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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A new twist is added as a female drift champ steals the show, September 5, 2004
The sixth volume of this consistently satisfying anime series about downhill mountain road racing in Japan introduces a female racer, Mako Sato, who has mastered downhill "drifting" on Usui Pass and challenges our hero, Takumi, to a race on her home turf. Poor Iketani, who'd managed to get the beautiful Mako's phone number when he'd helped her out at the end of Vol. 5, feels he's been used and even tries to get Tak to back out, but once Tak's mind is made up, that's it.
What's interesting here is the attention to the female characters, Mako and her partner, Sayuki, who always rides with Mako as she races and helps her navigate obstacles and particular turns. The two have a remarkable discussion of strategy as they sit and drink together at an outdoor café with the candlelight flickering on their faces on the night before the big race. Despite the presence in the earlier volumes of two other female characters (neither of whom makes an appearance here), this is the most attention to women yet seen in this series and it's most welcome. The actual race doesn't start till the end of episode 17 and continues through all of episode 18, so don't expect anything but a cliffhanger ending for this volume. It's times like this that make us beg for four episodes on a disc, as opposed to the standard three we get with this series.
The look of the series keeps getting better and better with each volume. Here the character design of the faces is stronger, more detailed, and more expressive. Meanwhile, the 3-D look of the cars and some of the backgrounds in the race scenes is blending more and more with the 2-D look of the rest of the production, achieving an integration of the two modes that wasn't so evident in the early episodes.
The music, at least as heard on the "Eurobeat"-heavy Japanese track provided on the "Classic" version, is as varied and exciting as that on any of the previous volumes. One of the songs featured during the race, "May Be Tonite," appears on the "Initial D: Vocal Battle" CD. I should remind fans that this music is not heard in the "Tricked Out" (English track) version.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Asphalt Angels, September 7, 2005
*Excellent well recommended Animated series for all you Drift fans out there.
This Dvd features Tack's legendary AE86 of Akina against the mighty and powerful Nissan Sil80 at mount Usei.*
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
forget anything TOKYOPOP brings..., September 3, 2005
TOKYOPOP doesn't know anime and transform it into uglyness (change score, characters' names, cut scenes, etc...). Pioneer at least keep the original score and characters' names for their animes.
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