Post by Azuki<3 on Aug 2, 2023 1:04:07 GMT
For some reason I've really started liking the idea of searching for hard to find dubs, this reminds me a lot of another thread that was looking for some of the later 4Kids One Piece episodes.
I also remember how Cartoon Network in the US didn't air the last 10 episodes of the series too, I had to find those online back then. I really thought I had watched them dubbed but if they're lost then they were probably subbed. It was so long ago I can't remember for sure.
While I probably can't help you find copies, I could talk about this search in a video to get more eyes on it. I'm pretty sure that's how the One Piece episodes got found too.
Also, a tangent-a lot of these series are also in a weird place, whatwith them airing late 90s-mid/late 00s which was in a transition period among recording software, video cassettes, DVDs, and later Blu Rays. Complete box sets didn't really become a big thing until the late 2000s AFAIK, long after the American anime bubble had burst. Of course, there were..."other" means of getting these shows...well, sometimes, since the internet will still growing, reliable online video wasn't a thing, downloads could get messy, and streaming didn't really exist yet either. And TBH, how many people would even bother with a censored version of the show in that case? In the end, so much of this media was in random DVDs or VHS tapes of random episodes, which meant incomplete series in that regard.
Please keep us updated on the search/collection OP!