Hey All! I took a break from making videos and now I feel like I forgot that I invested money into crypto and came back to it multiplied. Thank you for all the love! I'm happy to see that you're enjoying the videos, and I think it's high time I started making them again.
In the meantime - you can familiarize yourselves with me and some of the car things I've done in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Y5JiKFyZo

“A car is just a big murder weapon. If you understand that, then you won’t die.” My favorite concept from this series

This anime literally gave me the idea to tear down the engine on one of my cars and rebuild it as a way to learn and get into cars. Do I regret it? No. Am I crazy? Yes.

The 2 stories that impact me the most was the guy who bought the GTR right before his baby was born and the kid with the Silver Supra. Especially the Silver Supra kid, he was stuck in time while everyone else was moving forward with their lives.

Hiramoto's Story arc.That's the story arc that define Wangan Midnight for me
Initial D characters "just" have their cars. While Wangan Midnight characters have a job or struggle to afford their cars.

This anime is honestly so amazing to me. It's inspired me to have a dream of being like Akio and racing above 240 KM/H. But at the same time the anime still shows the risks and consequences of being a street racer.. (unlike initial D which never really showed that)... It's an amazing story and I have to see how being a real highway racer like Akio can work out...

For me Initial D was about technique while Wangan midnight was about tunning

I think it is the devil mechanic who says something like "it's not a matter of winning of loosing, is just some will stick around, and some will give up". Really nice series

Dude car enthusiast for life. No girlfriends needed, no family, just living the dream till I die.

2:12 love how he puts the audio over his talking. Not a bad thing I think it is good

This anime gave me the push I need to buy the old mk4 supra that had been sitting in the garage of an old man for 7 years.

That's been 3 years ago. 2 hours ago if been in the road with it. At 325 kmh.

Thank you wangan midnight.
You made me work towards my dream.

I really enjoyed it personally however something that really bothered me is that half the characters looked the same

when watching Wangan Midnight there were a couple times where I genuinely cried when experiencing the stories of the various characters, I can't say the same for Initial D. as good as Initial D is it doesn't capture the sense of spiritual fulfillment that myself and many others experience when given the opportunity to truly go flat out in a car, even with the driver's "auras" that show up from time to time that's more of a representation of the driver's skill rather than their emotions. In Wangan Midnight though we never see it visually we can feel the connection between Akio and the Devil Z as if the car has it's own personality, and in seeing the arks and backstories of the secondary characters we get to see that the spiritual fulfillment gained through speed is often a trade off it never comes without cost to some other aspect of your life. Initial D may be more popular and have more intense battles but Wangan Midnight in my opinion has a more interesting story, Initial D is an underdog story about the path to becoming a legend, but Wangan Midnight is a character study about the passion many feel towards cars and weather or not it's worth it for an individual to peruse that passion.


this random comment is better than any thesis I've ever had to write for a class and it's about a somewhat obscure street racing anime and I will gain nothing for having written it.

My favourite arc was R200 Club and Kuroki Takayuki, the only opponent who chose to remain a Wangan racer despite all circumstances. He and his R33 GT-R were the most powerful opponents - Akio admitted a draw, and Dr. Shima admitted defeat.


Kuroki's love story with Mika Murakami is quite adorable too. It is good that he is not a lonely driver anymore. Lonely Drivers Need Girlfriends. :)

This is just a philosophical anime dressed up with highway racing.



I still love this series regardless :>

You didn't even mention how it portrays the idea of a car being more than just a machine, more than the sum of it's parts. The idea that the car has a soul. That was the first thing that made my like Wangan Midnight more than Initial D, that it showed not just the life of the driver, but also the driver's feelings towards his car. Akio rebuilt the engine in a garage, we saw the care and dedication he puts into it. It's not just a car, not just as soulless appliance to get from a to b, it's got it's own personality and quirks that give it character and endear the driver to it.

@2:30 "the gay couple in the miata"

"cars wont make you happy" just came out from gears and gasoline

This anime inspired me a lot in building the car I have now. I put everything into it and I know have a 600-800hp single turbo BMW 335i 6spd manual, theoretically capable of 200mph (although it needs more work to be stable at that speed). Everything about this anime and roll racing is why I built my car the way I have, wanting to be like akio

The Devil Z is a representation of their passion for cars and speed, is basically the whole premise of each arc and the whole show.