It's funny that the original show was, like, extremely stupid, and filled with lots of gratuitous English, and then the dub almost intentionally made it *stupider* Go Mifune is a silly but plausible name for a person to have, and they just named him Speed Racer
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I really appreciated that the movie kept the horrifying collisions and explosions from the anime intact, and just said this is a video-game world where everyone's car has a "Kwik-save" system that covers your body in fireproof shock-absorbing goo immediately before impact
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Even outright saying that cutscene death is permanent and other deaths aren't (Rex Racer's tragic death wasn't caused by the fiery head-on collision, which is normal, but by dastardly assassins disabling his Kwik-Save before the race)
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But yes, just looking at the opening credits of the original anime Speed Racer would be disqualified from most real-life racing organizations and, possibly, arrested and put on trial for murder
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Regrettable accidents happen in extreme motorsports but, you know, it didn't really look like an accident and he doesn't seem to regret it
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I have 2 year olds so I am showing/watching old favorites (so much pandemic screen time, oh well) and the casual violence of so much stuff I looooooved as a kid literally makes me wonder if I was/am a sociopath
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There are SO MANY moments from the cartoon where something horrible happens to a bad guy and Speed just shrugs it off, and because you don't actually see the guy's dead body inside the vehicle the narrative just assumes it's okay
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Well they did warn us that he was a demon on wheels.
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