Original subtitles

"This story is fiction.

All names of characters, places and

organizations in the story are fictional.

Follow the traffic rules and drive safely."

Blastin' off to the wicked show, splitting the air with that sputterin' noise

Let's go, ride that thing to the throwdown party

Determination that never backs down, the dogfight

I wanna feel the thrill of the screams in the phat red zone

A brief flash, like a comet

The brightness lasts a second, but I don't care

Someday, I wanna tell of that glimpse of precious scenery

Yes, right now it's a purely instinctual dogfight

If it's a thrilling dream you're after, it's right here

A wind that shatters the heat haze, backfire

C'mon, throw away yesterday, right now it's a rocket dance (Dogfight!)

If the wish you can't scream aloud hurts, then hurry and come here

You're big time gambler

Foolishness is a beautiful contour

Crazy game (Break it! Break it! Strike it! Shake it!)

Baby, this is your ecstasy

Ha ha! Tha loud sound is everywhere

Sideswipe, a 5G heavyweight

Runnin' right to the line, a hair's breadth between offense and defense

Ba-ba-baaam!

Yo, I can step on the gas for an easy victory, I still got it

"Back / Forward / Cancel"

This is it!

Project D!

Awesome! They won again!

--It's a course record! --Unbelievable, huh?

They keep winning races in enemy territory!

What's "Project D"?

You know Ryosuke Takahashi, right?

Oh! That super good-looking guy!

It's a special team he made to go outside their prefecture.

They scout out a bunch of challengers on the Internet

then post the results online.

They even write the names of all the challengers and streets!

"Hakuen Momiji Line

Touge Tea House"

Will they really come?

It looks like the real deal, Tohru.

Supposedly they even showed up at the Asagiri toll road the other day.

This'll be fun. I'll do the downhill.

I'll leave the uphill to your R34.

Yeah, that's what I'd planned on.

I don't know the caliber of guys they've got in the Gunma area...

"Souvenirs"

...but if they think they can look down on us,

then let's give 'em a lesson in pain!

"Act 1: Project D"

Huh? Tires again?

You just bought some the other day.

Those were just cheap ones. The grip's no good.

I've gotta have a set I can count on for timed races.

Come on, Naho.

It's like this!

When I get my summer bonus, I'll pay ya back in a flash.

You spend too much money on your car.

You should think about the future a little and save some money!

It's been six years since we started going out,

but at this rate, we'll never be able to get married!

Not this again.

I've heard this more times than I can count.

I keep telling you because you still don't get it, right?!

Fine. If you're going to say it like that, I'll lend it to you.

Really? Thanks!

But...

...on one condition.

Condition?

If you lose this next race, you have to give up racing!

Wh-What?!

I mean it this time.

If you don't keep your promise, I'll break up with you for real.

The feeling of new tires is the best!

I'm gonna win! Naho's important to me, but...

...there's no friggin' way I'm gonna quit racing!

Tohru! They're here!

So they came, eh? Project D!

An FD and...

What's that?

An Eight-Six?

These guys are awesome!

They might be the real deal.

Hey Ryosuke, get up. We're here.

Please get up, Ryosuke.

Ryosuke!

Ryosuke has such incredible concentration on anything he does.

He hasn't opened his eyes once since we left Takasaki.

Big brother knows what works most efficiently.

Sorry Matsumoto, but please get me a bottle of cold water.

Okay.

Let's begin.

Hello. We're Project D, and we've come from the Gunma area.

We're called Seven Star Leaf.

Our team mainly runs this course. You'll be going up against us.

It will be a pleasure. I believe you've already been informed,

but do you agree to let us have this course tonight for training,

with the actual race being tomorrow?

Yeah, I heard. That's fine.

Far as I can see, you've only got two cars, an FD and an Eight-Six.

Are those the only two you've got?

We're an expeditionary team.

We've cut down on the number of cars to eliminate waste.

The Eight-Six handles downhill races...

...and the FD handles uphills.

They are the twin aces of our team.

Very well, with your permission we'll now begin.

They're more polite than I expected.

It's sort of a letdown how friendly they are, huh?

Racing with just two cars is unexpected enough,

but what the heck are those three minivans? A support team?

The Eight-Six's underbody configuration will end up like this.

These guys aren't your normal team.

In a racing team, everyone races, right?

But having a support crew tag along for just two cars...

They may be a team, but they're more like traveling circuit racers.

I'm not gonna be fooled by appearances, Atsuro!

What can these guys possibly do in a single night?!

Our team's been active for two years. At even a moderate guess,

we've run this a thousand times!

Support team or not, it won't make a difference!

A race is between two drivers, right?!

In a battle between 1.6-liter cars, there's no way I'll lose!

It's local pride!

You think I'm gonna be beaten by some Eight-Six?

Understood. This is good.

Make it so that, as much as possible,

Fujiwara will voice his opinions and be made to think for himself.

All right.

I believe he can't say anything of importance yet,

but what is most crucial now is that he be made to think.

Understood.

Have you watched the video?

Yes, about 40 times.

Then you should have the course in your head.

Run the first five times at about 70% speed.

There will be a slight difference

between the course as envisioned and how it is when actually racing it.

Your first job will be to adjust for that discrepancy.

Okay.

Keisuke, you understand as well, yes?

We don't pick up the pace till this stage is completed.

Yeah, not to worry.

Very well. Go!

I'm headin' out, too. Once I do up the tires, I'm good to go!

It's probably like Tohru said.

What can they do in a single night... right?

That's how we've gotta think.

We can ponder all kinds of stuff,

but in the end, when racin' out on the course...

...all you can believe in are your own driving skills and your car!

"Fujiwara Tofu Shop"

I'll be back.

Thank you very much!

You're in a rather good mood, Itsuki.

That I am, Mr. Iketani! Because it's almost payday!

Oh, that's right.

It'll be your first paycheck since becoming a full-time employee.

Sure enough, it's a different feeling from working part-time!

It feels like I've become an adult!

And once you get your pay, what will you spend it on?

That should be obvious. I'm adding a turbo to my Eight-Five!

To your Eight-Five, huh?

As it is, my Eight-Five can already...

Vroom!

...pull ahead of that S13 of yours no problem!

I've already got an estimate on a loan!

Little by little, I'm getting closer to realizing my dream!

It won't be long now before Akina's Eight-Five

becomes known in rumor as the car of a legendary racer!

Listen to you!

I wanna be like Takumi, tearing up the mountain pass in style!

Speaking of, I wonder what Takumi's doing right now...

"Shibukawa Station North

Audible Traffic Signal"

There's something I've been thinking about since last fall...

What is my dream?

I thought about it all through the winter, and I finally realized it.

I like to ride cars, and I want to be faster than anyone else...

That's why I'm going to join Ryosuke's team.

Let's definitely...

...see each other again, okay?

"Shibukawa Station"

Fujiwara.

Fujiwara!

Sir?

Spacing out as always. You're done for today now, right?

Yes. I had the early shift, so...

Going on a date or something?

No, not really.

You're not, huh? For a youngster like you, that's just depressing!

Scary...

There are no covers on the sides!

I heard about this from Ryosuke,

but this is the first time I've seen one so deep.

The roads in the Gunma area generally have concrete covers.

We ran it at night yesterday, so it didn't stand out,

but if we fell into that thing at full speed,

make no mistake, our undersides would be toast.

Actually, Ryosuke said something about this yesterday.

That how we tackle this ditch

would decide whether we win or lose.

Even saying something like that...

Maybe he just meant, make sure you don't fall in.

Anyway...

A lot of the time, we don't get what Ryosuke's thinking

right up till the very end. However...

In the end, it always turns out the way Ryosuke said.

You can believe him.

A 1600 B6 bored up to 1800...

An installed high-comp piston, raising the compression ratio,

a lowered flywheel weight to increase response,

and finished off with four throttle body sports injection...

Too awesome.

Combined with your driving technique,

this is the ultimate downhill B6, I'd say.

With this, there's no way I could lose! For sure!

"Beware of Brush Fires"

"Souvenirs"

Well then, Bunta, you're still making Takumi do the deliveries?

Yeah. Nothin's changed from before.

You say that, but he's become an upstanding young man.

He works afternoons now, right?

He doesn't complain about it or nothin', either.

He's doin' an even better job than before.

That "Project D" team looks like it's been good motivation for him.

Yeah. He says they're unbeatable.

Apparently they're making new records left and right.

Yeah, for now. But before long...

...they'll lose.

It's about to start! My heart's pounding.

How awesome is Project D gonna be?!

In any case, Seven Star Leaf is gonna take the downhill.

There's no way that Tohru Suetsugu will lose to some out-of-towner!

"Beware of Brush Fires"

He's goin' up against an Eight-Six, right?

That FD is a powerful machine, but an Eight-Six is just so old!

At their request, we'll be doing the downhill first.

Rather than a simultaneous start,

one driver will go first with the other following.

They'll go in front on the first race.

I think you realize that if we lose the first race, it's over.

It's good!

You can start at any time.

It may be an Eight-Six, but don't let your guard down, Tohru.

That's definitely not an ordinary Eight-Six.

I know.

I don't care what kind of car the other guy has!

Right now, I'm gonna do the best racing that I can!

Tohru!

Shinichi, hold your hand out.

You get it, right?

I'm shaking.

It's scary! The truth is, it's so scary that I've got the jitters

and just wanna run away from here!

But at the same time, I'm happy. I'm so happy I can't take it!

Do you know why?

I'm grateful to Project D. You can be a racer for a long time

and almost never get to race with this kinda incredible tension.

To me, today's race is the chance of a lifetime to show my stuff!

As a representative of Seven Star Leaf,

I'll make damn sure I run a good race, with no regrets!

That's the spirit, Tohru.

All right then, whaddya say we get this thing started?!

Tohru Suetsugu. A pleasure.

I'm Takumi Fujiwara.

Wh-What is this feeling?!

I've never felt this way before!

I'm stunned... I'm so shocked I can't stand it!

Protect me... Naho!

Tohru! I was so blown away by Tohru's downhill corner entry

that I joined this team. He's a do-or-die kamikaze downhiller!

There's not a person out there who can keep up with Tohru's downhill!

There's no way he's gonna lose to some out-of-town Eight-Six!

Going first was the right choice for me.

If your rhythm gets thrown off, the downhill can be deadly!

Be relaxed... Rather than winning or losing,

what's most important is that you give everything you've got.

Compared to the Eight-Six, the Roadster is even more compact,

its small size and weight

allowing for the nimble footwork that is its greatest weapon!

And the downhill of its driver Tohru Suetsugu will,

as I see it, bet everything on high-speed corner entry.

It is an unrefined style.

Each and every corner will be taken with an inertia drift.

It is a driving style in which everything begins

when cornering speed has been taken almost as high as it can.

It could perhaps even be said that his driving technique

was cultivated through the Roadster, a car that lacks power.

Meaning that he and Fujiwara...

Yes. His is much like the relationship

between Fujiwara and the Eight-Six.

With just one exception.

Whoa! Awesome!

The crux of this course is the area that appears at the end,

a continuous stretch where the side ditches are uncovered.

Victory will rest upon the strategy executed in that area.

About that, is there really any action you can take

aside from just avoiding those booby trap-like ditches?

There is.

I've already informed Fujiwara.

Without advanced load shift techniques,

it would be dangerous to attempt...

...but Fujiwara and Keisuke can do it.

For I have chosen them. They are...

...the twin aces of Project D!

Whoa, scary! Tohru's cornering is as dangerous as ever!

Wh-What?!

Even so, that Eight-Six is keeping up with him!

That won't last long.

There ain't a guy out there who doesn't scare at Tohru's cornering!

I wonder how far that guy can keep up with Tohru's crazy downhill.

He definitely won't be able to make it to the end!

I expected as much. Till now, no one has been able

to keep up with me this far.

That's no normal Eight-Six, there's no mistake about that...

But more than that, the problem is the guy behind the wheel.

He's incredible...

Still, I don't feel like he's gaining on me.

It's probably taking everything he's got just to keep up.

I can win this race!

If you try too hard to keep up, whatever happens is on you!

If you value your life, then pull out!

What an incredibly forceful approach! Dangerously so!

"Beware of Brush Fires"

Ryosuke, it looks like he still hasn't closed the gap.

I know.

It's still to come. The fastest downhiller in the Gunma area...

...shall bare his fangs!

Hey, the coming of a new generation

Calling now for the arrival of a new era

How long are you going to pretend you've forgotten?

(Tension that seems like it'll rip my heart) This heartache...

Within those eyes, something that can't be held back...

(Yeah, this image that won't let me go) ...stares intently at the night

Yes, the two who didn't even know how

to reach out and touch someone's heart are already, from here...

(Hey, the coming of a new generation, Check it, This will blast your love)

Blast my desire, break off the barrier

Strike the sleeping dream awake (Skillz enough to rend the night!)

Blast my desire, stronger than fire

A risky tune that rocks the times

Blast my desire

(Calling now for the arrival of a new era, be what you wanna be)

Blast my desire

Blast my desire, whoa whoa whoa yeah

(Calling now for the arrival of a new era, break what you wanna break)