Speed Racer
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Search complete. 29 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Speed Racer".
Sep 14, 2026
Joseph PerryHOST
Um, probably some of the earlier ones we all watched, let's start with those.
Joseph PerryHOST
And we had in my area of Northern California where I lived, a great twofer every afternoon from Japan of Ultraman and Speed Racer.
Mike ImbodenHOST
Oh, so they were back to back?
Joseph PerryHOST
Back to back.
Mike ImbodenHOST
Well, I had both.
Mike ImbodenHOST
Um, I can't remember if they-- I don't think those two aired together.
Mike ImbodenHOST
I remember, um, with Speed Racer, they had Star Blazers.
Joseph PerryHOST
Which I don't really remember.
JordanHOST
This is the first manga I ever bought.
JordanHOST
And growing up, I watched like Speed Racer, but I didn't recognize that that was anime.
JordanHOST
This is the first thing I watched that I recognized as anime growing up.
JordanHOST
So I love it.
Jackson BurkettHOST
Spirited Away is a fantastic movie, and if, you know, you can get over the animation style, which is a little different, it especially being in a different language, but it's really, really good.
Martin KilcoyneHOST
Was Speed Racer sort of pre-anime-ish?
Tim McKernanHOST
Oh, nice question.
Jackson BurkettHOST
Yes.
Kevin SmithHOST
no 4k blu-ray releases this week should i say probably the most of the year should i start with mine yeah make sure i'm not taking one of yours because i got enough to
JaredHOST
cover it's animated brother they're both animated okay and we have the 1967 of the release i should say of the 1967 complete series Of Speed Racer.
JaredHOST
Oh, that's cool.
JaredHOST
That's on Blu-ray, brother.
JaredHOST
solid.
JaredHOST
Yes! I
Kevin SmithHOST
really like Speed Racer.
Kevin SmithHOST
Yeah?
ZoriHOST
And especially we haven't really talked a lot about some of the current anime, if any anime that we're watching right now.
ZoriHOST
But for both of us, anime has been something that we watch at a really young age right like i don't know about you but i think oh it's so hard because i as we were preparing for for this episode there were a lot of anime where when we looked them up we at least for me, speaking for myself, like, I think I was telling you that, like, Speed Racer, Speed Racer is anime.
ZoriHOST
Yeah.
ZoriHOST
Like, the original OG Speed Racer, that's anime.
ZoriHOST
And, like, if we're counting that, because it is, it is anime, then, like, I feel like I've always been watching anime, or at least as old as, like, old enough to watch TV, I've been watching anime.
ZoriHOST
But it's not necessarily one of the shows that come to mind when I think of, like, my earliest anime experiences.
ZoriHOST
But I really think about anime starting in the 90s because I think that's, I mean, maybe that's the millennial in me.
ZoriHOST
Like everything started with me when 90s babies were born.
X7HOST
I actually should keep a track when we re- when we review it, and we will, because we're coming up on its 60th anniversary, I believe.
X7HOST
This was dubbed the same time Speed Racer was, but the English dub was done first and sent over to the Japanese to animate to, like cartoons are done, usually done.
X7HOST
So it's a interesting melange of, uh, both US and J- Uh, Japanese.
X7HOST
But it's one of my favorites.
X7HOST
Uh, wish they could have adapted that a little bit, but here we go.
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[upbeat music] [screaming] [singing in Japanese]
X7HOST
Our seventh song here, which, uh, is of course Speed Racer, and, uh, his theme song was dr- taken dr- directly from the Japanese theme song.
X7HOST
I think they sped it up a tiny bit, but it's, and it's only a minute.