[ANIME] A look at Mach Go Go Go (Speed Racer)
- 9th May , 2008 by KNDY in Anime Related News
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In a recent column of “Soft Power, Hard Truths” for the Daily Yomiuri, Roland Kelts wrote about “Mach Go Go Go” aka to many as “Speed Racer”.
Kelts wrote, “As Speed Racer’s Hollywood blockbuster adaptation opens in U.S. theaters today, Western media outlets are trumpeting its Japanese source: the 1960s manga and anime created by Tatsuo Yoshida and Tatsunoko Productions, the studio he formed in Tokyo with his two brothers, Kenji and Toyoharu.”
“Originally titled Mach Go Go Go, Speed Racer debuted on U.S. television in 1967, bearing many of the aesthetic characteristics now associated with anime as a global juggernaut–jerky, hyperkinetic action, ethnically stateless or even Western-looking characters, visceral violence and a complex, multifaceted, episodic storyline.”
“Its commercial success marked a watershed moment in anime history. Though Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy had arrived a few years earlier, Speed Racer was the title that catapulted anime into the U.S. marketplace and penetrated the consciousness of a generation now entrenched in middle age.”
Tags: Mach Go Go Go, Speed Racer