Still my favorite game intro of all time. The high quality 3d animations, faithful replication of the original character arts, great camera shots and sounds that synchronized with the song...if only the anime series was this good, it'll become a true legend.
I come back to this video almost every few months at random times, be it sad or happy. its the one video that encapsulates such raw speed and emotion. to the real engine notes recorded to the sense of sheer speed. this random OP of a long forgotten game, is something so special to me.
This feels like an OP to a lost English 4kids style dub of wangan midnight. The editing, song choice and style are all extremely reminiscent of the early 2000s I love it
@@adithyas.krishnan5828 correct, the reason why is because of how Takumi and Tastuya share the same VA in the original,I also want that to apply to the dub
actually, wangan midnight could have worked on 4kids because there isn't any fan service-y stuff in it. (unlike initial d) the only thing they'd have to change is one word in Wangan Midnight OST - Speed Addiction
As any D.K. fan knows, Daiki Kasho made the music, I think the one singing is Alan Brey since the game was released close to GT4 where Alan Brey and Chiaki were the singers for his songs, although I might be wrong.
Jesus. This video is still up here. I saw this intro exactly 15 years ago the same year it was uploaded and it’s still on here. Congrats on having one of the oldest videos on here
This is one great find. Also, the problem for me is that the internet does not have the song used in the video as well! But I came to know the song title. "Hit It!" by Daiki Kasho
Since the PS2 game was 480i - it's not even that far off from the original quality :-) I have a feeling the UA-cam compression became much harsher in the years after this upload.
The extra footage between this version and the original cut would've been FANTASTIC to have when I made my Wangan Reborn AMV, but oh well. I still love watching this.
I love the 240 so much. To me, it's the most beautiful car ever made. And the L series 6 cylinder engines are so awesome, not to mention the sound. The car is perfect in every way. In the beginning at about 0:18 when you get a glimpse of that awesome carb turbo L31, my body shivers. And in the end at 2:06 when you get to see the car like that, standing there with those Watanabe rims and with the music toning down, tears starts to roll because of the car's beauty. :'D
Idk why but I think I prefer the anime to look exactly like this, animation drawing style and everything, well at least Masaki would have made an appearance
I can't find the article, but I read this was supposed to be the intro for the anime. Apparently it had something to do with licensing or distribution, and it ended up being in the game instead. Probably a financial thing.
This video brings tears to my eyes. Especially the ending. That view of the Z really shows that there truly is no other car that can match it's beauty. :') I've made a promise to myself that one day i'm going to build an S30Z just like that one. With a triple carb, twin turbo 3.1 litre L31 engine, pumping out more than 600 horses. When it comes to these engines, the Nissan RB series can go screw themselves..
This is because Electronic Arts has an exclusive contract with Porsche and Japan does not have likeness copyright laws. So in Japan they can get away with a car that looks similar without legal recourse, but not elsewhere. They were legally bound change the Blackbird. They could have gotten around this thou, like Microsoft did, by licensing RUF CTR 'Yellowbird' and dropping any reference to the Porsche brand. But as we all know, that never happened.
Guys, I got somebody from Taiwan that lives in Japan claim that the mehanics and devil tuner actually exist and are in Tokyo, he called them "these old asses" However Akio Asakura does not exist.
This is based off of tuners from the 70s and 80s. They were called the midnight club. Blackbird was the leader. The Porsche Turbo was over 600hp in the 80s. These guys would cruise over 200mph for close to twenty minutes at a time. A Bugatti Veyron wouldn't last that long today. Amazing guys.
Wangan Midnight is based on a real-life racing group called Mid Night Club. There was a heavy (and friendly) rivalry between a 911 Turbo and S30Z, just like in the anime (the cars, not the characters obviously). The 911 eventually won in real life, unlike in this show. Interestingly, while Tatsuya Shima is a surgeon, the real-life person who drove the 911 was practicing to be a doctor but he decided to run his family business instead. Which, of course, involved cars.
Guess I've got to clear this up then. a) Indeed, the car that's often claimed to be the real-life 'Devil Z' is a red S130 Fairlady Z, that has existed since the club's inception. It's never been referred to as the 'Devil Z' in official circles, though. b) The 930 mentioned was never referred to as 'Blackbird' in official circles either, but the owner of the car was the chairman of the club. The car was pushing about 450PS by 1989, so nowhere near 600 within the 80s. c) Cruising at 320km/h for 20 minutes? No, just no. Some of the later cars in the 90s could break 320, but only for a couple of moments, reliability permitting. d) The part about the 'real life' Tatsuya Shima training to be a doctor is unknown, but he did work with cars. e) There were a number of S30Z's running the Hakone route in the 80s under the Mid Night banner. f) The 'tuner' in question for modifying the red Z is ABR, who took up the work sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. The owner of the shop also worked on a red De Tomaso Pantera that used to run the Tomei Expressway in 1981, before it crashed in Tokyo, killing the owner, which could be the source of the whole 'Devil Z kills owner' rumour. Hopefully, that's cleared this mess up. Just, please, and I try to mean no offence here, but just use some logic when reading some of these rumours about cars running at 320km/h for 20+ minutes.
@@Sm0nkyB0i nope. He has a 300Hp 2 rotor, Wangan is like over 500 - 800+HP cars. No way a 300HP would just race in the wangan like that, if he have done that. He would off telled the Project D crew that he raced on the Wangan
This is the old Maximum Tune for PS2. It's been released a few years ago but is hard to come by (check e-bay). Check my other movies for the PS3 version trailer that's coming soon. The Wangan Midnight anime will start airing June 8 in Japan.
"this is the closest thing you'll come to a Wangan Midnight anime even though there are the movies" just thought you'd all like to know, the anime debuts in japan june8, 2007. same people who made intial d :D
it doesent have a Blow off valve, the Z has compressor surge, which is the sound that a engine makes when the BOV is nonexistent - therefore the name, "Compressor Surge", the RAW turbo sound.
Well the amount of people who say its Blow off Valve its not, its an Compressor Surge. forums.hybridz.org/topic/77587-what-is-compressor-surge-explanation-within/
@pacman728 Honestly, after all the research I've done, I realized even more than before how hard it would be to make it twin turbo. There's a guy on the hybridZ forum who is doing a complete modification of his L28, bored and stroked to 3.1L, with twin turbos and a fully custom DOHC head. His project is going on 3 or 4 years now, lots of cash invested and a lot of trial and error. For my Z, I decided to keep it N/A. Maybe I'll stroke it one day, if I have the parts and knowledge to do so.
idforums under gaming then under wangan midnight maximum tune and look for the thread discussing the opening theme. I think someone uploaded the song to megaupload.
you bet I rated this high I saw this game for the first time in little tokyo in Los Angeles I was all whoa music and everything, ther eis a mall there and upstairs arcade and some stuff for those street racers.
@mazdee626 Well there was a japanese brand selling ''kits'' to stroke the L28. It was a pre-bored head, 9mm rods, shorter pistons (to reduce what you usually have to bore) and a crankshaft (a copy of the very rare LD28 crank) BUT from my research you can get the same results using 240Z connecting rods, 240SX pistons, a LD28 crank and boring it yourself but that option means having to balance everything AND costs more. For the manifold, I would just use one from a L28ET turbo block.
I'm glad everyone still enjoys this video and music as much as I do, cheers!
hes alive
wow!, you're alive!
@@robloxuser3213 Thing is, dood never left.
i love nissan devil z, i still watch this video until now 👍👍
im trying to find the full song seperate but i just cant and it makes me sad
Still my favorite game intro of all time.
The high quality 3d animations, faithful replication of the original character arts, great camera shots and sounds that synchronized with the song...if only the anime series was this good, it'll become a true legend.
the anime was good though, but the cars in it don't have the same leveling of reflections
Also to note the same animation team was working on Wangan Midnight anime, since the CGI is identical to Initial D Fourth Stage.
The animation was amazing and still is
@@MrZane-bl8qm I think it's because they didn't want it to realistic and also fit better with the drawn scenes
extreme stage also rips
I come back to this video almost every few months at random times, be it sad or happy. its the one video that encapsulates such raw speed and emotion. to the real engine notes recorded to the sense of sheer speed. this random OP of a long forgotten game, is something so special to me.
i share the same thought. This is a glorious piece
This feels like an OP to a lost English 4kids style dub of wangan midnight. The editing, song choice and style are all extremely reminiscent of the early 2000s I love it
@ he also did takumi fujiwara r8??
@@adithyas.krishnan5828 correct, the reason why is because of how Takumi and Tastuya share the same VA in the original,I also want that to apply to the dub
@ oh ok i havent seen wangan is the tatsuya the blackbird
actually, wangan midnight could have worked on 4kids because there isn't any fan service-y stuff in it. (unlike initial d) the only thing they'd have to change is one word in Wangan Midnight OST - Speed Addiction
@@santicar10 It would be better then Initial D's Tokyopop dub
Electronic music was at its peak in the early 00s. I wish I was alive to experience this when it came out. Love the game.
So youre dead now tho?
@Random Mongolian- Sorry, bad wording. I was born after this came out and I wish I was alive before this so I could experience the release
Today's pop is nothing as good of the 2000's electronic music
"Hit It!" by Daiki Kasho
As any D.K. fan knows, Daiki Kasho made the music, I think the one singing is Alan Brey since the game was released close to GT4 where Alan Brey and Chiaki were the singers for his songs, although I might be wrong.
Jesus. This video is still up here. I saw this intro exactly 15 years ago the same year it was uploaded and it’s still on here. Congrats on having one of the oldest videos on here
Me too. This blew my fucking mind in my first watch and it never gets old
RB26 sound forever in the tunnel
This is one great find. Also, the problem for me is that the internet does not have the song used in the video as well! But I came to know the song title.
"Hit It!" by Daiki Kasho
i looove the intro. the music + the sounds + the cool clips 😎
This game was create in 2002 (PS2 Version), and the anime was released in 2007.Even so, the grafics of this intro are awesome.
SWEEET VIDEO!!!! holy crap now I am dying to get back on Wangan again, at the moment I have a 760Bhp FD3S and my rank is alright. Rank B of lvl 7.
Wow that's a dope intro for a game!
1:35 レイナのR32もいい音してるな！Zの音もすごくかっこいい
The intro is like the essence of racing, the ending in particular send shivers down my spine.
トンネル内のRBサウンドが良い!
remember: this was published in 2006.
THE QUALITY
Since the PS2 game was 480i - it's not even that far off from the original quality :-)
I have a feeling the UA-cam compression became much harsher in the years after this upload.
@@Usercool I thought your account was dead
0:18 i like the sound of the engine
Wish i can play this game again
Emulate it on pc or xbox series s/x on retroarch
Still coming back to watch in 2021. Must watch for Petrolhead!.
エイジのランエボマジで大好き…エンジン映るの凄く好きなんだけど分かる人いるかな…
当時ＰＳ２でゲームやっていましたが、新車でランエボ７乗ってました。
動画のタコメーターがＣＴ９Ａ用なのが、残念な所でした。なぜだろう？
Am i the only one watching this in 2021.
As a 17 year old guy. God i wish i would have been born 10 years earlier
The Wangan Midnight anime is currently airing in Japan.
この動画めっちゃ⤴⤴リアル❗
車だけ別に撮ってありますね人物画だけ、アニメ、車は実写をわざとアニメっぽくしてあるけど、S30Zのエンジンルームやブラックバード911.R32.ランエボ、すべて完成度高過ぎ❗音源も各車の排気音そのままRB-26レイナのGT-R(トンネル)の音スゲー良い音❗
湾岸ミッドナイト一話～全部本、DVD,UA-cam全部視たけど,この動画
ガチ、ヤバ過ぎTOP3に入る動画ですね
💨💨💨💯👍👍👍‼
おっと黄色のFD-3S啓介のRX-7雨宮のフルエアロが走ってるね❗💨💨💨💯
これゲームのオープニングですよ
@@RS-qo6mw ゲームソフトの動画なんや知らんかったクオリティ高いと思ったわ！
情報ありがとうございます！
あの、黄色のＦＤはＲＧＯファクトリーのマシンです。
@@pheasant139
RGO《オオタカズオ》ファクトリー
黄色のFD乗ってるのは娘のリカコかなぁ？
ゲームソフト知らないもんで！
因みに自分はもうオヤジです､今～35年位前S-30Z乗ってました
L-2.8改3.0メカチューン
ウェバー50パイ､ハイカム､エキマニ､
ストレートマフラー､
ADVAN-HF-Dタイプ、RSワタナベ
かまして走ってたけど、キャブレター
の調整めっちゃムズイ､当時200万円位
今その価格で絶対無いですね(笑)
The art style of the characters is much better than the animes on my opinion
Especially Reina.
It came even before the anime.
The extra footage between this version and the original cut would've been FANTASTIC to have when I made my Wangan Reborn AMV, but oh well. I still love watching this.
I love the 240 so much. To me, it's the most beautiful car ever made. And the L series 6 cylinder engines are so awesome, not to mention the sound. The car is perfect in every way.
In the beginning at about 0:18 when you get a glimpse of that awesome carb turbo L31, my body shivers. And in the end at 2:06 when you get to see the car like that, standing there with those Watanabe rims and with the music toning down, tears starts to roll because of the car's beauty. :'D
Hit it is my favorite song in wangan midnight
1:01
??「抜かれたぞ！啓介‼︎」
??「Zだとぉ⁉︎ふざけるな‼︎」
I hope the new 400Z really looks like a modern S30Z/Devil Z. Man!!!! That would be a Z fan’s dream come true.
Meanwhile I'm one of like 3 people who still waited for the actual successor of the 300ZX.
Your wish had been granted, the new Z in blue is literally a modern Devil Z.
@@apophisstr6719 yessir it has been !!!!! Nissan didn’t lie!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
効果音無しver.って存在しないかな｡CDあれば欲しい｡
1:07 - 1:14 really does a good job showing us the passion/madness that is KJ
I love this anime Akio really a nice character 👌🏼 it bothers me that it never got the same attention as initial D did
Same,wangan midnight is so good😢
0:08音が早朝みたいな感じで好き
Its funny, cause the anime adaptation for WM released a year after this video was published.
Fucking love the Daiki Kasho/Alan Brey/Dakota Star combination... Any they make is simply amazing.
Idk why but I think I prefer the anime to look exactly like this, animation drawing style and everything, well at least Masaki would have made an appearance
Bunta Fujiwara same here
Iketani Koichiro lol i got reina first
Yellow FD, Keisuke confirmed
GALVY 88 THAT FINNISH CAR GUY FROM SALO i saw you some where
Takumi Fujiwara Trust me ive seen you alot
That's Masaki of RGO Speed's FD.
That aint me
It obviously isn't, plate number is different
2:06 Akio looks so cool with that car
この動画めちゃめちゃ好き音源もそのままの音ﾊﾞﾂクタｰﾋﾞﾝが最高👍👍👍
Very good opening!
Perhaps,a taste that we could wait from Wangan Midnight anime series that'll be released in 2007! ^^
already released
@@DiabloXL6917 years ago lol
literally that anime can legaly drive now
I say we all write emails to Daiki Kasho to release full versions of his songs.
An anime of Wangan is due out sometime this spring I heard.
holy fuck, ancient comment
@@aitor9158ye
very great
Out of all the game trailers for Wangan Midnight i think that this one is the best!!!!!
Awesome intro
I can't find the article, but I read this was supposed to be the intro for the anime. Apparently it had something to do with licensing or distribution, and it ended up being in the game instead. Probably a financial thing.
This game released 7 or 6 years before the anime
This actually made me want try the game for myself :D
Good fucking luck
@@josesigala7520 Emulation
@@simonpro267 yeah i know but its just this game's ai is bs and almost impossible to beat.
José Sigala You are not trying hard enough you little shit
Try the game? Build a Z...
This video brings tears to my eyes. Especially the ending. That view of the Z really shows that there truly is no other car that can match it's beauty. :')
I've made a promise to myself that one day i'm going to build an S30Z just like that one. With a triple carb, twin turbo 3.1 litre L31 engine, pumping out more than 600 horses. When it comes to these engines, the Nissan RB series can go screw themselves..
That compressor surge sound is so satisfyingly good
Daiki Kasho - Hit it
It's hard to come by since it didn't appear on any OSTs to my knowledge.
It's soo good.
Loved the evo sound
This is because Electronic Arts has an exclusive contract with Porsche and Japan does not have likeness copyright laws. So in Japan they can get away with a car that looks similar without legal recourse, but not elsewhere. They were legally bound change the Blackbird. They could have gotten around this thou, like Microsoft did, by licensing RUF CTR 'Yellowbird' and dropping any reference to the Porsche brand. But as we all know, that never happened.
The Blue One It's finally over, WMMT6 and other racing games like Gran Turismo and Forza will have Porsche.
It's just me, or Keisuke's FD was pwned ?
This is almost 20....
2020, still vibing
Guys, I got somebody from Taiwan that lives in Japan claim that the mehanics and devil tuner actually exist and are in Tokyo, he called them "these old asses"
However Akio Asakura does not exist.
This is based off of tuners from the 70s and 80s. They were called the midnight club. Blackbird was the leader. The Porsche Turbo was over 600hp in the 80s. These guys would cruise over 200mph for close to twenty minutes at a time. A Bugatti Veyron wouldn't last that long today. Amazing guys.
Wangan Midnight is based on a real-life racing group called Mid Night Club. There was a heavy (and friendly) rivalry between a 911 Turbo and S30Z, just like in the anime (the cars, not the characters obviously).
The 911 eventually won in real life, unlike in this show. Interestingly, while Tatsuya Shima is a surgeon, the real-life person who drove the 911 was practicing to be a doctor but he decided to run his family business instead. Which, of course, involved cars.
I don't recall seeing a s30z in the midnight club. the famous z in the midnight club is actually a red s130z with a slew of modifications.
Victory I say to a lot of folks, 240z, 260z, 280z, 280zx, what’s the difference. Yes it was a red s130.
Guess I've got to clear this up then.
a) Indeed, the car that's often claimed to be the real-life 'Devil Z' is a red S130 Fairlady Z, that has existed since the club's inception. It's never been referred to as the 'Devil Z' in official circles, though.
b) The 930 mentioned was never referred to as 'Blackbird' in official circles either, but the owner of the car was the chairman of the club. The car was pushing about 450PS by 1989, so nowhere near 600 within the 80s.
c) Cruising at 320km/h for 20 minutes? No, just no. Some of the later cars in the 90s could break 320, but only for a couple of moments, reliability permitting.
d) The part about the 'real life' Tatsuya Shima training to be a doctor is unknown, but he did work with cars.
e) There were a number of S30Z's running the Hakone route in the 80s under the Mid Night banner.
f) The 'tuner' in question for modifying the red Z is ABR, who took up the work sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. The owner of the shop also worked on a red De Tomaso Pantera that used to run the Tomei Expressway in 1981, before it crashed in Tokyo, killing the owner, which could be the source of the whole 'Devil Z kills owner' rumour.
Hopefully, that's cleared this mess up. Just, please, and I try to mean no offence here, but just use some logic when reading some of these rumours about cars running at 320km/h for 20+ minutes.
completely with u, i love drifting and wangan
Love the show and the game
1:00 Keisuke will eventualy copyright this
Türk var mı diyordum bende
Thats not Keisuke, its RGO Masakis FD. If it was Keisukes, it would have the RE Amemiya kit
@@wills.junks7 Who Knows? It Could Have Been RedSuns Keisuke Or Early Project D Keisuke (Before The RE Amemiya Kit)
@@Sm0nkyB0i nope. He has a 300Hp 2 rotor, Wangan is like over 500 - 800+HP cars. No way a 300HP would just race in the wangan like that, if he have done that. He would off telled the Project D crew that he raced on the Wangan
@@wills.junks7 Ok, But Who Knows? He Might Just Be Having A Leisurely Drive
This is the old Maximum Tune for PS2.
It's been released a few years ago but is hard to come by (check e-bay).
Check my other movies for the PS3 version trailer that's coming soon.
The Wangan Midnight anime will start airing June 8 in Japan.
"this is the closest thing you'll come to a Wangan Midnight anime even though there are the movies"
just thought you'd all like to know, the anime debuts in japan june8, 2007. same people who made intial d :D
EvergreenOldboys im from the future,by this point,there are devil z replicas
hold on future boy, im even more futuristic than you are. btw hows your quarantine?
@@HandIeTheseim futher down the future road, how all the shitshow went?
also new mf ghost anime dropped
I've heard that they put speed-bumps on the real Wangan to prevent people from racing on it. Bummer for them.
Datsun 240z 'Devil Z', a true classic of legend is reborn !!!
Man that compressor surge is o n p o i n t
Just image a modern wangan midnight, with the graphics of fh5 and phisics of gt7 or beamng....
Man what a game whould came out
2:04 Parking area name is Daikoku in tokyo where all jdm car drivers meet up around friday night u might also find the same car shown in the video
S30Zs are pretty small cars.
Seeing one next to Akio in this intro makes me think he’s a little guy.
BTW that BOV sound, is similar to Greddy TypeR
How many psi, idk
Well over 30.
Lone Q dang that's a lot of boost, 2 bars like the BlackBird in manga. The closest sound I can find is an Evolution but only 14 psi.
it doesent have a Blow off valve, the Z has compressor surge, which is the sound that a engine makes when the BOV is nonexistent - therefore the name, "Compressor Surge", the RAW turbo sound.
Well the amount of people who say its Blow off Valve its not, its an Compressor Surge.
forums.hybridz.org/topic/77587-what-is-compressor-surge-explanation-within/
ikr! so hard to notice it!
anyway, Compressor Surge still sounds better
Zのブローオフの音いいねぇ～✌️
たまんない！
@pacman728 Honestly, after all the research I've done, I realized even more than before how hard it would be to make it twin turbo. There's a guy on the hybridZ forum who is doing a complete modification of his L28, bored and stroked to 3.1L, with twin turbos and a fully custom DOHC head. His project is going on 3 or 4 years now, lots of cash invested and a lot of trial and error.
For my Z, I decided to keep it N/A. Maybe I'll stroke it one day, if I have the parts and knowledge to do so.
this gets me so pumped
awesome! good rip thanks!
Listening in Studio what a trip back, pun intended!
I've now allowed external sites to embed this video.
@sargeantbanana, HKS used to sell a twin turbo exhaust manifold for the L28 years ago.
エイジのエボ5なのに
エボ7以降のメーターだねぇ
from the creators of intial d comes the anime, WANGAN MIDNIGHT. Debuts in Japan June8, 2007.
YAY!
EvergreenOldboys im from the future theres like 5 maximum tune games by now
@@turbocavalliim from the further future... 6 wmmt
れいなさんがアニメよりもかわいい
That year is the year before I was born
just this video is awesome for sure i will buy the game
Buy the car..."z"
0:36 Dr.Ryosuke
ah man, Daiki Kasho never releases his best songs!
at first there was Call me Now, and now there's Hit It!
I think is Drive Hit it!
idforums under gaming then under wangan midnight maximum tune and look for the thread discussing the opening theme. I think someone uploaded the song to megaupload.
I dig the cinematic on this one
His name is eiji kamiya
I absolutely HAVE to stroke my S30Z's L28 to 3.1L and add a twin turbo! I just can't seem to find the 3.1L conversion kit anywhere!
Make it...Fabricate!
I hope one day someone will do a cover of this song
Fortunately, the anime is coming June 8th
Wangan midnight. Drive drive win it crush it will you die.
you bet I rated this high I saw this game for the first time in little tokyo in Los Angeles I was all whoa music and everything, ther eis a mall there and upstairs arcade and some stuff for those street racers.
I have the game.A friend is teaching me by internet how to create the image from the disc.I'll tell you when it's ready to download! ^^
You know,this could work as an intro for the anime series.
i can't wait for the anime adaptation of wangan midnight.
how did u enjoy it?
I had this as my MySpace profile song in 2009 lol
This is too early 2000's for it's own good.
@mazdee626 Well there was a japanese brand selling ''kits'' to stroke the L28. It was a pre-bored head, 9mm rods, shorter pistons (to reduce what you usually have to bore) and a crankshaft (a copy of the very rare LD28 crank) BUT from my research you can get the same results using 240Z connecting rods, 240SX pistons, a LD28 crank and boring it yourself but that option means having to balance everything AND costs more. For the manifold, I would just use one from a L28ET turbo block.
I still don't understand why they didn't include this song to the official soundtrack, in fact didn't sell it at all.
beastin' song