Az Caz & Co

Dunno how many of you are cartoon fans but I have been watching a really fun series recently called OBAN Star Racers. The series is made by a French studio called Sav! The World Productions and in their words…

The result of six years of development and two and a half years of intensive production in Tokyo and Paris, Ōban Star-Racers sets itself apart from other series by the quality of its 2D/3D animation and its attention to detail – carefully crafted designs, rich characters and story – which are similar to those usually found only in feature films.

The show has been running on Jetix and I have had immense fun watching the omnibus on Sunday mornings. They have been showing the program every day at 5:30pm and then showing an entire weeks worth of the show on sundays which meant a full 2.5 hours of total OBAN immersion, unfortunately I missed the beginning but this has all changed now.

They are actually showing the series again from the beginning and there is an episode every morning at 8:30am which is the perfect run in to my day. Yes, I am a sucker for a good cartoon but this one has made me stand up and take notice, I think the only other one to really have that effect on me would have to be the Spiderman cartoon which I used to get up and watch on a Saturday morning no matter how drunk I got the night before lol…

Here is a quick summary of the story…

Every 10.000 years, the greatest pilots in the universe face-off in a mysterious and mythical race: the Great Race of Ōban. It is said the outcome of the competition will radically transform the balance of power within our Galaxy…
Sav! The World Productions

The series spans a total of 26 episodes and has a pretty good storyline, okay, the die hard anime fans would probably say it is panzy assed bullshit but I like it and would recommend it to anyone. There are a host of cool characters in the races, one of my favorites being Spirit who is a character that actually morphs into his star racer and has a bizarre face within a face…

A face within a face…

Morphed into a star racer

A close up shot of Spirit

The actual star racer ships are all quite cool as well, they basically get launched into each race track and then have to scan for the actual gateways they need to race through in order to win the race. Once they have found them it is no holds barred with each ship having all sorts of weaponry and several of the racers get upgraded throughout the series also.

There are tonnes of pics over at the Unofficial UK Ōban Star Racers site so I won’t post any more as this is beginning to eat into my morning but I just thought I would share my morning joy with everyone as this truly is a kick ass series!

WATCH IT!

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