You are worthy of the praise as well this was such a heartfelt goodbye to the story I cried this story like the driving leads you through the corners from start to finish it shows the path and walks with you like his fc you experience it and it flows into your mind like a beautiful piano melody i am glad to have been here for this and i am looking forward to your future stories have a great one and may you be forever blessed as you given us this blissful art

Honestly I didn't even know what Initial D was before I stumbled across this when looking through old gamer fics and wasn't finding anything interesting so thought I'd give this a shot based on how long it is, and I am glad I stuck around. As with all things there are definitely some improvements to be made a couple spelling mistakes (like "put his foto down" in the last chapter) some points being repeated but overall I wasn't expecting something of this level of quality when I went into this.

Honestly I've never been interested in cars or racing but the passion you put into describing those races and taking about the engineering was something else, and it felt like you really captured the feel of the anime and understood the characters and did a great job at developing them.

Honestly I just hope that you find another idea that you're equally passionate about in the future because despite not getting as much popularity as it deserves due to being a more obscure fandom this fic is much like Ryosukes FC it belongs in a museum. And in a way like the rotary engine win any race with the right driver, even people who originally had no interest in the original anime or the subject matter can be won over by the right writer.

ty ty its been a great read up to here. in all honesty i prefer if the story had ended here (NOT COZ ITS BAD OR ANYTHING) its literally just my own preference like literally nothing wrong with the story or author AT ALL. With that outta the way lol, I can say I did enjoy the slice of life / romance aspects that you dabbled in. I may not read anymore just to savour the W but who knows. Again great work! very nice :)

RIP. GOOD READ! Yeah some things were murky and maybe you forgot their nationalityPanama to Argentina) but still! enjoyable read. finished in a week! Hope you're moving onto bigger and better things. Best of luck man

Who is this from the perspective of...?

It would be awesome if Ryosuke grinded on his engineering skill

Would be awesome if he developed a surgical bot arms for micro surgeries ahead of his time

Maybe invest in android and take over so he could have better smart phones

Oooh and definitely facebook and amazon XD

Be the merchant of Life

Oooh Ryosuke could totally “discover” medical shit too and make history again

Like discovering physical evidence of the concussion and making better treatment plans for hepatitis C to make it entirely curable

Oooh and better cancer treatments ahead of his time XD

He could totally and absolutely milk his future knowledge

Plus it would be kinda a dick move to not abuse his meta knowledge and the gamer system for medical advancements at least

Leave a big ass footprint on the Annals of human history

Making a big ass corporate empire in Japan and beyond when he retires from racing full time and becomes a part time coach and sometimes racer for his lil bro would just be a big ass bonus to his altruistic heart XD

Richest and most influential man in the world using the gamer system

Maybe if he exercises he’d be able to indefinitely look young lol

Or make a extremis formula for his whole family and girl fiend to be immortal humans XD

SIDE NOTE
It’s kinda insulting how his dad is so much of a hard ass tho

Not even looking at Ryosuke while they were talking

that’s just freakin rude

Normal people would be teasing or at least be smiling and patting him on the back for how much Ryosuke accomplished

Like his dad isn’t doesn’t even acknowledge how much of a freak of nature his son is in all that he does

Like

If not for the gamer system no way Ryosuke could balance being the best street and pro racer with being the best med student ever

Plus having a girlfriend

There’s absolutely no way to he’d find the time to be that extrodinaryly badass in those 3 things and not burn out horribly if not for the gamer system

I have always enjoyed ryosuke in the older brother/mentor role he took up with Takamine I hope that still happens when he wins

gamers mind must be so nice to have, so unrealistic tho, i also hate when authors use it as an escape but it rarely happens, like ever

I'm more of a root for the underdog kind of person. wish there 2as a takumi fic like this

Masterpiece. I think that's the best way to describe this ff.
I always wanted to read an initial D ff in which Takumi was defeated by Ryosuke and did not take part in Project D and this ff perfectly fulfills my wish. Congratulations, you wrote something unrepeatable, fantastic, moving, I can't find the words to describe it.
Thank you for giving us this. C4tt1v3n, a big fan of the character Ryosuke Takahashi.

Thank you
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This is a masterpiece. I thank you for giving us this gift. I know it's been long since this was finished but I couldn't have asked for a better ending
So, thank you for putting in the effort, time and energy to create this
May you live well

He's inspiring everyone that's sweet

This chapter started showing him living in the moment so to speak, I mean long conversation between characters. Not just a recount of anime put in everything he ever thought. I mean, in for every events happening, there would be canon event mentioned, and that's a bad way of writing because "too much canon" written here. Not so much as living in a real life would, like I mentioned in my prev review.

Although for a reader like me who never watch the franchise, it's pretty informative and easy to spot which is canon and which is not.

Hopefully further down the road, your tones/style in writing get changed; better mention or write "canon/anime" word less. Writing informative plotline from original is fine, just not "anime this and that" kind of things.

But still, I enjoy reading it.

His overly obsession about "I knew everything" because he watched anime bleed into everything in his life, like his thinking, feeling, personality, even the way he tells people about everything because "I know all" is crossing the line of being stupidly "everything here is not real".
He just lives in anime series, not actually living a real life. And the tones of all you've written so far pointed it all. It's just retelling of recorded story (already produced and shown), nothing "here is real world". Everything down to daily interaction to personal/internal monologues.

Wow. What a ride.

It was good to see certain things remedied with ease like Hojo Rin not turning into an anchor for a shinigami because Ryosuke went out with his fiance, that he got with Mako since they had such a fundamental interest in common, plus how he got Keisuke away from destructive influences and on the right path.

More than all of that was a wealth of technical knowledge as well as examining that with more planning and frank assessment of circumstances that it was far easier than it had been in the anime. Well done. :)