Season 1 • Episode 51
LatestRyu Suzaku (Rick Wheeler) was a police detective who got into a near-fatal car accident while pursuing the criminal Zoda. He was placed into artificial coldsleep for 150 years. Ryu is brought back to life by Jody Summer and Dr. Stewart, who work with a group of good racers who try to keep prize money out of the hands of unsavory people like the Dark Million Organization run by Black Shadow and Deathborn, including a revived Zoda.
Score
That guitar-heavy racing OST absolutely slaps for no reason.
Practical Effects
The F-Zero machine designs slap harder than the plot.
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Ryu Suzaku (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
Captain Falcon (voice)
Kikuko Inoue
Jody Summer (voice)
Isshin Chiba
John Tanaka (voice)
Kazuki Yao
Jack Levin (voice)
Nana Mizuki
Lucy Liberty (voice)
Nobuo Tobita
Stewart (voice)
Norio Wakamoto
Black Shadow (voice)
Shinpachi Tsuji
Zoda (voice)
Kenichi Mochizuki
Pico (voice)
Takanobu Rai
Samurai Goroh (voice)
Takayuki Fujimoto
The Skull (voice)
Sayuri Yoshida
Miss Killer (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
James McCloud (voice)
Ai Maeda
Kate Allen (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This anime only exists because F-Zero GX on GameCube needed promotional synergy—peak early-2000s Nintendo multimedia strategy.
The English dub renamed Ryu to 'Rick Wheeler,' presumably because 'Ryu' sounded too foreign for 4Kids' target audience of cowards.
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