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 were 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 just 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 "races" in this show are just guys riding in a straight line to see who has the faster car. So don't be suprised. It's more of a car tuning show anyway.
Every 4-5 episodes the same exact arc repeats itself. A new racer with a JDM car shows up. He races agains the MC and loses. He decides to forsake his personal life to upgrade his car. He upgrades his car for 3 episodes. He races the MC again and fucking loses again (lmao), decides that racing is for losers and quits the racing scene so that they can focus on their actual life instead of wasting all their money on cars like a fucking dumbass, also they never appear in the show afterwards.
Now repeat that 6-7 times and that's the whole show.
Now, the first time this kind of arc happened it was actually pretty touching.
But then it just happens again and again. I thought it was doing that to subvert expectations and finally do something meaningful one of these times, but nope.
The characters... Well they sure are some of the characters of all time.
Everybody besides the mechanic with a scar is the same boring nice guy racer or nice guy tuner that acts exactly in the same way in every situation. The only thing that differentiates them is that some of them treat their cars like machines and some have this weird
sort of partner relationship.
The 3d animation is pretty nice, pretty boring camera angles but whatever. The 2d animation is... Really uneexpressive and unimpressive, to be curt.
One of the few redeeming qualites is that you can actually learn a thing or two about tuning cars from this show (I think? They do throw around a lot of buzzwords).
Anyways, as always people are probably going to tell me that I just didn't get it or some shit like that. Just keep in mind that for many people this show is going to be really boring for like 80% of the time.
