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** It is, in part, a translator thing since in the voice-over Himeko only stated that the car passing her is a "Hachiroku", and neither the original text or the translated text make any description of the headlights that could be used to identify the variant. A well-informed fan, of course, knows that a Toyota AE-86 comes in two forms, both available as a 2-door notchback coupe or a 3-door hatchback: the Corolla Levin (as the text said), and the more famous Sprinter Trueno. The translators made it a bit more funny, since there are actually two Levins in [[Initial D]]: the ''AE86'' Levin owned by Wataru Akiyama, and the ''AE85'' Levin owned by [[Butt Monkey|Itsuki Takeuchi]].
* [[Soap Opera Disease]]: The first game and prequel have a total of four terminally ill characters; not one of their ailments is ever specified, although one of the translators [http://narcissu.insani.org/med.html#4.1 has done some speculation.] At any rate, none of them seems to be sick enough to prevent them from traveling all over the country and subsisting on junk food.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: In the third game, one of the stories takes place in medieval Europe and stars a [[Action Girl|swordfighting]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]]. No, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125151903/http://www.kadohobi.jp/narcissu/images/ch4/04.jpg seriously.] Incidentally, it's the only one of the game's four stories written by Tomo Kataoka himself.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: No mention is ever made of clinical psychologists or psychiatrists on the 7th floor hospice {{spoiler|despite how hospice inpatients are known for starving themselves to death; it's in the "rules"}}. This may be [https://web.archive.org/web/20100705230344/http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/48/6/517 justified] by the relatively low numbers of such people in the Japanese health system and the cultural stigma against seeking psychiatric help.
** That said, [[Truth in Television|it's fairly common]] in [[Real Life]] for terminal patients to intentionally starve (or more commonly, dehydrate) themselves in order to hasten death, even in places where physician-assisted suicide is legal. Some end-of-life care professionals even recommend it outright.
* [[Utsuge]]: Many have admitted to crying over the original game. However, this is a unique case, as this was not the intentional on the part of Kataoka; according to his notes for the second game, he was surprised that so many have reacted in such away. As such, in ''side 2nd'', he attempted to downplay the deteriorating health and death of the characters in order to have his messages and themes stand out more over the "tear-jerker" elements that would have his audience empathize with the characters.
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