Anime: Initial D Third Stage a5f6z

The last one in the series is a movie; and this movie focuses solely on finishing the loose ends from the previous 2 series.

The animation is pretty decent; the same nice looking cars, but better surroundings and more beautiful sceneries. The characters look somehow less mature than in the Second Stage, though - and still as ugly as ever. In the case of characters I have to say that they looked better in Second Stage.

The music is still great, and very upbeat. The only thing lacking is the atmosphere of the First Stage though, which was truly amazing. This Third Stage doesn't come close to that, but the music is still worth listening too.
The voices are still the same, and although they're good, I still get annoyed by Itsuki's voice.

The story is definitely better than the other series. This movie knows what went wrong with the other two series and it is determined to solve those problems. The result is that most loose (sub)stories are finished off, and that it all happens in a smooth movie, which doesn't allow much interruptions from other sides. Probably because the story flows so easily they have made this into a movie instead of a third series. But fact is, this movie is smooth. The story is all tied up nicely, and I'm surprised how they've been able to finish all storylines without making a very jumpy movie. Two thumbs up, also for the romance-part they put in here which was lacking ever since First Stage ended.
It's just too bad that the story isn't really that great itself though. But that was the case with the first two series already, and they can't change those storylines anymore.

The characters looked worse than in Second Stage, and acted a little more immature as well - which is surprising to me. Still, despite Itsuki's annoying attitude and voice, and despite the ugly animated characters, they do act human, and that's a good thing.

I do have to say that I was slightly disappointed in this movie. Even though it concludes most of the substories from the start, it doesn't really get interesting (or rather, exciting) as First Stage did, and it even fails to be as exciting as Second Stage. But although it lacks in exciteness, it makes up for the story.
I guess you just can't have it all ;)

This is the best in the Initial D series. More polished regarding the looks and animation and a lot more story.

It ties a lot of the loose ends of the first and seconds stage and makes a great watch for the fans. But you cannot enjoy without having seen the previous series, as it just continous where it left off.

If you even remotely enjoyed the series, got get the "movie", it is larger, higher, faster and just plain kicks ass :-)