Alternative Titles
Japanese: 頭文字 D Fifth Stage
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
14
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Nov 4, 2012 to May 10, 2013
Premiered:
Fall 2012
Broadcast:
Unknown
Licensors:
None found, add some
Studios:
SynergySP
Source:
Manga
Duration:
27 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Since the reviews here are all extremely positive, and since I watched the last two seasons back to back, I'm gonna review them both. First of all, for anyone who has not yet watched the series: The first 2 seasons are amazing, and the third one (movie) is very good! After that the quality drops quickly though. Where in earlier seasons the anime revels in showing drifts, and mixing up closeups on the steering wheel and pedals with shots of drifting tires and the rear of the car coming very close to the guardrails, all while awesome eurobeat music is playing, in the last read more
See, I am a fan of the Initial D series. So why have I given this one just a 7? It's not all bad depending on how you take it. You'll get what I mean: (1) This stage is more dedicated to the development and growth of Keisuke. Since Takumi's unpredictable talent and dynamic races was what I loved, I felt a bit bored now and then. Not that Keisuke's races weren't interesting, they were all pretty good....but I guess you can't compare any other racers with Takumi. I did enjoy his character development. (Also Keisuke looked read more
It's like someone took all the race theory that was great about the previous installments and threw them away; then took the story and put a bird on it. Holy Moley, I'm surprised they didn't put undercarriage neon lights and flashers on the AE-86 read more
All right this Fifth Stage was boring. Don't get me wrong. I like it but it has a lot of problems that I can't hide. Let's start with the good things. I really like Takumi and Keisuke "final form" they do it amazingly and this is all the hard work they put trough out all the past stages and that's pretty much it. The art is very pleasant but I kinda miss that clunky CGI and some shoots of the cars doing crazy stuff like going 1 cm of the guardrails. Overall they still have that weird looking sometimes and I'll take read more
I love Initial D. It reignited my passion for cars and also taught me a lot about driving techniques. While the previous four seasons were exciting and had a good balance of character development and racing sessions, Fifth Stage is anything but. Fifth Stage brings improvements in terms of artwork and sound quality, but there's pretty much no character development or story. Yes, Takumi becomes better and better at driving, Project D continues to "conqueer" many other regions, but God damn it was slow! I know that Initial D is all about touge racing, but I find it difficult to watch read more
This is the only season in the series I'll be writing a review for, because it was quite the disappointment. The first was awesome, 2nd and 3rd dragged on a bit, 4th was awesome again. Over the time the art style has been changed a bit several times, but it never improved. In this season it's probably the worst it ever was. The music is not always as extravagant as in the first couple of seasons either, although they do bring back some of the older songs. I can get over all of that. The 2 things I really read more
It really hurt watching this season and there was a time where I could think Initial D was there perfect godsend anime that could never dissapoint. Blatant callbacks to the first 3 seasons were put into place but executed terribly, the magic this series had is gone important characters and amazing races are put aside for crappy character remakes and constant talking about the race INSTEAD OF RACING not once has a series made me more angry. I tried really hard to love this season and it dissapointed at every turn +good art +Interesting cars +Fresh new characters +ryosuke race +Interesting story -races aren't fun anymore -annoying talking read more
Fifth stage continues the battles of Project D. Keisuke and Takumi take on new battles and face new opponents, growing from those experiences. Much like Fourth stage, Keisuke is largely ignored and read more
Unfortunately, I found Initial D Fifth Stage to be the worst stage so far, and by a fairly large margin, as I very much enjoyed stages 1-3 (Fourth Stage, not so much but still enjoyed too). Most of the battles in Fifth Stage except for maybe one (most of you will probably know which one I'm referring to if you've seen the season) were pretty uninteresting and predictable, though there were some little moments read more |