F-Zero: GP Legend

Many video games have been lauded for their brilliant plots. The minimalist storytelling, yet heavy symbolism of Shadow of the Colossus, which says so little in dialogue, yet evokes so much emotion. The knee slapping satire of the first Bioshock against Randian Objectivism. The astounding amount of lore, world building, and background that went into the Elder Scrolls games, or Mass Effect. The lovable characters, excellent action, and vibrant imagination of the Final Fantasy games (well some of them). Then there is F-Zero. It was a decent racing game on the SNES. Why did it get an anime? Who the fuck knows?! Of all the oldschoolvideo games to receive anime adaptations, I perhaps find this one the most baffling of all. Captain Falcon is a blast to play in Smash bros, but he isn't a character worth actually writing about, let alone watching. He isn't likeable in any way. He isn't interesting. He doesn't have a single character trait that makes me give a shit about watching something with him in it. This anime is also brought to us by 4kids Entertainment, so you can just guess what kind of QUALITY voice acting and brilliant Westernization you can look forward to. Here is the question you are probably asking: "Why did I rate this as high as a 3?" The reason is that after 51 boring, tedious, horrible fucking episodes this anime goes out with one of the most delicious crescendos in the history of animation. In classical music you have examples like the final segment of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, The fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the beginning of Act 3 of Wagner's opera Die Walkure. In anime, you have Captain Falcon leaping out of a car traveling at light speed, screaming FARUKAN PANCHU, and punching a cheesy looking villain so fucking hard that it destroys a large portion of the God damned GALAXY! Absolutely brilliant. A single tear of pure joy slid down my cheek while taking in such a magnanimous segment of animated glory!

F-Zero GP Legends known from its awesome game franchise on the various Nintendo platforms and also fairly known for the Falcon Punch by Captain Falcon! This anime series sure took me by surprise and on first looks it might not give you any wow effect when you just start the anime but the real action and story starts to develop right in the middle of the story which already starts to buildup development towards the last episode. The story takes such a turn in quality from start till end that this anime certainly is worth a try even if you have to search wide and forfor subs or even watch the raws but I can tell you it is totally worth it! Heck this anime even made me play the old games again! The story itself is fairly decent, a slow but quite decent build up together with various different ways like: racing, action and even slight romance development. What I personally also enjoyed is that there weren't that much side stories and only one recap episode near the ending of the series so it's a fairly amount of good story and character development combined with futuristic racing! The art is a bit old but for the time it was created in combination with the CGI it is still pretty decent. The combination of the 3D models and 2D art of their vehicles is pretty well done! It's a bit getting used to in the beginning but when you're enjoying the racers it will only get better later on! The quality of the sound is a bit on the lower side as the dub wasn't always the best quality nor were the sound effects, although the casting for the Japanese dub was actually quite good especially for Black Shadow which was voiced by Wakamoto Norio The Characters were quite unique and do follow the games character concepts quite good. The best characters in this are of course Captain Falcon, Ryu and Black Shadow as they're mainly the lead characters and more or less determine the whole story! I quite enjoyed watching this anime especially the last couple episodes where the quality really increased with really interesting story development and pacing! So all in all a pretty good anime which I'll give a solid 8/10

A very underrated Masterpiece that takes place in a different Timeline, based on the fast Racing game F-Zero that Nintendo seems to always forget where Captain Falcon came from or even care about. But if your an F-Zero Fan or just love fast speed space machines! You will enjoy this anime so much amazing stuff and lore to the pilots and characters. (Mind you this anime aired in the earlier 2000s so give it some flack.) Also Please watch it subbed it is twenty times better then the crappy Foxbox/4kids one. Characters Pretty much all of them where vary likable. Dr.Stewart Jody Summers, Lucy Liberty, Ms.Killer. I originallyhated Ryu Suzaku, but ended up liking him as he grew in the anime. When Black Shadow is a pure evil character on here compared to his F-Zero GX/X counterpart. Thats for sure dude loves to see people suffer and laugh at them. Captain Falcon, showed me his moves he was so awesome every time he would show up. Can we get that man who thought giving him the Mute City theme every time he came to save the characters was a good idea? BECAUSE IT WAS! I LOVED IT! Music - Amazing sounding Art- 2000s so take it or leave it. I thought it looked decent for it's time Nintendo - GIVE US ANOTHER F-ZERO! 10/10 would watch it again so enjoyable for an F-Zero Fan like myself :3

For all I would like to say for this anime is that, despite the obvious budget they had to deal with, this anime had genuine effort to give a good story to the F zero fans and they delivered well. The main parts of the anime do a good job from beginning to end. The cool parts happen and gives the fans what they want. I like how they handled and i find it odd that they gave Super Arrow a lot of attention through out the series. I really like the characters designs in the anime and i think that was a really goodart direction to take for these characters. All characters dont feel flat and its thoughtful that they try to use as many characters from the game. The anime itself isnt very good but as an F Zero fan this is the only really good things well get to see and the last thing we will get to see that is F zero.