Wangan Midnight

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Japanese: 湾岸ミッドナイト


Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jun 15, 2007 to Sep 13, 2008
Premiered: Summer 2007
Broadcast: Unknown
Producers: OB Planning
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: A.C.G.T.
Source: Manga
Genre: ActionAction
Theme: RacingRacing
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.491 (scored by 1821218,212 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #19552
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3388
Members: 46,746
Favorites: 639

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Synopsis

From dusk until dawn, street racers gather on a Tokyo highway—the Wangan Route—in search of only one thing: speed. Among them, a newcomer attracts the attention of the route's veterans after he purchases a Nissan Fairlady Z, a car infamously nicknamed The Devil Z. The newcomer ignores the warnings of Eriko Asakura, who lost her brother, Akio, in an accident involving the same vehicle. The Devil Z's new owner, who coincidentally shares the exact same name as Eriko's brother, becomes bewitched by the car's mysterious power—even after crashing twice.

Now a high school dropout who works to pay for his car repairs, Akio befriends regular street racers of the area: the legendary owner of the Porsche 911 Turbo, a car known on the streets as "Blackbird;" the genius surgeon Tatsuya Shima; and Reina Akikawa, who works as a model by day and displays unparalleled skill in her Nissan Skyline GT-R by night. Thanks to these connections, Akio manages to find the retired designer of The Devil Z's engine, a solitary man named Jun Kitami. Following his meeting with Akio, Jun resumes building overpowered yet dangerous engines. Meanwhile, the racers of the Wangan Route are caught in a desperate race against The Devil Z with no clear end in sight.

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Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Tominaga, Tsuneo
Director
Mima, Masafumi
Sound Director
Tokumoto, Yoshinobu
Episode Director
Kimura, Hiroshi
Episode Director, Storyboard


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"lights and any more" by TRF
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Ending Theme

"Talking bout good days" by Mother Ninja




Reviews

Nov 1, 2023
Wangan Midnight chronicles the lives of people whose passion for speed, street racing, and tuning is reignited by the return of a legendary car on the wangan, which is the part of the highway that runs alongside the coastline outside of Tokyo. And nothing else, really. The passion for race cars is palpable throughout the anime and as far as the protagonists are concerned, every scene is related to that passion and to the impact that legendary car had on them, as well as the life-altering choices they make or not after that.

I insist on the fact that it is more a chronicle than a ...
Jun 9, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Meh, this show a mixed bag. Probably wouldn't want to watch it again.

If you're watching it now and are hoping that it gets better, it doesn't. You can stop watching around episode 11 since it's the same thing on repeat since that point.

It had some really good moments here and there, which was the main reason why I ended up watching it until the end. Hoping it was actually going to amount to something. But it just ended up dissapointing me.

Of course, if you're planning to watch this show it's 99% likely that you're coming here from Initial D. Just so you know the ...
Nov 6, 2023
A 3/10 anime that occasionally reaches 6/10 with it's amazing soundtrack and CGI. But is a boring slog outwith that.

Wangan Midnight offers a different and unique spin on Racing anime. Set primarily on the Wangan route of highways but dabbles in others. As such, straight lines are the name of the game, and the need for speed is more necessary than the drifting techniques of Initial D, the anime this is most compared to. I will also be making this comparison.

The CGI is amazing, and holds up well today. The cars are very well detailed and the backgrounds provide a beautiful backdrop as ...

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