Yoshida got his idea for the story after seeing two films that were very popular in Japan at the time, Viva Las Vegas and Goldfinger. The characters’ designs in Pilot Ace set the main ground for the character design in Mach GoGoGo. Pilot Ace's main storyline formed the structure for Mach GoGoGo, which followed the adventures of an ambitious young man, who soon became a professional racer. The actual manga was inspired by Yoshida's earlier and more popular automobile racing comics, Pilot Ace. Mach GoGoGo was first created and designed by anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida (1932–1977) as a manga series in the 1960s and made the jump to TV as an anime series in 1967. īottom Row: Volume 1 (reprint), Sun Wide Comics release The television series was very successful in the United States and is said to have defined anime in that country until the 1990s, being watched by a total estimated audience of 40 million viewers during the 1960s–1970s.

In 2008, under its Americanized title, Speed Racer, Mach GoGoGo was republished in its entirety in the United States by Digital Manga Publishing and was released as a box set to commemorate the franchise's 40th anniversary, as well as serving as a tie-in with the 2008 film. These were later released by Wildstorm Productions, a division of DC Comics, as Speed Racer: The Original Manga. Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title Speed Racer Classics. The anime was later re-broadcast on Tokyo MX from July 1 to September 25, 2008. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, its 52 episodes aired on Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968. It was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics and later re-released in Japan by Fusosha. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 Shōnen Book. Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo ( Japanese: マッハGoGoGo, Hepburn: Mahha GōGōGō), is a Japanese media franchise about automobile racing.

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