Ōban Star-Racers
Ōban Star-Racers (オーバン・スターレーサーズ Ōban Sutā Rēsāzu) is a French/Japanese anime about a girl who becomes Earth's representative in an intergalactic racing competition known as the Great Race of Ōban, hoping to win the Ultimate Prize and bring her deceased mother back.
Season 1
[edit]A Fresh Start [1.1]
[edit]- Rick: [after the skirmish with the Krog] Is this part of the great race you were talking about, Don? Or is it just the warm up?
- Jordan: [aims gun at Krog] Sorry, no Krogs allowed!
Hostilities Break Out [1.2]
[edit]- Aikka: [to Molly] Aren't you a little bit young to be running around without parental supervision?
- Stan: [concerning Grooor's Star-Racer] It's a piece of junk, but it's made of polarized titanium.
- Rick: Terrific, I guess.
- Koji: [grimly] It means that if you play bumper cars with this guy, you're going home by e-mail.
Grave Like Grooor [1.3]
[edit]- Grooor: [as Jordan shoots the joints of his Star-Racer] Your lasers are worthless. You are mine!!
- Grooor: [as he grinds the Arrow II into the ground] I could squash you like an insect, but that would dishonor all of the insects in the galaxy. Yesterday, you robbed Grooor of a victory that was rightfully his. Today, your humiliation must be complete. [Grooor lets go of the Arrow II] Grooor generously gives you a lead of thirty seconds before your apocalypse.
In Like Flint [1.4]
[edit]- Marcel: [shoots at Jordan] Here's a little present from Marcel!
- [Flint easily avoids the obstacles with his eyes closed]
- Molly: Not bad. I guess you're just plain lucky.
- Flint: Plain lucky, you say?
Cruel Like Ceres [1.5]
[edit]- Ceres: [to Rick] How can you imagine even for a second that you are worthy of the Oban prize? Humans, Krogs, Nourasians: They are all the same. A few thousand years of existence and you think that you are actually important.
- Ceres: Humans, your hour of judgment has come. [launches an electromagnetic ray at the Arrow II] Something to shake you up a bit.
Playful Like Para-Dice [1.6]
[edit]- Para-Dice: Don't play innocent with me! You know very well that the ultimate prize gives the winner any wish, any dream!
- Don Wei: It can't be.
- Molly: I could have any wish? Any dream? [realizes she could bring her mother back]
Treacherous Like Toros [1.7]
[edit]- Toros: No one can resist the strength of the Krogs. Earth and the rest of her galaxy must learn. When I claim the Ultimate Prize, all shall kneel.
Agile Like Aikka [1.8]
[edit]- Molly: If you can't trust Nourasians, then you could at least trust me!
- Don Wei: I did trust you in the last race. I will not make the same mistake twice...
- Jordan: [when the race with Aikka is about to start] I am tired of this frog prince. He's going down.
Surprising like Super-Racer [1.9]
[edit]- [Satis is talking to Jordan and Aikka appears at a distance from them, and walks away]
- Jordan: [about Aikka] This is all your fault!
- Satis: [confused] What's my fault? [Jordan goes running off] Humans are so unpredictable! And so rude too!
- [Jordan is walking in the market place and comes upon an Alien Seller who is holding a blue dress]
- Alien Seller: Oh, look at this dress! It's made for you! [puts dress against Jordan's body]
- Jordan: [growling] Get lost! I'm trying to be sad! [Alien runs away screaming]
Resistant Like Rush [1.10]
[edit]- Rick: You've really got a problem with this girl, don't you? Huh?
- Don Wei: I'm tough with all my pilots. You should know that.
- Rick: Maybe it's time you got a life, Don.
- Don Wei: My life is perfectly fine as it is, thank you.
- Rick: Yeah right. I'd sure hate to be your son. Or for that matter, your daughter. [Don freezes, as those last words bring back painful memories] Did I say something wrong?
Silent Like Spirit [1.11]
[edit]- [Spirit has shown up alone, as he has no need for a star racer]
- Jordan: Correction. I think Spirit forgot something, like his star racer!
- Molly: Don't come near me, you murderer! [suicides the Arrow II in an attempt to kill Spirit]
The Will to Win [1.12]
[edit]- Don Wei: Now Molly, what was it you wanted to tell me?
- Molly: [storms off] Absolutely nothing! You may be a great team manager, but as a father you're clearly a zero!
Make Way! [1.13]
[edit]- Aikka: [to G'dar] I feel the same way. We are betraying our friends and ourselves. This cannot continue.
Welcome to Oban [1.14]
[edit]- Aikka: Yes, Molly's right. The preselections were nothing. These racers are the best of the best. We'll need all of our strength.
- Don Wei: It's over, Molly. Sul came in first place, O second, and Kross third.
- Molly: Over? But I-
- Don Wei: We came in fifth place just behind Ning and Skun. We have no points. Head back to the flying temple at once. I suppose it could've been a lot worse for our first race on Oban.
- Molly: No points is like no race at all. I have to do better. I don't have a choice. I have to win the ultimate prize.
Fierce Like Lord Furter [1.15]
[edit]- Molly: As long as we can fly, we still have a chance. I refuse to believe it's the end of the world.
Nervous Like Ning and Skun [1.16]
[edit]- Don Wei: [realizing Molly is Eva] No, no, it can't be! It's impossible!
Optimised Like Ondai [1.17]
[edit]- [Ondai uses his computerized intelligence to predict and dodge all of Jordan's attacks]
- Jordan: This guy's untouchable!
- Ondai: At last the time has come to claim my rightful place among you.
- Ondai: Accept the truth! Your kind has had their time. Robots are the next step in the chain of evolution!
Monstrous Like Muir [1.18]
[edit]- Don Wei: Must I pay with my own daughter?!
The Origin of the World [1.19]
[edit]- Sul: So the ancient legends are true.
- Kross: Meditate on this, Sul. [Fires at him]
- Molly: Prince Aikka, answer me! Why did you change? Why should the race change any of us?
Secret Like Sul [1.20]
[edit]- Molly: Why do you want to win the prize?
- Sul: I am the master over time, space, and even the course of destiny. There is nothing left for me to wish for. Go.
- Don Wei: You're in third place, not fourth place. We scored some points. Sul is gone.
- Molly: [stunned] What? He's gone? What do you mean "gone"?
- Don Wei: I mean he is no longer part of this competition. We're waiting for you.
Ominous Like O [1.21]
[edit]- Don Wei: I destroyed my wife. And now I've destroyed my only child.
Revelations [1.22]
[edit]- Molly: What do you mean "choosing the master of Oban"? [gasps] That's impossible! I want the ultimate prize for my mother!
- Creator: We answered your question. Now leave!
Cruel Like Kross [1.23]
[edit]- Molly: I think you switch sides a little too easily, Aikka!
Canaletto's Revenge [1.24]
[edit]- Molly: Here goes nothing.
- [maneuvers away from the trident's path]
- Kross: By Kramm! [last words before his ship explodes]
Unlikely Alliances [1.25]
[edit]- Jordan: I guess O was a good guy after all.
The Moment of Truth [1.26]
[edit]- Molly: [breaks down in tears] My mother. It was you! You made her crash. You made her crash, didn't you?
- Canaletto: She had to go, to bring out the best in you.
- [Last lines of the series]
- Molly: Being Molly was fun. But it's good to be Eva again.
