Initial D

For those of you who like buying DVD sets of TV shows, I have a recommendation. Coming soon to a Best Buy near you will be the DVD release of a Japanese animated series called Initial D. It's about the world of street racing in the mountainous regions of Japan. I was first introduced to this show a few years ago by a friend, who downloaded the first season episodes off the internet and got me semi-hooked on the plot. Later, he bought the DVD sets in Japan while vacationing there and let me and Olivia borrow them. After watching the first 2 seasons (there are only 2, plus a movie), me and Olivia became pretty big fans. The DVDs for the movie are sitting on my desk right now, so we'll probably finish that sometime soon too.

Anyways, the show has a lot of quality racing scenes with cool drifting sequences, and also is packed with all the drama, laughs, and girls with high-pitched voices and huge eyes that we all love about Japanese cartoons. Well, I'm not a big fan of all that "anime" stuff, so I mostly just like watching the races and the parts when they talk about cars. There's some sweet cars in there, like the Skyline R34, Lancer Evolution ("Lan-Evo"), RX-7, while the main character dominates everyone with a old beat up 1986 Toyota Corolla. But yeah, even though this show might not be of the caliber of 24 (which I have still yet to see a single episode of), I recommend anyone who is even mildly interested in cars to check out Initial D when it becomes available in this country.