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The Original Speed Racer [Mangobot] 
io9 | by LISA KATAYAMA | Fri, May 9
The characters in the original Speed Racer are not atypical of Japanese anime. In fact, you see the repetition of these same types of characters to this day—the adventurous, disobedient young male hero, the feminine-yet-sassy girlfriend, the wise but slightly goofy father, and the unb...
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