Molly

I'm sure it's out there. ;)

Man... :( I grew up near Syracuse. I live over the other end of the state now, near Buffalo. x.x

There is another DVD source, for the record (Japanese R2) with the Streamline dub but I doubt it's any better than the Fox/Troma R1.

I went off into hyperspace. :(

Evidence, though? Anecdotes aren't evidence.

Yeah, we found out about it, haven't been able to get the actual DVD yet.

I wonder why there's so many European DVDs, then we and Brazil got VHS, and Japan got zip.

Well, red's murder on MPEG codecs.

Yeah, "gradfun2dbmod" is what I use as an antibanding filter.

I suspect you'll only find upscales if anything. :/

The sources I've currently settled on - Italian DVD for video and Japanese audio, patched with Polish DVD for two cards that were painted out on the Italian DVD (the Polish DVD is relatively poorly mastered, where the Italian one is mastered quite well) - are my current best known.

I'm not aware of anything other than YT uploads for at least some of the stuff (like the Goldwyn dub). The "Media" dub we have a DVD conversion a friend did for us that is probably as good as can be expected for coming from a low-budget VHS release. We've got a third DVD release on the way (from Germany) and will be checking that out.

The Portuguese DVD is apparently out of print and holy hell to find and the "stats" leave us with a lot of questions.

Yeah, that's something else. :/ Pekkle is apparently a character created by Sanrio (Hello Kitty) in 1990.

Japanese Wikipedia states that the movie never got a home video release (at least on VHS, LD or DVD) in Japan. I'm pretty sure it never got a legitimate DVD release here (we have a conversion of a VHS, but that's all).

I don't think there's a point? The second version of the DVD still had an authentic OTV option.

Japanese doesn't really have the concept of profanity in the same way English does.

In most cases, profanity in fansubs can be placed in two categories: "fifteening" (trying to make something cater to a more adult audience; DBZ for example targets an older demographic in the anglosphere than it does in Japan) and "compensation" (the translator's trying to cover up something, like the fact he doesn't actually understand Japanese very well).

OP, I e-mailed you as requested - I may have fallen into your spamtrap as is typical of my mail.

Danfun128 said:

The problem with fansubs is that they are more likely to add unnecessary swearing. One anime I saw had fansubs made shortly after japanese airings had lots of swearing. When official subs were made a decade later, most of the profanity went away.

Depends. Usually the excess of profanity is to cover for incompetence.

I actually avoid profanity in my translations and edits, although I did put in a couple infamous bombs ("Palkia, you SOB" in Pokémon movie 10, which I edited; and an S-bomb in Detective Conan episode 345 when the main character finds his complex scheme destroyed and is now in the hands of the enemy). There's a time and a place for everything, and very rarely should there be profanity in anime subtitles.

Just found out this film never got a home video release in Japan. Which means we're DAMN lucky to have the original audio...thank you Yamato Video!

PAL DVD, backconverted. I'm not even aware of the existence of any NTSC DVDs.

Nah. That's actually why they couldn't use "Conan" in the title in the US (they call it "Case Closed" here).

My friend who has been collecting audio provided me with more detail.

A lot of the audio we have is from YT rips or whatever low quality encodes, though the first English dub, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Dutch at the very least we have decent rips of, the first from VHS and the rest from DVD.

As far as we know there's only 1 Portuguese dub, done in Brazil, which makes the out of print and apparently next to impossible to find R2PT DVD intriguing; it claims to be 1.85 anamorphic with Portuguese and Japanese audio. All our sources are 4:3 and seem to be open matte.

The English dub credits misspell "Baer" as "Bear" (logical; the Japanese credits have the name transcribed phonetically in katakana).

The opening and closing themes are performed by Godiego (pronounced "Godaigo" - don't ask) - they're apparently somewhat known in the UK for "Monkey Magic", the theme song to a live-action adaptation of "Journey in the West" that got an English dub there.

ETA: I was wrong about the time period of the second dub. 1992 is impossible, since one of the VAs had been dead for years by then. First post has been edited accordingly.

Yes, I still work on Detective Conan.

Good anime, wish it had done better in the States.

Keeping in mind that, being trans (I don't get into it much), I have a voice that is incredibly jarring if you've seen my avatar, or if you see the handle I use here, but I've had a minor hand in preservations for a while, I could probably do something.

(By pitching my voice up 30-40% it will probably sound less like there's something wrong with me.) ;)

The phrase I've heard was "cop an attitude".

It's pretty good quality. Video is converted to 25 fps (though not daftly; it's an interlaced telecine), the credits are in Japanese but the title and "THE END" have been repainted from Japanese into Italian. It's got Italian and Japanese audio, both 192 kbps 2.0. The subs appear to be dubsubs. Lots of dirt and grain. Publisher was Yamato Video.

Oh man, I remember that. *_*

Maybe with the new Ghostbusters movie they'll bring it back as promotion.

O_O

I wasn't aware of an R2UK? What does it have (credit language, audio languages, subtitle languages)?

It's not an error, merely a difference in transcription. (I usually transcribe non-Japanese words in their original forms, rather than as strict romaji. Even so, I use a stricter Hepburn method of romanization, so I would have transcribed it as "Arajin to mahou no rampu" (or variant, "mahô"). ;))

This forum doesn't support Unicode properly, forcing me to use romaji.

This is going to be a little weird and a little long-winded, so please bear with me.

About 4 years ago, a friend of mine not on these forums said he was looking for a movie he used to watch, because his tape wore out. We were able to identify it as “Aladdin to mahou no lamp”, a 1982 anime film from Toei Animation, but we couldn’t, at that time, find the localized version he was looking for. We did, however, find it in English (as “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp”), and shortly after, another friend turned up a copy in Polish.

So we got to digging, and we found another English dub (this one called “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp”), a Spanish dub, a Dutch dub, a French dub, a Hungarian dub…and eventually the Portuguese dub we were trying to find in the first place. What we couldn’t find was the original version, in Japanese. Eventually we found that too - but only on a DVD from Italy.

We’ve been collecting these resources for a project, which will also include English subtitles. It’s fairly far along, but I’ve got no idea on an actual release timetable.

Now here’s the other part…

It’s hard to get any information on this thing. There’s 2 English dubs - one was released on VHS in 1988 by “Media Home Entertainment” and seems to be the base for most other dubs, and the other is from the 1990s and seems to be connected to “Samuel Goldwyn Films”. sometime between 1982 and 1988 when one of the VAs died and released by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. (Edit 2015/08/06)

The “Media” version appears to be a made-in-Japan English dub from the early 1980s, sharing voices with old dubs of the first Lupin III film and Arcadia of My Youth. Don Johnson is credited as providing a voice. I’m mystified as to what the actual production info is of this. Also, where are web sites getting the claim of Rankin-Bass being involved? The names Dale and Jane Baer appear in the credits for “Original Characters”… There seems to be a lot of mystery, or perhaps just misinformation, surrounding this film.