A dramatic recreation of the classic Speed Racer series condensed into 8mins. / adventuresofsly #speedracer #cars #anime #cartoon #memes #animation #animeedit
So it's essentially a circular narrative. Speed Racer is assigned by Interpol to track down a mysterious, maniacal racecar driver who's been going on a killing spree. Speed takes his usual tough on crime approach; hitting the streets and embedding himself in major syndicates. Meanwhile, his father's company is buckling under the pressure to build ever faster cars, and Speed's recent activities aren't helping the situation. The company eventually fails, and Speed, strung out from chronic stress, goes totally over the edge. Only then does he realize that the madman he had been looking for so desperately, was himself.
He not only wanted to break the speed record... but he really wanted a seven layer chocolate cake. Also, apparently 60s-70s "Ah-quaman" is Speed Racer's greatest weakness.
I didn't know Speed Racer was even a thing till the internet lol. Because I don't remember any channels like Nickelodeon, or CN showing reruns of Speed Racer back in the 90's or probably 00s here in the USA.
Nick aired the 90s remake of it back in the late 90s, and nick and nicktoons aired the spin off series in the 2000s. Aside from like Comcast video on demand and streaming sites later on, the only other channels that aired the 60's Speed Racer anime in the 2000s was TV Land and Cartoon Network during their Adult Swim time around 4 or 5am (they also aired Betty boop and the 60's Astro boy around that time). Oh yeah, and Crunchyroll used to have it too.
God the part when he was boasting how good his assassin drivers were whilst showing them all carelessly crashing had me in tears. Thank you for this masterpiece sir.
I've got the entire original show as a DVD set in a Mach 5 tin and I love this. This is basically your regular speed racer episode. It's so well done, absolutely incredible.
Imagine what this must have been like for an American viewer in the late 60's when the only other pieces of Japanese animation most people in the US had even heard of were Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) and Gigantor (Tetsujin 28-go).
When MTV started airing Speed Racer late at nights around 1992 or so, it was an unexpercted hit... and then suddenly, other channels started airing it it, and then there was a SNES video game, VHS tapes, action figures and toys, a reboot series... and for this cartoon show that had been almost entirely off the air since 1968 and hasn't even been in reruns in years!
Speed Racer has gotten a bit of a bad rap through the years, but in the same way that Johnny Quest has. It was not originally intended as a children's cartoon. Like Johnny Quest, it was created for adults, but with Speed Racer it was meant for the adult Japanese market in the 1960's. But it ended up being shown to American children in the early 1970's which meant it often didn't translate very well.
@@paulnicholson5997 that was some awesome editing done in this clip😉 I can't remember if that was a pile of dust, or salt or something else. But when he edited it in with the shot of opening the trunk immediately before it sure gave you that impression
I was one of those 70's kids who watched this, I was very young and thought Speed was adorable. Now I see this and wonder if he was a drag queen! Scarf, eyelashes?? You're edits are really great fun!
@@azvascos7542 I grew up watching this show also. The Mach 5 has got to be one of the all time great fictional cars ever, with all the gadgets on it. Don't forget about the episode with the "evil" Mach 5 that had little wing and could fly. I've got lots of those episodes on DVD and their still a trip.
After watching him for nearly 50 years it amazes me how much of a BA he is. I remember one scene where he punched through a giant pillar when he knew a bad guy was standing there behind it.
That was great. So weird and yet it captured the feel of any random episode of Speed Racer. I used to watch it as a kid in the 60s and it seemed weird even then.
That plot twist at the end was more insane than the plot twist at the end of the original Halloween in 1978 starring Donald Pleasence (who played Blofeld in You Only Live Twice) and Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut).
This was a little confusing/long at points but all the major beats hit and the ending brought it all together I didn't know I was going to walk across art today
My Speed Racer lunch box was used to knock out playground bullies with a skillful throw. It never failed to return to hand. The thermos enabled its boomerang recovery action. Usually filled with tang.
The fact I was just watching the other Speed Racer video from you mere minutes ago! Your content is amazing though. This is just really a masterpiece. And the amount of effort you've put into this, *this art of a video is your best yet!*
@@AdventuresOfSly one thing I really appreciated the most about is that you created an actual believable storyline for him that actually still pays respects to the source material. The red haring is that he’s possessed by the demon, but the truth is that’s who he really is. Speed a relentless Demon who is obsessed with winning, and indulging on his which I’m sure is top of the line Sugar. Anyone who dares cross his path or prevent him from his daily activities is doomed to suffer the consequences.
3:00 is Speed freaking out so much at Aquaman because Speed has become hydrophobic? 7:35 good GOD. Those "further proof Speed Racer is a sociopath" videos have nothing on _"Gotcha, BITCH!"_
I remember back in the early 2000 when I was a little kid, there was a marathon of the old _Speed Racer_ ... it was the first time I saw a woman die in a cartoon, it was my first stept towards joining the MRA 😂😂😂 stupid edgy jokes aside, Speed Racer is great and I loved the video
Oh nostalgia, this is one of the cartoons I will not miss. Horrible quality even for the time I was watching them. They encouraged fathers to speed up their cars on the way to school... ending up their lives too quickly.
Considering how often guns and drugs appeared in the original series, I wouldn't have realized this was a parody until I realized the music playing over wasn't original.
This is pretty accurate. I used to watch the show, and this was pretty much every episode, minus every like 5 min the kid and Chim Chim are hiding in the trunk.
@@AdventuresOfSly Oh my goodness did they! Did anyone ever do a counter to show just how overused that gag was, while also showing how many episodes were there?
I was born in 1986, so Speed Racer already existed, but I think even as a kid I knew the English dub was terrible. Did they speak so damned fast to try to match the lip movements? The fast talking was parodied in other animation for years and years. Still not sure if the anime itself was just terrible as well, or if it was the dub making it that way. We've come a long, long way in dubbing anime into English.
The people who dubbed this did a lot of work on just about everything animated Japanese that came to the US in the 60s...it was also edited for our market to tone down some of the violence. I'd love to see these in the original Japanese market version with good quality subtitles...
