Katsuji Mori

Katsuji Mori

Voice Actor

Katsuji Mori is best known for his roles as Go Mifune (Mach GoGoGo), Joe Shimamura/009 (Cyborg 009), Ken the Eagle (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman), Jouji Minami (Tekkaman: The Space Knight), and Garma Zabi (Mobile Suit Gundam).

Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo (マッハGoGoGo, Hepburn: Mahha GōGōGō), is a Japanese media franchise about automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 Shōnen Book. The series was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics and later re-released in Japan by Fusosha. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, 52 episodes aired on Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968. In the US, the show aired on syndication at approximately the same time. The anime was later re-broadcast on Tokyo MX from July 1 to September 25, 2008.

Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title Speed Racer Classics. and later released by Wildstorm Productions (a division of DC Comics) as Speed Racer: The Original Manga. In 2008, The US republished Mach GoGoGo under its American title Speed Racer and released it as a box set to commemorate the franchise's 50th anniversary. The TV series defined anime in the US until the 1990s and had about 40 million viewers during the 1960s through the 1970s.