YMMV / REDLINE

• Awesome Music: "Yellow Line" and "Redline Day" — the first is a pumping rocking tune that is ideal for the action sequences. "Redline Day" meanwhile is a gentle, breezy and somewhat melancholic track perfect for the movie's final scene and credits, wrapping up the anime perfectly.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • Sonoshee watching T.V. topless, with no Nipple and Dimed. While complaining about how the interview with her playing on the TV showed off her ass, oh and she was also eating some cherries rather suggestively.
    • The cherry eating is also a not-so-subtle Call-Back to Sonoshee's embarrassing (to her) nickname Cherryboy Hunter, which she and JP had been talking about in the previous scene.
  • There was also a BLAM way before that: A quick shot of some viewers watching the race on TV, in a completely different art style, ending in a Smash to Black Beat for extra audience disorientation.
• Crazy Is Cool: The entire Redline race is full of competitors that can best be described as this.
  • One reviewer summed it up as this: "as if the cast of Top Gear raced through minefields on the North Korean border or the cast of the Cannonball Run took on Darth Vader." Or if the Wacky Racers took on The Flood.
• End of an Age: Because it flopped at the box office, this movie is probably the last big budget cel animated film that will ever be made.
• Heartwarming Moments: After J.P. and Sonoshee win the Red Line, all the other racers just hang back with smiles on their faces. Even newly-dethroned ex-champion Machinehead has nothing but good will and congratulations, clearly caring more about the race than actually winning.
  • JP reminiscing about when he met Sonoshee for the first time when they were kids, watching her crash in a junior racing circuit, and being inspired by her hot blooded determination to unstick her car and get back in the race. Even though she doesn't seem to remember, he was smitten with her ever since.
  • Frisbee defrosting while watching JP's antics during Redline. We see him manage to chuckle for the first time when JP does his spinning nitro water skimming trick, only to be scolded by Inuki. Then after all the crazy shit that happened, when it comes down to the final stretch, Inuki suggests it's time to sabotage JP's car, but Frisbee has finally had enough of race fixing and wants to give JP his shot at glory.
    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! I've taken everything from him! I want to see him win for once in his life!
• Memetic Mutation: SEVEN YEARS! HANDDRAWN!
  • Hijacking your post right in the mi-UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ
• Spiritual Adaptation:
  • REDLINE is an intergalactic Blood Sport racing league. Host to racers from across the cosmos, a humble humanoid racer eschews the Vehicular Combat of his competitors in favor of his wits and speed, all while the mob threatens to rig the race. In other words, this is pod racing.
  • It's also the closest you're gonna get to a modern anime adaption of F-Zero.
• Superlative Dubbing: The English cast loved the movie and had the time of their lives recording the dub, while working with a localized script that was brave enough to translate a line like "We'll never catch up to them" to "Fuck this. They're too fast". Special praise in particular to Dave Mallow and Spike Spencer, 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.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs:
  • Described by some as Wacky Races or F-Zero GX on crack.
  • When Kwenton Bellette reviewed it for Twitch Film, he said it was Speed Racer 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."

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