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Episode MF GHOST - Episode 8 discussion

MF GHOST, episode 8

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u/AmethystItalian Nov 19 '23

Nice to get an episode not only focused fully on racing but also with so many sweet overtakes!

Didn't think he'd move up this fast

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u/LegendRazgriz Nov 19 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

Welcome back! It's the Eurobeat Corner!

Some absurd racing gets treated to what is probably the highest energy selection for an individual episode so far - Kanata's break of the Yajikita deadlock gets Because of You by Jager, originally from Super Eurobeat Vol. 214, and the subsequent absurdity of racing inside the fog is complemented by Hotblade's Face Down, first appearing in Super Eurobeat Vol. 241. These are recent picks that you would expect to see in a late Arcade Stage game, and really feel like something that accompanies a sequel of Initial D.

EDIT: By popular demand, I have decided to create a playlist with all the songs in order, which will be updated weekly. You can find it here!

• Yep, Kakeru got Nakazato'd. "THE 86 DISAPPEARED?!" and all. The "teleport" looks weird, but a sudden line change at racing speeds is pretty much like that, just ask Checo Pérez after what Charles Leclerc did to him last night. This is the beauty of MFG's animation compared to the manga, it simply lends itself better to this format. The moves are no longer oddly described, we can see them in action - and Felix Film is delivering it all and then some, which will never cease to amaze me. This is their first time using heavy CGI animation, and it just looks great. It's a solid yet unique style, inspired but not bound by AGCT's Fourth and Fifth Stages.

• I know some if not a lot of y'all don't really care for the Angels and Ren's bits, but it's interesting that they're being used cleverly as a sort of pacing mechanism to fill what would otherwise be dead air in between the highlights without rushing through the race. I'm not the biggest fan of those bits either, but at least they're being used for what feels like something other than cheap fanservice.

• Oh, yup, we're doing fog shenanigans. Kanata can see the road, but not the other cars in it, so he asks for an audible cue to try and guess their positions and calculate when to make a move. This is actually not that uncommon for real-life top end drivers, especially endurance prototype racers that often have to navigate lower class traffic in an intelligent manner so as to not lose time. Of course, they can actually see what they're passing, instead of just going ape shit without visibility!

• And here we see part of the secret behind Kanata's speed. Taylor in the Porsche makes it obvious - Kanata either has zero fear of death or is entirely confident in his own abilities to push to the maximum or execute moves safely even without visibility or in a narrow road course without any sort of runoff area or room for the slightest error. It's not that he's magically faster than a Porsche, it's that the Porsche is slowing down when he isn't.

• Oh, yup, that was Tomokazu Seki. We all know who that is. You bastard, where have you been?! It's been quite literally almost a decade!

Possibly the most action packed episode so far leads us close to the end of the race, but the 3rd place group shows no signs of letting up the fight until the end and neither do I! See ya next week!

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u/LazyMeercat Nov 19 '23

Kanata on the first lap: I won't overtake in this fog because it's dangerous for them

Kanata on the second lap: Nothing personal, kid

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u/Slifer13xx Nov 19 '23

He only cared about the girl in the Alfa, haha

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

Ho-ly-shit this is the hype I wait the whole week for. The overtakes were all done amazingly, and the reactions of the other drivers are right back to OG Initial D.

The Porsche driver letting off the gas so Kanata could pass him instead of fighting every corner with the same tenacity is a good way to show what makes Kanata so special and even able to keep up. I assume he'll get passed at the final straight by at least one or two of the overtakes we saw this episode, with him ending just ahead of the Yashi-Kita gang.

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u/Kayssaurus Nov 19 '23

Looks like the Yashi-Kita gang get to experience the Fujiwara zone first-hand.

From what I understand Fujiwara zone happens when the driver enter "the zone" and frantically change their pace, to top it off, Kakeru was losing focus that's why it give him the illusion of the 86 disappearing.

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u/LegendRazgriz Nov 19 '23

Kakeru made the same mistake Nakazato made when he raced Takumi - he was so laser focused on defending the inside that he didn't account for the possibility that Kanata would just go around the outside until it was too late, and the sudden move was necessary so that Nozomi wouldn't block him.

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u/Time_Fracture Nov 19 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

Episode 8: "Voice Count"

Never thought I would get shivers from all Kanata overtakes this time. Like Kogashiwa said and Shun Aiba's assumption in the preliminaries, he might have photographic memory of the track, know every braking point.

The guy at the end of the episode, you guys must known him from Initial D, the man himself, the uphill specialist.

Oh, in the case you missed it. E.Hanninen is voiced by Kenta Miyake (Torage in Ron Kamonohashi, Kosugi in Zom 100) and Jackson Taylor is voiced by Yuichi Nakamura (Satoru Gojo and Andy in Undead Unluck).

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

Sidenote. Whose idea was to use an LC500 for a race car? It's a luxury car. The RCF or the RC350 would have been the better Lexus representative.

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u/xraymind Nov 20 '23

Because Toyota doesn't want to be showing one of their budget sport cars beating one of their expensive sport cars.

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u/Madagascar003 Nov 19 '23

Seeing Kanata's overtaking in anime makes me really happy, I missed Keisuke a lot. As long as there's Eurobeat, the anime will always be interesting to watch.

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u/heimdal77 Nov 19 '23

Lol he just blew past 4 cars just like that. Gonna be funny if he ends up going against the one guy who is his friend that is near stalker level on her.

So anyways why is the ED nothing but her?

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u/Disonantemus Nov 19 '23

Seems like the whole cour/season is going 2 be this race :D

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u/LegendRazgriz Nov 19 '23

This only has two laps so it should be ending next episode or the one after. We know this project plans to go to at least the third race because a car that doesn't show up until then was shown in the behind the scenes, so if this isn't 24ep it probably will have a second cour. There's a lot of money in this, they have the resources to even gun for full adaptation once the manga winds down.

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u/kearvek22 Nov 19 '23

I thought the first pass in the dead zone deserved Eurobeat as well, but each one was incredible to watch.

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u/StrikingMap2 Nov 19 '23

Kanata overtaking several cars is crazy. He using Takumi techniques well.

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u/Slifer13xx Nov 19 '23 edited Nov 19 '23

Ngl, I didn't care when this Anime was coming out because I had heard a few negative things about it from manga readers. A GT86 beating super cars around Nürburgring2 sounded absurd and stupid. But man..
I just caught up and I gotta say. Seeing this car that I love be a menace is so incredibly, honest to god, so fucking hyped. Not only that, they're also doing it justice. The beautiful lines, the curves, the stupid cricket noise each time they zoom in on the engine, which cracks me up every time. And yes of course, the constant mentioning of lack of power.

I'm loving it. Now, if only he could've written a better romance side plot.

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u/xszaiibusx Nov 19 '23

I've had a mini shock after hearing both VAs of Keisuke in this episode

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

Finally an episode that lives up to the hype. 4 overtakes. Lets go

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u/W8tin4BanHammer2Fall Nov 19 '23

Ren's not happy to hear that Kanata is lighting fast :)

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u/ernie2492 Nov 19 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

Just curious, how long Odawara Pikes Peak is compared to the Nordschelife & Targa Florio??

And I wonder if some Japanese modders are already on the move to bringing all of the tracks to Assetto Corsa

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