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Nomake Wan | Posted: May 10 2013, 08:26 PM | ||
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That's exactly my point--I believe the answer to this is a resounding 'no'. I would rather have waited another six years and gotten something at least up to the level of previous series than accept this. | ||
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eatsuki | Posted: May 10 2013, 08:30 PM | ||||
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Wow, you remember all those /spoiler details from memory? You got some Ryosuke in you good stuff The Sakai vs Keisuke race that was glossed over in 4th stage was indeed a loss. That race was good. "Is Fifth Stage the best stage ever made? No way, but it is better than nothing, and better than waiting because even if we waited, there'd be no guarantee that we would get "better" quality." I agree 100% with this. They already set a poverty budget for Fifth Stage. I have a feeling that even if the manga was 10 chapters ahead of where it is now, they would still cram those 10 chapters in 1 episode then call it quits XD | ||||
Tessou | Posted: May 10 2013, 08:37 PM |
More NEGATIVE than a black hole Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 19,345 Member No.: 12,263 Joined: Sep 12th 2005 Location: Update Profile | Somebody reported this thread for language of all things. Profanity has always been allowed on IDW so long as it's not used against another member. Even with the censors in place (which have been removed for years), getting past them was not hard and members were not warned for doing so. For instance: This season of Initial D is total shit. ACCEPTABLE You are a piece of shit. UNACCEPTABLE! WARNING IMMINENT! |
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pingu86 | Posted: May 10 2013, 08:44 PM |
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soursalem | Posted: May 10 2013, 09:01 PM | ||
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yes yes; I think this means OVA or movie that shows that race and the ending exclusively. | ||
pimenta59 | Posted: May 10 2013, 09:21 PM |
IDW Full Member Group: Members Posts: 43 Member No.: 40,072 Joined: Jan 11th 2013 Location: Olinda, Pernambuco - Brazil | Well, while waiting for the last episodes, I was re-watching all of initial D stages, even the extras. Fifth stage quality is indeed lower than previous stages, but, for me, the worst is that I had to wait a month for a pair of episodes, and these episodes, when they started to build up the tension, getting me fired up, they ended. And then…a month of cooldown. That, for me, sucks. I should have waited for ALL of fifth stage to come out, so I could watch ALL of em at once, and not bit by bit. My mistake. Since Initial D is ending, I have a bit of regret that fifth stage wasn't as good as fourth stage, not even close. The only race I am really eager to see, is Takumi vs Shinji AE86 battle, but that won't happen, for now. But, stuff gotta end someday. (Except Oil: Oil doesn't have to end, and even if it does, there is still alcohol (etanol) and biodiesel to burn). |
Akagi's White Comet | Posted: May 10 2013, 10:40 PM | ||
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beardRage | Posted: May 10 2013, 11:22 PM |
Shmuck Group: Members Posts: 7 Member No.: 41,114 Joined: Apr 15th 2013 Location: Update Profile | Fifth Stage has basically been a crap Extra Stage. I would have gladly waited a while longer to get something along the lines of earlier stages. I'm hoping for a good OVA at least. Maybe if we're insanely lucky they will redo Fifth Stage, kinda like FMA Brotherhood or Helsing Ultimate. |
Team Evolution | Posted: May 11 2013, 01:42 AM |
IDW Jr. Member Group: Members Posts: 61 Member No.: 15,656 Joined: Jan 29th 2006 Location: Austria | It should be called Loser Stage... Initial D whas really one of the best Anime but with stage 5 it did fall in to an deep hole. Story whas low, animations whas most low, and the ending whas just plain crap and this comes from an real fan who is very dissapointed and down. Gladly we have still stage 1 to 4 to rewatch |
mike962 | Posted: May 11 2013, 03:16 AM |
IDW Supremo Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 799 Member No.: 29,885 Joined: Jun 24th 2008 Location: Update Profile | WOW the fires of hatred are on whole new level here you should all hope for a Stage 6 OVA with better production values or it all ends on a cliffhanger This post has been edited by mike962 on May 11 2013, 03:17 AM |
Tessou | Posted: May 11 2013, 05:04 AM |
More NEGATIVE than a black hole Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 19,345 Member No.: 12,263 Joined: Sep 12th 2005 Location: Update Profile | We can hope, sure, but that doesn't mean it will be good. If the company handling it put this amount of care into Fifth Stage, what makes you think they'll put any more effort into a sequel? More does not always mean better. Initial D is running into a classic problem faced by long-running series', in that over time, the production company starts to lose interest. Many series' have fallen victim to it and fallen into obscurity. Big O, Rurouni Kenshin, Dragonball GT, YuYu Hakusho, and especially School Rumble's absolutely horrendous Third Semester OVA. Right now I feel like we should just let it die. Yeah, a movie or OVA is probably in the works at the moment, but I wouldn't hedge bets that it will be up to the same standards of anything before it. |
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eatsuki | Posted: May 11 2013, 05:50 AM | ||||
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I may be looking at it through rose-tinted glasses, but I think the episodes starting from 9-10
Maybe what happened was: They offered a low budget for a full season of anime. The established Japanese studios that worked on Stage 1,2,3,4 refused to work for so little money. So a studio with less experienced workers got the contract for Stage 5th. As the episodes went along, they improved a bit. So maybe in a next anime season, we can expect better episodes from the start? | ||||
Tessou | Posted: May 11 2013, 07:33 AM |
More NEGATIVE than a black hole Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 19,345 Member No.: 12,263 Joined: Sep 12th 2005 Location: Update Profile | It does stink heavily of "we need to roll this season out ASAP since the fans are complaining". There is little evidence that anybody put any sort of love or care into Fifth Stage. Everything about it is just hideous. |
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KngsTunYaardy316 | Posted: May 11 2013, 08:31 AM | ||||
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I agree with just about everything you've said. Stage 1 is the main stage I've watched repetitively due its the real world application. That's what made watching it so addictive- well for me at least.
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Aradiel | Posted: May 11 2013, 08:58 AM |
IDW Member Group: Members Posts: 11 Member No.: 38,958 Joined: Sep 5th 2012 Location: Update Profile | Considering how the manga ended, and how many eps were left, I think we all knew how Fifth Stage was going to end. I'm not going to say it was the best season, but I personally enjoyed it. |
Yengeto | Posted: May 11 2013, 09:01 AM | ||
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lynk26 | Posted: May 11 2013, 09:14 AM | ||
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The thing is that Fifth Stage's pace really couldn't have gone any other way. There weren't many side stories or fillers in the manga anyway, they mostly focused on the races in the manga as well. Most of the anime races were accurate in the sense that they got the main point of the race (my only gripe would be for the Takumi vs Kai race, that one really should have been a braking battle that they could have expanded more on). Could they have prolonged the races? I guess. However, that's still just a workaround of the main problem, that they simply had very little material to work with. You could wait another five, ten, fifteen years, fact of the matter is that since Fifth Stage had no substance to begin with, the quality wouldn't be any better had we waited. Like I said before, I'm not saying that Fifth Stage is perfect and the best out of all of them. It's far from that. I'm just stating that the pace in the manga was this quick as well. The only difference is that because the manga is released slower, it feels like it takes a longer time and that you can make these races longer, but in reality when you read the manga and then take a look at the anime, you really can't do or add anything else with it. This is a matter of substance, and the other Stages had more of it in the manga, and the anime reflects it. This one didn't in either the anime or the manga, and it shows. | ||
Zwirzok | Posted: May 11 2013, 10:37 AM |
IDW Full Member Group: Members Posts: 35 Member No.: 39,649 Joined: Dec 5th 2012 Location: Poland | Shit... fifth stage can be like Extra Stage or... Third Stage... Nothing more. For me - 6/10 (nice music, better 3D graphic) |
Todo_Integra | Posted: May 11 2013, 11:20 AM | ||
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fuji_tak | Posted: May 11 2013, 11:41 AM | ||
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Silfa | Posted: May 11 2013, 12:09 PM | ||
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Nik026 | Posted: May 11 2013, 07:15 PM |
IDW Full Member Group: Members Posts: 41 Member No.: 38,855 Joined: Aug 11th 2012 Location: Québec, canada | what was the song playing in Ep. 14 at the beginning of the second part? This post has been edited by Nik026 on May 11 2013, 07:16 PM |
Sephitrask | Posted: May 11 2013, 07:25 PM |
Shmuck Group: Members Posts: 1 Member No.: 39,219 Joined: Nov 6th 2012 Location: Update Profile | Being that I am a rotard, the Animation at 16:01 in episode 14 was absolutely one of the coolest things I have ever seen in a cartoon. I stopped and rewound it several times. Badass. |
RIT_ninja | Posted: May 11 2013, 07:31 PM |
ざけんなよ! Group: Advanced Members Posts: 708 Member No.: 13,218 Joined: Oct 2nd 2005 Location: 愛知県 | I felt like 4th stage had a bigger budget, plus the directors for 4th stage Tsuneo Tominaga did a whole lot better job than Mitsuo Hashimoto (Fifth stage director) Tsuneo did a bunch of A-list anime like Cardcaptor, Cyber Formula (Futuristic F1 anime), Naruto, Shuffle, and Wangan Midnight just to name a few Mitsuo did A-list (perhaps S-list) anime too but has less experience under his belt when it comes to racing anime genre. Some of his work: Beyblade, all Dragonball series, and Galaxy Angel Maybe Mitsuo's style just doesn't fit Initial D or the budget just doesn't suit him enough to turn Initial D into long series like DBZ lol |
Nomake Wan | Posted: May 11 2013, 07:36 PM | ||
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You mean the exact same animation that's been in the opening since episode 1? | ||
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