Audience reviews
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ThePacISBack
Oban Star Racers is a series that succeeds on its quality of world-building, willingness to break away from one singular genre, and family friendly appeal. Any of you who remember watching Jetix, or any of the Disney-backed anime blocks back in the day might remember watching Oban dubbed, on American TV. The reason for this is multitudinous, as Oban was designed as a cross-country collaboration (you'll notice that our homie, show runner Savin Eiffel, is decidedly non Japanese, and neither is his studio Sav the World Productions, who handled the show's CGI spaceship sequences), and from the outset, Oban was designed to air in multiple non-japanese countries, targeting the audience of American anime fans on Jetix with a story that would feel familiar to the anime they watched, but with touch…
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A little bit too long but I recommend this if you want to watch something very different from what Japanese productions usually deliver. This in summary is a an anime made by a half Japanese, half french production about a star ship racing championship that will lead to an ultimate prize. The aliens, ships and art style is very unique and well thought and although the main plot gets boring quickly and the main villain is kind of generic the suspense is interesting enough to keep you going and the deliver at the end is quite better than I expected.
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I remember when first came out, I watch it when ever it was in TV. Then I lost it but found it again and it was even better then what I remembered. The races are like the pod racing in star wars the graphics are so cool!! Also wish it could have had a OVA of 2 Eps just to see what happen after the main story.It took me 10 years to finish this show but it was all worth it!! I wish more were like it but you can't clone a masterpiece. It's does get confusing a few times but then the story is able help you understand and make it simple. Each Episode will get your heart pumping to 1,000 and each time you think wow how can they top that well they raze the bar. In my opinion this one the best anime shows of the 2000s hands down!.
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This is one of the series ive actually always had in mind, like a sentence you always had on your tongue for years without knowing what to call it. But on the 5'th February 2019, i got the name "Oban" in my mind and that's how i found out about this long-lost anime/kid-show i watched when i was 6-7 years old.
I've always missed seeing a futuristic adventure turn into a small romantic trip down to memory lane while at the same time, not being able to remember anything other than awesome looking race/star-ships.
I really enjoyed this series for its style and story, but im sure im not just here for all that but more or less down to memory lane to remember what i missed as a child. Im not sure this will make much sense, but i hope this review gives a little "hint" or "preview" of my experien…
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I wanted to give this anime a perfect score. It deserves a perfect score, and if this were purely based on personal opinion, nostalgia, and the warmth and melancholy you feel after a show as cared for by its creator finishes, it would get my perfect score.
Oban Star Racers is an oddity for sure, and a very charming oddity. This could be due to the french influence of Sav! The World Productions, or the sheer number of years it took Savin Yeatman-Eiffel to gain financing for the production and undoubtedly hone the vision of work, or the shows vintage in the present day.
For whichever reason, much is different about this series to other anime of both its time and the present. Many tiresome anime tropes, which I've personally grown accustomed to, are non-existent in this series. It's a tour…
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***This is a spoiler free review***
Ōban Star-Racers is an anime that at first I passed over on many occasions. When I ran out of well-known anime to watch, this show popped into my “Shows you might like” category on Netflix. After thinking it over I decided to give it a go since Funimation has a great track record of English dubbed anime.
Story: 5/10
Ōban Star-Racers at first is unexpectedly interesting and fun to watch. Our main character Molly escapes boarding school to find her father who has become a complete tool. He is asked to gather a team to race for humanities safety in a tournament taking place on a faraway planet. The whole show has a Pod Racer feel and look that somehow works (unlike in the prequels of Star Wars). This sounds farfetched but the whole tourney style racing t…
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Story: The story was absolutely grand. Devoid of plot holes and captivating, the story is a wonderful mix between drama and racing. Of course, it does start out slow, taking about 6 episodes to get interesting and another 4 or 5 to become as captivating as it did, but once you get interested, there'll be no putting it down. The story is great, it deserves itself a 9, just shy of a ten due to the starting slowness.
Art: The Style is definitely unique. Oban uses a mix between 2D and 3D visuals and while it works wonderfully, the 2D animation is where it seems to fall slightly in. The animation itself, while crisp, seems somewhat lazy, the human characters don't even have noses, and are the whiskers on Jordan's face supposed to be peach fuzz? But where the 2D animation may lack, the 3D anim…
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In greece, the tv chanels rarely broadcast anime. The only anime that I knew they were broadcasting were; YUGIOH,POKEMON,PITSI PITSI PITCH (i hate you >:( ),this and JEWELPETS.
And this anime was the very first I ever saw in my life and the only anime that hooked me from the begining to the end.And for good reason!
STORY: 9/10
The story is literally like a black hole,from the first minute it sucks you in.I can assure you that.And you will have a great feeling after you finish watching it.Only for that reason it deserves a 9/10. ART:7/10
Despite the intriguing storyline the art has mixed feelings on me.This anime has great landscapes
and great effects for it's time.On the other hand the designs are really...cheasy,especially the human's designs.But it was good if only for the designs.
S…
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Perhaps not many of you have heard of this amazingly captivating anime show which in fact is a wonderful collaboration between Japan and french studio Sav! The World Productions. And those who have surely remember it from Jetix which was a children television programme. It was..because apparently Disney Channel replaced it as stated on the WIkipedia article about Jetix. I have gathered a few pieces of information regarding this series:
First aired between 5 June 2006 – 11 December 2006 this 1 season anime contains 26 thrilling episodes. In the year 2082, the Earth has been asked to compete in the great intergallactic race of Oban by no other than the Avatar, a mysterious powerful entity who appears to be in control of the Universe. He stops the attacks of an alien race, the Crogs, on Eart…
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I’m not to clear on the storyline much, though it is rather original to a point. It’s about a girl trying to get her father to recognize her when she was pretty much forgotten. The story is actually rather strong, even creating an ending that someone wouldn’t suspect. It’s rather deep and meaningful for a child’s show.
Eva is strong headed and rather pushy, yet she always thinks with her heart and not her head when things should be rather technical. She also seems to be hot tempered as any little thing seems to send her off her seat. Probably because of the Daddy problems. She is a lot like Luke from Star Wars in that she has problems with it. She also has a little Yoda character in Satis. He shows up whenever he wishes and gives some good advice.
Unlike a lot of these shows, this one…
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At first, I was a little wary of this show. I hadn't seen much by way of racing anime before, but what I had seen had pretty much been along the lines of "adrenaline adrenaline who-cares-about-plotline-anyway adrenaline". However, it just happened to be on TV one day when there was nothing else on, so why not?
Little did I know that this would be one of my all-time favourite shows.
The characters are all really well brought to life. Every racer has it's own reasons for competing, from aiding their planet's conquest, to helping their people to rebuild, to bringing a loved one back to life. This is what makes the story more believable: you can actually see why the race is so important to these people. Molly/Eva is a really well rounded character. She grows tremendously as a character over th…
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For those not in the know, Oban Star Racers was a collaboration between animation studios in France and Japan which combines two-dimensional and CG animation. In terms of animation, the series looks great for the most part featuring a diverse number of vast settings to look at with a decent amount of detail from alien towns to temples to arctic tundras. Racer ship designs are diverse in design with nothing looking alike and are well-rendered in CG animation, mostly being bright in color and having a good amount of detail. Racing scenes are great on the eyes featuring fluid movement with the occasional intense moment as racers clash with one another and damage is inflicted onto the ships. Even with such movement onscreen from Star Racers, I couldn't find any noticeable drop in the quality o…
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Here’s a hidden gem for you, Oban Star-Racers, an anime with a mixed country of origin production with France. “Yet another racing anime” might sound like a boring idea, but this series is anything but, don’t miss this one!
Plot: 9
What can I say? The plot isn’t all that complicated, there’s a race and for 22 out of 26 episodes, half the focus is on winning the race and the other half is on building character relations, backstory, or setting. The first two episodes don’t concentrate on racing and neither do the last two, but for just about every other episode, you can expect a race. That’s not to say the races feel like boring filler either, the creativity in the racers, whose vehicles range from a cat face with a DDR style control pad to a giant flying bug, make every race interesting be…
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Oban is a criminally underrated and unknown series, which is sad since it's basically what you'd get if Miyazaki was French.
The show was about eight years in the making before it was finally put into production(which means it was well underway before Star Wars episode 1), and was created through the tireless efforts of four French artists. So it should strike a cord with all you indie artists with great aspirations out there, and the two dirt-cheap DVDs come with a great "making of" featurette.
But yeah, this series is amazing. The characters have depth and originality, the animation and CGI are seamless and amazing to look at (adding upon the unique art style), the OP/ED are by Yoko Kanno, and the rest of the OST is just fantastic. The story is well paced and full of good twists and d…
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I am going to be honest and say when I started to watch this show the idea of earth being saved by winning a race seemed kind of lame and I was only watching it for the futuristic alien racing action. I figured the show would have some cool races, a bad guy to focus my hatred at, and O look the earth hasn't been destroyed at the end. However I found my self pleasantly surprised to find a solid story and a great lead character.
I have already stated that I wasn't going into the show expecting much from the story; soon after getting into the show I realized that there was a lot more here then I thought. First thing to note is that it is not so simple as if the earth team wins the “Oban Race” the earth is saved and if they lose the earth is doomed. The race is to decide who gets the “Ultima…
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(Gulp...My first review! Here I go!)
Story: At first I was reluctant to see what the show was about, seeing as the story was actually made in France, but then all that changed when I accidentally turned on the TV to catch the beginning of the first episode. The story is marvelous, full of everything a young girl could experience at that age. The constant secrets, conflicts, hinted love interests keep you on the edge of your seat. Not to mention the refreshing new concept of what the future could hold. What's more, the original languages it was made in were English and French so you don't have to worry about anything being edited or changed. With that I give the story a 10.
Art: At first the art might seem strange, the main thing that would catch your eye would be the absence of noses, bu…
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