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Initial D: Speed Racer 2.0 [Anime]

Molli Fire — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:55:22 +0000

Initial D brings all of the engine-revving excitement of street racing in Japan and injects it straight into your nervous system. You may catch yourself shifting gears and braking from your chair!

Here’s a [very badly dubbed, sorry] excerpt from episode 1 – the opening line sums up the entire show for regular folk, while the visual around 6:06 sums it up for racers & motorheads everywhere:

It’s all about the impossible inertia drift @ 6:06! And I love the other guy’s reaction too – “What is it? An Mr2? No, it’s… an Eight Six!” It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s that Toyota Feeling!

Watch the rest of this Stage/Series/Season here:
Initial D Episode 1
Once you get there, you can choose subbed or dubbed (or neither), even the link says dubbed in the URL…

Here’s how the story lines tie together:

Initial D The Movie – live action movie that closely follows the storyline of the 1st & 2nd Stages (with a few major deviations like Bunta is a drunk who beats Takumi with a stick, totally not the wise and reserved father you get to know in the tv series)

Initial D 1st Stage = Season 1
Initial D 2nd Stage = Season 2
Initial D 3rd Stage is really a 1-hour 44-minute long episode = Season 3
Initial D 4th Stage = Season 4

Initial D 3rd Stage – streaming in full right here:

Initial D 4th Stage:

The best place to watch the 4th Stage is at the source – the official FUNimation site. It has HQ streaming vids and it’s 100% legit.

Initial D 4th Stage page on FUNimation.com

You can also buy the DVDs and support the amazing animators and clever creators:

Sierra Crew LTD Animal Hybrid Snowboards

Molli Fire — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:48:37 +0000

Sierra Snowboards offers a super limited run of its Crew boards that feature animal hybrid artwork by Phil Wiles. In 2010 the boards sported the community-fave Walcock (half Walrus, half Cockrel) on the topside and a Beagle (half Bear, half Eagle) on the bottom:

Beagle Walcock Board

If you missed out on the 2010 model, you may get a chance at another hybrid in 2011. According to the artist, Phil Wiles, there may be a Crog board in the works:

We created about six different hybrids but the most popular was the Walcock (half Walrus, half Cockrel) so he made it onto the topsheet. The Beagle (Bear, Eagle) was Mike’s choice – he liked the bear as we’re a Californian company, so it’s a pretty good fit. I still have a lot of time for the Crog (Crow, Dog) but he didn’t make the cut, maybe next season…

A Crow Dog would be wiiiiicked!!

More info at Sierra Snowboards Crew LTD page

A video review/specs via Sierra Snowboard:

Watch: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episodes [Videos]

Molli Fire — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:06:05 +0000

Watch all the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episodes right here thanks to Hulu.com! Just click on a thumbnail & the player will appear.

Hulu.com page for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Watch: Vexille: 2077 Isolation of Japan Movie [Video]

Molli Fire — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:24:54 +0000

Vexille: 2077 Isolation of Japan (English Dub)

For Japanese audio – with or without English subtitles – jump to:

Vexille: 2077 Isolation of Japan on Hulu.com