Zoom-Zoom

Zoom-Zoom is a movie that serves as MF Bunko J's 20th anniversary tribute and merger with Mazda and other company to make 1 New Group, MF Brands that launched in July 2022.

Summary
Set in alternate universe, the neighbor's club was killed by the corrupt Student Council president and his cronies. 5 years later, their neighbor was a heart for revenge.

Plot
Set in Earth-1920, 2017, Tsurugi Kurobane was the neighbour of The Neighbours' club and their fan. He was befriended them since summer. The leader, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji and Suzune Horikita notices him to be waiting until their exam ends, as their promotion to Class A next month.

Later, after the exam ends, Class D get a perfect scores for their promotion mark. But, Horikita's older brother, Manabu, who is the corrupt student council president, works together with Class A, Class C, and his assistant, Akane Tachibana to steal their perfect scores to zero score. 3 days later after the exam results correction, after Manabu and his cronies' plan was succeeded, they're been caught by Neighbours' club, who later report this to Inspector Jiro Shijima, who is actually on Manabu's payroll. He, along with Manabu and his cronies, attack and lock Neighbours' club in their own Mazdas. The cars are pushed into a river, causing a gagged Neighbours' club to die. Unaware of the truth behind their death, Tsurugi lives alone without his neighbours.

5 years later, Tsurugi is now a 20-year-old man who accepted by HSBC Tokyo. On the first day of his job, he falls in love with a rich girl, Yuzuko Misaki, who later also feels the same for him. One day, he discovers and recognizes Ayanokouji and Horikita's car, Mazda RX-8, immediately. He somehow pools money and buys it at 5000 yen.

Tsurugi wants to update the car that reminds him of Neighbours' club. Little does he know that, he has also brought back his old friends, whose souls are trapped inside the car. Tsurugi's family and boss aid his cousin in repairing RX-8. It is totally revamped into a car more advanced than Mazda's design, and Tsurugi decides to rename it RX-9 to honor his old friend's memory.

That night, Neighbours' club's spirits possesses RX-9 and rolls off down the driveway on his own. He makes his way to Katsuragi Mansion, Plot 7 (thanks for the sign!) and lies in wait as a white car pulls up to the house. Two of the villainous Class A students Kouhei Katsuragi and Alice Sakayanagi (who is pregnant) get out of the car and Katsuragi begins speaking on his cell phone. RX-9 overhears (not quite sure how, he has a noticeable lack of ears) The Katsuragis' travel plans for the following day, and also notices a sticker for Tsurugi's cousin's garage on his car. RX-9 waits until Katsuragi and Sakayanagi go into Katsuragi Mansion Plot 7, then he inches up and breaks both headlights on Katsuragi's car.

We get a rather well done transition from RX-9's blazing headlight to an arc welding torch. Said torch is being wielded by Tsurugi's cousin's employee, who is on duty at the garage. Tsurugi's cousin instructs him to go to a customer's house and tow his car back to the garage. Then, a familiar white car shows up at the garage to have some headlights replaced. RX-9's headlights "open" and he "watches" Katsuragi pull into the garage. Katsuragi explains what he needs to have done, and Tsurugi's cousin tells him that breaking glass is a sign of good luck. The only reason I mention this is because of Katsuragi's reply, "If this were possible, then I would have lived in a glass house, and would have messed with every crazy man carrying a stone."

This is good stuff, people.

Soon thereafter, Katsuragi's car is all set, and he and Sakayanagi are off on their road trip. He seems to be taking a leisurely pace, and is literally driving down the middle of the road. We hear a car honking and trying to pass, so Katsuragi lazily slides over to one lane. The honking car zooms past him, and he takes up his former position in the center of the street.

The camera stops following his car for a moment to show us a rapidly moving plume of dust whipping down a dirt road not far from the paved one.

Katsuragi's car which is again doing 35 mph in the middle of the road. RX-9 gets right on Katsuragi's back bumper and starts honking his horn. Katsuragi sighs and moves over to one lane and allows RX-9 to pass. Not long after RX-9 takes the lead, he slows down and gets in Katsuragi's way. Irritated, Katsuragi begins honking his horn and gesturing in an angry fashion. RX-9 moves over as if to let him pass, but as soon as he changes lanes RX-9 blocks him again. This continues for a while, with various car chase clichs playing out (forcing people off the road, nearly hitting trucks, etc). Inevitably they pass a road construction crew, and RX-9 must go up onto two wheels to avoid the equipment, and to thrill the audience.

RX-9 gets up close and begins ramming Katsuragi's car as the chase gets faster and faster. We then come to another moment that seemed out of place. Okay, RX-9 is clearly attempting to kill Katsuragi, so the natural thing for him to do now is to pull over and help a busload of stranded kids. The chase takes them past what (at least to me) resembles the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile without the bun. RX-9 stops chasing Katsuragi, and backs up to push the bus out of the ditch it has slid into.

As the bus drives away with the merry and thankful children safely on their way, RX-9 sends them off with an exhaust smiley face that winks at them!

Okay, what were we doing... oh that's right, murdering the married couple. Katsuragi pulls up to a closed railroad crossing gate and breathes a sigh of relief. A quick check in the mirrors shows no sign of the scary purple car, so he begins to relax. The oncoming train blows its whistle, startling Katsuragi and Sakayanagi and making them tense again. He has good reason though, since RX-9 has caught up and is presently ramming into his trunk again. Each time he is hit, his car is pushed up closer to the tracks as the train passes by. Eventually RX-9 gets Katsuragi's car far enough up on the tracks that the rear end begins being shaved off by the passing train. However we run out of train before Katsuragi's car can be completely destroyed, and he manages to get off of the tracks.

Katsuragi gets out of his seriously damaged car and pulls out a pistol. He puts several rounds into the windshield of his antagonists, then moves in close to get a look at who was driving. When he opens the door, he notices that (gasp!) the car is empty! The door closes itself, causing Katsuragi to panic and run back to his car. As he does so, RX-9 revs his motor again, then performs a stunt I'll admit I've not seen before. RX-9 swerves sideways and begins doing barrel rolls along the ground to slam into Katsuragi's car. As one might imagine, this is just as hard on RX-9 as it is on Katsuragi's car. However he has enough moxy left to pull around and slam into Katsuragi's car one more time, sending it improbably airborne and exploding when it lands. Scratch two corrupt high school alumnis off the list.

After a moment of quiet as it seems RX-9 is catching his breath, we see the severely dented and broken RX-9 begin to repair himself (why yes, exactly like Christine did). Once his repairs are complete, we have a resounding song of "Zoom-Zoom-Zoom!" from the soundtrack and RX-9 drives away.

Later in the day, we see a group of Futo detectives and police officers at the scene of the explosion. Detective Shotaro Hidari and his partner Philip Sonozaki are on the scene, and thinks that this is more than just an accident. After his subordinates hassle everyone the crime scene investigator comes over to report that there were two sets of tire tracks, and not is all as it seemed. Shotaro seems pleased with himself about his hunch, and sets about beginning the investigation.

From the autopsy they are able to determine that it was Katsuragi and Sakayanagi in the car, so they go to their house for the funeral. Shotaro questions Sakayanagi's parents about any possible enemies that their daughter may have had, but they tell him that she didn't have an enemy in the world. Mio Ibuki and Kakeru Ryuen (The Class C alumnis) come in and speak with the Inspectors. We are also introduced to Ryuen's young brother Josuke Ryuen, alias Jojo, to whom every little fact becomes "the latest news." This is a joke that wears out its welcome quite quickly. Shotaro tells them both that if they can think of anything that would help in the case, they should let him know immediately.

There is some rather pointless discussion about how they should not be too broken up about Katsuragi and Sakayanagi's death, since all they were were fraud partners, and they should get on with their lives. Oh, we do learn that Manabu and Akane are out of the country at the moment. This may or may not be important later, so just file that away. They all depart the funeral to get ready for their new year celebration that evening, leading us to our next musical number which I feel may have been mistranslated for the menu on the DVD.

Manabu is revealed to be Misaki's cousin and meets Tsurugi on her insistence. After knowing Tsurugi is Neighbours' club's old friend, Manabu assumes that Tsurugi has found the truth and is using Misaki as a pawn. He decides to kill Tsurugi and take Misaki back with him to London and get Misaki married to a man of his choice. Tsurugi is shocked as Manabu tells him the truth about Neighbours' club's death. Neighbours' club's spirit now are visible to everyone.

In front of Manabu's disbelieving eyes, RX-9 transforms into robot saves Tsurugi. Terrified, Manabu confesses his crime in front of everyone. Officer Ryu Terui arrests Manabu; Ayanokouji says his last goodbye to Tsurugi and his family. With Tsurugi, his family, and Misaki united, RX-9 transforms into spaceship and went home to their new home, Cybertron. Tsurugi and Misaki live a happy life afterward.

In mid-credits scene, Tsurugi and Misaki had a marriage ceremony. Meanwhile, in Cybertron, RX-9 becomes the Autobot Espionage and Optimus Prime rename him/her into Road Rage.