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• Actors: Steve Blum, Shinichirô Miki, Unshô Ishizuka, Mitsuo Iwata, Takehito Koyasu
• Directors: Masami Hata, Noboru Mitsusawa
• Writers: Hiroshi Toda, Nobuaki Kishima, Shuichi Shigeno
• Producers: Stuart J. Levy
• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Tokyopop Pictures
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000255JDG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #102,909 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Episodes 19 - 21

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love story..........Cole & Maya, July 13, 2004

By	Evil Boy Genius "A Reviewer" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This battle 7 (esp 19-21) DVD starting out is the conclusion of the Mt. Usui race which tak vs Mako (Sil-80). Cole find the picture of Ry (Top driver of Gunma) in Maya wallet that she admires him very much. Cole then decide to break a date with Maya because of his jealousy but then decide to meet and race to her at last miniutes. Finally, Gunma top racing star Ry decided to challenge Tak for the utimate race at Akina....which will not happen until the very end of episode 24. Episode 26 is nothing but songs and some race scenes from previous races....I think!

This is the first stage of the fourth stages of the entire series.... which are not over yet. "Stage 1" have 26 episodes. I think Tokyopop will combine Stage 1 & 2 together. So, there will be 13 battle DVDs that you need to buy.
"Stage 2" has 13 episodes (Meet a new team name Evolution and Tak starting to race at opponents?? courts more often now. Also, a love story of Tak And Natsukiand continues.... Iggy make friend with a new out of town girl. Tak find out the dark secret that Natsuki has been hidden from him.
"Stage 3" is the movie. Continuing a love story between Tak and Natsuki, also some battles take place. Ry ask Tak to join his new team called "Project D" and hope to conquer all the mountains in Japan
"Stage 4 (Project D)" is being air on Japan right now and DVD vol. 1 and 2, which contain 2 episodes on each volume, is out. Tak will be the downhill and K.T will be the uphill specialist for this project. Stage 4 I heard has 14 episodes and there might be "Stage 5" and is going to be a movie. I can't until next year to get "Stage 4" DVD because I don't want to get volume by volume, hopefully they will put all the episodes into one package.

I would recommend everyone to watch the Japanese dialog track because the character voices and the music are ways better than the dub version. If you have to watch the dub version, switch over to Japan version whenever they race. You will know what I mean the differences in car audio sound and music from the dub version.

Natsuki has a dark secret and you guys will know in "Stage 2" series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars forget anything TOKYOPOP brings..., September 2, 2005

By	H-F H "ghettohf" (Canada) - See all my reviews

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.

4.0 out of 5 stars The story was getting interesting until.........., April 1, 2005

By	Dennis Jiang "Evilcon-114" (Visalia, California USA) - See all my reviews

Well if you haven't figured it out who was going to win the race the you are really slow. After the race Simon asks tak out on a date, but iggy being as stupid as he is thinks that she was talking to him so he decides to invite everyone. At the waterpark it's funny to see Simon trying to hit on Tak, but whats even funnier is when Iggy and Kenji go down the water slides together. The only dissapointing part was when Cole found out that Maya had a crush on Ry takahashi, being the person that Cole is he thinks that shes out of his league. Maya tells Cole to meet him at the spot where they first met, but Cole decides that shes better off staying there alone(not really). So after his boss pounds reality into Cole he races to the spot to find out that there is a traffic jam and so there it was ladies and gentlemen the end of their relationship. In the japanese version of the anime Maya offered her virginity(believe it or not) to Cole in exchange that she gets the chance to close her carreer as a racer. We also get to see a little bit of Taks relationship growing with Natalie and she happens to find out what happend in the locker room(which was a fight in the 3rd dvd) and she decides to reward him for his actions by kissing him. Thats basically the layout for this review. Again it wasn't a bad dvd, but I just didn't like Maya getting hurt like that because I was kinda a fan of her work.