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Cool cars driven by amateurs aiming for 300km/h on Japan's longest freeway, Tokyo's [[wikipedia:Bayshore Route|Wangan-sen]], and the tuners that obsess over them. That's it in a nutshell. Starring Akio Asakura, a high school student, and the Devil Z, the Nippon counterpart to Christine.
Compare ''[[Initial D (Manga)|Initial D]]''.▼
* ''Wangan Midnight'', developed by Genki and released in 2001 as an arcade game, plays much like ''Shutokou Battle''--the object is to drain the opponent's [[Life Meter]] by maintaining a major advantage or causing the opponent to crash into things. It got an [[Expansion Pack]] called ''Wangan Midnight R'', and a PlayStation 2 port. More fleshed-out ''Wangan Midnight'' games made their ways to the PlayStation 3 and PSP, though those games didn't do so well.▼
* ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune'', developed by Namco, is the set of ''Wangan Midnight'' games as most fans know it. Originally released in 2004, ''Maximum Tune'' features a card system not unlike that of ''[[Initial D]] Arcade Stage'''s, more lenient and drifty driving physics, [[Scenery Porn|more colorful graphics]], a more traditional "point A to point B" racing system, and a tuning system in which you can tune your car [[Beyond the Impossible|all the way to 800 horsepower]] by completing 60 stages of Story Mode.
''Maximum Tune'' has become successful enough to receive multiple sequels, with each new one adding features such as 4-player racing, a more coherent Story Mode, more horsepower, and new courses like the Hakone mountain pass and new stretches of the Tokyo expressways.▼
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=== The anime and manga contains examples of: ===
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Face it, hardcore tuners are usually too obsessed with their cars they tend to have little to no time for romance (though some get better afterwards):
** Akio was actually [[Chick Magnet|very popular among the girls]] in his school (as shown in the episode when he greeted Rumi Shimada one morning at school - the girls in the background all had this look on their faces that screamed "[[Squee|SQUEE!!!]]"), but he's too obsessed with street racing to notice. Lampshaded by his best friend Ma who claimed that because Akio had to repeat a year from too many absences, the girls from the graduating class cried.
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Yoshiyaki Ishida, who drove a Ferrari in the manga and anime (and either a Gemballa Avalanche or a Subaru Alcyone SVX in the games), could street race pretty good. Also cool about him was being able to [[MacGyvering|replace a broken fanbelt with one made from a pantyhose]] (and he did it on his Ferrari).
* [[Crossover]]: To the Tokyo Extreme Racer series. The ??? wanderer especially.
* [[Distracted
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Akio's friend Ko-chan.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: After initially being rivals to each other, the main characters eventually seem to evolve into this when racing with later characters:
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** Keiichiro's Car - "Monster Machine"
** Tomoya's Car - "R Killer"
* [[Names to Know
** [[Shinichiro Miki]] - As mentioned in the [[Hey, It's That Voice!]], he voices Tatsuya.
** [[Tomokazu Seki]] - Voiced the original owner of the Z, the original Akio Asakura.
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGsSijjJtc&feature=related Voices of S30Z],'' also counts as [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]. Initially used for the ''Devil Z'' but later heard around other important cars too {{spoiler|except for Kijima's FC which instead gets a...}}
* [[One-Woman Wail]] - {{spoiler|For the final opponent in the animé Kijima's [[FC 3 S]] RX-7}}.
* [[Put
** As was everyone involved with Akio's high school, including Rumi Shimada (we don't even know if he graduated!). The anime also conspicuously omits any closure for Yoshiaki Ishida.
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The R200 Club.
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* [[Wrench Wench]]: Rikako Ota, daughter of RGO shop owner Kazuo Ota. She could dismantle and rebuilt a whole engine by herself down to the crankshaft (and did so to retune the Devil Z's engine itself!), and is in fact slated to inherit her father's shop.
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: Driving sequences frequently feature the same cars on the highway. In the arcade, it's yellow cars and vans. In the anime, look for taxi cars, pink Honda Fits, and white Toyota Celsiors.
▲''Wangan Midnight'' also exists as a series of video games.
▲''Wangan Midnight'', developed by Genki and released in 2001 as an arcade game, plays much like ''Shutokou Battle''--the object is to drain the opponent's [[Life Meter]] by maintaining a major advantage or causing the opponent to crash into things. It got an [[Expansion Pack]] called ''Wangan Midnight R'', and a PlayStation 2 port. More fleshed-out ''Wangan Midnight'' games made their ways to the PlayStation 3 and PSP, though those games didn't do so well.
▲''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune'', developed by Namco, is the set of ''Wangan Midnight'' games as most fans know it. Originally released in 2004, ''Maximum Tune'' features a card system not unlike that of ''[[Initial D]] Arcade Stage'''s, more lenient and drifty driving physics, [[Scenery Porn|more colorful graphics]], a more traditional "point A to point B" racing system, and a tuning system in which you can tune your car [[Beyond the Impossible|all the way to 800 horsepower]] by completing 60 stages of Story Mode.
▲''Maximum Tune'' has become successful enough to receive multiple sequels, with each new one adding features such as 4-player racing, a more coherent Story Mode, more horsepower, and new courses like the Hakone mountain pass and new stretches of the Tokyo expressways.
=== The ''Wangan Midnight'' games contain examples of: ===
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Not with the characters but with some of the cars. For example, Kazuo Ota's RX-7 is inexplicably pink in the games.
* [[
* [[Bad Export for You]]: The international version of ''Maximum Tune'' removes the Gemballa cars (Note: Gemballa is a prominent Porsche tuning company), as Namco didn't want to pay Porsche's, and by extension Gemballa's, legendary multi-hundred-million-dollar licensing fees to have them available outside of the Japanese version.
** As a result, [[Creator Provincialism]]: Forget about Detroit muscle or European supercars, only Japanese power goes here!
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* [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation]]: WMMT 3 -> WMMT 3 DX -> WMMT 3 DX Plus. So Namco, how about WMMT 4?
** [[Four Is Death|Not happening]] [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation|unless it's done]] [[Mission Pack Sequel|in it's current fashion]]. [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|Look at what the number 4]] [[Jumping the Shark|did to the]] [[Initial D|Initial D: Arcade Stage series]].
*** Looks like Namco has decided to move on to [http://arcadeheroes.com/2010/11/13/wangan-midnight-maximum-tune-4-coming-in-2011-dragon-ball-heroes-video/ 4]
* [[Car Fu]]: A tactic some players of the MT games resort to when dealing with opponents in a race, popularly known as ramming.
** [[It Gets Worse]]: Some skillful players can even use the Traffic Cars as throwing weapons by cleverly <s>playing dodgeball with them</s> bouncing them around the course, causing mayhem behind them. And now, in the 3DX+ update, even the AI gets in on the action.
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* [[Mercy Mode]]: In the original games, losing a stage and restarting it causes the opponent's life meter to start lower. In ''Maximum Tune'', the opponent becomes weaker.
** In [[MT 2]], if you lost the same stage ''three'' times in a row, on the fourth attempt the opponent would slow down to a crawl in the final kilometer. There were several stages that, were it not for this, would be impossible to beat for many, many players.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Story Mode in MT 1 and 2.
** 10 Opponent Outrun in 2 tops both. Simply ''clearing'' all 10 stages of any ''one'' course is a massive challenge.
* [[No Export for You]]: The Maximum Tune series is the only Wangan Midnight game series to receive English translation. The Japanese versions of the arcade games don't exactly fall into this, since it's up to the arcade operator/owner as to what he wants to have in his place. The only game that would truly fall into this would be Wangan Midnight R for the [[
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Black Pressure, Shima's theme song.
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: No car is allowed to start with more with than 300BHP in its stock form. This means that cars whose engines, even in stock form, produce more power than that limit will have their engine outputs nerfed accordingly.
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** WMMT 3DX+ : Adds the Fukuoka Expressway.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''Dead Heat'', a new arcade racer by Namco, which uses the same game engine as MT3.
* [[The Cameo]]: [[
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: In a matter of speaking. The Ghost Car in Ghost Battle is basically a replay of that player's run down to every turn, braking, and collision made. When playing against it, it will try to stay true to its recorded course to the point of easily pushing away traffic cars (whereas you tend to get mucked up trying the same thing), and if you and it collide, it will most certainly get away scott free while you are left in the dust (unless you are in front of it). It's especially frustrating when it's the Top Ghost Car of the course you are challenging.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Since WMMT 3, in Story Mode, if someone enters the race in mid-stage (particularly on the last stage of a story arc), their theme music will replace the current background music.
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: A variation. Tatsuya's Blackbird, a highly-modified 964-series Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6, causes some issues when it needs to be portrayed in a Wangan Midnight video game, since Porsche has consistently refused to allow Namco (who handles the Maximum Tune spinoff) or Genki (who handled the first arcade game, its [[
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: Every traffic car in the Namco-published games is either a Corolla, a Hiace, an R2, or an SUV. ''All of which have the exact same yellow-with-Namco-logo paintjob.''
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