Marley Johnson Actually true pre was 80s cartoons by the ninety they turned a bit soppy leading in 2 the shit we have 2 day just ugly cartoons of characters piking bogies and shit like that. In our day at the end of a cartoon the hero would talk to the camera and give you his or her daily advice. Just fukin classic. I'd rather have my kids watch classic box sets rather than Ben 10. Mr bean. And these new computer generated cartoons. Sad sad sad.....
Hah, I was going to say something about how bad it looked for him to kill a fellow racer in this. In the show it was always self defense against bad guys though.
@@saltystick_99 "relatively" dude I'm pretty sure this was one of if not THE first anime to air in the US. I'm pretty sure they didn't even call it anime and just brushed it off as a "japanese made cartoon."
"Demon" huh? Pretty cool word to describe his phenomenal skill. *Speed does something that shows his sociopatry and lack of empathy* Oh no, they meant it for his behaviour!
*first watch this growing up in the 70s, and **_'FOR YEARS'_** i thought the verse was **_"he's A'DEEMIN' on wheels."_** thinking it was like a colloquial for going fast. **_#godIAMold_*
As a kid I liked the show because it’s about a cool dude with a girlfriend and a little brother with a pet monkey who races cars and fights badguys. As an adult I’m loving it because it’s a show about a morally ambiguous antihero who will do anything to win and will occasionally do good but not if it gets in the way of winning. Fucker is more Han Solo than Han Solo. I love it.
Pink pink Pearl Pink Pearl eraser Metal thumb tacks for wheels Metal thumb tacks the exhaust is made Of two plastic cheap ones. Then carve the middle for the little guy to drive, One seat for him or her and their husbands or wives, And when the teacher sees your eraser, car with wheels and tubes, You bet your life you’ll be in, the main office soon Pearl eraser, Pearl eraser, Pearl eraser car! Headlights and taillights that are shaded in the color black, Oh no you dropped the car now it’s missing one of the tacks, Somebody steps on it, you’re deaaaaaad Pearl eraser, Pearl eraser, Pearl eraser car!
Ryo Amora what wheel looks round with a white center like the others? I dunno. But even if he did eject, the fall would kill him harder than the crash. It's a nice thought that he lands safe, though. Lol what a savage intro. XD
SFC mr Raccoon for me as a 90s kid, before DBZ/Pokemon/Sailormoon, this was my first anime show ever. I thought Hanna Barbera made this but nope it was tatsunoko and I didn’t even know this was anime
2005 here, Legit thought it was a modern show, I watched it on DVDs and reruns. I had no clue how wrong I was till I got older and realized the animation for this show is outdated compared to other cartoon shows I was watching back in the day.
+Sabe534 Do they still air it? I remember the SWAT Kats and that they decided to stop making it because it was considered too realistic. Also the Johnny Quest remake which they also considered too realistic and canned. Cartoon Network used to show all three, SWAT Kats, Johnny Quest remake, and Speed Racer, but I don't know if they do now.
I'm 64 and I remember when the show first came out when I was a kid. One of my favorite cartoons. I never realized how morbid that intro was. My childhood hero just goes out and kills somebody? 😳
Tatsuo Yoshida got the idea for this show after seeing two films. The Mach 5 was inspired by James Bond's gadget-equipped Aston Martin DB5 in "Goldfinger." And Speed himself is patterned after Elvis (note the similar hairstyle), who had portrayed a race-car driver in "Viva Las Vegas." Both movies had been very popular in Japan.
🎶Here He comes here comes here comes Speed Racer,He's a Demon on Wheels,He's a Demon and He's going to be chasing after someone! He's gaining on you so you better look alive! He's busy revving up the powerful Mach 5! And when the odds are against him,and there's dangerous work to do, you better bet your life Speed Racer will see it through🎶Go Speed Racer,Go Speed Racer Go Speed Racer Go!🎶 He's off and flying as he guns his car around the track, He's jamming on the pedal like he's never coming back! Adventures waiting just ahead🎶 Go Speed Racer,Go Speed Racer,Go Speed Racer Goo!🎶
@@shakeyframe2330 Yeah Really Thanx! Another funny thing is I've been spelling Thanks with the X....for years Thanx! Another funny thing is whenever you think you're the only person to do something somebody else surprises you with doing the exact same thing! And you have to love Speed Racer..but not the movie the movie doesn't even have the song right!
@@chancycat9822 Yeah. And I've never seen the movie but I don't want to since as far as my knowledge gose most live action movies based off of old cartoons aren't that good.
Wait what? In episode 1 the robbers were the ones who started slashing the other racers' tires at high speed and Speed even stopped to see if that one dickhead from the beginning was ok. Speed has the KDR of a madman but he was hardly the one who started it.
Ah the nostalgia. My dad used to show me and my sister a bunch of the cartoons he watched as a kid. We used to watch Speed Racer for hours on repeat. I haven't watched an episode for years now but I can still quote the theme song word for word.
Same, I remember a story my dad told me. He was around 5 or 6, and he missed a speed racer episode because of a dentists appointment. And of course, it being the 60s, there weren't many or any repeats until the show was over, and somehow, he never ended up watching it. While binging the series with him as a kid, the episode eventually came on, because he didn't remember it, and he dropped what he was doing and came to the TV to watch this one episode of speed racer. And he was genuinely into it too, even though he could always watch it whenever nowadays. I'll never forget that.
@@endergames1099Your father is truly a great man. What you didn't realize was that he was preparing you for manhood. Congratulations! See you on the road.
1st episode: I want to join a race but my dad won't let me! 45th episode: I, Speed Racer, am wanted for multiple war crimes and am considered an enemy of humanity
Plot Twist: Pops knew that Speed Racer would commit these crimes and stopped caring about humanity after he got fired, so he let Speed loose on purpose.
wow, now that you mention it, even if you might've been joking, that tiny little rotation bit of animation almost *never* happened in early cartoons. everything was always on a 2D plane. That's really impressive for 1960.
Lyrics : Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer He's a demon on wheels He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone He's gaining on you so you'd better look alive He's busy revving up the powerful Mach 5 And when the odds are against him and there's dangerous work to do You bet your life Speed Racer will see it through Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer Go! He's up and flying as he guns the car around the track He's standing down the pedal like he's never coming back Adventure's waiting just ahead Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer Go!
When I was born in 1968 I grew up with two channels on my television and even then I had to take clothes wires twist at ends , go on top house and wedge where it wants to be for that day, it was either sesame street or Speed Racer and I loved that cartoon so much, I fell in love with Go Speed Racer into to my teens even and to this day .. silly right? I would draw pictures of him and wear clothes like his and all my Barbie coloring books were all Speed Racer. .. Anyway love it.
i love the theme song of speed racer... "hes a demon and he is going to be chasing after somone!" actual lyrics... also he KILLS a man! that man who gos over the railing died in a firey explosion!
I wonder if that 'panning' bit around 1:03-1:05 inspired all those 'still-panning' effects you used to see on TV and action movies in the late-90's/early-00's, most notably in the 'Matrix' series. It's barely two seconds but to me it's the coolest part of the intro.
I was born in 2005 and i really enjoyed this cartoon. It was yesterday that i got a random flashback and stumbled upon this video. I really want to watch this show again
Anime history lesson of what should qualify as anime. Good story, less randomness unless it makes sense, eyes not too big, and overall a plot that goes here and there!
that's how fast everybody drove in the 70s, much to the anger of the cops who were trying in vain to ticket everybody they saw hence why cops were called "pigs" back then because they'd waste all their manpower writing traffic tickets for decent hardworking people who could barely afford to pay them instead of actually chasing down murderers, thieves, fraudsters, and other criminal scum it was easy funding money for the city and could help replace the missing money corrupt government officials were receiving from kickbacks
Speed Racer was just so super cool when I was growing up! It's like you just couldn't get enough of it! And now I'm in my 50's and it's still just as cool as it was before!
I couldn’t wait to get home from school to watch Speed Racer and Ultraman theme songs and shows. It was a few of the things, among many that I enjoyed growing up as a kid in the early 70’s in Midwest USA!
Who remembers those giant 1970s color TVs encased in wood? My friends and I would sit in front of one in complete silence, totally enthralled by Speed and his adventures. I don't recall anything else we watched except reruns of the Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island.
That's exactly what I thought when I was little. I used to watch it in English, and didn't think at all it was Japanese at all. I thought it was American. Well, Speed has cute eyes which is the famous signature created in Japan. Other than that, this anime is influenced from the American animation someway and it was appealing to the western audience more
+Ruben Delgadillo My dad got me into this show and I was SO addicted for quite a few years. He also bought me the box set they had where all the episodes were on there. I couldn't get enough!!! :)
My dad used to watch this when he was 5 years old. He was shocked when I told him it was an anime 😂 And it’s still an enjoyable show to watch with him many years later
Yep, this was among the first anime that were seen in the US, I didn't even realize it was anime. Anime became huge in the late 80s, early 90s and by then I was too old to watch cartoons but I tell my kids today who are huge anime fans that me and my generation of American kids were pioneers in terms of watching anime 😆
I remembering watching this and _Kimba_ The White Lion (Yes, with a K) and wondering why all the other cartoons were drawn badly in comparison except for Loony Tunes.
Considering anime wasn't even a prevalent form in Japan until after WW2, it's no surprise your dad acted that way. That only gave it twenty years before America got a look at it, and you can be sure the term anime wasn't in the dictionary back then.
I can remember barreling through the house at break neck speeds to get into the living room when I heard this on tv. The idea of even attempting to move that fast now fills me with great pain.
I forgot for many years I watched this in the very early 1970s. MTV Rebooted played these in the mid-1990s. I think (??) it was part of *_Liquid Television._* My Eldest Son while a child in the 1990s watched this, but I wasn't paying attention visually when he had this on. I'd hear theme music several times, couldn't figure out how I knew the song singing along. Then I decided one day to watch this with him My memory hit like a ton of bricks. I must have been 3/4 years old then when I watched this regularly in the 70s.
I remember watching Speed Racer on Cartoon Network years ago. Best anime action ever; I saw the episode titled the Mammoth Car, and stolen gold 🥇 was built into the car to hide it for smuggling. Speed Racer was able to stop the gold theives. Go Speed Racer, go!!! Sigh! What a classic.🏆🥇🤩
The first cartoons I remember always watching were Speed Racer and Gigantor. Then a few years later it was Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Then a few years after that, Land of the Lost and Emergency!
On July 19th, it was announced on Tatsunoko Pro's website that Ippei Kuri (real name: Toyoharu Yoshida), creator of Speed Racer, passed away on July 1st.
I remember watching the show on the early 90s tv, playing with an old car steering wheel pretending that I’m speedracer driving the Mach 5. Now I’m 31 and I’m starting on competitive Karting and sim racing on the journey to became a Gt car driver. Thank you Speedracer
I can't remember a lot of my childhood, but when I stumble upon THIS. Oh my. THE TUNE ITS JUST A WEIRD MIX OF MEMORIES AND DEJA VU FOR ME YOU DONT KNOW HOW WEIRD BUT RELIEFED IM FEELING.
This show was such a huge part of my childhood. Every Friday, my brother and I would go over to my Grandma’s for the weekend and my uncle had the whole series on DVD. We would cram it all in just a few days.
That music is so classic. Even if the cartoon is weird and cheesy, it has such old-school charm. It could only be '60's with that Beach Boys type singing the theme. And he really does look like Emile Hirsch!
Still is and will always be the greatest cartoon show of my youth!!! The best episode without a doubt The Most Dangerous Race with the Car Acrobatic Team!!!
![PURPEECH - นี่ฉันเองคนที่... (It's me) [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NuhHd0hOOg8/mqdefault.jpg)
When I was a kid I never realized this was from the 60's.
Now that I'm an adult I can see that it's SO UNBELIEVABLY 60's.
Yonkage I am just now looking back on this show, watched it in the late 90's, never knew it was 60's either. Still fucking love it.
Yonkage and it was inspired by Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas movie.
Marley Johnson Actually true pre was 80s cartoons by the ninety they turned a bit soppy leading in 2 the shit we have 2 day just ugly cartoons of characters piking bogies and shit like that. In our day at the end of a cartoon the hero would talk to the camera and give you his or her daily advice. Just fukin classic. I'd rather have my kids watch classic box sets rather than Ben 10. Mr bean. And these new computer generated cartoons. Sad sad sad.....
I watched this all the time when I was a kid. and I loved it so much
An early example of manga and anime, originally a comic book in Japan.
Speed racer : he commits more vehicular homicide before 9 am then most people do all their lives.
Yeah that's funny shit
Well he was trained in the art of vehicular homicide by Racer X
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Hah, I was going to say something about how bad it looked for him to kill a fellow racer in this. In the show it was always self defense against bad guys though.
autobotjazz1972 lmao yes
well he is a demon after all
The show: 53 years old
That spin at the end: STILL FUCKIN' SICK
Today it would so be done with CG
Not that its a problem but _damn_ imagine how ambitious it was to do in the 60s when anime was still relatively new.
🏎
@@saltystick_99 "relatively" dude I'm pretty sure this was one of if not THE first anime to air in the US. I'm pretty sure they didn't even call it anime and just brushed it off as a "japanese made cartoon."
@@Cairo40000I mean anime in general was new when Speed Racer aired *in Japan.* I was never talking about the dub.
@@saltystick_99 ah i see I thought you were just talking about the west
I like the part where Speed Racer forced that other car off the track and killed a guy.
+Alf in pog form "It was self defense, officer"
Not his fault the dude had propane in his trunk
*****
Or he landed on a nuke, as a comment said.
+Alf in pog form -- Yeah, but it was just a cartoon guy.
HE'S GOING OVER THAT CLIFF
“He’s a demon and he’s going to be chasing after someone”
Nice lyrics, guys.
Pretty dark considering one guy dies and the song sounds very happy and cheerful.
I'm surprised that it was even allowed to air in 1960s America
@@kloa4219 I'm not. Back then, they didn't pretend that good guys don't kill bad guys.
"Demon" huh? Pretty cool word to describe his phenomenal skill.
*Speed does something that shows his sociopatry and lack of empathy*
Oh no, they meant it for his behaviour!
*first watch this growing up in the 70s, and **_'FOR YEARS'_** i thought the verse was **_"he's A'DEEMIN' on wheels."_** thinking it was like a colloquial for going fast. **_#godIAMold_*
Jokes aside, the singer is singing with full dedication, honesty and soul.
Yup, gotta admit it!
I love this comment
agree 100% , i had my 60th birthday and the epic theme was speed racer because of the song and the dedication the carachter had to his passion
Danny Davis and The Nashville Brass. And yes, he's singing it like he knows it'll be a #1 hit.
I always thought it was Peter Fernandez, Speed’s voice, it sounds so much like him, but the singer isn’t actually confirmed anywhere…
As a kid I liked the show because it’s about a cool dude with a girlfriend and a little brother with a pet monkey who races cars and fights badguys. As an adult I’m loving it because it’s a show about a morally ambiguous antihero who will do anything to win and will occasionally do good but not if it gets in the way of winning. Fucker is more Han Solo than Han Solo. I love it.
Damm straight
You have captured speed racer’s essence, thank you for putting it into words
ALSO he likes to feast upon his victims at night
@@brianbeatty7381 chim chim
@@SupersonicA-sj7vp Thank you. Had a disagreement with someone but knew I was right.
...pretty sure that one guy is dead
pssst.... had a bush down there...
Joshua, pretty sure that was him ejecting from the red car(Porsche 918?),...Some blind idiots think it's a tire, but doesn't look like one.
thats a tire you nub
He's fine. Was on "Where are they now?". Facial burns got him looking like Bruce Gender.
A Clever Fish lr
We need a rated R Speed Racer movie to truly capture his moral ambiguity and his penchant for murdering the competition to win
YAS!!!
Fuck yeah because that would actually capture the true spirit of him and especially Racer X
Pink pink Pearl
Pink Pearl eraser
Metal thumb tacks for wheels
Metal thumb tacks the exhaust is made
Of two plastic cheap ones.
Then carve the middle for the little guy to drive,
One seat for him or her and their husbands or wives,
And when the teacher sees your eraser, car with wheels and tubes,
You bet your life you’ll be in,
the main office soon
Pearl eraser,
Pearl eraser,
Pearl eraser car!
Headlights and taillights that are shaded in the color black,
Oh no you dropped the car now it’s missing one of the tacks,
Somebody steps on it, you’re deaaaaaad
Pearl eraser,
Pearl eraser,
Pearl eraser car!
This already is that
Well that R Rated version you will get in Death Race 2000, Death Race 2050 and the Death Race Reebots 1-4...
Speed Racer: One of the biggest serial killers of the late 60s and early 70s.
Galleboi from Hell we will soon take over.
Well what do you expect he's a demon on wheels?
Percy66 c Yup! And he's gonna be chasing after someone.
Jackie Stewart would be pissed
Hey, international auto racing was dangerous back then. Didn't you even see Ron Howard's movie??
Lol at the car exploding and the music still being all happy and everything else...
Crescendo ! he ejected if yu look
If you pause at 0:44... you'll see it was just a wheel. @.@
Ariana A. He ejected, what wheel looks like THAT??
Ariana A. They sell BLUE wheels? Really??
Ryo Amora what wheel looks round with a white center like the others? I dunno. But even if he did eject, the fall would kill him harder than the crash. It's a nice thought that he lands safe, though. Lol what a savage intro. XD
As a kid you really don't bother, but now looking back at this, he definitely straight up murdered that dude.
If no one judges NASCAR drivers for it I’m not judging anime Dale Earnhardt for doing it with a smile.
@@Neogears1312 I think the other one was Dale Earnhardt in this case
If you look at that collision carefully, they BOTH banged into each other. Speed Racer usually doesn’t start that shit, but he ALWAYS ends it. LOL
@@AmedeusMkII I'm going to hell for laughing, but it's true.
No he didn't?? They both equally were hitting each other. It was SELF DEFENSE.
"He's committing vehicular homicide! la la la"
Hahaha!
Go speed racer! Go speed racer, commit vehicular homicideeeeeeeee!
0:40 He's a life eraser
OEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
😂😂😂
That final pose... L E G E N D A R Y
It really is
koichi pose
Yes
They did it in the movie
Didn't look the same
Back in the 1970s, these cartoons came on TV before and after school hours. They were timed perfectly!
Magilla Gorilla was another one.
@@dennismclaurin1487
I never watched Magilla Gorilla, but I never missed an episode of The Great Grape Ape.
Yep. This, Lone Ranger, Little Rascals, and Three Stooges.
That ending pose is iconic.
Hell yeah, it is!
Oh yes it is
The First Anime Most People Saw
SFC mr Raccoon including me.
One of the first shows my dad watched when he came to the US
SFC mr Raccoon for me as a 90s kid, before DBZ/Pokemon/Sailormoon, this was my first anime show ever. I thought Hanna Barbera made this but nope it was tatsunoko and I didn’t even know this was anime
It was on Cartoon Network when I was a kid.
I used to think Sonic X was my first but I only recently learned this was an Anime which makes this number 1! I need to watch it again
Speed racer's theme is so iconic, even someone born in the 90s knows it.
2004 here, this was my first anime lol
2005 here, Legit thought it was a modern show, I watched it on DVDs and reruns. I had no clue how wrong I was till I got older and realized the animation for this show is outdated compared to other cartoon shows I was watching back in the day.
0:48 "It wasn't murder. He hit me. Keep driving man..."
+Sabe534 Do they still air it? I remember the SWAT Kats and that they decided to stop making it because it was considered too realistic. Also the Johnny Quest remake which they also considered too realistic and canned. Cartoon Network used to show all three, SWAT Kats, Johnny Quest remake, and Speed Racer, but I don't know if they do now.
I haven't seen an episode in forever, but I remember watching it at my grandma's house when I was little and just waiting for another big crash!
+Sabe534 The Most Dangerous Race. Nuff said.
Speed was taking out a suicide bomber with a car bomb
it was karma for dugary
Back in my childhood I used to think that Hanna-Barbera had created this show. I didn't know this was an anime back then.
+Christine Muniz Anime is Japanese animation. So, Speed Racer is an anime.
No it's Anime, the only American part was the voice overs, so it's not going to change because it irks you.
Well, the animation budgets for Hanna-Barbera and Animes were (and still are, sadly) about the same, so, yeah.
Binary There, the comments are gone.
Binary did you just assume my gender?
I'm 64 and I remember when the show first came out when I was a kid. One of my favorite cartoons. I never realized how morbid that intro was. My childhood hero just goes out and kills somebody? 😳
He was willing to make necessary sacrifices to win
They were bad guys, and they had it coming. 😊
0:47 “did his car just explode” “nah let’s just keep going”
Might as well
To be fair, that is basically just Formula One and Le Mans in the 60s.
Nah there was a nuke in the car
more like nukes
@@banako420 *when you tried to use a nuclear reactor to power a freaking race car* 0:47
"he's a demon and he's gunna be chasin after someone...."
"I hope that's not me. I want to be a racer, not gladiator"
They would've lost anyways !
R we sure this isn't ghost rider?
Anyone! Anything to win the race!
Best cartoon ever.... probably the only TV show intro where someone gets killed.
I Always Wanted To Drive Mach Just Like Speed Racer It's My Dream Driving Mach 5
Everybody wanted a Mach 5!! Bad ass theme song!
My first pinewood derby car was the Mach 5
I don’t This is what you could call badass
Matt Piavis oh my god, I remember a Long time ago when I was a Kid I wanted to do something like that. Tho sadly, it never happened
Apparently for $75,000 you could buy one though its essentially a Corvette.
Never knew what was gonna happen when Speed pressed the button on the steering wheel! I liked it when the car jumped.
Speed Racer: making racing cool before Need For Speed.
because before speed racer it was not cool to be a race car driver?
Nope. Speed Racer. All the way.
Need for Speed NEVER made it cool... EVER.
Ryo Amora but f-zero did
Spynmaster facts
Tatsuo Yoshida got the idea for this show after seeing two films.
The Mach 5 was inspired by James Bond's gadget-equipped Aston Martin DB5 in "Goldfinger."
And Speed himself is patterned after Elvis (note the similar hairstyle), who had portrayed a race-car driver in "Viva Las Vegas."
Both movies had been very popular in Japan.
So he IS a psychopath with a death macheine
🎶Here He comes here comes here comes Speed Racer,He's a Demon on Wheels,He's a Demon and He's going to be chasing after someone! He's gaining on you so you better look alive! He's busy revving up the powerful Mach 5! And when the odds are against him,and there's dangerous work to do, you better bet your life Speed Racer will see it through🎶Go Speed Racer,Go Speed Racer Go Speed Racer Go!🎶 He's off and flying as he guns his car around the track, He's jamming on the pedal like he's never coming back! Adventures waiting just ahead🎶 Go Speed Racer,Go Speed Racer,Go Speed Racer Goo!🎶
Thanx.
@@shakeyframe2330 Yeah Really Thanx!
Another funny thing is I've been spelling Thanks with the X....for years
Thanx!
Another funny thing is whenever you think you're the only person to do something somebody else surprises you with doing the exact same thing!
And you have to love Speed Racer..but not the movie the movie doesn't even have the song right!
@@chancycat9822 Yeah. And I've never seen the movie but I don't want to since as far as my knowledge gose most live action movies based off of old cartoons aren't that good.
@@shakeyframe2330 YEP! I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN DUDE!
@@shakeyframe2330 You would be correct. It sucked the sweat off a dead rhinoceros' balls.
Speed Racer was the James Bond of the racetrack.
He was indeed
KRYPTONITE SPIDER-BITE DYNAMITE I think bond killed less just look at the first episode he nearly killed every racer
Technically, Racer X was the James Bond of the racetrack.
More like Death Race before Death Race 2000...
Wait what? In episode 1 the robbers were the ones who started slashing the other racers' tires at high speed and Speed even stopped to see if that one dickhead from the beginning was ok. Speed has the KDR of a madman but he was hardly the one who started it.
Trixie: where are you going speed?
Speed: those men aren't going to kill them selves trixie! Now leave me alone Ah Ha!
Ah the nostalgia. My dad used to show me and my sister a bunch of the cartoons he watched as a kid. We used to watch Speed Racer for hours on repeat. I haven't watched an episode for years now but I can still quote the theme song word for word.
Your dad should be commended. Somebody’s doing their job!
Same, I remember a story my dad told me. He was around 5 or 6, and he missed a speed racer episode because of a dentists appointment. And of course, it being the 60s, there weren't many or any repeats until the show was over, and somehow, he never ended up watching it. While binging the series with him as a kid, the episode eventually came on, because he didn't remember it, and he dropped what he was doing and came to the TV to watch this one episode of speed racer. And he was genuinely into it too, even though he could always watch it whenever nowadays. I'll never forget that.
Anime was the most violent of all the cartoons I watched in the 60's
@@endergames1099Your father is truly a great man. What you didn't realize was that he was preparing you for manhood. Congratulations! See you on the road.
"Hey is that driver who exploded ok?"
Speed Racer:"Ya he just gave the thumbs up were good"
Andy Cuthbertson Ted 2.
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Andy Cuthbertson He parachuted out just in time a la G.I. Joe.
"he had a couple of extra lives, but he has to start over at the beginning of the course"
@@TailsTube the hell u think this is? I aint clicking that shit
i dont want to get rickrolled
1st episode: I want to join a race but my dad won't let me!
45th episode: I, Speed Racer, am wanted for multiple war crimes and am considered an enemy of humanity
Plot Twist: Pops knew that Speed Racer would commit these crimes and stopped caring about humanity after he got fired, so he let Speed loose on purpose.
Man, even our parents were weebs back in the day
I think someone in a different video for the opening already something like that.
0:45
Soooo, what, the car fell on a nuke?
+She Is he had coming, you don't bump the mach 5 and just walk away.
lol
it was a car bomb
allahu ackbar
lol yes
Lyrics: He's a demon on wheels.
People when finding out that he's a psychopath:😮
One of the best cartoon theme songs ever. Love it. Watched Speed Racer very much when I was a kid.
Same.
This 1 n the theme song 4 Hercules get my 10 y.o. hormones bubbling thru my 68 y.o. eyes.
@sabbracadabra8367oh didn’t know that 😮❤
0:44 Man that was my favorite anime character.
Rip random dead racer
even the intro says he is a demon over and over again its like the creators wanted us to know he was the bad guy even though he was the main character
Well he did kill a driver in the open...lol
And he made Trixie gasp! 😮
1:03, very early example of the techniques that made "The Matrix" so famous.
Then people who worked on the matrix worked on the love action movie. Debatabely one of the better anime themed movies and it was accurate
Noticed that right away! Now it makes sense that they made the movie.
The bullet time technique
wow, now that you mention it, even if you might've been joking, that tiny little rotation bit of animation almost *never* happened in early cartoons. everything was always on a 2D plane. That's really impressive for 1960.
@@kefka3 Now I'm like "FU Hannah-Barbera! Get off your asses and do some _real_ animation for a change!"
Lyrics :
Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone
He's gaining on you so you'd better look alive
He's busy revving up the powerful Mach 5
And when the odds are against him and there's dangerous work to do
You bet your life Speed Racer will see it through
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer Go!
He's up and flying as he guns the car around the track
He's standing down the pedal like he's never coming back
Adventure's waiting just ahead
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer Go!
I was born in 2004 but my dad showed it to me as a kid and I loved it. It brings back so many memories to see the theme song
0:40 casually bumps someone else through a barrier, yeeting them into the air and bombing harder than Hirosh-
Oof you went there...
Lol
Too soon
島
When I was born in 1968 I grew up with two channels on my television and even then I had to take clothes wires twist at ends , go on top house and wedge where it wants to be for that day, it was either sesame street or Speed Racer and I loved that cartoon so much, I fell in love with Go Speed Racer into to my teens even and to this day .. silly right? I would draw pictures of him and wear clothes like his and all my Barbie coloring books were all Speed Racer. .. Anyway love it.
Touched me as well
Go Sandy GOOO!
That is ware the furious five got there I'd. From
Sandy Williams Barnett you like these cartoon very much
Sandy Williams Barnett I saw it in90's and still great
I’m an 80’s baby so technically this show is a little before my time, but boi did I enjoy the re runs!!
this intro really helped make this cartoon iconic. its been playing around my mind my whole life, im 51 yrs old.
Same, and I'm going to be 60 this month...
Just got my driving license....Gonna hear this song all the time while drivin :>
Nana Harajuku no Hime play this at your funeral
Me too when I'm older
Coconut Klaire three years on, do you still have your license? 😀
@@meowmeow-cr5sn If he was hearing this song while driving, he's probably had it revoked multiple times by now.
I'm going to assume you've killed many
Facu peralta lore:
This is perhaps the most catchiest theme song ever.
The Japanese version is catchier.
will you guys shut the hell up?!?!
No can do. Gotta go with Batman or Peter Gunn over this one. The chorus is catchy though.
Theme song by Danny Davis and The Nashville Brass. 😁
Spiderman theme song tho
I couldn't get home fast enough from elementary school in time to watch Speed Racer in the mid 70's! Man, those were the good times!
I enjoyed that cartoon and i was born in 2005. Good times
You said it, buddy
When eres la intro de facu peralta:
O my god. I'm crying now. I loved this show. I still have my vintage Mach 5
Reliving past memories that touched us deeply, will do that to a person.
i love the theme song of speed racer... "hes a demon and he is going to be chasing after somone!" actual lyrics... also he KILLS a man! that man who gos over the railing died in a firey explosion!
No he did not he ejected out before the crash.
I didnt see him eject...
***** Yeah, i just watched it and he doesn't eject, his wheel flies off but no person comes out.
Dan Mc! uakkalsls oriarity 8g TV c3hkwkd c
Dan Moriarity he ejected, dude...Ever see a blue wheel shaped like a rectangle,? Thought so.
I was born in 1969, and I grew up watching this. I bought the DVD sets.
I wonder if that 'panning' bit around 1:03-1:05 inspired all those 'still-panning' effects you used to see on TV and action movies in the late-90's/early-00's, most notably in the 'Matrix' series. It's barely two seconds but to me it's the coolest part of the intro.
Most likely!
Keep in mind, this is a 60s TV cartoon budget. That whole thing had to be completed with multiple flawless drawings to be that smooth.
Iconic!
The Matrix movie directors directed the speed racer movie
Loved this show, along with Kimba the White Lion, as a kid in the late 60s and early 70s. So nostalgic!
Retro Dreams I love being born in 62 to enjoy this kind of stuff as a child Living in Los Angeles. This was on channel 52
The only reason I even know Kimba is due to the Pokemon vhs tapes I would get out.
I was born in 2005 and i really enjoyed this cartoon. It was yesterday that i got a random flashback and stumbled upon this video. I really want to watch this show again
Both these shows were pretty violent sometimes and both are Japanese, but many Japanese shows are known to be violent XD
Don't forget Gigantor!
This guy had 3 goals in mind:
1.- win the race
2.- make an iconic pose
3.- kill that dude
And not necessarily in that order 😂
You're not a true anime fan until you've seen this beauty
Yes and I'm not even an anime fan
Yes
Anime history lesson of what should qualify as anime. Good story, less randomness unless it makes sense, eyes not too big, and overall a plot that goes here and there!
im not an anime fan, but i remember loving this as a kid
Ground breaking show years ahead of its time.
0:43
And that's why seatbelts weren't mandatory till the 70s
wasn't the driver was the wheel drive is dead on explosion
that's how fast everybody drove in the 70s, much to the anger of the cops who were trying in vain to ticket everybody they saw
hence why cops were called "pigs" back then because they'd waste all their manpower writing traffic tickets for decent hardworking people who could barely afford to pay them instead of actually chasing down murderers, thieves, fraudsters, and other criminal scum
it was easy funding money for the city and could help replace the missing money corrupt government officials were receiving from kickbacks
The guy that Speed crashed was probably a loving husband and father with two beautiful little girls.
But it was fun damn it.
Speed Racer was just so super cool when I was growing up! It's like you just couldn't get enough of it! And now I'm in my 50's and it's still just as cool as it was before!
The bass of this song is on point! They don't make em like this anymore! Go speed racer 😉
Good point! That bass is vibing
I couldn’t wait to get home from school to watch Speed Racer and Ultraman theme songs and shows. It was a few of the things, among many that I enjoyed growing up as a kid in the early 70’s in Midwest USA!
I used to get mercilessly ribbed for watching yet always went back anyway
I was a child of the 60's and early 70's. Seeing and hearing that intro brought back many great memories for me. THANK YOU!
Me too
Who remembers those giant 1970s color TVs encased in wood? My friends and I would sit in front of one in complete silence, totally enthralled by Speed and his adventures. I don't recall anything else we watched except reruns of the Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island.
Back in the day as a child (pushing 60 now) you couldn't find a better theme song for a cartoon.
When I first saw this, I honestly didn't know that this was made in Japan XD
Today it probably would have been made in China!
That's exactly what I thought when I was little. I used to watch it in English, and didn't think at all it was Japanese at all. I thought it was American. Well, Speed has cute eyes which is the famous signature created in Japan. Other than that, this anime is influenced from the American animation someway and it was appealing to the western audience more
I first seen the cartoon when I was 5 years old back in 82 in Houston Texas but it was in Spanish then so I always thought it was a Mexican cartoon
Why? It's obvious...
Always made in japan
I hope they add the Mach 5 into Rocket League...that would be epic.
SWITS Feral and the Mach 6
HELL YES
Yeah.
well they added it on GTA V recently and it is awesome
As a long-time lover of both of these things I can say that if this happened, I would genuinely flip my shit
This show literally holds like two faded memories in my head but as a kid I had a huge love for this show
When I first saw Speed Racer at age 5, the intro really made me feel happy!!
And now you are a serieñ killer with 100 plus victims… ok ok only in your imagination
It's just the intro and someone just flies off the cliff and explodes like it's no big deal
Facu peralta
El que se tira un pedo y salta(?
This opening itself brings back memories upon watching it and hearing the theme song too.
I get pissed when my kids think Speed Racer sucks!
+Ruben Delgadillo My dad got me into this show and I was SO addicted for quite a few years. He also bought me the box set they had where all the episodes were on there. I couldn't get enough!!! :)
+Ruben Delgadillo the new ones do suck
+KenKraken I said I get pissed not shut your mouth or I'll beat you.
Alan Castaneda+ THE ORIGINAL 60S TV SHOW OF SPEED RACER WAS A CARTOON, DUMMY!
time for new kids.
My dad used to watch this when he was 5 years old. He was shocked when I told him it was an anime 😂
And it’s still an enjoyable show to watch with him many years later
Correction: it was anime BEFORE there was anime.
Yep, this was among the first anime that were seen in the US, I didn't even realize it was anime. Anime became huge in the late 80s, early 90s and by then I was too old to watch cartoons but I tell my kids today who are huge anime fans that me and my generation of American kids were pioneers in terms of watching anime 😆
Back then it was called Japanimation
I remembering watching this and _Kimba_ The White Lion (Yes, with a K) and wondering why all the other cartoons were drawn badly in comparison except for Loony Tunes.
Considering anime wasn't even a prevalent form in Japan until after WW2, it's no surprise your dad acted that way. That only gave it twenty years before America got a look at it, and you can be sure the term anime wasn't in the dictionary back then.
0:47 top 10 anime death's
Literally
I can remember barreling through the house at break neck speeds to get into the living room when I heard this on tv. The idea of even attempting to move that fast now fills me with great pain.
I forgot for many years I watched this in the very early 1970s.
MTV Rebooted played these in the mid-1990s. I think (??) it was part of *_Liquid Television._*
My Eldest Son while a child in the 1990s watched this, but I wasn't paying attention visually when he had this on.
I'd hear theme music several times, couldn't figure out how I knew the song singing along. Then I decided one day to watch this with him My memory hit like a ton of bricks. I must have been 3/4 years old then when I watched this regularly in the 70s.
He's up and flying as he guns the car around the track!
He jamming on the pedal like hes never coming back!
ADVENTURES WAITING JUST AHEEEEAD! 🏎️ 💨❤❤❤
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I remember watching Speed Racer on Cartoon Network years ago. Best anime action ever; I saw the episode titled the Mammoth Car, and stolen gold 🥇 was built into the car to hide it for smuggling. Speed Racer was able to stop the gold theives. Go Speed Racer, go!!! Sigh! What a classic.🏆🥇🤩
Speed Racer, Jonny Quest, Gigantor
Vampire Hunter B.
I agree. Definitely Johnny Quest!!
Johhmy Quest is the shit!
Raydeen
The first cartoons I remember always watching were Speed Racer and Gigantor. Then a few years later it was Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Then a few years after that, Land of the Lost and Emergency!
Speed Racer, Scooby Doo, and Mazinger were cartoons I loved to watch in my childhood.
On July 19th, it was announced on Tatsunoko Pro's website that Ippei Kuri (real name: Toyoharu Yoshida), creator of Speed Racer, passed away on July 1st.
Oh no that's horrible
December 20th 2016.. still remember and love the old 60s cartoons
Love that theme song.
It's so memorable.
I remember watching the show on the early 90s tv, playing with an old car steering wheel pretending that I’m speedracer driving the Mach 5.
Now I’m 31 and I’m starting on competitive Karting and sim racing on the journey to became a Gt car driver.
Thank you Speedracer
i changed my dad’s ringtone to this because this was his absolute favorite show when he was a kid.
I forgot Speed straight up killed a dude in the opening. Holy shit, it’s a race settle down dude.
I can't remember a lot of my childhood, but when I stumble upon THIS.
Oh my.
THE TUNE ITS JUST A WEIRD MIX OF MEMORIES AND DEJA VU FOR ME YOU DONT KNOW HOW WEIRD BUT RELIEFED IM FEELING.
This show was such a huge part of my childhood. Every Friday, my brother and I would go over to my Grandma’s for the weekend and my uncle had the whole series on DVD. We would cram it all in just a few days.
I had no idea this was an anime when I was a kid. This theme is awesome though.
The whole show is epic. Btw nice profile pic!
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I watched Speed Racer on the Speed Channel and It's AWESOME!!!!!! I can watch Speed Racer on The Speed Channel anytime I want,whenever I want.
Giffton What?
I like speed
This is one of my most favorite cartoons I grew up with and this song! I love this song love this song!
Bro I remember coming home from kindergarten/head start and putting the vhs into the vhs player and this would come on bro I miss it so much 😭😭
That music is so classic. Even if the cartoon is weird and cheesy, it has such old-school charm. It could only be '60's with that Beach Boys type singing the theme. And he really does look like Emile Hirsch!
Still is and will always be the greatest cartoon show of my youth!!! The best episode without a doubt The Most Dangerous Race with the Car Acrobatic Team!!!
...and the mammoth car episode.
Loved the song and the show as a kid. The only car i know that had a drone (the homing device/ bird) in 1968!!
The "Black Beauty" on Green Hornet" (1966) had a similar device. I hope we get those soon too.
Speed really is a demon! The Dude even kills ppl in his own intro!!