>>28520128 (OP)
I used to like initial D but, not anymore. In hindsight fist stage was exciting because we weren't familiar with the formula yet and the audience was just being introduced to touge racing and it seemed cool and interesting sure, Takumi was already a great racer but, it still felt like he could lose at any moment especially when he raced Mako Sato. The series had such fucking shit character writing it was so dull and uninspired with the Iketani fumbling Mako and Takumi relationship with Natsuki, it was just really retarded and you could tell the publisher was like "hey, this is a sienen magazine. Add some relationships and personal growth for your characters outside of racing" and the guy either couldn't be assed or was just a shit character writer (I mean Takumi is a mary sue who wins every race, that's literally all there is to his character). Which brings me onto the last and perhaps most crucial point, Takumi never ever loses a single race, A big thing that made me like the show initially was him testing his limits and the chance that he could loose, it was kinda like watching a sports game but, that never happens because I'm willing to bet that Takumi is just a shitty stand in OC the writer dreamt up because someone made fun of his clapped out corolla.
Oh and I hated when he joined project D, it just took out all of the feeling and emotion of the races. In Akina he was racing to defend the pride of the Akina racers from the redsuns, night kids etc but, in project D he basically becomes a Redsun and it's nowhere near as interesting to watch.
