Ōban Star-Racers
| Ōban Star-Racers | |
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| Genre | Action Adventure Science fantasy |
| Created by | Savin Yeatman-Eiffel |
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| Written by | Savin Yeatman-Eiffel |
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| Starring | English:
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| Theme music composer | Yoko Kanno |
| Opening theme | Japan: Chance To Shine – AKINO U.S.: Never Say Never – After Midnight Project France: Envole-toi vers l'Infini |
| Ending theme | Waratteta – Sukoshi |
| Composer | Taku Iwasaki |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
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| Editor | Takeshi Seyama |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
| Production companies | Sav! The World Hal Film Maker Pumpkin 3D |
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| Network | France 3 (France) Toon Disney (Japan) |
| Release | 5 June – 11 December 2006 |
Ōban Star-Racers is an English-language French-Japanese anime television series created by Savin Yeatman-Eiffel of Sav! The World Productions in association with multiple international companies. Originally produced as a short movie titled Molly, Star-Racer, a television series was developed in cooperation with Jetix Europe, with animation production by Hal Film Maker and Pumpkin 3D, a large portion of which was done in Tokyo, Japan. It aired in more than 100 countries including Japan. In the US, the series aired on the Jetix blocks on ABC Family and Toon Disney between June and December 2006. In Canada, the series aired on Family Channel.
For the 15th Anniversary of the series, a public event was held in Paris on December 4, 2021 and a Blu-ray Kickstarter campaign was launched in February 2022 to "release Oban in its original HD format" and "encourage the development of new Oban related projects", raising a total of €377,056 (approximatively 410,000 US dollars). The blu-rays were released at the beginning of 2023.