The anime centers around young teenager, Eva, who secretly enrolls in the race in order to reunite with her estranged father, who's actually the manager of the Great Race. This solid premise combines Eva's emotional journey with thrilling action that beautifully ties together.
Uma Musume is a really beautiful mix of classic horse racing. In this anime, the horses are actually horse-girls. These girls go to a prestigious academy that trains them to run and participate in the derby. The MC of this anime is a girl who comes from a faraway rural area with the goal of winning a national championship.
For those who don’t know, street racing actually happens in Tokyo in real life. This anime is inspired by those real-life events where racers put their lives in danger by racing on streets where trucks, buses, and normal cars travel. This anime does not have a unique plot, but it doesn’t matter in this kind of anime.
Josh Toussaint-Strauss loves anime but too often sees black characters portrayed using racist stereotypes. Even some of the biggest and well-loved shows, like Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop and One Punch Man, fail in their representation of black characters.
NASCAR Racers is an animated television series by Saban Entertainment which features two rival NASCAR racing teams, Team Fastex and Team Rexcor, competing against each other in the futuristic NASCAR Unlimited Division.
Cars is a 2006 American computer-animated sports comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
AE86 (Initial D) From the beginning, Initial D chose real, authentic cars to depict, making it the paramount “car anime” ever.
What are the best anime like Initial D? Series like Wangan Midnight have everything to do with street racing while shows like Two Car and Capeta show us there's a lot of fast vehicles that aren't just cars; motorcycles and racing carts count too don't they?
NSX Type S is the ultimate expression of Acura's commitment to Precision Crafted Performance, with Acura's 2022 supercar outputting 600-horsepower as the most powerful and best performing NSX ever.
Super Grand Prix is a fondly remembered anime classic from the '70s. The story follows Takaya who longs to be an F1 racer but manages to crash a stock car after slipping on oil.
Waifu is a term for a fictional character, usually in anime or related media, that someone has great, and sometimes romantic, affection for.
In Japan, an itasha (痛車, literally "painful" or "cringeworthy" + "car") is a car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo games or eroge).
'Type S: Chiaki's Journey,' a four-episode series, debuts at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Acura unveiled its new Type S vehicle lineup with a four-part anime series called “Type S: Chiaki's Journey,” released on Thursday.
The final chapter of the long running manga Initial D was released yesterday in Japan. After 18 years of publication the hugely influential story that introduced touge battles and the glory of RWD Japanese cars to a whole generation of enthusiasts has come to a close.
AboutGenderMaleHeight174cm (5'8.5")Weight58kg (127 lbs)RelativesBunta Fujiwara (father), Natsuki Mogi (ex-girlfriend?), Mika Uehara (girlfriend), Itsuki Takeuchi (BFF)LikesGreen seasons, Rear end of his AE86, naps, racing10 more rows
The White Ghost of Akina. In the summer of 199X (1996 in the Tokyopop version) Takumi is 18 and in his last year of high school.
The anime centers around young teenager, Eva, who secretly enrolls in the race in order to reunite with her estranged father, who's actually the manager of the Great Race. This solid premise combines Eva's emotional journey with thrilling action that beautifully ties together.
Appare-Ranman is one of the most recent racing anime on this list and despite how it currently only has 13 episodes it's still able to tell an incredibly addicting story in that condensed time frame. Appare-Ranman feels like a combination of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run with Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races.
Redline is a gorgeous anime movie that focuses on an infinitely competitive space race . This isn't a competition of an ordinary kind, but an extraordinary one, in that there are no rules to this thing. The hero of Redline is JP, a nonchalant racer, who is hell-bent on proving himself as the best of the best.
This is an anime that works on multiple fronts. It tells the story of a Spaniard cyclist Pepe, who has entered Vuelta a España, the Iberian cycling race , as a support rider. Things take a dramatic jump when it is revealed that the racing day is the same when Pepe's oldest brother Angel would marry his former girl friend, Carmen. If all of this wasn't enough, poor Pepe will be support riding through his home town of Andalusia. But wait, it gets worse, the sponsors are looking to drop Pepe from the team. Against, all odds, Pepe has to make it through the storm.
Uma Musume is the story of great racehorses who are reincarnated as horse girls. These girls aren't horses just in terms of speed and endurance but have also inherited horse-ears and tails. The best of the horse girls get a chance to attend Tracan Academy based in Tokyo.
An unabashed anime fan , Sakamichi Onoda is a happy-go-lucky guy who wants nothing more in the world than to join his school's anime club. But the club has limited membership, so it ends up getting disbanded. Sakamichi's resilience knows no bounds, and he decides to get friends on board. One day, when biking on his journey to Akihabara, he bumps into first-year, Shunsuke Imaizumi. Shunsuke is impressed by Sakamichi's ability to trek the difficult Akihabara terrain on his old bicycle. Quickly, Shunsuke challenges Sakamichi to a cycling race, promising to join the school anime club if he lost. Thus begins the bicycle diaries of Sakamichi.
Anime manages to capture the sport of racing well in these shows. There's not a single humanly or transcendental concept that anime has left untouched. There are as many genres of anime as far as the human reach can go, almost everything comes under their guise, racing anime being the case in point today.
Super Grand Prix is a fondly remembered anime classic from the '70s. The story follows Takaya who longs to be an F1 racer but manages to crash a stock car after slipping on oil. When he somehow comes out uninjured, he's approached by a mysterious man asking him to join a famous racing team while driving a unique new prototype car.
In the span of two years, eX-Driver released six OVAs, a single prequel OVA episode, and a movie in 2002. The anime takes place in a future where humans have forgotten how to drive since every vehicle is controlled by A.I. The only exceptions are the eponymous "eX-Drivers," and these people are tasked with stopping rogue A.I.
While fans have longed for a new F-Zero game for decades, sadly one has yet to come. However, fans can still get a taste of the iconic series they love by checking out the anime based on the franchise!
Clocking in at less than 30 minutes, Tailenders moves by at an absolutely blistering pace, and the movie manages to accomplish quite a lot despite its short runtime.
What's Up Mechadoc is an '80s anime often overlooked by western anime as it never received dubs outside of Japan and Italy. This is a shame as the show's attention to detail and amazingly tense races with vehicles anyone could buy makes it a show any petrolhead could get into.
The original Speed Racer from the 60s may have had some issues with recycling animation a bit too much and being a bit cheesy but it's still fondly remembered to this day. Its iconic opening theme is still stuck in the heads of many viewers to this day.
F follows Gunma Akagi as he goes from a boy living in the countryside to the next Formula 1 racing star. Directed by Atsuko Nakajima of Ranma ½ fame, the show features an emotionally powerful story that is sure to bring fans to tears.
Hoping to impress his crush in Mob Psycho 100, Mob enters a marathon. Mob does his his best to finish in the top ten despite having finished his last marathon in 291st place. This is a race that allows the viewer to root for a real underdog.
The students of Kaibara Municipal High School have to perform their yearly endurance test in a marathon. Kyo jumps at the chance to race against Yuki, desperate to prove that he is worthy of the Sohma name. In the few scenes fans see of their race, Yuki is effortless in his actions. Kyo is forced to work hard as usual.
With the intention of getting their driving licenses, Goku and Piccolo get behind the wheel in Dragon Ball Z. Though this doesn't start as a race, it quickly becomes one with a little light-hearted goading from Goku. Piccolo, determined to be the best driver, rushes through the course.
Misaki Ayuzawa is an intense character, especially on her school sports day. She intends to win every single race she enters. Though she wins all of her competitions with a steely determination, things become heated during the last race. The prize is a kiss from Hanazona Sakura, the most sought-after girl in the school.
Before this race even begins, things start off fiercely. Rancher Dario ensures his main rival, Lara, cannot compete by injuring her with the help of Team Rocket. With the help of Ash, Lara's Ponyta can still compete, ensuring a race for the ages.
In a race where all magic except flight is permitted, things were bound to get intense in Fairy Tail . This contest sees that every wizard has one shared goal past carrying their wyvern scale to the finish line. Characters don't want to come last as they'll suffer the punishment game for the loser.
As Kakashi's ' eternal rival', Guy issues a challenge to race from the village entrance to the top of Hokage Rock. They leap majestically over buildings, crash disgracefully down mountains, run through the village, and fight in midair.