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Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1967
All of a sudden things are in colour with Mach Go Go Go. Having watched my way through this series before I did ponder sampling something other than its first episodes (one story still early on features a vehicle that sticks in the mind); aware there’s a one-episode story or two later on in it I contemplated how I’ve been pushing myself to type up comments right after previous instalments of this speedy-in-its-own-way tour. Thoughts of maybe, perhaps, sampling two different series from certain later years did leave me thinking of pushing myself that much harder early on.
As it turned out I hadn’t remembered a lot of the first two-part story in this series; there was plenty of mayhem inside and outside vehicles as some other continuing trends of the show were already getting set up. (So far as “mayhem” goes, I keep finding more amusement than I perhaps should in the bit of the opening credits where a car flies off the race track and explodes.) I suppose I did keep pondering a feeling I’ve had before (and pushed back with greater exposure only for it to come to mind again now) that the character designs of this series somehow look just a little more skewed “anime-wise” than those of the black-and-white shows I sampled in the four days just previous. That might only have to do with the awareness of this show having been turned into Speed Racer, and the thought that having been in colour might have kept it on in American syndication for longer than Astro Boy, Gigantor, and the other black-and-white “animated imports” of the 1960s. From that hypothesis I get to considering the hiatus between Speed Racer and Battle of the Planets on American television and where anime started going in the years since Mach Go Go Go, for all that other series of the 1970s were being dubbed into languages other than English. It’s more a matter of speculation about “relative supplies of cartoons” and particular pressure groups striving to clean up animation than having bothered to seek out much actual evidence, anyway.
As it turned out I hadn’t remembered a lot of the first two-part story in this series; there was plenty of mayhem inside and outside vehicles as some other continuing trends of the show were already getting set up. (So far as “mayhem” goes, I keep finding more amusement than I perhaps should in the bit of the opening credits where a car flies off the race track and explodes.) I suppose I did keep pondering a feeling I’ve had before (and pushed back with greater exposure only for it to come to mind again now) that the character designs of this series somehow look just a little more skewed “anime-wise” than those of the black-and-white shows I sampled in the four days just previous. That might only have to do with the awareness of this show having been turned into Speed Racer, and the thought that having been in colour might have kept it on in American syndication for longer than Astro Boy, Gigantor, and the other black-and-white “animated imports” of the 1960s. From that hypothesis I get to considering the hiatus between Speed Racer and Battle of the Planets on American television and where anime started going in the years since Mach Go Go Go, for all that other series of the 1970s were being dubbed into languages other than English. It’s more a matter of speculation about “relative supplies of cartoons” and particular pressure groups striving to clean up animation than having bothered to seek out much actual evidence, anyway.