64 minutes of pure gasoline-fueled anime madness from the Bubble Era.
Car racing anime, based on the manga by Kaoru Shintani that serialised in Big Comic Superior from 1988 to 1990.
Sound
Roaring engines and synth score = eargasm for gearheads.
Director
Noboru Furuse
Koichi Yamadera
Gen Todoroki
Kiyonobu Suzuki
Arnold
Shin-ichiro Miki
Erik
Atsushi Anbe
Joe
Yuriko Fuchizaki
Josephine Polignac
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Tsukasa Rokkouji
Ryusei Nakao
Rov Row
Toshihiko Seki
Hans Schultz
Hitoshi Takagi
Saji Senmu
Emi Shinohara
Yuki Shindou
Shigeru Nakahara
Tobita
Gorō Naya
Joumu Utsugi
Masashi Ebara
Dick Van Dyke
Rei Sakuma
Taeko Yasuda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kaoru Shintani also created Area 88; this was his brief flirtation with motorsport before returning to military aviation.
Released at peak Japan bubble economy when F1 obsession was nationwide; the title itself was edgy English for shock value.
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