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> What's your thoughts on 'Fujiwara Zone'?
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Posted: Feb 13 2013, 10:33 PM


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The last episode of anime made it make more sense, because it could be explained that
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the exhaust of the 86 is laced with neurotoxins.... the toxins are sucked through the opponents air conditioning and/or turbo chargers and after a decent amount of exposure the opponent sees some serious trippy sh*t that my friends is the Fujiwara zone
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QUOTE (Metamorphic @ Yesterday, 3:30 AM)
the exhaust of the 86 is laced with neurotoxins.... the toxins are sucked through the opponents air conditioning and/or turbo chargers and after a decent amount of exposure the opponent sees some serious trippy sh*t that my friends is the Fujiwara zone

And this my friends... Is the answer. Everything makes sense now! We all know Takumi's secret! laugh2.gif

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QUOTE (TruNinja619 @ Jan 27 2013, 02:30 AM)
I tried searching for this topic, but couldn't find it.

IMO, i think it's his adaptability to the race environment/conditions in real time and able to make the adjustments on-the-fly to beat out his opponents/capitalize on their mistakes.

Thoughts?

It is something that he can do because of how long he has been driving in the touge racing style. Drift 1000 corners, you are pretty much 1000x better than you were the first time you did it. After long enough you completely realize how to do something better in the process of doing it. Like imagine its like sword fighting, you have battled so much, and trained so much, that now instead of just attack and defend, you can start the motion of an attack or defense, then in mid motion, switch it into something else than planned to make it the best possible outcome for you, like realizing during a defense move your opponent has an opening and dodging and attacking that instead of of just a block like you had originally thought.

This all comes with the ability to break the action you are doing down into something that you can see in some sort of a slow motion would be the best way to describe it. Analyzing how you are doing basically and then adjusting accordingly. He can take a corner, and start off and then realize that at a certain point, he can alter something to exit it faster. It is something that comes with a lot of practice on one certain talent. Like tennis players are really good, and can see where the ball is heading just after the opponent has rallied it back to them, before it has even moved more than 1 foot in the air towards them. You gain the ability to just know.

Takumi has an even better sense of this, because of the water cup that was placed in his car all those years of delivering / training. Because he had to to pay attention to the cup as well as his driving, he learned that to not spill it at all, he had to make those little adjustments and that ultimately had the effect of creating this ability that only he, and Bunta, or anyone else who has that ability to not spill the water. Which leads to an amazing sense of concentration, sense of surroundings, sense of how the car is moving, and also realizing the center of you cars gravity and manipulating it.

My theory.

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...I take back what I said in that other thread. Not like it matters. This blows my theory (not posted) out of the water.

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QUOTE (KyoukoFD3S @ 45 minutes, 40 seconds ago)
...I take back what I said in that other thread. Not like it matters. This blows my theory (not posted) out of the water.

like, in a bad or good way. let me know if it doesnt make sense or I am dumb plz



Also, how it is completely awkward to the drivers behind him, seeing something like what we see in the anime, can be explained like this.

Night time driving and only seeing what your headlights, and streetlights (how many streetlights are even on a mountain pass like those) see, something like a car speeding out of your lights field of vision, could look a bit awkward at high speeds. This probably makes it look like hes going much faster, because to them, they probably only see the taillights and a peripheral vision of what the car in front is illuminating with its headlights. Darkness plus moving lights at high speeds plus having to focus immensely hard on not crashing and being burned alive or smooshed, probably makes things that don't seem right to begin with(getting to that), look even more fucked up.

The reason it looks like he is driving a 4wd is most likely because of the slight adjustments he can make, which i explained in my last post which is that way ^^,
adding all of the factors that make it look hella weird I just explained. All adding into the person who is viewing perception of the car performing way different compared to what they think it is capable of. All of this and really only seeing the headlights and tail lights, and their eyes adjusting to the breaklights going off as the car accelerates and the brakes are released, giving it illusions of stability and more speed. Which can be confused as 4WD or holy fucking shit balls.

I really like how I get to use my lighting design and stageworking practices in an anime / manga series' message board.... Now if I can just learn correct grammar and english I will be set. derp.gif derp.gif

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About the illusion of the Fujiwara zone, it can be seen by the opposing driver. Theoretically, what if Takumi performs it in a corner with a decent amount of gallery/viewers, will they also see the illusion of the fujiwara zone??? confused.gif
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QUOTE (HyperSonic @ 32 minutes, 42 seconds ago)
About the illusion of the Fujiwara zone, it can be seen by the opposing driver. Theoretically, what if Takumi performs it in a corner with a decent amount of gallery/viewers, will they also see the illusion of the fujiwara zone??? confused.gif

take a flashlight, and move the light in front of someone in a room of complete darkness. Then, take another light, and have it fixed onto where you are holding the flashlight your first had, and move it into the dark. Once it moves into the dark it starts to have a small trailing effect. Which looks very odd if the flashlight's light actually is illuminating a very specific area with a hard ring, in which it goes from full light to complete darkness, but even more strange if the light has a bright center, and then fades as you move away. This is what the gallery would see if the opponent was following Takumi, coupled with his already intense driving skill in which they all jizz their pants and someone elses as well. Also the speed already in place would probably make the effect make way more jizz-in-random-place-tastic. And if you were to somehow be racing uphill, while the battle downhill is going on and catch them at the right moment, and see this effect happen. It would be like holy fucking shitballs batman.

Now, if keisuke did his Spring Dash, or as I like to call it, Kenyan Sprint, uphill and seeing this effect, it would most likely end up like this.

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First of all... Hi, I'm new tongue.gif. Anyway!

This series has been my racing bible as far as I can remember! I remember going in track days and a few touge runs, then I watch the series again and suddenly learn new things. It's a long shot, but I would like to believe Initial D is realistic as far as the concepts and stuff. So I'll give this theory busting a shot tongue.gif.

Fujiwara Zone. What we have so far.

1. In the eyes of the enemy
2. An unexpected burst of speed
3. was said to rival 4wd

And the blurs happen at the exits right? Well at least that's what I remember (please correct me if I'm wrong). I think Fujiwara Zone focuses on corner exit, at the point where cornering forces forces transitions to acceleration forces. But i guess if it involves that then it also involves braking forces transitioning to cornering forces because if Takumi can do the corner to exit transition, he could do the braking to cornering as well.

A little background on what I believe to be is the fastest line. Enter the corner, over speed a taaaaaaad bit, get into an oversteer, but not really a drift (I call it angle of attack. Basically it's the zero counter steer method where the car is turning but your steering wheel is dead center) to carry as much speed as you can through the corner, then, as you squeeze the throttle for the exit, you only put as much throttle to rotate the car to keep it turning, but as the same time, you transition the tires form cornering to exiting. Then once you reach 100% throttle, the tires could already support it 100%. I'll explain further later.

I think Fujiwara zone focuses on how Takumi really knows the 86 like the back of his hand. He could pin point exactly what the tires are doing, and transition them from one task to another and waste 0 of the tires potential.

farnorthracing.com/images/gripcircle.jpg
I can't post links yet but that's the visual aid I wanted to show/ rolleyes.gif

I'm sure you guys have heard of the traction circle. Basically, the outer circle is the absolute limit of the car (note I didn't say tires). Any more than that, and the car won't turn or brake or accelerate. I didn't say it's the limit of the tires because you can be oversteering and still be in the circle. An example would be when you're in a drift, but you are technically understeering because your car washing out of the course. To put into perspective what I said above, technically, to get the fastest time, you need to always be on that limit of the traction circle. Think of the G-ball. You need to trace that circle with the G-ball. When you brake, the ball hits the upper line. Then when you corner, the ball hits the limit on the side,. When you accelerate, the ball hits the lower side.

The basics of racing will teach you this:
Brake 100% Then 0% and let the car settle
Corner 100% Then back to 0%
Then 100% throttle

But ideally once you graduate from the basics:
Brake Corner
100% 0%
99% 1%
98% 2%
97% 3%
... ...
3% 97%
2% 98%
1% 99%
0% 100%

And it's the same for cornering transitioning to accel. I think even pros have a hard time doing the transition that smoothly. Like there might be a time where he's baking at 50% but is only cornering at 40% or something (not real figures) so he lost 10% of the tires potential that could have carried him more speed on the corner and/or enabled him to get a faster exit speed.

So back to the Fujiwara Zone. I think Takumi has the ability to trace that outer line better than most people could. And the proof lies in the Tofu.

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Scenario (Note I believe that the following figures are exaggerated):
Takumi and his opponent is about to exit the corner, his opponent thinks, to the best of his senses and abilities that he is tracing the traction circle. But really, while he is unwinding from the turn, he was 50% turning and 30% accelerating while Takumi, knowing the 86 so well, is 50% turning, 50% accelerating. So on that specific instance Takumi is accelerating for the main straight 20% harder than his opponent. (But I think in reality the discrepancy is smaller but happens rapidly in the microseconds that they are in that corner).

To his opponent, it is impossible to accelerate any harder at the current situation they are in... But Takumi did! So for them, it's an unexpected burst of speed that literally came out of nowhere (or rather, outside of their comprehension since they genuinely believe that they too are at the limit of the traction circle). Hence, the teleportation effect! Voila! Fujiwara Zone!

That's why the opponents tend to get confused and say "does that 86 have 4wd" since the only way they can imagine Takumi exiting a corner at the fashion he was was for Takumi to have 4wd. (note... It's a pet peeve of mine that most people believe that 4wd gives you magical cornering ability that exceeds 2wd... Um... No... What 4wd does is give you magical abilities when exiting a corner. And it's not even magical tongue.gif. Imagine trying to put down 600hp with only 2 tires, that's 300hp per tire, compared to putting down the same power with 4 tires, 150hp per tire.)

Whoa that was long happy.gif . I hope I made sense unsure.gif


Oh, as for the gallery seeing the "teleportaiton," I believe people who really race and understand would see it. But for the regular gallery, they won't. The'll just see the 86 going really fast! Drivers who really battle understand when his opponent is pulling away from him, even if the distance of the cars does not seem to be widening for the people who never experienced it before. I experienced it on my first grid race, battling for first, I could see my opponent in front pull away slightly, but then I gain again in certain ares. For the spectators, they think that we're just keeping a certain distance. But as for my friends who were watching (they also are racing nuts), they see the areas where I pull up and where I get left behind. It's the same when you watch racing and you can tell that a certain car is slightly oversteering while cornering and he's using it to corner faster. Most people won't notice that and consider the car to just be grip driving.

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Man, that the best explanation so far.
Thanks Jhaqastar for enlightening me. smile.gif
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Now thats a detailed explanation. laugh2.gif
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I believe if it was something that wasn't bullshit the they wouldn't have people explaining it as something that doesnt make sense but happens anyway and cant be explained in any kind of logical terms...i think
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I believe you need to be an automotive expert to understand Jhaqastar's post because I have absolutely no idea what I have just read..........
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Quick read I can gather he means that Takumi is able to use the tires at 100% efficiency when in the zone.
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Have you guys ever driven/chased an AWD or go on touge runs? I have, and the sudden burst of acceleration mid corner is something RWD/FWD/MR cars can only dream of. It all boils down to available traction and point of acceleration, and guess what, anyone on this forum can do it if a) you have the balls and skills or cool.gif a good tail happy AWD i.e. GTRs and Evos.

Just planting your foot down much earlier than your opponent mid corner while using all of the available traction will make your AWD/car look like Fujiwara Zone in the anime. As for true Fujiwara Zone, I think Shigeno is trying to say that being one with the car and maximising its potential within an environment is the pinnacle of man/machine interface. Look to WRC videos for these kind of superhuman techniques.

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QUOTE (Soran @ Jan 28 2013, 06:23 AM)
Fujiwara Zone = Shigeno having an overdose of his daily weed intake

I agree! I connected better with the old Initial D since it felt more real. This stage has gotten a little less real that the previous stages.
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You really don't understand a damn thing about it... facepalm.gif
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Then what do the wings comprise? :v
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QUOTE (Gunma's 34 @ 7 hours, 6 minutes ago)
Then what do the wings comprise? :v

Skill, just skill, it means Takumi reached the highest point.
I think when Bunta drove the AE86 and Shin was looking at it, he would see wings like Takumi too! biggrin.gif
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QUOTE (Vortrex @ 5 hours, 2 minutes ago)
Skill, just skill, it means Takumi reached the highest point.
I think when Bunta drove the AE86 and Shin was looking at it, he would see wings like Takumi too! biggrin.gif

Nah, it just means Takumi's 86 transformed into an alicorn :v

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QUOTE (Vortrex @ 5 hours, 35 minutes ago)
Skill, just skill, it means Takumi reached the highest point.
I think when Bunta drove the AE86 and Shin was looking at it, he would see wings like Takumi too! biggrin.gif

Doubt it. I'll say more than just wings, he could've had a black aura and a halo laugh2.gif laugh2.gif laugh2.gif
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QUOTE (Gunma's 34 @ 1 hour, 8 minutes ago)
Nah, it just means Takumi's 86 transformed into an alicorn :v

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On the other hand: you're right tongue.gif

And to Rensuke: Wings suits racing more then a Halo. tongue.gif
And also, Takumi has a aura: a green one. smile.gif

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QUOTE (Vortrex @ Yesterday, 10:32 PM)
And to Rensuke: Wings suits racing more then a Halo. tongue.gif
And also, Takumi has a aura: a green one. smile.gif

YOUTUBE ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Fhv_E2m-E )

A video with Takumi's aura
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SEGA/SHIGENO MAKE UP YOUR MIND ALREADY!!! Is it green or is it blue???!!!

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