New Anime: Wangan Midnight

[kungfumaster]

Not another Initial D n-th Stage anymore!

Its Wangan Midnight!! Finally another anime about racing!
Races through the well-known long highway in Japan, Wangan.
And no tofu has to be delivered this time! The male protagonist finds an old 2nd hand Fairlady Z, known as Devil Z...and races against the Porsche 911 Turbo.
Only checked the openings, going to watch it tommorrow. And i must say it looks good. Its from the same studio as Initial D 4th stage. But this time with other old-school cars ! And great oldskool rims on the cars...(=LIP!!)

This series is based on the Wangan Midnight manga and maybe you also have played the arcade Wangan Midnights game, very popular (when i was in HongKong last time). Also read that a ps3 game is going to be released later, but dontknow much about it.

The fansubs just released episode 2, you can get it @animesuki.com.
(dunno if its allowed here, posting anime dl/etc , its not licensed (yet), but please edit admins, if something is violateddd!)

[Jezza_hr]

My opinion so far, is that it's not as in depth as Initial D. Where is the back story for the drivers skill (If thats what you need to drive in a straight line?)?, where is the build up to a race? Why is the car haunted? I'm going to continue watching it as it's entertaining. To me though, it's Initial D lite with a gorgeous Datsun

[banpei]

Finally!
Currently downloading... I'll give my opinion when I've seen it.

[momo-gt]

Hehe, my 200sx friend will freak out if I told him that there´s an anime with an old fairladyZ.
I´m realy interested. Please give us feedback if you seen it.

[donthomaso]

i hope the story gets better.. but cars are great. great details. i will continue waching but its not on the same level as initial d so fare

[a112]

Seems very nice,i like the story,and the car is simply excellent,the blue Devil Z

[The Big Yin]

ep 1 and 2 available from here

http://a.scarywater.net/omfg/

[Spitfire]

So its finally been animated? I bought a manga book in Japan a year ago and liked it alot, Im glad to read that we have the oportunity to "watch" it as well.


... I only hope it wont make Wangan racing as mainstream as Initial D made drifting and touge

[banpei]

Only seen 30 seconds to check conversion quality for my phone and already spotted Mux's car right behind the blue Z (on the car dump).
Probably will watch it tuesday.

[meshin]

Fairlady Z is awsome

The racing are to me "weak" compered to InitialD, but the atmosphere is cool, and the music is better...


Devil Z