“Initial D Season 4: Takumi, Ryousuke, and Keisuke form Project D to conquer Japan’s toughest street races.”
Initial D Fourth Stage
頭文字〈イニシャル〉D FOURTH STAGE
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Synopsis
Initial D Season 4: Takumi, Ryousuke, and Keisuke form Project D to conquer Japan’s toughest street races.
Takumi Fujiwara finally joins Ryousuke and Keisuke Takahashi to create "Project D." Their goal is twofold: Ryousuke wants to develop his "High-Speed Street Racing Theory," while Keisuke and Takumi aim at improving their driving skills by facing powerful opponents on dangerous roads. The idea of Project D is to challenge street racing teams from other prefectures to improve both their uphill and downhill records. In order to attract the attention of the best racing teams, Ryousuke creates a dedicated website to announce the future battles of Project D and post the team's results. The fourth season of Initial D details the hardships and successes of the members of Project D as they try to become the best street racing team outside of Gunma Prefecture.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 22 sampled reviews
What 22 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.25 · split reception
5.6 pts
Recommenders 8.6 · others 3.0
↓ 0.77
Running avg · Nov 2007 → Jan 2026
- 10 “Overall, breathtaking and enjoyable anime There's so many reasons to give every installment of this anime a 10/10 All of these stages are so good.... Story - Flawless, the story of Takumi and start...”
- 7 “Initial D Fourth Stage arguably has the weakest story out of any stage of Initial D, there feels to be a lacking of plot outside the races, and the racers don't have as much buildup and character...”
- 8 “I watch this show for the characters, music and the races after the first 3 seasons I took a little break from season 4 since it seemed like it would be slow and that it would maybe not be that...”
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- Format 24 × 27′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 48m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2004 – Feb 2006 Spring 2004
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0009 catalog
Produced by
- OB Planning Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor