise

>>152060142
It's more accurate to say that they didn't care back in those days. Things have changed a lot now, and it's not just cops but physical obstacles too. Many of the famous Initial D roads now have speed bumps on the corners to make drifting impossible.

>>152048153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNa88cEOv1M

>>152060142
Back in the day they might not have cared, but they've cracked down on it since then.

Touge racing in Japan isn't dead, but it has gotten a lot less active since the 90s.

>>152053068
>villain of the week
>implying Project D weren't the villains like the Red Suns

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>>152060385
>>152060423
why must all good things be soiled

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>>152061009
Replace the part about casuals with reckless idiots who get someone hurt and fuck it all up

>>152061334
go back to r9k

ABS wasn't standard as far as I know.

>>152061866
Nope, as it should be.

>>152061913
I would rather most people have ABS and on the downside have it be less common if I'm completely honest.

Do I need to know anything about cars to enjoy Initial D?

>>152062562

It helps, but no

>>152062562
Initial D will teach you a bit about cars if you really think about some little bits of info from it

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>takumi would be nearly 40 now
>him and golf takumi would probably have their own takumi clone by now
>street racing is all but dead these days due to larger fines and police presence

>>152048153
Fast, because not everyone has a fucking car. I hate traffic so much.

>>152062562
No, absolutely not. A good show can make it's subject appealing, not the other way around. If anything, the show can make you care about cars. Just like you don't need to care about tanks to enjoy GuP.

>>152062562
You'll learn along with Takumi

>>152053664
You'd be wrong.

>>152056973
Anon, there's no animation on that pic.

>>152056317
Me too, no practical reason to have a car. Yet here I am, trying to get a license because of the show. I don't care about practicality, so I just want a car that can drift.

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>>152064056
pic related, it's you in the near future

I'm just here for the Eurobeat

>>152062833
the Japanese car scene is largely dead, but bikes are still huge over there. You just gotta learn to live without those extra two wheels

>>152064264
It would be a shame to ruin a good car, so he should buy a bmw and total it before it falls apart naturally.

>>152064476
So Bari Bari Legend fans can still rage their dream?

>>152064515
im sure most of them already are, the most expensive aspect of motorcycling in japan isnt the bike, but the licence.

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Is it worth following after first stage?

The show looks disgusting in digital.

>>152064593
the 3rd stage movie is much better

>>152064593
stomach 2nd stage, watch the beautiful 3rd stage, read the manga for the rest

>>152064593
Third stage has in my opinion the best visuals and still has a interesting story going on. fourth stage just becomes opponent of the week and gets kinda boring but still has romance arcs with itsuki and ryosuke. Fifth stage and final stage are just shit though.

>>152064593
I think every stage is worth seeing at least once. But First Stage is the only one I rewatched in it's entirety.

>>152054125
>that webm

H-HAYAI

>>152064711
third stage has a a lot of re-watchability since its only an hour and a half, has the best visuals, best soundtrack, best race, and feels like the end of the storyline.

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>>152061009
why do the 0 threads keep getting deleted by mods QQ

>>152053512
My sides just crashed into a guardrail

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>>152053512

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>>152058329

>>152065305
Literally me. I know jackshit about cars and engines, yet I still manage to drive one.

>>152056282
Though I like the idea of him battling a version of his older self, I don't feel like it should've ended there, basically the list you posted it's the dessert that was never delivered.
Would've really like to see him battle his father with the WRX.
Also Mogi and Kyoko totally dropped, felt like they were set up for a confrontation with the two specialists, to see how they changed as persons and then they were just forgotten

>>152048153

No traffic. Smoke belching. No traffic. Black smoke.

That's about all I can remember.

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dagumi best girl

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Why were they so based?

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>>152066956

>>152066617
Front wheel drive is made for people like you.

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>>152068484
Nonsense.

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GET HYDRATED, GOD HAND

>>152056378
I've met this guy in Tokyo once
Who is he?

>>152054223
I'm 20 and driving isn't something I even think about.

A lot of the money that my dad has saved up for my driving lessons has been spent on treatment for my slipped disc/sciatica anyway.

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>>152048153
Not as cool as driving in the 80s for sure

>>152048153
The 90's in the song is referring to speed and not the decade right?

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>>152048153
Exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNa88cEOv1M

>>152048862
The sudden realization that I could be shitposting in the same thread as one of my students has filled me with mix of dread and sadness.

>>152071990

It's both.

>>152060478
More like Emperor.