Speed Racer - Complete Series [DVD]

Good series to have. Love this old school cartoon series. Have purchased all of them.

I love how wonderfully strange and unhinged this series is, dozens of drivers die every race on wildy unsafe and impractical tracks and nobody ever says a word about it, lots of gadgets, campy dialog and bad guys with goofy plans, daring rescues, and fisticuffs set in the 1960s spy era.

I watched speed racer growing up there's some I haven't seen before, this has the whole episodes. Glad to have it in my collection.

I haven't bought these DVDs yet, but I will because I was a great fan of Speed Racer. I like many other 40+ year olds, used to run home from school just to watch Speed Racer & Gigantor on channel 11. Man those were good cartoons. Not too violent,(for me that is) no real hidden political agendas. Just good clean japanese cartoon fun! The Japanese cartoons of today are SOOOOOO stupid and uncreative, it's just a shame that so many kids think that these crappy cartoons are good! Garbage cartoons such as Yu Ghe oh & that little yellow piece of crap Pinkachu or the ridiculously named cartoon, Satch Bell? What the hell did they get that name from? Are the people that created these cartoons out of their minds or were they just high on some bad speed? (no pun intended for Speed Racer) The way these japanese cartoons are drawn today, you would think that the cartoonist must have been a drug user or alcohol abuser, or just plain violent! MAN THEY'RE BAD! And I mean BAD in the real meaning of the word, not the "cool" street lingo it can also mean. THESE JAPANESE CARTOONS TODAY REALLY REALLY SUCK! Plus the storylines are geared towards the older teens not the 5 to 12 year olds that could watch Speed or gigantor or Marine Boy, which unfortunately, I can't find any DVDs for. My son is just turning 5 & he is going to know what good cartoons were like. So I am going to buy these DVDs of Speed Racer, Gigantor and when available, Marine Boy. Hopefully,in the future, I'll be able to buy another great japanese cartoon called Tobor, the eigth man, again when it's available. For now I will just take my chances even though some reviewers have said the quality of the Speed Racer & Gigantor weren't that good.

I highly recommend the Speed Racer episodes 1-11 to anyone who wishes to see what the 1966 classic looks and sounds like on DVD!. I have been a fan since I first saw Speed Racer premiere in March of 1967 on local TV. It's first-run ended in April of 1968 and then was re-ran through the late 70's. The Japanese company who made and copyrighted it in 1966 and it took them another year for it to be dubbed in English and distributed in US and Japan in 1967 and 1968. The original Trans-Lux credits; I could never forget seeing the 1966 on them when it first came on. I see someone made a misconception about the year it was assembled and later released in Japanese and US markets, no big deal. The US company that bought Speed Racer in 1993 had to replace the original Trans-Lux credits ( beginning and ending titles ), because the company was no longer in business that year and that is legalties for you. The ending animated credits are the same, except the computer credits are off the original video masters that Speed Racer Enterprises made off 35 negatives and later Cartoon Network bought the show and they time-compressed the show for commercial spots. Someone made a mistake with Jack Grime's last name Ha! I have them on VHS with the old white-lettered opening credits and and rarely play them, the DVD so much easier. Some of my friends work in the video and audio field and as soon as the DVD arrived, we all sat down for almost 5 hours and watched it on a giant 53 inch Hi-Def TV and progressive scan DVD player. Nothing was time-compressed on the DVD/video and the audio as well. A subtle, if perhaps faster intro with the opening title, which was replaced years ago when Trans-Lux in NY, who bought and marketed the show for TV in 1967, decades later went out of business in 1993, but it was barely noticable, if at all on the DVD the new titles. The video quality is pristine and what artifacts I did see were from the original 35 mm film itself. My DVD player did not freeze up at all. That also depends on the quality of your DVD player. Any artifacts, so minor you would not even spot them, especially on a giant screen TV! The clarity of DVD is so powerful! The colors are perfect and details are so easily seen, that I missed on TV and old VHS cheated us out of for years! This reproduction by Artisan surpasses the DVD set issued by Speed Racer Ent in 2001 here in the US. That set was done decently and with limited funds in 2001, and I compared both, and the SRE DVD box set ( which had visible artifacts and more edge noise to a much more higher degree ), is inferior to the new Speed Racer episodes 1-11 by Artisan. I am not complaining though. I enjoy them all! Now let's get episodes 12-52 on DVD's from Artisan by Christmas time when they give us the pre-ordering date! They said later this year, I hear Santa's bells ringing! As for the Japanese version, no one would be able to understand it unless they lived over there or we would all have to pay for a translater! Go, Speed, Go!!!!!!!!! :)

Enjoy watching

Ive been wanting this cartoon series for years.I watch it every night on "MeTv Toons", butsometimes the reception is bad. NOW I can watchit ANYTIME I want to. A bowl of cereal, Speed Racer,and time..... Priceless. Thank you. 😀👍👍🍀🍀

It was great to go back in time when movies were real movies. Children love it and it brought back a lot of memory so I guess that I will be looking for the oldies now.