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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.
* ''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.▼
Compare ''[[Initial D]]''.
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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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* [[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.
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