Soul, soulless

I just finished stage 2 and the story is still there, but jesus christ. I would have stopped too if I had had anything to do yesterday.

After third stage it just gets worse

The art or the story? I thought the 4th was supposed to be really good

Rectangle reaction face ojiisan really lost some hair through the years.

The art. Everyone turns into Takumi.

Both. People who say 4th stage is good are absolute brainlets who only like it because of the pretty flashing lights.The whole point of 4th stage is that Takumi joins Project D, meaning he can't lose or else the season is over because Project D is over. Absolutely zero stakes because you know the protags are going to win every single time. Also I dropped it after a while but apparently at some point it stops being Initial D and starts being the Takahashi Ryosuke Show

yeah stick to jerking it to your moe blobs you basement dweller faggot

Go back to whatever shounen general you wandered out of

Why would you select 3 fat people for this image? Obesity isn't a big problem in Japan, unlike America.

The switch to digital animation was rough. Anime looks great now though. I still prefer how 1st stage looks in its regular 2D art than the remake movies do, but obviously visually the races are far better in the remakes than in the original.
None of that matters though, because the pacing and scene direction of the original far outdoes the movie remakes, especially since they got rid of the eurobeat tracks which fit each character very specifically, in favor of generic J-Rock for whatever reason.

You didn't miss much.
The First Stage is near perfect, everything after that is a downgrade both in writing and art (Though the 3D animation obviously gets much better throughout the series).
The only thing maybe worth watching after First Stage is the Third Stage movie.

>The whole point of 4th stage is that Takumi joins Project D, meaning he can't lose or else the season is over because Project D is over. Absolutely zero stakes because you know the protags are going to win every single time.
Yeah, this was a really fucking retarded writing decision.
"What if we put Takumi in a team of racers that literally cannot lose otherwise the series would be over?"
"Great idea! That totally won't trivialize every race and force us to write ass pulls to give Takumi a win in unwinnable situations at all!"

> Also I dropped it after a while but apparently at some point it stops being Initial D and starts being the Takahashi Ryosuke Show
I disagree with this. The focus of the series continues to be on Takumi and Keisuke after fourth stage, Ryosuke just gets a really cringy, melodramatic arc in fifth stage.
Fifth stage is still meh for its own reasons though even outside of that though. And the final race of the series was absolutely god awful IMO. Worst opponent in the series, and the worst paced race of the series without doubt, with the lamest fucking ending to the race possible.

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why does most digital animation look so much lazier than cel? You'd think that the greater freedom would allow for more creativity in design, but I can only think of a handful of shows that really took advantage of the new medium.

Both of them look like shit

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Name my band

idk but its a disgrace

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I'm not an expert on the topic, but I believe a large part of the problem between the difference of cel animation and digital animation, is that every step of cel animation process makes small imperfections that ultimately result in a end result that almost looks like it has more detail in it, versus digital animation which computerizes enough of the process that those imperfections are more uniform and sterile looking to the human eye.
Coloring is a great example that you can spot yourself just by looking at cel animation vs digital animation, but also line work is cleaned up far better in the digital process, the fact that you are no longer shooting with a physical camera, and the fact that you can see everything so clearly now also factor in.

And these imperfections can't be recreated at all with digital animation, or at least it would be prohibitively difficult to do so outside of still images. These are tiny imperfections created every step of the way with cel animation that were obsoleted by digital animation.

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stop watching digital anime

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I think you're probably right. Looking at the image you posted, the clear difference between the top and bottom (aside from cel having somewhat duller colors) is that the top doesn't have uniform line thickness, different lines are thicker or thinner to emphasize different parts of the face. In the digital image all the lines are the exact same thickness.

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Stop saying soulless. Do you understand even how an animation studio works? There are multiple people working on animations in a rush for a deadline. The animators are contracted to animate a series, usually an adaptation that they have no connection to other than higher ups consulting the source mangaka or novelist and they give directives on the style. There if very little if any personal attachment to the material.

If you want to talk about "soul" in art, that would apply to manga, not anime. However, soul is a poor choice of words.