Speed Racer | |
Gō Mifune (a.k.a. Speed Racer)
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マッハGoGoGo (Mahha GōGōGō) |
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Genre | Action, Racing |
Manga | |
Written by | Tatsuo Yoshida |
Published by |
Shueisha Sun Wide Comics Fusosha |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Shōnen Book |
Original run | June 1966 – May 1968 |
Volumes | 2 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by |
Hiroshi Sasagawa Peter Fernandez (adaptation) |
Produced by |
Tatsuo Yoshida Peter Fernandez (adaptation) |
Written by |
Jinzō Toriumi Peter Fernandez (adaptation) |
Music by | Nobuyoshi Koshibe |
Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Fuji TV |
English network | |
Original run | April 2, 1967 – March 31, 1968 |
Episodes | 52 |
Anime television series | |
Speed Racer X | |
Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa Hiroyuki Fukushima |
Produced by | Kenji Yoshida Makiko Iwata Masatoshi Yui Minoru Ohno Yumi Murase |
Written by | Masaaki Sakurai |
Music by | Michiru Oshima |
Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo (1997) |
English network | |
Original run | January 9, 1997 – September 25, 1997 |
Episodes | 34 |
Manga | |
Mach GoGoGo! | |
Written by | Toshio Tanigami |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Children |
Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
Original run | January 1997 – October 1997 |
Volumes | 2 |
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Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo (Japanese: マッハGoGoGo Hepburn: Mahha GōGōGō?), is a Japanese animated franchise about automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 Shōnen Book. It was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics, and later re-released in Japan by Fusosha. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, its 52 episodes aired on Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968. The anime was later re-broadcast on Tokyo MX from July 1 to September 25, 2008.
Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title Speed Racer Classics. These were later released by Wildstorm Productions, a division of DC Comics, as Speed Racer: The Original Manga. In 2008, under its Americanized title, Speed Racer, Mach GoGoGo was republished in its entirety in the United States by Digital Manga Publishing and was released as a box set to commemorate the franchise's 40th anniversary, as well as serving as a tie-in with the 2008 film. The television series itself is an early example of an anime becoming a successful franchise in the United States, spawning multiple spinoffs in both print and broadcast media.