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Initial D: Final Stage (TV)

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Alternative title:
頭文字[イニシャル]D Final Stage (Japanese)
Genres: tournament
Themes: auto racing, sports
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Takumi and Keisuke of the gifted mountain racing team, Project D, face their toughest opponents yet as they race to conquer the Kanegawa area's finest racers and mountain roads. Takumi faces a young prodigy who drives a very familiar car.
User Ratings: 111 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 11 votes (sub:10, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Excellent: 25 votes (sub:22, others:3
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Very good: 29 votes (sub:26, dub:2, others:1
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 24 votes (sub:21, dub:1, ?:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 13 votes (sub:11, raw:1, dub:1)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 185 users, rank: #4113 (of 10152)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.694 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.4874, rank: #1323 (of 10321)
Weighted mean: 7.722 (Very good−), rank: #1154 (of 10321) (seen all: 7.72)
Bayesian estimate: 7.696 (Very good−), rank: #917 (of 7760)
Running time: 27 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 4
Episode titles: We have 4
Vintage: 2014-05-16 to 2014-06-22
Opening Theme:
"Outsoar the Rainbow" by m.o.v.e
Ending Theme:
"Day" by m.o.v.e 
"Gamble Rumble" by m.o.v.e (eps 1-3)
"Rage your Dream" by m.o.v.e (ep 4)
Insert song:
"1 Fire" by Dave Rodgers (ep 3)
"Adrenaline" by Ace (ep 4)
"Crazy Little Love" by Nuage (ep 4)
"Dancing on the Street" by David Dima (ep 1)
"Days" by m.o.v.e (ep 4)
"Flash Light" by Igoda (ep 3)
"Magic Sunday" by Dave Rodgers featuring Futura (ep 2)
"Strike On" by m.o.v.e (ep 3)
"The Jungle is on Fire" by J-Stark (ep 2)
"Wild Bad Boy Love" by Joe Banana (ep 4)
Official website:
頭文字[イニシャル]D Final Stage (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
News: Show:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Storyboard:
Mitsuo Hashimoto (eps 2, 4)
Naruse Takahashi (eps 1, 3)
Unit Director:
Osamu Sekita (eps 2, 4)
Taiki Nishimura (eps 1, 3)
Original creator: Shūichi Shigeno
Character Design: Masaki Satō
Animation Director:
Junko Nakamura (eps 2, 4)
Mariko Aoki (eps 1, 3)
Toshiyuki Komaru (eps 2, 4)
Yōsuke Kikuchi (ep 4)
Mechanical design: Hideaki Yokoi
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
Cgi Director: Kanemori Yasuda
Director of Photography: Shinji Ikegami
Producer: Kayo Fukuda

3DCG Composite: Mayumi Kaneko (eps 1-4)
3DCG Cooperation:
Hiroaki Ōsawa (Shiitake Digital; eps 1, 3)
Hitomi Matsuura (Uzupiyo Graphics; ep 4)
Kairi Tsuguyama (Polygon Drill; ep 4)
Kazuya Ichikawa (Domerica; ep 2)
Kenji Nakao (Polygon Drill; ep 4)
Kunio Mogi (Amga; ep 4)
Kurumi Sakamoto (Domerica; ep 2)
Masanori Suberakashi (Polygon Drill; ep 4)
Nahomi Nishio (Domerica; ep 2)
Naoki Ogita (Shiitake Digital; eps 1, 3)
Rie Takahashi (Domerica; ep 2)
Ryosuke Terada (Domerica; ep 2)
Ryota Maejima (Shiitake Digital; eps 1, 3)
Takayuki Itō (Uzupiyo Graphics; ep 4)
Takuma Kaneko (Domerica; ep 2)
Yasushi Hattori (Amga; ep 4)
Yue Mao (Shiitake Digital; eps 1, 3)
Yuka Hirono (Uzupiyo Graphics; ep 4)
3DCG Designer:
Ryō Kunoki (eps 1-4)
Ryosuke Nishiyama (eps 1-4)
Yūma Chiba (eps 1-4)
3DCG Modeling Cooperation:
Hiroyuki Uzawa (eps 1, 4)
Kairi Tsuguyama (eps 1-4)
3DCG Producer: Masaaki Yoshizawa
3DCG Production Advancement: Yukiko Shiroto
Assistant Animation Director:
Hironobu Saitō (ep 1)
Mizuki Aoba (ep 3)
Insert Song Performance:
Ace (Adrenaline; ep 4)
Dave Rodgers (Magic Sunday, 1 Fire; eps 2-3)
David Dima (Dancing on the Street; ep 1)
Futura (Magic Sunday; ep 2)
Igoda
J-Stark (The Jungle is On Fire; ep 3)
Joe Banana (Wild Boy Bad Love; ep 4)
Move (Strike On, Days; eps 3-4)
Nuage (Crazy Little Love; ep 4)
Key Animation:
Airi Haryū (ep 4)
Akiko Mori (eps 2, 4)
Hideaki Yokoi (eps 1-4)
Hiroshi Kuri (ep 3)
Junko Funatsuka (eps 2, 4)
Keiko Mitoma (eps 1, 3)
Kumi Suzuki (ep 4)
Makoto Nakazawa (ep 4)
Masaki Hosoyama (eps 1, 3)
Masaki Kudō (eps 1, 3)
Mayumi Watanabe (渡辺まゆみ; eps 2, 4)
Satoru Kusuda (ep 1)
Shōko Hagiwara (eps 2, 4)
Takeshi Moriyama (ep 1)
Yayoi Takano (ep 2)
Yoshiaki Kubokawa (eps 2, 4)
Yoshie Matsumoto (ep 4)
Yōsuke Kikuchi (ep 4)
Planning: Ryuuzou Shouji
Theme Song Performance: m.o.v.e
Shinichirō Miki as Takumi Fujiwara
Takehito Koyasu as Ryousuke Takahashi
Tomokazu Seki as Keisuke Takahashi

Atsushi Abe as Shinji Inui
Hidenobu Kiuchi as Gō Hōjō
Kazuki Yao as Kōichirō Iketani
Kinryū Arimoto as Ken Kogashiwa 
Kōsuke Okano as Kenta Nakamura (ep 4)
Mitsuo Iwata as Itsuki Takeuchi
Osamu Hosoi as Fumihiro
Saori Hayami as Mika Uehara (eps 1, 4)
Unshō Ishizuka as Bunta Fujiwara (eps 1, 4)
Wataru Takagi as Kenji
Yasuyuki Kase as Eiji Kubo
Yuuka Hirose as Shinji's Mother

Akimitsu Takase as Smiley Sakai (ep 2)
Aya Endō as Kaori (ep 4)
Daichi Endō as Tomoyuki Tachi (ep 2)
Hiroki Tōchi as Satoshi Omiya (ep 2)
Katsuyuki Konishi as Hideo Minagawa (ep 3)
Kazuhisa Kawahara as Seiji Iwaki (ep 2)
Kazuya Nakai as Ryuji Ikeda
Keiji Fujiwara as Shingo Shoji (ep 1)
Kenji Hamada as Kobayakawa (ep 2)
Kōsuke Okano as Junichi Sakamoto
Masahiko Tanaka as Kyoichi Sudo (ep 2)
Michiko Neya as Mako Satou
Nobutoshi Canna as Kai Kogashiwa (ep 3)
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Takeshi Nakazato (ep 1)
Rintarō Nishi as Shuichi Matsumoto (ep 4)
Ryōkichi Takahashi as
Man (ep 2)
Tomiguchi (ep 4)
Shūhei Sakaguchi as Hiroya Okuyama
Tomomichi Nishimura as Yuichi Tachibana (ep 4)
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Daiki Ninomiya (ep 2)
Yūichi Nakamura as Rin Hōjō
Yumi Kakazu as Sayuki
Yūya Murakami as Mika 's father (ep 1)
Japanese companies
3DCG Cooperation:
AMGA (ep 4)
Domerica (ep 2)
Polygon Drill (ep 4)
Shiitake Digital (eps 1, 3)
uzupiyo Animation & Digital Works (ep 4)
Animation Production: SynergySP
Animation Production Assistance: Office Take Off
Composite: Studio Cosmos
In-Between Animation:
Core
Densō-ya TAP
M.S.J Musashino Production
Mabus Animation
office DCI
UFG
Key Animation:
Core
Densō-ya TAP
Mabus Animation
Music Cooperation: Avex Group
Music Production: REN
Music Production Cooperation: Legato Music
Production:
Kodansha 
Wedge Link
special effects: Studio Cosmos
French cast
French staff
François Creton as Keisuke Takahashi
Jochen Haegele as Ryôsuke Takahashi
Yann Pichon as Takumi Fujiwara

Adrien Solis as Shinji Inui
Alan Aubert as Itsuki Takeuchi
Alexandre Coadour as Gô Hôjo
Charles Mendiant as Kenji
Christophe Seugnet as Kai Kogashiwa
Frédéric Souterelle as Bunta Fujiwara
Jean-Marco Montalto as Koichirô Iketani
Jean-Pierre Leblan as Hiroshi Fumihiro
Sophie Planet as Mika Uehara

Adrien Solis as Shuichi Matsumoto
Charles Mendiant as
Takeshi Nakazato
Yuichi Tachibana
Christophe Seugnet as Rin Hojo
Dany Benedito as Mako Sato
Frédéric Souterelle as Eiji Kubo
Jean-Pierre Leblan as
Kenta Nakamura
Shingo Shôji
Tachi Tomoyuki
Karl-Line Heller as
Kaori
Sayuki
Laurent Pasquier as
Sakai
Satoshi Omiya
Marc Wilhelm as
Hideo Minagawa
Kyoichi Sudô
Michaël Maino as
Daiki Ninomiya
Kobayakawa
Seiji Iwaki
Sophie Planet as Mère de Shinji
French companies
Distributor: KAZÉ
Dubbing: O' Bahamas
Internet Streaming: Anime Digital Network

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