Funny / Wangan Midnight

The anime and manga

• Gen Sasaki (aka Gatchan) has silly reactions even on fast cars. Especially as a passenger.
• R200 Club's Epic Fail moment when two of their R33s crashing after being overtaken by Devil Z, Black Bird and Reina's R32 has those two R33 drivers Yasuo Motoki and Ryoichi Tezuka shouting in a hilariously bad way. The background music used during the crash (in the anime, not video games) made it even more hilarious, combined with Yasuo's hammy shout.
  Yasuo: What the hell are you doing? You idiot! *promptly crashes onto Ryoichi's car*

The video game adaptations (particularly Maximum Tune)

• When any car receives its first power upgrade, regardless of the car's starting power, it will jump immediately to 360 HP. Even if it's the Subaru R2, which will gain 296 HP from that first step alone!^note The R2's first power upgrade is a full-on engine swap as opposed to a bolt-on turbo or a boost controller
  • Some of the upgrades for the Toyota Celsior. Apparently window stickers, air horns and golden badges improve handling. Expect no less from the tuner responsible.^note Gatchan is the one who upgrades players' Celsiors as opposed to Kitami
  • Just the fact that any vehicle in the game can be tuned up to 800 HP, and them some^note 815, 820, 825, 830, or 840 HP, depending on the game. Jun "Tuner from Hell" Kitami is the one to apply the final upgrades to your vehicle, and his dialogue is the same regardless of your vehicle, meaning he takes tuning the Toyota Corolla (compact sedan), Subaru R2 (keicar), or Toyota HiAce (minivan) just as seriously as tuning Akio's Devil Z, a Nissan GT-R, or a Lamborghini Aventador.
• The fact that the Celsior is actually one of the better cars for VS Mode. While it may not have the best handling or acceleration, it is a high-volume, high-weight car that can easily block and shove away other cars. Stories of GT-Rs and FDs being beaten by Celsiors are not all that uncommon, while in any other game, you'd be stupid to go up against a vehicle tailor-made for competitive performance in a luxury sport sedan.
• Maximum Tune 4 Story Mode:
  • In Chapter 16, as soon as the race starts Masaki will express dislike of the player's car regardless of the model. This can cause him to contradict himself should the player's car be an FD series RX-7^note The RX-7 Type R or the Bathurst R variant if the starting color is Sunburst Yellow as he will express his love for the FD series RX-7 around 2 minutes later in the race.
    Masaki: The FD. I don't like it.
    (approximately 3 km away from the goal...)
    Maami: What's an FD?"
    Masaki: A Mazda RX-7.
    Maami: Mmm. You like those?
    Masaki: I love 'em.
  • Chapter 27:
    • From the eyecatch's monologue:
      "15 years of passion from seven men is wrapped up in that silver body."^note The "silver body" referring to the chassis of Kei's Toyota Supra.
    • Gatchan makes his entrance by screaming "Yeahhhhh!"...and then slamming his Toyota Celsior^note Toyota Crown Athlete in the North American release of Maximum Tune 5 into a barrier. Then the race begins as if that never happened.
    • While Gatchan is just rolling along with you, his wife shows up in her own car.
    • Both lines for the end of the chapter are a hoot:
      (if you win) Mrs. Sasaki: "If we hit 300km/h and the aeroparts blows to bits, we'll be a laughingstock."
      (if you lose) Gatchan: "I'm gonna get it^note remember, he's driving a Celsior, which is a luxury sedan to 1000HP, easy!"
  • Chapter 28 keeps the comedy rolling. Kei's Supra (driven by Akio) passes by the camera, and then about ten seconds later, Gatchan and his friends show up in a Toyota HiAce. Gatchan himself and Ueda (one of Gatchan's friends) even lampshade this:
  Gatchan: Too slow! Did they vanish or what?
  Ueda: "It's no use with this car."
  • Chapter 34, where R200CLUB gangs up on you, has several examples:
    • CCR Motoki's now-infamous "I'm coming!", before it was fixed in 6 to "Something's coming!"
    • Motoki and JAPAN Tezuka spinning out and crashing like they deserve (as they were trying to wreck your car) while Motoki screams "You idiot!"
    • JPP Sonoda showing up as backup. Most of the time, he just shouts "I'm gonna block you!" with an increasing number of exclamation marks each time. If you use social media frequently, this boast in particular sounds less like he's trying to make you lose and more like he's going to block your account on Twitter or something. Or Hideki Kamiya.
      JPP Sonoda: I'm gonna block you! I'm gonna block you!! One more time. I'm gonna block you!!!! Again! I'm gonna block you!!!!!!
  • "You've got a new BGM: Sound of Ten persons Pulling out Mode."
• You thought the HiAce was good? Maximum Tune 4 introduces a lifted version that raises the chassis.
• Car titles:
  • Retiring on Wangan Eastbound in Time Attack just past the tollbooths awards the title of "Toilet on the left up the stairs".
  • One of the daily titles you can get on April Fools' Day is "Bullshit".

Meta

• The inclusion of eurobeat in Maximum Tune 6 is quite amusing when you consider that the New Initial D The Movie series of Initial D remake films swaps out the eurobeat soundtrack with a J-rock one and Initial D: Arcade Stage Zero has said soundtrack as the default (with the eurobeat songs having to be unlocked), as if the "eurobeat = drift racing" schtick had to go somewhere after Initial D was done with it.