This was THE anime import of the 1960s. No joke, this show paved the way for adaptations like Voltron and Robotech, and direct imports like Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon and many more. It is an important cornerstone of eastern and western pop culture for a reason, and I'll still respect it despite its faults.

@trika91

11 ай бұрын

Wasn’t Gigantor, Astro Boy, and Kimba the White Lion one of the earliest Japanese anime in the west? I think Speed Racer and Kimba aired around the same time. 🤔

@NebLleb

11 ай бұрын

@@trika91 Tru dat yo, but it was Speed Racer that (arguably) made the biggest splash of the lot back then.

@Launchpad05

10 ай бұрын

'Speed Racer', and 'Robotech/Macross' were made by the same studio. Tatsunoko Productions.

@JosephPercel

8 ай бұрын

@@trika91 Don't forget the semi-dark "Eight Man" series.

Speed Racer is one of my favorite shows of all time. It may be old, but it's really great, and just doesn't get the credit it deserves. I mean, they somehow made the kid funny, and not annoying.

This franchise really gained a lot of speed Because it really went down hill 😂

I can still remember the speed racer movie to this day

The Speed Racer cartoon was even played in the McDonald's playland in Florida

rita: fuck hulu pesto: yeah! chicken boo: squawk katie kaboom: you think you have it bad nobody even remembers me minerva mink: who are you?

'Speed Racer' does stand out form alot of American cartoons at the time. Especially Hanna-Barbera cartoons. (Though, it can be argued that 'Speed Racer's animation can look just as stiff, but with more dynamic posing, and expressions.) Also, 'Speed Racer's western influences helped it resonate with western audiences much like how 'Cowboy Bebop' won over it's audience in the states. 'The New Adventures' clearly didn't work simply because Fred Wolf tried to take his winning formula with 'Ninja Turtles', and apply that to 'Speed Racer', but they're two different properties that work best to their own strengths.

Great job with the video, it's nice to see people still talk about Speed Racer lol. Exited to see what you think about the 1997 series

The original Speed Racer was dumb fun, in hindsight, it has all stuff that any kid would love, not mattering if they're from the 60s or 90s

Great video. This your best video ever. Speed Racer is one of my favourite cartoons of all time.

The only anime my mom's ever seen.

The fact that anime tended to be higher quality, featuring scenes rare in stuff like US cartoons, such as running to or away from the viewer, is one reason I enjoyed anime a lot more eventually. They also had a greater tendency to tell a completed story, rather than theoretically infinitely repeatable content (The Real Ghostbusters or Scooby Doo being two of the few I felt had a good reason to get away with that trend). To this day, I still love to watch The Slayers every so often, and I feel sad when season 3 ends (and yes, I know there's a season 4, and I enjoy some of it, but NOT the main story). But I also know I didn't like some of the characters as much by season 3, or the "lets send the characters to basically Earth where a light spell is super hard", as it just turned their escapades into a constant freak show event. And the characters were becoming less and less capable of handling the big bad each time, even since big bad 2 in season 1. They pulled the plug before it was completely ruined eventually, and I wouldn't feel that sadness after season 3 if it went any further.

i have all the complete classic series in the dvd. It was one of the shows of my childhood.

My favorite episodes are The Most Dangerous Race and The Fastest Car on Earth.

The 60s version, the 97 version, the Next Generation and the Movie are my favorites out of the Speed Racer IP

Ah Yes, the third-favorite Pop Culture Reference of every Cartoon Writer that grew up in the Sixties

Fun fact: tv guide put speed racer at number 49 on there list of the 50 greatest cartoon charcaters taken over boby hill, porky pig, woody woodpecker and boris and natasha

I literally didn't know that New Adventures existed until this video dropped.

"The Fastest Car on Earth";my favorite episode. I named my 2000 Mustang the GRX after it.

Speed Racer is a classic thank you for talking about the piece of History.

I was watching a video about the movie theme song today, talk about your coinky-dinks!

My childhood in two words.

Great video overall, but I do wish you had mentioned how Speed Racer had faded into obscurity in the 70s and 80s before an Harmony Gold employee created Speed Racer Enterprises to help get the series back into the forefront of the pop culture zeitgeist. While New adventures was a part of this, there were things like the og anime being edited and airing on MTV starting in 93 (and later cartoon Network) as well as things like Speed Racer the Movie, that Volkswagen commercial, the Geico commercial, that crappy stock art that was on every piece of classic merch for like 15+ years, etc. I just think there's more to discuss in between the og dub and new adventures and I hope you talk about it down the line.

Fun fact: ironically, fred wolf worked on a naughty film that was worse than whatever Mach GoGoGo had

Speed Racer X Was My Favorite It Aired On Nickelodeon during the Saturday Afternoon block SLAM good memories also Speed was voiced by Kakashi Hatake himself David Wittenberg

@kootunesscrewy

11 ай бұрын

Ironically, Speed Racer X was the last anime to ever air on Nickelodeon as all future anime programming would air on Nicktoons instead.

I know speed racer is infamous for it’s rapid fire dialogue

Still one of my favorite series. I can't wait till you get to the semi-garbage nicktoon and the masterpiece art film from 2008

@jaysonklein6018

9 ай бұрын

Speed Racer: The Next Generation?

Speed Racer Original Japan airdates: Apr 2, 1967-Mar 31, 1968 on Fuji TV (as Mach GoGoGo) original U.S. airdates: Sept 12, 1967-Sept 1968 in syndication reruns: 1968-1980s, 1993-1994 in syndication, 1992-1995 on MTV, February 18, 1996-December 30, 1999 on Cartoon Network, Nov 18, 2003-2004 on Speed Channel, June 25, 2024 on MeTV Toons. Episode: 52 Animation By: Tatsunko Productions Distributed and Owned by: Trans-Lux (1967-1967); Alan Enterprises (1975-1993); Speed Racer Enterprises (1993-2013); DIC Entertainment (2003-2004); Tatsunoko Productions (2013-present)

Please do a part 2

@HispanicToddendale

11 ай бұрын

Part 1 just came out…

I got into speed racer in high school It was the most fun I had watching a not so great dub Also HE’S GOING OVER THAT CLIFF

@mitchfletcher2386

11 ай бұрын

*BOUWAAAA* _tumbles over cliff_

Not gonna lie Speed racer X look really good. Better then new adventure of speed racer.

The only Speed Racer thing I saw completly as a kid (As in "out of seeing the lego sets of the 2008 movie in the lego club magazine") was the Dexter's Lab hommage episode with them speeking a lot of stuff really fast. I don't really count the Faily Oddd Parents Channel Chasers segment with the Pops Racer stand-in going "Ohh! Ooh! Aah!" as it's not a full episode. As a teenager, I mainly saw a Wachowskis retrospectives who included Speed Racer by Durendal1, and the Just Stop Speed Racer Next Generation video, and some screenshot of Speed Racer X. Maybe some mischelanious Speed Racer retrospectives too, but I always forgot the 1993 us series was a thing. Even as an anime fan, I'm not a Tatsunoko buff (Gatchaman, Casshan, and all the "Time bokan" line are dope though), besides knowing they helped to the animation of Evangelion. Great video beside the fact you used footage of the 1980's Astroboy series rather than the 1960's one. I'm ok with you not using their original names ("Go Mifune" in the case of Speed). Probably because it's the international names we're way more used too. (Like with Pokemon)

I liked speed racer x

hey speed

i got to laugh when you mention the anime tone down the violence of the original manga. Giving that us american this was a very violent cartoon for the period i can't imagine. I wonder what the american censors would had done if the manga violence was part of the original.

It needs a proper dub with the original japanese names

@KhayJayArt

4 ай бұрын

No tf it doesn't, weeb. Cope and seethe.

Probably the original

Part 2

@tyrannosaurusallen3703

11 ай бұрын

Part one has been up for less than one hour and you’re already demanding part two?

Can you do a character quest of violet beauregarde

@DrewtheStew1999

11 ай бұрын

He doesn’t take requests.

@sam196820

11 ай бұрын

Dammit 😡

@sam196820

11 ай бұрын

Can he at least do a character quest on someone else then the character of moral orel

@DrewtheStew1999

11 ай бұрын

@@sam196820 He does. In fact, he just did one on Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy.

@sam196820

11 ай бұрын

Great hopefully he make a character quest that is not a moral orel character I don't hate it I just think there's too many

Cannot say I expected to ever see anime on this channel.

POPS: You cannot race in this race, that is how we lost your brother SPEED: I must race in the race, it is how I will honor the memory of my brother TRIXIE: Be careful Speed, racing in this race is dangerous SPEED: I know it is dangerous to race in this race, which is why I must race in this race SPRYTLE: I will hide in the trunk during this dangerous race of a race, it will be fun

@jaggerguth4391

11 ай бұрын

Trixie: Wow that was fast! Speed: Budget cuts.

First!

arguably the show is a satire on the human condition and various aspects of human life with many segments satirizing different thing's the warners segments are satires of Hollywood and corprate greed slappy the squirrels segments regularly satirize endless optimism censorship and other stuff pinky and the brain is a satire of power and narcissism chicken boo is about prejudice as the basic formula of his segments is that chicken boo is always celebrated by everyone until they discover he's a chicken when his disguise is exposed and they all turn on him even siding with the villains who he saved them from since minerva is shown sitting around hoping to marry someone rich and then falling for a simp walter wolf after he is turned buff by a full moon this is arguably making fun of people who are shallow and just wait around for love the hip hippos is a mockery of classism and rich people given the way the hip hippos treat lower class people like their maid and noah the goodfeathers segments are about nothing and said characters are just a piss take on popular gangster film's like the godfather and goodfellas none of this is serious in the show yeah i agree that Katie kaboom had it been a satire of family dynamics rather then teenaged girl's