i can't lie, i always wanted to be speed racer when i was a kid. well, that's not exactly true. i also wanted to be prince planet because i loved that d.a.mned pendant.
i liked everything about speed racer except for trixie and maybe even sparky and annoying pops. in my vision of speed racer, i'd have a warmer racer x at my side and spridle and chim chim could still stowaway in the back of the car.
japanese anime is a force to be contended. i've seen some of their more adult fare and it has left me speechless...literally, speechless. they like to do things with tentacles. i'll leave it at that.
speed racer was so cute. i used to love his popped gq collar and the scarf he wore around his neck. when i got my first car at 20. it was a white oldsmobile cutlass supreme and i called it the mach 5. yeah, i know...it's sad, but that's how much speed racer had impressed my psyche.
these storylines were so adult...a man pimping his sister and using her as an instrument of revenge for his father's death. so many freudian issues taking place, this episode was expanded to two parts.
lol...jesus, was his name really inspector detector? steve could be a little sanctimonious though. i never liked that about him. how would he feel if someone murdered his brothers or his father?