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The most entertaining Keisuke race was against God Foot. After that, it felt like he's always winning without much sweat, the same as Takumi. I think the Gods races were the most difficult one for both of them.

That race against Zero's S15 is really boring and easy (apart from "I Won't Fall Apart" song) that it felt similar to when Takumi was racing against Nobuhiko.

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There was nowhere to go past that. He took down an R34 Nur driven by one of the best drivers in the entire series, in one of the best races in the entire series. Shigeno wrote Keisuke into a corner by playing that card too early. Keisuke could become faster, but without adequate rivals to display this against, it was a snoozefest every time.

The Godfoot race was a wonderful method of displaying how all of Keisuke's training was paying off. It took everything just to catch up to Hoshino, and even then he barely passed by to take the win.

How were his races after that?

- Kobayakawa: Eh, Keisuke isn't all he's cracked up to be. What a waste. Guess I'll zone out for a whi- AH SHIT HE SPED UP I SUCK.

- Minagawa: OOPS I TAPPED YOUR BUMPER I GIVE UP.

- Ikeda: Fog on the road? I've lost me mojo!

- Go: HE'S TOO FAST.

These two people maybe considered 2 of the worst drivers in ID.

Kobayakawa was left wondering where Keisuke went. And Ikeda has not enough skill to fight a good battle against D. He just has a nicer car, I suppose.

Yep, all that hype saying Kanagawa is the hardest (even Bunta said that) is for nothing lol

Here's something different :
Sometimes i wonder how would Shinigami do if he battle the DK from Tokyo Drift on the mountain in the final race, it will be a bump fest, probably both end up crashing lol

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This post has been edited by MonkeyWrenchd on Oct 10 2014, 06:22 PM

In fact, all of Keisuke's races except for VS Kyoko (fanservice + the track was his rival not the girl) and VS Hoshino (POWAHHHH) Were all too easy for Keisuke.

Minagawa could've given Keisuke more of a challenge if he didn't pussy out after tapping. Ikeda was OK, he's just too scared of the fog; if he didn't decelerate and was slightly more aggressive on the straights, he could've done better. He was good enough (or his car was) to keep up to Ryosuke and Rin's pace.

Kobayakawa wasn't even considered a challenge to begin with; nor were all of Keisuke's other rivals, Sakai's a trickster and that's about it. Wataru's a familiar face; you know how he goes, the Warus were a joke, Kawai was a disgrace, he only had power. It's like the moment an FD or GTR steps up to Keisuke, you know it's gonna be an a-game race or a B-game given Kyoko was a distraction. (minus Nakazato)

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Really sad that with all the build up making Keisuke into a threshing machine, they never gave him the rematch with Takumi he deserved.

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I don't think Takumi and the 86 is a match anymore for project D Keisuke and his FD. Takumi himself said Keisuke would beat him one day.



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One day doesn't necessarily mean "after Shinji" either.

True, but unless Takumi get a car that can rival Keisuke's FD, i don't see his chance of winning at all. The Impreza doesn't count imo.

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Nah, if they did have a rematch, I think they would treat it like the similar rematch with Ryosuke in Third Stage: no clear winner, just having fun battling each other since it would be an even match.

Keisuke can be blindingly fast, while Takumi can pull a clutch win out of nowhere. It's anybody's game.

Ah, I thought you just meant the races cause they were re-done using CG similar to what was used in Third and Fourth Stages.

Reanimating the entire series, or any sort of remake, is pretty much guaranteed to never happen since there's no money in it. I don't think they're gonna bother with a Battle Stage 3, either.

Well i kinda mean the races only. What i meant is like this, the entire first stage character animation doesn't change, maybe just remastered it a bit to HD while the full races (with the dialogues and all) would use animations and graphics from fourth or fifth stage. Wasn't Battle Stage races got shorten so they can fit the entire races from First to Third Stage ?

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This post has been edited by MonkeyWrenchd on Oct 11 2014, 05:20 PM

Yes but its only the battles so its a way for newcomers that never watched Inital D to understand the 'Hype' in some battles. Another way of saying it is that it capped 15 years of Initial D in 2 hrs.

I'm late to the party here but here are mine:

Keisuke vs Hoshino - I absolutely loved the second round of the race when Hoshina overtakes Keisuke by charging towards the Cone.

Takumi vs Bunta - Although this wasn't an official "Race" as such, but Takumi still turned it into a battle by trying to outrun the unknown opponent and the way Bunta uses the gutter run at the same time as Takumi then overtakes him and speeds off down Akina coupled with the look of shock on Takumi's face just really made it amazing.

Ryosuke vs Hojo Rin - This race seemed to pull out all the stops and it was great to see Ryosuke race again not to mention have to survive several attempts to make him crash.

Ryosuke vs Takumi
Nakazato vs Takumi
Hojo rin vs Ryosuke
mako vs takumi

For me, the best was Takumi vs Tomoyuki. The blind attack gave me chills.

Other great races:

Takumi vs Ryosuke, nearly as good as Takumi vs Tomo

Takumi vs Nakazato
Takumi vs Keisuke: the most clueless guy in the most unlikely car saving the day, really awesome
Takumi vs Wataru
Takumi vs Daiki: no one mentioned this one, but I liked it a lot. A lot of hype surrounding the Project D challenge. Daiki was a rare talent. I liked the strategy involved that exploited the arrogance of the Todou school. I wanted to see a rematch between these guys, seeing how Daiki and Smiley Sakai were following Project D around to observe them.

I liked BOTH Takumi vs Kai as well.
Takumi vs the Cappucino ( I think the driver was also named Sakai like the Todou Integra guy) was also a lot of fun to watch.

This post has been edited by eatsuki on Mar 4 2015, 07:01 PM

I agree completely. The keisuke and Kyoko race was my favourite too although the darling stuff was a bit heavy but it got the point across. ....

It had it all in that race plus I'm a huge fd fan as well...



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Takumi against both Takehashi brothers in First Stage.

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This post has been edited by Rudy on Jun 16 2015, 09:40 AM

It was definitely one of my favorite arcs in the series, and Wataru's Levin is one of my favorite cars.

Changing content around always bothers me, but it probably would have felt anticlimictic if they stuck with the original ending. Still no excuse, but that's probably why they did it.

Keisuke Vs God Foot Was Epic!!!
From from the soundtrack throughout the race (which one of my favorite songs to listen while racing is "So Fragile")...From Keisuke Giving God Foot A 7 Second Gap...God Foot With His Animated Sounds while Braking And Attacking Corners....Keisuke Catching Up to Him.....God Foot Amazing Braking During The Turn Around Point...And A High Speed Drift Battle At the End !?!? You Can't Beat That....

2nd.. It Would Be Ryosuke Vs Sudo Kyochi

3rd...Takumi Vs Tomoyuki ...Blind Attack !! Lol

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It's a shonen manga, exactly what kind of realism are we supposed to expect?

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