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The story was getting interesting until..........
Well if you haven't figured it out who was going to win the race the you are really slow. After the race Simon asks tak out on a date, but iggy being as stupid as he is thinks that she was talking to him so he decides to invite everyone. At the waterpark it's funny to see Simon trying to hit on Tak, but whats even funnier is when Iggy and Kenji go down the water slides together. The only dissapointing part was when Cole found out that Maya had a crush on Ry takahashi, being the person that Cole is he thinks that shes out of his league. Maya tells Cole to meet him at the spot where they first met, but Cole decides that shes better off staying there alone(not really). So after his boss pounds reality into Cole he races to the spot to find out that there is a traffic jam and so there it was ladies and gentlemen the end of their relationship. In the japanese version of the anime Maya offered her virginity(believe it or not) to Cole in exchange that she gets the chance to close her carreer as a racer. We also get to see a little bit of Taks relationship growing with Natalie and she happens to find out what happend in the locker room(which was a fight in the 3rd dvd) and she decides to reward him for his actions by kissing him. Thats basically the layout for this review. Again it wasn't a bad dvd, but I just didn't like Maya getting hurt like that because I was kinda a fan of her work.

Racing, romance and some rockin' Eurobeat
Volume 7 of "Initial D," the popular anime series about downhill mountain road racing in Japan, is awash in romantic complications that affect the whole cast of characters and keep things hopping for all three episodes (nos. 19-21). The first episode offers the conclusion of the suspenseful race down Usui Pass between Takumi and female challenger Mako begun in the previous volume. After the race, Mako's attractive navigation partner, Sayuki, gets the hots for Tak and asks him out on a swimming date, to which his friends, led by the diminutive, overeager Itsuki, invite themselves, upsetting Sayuki's plans. This all leads to Mako asking Tak's buddy, Iketani, who'd first met Mako back in Volume 5, on a nighttime date, but Iketani's hesitation and insecurity lead to unhappy results. Tak, meanwhile, fends off Sayuki's aggression to concentrate on his budding relationship with classmate Natsuki. <
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>School starts and things heat up between Tak and Natsuki, including a first kiss that's handled tastefully and beautifully by the animators. However, we get a glimpse of a secret of Natsuki's that could derail things. Through it all, poor little Itsuki freaks out at losing his buddies to girls and comes out with several hilarious exclamations. He's comic relief in the best sense of the word. Meanwhile, Mt. Akagi champ Ryosuke Takahashi delivers a challenge to Tak and gears up for their impending match. <
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>Aside from the genuine thrills of the racing sequences, the great thing about this series is just how emotionally honest it is about the awkwardness of teen romance and its inevitable mix of fleeting pleasures and deeply felt pain and discomfort. Tak may be a superman behind the wheel, but he and his buddies make the kind of common missteps with girls that so many of us remember from our youths. <
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>The action comes with a nice mix of standard musical accompaniment for the romantic scenes (lilting piano solos) and rousing "Eurobeat" hiphop-style pop songs for the races. The opening theme song in episode 20 is a new one. For me, this consistently gripping series just keeps getting better with each volume. <
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