More information on the Animax Urusei Yatsura dub

back around 2021–2022, I began a lost media search for the lost Animax Asia English dub of the anime Urusei Yatsura. Those in the know about Animax dubs are probably going to ask, "Why? Why not just watch the official dub?" Well, there isn't one—kind of. Urusei Yatsura was localized in the '90s by Animego, and when they began to make a dub, it was bad and only dubbed episodes 1–2. Then, the BBC made their own dub of Urusei Yatsura for BBC Choice and dubbed episodes 1, 3, skipping episode 2. This dub was good, but since it was made for a special on Japan, they did not dub more.

Now, Animax, on the other hand, made a dub for the series that is known as Alien Musibat on the Lost Media Wiki. However, the actual name it was known by when it aired on Animax Asia is Lamu the Invader Girl, which is a similar name to the BBC's title, Lum the Invader Girl. Simple, right?

Anyway, now to get into the only leads I know so far. To start with, the clips that user Lumataru has on YouTube were uploaded to Veoh by a user known as dp33. I had tried to find the user, but I kept getting bombarded with reviews of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl episode 33. I first tried looking through results about dp33, but I could not find anything, so I added "anime" to the end of "Diamond and Pearl episode 33." I tried adding "Animax dub," if I remember correctly, and just found people discussing dp33's clips.

Here’s a bunch of Internet Archive links to dp33's account: web.archive.org/web/20090704165901/http://www.veoh.com/users/dp33, the video page: web.archive.org/web/20100719031102/http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/anime/watch/v200109775zrwmHFx, and the forum post talking about this dub: www.tapatalk.com/groups/perfectedition/viewtopic.php?p=3846#p3846.

So my next course of action was trying to connect with some of the voice cast. The only problem was that doing so was basically hell, and I struggled to do so. I do not remember which VAs I contacted for the life of me, so please forgive my lack of information. Then I tried Google Groups. I looked up Lamu the Invader Girl and found people talking about the dub there from around 2004. See the link here: groups.google.com/u/1/g/rec.arts.anime.misc/c/R27YbMGwYqk/m/E-Qw3Rw77HMJ.

I was not expecting anyone to respond back, but someone did respond. They just said something along the lines of, "Oh, sorry, but I don't have any recordings of the dub," and mentioned that they did not know anyone who does. So next, I tried contacting Animax Asia on my personal Facebook—unprofessionally, I might add. It was a beginner's mistake, as this was my first lost media search, and they left me on read.

At this point in the search, I had already made a Discord server for it and posted the link to the Urusei Yatsura subreddit asking for help. I got a couple of leads and some information from users, but by this point, those leads had run dry. So, I decided to try contacting Animax Asia again, but this time from a new Facebook account. Despite making a new one, Animax still left me on read, even after the advice I got from one of the people in the Discord server.

The last lead I have is that, as far as I know, this dub has at least gone up to episode 70, which is farther than the other two confirmed dubs have ever gotten. This dub is also said to be complete. Here's the link to show my source on this fact: web.archive.org/web/20040604035148/http://animax-asia.com/schedule/default.asp#find.

The reason I am making this post is because I am a big fan of Urusei Yatsura, and I hate how the only two official dubs are incomplete. Can anyone who may have leads please come forward? I really want to see this piece of lost media found.