New Initial D the Movie: Legend 1 - Awakening

Original title: Shingekijouban Inisharu D: Legend 1 - Kakusei

2014
TV-14
1h 2m

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New Initial D the Movie: Legend 1 - Awakening (2014)

The first part of a trilogy depicting Takumi Fujiwara's rise from delivery boy to Mt. Akin's downhill racing legend, focusing on the battles against the Takahashi brothers.The first part of a trilogy depicting Takumi Fujiwara's rise from delivery boy to Mt. Akin's downhill racing legend, focusing on the battles against the Takahashi brothers.The first part of a trilogy depicting Takumi Fujiwara's rise from delivery boy to Mt. Akin's downhill racing legend, focusing on the battles against the Takahashi brothers.

Director
- Masamitsu Hidaka
Writers
- Shuichi Shigeno
- Mayori Sekijima
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7.2/10

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Director
- Masamitsu Hidaka
Writers
- Shuichi Shigeno
- Mayori Sekijima
Stars

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Joel McDonald

Takumi
(voice)

Eric Vale

Iketani
(voice)

Gray G. Haddock

Keisuke
(voice)

Jessie James Grelle

Itsuki
(voice)
(as Josh Grelle)

Brina Palencia

Natsuki
(voice)

Charles C. Campbell

Tachibana
(voice)
(as Charles Campbell)

Bill Wise

Bunta
(voice)

Christopher Bevins

Kenji
(voice)

Nate Davis

Mamoru
(voice)

J.D. Schmidt

Shigeru
(voice)
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J. Michael Tatum

Fumihiro
(voice)

Michael Federico

Fumihiro
(voice)

Brian Mountbatten

Nakazato
(voice)

Jeff Collins

Kenta
(voice)

Amber Marie Flores

Mako
(voice)

Ethan Gallardo

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Alex Sanchez

Additional Voices
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Adrienne Branz

Additional Voices
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Director
- Masamitsu Hidaka
Writers
- Shuichi Shigeno
- Mayori Sekijima
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Followed by New Initial D the Movie: Legend 2 - Racer (2015)

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3/10

Not as good as the original anime

Yes, the drawings are cleaner, and they skipped some annoying parts in the story of the first anime, but they skipped too much :

The characters fellings are not developped.

Lot of character backgrounds have been skipped.

You don't see any relationship between Takumi and his father.

The technical parts about the engines, the cars improvements, the driving techniques have been reduced to the minimum.

You don't see how they improve the cars.

You don't feel the same excitement during races. Is it animation ? The lack of details of what makes a difference between the pilots ? They really seems they have skipped the best parts of each race.

Music and sound treatment isn't as good as the original.

I was disapointed. I would really recomand to watch the original animation if you have never watched it. Even if the drawing style seems a bit odd and old.