speed racer turns fifty

The seminal Japanese cartoon Speed Racer turns fifty this year, and that means it's time for Gen-X kids such as myself to begin saying "fifty years old? Why it seems like just yesterday..."

Back when the live-action Wachowski siblings' film came out, I wrote a big piece about Speed Racer for Otaku USA, and I've since re-jiggered it slightly and it's up at Let's Anime!

http://letsanime.blogspot.ca/2017/10/speeding-into-fifty.html

classic anime on dreamwidth

by the way Dreamwidth users, when I made the switch to Dreamwidth, I ported over the "classic anime" community from Livejournal. If you're interested in Japanese animation circa 1960-1990, you might enjoy this group.

Well, I'll be honest, so far the group has been me posting Let's Anime links. It would be great if we could get some other people in there doing some chatting about them Japanese cartoons. Come on by.

https://classic-anime.dreamwidth.org/