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Wangan Midnight (TV)

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[ adapted from Wangan Midnight (manga) ]

Alternative title:
湾岸MIDNIGHT [ミッドナイト] (Japanese)
Genres: drama, tournament
Themes: auto racing
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: After losing a street race to Tatsuya Shima's legendary "Blackbird" Porsche 911 Turbo, high school student Akio Asakura purchases a heavily-modified first-generation Datsun S30 Fairlady Z from a junkyard. The car has a dark history of accidents, leading some to believe it's cursed; hence its nickname "Devil Z." Akio also discovers that the Z's first owner shared his first and last name, and was killed in the car during a race with the Blackbird. Meanwhile, fashion model Reina Akikawa joins the rivalry between Akio and Tatsuya with her modified Nissan Skyline GT-R R32.
User Ratings: 57 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Excellent: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
 Very good: 13 votes (sub:12, raw:1)
 Good: 13 votes (sub:11, dub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 7 votes (sub:6, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:5, ?:1)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 166 users, rank: #1899
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.895 (Good-.10), std. dev.: 1.9074, rank: #1900
Weighted mean: 6.788 (Good-.21), rank: #1936 (seen all: 7.42 / seen some: 6.22 / won't finish: 3.57)
Bayesian estimate: 6.896 (Good-.10), rank: #1545
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 2007-06-09
Opening Theme:
"Lights and Any More" by TRF
Ending Theme:
"Talkin' bout good days" by Mother Ninja
Trivia: We have 4
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Tsuneo Tominaga

Series Composition: Nobuaki Kishima

Screenplay: Nobuaki Kishima

Music: Atsushi Umebori

Original creator: Michiharu Kusunoki

Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa

Art director: Michiko Morokuma

Mechanical design: Hideaki Yokoi

3D Director: Kanemori Yasuda

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Masaki Nakamura

Executive producer: Ren Usami

Art Setting: Satoru Kuwabara

Color setting: Michiyo Iriomote

Editing: Shinji Kobukata

Editorial Supervision: Keiichi Tsuchiya (Hot Version Editorial Dept.)

Theme Song Performance:
Mother Ninja (ED)
TRF

 

Reiko Suhou as Reina Akikawa

Shinichiro Miki as Tatsuya Shima

Shun Oguri as Akio Asakura

Akimitsu Takase as Takayuki Kuroki

Anri Katsu as Ko-chan

Daisuke Matsuo as Ryoichi Teizuka

Daisuke Namikawa as Koichi Hiramoto (eps 7-10)

Fumihiko Tachiki as Yuichi Takagi

Gô Shinomiya as Yasuo Motoki (eps 15-16)

Jin Horikawa as Koichi Kijima

Junichi Suwabe as Yoshiaki Ishida

Kenichi Suzumura as Keiichiro Aizawa (eps 11-14)

Kenji Takahashi as Gen Sasaki (Gatchan)

Kenta Miyake as Jun Kitami

Kiyoshi Katsunuma as Kazuo Ota

Kiyotaka Furushima as Ma

Mami Higashiyama as Mika Murakami (eps 16-19)

Mamiko Noto as Eriko Asakura

Mitsuru Miyamoto as Eiji Kamiya

Rie Tanaka as Rikako Ota

Sanae Kobayashi as Rumi Shimida 

Shinya Fukumatsu as Jun Sonoda

Susumu Chiba as Kou Tominaga

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Maki Kamiya

Tomoyuki Shimura as Kazuhiko Yamamoto

Tsubasa Yonaga as Harada (eps 7-10)

Gô Shinomiya as student (eps 4-5)

Hinako Sasaki as student (ep 4)

Hirakazu Shibayama as office chef (ep 4)

Keiji Fujiwara as Machida

Kenji Takahashi as GT-R driver (ep 4)

Kouji Ishii as Hayashi

Kouzou Mito as Yamanaka

Naoya Nakanishi as
Cameraman (ep 3)
friend (ep 4)

Tadahisa Saizen as Shige Inada (ep 19)

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Koichi Aizawa

Tomo Adachi as student (ep 4)

Tomokazu Seki as Akio Asakura (dead)

Tomoko Kawakami as Megumi Hiramoto

Yoko Nishino as student (eps 4-5)

Yuuto Kazama as Yasuhiko Miki

Japanese companies 

3D CG: Pastel

Animation Production: A.C.G.T.

Broadcaster:
Animax (2007-06-08)
SKY PerfecTV! (2007-06-15)

DVD Distribution: Geneon Entertainment, Inc.

Music Production: Avex, Inc.

Production: OB Planning

 
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