Captain Falcon had an anime?! | F-ZERO Anime: Falcon Densetsu Review

[@carlosblanco571]

I remember the amazing final falcon punch is so iconic

[@setsers1]

FALCOOOON PUUUUUNCH!

[@ariesforce1988]

FALCOONE PAWNCHUUUU!!!

[@kenrickkahn]

Chop them hotdogs!!

[@MrBepis-qx5ye]

Best ending scene to any anime to this date

[@thejman5683]

The meaning of truth is unironically one of the greatest anime openings of all time in my eyes

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

Seconded.

[@kerosan138]

Thirded

[@Stanpai]

Fourthed.

[@soap8049]

Fifted.

[@thatsynchroplayingguy4900]

Sixted.

[@MetaKnuxXbeats]

This whole anime is all worth it just to see that final FALCON PUNCH while The Meaning of Truth plays in the background.

[@AngelRodriguez-gg6rc]

I still remember my buddy showing me that this is on KZbin for free

[@Stanpai]

that's how I watched it! Great times.

[@alucard624]

Same here. Definitely one of the better anime's I sat all the way through. For me it's this and Golgo 13 The Series for my favorites.

[@riftshredder5438]

I just can't get enough of that theme song, it is a real shame that this show never got a proper localization, if only Funimation did it instead of 4Kids

[@thesensiblestreamer2958]

Forever He will be my hero!

[@misterzygarde6431]

The only reason I remember this show is that they made some characters who weren’t villains into villains Characters like Pico, -Beastman- ,Bio-Rex, The Skull, Baba, Octoman, and -Leon- ,were the ones who became villains in the show. I feel like that there was a missed opportunity to have Octoman and Leon be supporting characters instead of villains. Considering they do have interesting backstories. This anime does seem to be an interesting watch, might check it out later.

[@setsers1]

That's sad

[@Stanpai]

Leon isn't a villain in the show, far from it actually! Beastman appears in the same episode and he's also not a villain, just bigoted toward any beast-type people. The rest however are as you say. Hope you'll check it out!

[@misterzygarde6431]

Stanpai Still there was a missed opportunity to have Octoman keep his characterization. I could imagine him having an odd sort of friendship with Leon, considering both are racing to support the children of their homeworld.

[@setsers1]

@@Stanpai oof

[@Stanpai]

@@misterzygarde6431 I'll just say that you won't be totally disappointed about Octoman in the context of his homeworld.

[@luhvhue4591]

It was one of those anime that i remember almost nothing about even after all 52 episodes. But it does have one of the best anime ops of all time.

[@themetal]

I remember watching and enjoying what little we got here in the states when it aired. I should really go back and finish the whole series in the original Japanese.

[@Stanpai]

YES! Whole thing is on KZbin, don't wait!

[@welfarewalrus597]

This anime has always been on my backlog, thanks to you it’s at the top of it now and I’ll give it a try.

[@Stanpai]

Can't wait to hear your thoughts

[@custom-r]

This is really great how you took time to check out the F-Zero anime. Thanks for help shed some light on it. It's really something more people should experience at least once.

[@Stanpai]

My pleasure. When it comes to bringing the series back... Consider it my glorious dream.

[@bdillmore40]

I'm SO glad you made a review video on F-Zero GP Legend the anime series! Literally NO ONE ever talks about it! I really don't know why, other than what you pointed out in the video: 4Kids aired only 15 episodes. I'll tell ya the US really got screwed when it comes to certain video games, and animes. Great video Stanley! Loved it!!!!! - Brendan

[@Stanpai]

Thanks brother. It was your comment on my previous video that made me wonder what I'd been missing. I was still unsure if I should take the plunge but when discussion came up for what we should watch next here at home, we decided to go for it. What a great result. Thanks for the endorsement, it definitely led to me being open to watching.

[@bdillmore40]

@@Stanpai Oh wow! That's great! I'm honored that you took my word for it, and watched it! I'm glad you liked it! Totally worth watching if you're an F-Zero fan for sure! Keep up the great work, and stay in touch! -Brendan

[@ATalkingSock]

I watched this back in the brawl days. Loved it. Didn't realize there was a translation.

[@Stanpai]

All on KZbin!

[@ghost_undead]

Im supprised it wasnt more popular at the time given Captain Falcon is a character in Smash Bros. Thats how I found out about the game...I havent even played it yet but the music track (specifically the song Mute City) is an absolute banger.

[@TheIkranRider]

My only major flaw is that it was so frustrating it's in an alt. continuity and it differs from the games themselves, especially portraying some chars, even the minor ones that had only 1 episode. To me it's...hit-or-miss, thus I made podfics for my own F-Zero timeline; I can never stop talking about it! And I find the English dubs to be underrated. I only wish it'd have a 2nd shot like One Piece did.

[@TheIkranRider]

Hey, if you want, maybe you can RP some of the characters? Even from my podfics?

[@WillBallForSoup]

I agree that opening theme is true magic. I just found out about this anime TODAY you're also underrated as a reviewer. Subscribed!

[@Stanpai]

Thank you!! BOOST FIRE!!

[@AlexEinherjar]

I didn't know about this anime. You made a great review, enough to make me curious to watch this anime.

[@DarthSparhawk]

Thanks for the video. Watched this anime as part of my racing anime checklist and loved it. I love the characters and Ryu in particular and I love how the plot became very epic by the end. Great show.

[@setsers1]

This was a great show. But the BEST, yet most heartbreaking part was The Falcon Punch finale~!

[@zaku7]

Hey I know I’m very late. But after successfully finishing the show, I couldn’t help but watch it again. Even with its flaws, it’s a classic in my book personally. It’s just too bad it lead to the end of series for a very long time. But we can all hope to bring this series back.

[@Stanpai]

Never too late! I'm so glad you enjoyed it as much as I do.

[@kanaishi6435]

good review, encouraged me to check out the whole series right after i'm done with watching this video!

[@RuV9999]

when i was i kid i didn't realize this is F Zero anime. the one i know is this anime is about hovercar racing and that's all and i didn't even remember its name. until i find out the game in Arcade (you guess it. F-Zero AX) that has "The most cool and badass racing game i have ever played!". until i found Captain Falcon from smash bros that from F-Zero that brings me back into F-Zero AX to GX and then looking foward to F-Zero franchise entirely until i found this anime. and i remember! the hovercar racing anime i watch as a kid is in face F-Zero anime. which is makes me mindblowing didn't realize i have ignore this cool anime imo. thankfully im able to watch it until the end. and that was incredible imo.

[@RuV9999]

oh btw. i feels the plot line of this anime reminds me of Chojin Sentai Jetman somehow

[@lucygirl1111]

started watching f-zero just for captain Falcon while it did take like 30ish episodes for Captain Falcon to step into more of the spot light but i realised thats because he was doing the cool mystery racer kind of guy so it just took longer to get into his story and boy what a story it was

[@Stanpai]

Isn't it wonderful?

[@lucygirl1111]

@@Stanpai it is indeed i still have a f zero game from the gameboy advance ^^

[@BlueThunderO7]

So far I've watched all 51 episodes 4 times and I'll still never get tired of it.

[@Stanpai]

I'm constantly finding myself remembering this show and then asking myself if I'd like to go all the way through again. The answer is always yes but I stop myself. I don't understand why I enjoyed it so much. It's incredible how good this show feels.

[@BlueThunderO7]

@@Stanpai Absolutely. I'm just about the fact that it got left on a cliffhanger though.

[@Stanpai]

@@BlueThunderO7 it was a complete story so I'm ok with that. I have a silly theory about the planned continuation that is crazy enough to be believable. I completed the sequel in my head.

[@papina54]

Beautiful memories!!!

[@flamingphoenix1425]

I played Meaning of Truth in the background while playing Smash against my friend the other day and played the best Falcon of my life

[@Stanpai]

That song has magical powers.

[@geekforeverpixelgamingsurl5007]

I just watched the first episode (all are available on KZbin) and pretty good so far. I intend to keep going and who knows : if I end up liking the show enough and watch until the end, I might put it on DVD and add French subtitles.😄Yeah, I am crazy like that.

[@Stanpai]

You got boost power!

[@geekforeverpixelgamingsurl5007]

@@Stanpai Thanks, pal.😎👍🏻

[@BigA207]

This was a really good review and made me want to see the F-Zero anime sometime in the future. Will you at some point be looking at other anime adaptations of video game franchises?

[@Stanpai]

Maybe! This one in particular really caught me by surprise and I just had to make a video.

[@bigp4542]

I think nintnendo should make a spin off game/anime where they push the captain falcon character based on smash, because thats what he is known for nowadays. Imagine following a story where he has to learn the falcon punch, knee of justice and so on. Or he learns the phoenix punch(a stronger version of the falcon punch) I think that would have a great potential because captain falcon is just a cool character and you could get really creative with that idea (Sorry for bad english)

[@Stanpai]

Good idea! It works because you can become the new Captain Falcon at the end.

[@CynicalGamingBlogTerry309]

Phoenix Punch would be Phoenix's Equivilent of the Falcon Punch

[@richardsonrichly8456]

Pretty sure i watched this as a kid because when i discovered F-zero Cpt falcon felt awfully familiar

[@emmastarr5242]

I'm surprised you never heard of or watched it! I think I personally discovered it during...the later Brawl years, and I really enjoyed it!

[@flamingphoenix1425]

We need the anime Falcon Punch in Smash

[@turboDrowsy]

It's pretty metal you're using the High Quality rips from this series and it looks soooooo good. Also, the best thing the anime has over GX is Jody and i will not retract my opinion.

[@Stanpai]

Anime Jody is ultimate.

[@Stanpai]

And yes I had to, many thanks to the lad who made those beautiful clips available to me.

[@ayar2]

wasnt she a damsel in distress in the anime??, I recall her being captured every now and then (well, that was with all females in the anime, not just her), tho I acknowledge that Anime Jody had more of an attitude than her game counterpart.

[@antusFireNova]

@@ayar2 nope, that's in the game. Se barely gets captured in the anime, just 1 or 2 times, despite being one of the main characters and appearing in every episode. She is the complete opposite of damsel in distress, she's such a big improvement compared to its game counterpart

[@ayar2]

@@antusFireNova well, technically she gets captured once during chapter 5 of GX story mode, after that she's back on the racetrack in chapter 7, so even if the trope is played straight in the game and anime, its far from her defining trait by virtue of being primary from a racing game series.

[@NickH]

I'm still pretty early in the series but I've been enjoying it so far, it's pretty fun.

[@antusFireNova]

Is Fio the girl in the profile pic?

[@NickH]

@@antusFireNova yes

[@vSAMGX]

I really enjoyed this. Good stuff

[@Stanpai]

Thank you!

[@paperluigi6132]

I just came back from watching the full series blind (except the Falcon Punch), and yeah, more people need to watch this gem of an anime.

[@Stanpai]

I'm so glad you enjoyed this wonderful show

[@mariocraft3067]

You forgot to mention the coolest character, Miss Killer!!

[@Stanpai]

It's better to let them find out by watching. ;)

[@mariocraft3067]

@@Stanpai mmmISSu kirra...

[@mrchowchow110]

This was the very first anime I ever watched, great great memories! :’)

[@sigmamalechad5295]

I always cry to the ending.

[@idreamofsquidz814]

Anyone know where to watch the dubbed version?

[@Stanpai]

The dub only aired 15 episode.

[@FaizerGPL]

Well to be fair...the games I mostly play are based on it

[@MajinAsuraPath]

Uhh the Street Fighter clip you shown at the beginning was from the cartoon. The actual Street Fighter animes are actually really good.

[@Stanpai]

I know it's not the anime. I thought it would be funnier.

[@milestrombley1466]

I only knew Captain Falcon from Super Smash Brothers. 😁

[@Neobelmont1]

Only 15 episodes? Really? That's shocking. I also remember that on foxbox it had a later time schedule like near the end, in hindsight, not good. The idea would be watch yu-gi-oh like at 7am or something then switch it to foxbox and back and forth iirc. This was the era where pkmn,ultimate muscle, fighting foodons,megaman nt warrior,etc where on air, and by the time gp legend came on, I either missed it, or it was too late. Crazy how this was neglected, but now that I think about it,this could have been big on say toonami. But lack of proper management maybe too blame here, heck viewtiful joe even had a longer showtime than gp-legend and I don't recall anyone talking about that.

[@Stanpai]

If this anime came out right now instead we'd be in a very different timeline I think. Back then anime didn't have the same mainstream vice on the West. Not yet, anyway.

[@TheIkranRider]

Hell yeah it should be on Toonami; even w/ some of the VAs like Greg, Dan, Veronica, etc!

[@renegade4346]

I finished this anime not too long ago and then checked out the gp legend game after finishing it. Shame that it flopped in the west as its a blast to play

[@Stanpai]

AGREED

[@fuzzyquils]

Only gripe I have with GP Legend on GBA is the AI; it's far too easy to beat even on Expert. Maybe that's just me though.

[@grayfox7108]

Dame el link de los soundtrack del anime, hace mucho que los estoy buscando porfavor tío senpai :"(

[@grayfox7108]

PD: legendario creí que jamás podría oír otra vez f-zero falcón densetsu, eres el capo de los capos

[@Stanpai]

@@grayfox7108 kzbin.info/aero/PLU_Xkza2XzrOxHz1r31_3_k44g33Dp_nb

[@kirbo8919]

You finally noticed

[@Stanpai]

Noticed what?

[@MrSuperbeast92]

Wasn't there a sequel series with racing mechs, tho??? I could've sword there was.....

[@Stanpai]

No. There is a show called IGPX that is unrelated.

[@DarthSparhawk]

@@Stanpai tried several times to get into IGPX, but can't get passed episode 1, I dislike the supporting characters and the pacing

[@theblooper9631]

Wait, if they're the police, then why don't they just make it so criminals can't enter F-Zero?

[@AEWpe]

Because the criminals run the championship. They make the rules

[@theblooper9631]

@@AEWpe Then why don't the police either force the F Zero officials to stop criminals from entering, or shut down F zero if they don't listen. Also, if the criminals run F Zero, why do they give money to their enemies if they win, instead of just giving it to themselves regardless?

[@gamernub1005]

FALCUN PUNCH!!

[@fernandovaladez3439]

Much Like Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope The Memories Of The Phantasm And P4 The Animation They Almost Look Like Anime

[@Stanpai]

An impressive compliment for an anime that came out in 2003.

[@brafya]

bart is the original all-might

[@cosmicfool3334]

I used to watch it on 4kids I dont remember it much though but i always watched it with viewtiful joe and kirby

[@foxboxarchives2059]

I thought the F-Zero GP Legend Video Game was selling well thanks to that...F-Zero Mega Moolah Sweepstakes that FoxBox was doing during Late 2004. 😮😯 Where did you get these Raw Episodes in HQ by the way? :)

[@Stanpai]

They float around the internet. There's an upload somewhere. It's all in JP.

[@charaznableplays2110]

Stanpai NEVER heard of the F-Zero GP Legend anime untill Now?! Yo thats BLASPHEMY! XD

[@Stanpai]

I've known about the Falcon Punch for YEARS but never watched the show proper until 2020. Worth it.

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

This is what Captain Falcon's move set in Smash Bros was based off of.

[@Stanpai]

This came out after smash so that's not correct. The only instance we have of Falcon doing stuff out of the Blue Falcon is in the SNES comic, which I released a dub of a few days ago.

[@Kladyos]

This show probably didn't go into how James McCloud is from StarFox or how Zoda is the villain from StarTropics...

[@bluepheonix7473]

The possible main reason it flopped here in the U.S is because it was given to censor happy 4kids the company that censored any and everything that they thought was “not child friendly.”

[@TheIkranRider]

True, wish Funimation would take it. Though I did like Rick as Greg Abbey, Jody as Veronica, and Dr. Stewart as Dan Green. Wish they could reprise their roles, some of them...

[@caolanochearnaigh9804]

Every time I hear the words "fan service", I cringe hard. Rule 34 ruined everything.

[@GreenPhoenix91]

Captain Falcon did not have an anime he merely appeared in one as a Masked Racer/Racer X knock off when the character has never come off as mysterious they also foolishly canonized his techniques from smash bros when nothing has ever been confirmed in an official title prior to GP Legends that he has pyrokinetic abilities. This anime deserved my disdain and it deserves everyone else as well. If you want a good F-Zero anime watch Nascar Racers it has great voice acting, great writing, doesn't alter the ethnicity of the main character because they have an anti-foreign policy that should have died upon creation. F-ZERO fans deserved better.

[@Stanpai]

1. The entire anime is about Captain Falcon 2. It's the Steel Ball Run of F-ZERO. Relax. Just go watch Redline.

[@CynicalGamingBlogTerry309]

The anime isn't canon to the games dude, aside from GP Legend/Climax so don't worry.

[@MeeMeeCandy777]

This anime was my favorite show. The racing moments, character development, even good moments. My favorite episode was Songstress Kate Alen because EAD had a role there. Kate and EAD is my favorite pairing in the anime. The anime really made me happy. If I have to choose a favorite character, it would be Rick Wheeler, Jody Summer, Lucy Liberty, Mr. EAD, Kate Alen, Super Arrow, Jack Levin, Clank Hughes, and Dr. Stewart. The anime is 10/10 for me. (EDIT) What are your thoughts on Songstress Kate Alen? #MrEADNeedsMoreRoles #WeNeedAnotherFZeroAnime #MakeaNewFZeroGameNintendo

[@Stanpai]

I am 100% in agreement with you. My favorite episode for comedy is Battle of the Women. Songstress Kate Alen is by far one of the best. I cried. Great comment. Come hang with my community: discord.gg/zSJZxPx

[@callinater6133]

I love all the characters, though I think Rick and captain falcon were probably the best written. Rick is well developed and they do a good job at establishing falcon’s prestige.