History YMMV / RedLine

* AcclaimedFlop: It failed to make back its budget at the Japanese box office, sending Creator/{{Madhouse}} into bankuptcy, and yet has absolutely rave reviews. Although it did see greater success following its home release and has been recognised as a CultClassic.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Yellow Line and Red Line Day - The first is a pumping rocking tune that is ideal for the action sequences. Red Line Day meanwhile is a gentle, breezy and somewhat melancholic track perfect for the movie's final scene and credits, wrapping up the anime perfectly.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment

--->'''Inuki:''' [''Holding a check with an absurd value''] I'm paying you both more than enough, so what difference does it make when you blow his car or not! Get it done, or give me the detonator and I'll do it myself!\\
'''Frisbee:''' I wanna see him do it just this once! He's so close! [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I've taken everything from him]]! I want to see him ''win for once in his life!''

* SpiritualAdaptation: ''REDLINE'' is an intergalactic BloodSport racing league. Host to racers from across the cosmos, a humble humanoid racer eschews the VehicularCombat of his competitors in favor of his [[TechnicalPacifist wits and speed]], all while the mob threatens to rig the race. In other words, [[Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace this is pod racing]].
** It's also the closest you're gonna get to a modern anime adaption of VideoGame/FZero.

* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: Described by some as ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' or ''[[VideoGame/FZero F-Zero GX]]'' ''on crack''.

** Youtube user "Steak" describes it as ,"It's like Speed Racer, Space Dandy, and Jet Set Radio Future had a giant cocaine induced 3 way with acid."

'''Frisbee:''' I wanna see him do it just this once! [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I've taken everything from him]]! I want to see him ''win for once in his life!''

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite threats of intergalactic war from Roboworld, the REDLINE race playfully ignored all warnings, managed to cause reckless, irreparable destruction to Roboworld's military, government, and secret biological weapons program, all for entertainment and sport. The Pricess of Planetgrass playfully painted the finish line by *crashing her ship* into the Roboworld headquarters. Is it all for RefugeInAudacity or could that have been the plan all along?

* MemeticMutation: [[DoingItForTheArt SEVEN YEARS! HANDDRAWN!]]

* SpiritualLicensee: ''REDLINE'' is an intergalactic BloodSport racing league. Host to racers from across the cosmos, a humble humanoid racer eschews the VehicularCombat of his competitors in favor of his [[TechnicalPacifist wits and speed]], all while the mob threatens to rig the race. In other words, [[Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace this is pod racing]].

** It's also the closest you're gonna get to a modern anime adaption of VideoGame/F-Zero.

!!! The Anime

!!! The Video Game
* NightmareFuel:
** The Templar Sanctum. There are templars [[CruelAndUnusualDeath crucified to the walls]], and even some of the Templars you fight are [[CombatSadomasochist Horribly mutilated]]. There's also some kind of InitiationCeremony where you have to push 4 red hot switches (which damage you as long as you are in contact with them). Even Liddy says [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness "This place gives me the creeps"]].
* ScrappyMechanic: All of the games cutscenes are in-engine, and, infuriatingly, your character can still be damaged and killed during a cutscene even though you can't move or do anything to fight back. Why anyone thought this was a good idea is a mystery, especially considering the game does have a GodMode cheat, so you can't just say the engine wouldn't allow it.
* ThatOneBoss: multiple examples:
** The Prototype Templar Tank in level 3 is quite a step up from [[WarmUpBoss Rant]]. It doesn't use it's {{BFG}} (a blue blob of energy that basically one-shots anything) but still has dual {{Hitscan}} lasers, and a [[DamageSpongeBoss ton of hp on each "side"]], so much you will likely use up all your ammo, although fortunately there are two pick-ups that completely refill your weapons. Occasionally the tank will [[ArtificialStupidity get stuck trying to turn, allowing you to wail on it if you get really close,]] but usually gets free after a couple of seconds.
** [[spoiler: Borik]]. He's supposed to be a MirrorMatch (same car, same hp, same weapons) but clearly has ''much'' more hp than your car (if you try just ramming into him and shooting, your car will always explode long before his even has the windows broken.) As if this weren't bad enough, midway through the fight you learn he [[OhCrap informed some of the Red Sixers,]] who join in and start attacking,thankfully, Liddy eventually comes in help in the Company Tank you recovered back in level 3
** The HighPriest (codenamed "Archmagus") in the Templar Sanctum. He can TeleportSpam and has an electric attack which does about 80 damage a hit. Thankfully, if you still have the Gauss cannon, it's pretty good vs him.
** The Leper boss (codenamed Golem) He's not as bad as the Templar boss, but is still hard due to having to fight him in a cramped control room with little room to dodge (his only gun does quite a bit of damage), and a few {{Mooks}} in the area with him.
** [[spoiler: the rematch with Rant as the FinalBoss]]. Take the Templar Tank fight, only give the player just a few crappy, and badly damaged, vehicles to fight him with (with only a couple pickups in the area). Even after you destroy the tank you (spoiler: have to fight Rant again on foot, Who has TakenALevelInBadass since the level one fight.

* ThatOneLevel: "Boom". Right after the starting cutscene where you sell the [[MacGuffin serum from the previous level]] to some people, you find out they have put a TimeBomb on your car, as well as making all the doors impossible to open, thus, your only hope is to make it to a Company garage and have them cut you out [[TimedMission before the bomb explodes]]. Not only is the level pretty hard, including having to successfully drive across two narrow bridges at high speed (the time limit is tight enough that you don't really have time to slow down and line up your car), but, if you take too long due to crashing and/or getting into fights, it might be [[{{Unwinnable}} straight up impossible to make it to the end in whatever time you have left over]] forcing you to restart the level.

* AcclaimedFlop: It failed to make back its budget at the Japanese box office, sending Creator/{{Madhouse}} into bankuptcy, and yet has absolutely rave reviews. Although it did saw greater success following its home release and has been recognised as a CultClassic.

* CrazyAwesome: The entire Redline race is full of competitors that can best be described as this.

* AcclaimedFlop: It failed to make back its budget at the Japanese box office, sending Creator/{{Madhouse}} into bankuptcy, and yet has absolutely rave reviews.

* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The English cast loved the movie and had the time of their lives recording the dub, while working with a [[{{Woolseyism}} localized script]] that was brave enough to translate a line like "We'll never catch up to them" to "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck this]]. They're too fast". Special praise in particular to Dave Mallow and SpikeSpencer, who perfectly emulate the cadence of racing commentators. Plus, James Shimoji wrote most of ''REDLINE'''s songs with English lyrics, which lends a more English-friendly atmosphere to ''REDLINE'' than most other anime.