Review by tomcapl

Yes, the drawings are cleaner, and they skipped some annoying parts in the story of the first anime, but they skipped too much :

• The characters fellings are not developped.

• Lot of character backgrounds have been skipped.

• You don't see any relationship between Takumi and his father.

• The technical parts about the engines, the cars improvements, the driving techniques have been reduced to the minimum.

• You don't see how they improve the cars.

• You don't feel the same excitement during races. Is it animation ? The lack of details of what makes a difference between the pilots ? They really seems they have skipped the best parts of each race.

• Music and sound treatment isn't as good as the original.

I was disapointed. I would really recomand to watch the original animation if you have never watched it. Even if the drawing style seems a bit odd and old.