MF Ghost 2nd Season

The second race in the MFG tournament at the notoriously difficult Lake Ashinoko track is underway. Though his car is severely disadvantaged in terms of horsepower, tune-ups to Kanata Katagiri's Toyota 86 GT allow him to quickly soar into a qualifying position. However, torrential downpour on the final day of racing brings tire traction woes and causes all drivers to struggle.

Thanks to the environment he grew up in and his extensive training, Kanata surprises everyone when he is able to pull ahead of the pack—albeit with some very risky maneuvers. However, there are still two formidable competitors ahead of Kanata: last race's winner Michael Beckenbauer and Lake Ashinoko record holder Kouki Sawatari. But even if Kanata can close the gap, he still needs to watch out for the drivers in his rearview preying on even a single mistake that they can take advantage of.

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Katagiri, Kanata Main

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Saionji, Ren Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Takahashi, Ryousuke Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Takahashi, Keisuke Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Takeuchi, Itsuki Supporting

Iwata, Mitsuo Japanese

Iketani, Kouichirou Supporting

Yao, Kazuki Japanese

Akiyama, Wataru Supporting

Matsumoto, Yasunori Japanese

Kenji Supporting

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Kogashiwa, Kai Supporting

Canna, Nobutoshi Japanese

Fumihiro, Hiroshi Supporting

Hosoi, Osamu Japanese

Naka, Tomohito Director

Mima, Masafumi Sound Director

Yamashita, Kenichi Script, Series Composition

Inari, Akihiko Script

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Nov 20, 2024

Wrxoni

Recommended

Preliminary (7/12 eps)

A great watch for any motorsport or car enthusiast. The second season of the sequel to Initial D. I think the second season has improved in quality even from the first. The character and car animation is pleasant and the racing displays tons of excitement to watch. The story has solid pacing and doesn't feel rushed. The characters also have decent depth for being a show focused on racing (even if some of them are scumbags...). The OP and soundtrack are fantastic in this anime as well. This is a must watch if you are into racing and cars.

Story - 8.5/10
Animation - 9/10
Enjoyment - 9.5/10
Characters ... - 8/10
Pacing - 8.5/10
Soundtrack - 9/10

Honest review from an honest anime enjoyer. Thanks!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Nov 6, 2024

Patrxaa

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

Wowowow, 100% of the reviews do not recommend this show? Hold up, the show ain't that bad. I have to step in, however I have to say that even I won't be able to recommend this show wholeheartedly.

Characters 3/10:
As many people have pointed out, the character cast is an asbolute dumpster truck. Roughly 70% of the cast is unlikeable. I mean one character's personality is purely based on the fact that he likes 17 year old girls and breaks up with his gfs as soon as they turn 18, so is basically a pedophile. Like how on earth do you come up with something like ... that. Hallo? There are so many stories to be told about motorsports through the characters. You could have made a character with a difficult upbringing in motorsports, someone who had to sacrifice everything as racing is a hell of an expensive sport to get into. Or a driver who has lost all confidence after a heavy crash and is slowly on his way of recovering and starting to trust himself and the car again. That's just 2 examples that I have on my mind rn. But instead they gave us this. And unfortunately many other characters aren't better either. This by default will make Kanata, the MC, the "best" character eventhough he ain't anything special either. He is kind and likes japanese food. Cool. But hey, better than being a creep of some sort.

Story 5/10:
The story is about Kanata and how he gaps absolutely everyone in his farly underpowered Toyota. It is similar to Initial D, however the setting and scenario are of course completely different. Kanata takes part in a racing league which showcases some of the best racers around the globe as they race on public japanese roads. For an Initial D successor, MF Ghost holds the references to that anime to pretty much a minimum as of now, apart from naming a few characters which is really a bit sad. Hope to see more of that in future. The pacing is quite slow, as this season will only really feature one race, the 2nd of said league. The racing action has stepped up from the first season, which is a nice sight.

Animation & Arts 7/10:
Some people have pointed out the bad CG, but honestly I don't think it's bad. Same to be said about the design of the cars. To be honest I am just happy that we have an anime with all the different car licenses from Lamborghini, Alpine, Ferrari, Porsche, etc... There are many different cars from different brands and that makes the racing quite authentic for me. AND YES, the car movements are not realistic, but when I want to watch realistic racing I can just log into my F1TV account and watch one of the hundreds grand prix from the archive. This is still an anime and if the movement isn't pin point accurate I don't really mind. It hasn't hindered me from enjoying this anime at all.

Soundtrack 8/10:
It might not be as good as the Eurobeat we had in Initial D but hell, I was still suprised how much it gets me going. I think they've done a good job with the choice of songs. Obviously a very subjective opinion, I don't know how to put it into words otherwise. But I think that the majority of people won't be disappointed with the soundtrack.

Overall 6/10:
Nope, this is not a masterpiece. Dumpstertruck character cast, meh story, lots of unnecessary fan-service which is either cringe or annoying but the racing is decent and I think that's the main point. I don't want to give up on this anime yet. I still hope that the rest of the character's we haven't seen much from yet will turn out better and then I think that it can be quite a decent show. If you want to watch a racing anime, go watch this! But really only for the racing, the rest is meh at best.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 20, 2024

n4ytcg

Not Recommended

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Preliminary (3/12 eps)

MF Cringe is the best way I can describe this show, and I'm not a fan of calling things cringe.

There is an opportunity to have a genuinely cool/interesting anime surrounding street cars/racing. All i know is that this is not it. This is far from it.

The art style, character design, and color palette feels old and outdated, and not in the good nostalgic way.

The plot, characters, and dialogue are so generic and paperthin, i actually find myself getting annoyed by how bad it is. Like every time a character talks, its either so cringe, clunky exposition dumping, and/or just bad writing. i genuinely cant ... help but think "this series could actually be better if nobody talked." whenever someone says something.

The characters, their motivations, the dialogue are all so poorly written, i'm pretty sure chatgpt could have shit out something better. Its bad to the point where I need to publicly let people know this anime is actually terrible and to not watch it.

I wouldn't be surprised if this anime/manga solely existed to pretty much promote auto sales (Toyota in particular) in japan, and trying to market japanese auto manufacturers and cars (esp Toyota) to be just as 'cool' as lambos, ferraris, porche, etc.

Are japanese cars prevalent and prominent in street racing? Absolutely. But this show does not care about street car/racing culture at all. Show is nothing more than an advertising campaign for Toyota that belong in the 90s. And an uninspired and bad one too.

I genuinely don't know why i even watched all of season 1, and this much of season 2 because it was genuinely bad the whole time. The anime isn't "It's so bad, its sort of good" type of bad -- it's just straight up bad.

2/10 - there are a lot of bad animes out there you could watch over this if you're looking for bad animes. i watched this so that you dont have to.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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