How much of the Initial D franchise is worth watching?

How much of the Initial D franchise is worth watching?

All of it you fucking pleb.

Stage 1 is obviously the strongest, but depending on who you ask it gets notably weaker by stage 4. Still, you should watch the whole thing anyway.

none of it. you had to exist in that era to get it. you will never play the arcade game. if you watch it now all that will happen is an intense desire to buy unobtainable shitboxes.

Watch until you don't like it any more

How hard is this to get?

My NEET free time is precious desu

Yeah so you listen to the people who say "all of it you fucking pleb" and also "none of it"

Stages 1-3 are bretty gud, but the series start to fall down into mediocrity after stage 4 and 5.
Final Stage gets good again but it's up to you to find out if it's worth sitting through the dragged out seasons

Most people watch it up until the day they decide to try driving to the soundtrack.. lets just say not a lot of people finish it

initial d ends after stage 3, the rest of the anime is based on a different keisuke shounen manga

first two seasons and the movie

the rest is optional

Not sure why people dislike fourth stage so much
tagumi vs. s2k and keisuke vs. r34 spec nur are the best races in the show

First stage is fucking fantastic. Two has my favorite race. Third(movie) still good. Four is fine, watch it if you really liked everything up until this point. Fifth gets a little ass-pull-ey.
>Oh, look, he's got a super special extra speedy speed boy mode that defies all logic
Final is more fifth, but with a little better story and a conclusion.

Extra stages are optional.

Yes to keisuke, no to takumi. The s2k driver getting sick was extremely disappointing.

I liked how everyone smoked in season 1 including Ryosuke

The whole Project D shit was poorly executed, Takumi's driving stops being about outskilling his oponnent and more about dumb plot armor, it's longer than First stage with half the content since there are entire episodes where barely anything happens, and the enemy racers arent anything special compared to Mako, Shingo, Sudo or Miki.

dont inigizl c a shit

Can confirm.

It is physically impossible to drive slow to eurobeat.

ALL

Agreed.

3rd Stage is a great ending. The rest just drags and Ryosuke's past arc is the worst part of the anime by far.

yeah also D stand for dream
so lameeeeeeeee

I recently marathoned the whole thing and I liked all of it equally.

Initial D stages 1 to 3 are all you need, the ending to stage 3 feels like the true end to the series.

good for you, I really mean it

but in a rewatch, 4th stage is a pain

I WANNA DANCE

ahh... initial D toyota's glory days.

up to and including stage 3

If you enjoy it, 4th and 5th stage are decent but focus heavily on the cars/racing rather than the characters

SPEEDY SPEED BOY

well. those glory days can allways revive themself. (just put in the same kinda engine of the AE86 in it and your good too go)

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOOOWN

none, just start listening to eurobeat, because not even that could redeem this shitshow

care to elaborate?

Stage 1 is great
Others are just more of what you've seen already
Extra stage is autism

>what is FR
>what is weight