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4/18/1998 - 12/5/1998, Saturdays at "27:20" TV series 26 episodes Pastel/Fuji TV
HATA'S ROLE
Episode Director, Storyboard:
#6: A new challenger
#12: FR-killing death match!
#18: Hot wind! Wild race! Usui pass
#24: White comet of the red castle!
STAFF
Series Director: Mitsusawa Noboru
Character Design and Series Animation Director: Furuse Noboru
Screenplay: Toda Hiroshi, Kishima Nobuaki
Original Work: Manga Shigeno Shûichi running in Young Magazine
Adaptation: Doya Keiichi
Hata directed and storyboarded four episodes (at increments of six) of this car-racing series depicting modern Japanese kids whose favorite pasttime is to engage in car races on the outskirts of the city. The gimmick of the series is that the cars were all computer-generated. No Gokû-like individualism here: Hata's episodes meld perfectly within the rest of the series in terms of cutting and pacing, showing that he can keep up with all you young whipper-snappers yet.
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