Speed Racer Opening! (Original Japanese)

Here's the title sequence from the iconic 1960s series "Speed Racer" as it was originally seen in Japan! ( --Though over there the show is called "Mach Go, Go Go!")

[@leonardotube]

Thank god this video was released form KZbin Kids hell.

[@johnmccarron7066]

1:31 Looks back in satisfaction at the priceless prehistoric artifact he destroyed.

[@enriqueroman62]

LOL !!!!!

[@richartrod]

And the bad guys stuck in the ruins of said artifact. 😆🏎

[@Dovahkiin049]

Haven’t you heard? He’s a sociopath?

[@Colin12475]

0:53 Doesn't look back at the racer he just killed.

[@raisa_cherry33]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Sacto1654]

Very sad news to report: Nobuyoshi Koshibe, who wrote this famous anime theme (among many others!), passed away on 21 November 2014. :( A true pioneer in the anime scene in terms of music, too.

[@horaciomilo4113]

may his awesome anime opening lyrics & his soul rest in peace

[@bizzare7104]

Sacto1654 :(

[@Eri-Wi-]

Sacto1654 How sad. It was a great cartoon. And so was the theme music. And inspiring.

[@210Caveman26]

F

[@ozcareaga61]

Sacto1654 that's sad but he will be proud that speed racer will go go go

[@Boy1dr1938]

The name has several meanings. 1. "Go" is Speed's name in Japanese. 2. As you said, the car has "5" on the side (though it wasn't named Mach 5 in Japan), and Go is 5 in Japanese. 3. Fairly obvious, the exclamation "Go!" So it can mean: "Go, go, go!" "Go, Speed, go!" "Go, 5, go!" "Speed, (number) 5, go!" "Speed, speed, speed!" And so on.

[@jita26televisi]

The last one is kinds funny ngl

[@doktorkritzisch2702]

"5, 5, 5!"

[@superplushtiman7ti075]

No, the car was named the Mach 5, well technically the Mach *Type* 5

[@elijahhayter3026]

Well, that’s just wonderfully clever.

[@JunohNebula]

Happy 50th Anniversary Speed Racer! April 2nd, 1967- 2017.

[@kiryusannagi5171]

Stormy-Nightmare Queen of Memes damn i get it!! that's why tatsunoko 55th anniversary called gogo year

[@Kyuushi94]

They kept it! I can't believe America actually kept the original song! Well, they changed names, but they mostly just dubbed the song! I'm impressed!

[@fromthesidelines]

Trans-Lux, the original American TV distributor, kept the basic theme, but the English lyrics were written by Peter Fernandez, who adapted the scripts (and was the voice of "Speed Racer"). That version was performed on the soundtrack by Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass.

[@E3ECO]

Shamaninja14 Having watched the subtitled version, I don't think the American lyrics are anything like the Japanese. It's just the same tune, and ours is a little shorter.

[@Kyuushi94]

***** Well, I didn't really mean it like that. I haven't listened to these lyrics well enough to know, but I'm pretty sure there's nothing about 'Here he comes, Here comes Speed Racer' in there. I was just impressed that they kept the original melody, even if they changed the meaning of the lyrics entirely.

[@batman200]

Shamaninja14 funimation has it and it's getting japan/english blu ray release from them hoping for redub

[@Kyuushi94]

James Machuga Really? I had no idea. A redub would be cool. I wonder who they'd cast?

[@parkerjackson4943]

My childhood anime

[@taylorbee4010]

Everyone's really

[@LucLightWolf121]

Mine too. It was syndicated on television in the mid-1980's. My first anime. I will always love Mach GoGoGo/Speed Racer.

[@Mr.Prince____]

Changed my mind. Japanese version is SOOOO GOOD! 😩

[@josedro]

far way the best!!!!

[@jorgesandoval149]

Yes!!!

[@classicsbycandace]

Most def!! 🔥

[@massa6304]

Yes!

[@Anth230]

Why would you even have to change your mind?... 😏

[@ToruKun1]

It's weird, in Japan "Wacky Racers" was way more popular than Speed Racer and in the US it was the opposite. @_@

[@EddieVBlueIsland]

Simply shows we have alot to share.

[@Embargoman]

What the Japanese version is that Speed Racer went to the jungle with elephants and other wild animals, yet he also cross the desert the Japanese opening is so unique yet Japanese kids has all the fun with this. Just like Toys R Us, the Japanese kids have all the fun.

[@Pika_Gabe]

I watched this as a little kid. Little did I know, it was the triggering of my inner weeb.

[@dylonbugbee]

Me too as well speed racer ( Mach GO! GO! GO!) was the first anime I ever watched before I even watched or was ever into anime. I also watched bakugan, a little bit of pokiemon , and beyblade (metal fusion).

[@Pika_Gabe]

@@dylonbugbee And that segued into HxH, Demon Slayer, Naruto, Dragon Ball, etc

[@dylonbugbee]

@@Pika_Gabe there is no denying it I'm a weeby boy through and through 😁

[@Pika_Gabe]

@@dylonbugbee You and me both lol!

[@sergiogabriel594]

Japa: Mach gogogo USA: Go Speed Racer Latin America: Meteoro, and this is how I meet this anime series when I was a child.

[@stopbeinginsecure4786]

This opening had no business going this hard

[@lazerpeabody8062]

it was 1966 japan what do you expect

[@Simon_Electric]

First time hearing this version. I love it!

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

The two things that still send a chill down my spine, as a 45-year-old man, are the horn at the beginning as well as the sound of the autojacks.

[@kadenstewart7761]

That is one of the most manic drum fills I’ve heard and it’s literally just snare.

[@hiranom20]

The drummer went in hard af lol 🥁

[@josedro]

YES!!!

[@iVenge]

Talented people have skills.

[@IkeSan]

Japan you have changed so much in terms of animation and quality in anime.

[@KazuyaMithra]

In a good or bad way?

[@Richard-gb5lf]

Kaz terrible ways o.o its like flash animation like... yin yang yo TwT

[@Alto_C]

KAZ well imagine the worst kind of flashy, epileptic warning, shit from the depths of hells deepest part of its anus then eaten by kim jong un then fired through a nuke landing on japan where in that pile of dust, poop, and rubble they found the one piece of 💩 that contained it... it contained the secret to making an anime style that was so bad that it gave everyone and anyone watching an epileptic seizure... soo yeah thats how bad it got.

[@amightysailingman]

I saw around 15 years ago that they were showing Speed Racer X on Cartoon Network. Tuned in just to see what it was like and turned it off after about 10 minutes. I had the same reaction to the Speed Racer movie. Just couldn't finish either of them.

[@SpeedRacer2468]

Oh Yeah

[@cadpigIover]

The happiness of the song as the red car driver freaking dies always seemed off to me

[@tejaswoman]

Watching these intros as an adult, I can't believe how that went right past me as a kid. Can remember having an overall sense of danger, such as that time that he is exposed to scorpions, but the idea that just happens and the intro goes right on is kind of amazing.

[@zeeroberts7743]

I remember seeing this cartoon in Okinawa Japan in 1975

[@Batman43221]

zee roberts It's anime.

[@RedHairdo]

*+Chaoticantboy17* It's anime. Fight me.

[@Clipper-B314]

Mach Go Go Go Kaze mo furueru hair pin curve Kowai mono nado go go go White Body Mach go Makeji damashii oya yuzri Hashiri dashitara ato niwa hikenu Yukuzo shohri no goal made

[@sylviarichardson7638]

Thank you for the lyrics!! This version us the best

[@DonCarlosHormozi]

Brings back such wonderful memories.

[@Mark.G475]

Much better then the English version! It seems more jazzy. I don't believe the American version opening had the elephants.

[@luiviltov]

It didn't have the exploding car either.

[@tiablue9106]

The American version did have the exploding car. However that version is much shorter and didn’t have the stuff with the animals and the pistol guys and stuff

[@quequitoAR]

Absof*ckinglutely agree!!!

[@mollyhenrikson8422]

They had to shorten it to make more time for commercials

[@vse7327]

I love both themes.

[@phillycinephile8282]

I think 1:23 might be the single coolest moment in this opening.

[@Tarragon_]

This is my jam heard this on vinyl with my dad for over a decade.

[@kriever]

That japanese version? Are you from Japan?

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

It's actually kind of surprising when we remember so many dubbed anime changing its themes (Cardcaptors, Digimon, literally everything 4kids dubbed, every PlayStation Mega Man game just to add that) that earlier shows like Speed Racer and Sailor Moon actually kept the gist of their songs intact, even if the lyrics got a complete overhaul. I'm not saying any of the changed ones are bad, far from it, I'm just saying it's fascinating that some of these shows pretty much kept their intros when you'd assume anything released before the late 2000's would've been top-to-bottom replaced. It was only when I saw Funimation's entire TV channel when I'd see a lot of dubbed shows consistently keep their intros.

[@Anikom15Live]

That drummer at the beginning is being so extra.

[@josephstadley5927]

Was he rushing, or was he dragging?

[@kiedonmccomb3831]

@@josephstadley5927 so you do know the difference!

[@Iciarte]

Hahahahah this comment made my day 🤣

[@user-ef1ni2yn8p]

@@josephstadley5927 マッハゴーゴーゴー 主題歌 マッハゴーゴーゴー 主題

[@user-ef1ni2yn8p]

えを マッハゴーゴーゴー 主題歌

[@erisunflower]

I really need to watch this anime as a whole and not just the chaotic out of context clips on here, lmao.

[@tejaswoman]

Be aware that the American version, _Speed Racer_ , evidently excised some of the violence/explosions AND that the scripts for the English version were written by Speed's voice actor, Peter Fernández, who didn't know Japanese and had to write the English scripts with whatever bare-bones information they gave him. Generally this involved plot points, but occasionally there was a big reveal early on of some recurring-character information they forgot to tell him about the first time, so it doesn't appear in the English script until the character has come back a second or third time. (Fans of the show can guess the character I have in mind, but I don't want to spoil it for you if you've never watched.) So if you have some option to watch the original, go for it.

[@xxphactor]

A two minute opening? That's unheard of!...LOL

[@sonic23233]

Man this was a violent anime

[@tatsuoh9735]

日本のアニメとは知らなかった方が多い事に驚いたが。 コチラにしてみれば 当時、まさか海外で放映してたとは知らなかったのは事実。 ハリウッドが実写版を作られた時...何で?と思ったと同時に昔外国で放映してたからと聞いて納得。 マッハGOはやはりこの初期バージョンが最高で超えられないでしょう。

[@tejaswoman]

Was just saying in a different comment that although I had no idea as a little girl (early 1970s) watching intently, I learned that fact so long ago in my adulthood that I really don't remember where or when or how I found out it was adapted from Japanese.

[@iwasanangryyoungman]

that drum sequence is killer!!! 1:50-1:55 should explain how the Wachovskis cribbed "bullet time" from

[@shkeni]

Exactly. To me one of the best parts is at the very beginning when he revs it and clanks the gear into place, priceless!

[@cristianpinto2510]

I remember I saw that intro in an interlude shown in Cartoon Network in 1993...beautiful, I was eleven years old by this time. Greetings from Argentina!

[@AldenRDavis]

“Mach! Go! Go! Go! (Go, Speed Racer! Go!)

[@budgibson8045]

I never knew that this cartoon was made in Japan 💯

[@ATLJayMontana]

So we gonna ignore that vehicular manslaughter he committed at 0:44? 😂

[@imyerpepper]

"I was racing in Japan, now I'm in Africa? HOW!?"

[@youngmanoldman32]

Could be papau new guinea dont be close minded

[@hiranom20]

Speed jumping the Mach 5 over a purple (grey?) elephant is the most 60s thing ever lol 😂

[@luizfelipeferro2679]

Did he just kill the red car's driver?

[@dj-yf9jg]

Yes! 😂

[@LukSter18998]

It was really unclear

[@skymanstudios6061]

Probably

[@jorgeandresarango3803]

If you see the frame in detail, you'll see the red car's ejected before the car falls and explodes.

[@BigguBosu117]

@@jorgeandresarango3803 It was the tire 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@xmariner]

I would like to think there is some guy born in 1966 (57 1/2 at this point) in Japan that was as big a fan as I was somewhere in Japan. Why can't that be a fan club?

[@marplatense31]

God, it's been forever since I watched this. :)

[@crawlingboy]

marplatense31 I see you are a man of ichigo

[@pilsatortube]

ah thanks finally I found the intro they used in germany when i was a kid back in the day!!!

[@BlueBoxMadMan]

This is what started my journey into anime!

[@kingsmenamv6894]

1:33 how can a race car drive on soft sand so perfectly

[@mjolnirmayhem5701]

Because it's the mach 5

[@SeptemberAdam]

As an american saying, I think I like this opening a lil better than the US rendering of it. It has to me more of a groovy 60s sound to it. A lil more hip:)

Speed Racer soundtrack and incidental music was amazing.

[@federicoguillermorio]

¡¡¡ WOW !!!. La versión japonesa tiene una orquesta completa y me gusta ese solo de batería al principio, ¡suena como la apertura de una gran producción de Hollywood de los años 50! ¡Mucho más elegante que la versión americana y mucho mejores músicos tocando en esta versión!

[@PendinggrisMalam]

OH GOD

[@federicoguillermorio]

@@PendinggrisMalam Oh Year.

[@PendinggrisMalam]

@@federicoguillermorio mm hola

[@dano5238]

Broooo!! The Japanese always get the good stuff. As much as i like the American opening, this one is so much better.

[@c3cubed]

My three brothers and I watched this as tykes in the 60's, and still dribble the tune at family gatherings. I'm over 50 now, and it's nice to see it's found a new following...It was one of our favourite Saturday morning cartoon ablutions. But wow - this Japanese version of the theme tune is much more epic in the sound! Full orchestration, and a longer opening. Gotta' love vintage Anime. BTW - the recent "movie" version sucked, not a thing nostalgic for the real fans.

[@juanhumbertoleonespinoza5099]

Amazing cartoon classic and the song too

[@Batman43221]

Juan Humberto Leon Espinoza It's anime.

[@tuanazuremegazouman1996]

He kills a lot! 😂

[@hollyhock9638]

I honestly like this and the English equally I like the catchy theme song for the English one but I like the way this sounds

[@jamesranville4290]

The Japanese intro released over in Japan the series was based on the Mach 5 and all the features it had when it was released in Japan Mach Go Go Go. When it was released here in the United States it was called Speed Racer it was more based around Speed Racer and his adventures.

[@Simon_Electric]

So that explains the M on his helmet.

[@micoledupicolegaming5444]

@@Simon_Electric hey so yea it does but it’s also pretty cool cuz it also is meant to stand for speed racers family name in Japan Mifune.

[@richartrod]

@@Simon_Electric In the original Japanese series Speed's name is Go Mifune. So the Go Go Go in the title refers to his Japanese name, the number 5 and the English word "Go!" Very clever if you ask me.

[@amrak63]

It's a good thing that car can jump when it needs to, or he'd have become an elephant's suppository. "Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer/Up an elephant's butt"

[@soylentteal]

"Ohhhhhh!"

[@prowlus]

Just like captain harris and that horse

[@Leow2002]

The first racing Anime I've watched. I used to watch this a lot when I was a kid.

[@ninjabearpress2574]

I've been a fan since grade school, this is just frelling hilarious but I can see why there were some cuts for the Western version.

[@johnboy4025]

Great opening, the American version is good especially for early introductions of Americans to anime.

[@juniorbispodasilva8740]

I ❤ Speed Racer and Herbie the Love Bug

[@zambimaru]

I remember when Cartoon Network used this Intro in a TV commercial.

[@kitestar]

One major difference between the versions I like is how the plot is different, like in the US version its centered around the character, however in japan the show is about the car, the mach 5

[@Raul_Menendez]

You can't blame Speed for killing that driver. The baddie was bringing a nuke.

[@solidsnakeonaplane5925]

“AH!” -Speed Racer

[@leroyvisiongames2294]

Holy shit!! Us ‘mericans missed like a third of the intro!!!!

[@yuriburkel686]

The Japanese Steakhouse version with the Hibachi Grill

[@davegsux]

0:49 *Le Mans '55 flashbacks*

[@50zcarsman]

The buttons in the steering wheel hub that activated the Mach 5's special equipment were likely inspired by those found on the '58 Edsel ("Teletouch" transmission).

[@repsycle]

i love this version, way more emotional!

[@Fububoo]

Wooow. Talk about being 8 and thinking dbz is the only anime and then turns out I’ve been watching anime all my life.

[@ethanSADTP]

I got em both on my ipod and for my ringtones. You can't go wrong with either

[@996ksj2]

This Japanese animation was conceived and created to be marketed overseas. Therefore, the pictures are drawn with a touch of foreign animation. It is different from original Japanese animation like today's.

[@marcelolima4056]

OUTSTANDING!

[@eniretakia]

lmao i love how a car just goes off to the side and blows up. man i used to love this show.

[@pedrogarcia2653]

Estou com quase 60a e é a primeira vez que eu vejo a versão original.e eu vi muito esse desenho na minha infância

[@vvg916happyengineer]

Daaaaammnnnn this is way more wholesome than Cartoon Networks opening :O

[@idunnobutyay2520]

I love it, so dramatic!

[@LucasMartins-zv3oh]

this version is much better than the american one

[@LucasMartins-zv3oh]

@@formaggio1556 lmao

[@sergioaguilar2135]

No

[@Pikachu2Ash]

It's the same tune.....

[@LucasMartins-zv3oh]

@@Pikachu2Ash no, its not..

[@Pikachu2Ash]

@@LucasMartins-zv3oh Yes it is look it up.

[@gameoholic1994]

1:51 - Ever wonder if that pose is supposed to mean something? If there’s something it symbolizes or represents?

[@ITSMRFOXY]

Its a jojo pose boomer

[@estinaviv]

@@ITSMRFOXYdamn, so Speed Racer was a JoJo reference before JoJo references were even invented 😯

[@MansakeLabsOfficial]

This show was unhinged, and the world is better for it.

[@CoderRaven19]

Once you hear it, you can't unhear it...

[@michaelmartin4552]

And the end of the opening sequence was predicting the "Bullet Time" effect decades before it became a reality.

[@davidgiardina5424]

Love this original version of the theme. Is there a karaoke of this version?

[@zachrose359]

Tf I'm watching this at 4 in the morning on a fuking school night

[@hotelmario510]

and on top of everything else you're a fucking Nazi

[@MEyck97]

@@hotelmario510 are you kvetching?

[@maureencora1]

Not Bad Glad I Got All Episodes on DVD in English.

[@linkfromzelda1002]

How much does Funimation’s DVD set cost anyway?

[@maureencora1]

@@linkfromzelda1002 I've Got 4 DVDs Vol. 1,2,3,4..of All Episodes. One at a Time with Different Prices.

[@maureencora1]

I Forgot I've Got Vol. 5 Too.

[@ronaldbriccioiiasis9467]

my initial introduction to driving when i was a kid. then initial d.

[@mhazaa]

Amazing

[@Leon4788]

I like both of them

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

Awesome.

[@beccalolno7077]

BANGER ABSOLUTE BANGER

[@arturoleal1665]

No, both are awesome :D

[@rajkumar-yt1me]

This cartoon speed racer in my school life old days my favourite cartoon

[@timelordsrapbattles8498]

As someone who grew up on the English version of this theme, I can safely say that I cannot decide if I like this version or the English version better.

[@SA1NT53]

Here to pay my respects to the OG

[@williammartinez-gs8036]

2 minutos de opening es un monton jaja Igual es un temazo

[@asamisaito]

How did I like this as a kid

[@awwykane]

Bam Margera driving Michaela, his pink car:

[@50zcarsman]

Unusual -- original animation intended (I guess) just for the credits. IIRC, none of this ever appeared in an actual episode (save maybe for a few flashes of the stock track scenes). Usually, intros and outros are composed of out-of-context clips taken from regular episodes -- just like Jonny Quest's. Guest cost was no object ito them in making the product look kewl.

[@neolunaticus]

I'm surprised at how much they cut out of the English version. Perhaps they thought it ran for too long.

[@strudel1347]

To be fair, it is a pretty long intro

[@r.v.3540]

It is too long. It doesn't even have credits. Works better as a short subject.

[@Shogunelite]

That's the spirit!

[@williamfiuza8328]

Very nice muito legal Speed Racer forever.

[@EVINHA2832]

Mistura de idiomas

[@dj-yf9jg]

Lol

[@jp00349]

0:08 SFX ignition --> 1st gear engaged --> full throttle sounds take me straight back to the pleasure of my 8 years of age, tears included. Any shrinks around?

[@animegamingdude]

0:00 to 0:22 that has to be one of the most epic things I've seen in my life.