Oban Star-Racers Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - A Fresh Start

First aired: Jun/03/2006

We find Eva, a 15 year old girl sitting alone in a boarding school hallway. It's her birthday, and she wishes that her father Don Wei, the famous race organizer, would send her a present, or at least a card... After nothing comes, she breaks out of her private school on a scooter and takes up the alias of Molly, becoming a mechanic for Don Wei Enterprises. Right after she gets settled in, Don Wei is contacted with an interesting challenge: find the best pilots, mechanics, and gunners on earth to take to the intergalactic Great Race of Oban. Will Molly be able to come?

2 :01x02 - Hostilities Break Out

First aired: Jun/03/2006

After landing on the planet where the first round of preliminaries are to be held, everyone gets a surprise to find that Eva, now calling herself Molly, has stowed away on the ship. Although initially surprised by the strangeness of this new planet and its life forms, the Earth team quickly gets to their "pit" (A kind of temporary home with a garage that the team stays in while racing in the tryouts. Each team is given one) and starts getting ready for their first race.
During the race, Molly keeps having fleeting visions of Rick and Jordan crashing the star-racer. Can she find some way to help keep this dream from coming true?

3 :01x03 - Grave Like Grooor

First aired: Jun/12/2006

Following Rick Thunderbolt's wreck, the Earth team is without a pilot. Don Wei tries out each of the other team members (except Molly) as pilot, with disastrous results. He also has no luck in trying to get the council to give them an extension on the race while they wait for Rick to heal. He decides that he himself must pilot the Arrow II. Meanwhile, Molly had got an idea to configure the star racer with her rocket scooter's seat so she could reach the pedals and pilot the racer. Although Don Wei said absolutely not, Molly immediately left and went straight to the race course. Will Molly and Jordan be able to win the rematch against an angry Grooor who feels they cheated him out of his win?

4 :01x04 - In Like Flint

First aired: Jun/19/2006

We begin with Don Wei speaking to the president back on Earth. He is telling him that the Earth team must withdraw because they have no pilot. He is immediately reprimanded and told that if they don't win, the Earth may be destroyed. He reluctantly places Molly as pilot of the Arrow II. But Molly is nowhere to be found. Enraged by the way Don Wei is treating her, she had stalked out to a local bar where she met up with none other than Grooor. He is angry that he lost and is about to take it out on Molly when.... well, you'll have to watch and see.
As race two begins, it's clear that the Earth team is at a disadvantage, as mysterious obstacles keep jumping in their way. Can Molly find some way to turn the tide of the race?

5 :01x05 - Cruel Like Ceres

First aired: Jun/26/2006

Molly wakes up feeling great. She is excited about racing and just feels good. Only moments later she is crushed because Rick, the original pilot for the Earth team, is back. While watching him get a feel for the controls on the new star racer, Molly senses something isn't right, but no one listens to her. Ceres, a creature made of sound, is the Earth team's opponent in the third round. During the race however mysterious nerve attacks begin bothering Rick, and it's up to Molly to find some way to take over for him. During the Race! Can Molly find some way to get her team the win, or is this the end the Earth teams chances at the Ultimate Prize?

6 :01x06 - Playful Like Para-dice

First aired: Jul/10/2006

After surviving set another dangerous race, Jordan decides that he and Molly need a break. Conveniently, he stumbles onto a robot telling him he has won a trip to Para-dice. When the probe finally stops, they find themselves in what looks like a racing arcade. Thinking that the arcade, with its harmless fun, is just what they need to relax, Molly and Jordan become completely entwined in the simple game. They are, however, unaware that the arcade is linked up to the Arrow II, and anything that they do in the game, also happens to the real racer. The only problem with that is that the real Arrow II is inside a garage. They almost destroy the ship, but stop playing the game just in time. Can Molly out-race the tricky Para-dice in an arena match with a damaged star racer?

7 :01x07 - Treacherous Like Toros

First aired: Jul/17/2006

By some miracle (at least according to Don Wei), the Earth team has made it to the playoffs along with five other teams. After watching Prince Aikka get defeated by a shadow-like alien named Spirt, Molly must race Colonel Toros of the Krogs. Molly engages the warp drive again, using all the remaining power in the ship to gain a huge lead. While they are congratulating each other on the big jump, Colonel Toros come wizing up and catches them in almost half the time. Along with being faster, his ship is superior in offensive power. Can Molly turn the tides against him and come out with a victory?

8 :01x08 - Agile Like Aikka

First aired: Jul/24/2006

Rick is still searching for an answer to see if his first race, and the explosion that took away his career, were sabotaged. Meanwhile, Molly is walking along, trying to forget about the race she lost against Toros, when she runs into Prince Aikka. She sees him shooting a giant rock with his magic arrows, and later the rock splitting in two and falling into the sea. She jokingly asks Aikka if the shot was just target practice and is rewarded with the knowledge that they are to race against each other in the next race. Molly makes a deal with him that neither team will use weapons and it will be a race for speed. But after just coming out of a bad loss, will the rest of the team agree?

9 :01x09 - Surprising Like Super-Racer

First aired: Jul/31/2006

Molly, still angry at everyone for not listening to her about the race against Aikka, refuses to come out of her room. Fed up, Don Wei sends in Rick to talk to her. As soon as she comes out, Rick puts her through vigorous training exercises that she doesn't understand. He says that she needs to become "On Breathing Entity" while flying the star-racer. Jordan, clearly upset about not only losing the race but also Molly's reaction to him after it, is trudging around town. He sees Aikka in what appears to be a cloak. He proceeds to follows him, and learn something very interesting in the process. The next day, the Earth team has a race against someone known as Super-Racer. He looks somewhat familiar, but proves to be a formidable opponent. Will Molly's training lead her to victory, or is the Earth team in for yet another loss?