7.024 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
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During the back-end of the 19th century, the genius but socially awkward engineer Sorano Appare and the wise yet cowardly samurai Isshiki Kosame find themselves drifting in the sea between Japan and America. With no money, the duo decide to enter the Trans-America Wild Race to win the prize money so they can get home. The two encounter rivals, bandits, and challenges in the wilderness as they race through America, from the starting line in Los Angeles to the finish line in New York, in the steam-powered car they built.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn steampunk vehicles that actually look like they could explode
Production
1903 America rendered in gorgeous sunset-soaked Western palettes
Writing
Culture-clash comedy that never punches down
Natsuki Hanae
Appare (voice)
Fumiko Orikasa
Sophia (voice)
Aoi Yuuki
Hototo (voice)
Soma Saito
Al (voice)
Sora Amamiya
Gin (voice)
Seiichiro Yamashita
Kosame (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
Dylan G. Ordene (voice)
Kazuyuki Okitsu
Seth Rich Cutter (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
TJ (voice)
Daisuke Ono
Gil T. Shiga (voice)
Tetsu Inada
Chase the Bad (voice)
Kenjiro Tsuda
Richard Riesman (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real 1903 cross-America auto race this riffs on had only two finishers out of 77 starters — most cars literally fell apart.
The series quietly mirrors early Japanese immigration to America, with Appare's outsider genius reflecting real Meiji-era tensions between tradition and modernization.
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