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May 11, 2012 7:17 PM
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Another good fight and i loved the strategy aspect. This season is going a lot better than i thought.
Mar 8, 2013 8:08 AM
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Yeah gotta love that strategy of Ryousuke, gotta say he's a genius, though I knew that since long ago, this just solidified it XD I hope they don't cut off this battle of Keisuke's, like the previous battle -.- or else I'mma facepalm myself lol
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Aug 3, 2013 6:01 PM
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Forever, forever, forever. Damn, this is just intense. I replayed that OST at least 3 times.
Apr 1, 2015 1:39 PM
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Awesome race, Ryousuke's knowledge and Takumi's driving skills make for a deadly combo. I'm also hoping we actually get to see Keisuke's hill climb, been ages since we've actually seen him race.
Jan 21, 2016 6:13 AM
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May 18, 2016 4:23 AM
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Epic race! Really nice victory I must say, Ryosuke sure knows what's he's doing and combining the strength from Takumi their team really is pretty much undefeatable! Let's see what's next!
Sep 5, 2016 1:14 PM
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That race was awesome, loved the animation especially the downshifts with the rev-match.

Also like the selection of the cars, hyped for that next race!
Dec 24, 2017 3:16 PM
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Finally a clean race (no crash). Held back on the first run. I wish they'd show more of the race after the pass... to watch the gap widen :D

No up-hill again :(
Sep 7, 2018 4:45 PM
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And for no one's surprise, Takumi won again! Seriously, it will only be shocking if he loses someday, and only if it doesn't feel fabricated like his "loss" against that empeor leader. But when he decided to follow Ryousuke he was being serious, it was so cute the way he blushed, and was happy that he was able to meet his expectations. And it's such an improvement that the one commenting the races now is Ryousuke, and not Iketani, Kenji and Itsuki, because seriously, they just kept saying the same thing for five or six races. But well, nice, and by the way it ended we might get to see Keisuke's race!
Sep 23, 2018 12:37 PM

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Ryousuke is freakin awesome. Very good idea to add some streategy in anime, like it.
Apr 20, 2019 3:47 PM

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Counting on the opponents mistakes.


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Jun 19, 2019 6:39 AM
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Wow. This was perhaps one of my new favorite races, I straight up love how adamantly Takumi followed Ryosuke's instructions, that was something so new. Ryosuke sure is a genius, coming up with such strategies, truly in racing skill isn't enough, strategy is definitely required in bigger future races.
Aug 28, 2019 10:33 AM

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Ryosuke is a great strategist, I feel like Project D could be him alone taking on every opponent and he would still ace it.
Feb 23, 2020 2:51 PM

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Takumi owned him. Props to Ryousuke as well. Hella exciting episode and tho I didn't really dig the soundtracks in S1, I rock with them now.

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Mar 29, 2020 7:29 AM
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Now he realized that Takumi is a racing demon and with Ryosuke's strategy he was unbeatable
Jul 3, 2020 2:35 PM

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Good race! Ryousuke's plan mixed with Takumi's abilities led to victory.

I really hope to see Keisuke's uphill race in the next episode.
Jul 19, 2020 3:14 AM

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Intense stuff.



The FF driver was completely outplayed.
Nov 24, 2020 1:41 PM

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And of course Keisuke's hill climb race was cut out xD

Wowee that was some nice OST at the end there
Feb 4, 2021 10:56 AM

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Takumi beat him!! What a pro!

Apr 28, 2021 7:00 AM

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Ryousuke calculations and strategies for this race have been incredible, no wonder Takumi manages to pull off some amazing tricks
Nov 12, 2022 9:07 PM

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This is what Ryosuke is talking about when improving you will eventually cross your limit without using analytics

Fooled his ass nice going project D this is going to skip Keisuke's race or will it not now would like to see how he improves.
Jan 25, 2023 4:26 AM

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ryousuke's way too clever.
also, i was not enjoying this season much so far, but when that eurobeat kicks in it's a different story.
Dec 20, 2023 12:56 PM
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This episode was good.

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