Initial D Fifth Stage

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Japanese: 頭文字 D Fifth Stage


Information

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
Genres: ActionAction, DramaDrama
Theme: RacingRacing
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 27 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.111 (scored by 8274782,747 users)
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Ranked: #5082
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Popularity: #1559
Members: 157,919
Favorites: 783

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Synopsis

After earning a series of difficult victories in the prefectures of Tochigi, Saitama, and Ibaraki, the drivers of Project D—an amateur street driving group led by ex-street driver and expert tactician Ryousuke Takahashi—Takumi Fujiwara and Keisuke Takahashi now have to take Project D to the next level: the Kanagawa prefecture, commonly known as the holy land of street racing. Their opponents, members of the three best street racing teams of Kanagawa, design an elaborate strategy called the "Four Lines of Defense" to put a definitive end to the ambitions of Project D.

Meanwhile, Takumi feels he needs to refine his driving skills to overcome the last victory against Toshiya Joushima that he only just managed to snatch. The moment of truth has now come for Project D, which carries with it the hopes of the Gunma Prefecture; will they manage to thwart the surprising tactics of the skilled street racers of Kanagawa?

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Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Hashimoto, Mitsuo
Director
Mima, Masafumi
Sound Director
Matsumoto, Masayuki
Episode Director
Nishimura, Taiki
Episode Director


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"Raise Up" by m.o.v.e
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Ending Theme

1: "Flyleaf" by CLUTCHO (eps 1-6)
2: "Yuushuusouka (夕愁想花)" by m.o.v.e (eps 7-14)




Reviews

Feb 2, 2024
We, as fans, waited over 8 years, for this season, even though we needed to wait another 3 for it to be finished in final stage, it definitely was worth the wait, if it wasn't for the fact that takumi's battle was in the final stage, not this one, would give it a 10 (i might as well do it since it was an amazing season and other than takumi, nothing was missing).

In this part, it's definitely the peak of everything we watched till this date, and I have to say, even though I love older/earlier seasons more than the later ones in most anime, ...
Sep 28, 2022
Mixed Feelings
(Minor Spoilers, probably doesn't matter though if you watched the fourth stage)
With me re-watching Inital D Fifth Stage for the forth time I concluded how much worse this show has gotten between seasons, with much unneeded romance, and decrease in quality of development between high octane shots of movement from inside the cabin of Takumi's Toyota 86 Corolla Trueno and Keisuke's RX7 FD Twin Turbo. Many moments feel like repeats of previous races with no real changes, such as none of Project D having any losses throughout EVERY race, which makes the characters feel like they do not learn everything they would need for these ...
Apr 11, 2023
As I said in the season four review: the series should have ended in season three.
This one, like the last one, is just a bunch of predictable clichés.
There are 40 episodes where you can almost visualize what will happen. None of what was so great in seasons 1-3 was present here.

Art is good. Perhaps the only good point.
The soundtrack almost doesn't exist anymore. One of the good attributes, it was slowly decaying into fourth, and is now a background feature.
The story is also non-existent. It's sad to see what happened to the characters. Nobody managed to be charismatic. Not even the new ones.
The development is ...

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