I sort of understand what they were going for in the beginning of Gaim.
Japanese culture is very hierarchical. Big on corporations and becoming rich and powerful, much like America. Japanese students fight very hard to get into colleges, much like most of Eastern culture, while in Western Culture, the dumb are very dumb so it is a cake walk for someone with a decent average to get to a decent college.
You have to be the smartest, fastest, most innovative, etc..
You have to be the best engineer, athlete, competitor, etc..
That gets me to my point.
I do not know about the first two Fast and the Furiouses, but I hated Tokyo Drift. Hated it. The main character gets everyone killed, on purpose, for no reason, just because he likes driving?
I'm 27.
Maybe if I was 14 again that would make sense to me, but it just sounds ridiculous to me now.
Tokyo Drift was written at such a stupidly written plot, I do not want to discuss it.
And while, Gaim is not quite on that level, you still have:
Micchy still not backing down from a fight just because Kouta and/or Mai are looking,
Kouta screws up all his jobs with the power of his Warring Lock,
Gaim just has to fight, because their dance stage is just that important to them.
I dunno. Maybe the subs are wrong, but it just seemed to be so badly written, it sort of embarrasses fans who enjoy the genre.
You see? It just gets on that level of ridiculous machismo that probably got out of enjoying Go-onger, because it looked like Pokemon (but did not have that many episodes!) mentality.
I hear episode 11 it gets better and that Rider that scared the crap out of Kouta seemed pretty cool, but gosh. If you don't believe me, fine. I am probably going into this Rider with the wrong mentality and need a reset.
Happy New Year.
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