Showing the Initial D love
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petroniaWas reading volumes 27-28 of the manga last night. Dude, does not Ryousuke of all people deserve a decent night's day's sleep as well? But I suppose if he'd gone to the ryokan the upshot would've been no sleep for anybody. :0
I can't believe they sent Keisuke to deliver a beatdown by himself. Bunch of wusses! I mean okay clearly Kei was the one to get into the schoolyard fights and Ryou was the one to make sure his opponents got into "accidents" in gym class the next day (channelling the Fujis here), but you'd think Kenta would back him up at least.
I never quite know what to say about Shigeno's romantic subplots. On the one hand, he's one of the few shounen/seinen mangaka capable of creating female characters I genuinely like and sympathize with, let alone m/f drama that makes me care. On the other hand, it's always FAILED m/f drama. No 30 kisses material, only Takumi and Natsuki so much as got to first base. ....Haha see there's another similarity between Shigeno and Kuwabara Mizuna: they both like to torture their characters with gratuitous sexual frustration.
Seriously Keisuke is love, though. His lack of calculation is endearing and maddening. Maybe Kyouko will wait? After all she's unlikely to find an even more impressive specimen of boyfriend potentiality in the space of a year, her taste being picky. XD
Someone needs to write fic about Ryousuke traumatizing Keisuke out of his adolescent delinquency. (I just can't figure out how Keisuke managed to grow up not hating his brother. XD Could it be that the Takahashi parental units were intelligent enough never to say "Why can't you behave and get good grades like your brother?" No parental units are that intelligent.)
The dad team = "Purple Shadow". I'd make a joke but there's just no challenge in it anymore, as Yagami Light would say.
If not for this series I might still dislike eurobeat / happy hardcore / italodisco, and then where would we be: [folder]
I actually have about 7 CDs worth of Initial D music but some of it is archived away, none of it is on my work computer, and maybe I just hallucinate that I have the Vocal Battles because T plays them constantly when she drives. /o/ But anyhow, there's opening and ending themes and some of the first season race music (Chrissie and Bing, I command you to memorize which songs go with which race like us True Fans XD). And remixes. I spent fifteen minutes last night equalizing down the vocals on the seven-minute "Around The World" extended mix so I could pay better attention to the instrumental, which is all sort of electro-housey and not half bad when you get down to it. XD
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mitethe has some tracks from 4th Stage up. Also, squidlet has a link to an IniD live-ac movie making-of clip here. Some of the casting choices are more questionable than others; the thought of Jordan Chan portraying Sudou Kyouichi with bandanna intact fills me with way too much amusement.
I can't believe they sent Keisuke to deliver a beatdown by himself. Bunch of wusses! I mean okay clearly Kei was the one to get into the schoolyard fights and Ryou was the one to make sure his opponents got into "accidents" in gym class the next day (channelling the Fujis here), but you'd think Kenta would back him up at least.
I never quite know what to say about Shigeno's romantic subplots. On the one hand, he's one of the few shounen/seinen mangaka capable of creating female characters I genuinely like and sympathize with, let alone m/f drama that makes me care. On the other hand, it's always FAILED m/f drama. No 30 kisses material, only Takumi and Natsuki so much as got to first base. ....Haha see there's another similarity between Shigeno and Kuwabara Mizuna: they both like to torture their characters with gratuitous sexual frustration.
Seriously Keisuke is love, though. His lack of calculation is endearing and maddening. Maybe Kyouko will wait? After all she's unlikely to find an even more impressive specimen of boyfriend potentiality in the space of a year, her taste being picky. XD
Someone needs to write fic about Ryousuke traumatizing Keisuke out of his adolescent delinquency. (I just can't figure out how Keisuke managed to grow up not hating his brother. XD Could it be that the Takahashi parental units were intelligent enough never to say "Why can't you behave and get good grades like your brother?" No parental units are that intelligent.)
The dad team = "Purple Shadow". I'd make a joke but there's just no challenge in it anymore, as Yagami Light would say.
If not for this series I might still dislike eurobeat / happy hardcore / italodisco, and then where would we be: [folder]
I actually have about 7 CDs worth of Initial D music but some of it is archived away, none of it is on my work computer, and maybe I just hallucinate that I have the Vocal Battles because T plays them constantly when she drives. /o/ But anyhow, there's opening and ending themes and some of the first season race music (Chrissie and Bing, I command you to memorize which songs go with which race like us True Fans XD). And remixes. I spent fifteen minutes last night equalizing down the vocals on the seven-minute "Around The World" extended mix so I could pay better attention to the instrumental, which is all sort of electro-housey and not half bad when you get down to it. XD
mitethe has some tracks from 4th Stage up. Also, squidlet has a link to an IniD live-ac movie making-of clip here. Some of the casting choices are more questionable than others; the thought of Jordan Chan portraying Sudou Kyouichi with bandanna intact fills me with way too much amusement.
