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Ōban Star-Racers is a French/Japanese animated television series created by Savin Yeatman-Eiffel of "Sav! The World Productions".

Release

In France, twenty-six episodes have been broadcast on France 3. In October, a French DVD box set of the the first 13 episodes was announced for a November 22nd release. However, as of this writing, there have yet to be plans for a DVD release in other territories.

In the US, it made its official premiere on the Toon Disney Jetix block in June 2006.

In the UK, it started on Jetix on October 1st 2006 (Currently running on a five episode strip with weekend Marathons) and on ITV 1 on January 1st 2007.

In Japan , it premiered on Toon Disney Japan's "Jetix" block on September 23rd.[1]

In Canada, it has been airing on the Family Channel since Sept. 10th.

In Czech republic, it has been released on Jetix since October 7th 2006.

In Poland, it started on Jetix Poland on October 7th 2006.

Development

Sav! The World released a short movie entitled "Molly, Star Racer" in 2001 set to a Y&Co. remix of Ayumi Hamasaki songs. The trailer already showed a mix of 3D and 2D though at the time 3D was still predominant. It featured many of the characters with unfinalized designs including Jordan, Don Wei, Maya, Aikka, Satis, Toros, Sül, Ondai, Ning & Skun, Furter and of course, Molly racing across various places in the Oban landscape featured later in the series. This short movie won the 2001 LEAF Awards and was nominated for best editing in the 2002 Imagina Awards.

The search for financing for the series was a long process since Yeatman-Eiffel refused to negotiate with a party that would have more control than that of the creator (including, but not limited to the option of changing the main character into a boy). So Savin Yeatman-Eiffel created his own company, "Sav! The World Productions", to create this series without having to conflict with potential investors. In the end it took him a total of nine years to complete the series (the concept was created in 1997, with initial production having begun in Paris is 2000, later moving to Tokyo in 2003).

While this is Sav! The World's first TV series, the company has previously existed as a maker of various short films (including the aforementioned Molly, Star Racer).

Presentation

Oban Star-Racers is a co-production between France and Japan. The creative team behind the project (Paris based indie company Sav! The World Productions) moved to Tokyo and worked hand in hand with the teams of anime studio Hal Film Maker for almost three years.

Originally planned as an all-French, all-CGI production, the animation is mixed-media, with 2D Japanese-animated characters and sets produced in Japan by the aforementioned Hal Film Maker, and with 3D French-animated ships and races produced by "Pumpkin-3D".

Synopsis

It is the year 2082. Earth has been invited to compete in the Great Race of Ōban, an intergalactic race whose victor can be granted any wish in the world — even bringing back a loved one. The invitation comes from the Avatar, a mysterious entity who ends hostilities between Earth and the sinister race of the Crogs — in return for Earth's entry into the race. Eva Wei, an earth student, escapes boarding school to find her father, Don Wei, president of Wei Racing. Having left his daughter in the care of the boarding school for many years without ever visiting, Don Wei does not seem to recognize Eva as his daughter. Unable to tell her father who she really is, she lands a job as a mechanic in his team under the name "Molly", a name chosen from a convenient poster on a crate in the hangar. When Wei Racing is ordered by the government to represent Earth at Ōban, Molly stows away as they are taken to a far-off planet. During the first race, the Whizzing Arrow, the Earth Star-Racer ship, crashes, a victim of sabotage and its star pilot, Rick, becomes unable to race. After finding that the gunner, Jordan, makes a miserable pilot, Molly steals the ship and enters the next race. Don Wei grudgingly decides that the only one who can replace Rick is Molly. Haunted by the death of her mother — a famous star-racer — and the harsh "reunion" (such as it was) with her father, Molly is determined to win so she can be with her parents once again.