| LaYiN_FrAmE |
anyone here into initial d?
i usually HATE jap cartoons with a passion, but i stumbled upon this series called initial d. its about street racers in japan - mountain passes with some pretty insane drift action.
its hard to find here on video/dvd so i just download the episodes individually. well worth it
heres a pic of a race taken from the series
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| VerbotenZ34 |
Thanks for the heads up, but I think you're preaching to the choir here! Anyone else want to chime in with their love for Initial D,....? :)
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| ChromeDragon |
| I've had every episode for well over a year now. Started watching it before I even joined this site......somewhat inspired me to pick up my current ride.:D |
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| PraxRX7 |
stage 4 series coming out, I heard last year it was airing February 18th in Japan, but then I heard April 15th from my fan-sub group friend.
Stage 4!!!!!!!! Bunta racing Takumi with his WRX.! |
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| JDC™ |
| you can find alot of dvds at hmw or comic stores |
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| LaYiN_FrAmE |
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Originally posted by VerbotenZ34
Thanks for the heads up, but I think you're preaching to the choir here! Anyone else want to chime in with their love for Initial D,....? :)
Verboten
hehe i didnt see any posts here about it so i thought i may as well :P
im on a couple of american sites and if i speak about drift they are all like "wtf is drift? whats that got to do with cars?"
it saddens me :'(
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| DeathBy240 |
| What is drifting anyway? Is that like when you can't hold a job so you keep "drifting" to other jobs/towns to stay employed? |
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| ChromeDragon |
| Homeless people drift with their dogs I believe. |
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| MightyMidget |
hey thats in my sig.....and Matt I need to borrow those CD's so I can burn them...I must finish watching Initial D
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| ChromeDragon |
| Just fire up Kazaa and download them dude. I don't even have all of them on cd, a bunch are still just sitting on the old comp. |
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| Anonymoose |
Well, I downloaded a few episodes and basically I made it through the opening theme and that was about it. What the hell does "Those who say 'Money can't buy my love' deserves a lariat three times" mean?!?!?!?
Iron Chef makes more sense than this. |
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| PraxRX7 |
RAVEMAN PLAYS THE BLAZ'IN BEAT!!!
lol
I have all the music cd's, awesome to go driving with =P
Some of the songs are annoying, but some of them are awesome with thier wierd techno-disco hyper-trance. haha
My favorite one is gamble rumble, or at a light when I pull up to somebody (no I don't race them) and they rev the engine, I play the Civic race song which really loudly at the beginning goes MUAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA (cool vibrations/dancin).
I love the look on thier face :bthumbup: |
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| ChromeDragon |
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Originally posted by Anonymoose
Well, I downloaded a few episodes and basically I made it through the opening theme and that was about it. What the hell does "Those who say 'Money can't buy my love' deserves a lariat three times" mean?!?!?!?
Iron Chef makes more sense than this.
That's part of the charm of watching the translated ones, the translations are freaking hilarious! I've yet to watch the dubbed ones myself, are they as good as the translated ones? |
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| VerbotenZ34 |
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Originally posted by Anonymoose
What the hell does "Those who say 'Money can't buy my love' deserves a lariat three times" mean?!?!?!?
ROFL! That's incredibly hilarious!
And Chairman Kaga rules my culinary world, man.
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| LaYiN_FrAmE |
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Originally posted by ChromeDragon
That's part of the charm of watching the translated ones, the translations are freaking hilarious! I've yet to watch the dubbed ones myself, are they as good as the translated ones?
the ones with english voices are just stupid :P
i reckon the ones with only english writing on the bottom are better, give more of a japanesey feel to it. the voice over'd ones just sound like a bunch of americans trying to act to japanese type cartoons. doesnt work :P |
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| Hick 5.0 Ford |
I have all the episodes dubbed in my compy.
And I have the first 2 DVD's.
I also play Arcade Stage. It kiks arse. I drive a Miata in it. |
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| Z3r0 |
the music from the anime is so catchy.. no matter how cheesy it gets lol. The series is still a good watch.. even after so long... arcade stage? is that the arcade game?
.... stage 4? :blue: |
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| PraxRX7 |
Yea, stage 4, Project D.
As in the manga (japanese comic) we will see Bunta styling his new WRX Impreza, we will also see the beginnings of project D, beat everyone on all the mountain courses and set unbreakable records.
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| Hick 5.0 Ford |
| THAT"S AWESOME!!!! |
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| Anonymoose |
Well, I was finally able to sit down and watch a full episode of Initial D and I'm wondering what sort of audience it played for in Japan. I'm guessing it wasn't for kids since the copies I have have profanity and seem to condone child prostitution. The copies I have give meaning to some of the terms used in the episode and one is: "Papa = Older men sometimes pay young girls to be with them. The girl ususally refers to the man as "Papa"."
This seems like fairly mature stuff, so I'm wondering if anyone knew what sort of time slot it had in Japan and if it was meant for kids or adults because Pokemon this is not. |
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| Genki |
| about a mth ago some guy was streaming all the episodes on winamp tv |
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| Craegkraft |
| I'ved DLEed a few and like it, though i find the people are sometimes awkwardly drawn. Had a few that were rotated 90 degrees so i had to get a divX coded for QT. yay initial D! love the race action though. |
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| ChromeDragon |
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Originally posted by Anonymoose
Well, I was finally able to sit down and watch a full episode of Initial D and I'm wondering what sort of audience it played for in Japan. I'm guessing it wasn't for kids since the copies I have have profanity and seem to condone child prostitution. The copies I have give meaning to some of the terms used in the episode and one is: "Papa = Older men sometimes pay young girls to be with them. The girl ususally refers to the man as "Papa"."
This seems like fairly mature stuff, so I'm wondering if anyone knew what sort of time slot it had in Japan and if it was meant for kids or adults because Pokemon this is not.
Yeah some of the content seems a little odd that it's even included in the show, but it's a completely diffferent value system over in Japan. I think that it's a bit of a culture shock no matter where you go though, Japan is just a little more extreme.
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| ChromeDragon |
| Oh also. It's quite likely that Mogi isn't actually a prostitute, she just hangs out with her "Papa" and he pays her for her time. A friend of mine was in Japan a few years back with his girlfriend and some older men offered them money just to sit with his girlfriend. It's somewhat of a status thing to be seen with a pretty white girl, much as the men in Japan prefer a young, untouched, innocent Japanese girl. This is where the school girl fetish of sorts comes from in Japan. |
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| Anonymoose |
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Originally posted by ChromeDragon
Oh also. It's quite likely that Mogi isn't actually a prostitute, she just hangs out with her "Papa" and he pays her for her time. A friend of mine was in Japan a few years back with his girlfriend and some older men offered them money just to sit with his girlfriend. It's somewhat of a status thing to be seen with a pretty white girl, much as the men in Japan prefer a young, untouched, innocent Japanese girl. This is where the school girl fetish of sorts comes from in Japan.
Well I don't know about that. In the 3rd episode there's a conversation that goes as follows:
After dirty old man offers to buy her a bathing suit.
Mogi: "It's alright. I bought myself one already. I don't need two."
Dirty old man: "I want to see you in the bathing suit."
Mogi: "That's strange. You've seen everything. You're a pervert."
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| GeoffDonk |
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Originally posted by ChromeDragon
I've had every episode for well over a year now. Started watching it before I even joined this site......somewhat inspired me to pick up my current ride.:D
You gonna paint it like the Trueno AE86?:p |
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| SplineZ |
Sounds like your on a macintosh :)
VLC or mplayer will play it no problem..
Ive had Initial D for ages. its awsome :D
James Z
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Originally posted by SaabKraft
I'ved DLEed a few and like it, though i find the people are sometimes awkwardly drawn. Had a few that were rotated 90 degrees so i had to get a divX coded for QT. yay initial D! love the race action though.
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| TheWask |
| Anyone know where to pick up a copy of the 3rd DVD? Couldn't find it anywhere. |
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| SaabKraft |
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Originally posted by SplineZ
Sounds like your on a macintosh :)
VLC or mplayer will play it no problem..
Ive had Initial D for ages. its awsome :D
James Z
i am, and it was in VLC that the files were playing vertically... divX stuffed a codec into quicktime so it's all good. having trouble getting consequtive episodes.... feel like putting them on an FTP for me ^_^ |
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| ChromeDragon |
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Originally posted by GeoffDonk
You gonna paint it like the Trueno AE86?:p
Highly doubtful. I'm assuming you mean the Panda paint scheme that Takumi is running on his car. I've contemplated doing an anti-panda scheme though. The only time I would do the panda scheme is if I was going to put the car up for sale on Ebay and wanted to get some sucker in the states to pay more. With that paint and some Watanabes the car would sell for 4-5 times what I paid for it. What can I say, many Americans are fad whores.....and this is one fad I can make some money on.:bthumbup: |
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| GeoffDonk |
| yeah, i'm talkin about the panda :D. If i had the hatch version of my car, people everywhere would be "nice toyota man!". Hell, they do already ;) |
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| lovemytrx |
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Originally posted by TheWask
Anyone know where to pick up a copy of the 3rd DVD? Couldn't find it anywhere.
You should be able to order it from your local video store.
I just ordered 3 and 4 should be here within a month I think. |
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| ChromeDragon |
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Originally posted by lovemytrx
You should be able to order it from your local video store.
I just ordered 3 and 4 should be here within a month I think.
Just got talk to our local video guy Charles ^^^ he can hook you up!:bthumbup: |
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| TheWask |
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Originally posted by lovemytrx
You should be able to order it from your local video store.
I just ordered 3 and 4 should be here within a month I think.
The usual $20? |
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| ChromeDragon |
| Not likely for that price, but talk to Charles at Ultimate Video on 167ave and 101st, maybe he'll give us board members a good deal on ordering some vids?:dunno: |
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| lovemytrx |
| No. 4 is supposed to be here March 23rd. I backordered no. 3. |
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| ChromeDragon |
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Baron Baptiste: Power Yoga Level 1 - The Initial Challenge
ooooh! This looks GOOD!:blink: |
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| Anonymoose |
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Originally posted by lovemytrx
How much is shipping usually?
$4.94 for shipping dvd and if purchase is over $45 then shipping is free.
Not too shabby.
Actually I think if its over $39 then shipping is free. But thats only applicable if you choose for it to go through regular UPS so it takes about 4 or 5 days and you can track it. |
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