Series · 2007
Wangan Midnight
湾岸ミッドナイト
Akio becomes attached to a heavily tuned Nissan Z with a dangerous reputation. On Tokyo’s expressways, the car draws him towards drivers who are equally absorbed by their machines, including a surgeon whose Porsche is known as the Blackbird.
The rivals do not all live as professional racers. The Blackbird’s driver, Tatsuya Shima, is a surgeon, while Reina Akikawa drives a Skyline GT-R and works as a model. Their separate lives converge around the pursuit of speed on the same roads.
The expressway brings these separate lives into the same narrow space. Akio’s blue Z appears beneath street lighting, its headlights almost level with the road, with another car following behind. The setting gives the machinery a different frame from a fenced circuit: these encounters belong to the city that the drivers return to after work and school.
Original TV · Approx. 11 hours · 26 episodes
Complete 2007 television adaptation, 26 episodes; excludes live-action films and manga-only material. Timing is a nominal estimate from the explicitly sampled licensed episode label, not a measured whole-run sum.