Initial D DVD's get em cheap

[Messiah]

I've noticed a few people looking for initial D dvd lately and i thought i'd lend you all a hand if this includes you.

I have found many places that will sell you the entiretly of stage 1 (or worse only 13 eps for the us release) for about $89.00 US.

I was lucky enough to find a store that would sell me the following for the same price....

Stage One box set

Stage Two Box set

Stage Three Movie

Stage Four (or what they have made so far)

Battle Stage

Extra Stage

I wanted to hold off telling you all until i had received them and had a chance to check out the quality

Ok they arrived. The cases all look legit and professional. The DVD's were all pressed so they certainly arent ripped.

I havnt watched them all yet but the picture and sound quality so far is great, the only down side being the NTSC format making the image a little grainy.

The only thing that looks non-legit is the occasional appearance of "asia_cartoon@hotmail.com" appearing in the subtitles during interlude.

Other than that i'm very happy..... so go forth and shop and rest assured the dvd's wont be crap.

So if your interested head on over to.....

store.fivestarlaser.com

and get your piece of tofu shop fun.

And before you even mention it... i dont care how grateful you are i am not gonna have your babies

[Guest Mashrock]

i have every jap one thats been released so far.

all are legit japanese ones so your getting the real story unlike the shitty us dub english crap.

and i do also get the asia_cartoon@hotmail.com/ in some anyhoo.

i'm pretty sure thats who subtitled it.

check out on ebay.

about year and half ago i started buying it.

they were about 13 bucks each back then delivered.

[Mr R32 M-Spec]

I have pretty much everything on DVD except for fourth stage, waiting on that to finish

And I didn't think battle stage/extra stage were worth buying. pretty crap

mark

[Tigger]

Copyright and ethical issues aside, have you considered making DVD copies for sale?

Im sure there'll be plenty of interest on these forums alone, myself included

[daler32]

any chance of gettin the the covers?? i got hold of the riscs just wanna make it look nice buy puttin it in sum proper cases

[Mr R32 M-Spec]

I'm not sure mine are 100% originals, bought them in china town, but I paid a decent price for them 3 or 4 years ago when I bought series 1 / 2 / third stage

I'm not up for copying them man, I don't think anybody should. its just one of those series that is worth buying to ensure they keep doing things like this.

PLEASE don't pirate initial d, I have most of it and will buy fourth stage when its out on DVD, even If I've already seen most of it from the net

check this out

www.initialdthemovie.com

wicked, can't wait

mark

[Guest Mashrock]

true this. i still download ever episode off the net. but i also do buy the copies when they come out.

[Kaido_RR]

Copyright and ethical issues aside, have you considered making DVD copies for sale?

Im sure there'll be plenty of interest on these forums alone, myself included

due to initial d not being licenesed anime or something like that in japan it is legal to copy/download/sell the initial d dvds/vcd etc etc

soo its all good saying that im cant wait till the next eps of 4stage come out, it will be interesting to see the rx7 battle the evo boys (who uses dirty tricks like oil on the track) ohh yeah and the rx7 crash and get rebuilt (if u seen 12/13/14 u will know what the new rx7 will look like as it is in the intro)

[Messiah]

These does infact appear to be a warning at that start of each dvd... but its all in japanese so i cant read it anyway..... could be a copyright warning, might not be.

That said, if you want them, buy them yrself..... i downloaded the entire first stage but by that time i already had the dvd's on order, These look damn official to me and have the same sleave and print that i have found on various official dvd channels, i;d say they are legit as initial D can come.

[Mr R32 M-Spec]

good to see so many ppl agree.

if we pirate and don't buy, the stuff we love will dissappear

mark

[fluent]

that 'asia_cartoon@hotmail.com' is suspicious and is the released subbed initial d ones on the net. I assume they were converted to dvd, covers printed, dvd's pressed, looking legit etc.

A lot of dvd's sold on ebay are hard to tell if legit or not due to thier high counterfieting skills

oh yeh and i'm up to stage4 now, just got into intial d

[wilch]

Ok I'm confused with this whole thing.

ezy dvd lists them as indiviual "battles" 1 through to 10 (10 coming soon)

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/mech/quicksearch....tle&q=initial+d

Same with dvdpacific.

Yet when downloading and checkin gout the dvd's on fivestar they come in "stages" each of which has several episodes.

So what's the deal with the ezy DVD stuff? Are they just single episodes from stage 1??? If they are, why are there so few?

confuzzled,

wil..

[Matex]

if you clicked on them you would see that there are 3 episodes per dvd. I don't get that because the inital D eps i downloaded included 20 in the first season than 13 in the next one, than there was the 3rd stage movie. If thats the case are they combining the 2 into one series as the 33 episodes would go into 11 dvds, but it would make the naming of the third stage stupid as there would be no second stage.

Could it be that i missed season 2 completly and just downloaded stage 1 episodes under the false name of stage 2. DOes anyone have a definite number for season 1, 2 and 4 ??? and the third stage was a movie so don't try and point that out cause if you do you obviously haven't watched the series, or it oculd be that i am just misinformed :kick: