Alfred J Kwak: Why It’s Never Released in America
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2022
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Ok, so today were gonna be talking about a retro anime that I've been wanting to make a video on for years. This show is called Alfred J Kwak, and in this video I'll be talking about why I think it deserves a second chance in the modern era! Don't let the thumbnail fool you, it's more than what it lets on.
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Intro: St. GIGA Logo Theme
🔊Background Music (In order of appearance)
1. Final Fantasy X: Chocobo's Theme
• Musique Final Fantasy ...
2. Crysis 2 - Epilogue "Main Theme"
• Hans Zimmer - Epilogue...
3. Alfred J. Kwak Soundtrack Remake 05 (Synthesia)
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4.The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Rito Village (Night)
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5. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of sky - Kecleon's Shop
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6. Pokémon Legends Arceus - Eterna Forest
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7. Alfred J. Kwak Ending Theme 8-bit
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I grew up with this show. As a child I never really grasped the seriousness of some of these topics. I watched is again as an adult, and have a much better appreciation. Regardless I love that show.
Americans can be so arrogant about their cartoons being 'the best' when stuff like this 'Captain Scarlet' and 'The Animals of Farthing Wood' tackle far more mature themes.
I remember watching this back on Channel 4 in the UK during the early hours of the morning.
I watched this show a ton as a kid, specifically the german dub. Some people say the Nazi arc was banned in germany, but I saw it as a kid. Maybe it wasn't shown during it's original run, but allowed later on. Dunno.
Anyway, the german dub was very high quality, and the original voice actress for Alfred even reprised her role for the german dub, since she spoke enough german already, which gives Alfred an adorable accent.
Herman van Veen also does the songs in German afaik.
@@theothertonydutchthe crow truly was a good president
maybe later, but as a kid in the early 90s, all 52 episodes were on german tv
@@denzzlinga The crow just wanted the best for the country
I also 100% remeber watching this arc as a kid in the early to mid 2000s.
This series was produced by Dennis Livson who little later produced the 90s Moomins. Tove Jansson (the creator of the Moomins) actually gave him the permission to make the Moomin series because of Alfred J Kwak.
In Israel, this series was broadcast so many times in reruns. I am still in love with this series, and it is amazing nostalgia!🥰
Dutch television was at its peak during the 80s/ 90s and now what we have left is a garbage truck. Fox kids aired so many niche anime back them. Boes, Alfred J Kwak, Mon Cole Knights, Shinzo, Flint the time detecive, Super Pig and so many more. I really wish we could go back to those times.
Herman van Veen used to have a tv-show on Dutch television where he flew around in a windmill,
That sounds interesting. Any clue on the name of it?
It is also an orchestrated musical show from the late 70's
Among many cartoon series back in my days, this was one of them for my childhood and sure the show itself already felt odd for my kid self and I somewhat felt Dolf off from the show. After watching this acknowledging Adolf Hitler, everything became crystal clear about this character slightly blown my mind.
Dolf was my favorite, When I was a child
Dolf and Count Arkas of the Sissi series were the best villains.
We in The Netherlands, where the series is originally from, are not afraid of heavy topics. Or at least, we weren't back in the days. Nowadays we are "Americanizing", sadly.
I remember watching random episodes of the series growing up when the English dub aired on TV here in Egypt.
There was an Arabic dub as well, however for some reason the Arabic dub skipped the entire Emperor Dolf storyline cutting the series down from 52 episodes to 39 as well as removing the apartheid part of the backstory for Winnie's family in episode 27 (21 in the Arabic dub), which is surprising to me as Arabic dubs don't normally censor concepts like fascism and racism/apartheid in children media. Maybe the censors or whoever did the Arabic dub felt it might have been too much for a show featuring "cute cartoon animals". Though it turns out the company that dubbed the series is notorious for heavily censoring the cartoons they dubbed compared to other Arabic dubbers like how they removed any reference to witchcraft in their dub of the Moomins anime.
Thanks for providing that info. We sure do hope we find that dub someday.
I was lucky to see the series in 1990, as a kid, in Italy BUT the local broadcaster unfortunately axed the National Crow Party episodes...
That sucks to hear. Those episodes were some of my favorites in the entire series for how bizarre it all was.
@@Dhroneis I watched them recently in english and really appreciated. It also never had reruns in my country in the last 20 years and it's a shame
@@kittenraisedbyducks5871 I’m just sad that it’s not talked about more than it should. This is one of those shows that should be remembered regardless if you’ve seen it back then or in recent years.
@@Dhroneis I totally agree with you and I hope that more and more people will give it a try. Also wish that some of the books would be translated into other languages someday.
I never even heard about this series but I may need to take a look and I do definitely agree Twitter would have a field day if this got a reboot or the original was re-released
Did you check it out?
the whole "nazi" arc was deleted in italy. i could only watch it years later in the english version. it's a show for children, but mature. also, the original music by herman van veen is delightful.
In the Finnish dub nothing was taken out of the show and the only changes that where made was the changing many of the characters names to more finnish names.
One thing that really caught me of guard while rewatching the show was in episode 29, where in the finnish dub one of the black ducks was called the "n-word duck" by a villain.
Good job with the video! Wonderful to see people discovering this. Thankfully 32 of the 52 Japanese episodes have been preserved..
I’ve been aware of those episodes. Hopefully the rest of them can be found one day.
I'm not sure if this was in the original dub, but in the finnish dub during episode 29 in the ships restaurant one of the black ducks was called the n-word by a villain character.
That definitely caught me of guard while rewatching the entire show.
But it was still a really nice experiance to watch the show again after about 10 years.
I also re-discovered the show thanks to a finnish Alfred j kwak ytp video that I got randomly recommended
Interesting start to the series. I personally love obscure stuff. I'm curious what's to come next.
Thanks man! I appreciate it.
Did you watch the series?
The parents were heavily based off Adolf Hitler's parents.
Dolph's dad is a crow. His mom is a blackbird which means he is an illegitimate child of his dad. He is so ashamed of the fact he uses shoe polish to hide this fact (blackbirds have yellow beaks. Crows have black beaks). The theory his mom died could also be true as Adolf lost his mom at a young age due to cancer. (fact: the Hitlers were so poor they could not always pay for doctor's visits let alone morphine yet the local doctor cared more for his oath than money. So his mom sometimes got morphine against the pain. The doctor was in fact jewish but due to this got a crapton of perks like he was allowed to sell his house, he was guarded all the time so no one would beat or bully him. He could sell his house (which jews normally were unable to) and he got a travel permit to fly anywhere outside of Germany) which let him end up in the US)
I loved this show! I still remember how I felt watching these themes. How angry and upset I often was, but also happy when the bad ones got punished. No wonder why I started to study political science and now work with subjects like labor unions and gender equality. 😅
I’m surprised I never saw it because I was raised on international cartoons and media instead of usual American stuff in my youngest years
The US and free spech...I know a good joke :D
We watched the show in Germany on the public broadcast "child channel" in the 90s/2000s. We were pretty astonished even as kids what they were able to show in the series..
We've got now in germany a politican who's name is somehow similar with Alfred's enemy Kraa. He's name is Krah...
If I remember correctly there was also a lot of finnish influence in this show and for example some sound effects are same that are used in cartoon called Moomin
Also every Alfred J Kwak ep can be found in Finnish in YT
The moomin anime was made by the same studio that made Alfred.
@@dreamimgflowerd976 now it makes sense why they look so similar, thanks
This sounds interesting.
Glad this intrigued you!
Seen this in my childhood. It's true gold! (...no Stibizi. Not again! Nooo)
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you do know that the 'Netherlands' language is just how the Dutch call their own language right?
you just used 2 words to describe the same language
(i know as i am Dutch myself)
Heavy hitter on 1st episode, oof rip
Not sure if this topic was a good way to start this new direction or not, but I’ve been wanting to talk about this show for a long time.
I have a feeling that the scene where the archbishop gets bribed for support by Dolf (the nazi crow) would have been a sensitive thing in America. And I loved this show as a kid. I was too young to understand the real world references though.
0:19 pingas jumpscare 💀
hold up, that link you gave is missing 3 episodes for the english dub
This needs to air again.
I loved this show growing up in the Netherlands. Never saw the political implications apart from the episodes on apartheid and the one with goats and sheep having a conflict (don't wanna spoil the episodes)
6:44 one of the best ways to view this series as a English comprehending person is to watch the Dutch version with subtitles, which has been provided by youtuber Amayirot Akago (see the description in his Alfred J. Kwak Retrospective vids)
Needs 4k remaster
I listen too certain episodes in the English dub. Sadly the emotions in the Dub are a bit flat when spoken. While in the original Dutch versions they are clearly heard a good example would be when Henk (Alfred's adoptive farther) tries to comfort the young duckling right after his biological was hit by the car. You can clearly hear the pain in his voice and almost in whisper yammering in emotional pain of the entire tragedy while he hugs Alfred.
When I listen the English Dub he says the lines but remains silent not expressing his emotions at all with sound. Giving the expression of guy too shock to react at all at the tragedy. In the dutch dub Henk and other characters making many sounds to expressing their emotions for example many of them growl like a dog when they are angry before even speaking their lines. I only watched a few episodes in the English dub but is the lack of emotional sounds in all of them? Or is this because of the Ai Dub and the original English one had them. And what about the other languages did they have them or not?
Well Finnish dub (not to be biased but quite possibly it had the best dub of this show) did have all the emotions there with the voice acting. Our Dolf especially was brilliant
@@Balnazzardi Nice to hear your voice actors were that good.