Editing Speed Racer (section)

===Manga===
[[File:Mach GoGoGo manga covers.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Tatsuo Yoshida's ''Mach GoGoGo'' manga.<br />'''Top Row''': Volume 1, Volume 2 <br />'''Bottom Row''': Volume 1 (reprint), Sun Wide Comics release]]

''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 [[television|TV]] as an anime series in 1967. The actual manga was inspired by Yoshida's earlier and more popular automobile racing comics, '''''Pilot Ace'''''.<ref>[http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2008/04/20/racers-start-your-engines/ "Racers, Start Your Engines!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808203439/http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2008/04/20/racers-start-your-engines/ |date=2017-08-08 }}, ''Sci-Fi Japan'' 20 April 2008.</ref> ''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 characters' designs in ''Pilot Ace'' set the main ground for the character design in ''Mach GoGoGo''. 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 (film)|Goldfinger]]''. By combining the look of [[Elvis Presley]]'s race-car driving image, complete with neckerchief and black pompadour, and [[James Bond]]'s [[Aston Martin DB5#James Bond's DB5|gadget-filled Aston Martin DB5]], Yoshida had the inspiration for his creation. Soon enough, ''Mach GoGoGo'' hit shelves in the early 1960s. The central character in the anime and manga was a young race car driver named Gō Mifune (''Mifune Gō'').

The name of the series, ''Mach GoGoGo'', has a triple meaning: {{Nihongo|"Mahha-gō"|マッハ号}} is the name of the car; the name of the main character is Gō Mifune; and finally, it contains the English word "go". In the American adaptation, Mach 5 stems from the number 5 on the door. Although, in Japanese, {{Nihongo|''go''|五}} is the word for the number 5, the Kanji character {{Nihongo|''gō''|号}} which is used in the car name actually means "item number" (i.e. it is an ordinal suffix). In addition, gogogo, is used as a general Japanese sound effect for rumble. Taken together, the program's title means, "Mach Number Five, Go!"

The manga (compiled into two deluxe volumes for Fusosha's re-release) has several storylines, such as "The Great Plan", "Challenge of the Masked Racer", "The Fire Race", "The Secret Engine" and "Race for Revenge", that were adapted to the anime. However, minor changes occur between both the original manga and the anime series, such as differences between back stories of several characters and places.

A few years after the volumes were released, Yoshida decided to release his manga series as an anime program, adding additional plots. Fifty-two episodes aired in Japan, each one emulating the fast-paced action of the manga.

Selected chapters of the original ''Mach GoGoGo'' manga series were reprinted by NOW Comics as two volumes of ''Speed Racer Classics'' (1988–1989), and by [[DC Comics]]/[[Wildstorm Productions]] as ''Speed Racer: The Original Manga'' (2000).<ref>{{cite book |last=Yoshida |first=Tatsuo |translator-last=Gertler |translator-first=Nat |title=Speed Racer: The Original Manga |year=2000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBnsAAAAMAAJ |publisher=[[WildStorm]] |volume=1 |language=en |isbn=1-56389-686-9}}</ref> In 2008, a hardcover box set of the complete manga series was released by [[Digital Manga Publishing]] as the two volume ''Speed Racer: Mach Go Go Go''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Yoshida |first=Tatsuo |editor-last=Kuxhouse |editor-first=Daryl |translator-last=Aurino |translator-first=Joyce |title=Speed Racer: Mach Go Go Go |date=February 2008 |volume=1 |publisher=Digital Manga Publishing |location=Gardena, CA |language=en |isbn=978-1-56970-731-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Yoshida |first=Tatsuo |editor-last=Kuxhouse |editor-first=Daryl |translator-last=Aurino |translator-first=Joyce |title=Speed Racer: Mach Go Go Go |date=February 2008 |volume=2 |publisher=Digital Manga Publishing |location=Gardena, CA |language=en |isbn=978-1-56970-731-9}}</ref>