![]() ![]() Art Evolution: Not a huge one, but the characters become slightly less stiff by the time season 2 comes around.Adaptational Nationality: While the Racer family and the original supporting characters are American, by the look Speed Sr's photo and Speed Jr., the Racer family still appear Japanese at least.Academy of Adventure: Speed and his friends get involved in a variety of events (from being sent mysterious letters to getting stuck inside the Virtual Track) primarily due to Ziles and later the Committees plans to steal the Mach 6.The late Peter Fernandez, the producer of the dub of the original show, as well as the lyricist for the English theme song and the voice of Speed, was brought in to voice an adult Spritle. 95% of the characters are brand new anyway, which makes for a more original story, yet when it does get nostalgic, the tributes are amazingly accurate. It is quite possibly the most successful of the adaptations, considering the first two note The New Adventures of Speed Racer and Speed Racer X were both canceled during their runs. ![]() If the stiff, Flash-animated characters look familiar, it's because Animation Collective, probably best known for animating the Nicktoons Network's first original series, Kappa Mikey, produced this series. Nicktoons Network aired the entire 26-episode first season from 2008 to 2009. Speed Racer: The Next Generation is the third consecutive television adaptation, a Revival created to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the entire franchise and in conjunction to the wide release of the live-action feature film, and a Sequel Reset taking place 40 years from the original storyline With his rebuilt Mach 6, unusual racing talent, and mysterious lineage, the man realizes for the first time in his life that he is Speed Racer's second-born long-lost son! Then he discovers the remains of the one and only Mach 5 in a near-by junkyard. He immediately becomes the new guy - he's always picked on, makes only two friends, and arrives with no racing car of his own. ![]() A young man, somewhere in a desert, anxiously awaits his first day at the Racing Academy to become a great car racer. ![]()
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