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REVIEW: IGPX Immortal Grand Prix DVD

Additional Note: The Music grade below is for the I.G. Cut. The Toonami Cut grade would be one full letter lower.

Music: B+

the music ear piercing

The acting is bad

Anyone who wants to watch a good anime with racing is far better off watching Redline.

From a personal standpoint, I can understand why Williams Street and Jason DeMarco moved heaven and earth to get this show out of tax writeoff hell. This show is the only anime that Toonami can claim to have created. They came up with the concept. They went and recruited the talent. They pushed the music. And DeMarco, apparently sick of how shounen treats romance, demanded a full romantic plot including characters kissing.

Then you watch the show and realize why it was written off in the first place. The acting is bad, the story cheese with little structure, the romance horrible (Korra would make the same mistake later and then people would realize as much as it's derided, shounen skips around romance for a reason), the music ear piercing, and the action lackluster. Anyone who wants to watch a good anime with racing is far better off watching Redline.

It had its flaws, but I do find IGPX a fun show to watch. I stil remember when they moved the series to that Friday 12am/11pm timeslot, which I am guessing it was in part due to low ratings and how they used the b-word twice while it first aired on pre-cancellation Toonami ? Oh the memories when the latter happened.
Upon rewatching it when Toonami aired it a year or two ago, I did feel like it's one of those shows that I can only watch every few years.

I know one of the things that bugged me the most with the series was the whole spoiler[ Liz and Takeshi ending up together at the end. I actually liked the Takeshi/Fantine relationship, due to the whole "love interest is on a rival team" angle, and kinda wished this happened more often in some shows (... That doesnt end in either one of the two dying or "Mwa ha ha I was just using you for ______!!"). I don't dislike Liz as a character or anything, and I honestly prefer her dub voice ofer the sub, but I dunno. Maybe if Takeshi was never with Fantine in the first place, I'd have liked that ending more. ]
And I don't blame River(?) for doing what he did in the second half of the series.

And I personally liked the Toonami version's music, even if I preferred the Japanese opening and ending songs that what Toonami did.

true.though that is only for nostalgia. personally fans of this series who are also otakus will prefer the original japaneese version and the Uncut IG version of the series instead of the Toonami versions.

and you cant be surprised by that those two got together. that was way too obvious. however for river's case, it cause of what he did is the reason why he got a lot of dislike in the first place.

Redline was about the racing, but 2 hours, amazing looking racing, or 24-26 episodes, meh racing. I'd rather the quicker dose.

And I can't stand Michelle Rodriguez.

The music the reviewer critiqued was wildly lauded by fans and viewers as the best part of the show. When the show came out there was a site where the music and links to buy the music were posted due to fan demand. The majority of people loved it.

Then the reviewer brings up how an anime, about racing/fighting giant mechs driven by teenagers, isn't realistic? I hope Naruto didn't serve as a shock when the ninjas started spitting out fire and didn't dress in all black. It's an anime. Not a documentary.

Think you should probably double-check what I actually wrote before criticizing. I had a problem with them not being shown in school given their ages, not with them being mecha pilots. (And yeah, I'm quite well aware that age has nothing to do with mecha piloting ability in anime.)

Concerning the oft-mentioned spoiler[Takeshi/Fantine relationship and it collapsing (and who Takeshi ended up with)]: Yeah, I was also disappointed by that whole turn of affairs but not surprised.