You're telling me the English VA for Tama is Andrew Rannells, who not only is a well-known Broadway actor at this point but also played James in the Pokemon Live production, a role he's been rather vocal about hating that show? The irony nearly writes itself lmao
@@HalKozy Doubtful at this point. I do hope he returns to anime in the future, though. I could imagine him playing a character in Demon Slayer or Sword Art Online for some reason.
I like how the japanese theme for Tama is a nice and calm sweet song and then it's instrumental leitmotif is used in the original score of the episodes.
I'm just now starting the video and I'm not sure if you mentioned it but there was another sad dark episode. A baby kitten gets abandoned and they end up getting the attention of Tama and Momo's owners too late and the sick kitten ends up dying. There is also a side plot showing how Nora/Rockney ended up homeless after his owner died. You see her sitting there lifeless with her eyes blurred over and he is trying to get her attention to no avail. The episode is here on UA-cam and it is called Matsuri-bayashi. That one gets me so hard in the feels every time I watch it.
Oh yeah I remember Tama and Friends, I think I caught an episode or two and wondered why I never saw it again. This was a great video! I will say that a few years ago I managed to watch the Please Save Momo-chan OVA featured at 20:43 and I loved it a lot, I enjoyed the abandoned theme park setting it had and I really wish that they dubbed it fully. Absolutely looking forward to the full Hamtaro video when it comes out. :3
A recent interview with the co-producer of the 4kids Ultraman Tiga English dub confirmed that whole series was dubbed(and they have the unaired ones!) Hopefully different former 4kids workers has the Tama and Friends ones.
Bad news update. The co-producer went to double check what they actually have recently , and they only have dub EP 1, a random unaired dub ep from the middle of the series, and the unaired series finale dub EP (apparently this episode is a combination of Japanese ep 51 and 52.)
This is a great one. I hadn't heard much about Tama before but watched it for the first time when Crunchyroll picked it up, it's such a delight. Didn't know 4Kids attempted (or at least boasted) such a big rollout for it considering how lowkey its release was lol. I'd love to see an episode on the Line Friends' cast across their shows. I've been doing a lot of research on it and been meaning to try and compile it somewhere.
@@bluebaron6858 Not all of it, though. That World War II episode was pretty disturbing, as it explicitly showed the casualties and destruction the war brought onto people.
I loved that series it was totally adorable. It was a shame it got shown at such a bad hour where I live and almost no one watched it . I would have loved to have seen the tv series and the merchandise become as popular in America as it is in Japan.
I'd love to see a new dub for this on Crunchyroll since they already have the original Japanese version with subtitles. I could see a cast from Bang Zoom and Aniplex like this: Cassandra Lee Morris as *Tama* Brian Beacock as *Pochi* Christine Marie Cabanos (Madoka from Madoka Magica) as *Momo* Cristina Vee as *Tora* Stephanie Sheh (Sailor Moon) or Sarah Anne Williams as *Koma* Bryce Papenbrook as *Kuro* Erica Mendez as *Nora* Colleen O'Shaughnessey as *Beh* Johnny Yong Bosch as *Gon* Patrick Seitz as *Bull* Zach Aguilar (Tanjiro from Demon Slayer) as *Takeshi Okamoto* Lauren Landa as *Emi Hanasaki*
@@bluebaron6858 It's been seeing a resurgence in Japan lately in light of its 40th anniversary. Tama even did a cameo in the City Hunter movie that was released in September.That in itself is exciting, although I do think it would be hilarious if Tama and Friends did a collaboration with Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃). Pochi would look adorable wearing Zenitsu's orange robe. Same thing with Tama wearing Tanjiro's teal and black robe.
The 4kids Flashback podcast recently interviewed musician, John Siegler, about that other Tama and friends opening, but he wasnt 100% sure but thinks the other intro is a version that just didnt get picked as the final version. Apparently a couple versions of a shows theme would get made and then they picked the one they thought was the best.
I'm still hoping someone kept full compelte copies of this dub and also Armen Mazlumian's acting resume lists he did "various voices" for this dub too.
Mobile here did not have an actual WB affiliate at all until fall 2001. WJTC was a primarily UPN affiliate for all 11 years before becoming Independent again. WALA has been a Fox affiliate since 1996 after switching affiliates with WPMI. WFGX, was Independent again at the time aired Tama and Friends but sadly, WFGX wasn't available in the Alabama side of the TV market until summer 2010... 23:17
@bluebaron6858 Pokémon along with Robocop Alpha Commando didn't air on syndication in the local TV market here (not even on UPN, or Fox station) at all and yes. That was before Kids WB picked up the broadcasting rights.
@@HalKozy WFGX (now MyNetworkTV) was a WB affiliate in the 90s until 2001 and we didn't have the WB affiliate here in Mobile at all despite Comcast and other cable providers in the Alabama side having the consent to carry it but couldn't due to weak signal. According to the local newspaper achieve, there were plans to launch to a new local station that would've brought the WB here but nothing else were never heard. Still no WB affiliate available here until WBPG (now WFNA and CW) was launched and became the primary WB affiliate from the TV market until the WB's closure for the CW. WFGX wouldn't be available in the Alabama part of the TV market until summer 2010 when they moved the similar to wear the WEAR-TV transmission is at.
I honesty never seen Tama and Friends 4kids dub as a kid because we didn't have the show available locally here. I didn't know about it until last decade. If Tama and Friends were aired on Kids' WB instead of syndication, I would've seen it and remembered it as a kid.
Man , I remember getting a stamp kit with these characters from multiple Dollar stores back in the day. ( they were real cheap so I had about 2-3 ish whenever I would inevitably loose parts or the stamp pad didnt work as I was little) I wish I had one now. It came with a Tama figure about 2 centimeters tall and his brown dog friend and they would act as the handle for the stamps. It was incredibly cute. The package it came in though never named it by it's show name.
I wouldn't be surprised if 4Kids tried to get what was then called Sony Wonder to distribute it on home media. I mean it would have been poetic justice if you think about it, especially since Sony created the franchise as a whole. If you ask me, Tama and Friends was a missed opportunity as well, as the namesake protagonist would have been the perfect mascot for the company - much like Nipper the dog was for RCA. Imagine Tama and Pochi being guinea pigs for popular Sony products like the Walkman and the Trinitron.
One piece of Tama and Friends merchandise released in north America you missed is the Janome sewing machine people released a Tama and Friends themed embroidery cartridge that would let you embroider Tama and Friends and anything you wanted
I'm digging around about this product and from what I can tell this was not released in America, only manufactured. If it was ever released in America, the copyright date is 1997, predating 4Kids -- the product also has a different logo and doesn't use the same uncanny art style 4Kids used.
Do you have the episode number of the one(s) where the audio was overridden by another show, my discord buddies and I were laughing so much at that, I wanna see the full episode(s)
@@bluebaron6858Same here because former independent station WFGX (now MyNetworkTV) that aired Tama and Friends wasn't available here until July 2010.
The character franchise it's based on just turned 40 earlier this year, and is seeing quite a resurgence in Japan. I personally hope this franchise does a collaboration with either Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃) or Madoka Magica (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ); the latter of which having an upcoming third movie this year while Demon Slayer's Hashira Training arc is being adapted in its next season. It could possibly give Tama and Friends the exposure it deserves in the west.
@@bluebaron6858 Me personally, I think it would be pretty funny seeing him cosplay as Tanjiro Kamado to promote the new Demon Slayer season, don't you think?
@@HalKozy definitely. I'm so glad he cleared up the misinformation about The Pokémon Company International's decision to recast the series. He's a very insightful person and I hope they have him come back for another episode because I would like to know more about the dub of "Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker"
Huh, I vaguely remember seeing the opening song when it aired once or twice. I was just there for Kirby lol I feel like Tama was too 'old fashioned' and plain looking compared to the bright and colorful stuff on 4kids other shows. It was definitely from a different era and looked out of place as more shows were going digital. Plus being more aimed at a much younger audience, I think it never stood a chance Great vid!
I HIGHLY recommend watching it in Japanese, not only because the footage is 100x better but you'll get accurate subtitles, the original music, and the correct vignette order. If you are curious to see the English dub, check the description for an archive.org upload of the dub. :)
Since the TAJ website said they dubbed 52 eps of Ultraman Tiga for 4kids, the listing for their Tama and Friends dub leads credence for that being likely true as well OMG!
I do recall at least seeing (and maybe recording?) one or two episodes of this when it was WB 11 in New York. If these episodes still have the credits intact, they might have a clue on how might voice Bengbu; since it could be an unknown actor (since 4Kids also had a tendency not to credit anyone other than the main voice cast since the midway point of their One Piece dub.) or he could've been voiced by either Megan, Rachael or Ted. Bit of a gamble, really. Also, I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Lobozzo was also known as an impressionist as well?
@@bluebaron6858 With a "??? as ???"; that I know of. I was mentioning that the names would appear in the credits. I did see that they appear in the credits of the French dub under "Voix originale". (Which is kinda weird, since Kayzie Rogers was credited as "Kaysie Rogers"; and Megan Hollingshead was credited as simply "M. Hollingshead".) I'm just looking to see if the original dub credits exist or not.
@@bluebaron6858 Magic Knight Rayearth is one of CLAMP’s most influential and popular works and one of the most popular magical girl anime of the 90s, but it had many English dubs when it was brought over to America. Let’s go through each one of them. 1. Series (Ocean Test dub): A test pilot dub was produced by TMS and Ocean Productions at some point in the 1990's in an attempt to market the series worldwide. It was an attempt to air the show on Fox Kids during the time. This dub included mandated specific localized character names. 2. Series (Bang Zoom dub): In 1999-2000, Bang Zoom from Los Angeles got the rights to the anime and it was published through Media Blasters from New York. This dub was led by Julie Maddalena as the fiery leader Hikaru Shidou, Wendee Lee of Cowboy Bebop fame as the beautiful but brash Umi Ryuuzaki, and Bridget Hoffman as the shy and intelligent Fuu Hououji. 3. OVA (New York dub): Now this dub will surprise you. In August of 2000, UK anime distributor Manga Entertainment required the license to the OVA series, while its dub was recorded in New York-based studio Skypilot Entertainment. This dub’s 3 main cast was led by three voice actresses from the 4kids dub of Yugioh: Tara Sands (Mokuba Kaiba) as Hikaru Shidou, Amy Birnbaum (Tea Gardner) as Umi Ryuuzaki, and Lisa Ortiz (Serenity Wheeler) as Fuu Hououji. So, Magic Knight Rayearth’s dub history was a interesting one at best.
Can't wait for Lupin III (Geneon Dub)/Wolf III (Streamline Pictures Dub)/Rupan III (AnimEigo Dub)/Cliff (Cliffhanger)/Edgar de la Cambriole (French)/Hardyman(German)
Honestly, I don't have a problem with the renames in America at all, if you put "Lupin" into a translator and translate it to Japanese, it will come up as "Rupin", also the Italian word for "wolves" is "lupi'. @@bluebaron6858
Just because something's lost doesn't mean it's not worth discussing. If nothing else, doing an episode about something that's lost (such as Super Pig's English dub) can bring attention to the search, who knows, someone may know something or have footage or something else of substance.
Hey Yui, about the F-Zero dub, it was FULLY DUBBED according to Captain Falcon’s VA in the dub, I remember even hearing that the Falcon Punch at the final episode was dubbed as well, but we may never see it since the dub got pulled so early on.
It was not fully dubbed. The dub script writer Michael Haigney said only one season of 26 eps was made and an international dub based on the 4kids version is 26 eps long.
I don't know why I remember the show but I was born at the very end of millennials 1996 I'm more of a gen Z person on a technicality but I don't know why I remember this show I'm glad somebody finally made a video about it
@@HalKozy I really hope there's another new Tama and Friends anime soon. The franchise is so underrated. Also, can you do a video chronicling Sony's history in the anime business?
I still think it was JCC likely voicing Bengbu. I don't know if they got back to you still, but they mentioned to me recently it could likely be him, but they weren't 100% sure.
Ok i know commeted before but since this is the first four kids video of one of there obscure and oldest dub are you going to tackle there dub in order. Like what your going with the ghibli stuff or are you just pick Them out randomly
There is another dub of Yu-Gi-Oh from Singapore. Even if we JUST cover the 4Kids dub, there's a whole discussion of the prerelease material, the card game itself needs to be discussed (there were some changes between JP and US beyond censorship), 4Kids' many paint edits, 4Kids' many script edits, the short-lived "uncut" dub... There's a ton to go through.
@@bluebaron6858Thats Because In October 2001, The Show Was Removed, And It's Monday And Sunday Showings Replaced With Bob The Builder Airings, And It's 2 Saturday Showings We're Replaced With Peter Rabbit And Friends, Percy The Park Keeper, Brambly Hegde And Faeries, There Are Mini Shows In The Saturday Speical Showing's So Yeah That's All It Is
Good video, coming soon do a english dub history of condorito la película, a latin american animated movie based in a popular chilean cómic strip, distrbuied by solamedia, dubbed by track 3 entertainment and with The peculiar title of space chicken
It'd be odd to see a new dub of such an old show, especially one THIS obscure and not in-demand. I mean, never say never, but I wouldn't expect a new dub unless Tama gets a brand new show.
@@HalKozy Very true... Morris would be perfect as Tama in my opinion - even if the 90's show is as old as it is. If you ask me, if they could get the original Dragon Ball to be dubbed in its entirety two decades after it premiered, then a show like Tama and Friends could surely get an English dub 3 decades after its airing in Japan. And for good measure, I could also see Cristine Marie Cabanos as Momo.
@@HalKozyit kinda freaks me out, I know I watched hamtaro back on Toonami... But I really don't remember about the episodes themselves😮 I do remember the catchy opening and ending still. Little hamster big adventures!!
Man, this show was the one show that I had never heard of from 4kids’ catalog, this feels like one that was not documented the most
I hope more people start asking people who worked on the dub more about it!
I never heard about it neither when I was a kid. I never knew it was around because we didn't have the show in our local listening here.
I don't remember seeing anything about this dub on tv ethier. Only on the 4kids Website, I saw the small site.
@@DerekMcDouglasI hope more can be learned about it!
What about Gogoriki?
You're telling me the English VA for Tama is Andrew Rannells, who not only is a well-known Broadway actor at this point but also played James in the Pokemon Live production, a role he's been rather vocal about hating that show? The irony nearly writes itself lmao
I still can't believe he voiced Harley in the pokemon dub
Yep, the very same... wonder if he even remembers being Tama 😂
I feel like he was in every 4kids dub until he left for Broadway in the mid 2000s.
@@HalKozy Doubtful at this point. I do hope he returns to anime in the future, though. I could imagine him playing a character in Demon Slayer or Sword Art Online for some reason.
They aren't coming back they've moved on to bigger things.
Ayy!! Nice shoutout to YTV and Treehouse in this episode! (As a Canadian myself I highly appreciate it!)
I guess you didn't watch it in Canada when it aired briefly there?
Sure thing! I'll try to keep an eye out for other Canadian broadcast info in later episodes! 🇨🇦
@@HalKozy a Cardcaptor Sakura episode would be an interesting one!! Since it starts in Canada!
I want to cover more Canadian dubs. Last one I covered was the lost Cinar Anpanman dub, and we don't even have footage of that one!
@@HalKozy whoa!
I like how the japanese theme for Tama is a nice and calm sweet song and then it's instrumental leitmotif is used in the original score of the episodes.
The Japanese opening is super adorable.
ClariS should perform their own version some time, I think they'd do a good job.
@@sayyestofairness4266who's that?
@@bluebaron6858 They're a pretty well known pop duo in Japan. They do theme songs to anime such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Nisekoi.
@@sayyestofairness4266 neat
I'm just now starting the video and I'm not sure if you mentioned it but there was another sad dark episode. A baby kitten gets abandoned and they end up getting the attention of Tama and Momo's owners too late and the sick kitten ends up dying. There is also a side plot showing how Nora/Rockney ended up homeless after his owner died. You see her sitting there lifeless with her eyes blurred over and he is trying to get her attention to no avail. The episode is here on UA-cam and it is called Matsuri-bayashi. That one gets me so hard in the feels every time I watch it.
Since supposedly Taj productions adapted 52 x 10 minute segments, it could be likely that segment was skipped entirely and not dubbed.
Oh yeah I remember Tama and Friends, I think I caught an episode or two and wondered why I never saw it again. This was a great video!
I will say that a few years ago I managed to watch the Please Save Momo-chan OVA featured at 20:43 and I loved it a lot, I enjoyed the abandoned theme park setting it had and I really wish that they dubbed it fully.
Absolutely looking forward to the full Hamtaro video when it comes out. :3
Thank you for watching!
Maybe it was fully dubbed? We're not really sure
Amazing thumbnail!
Thanks!
A recent interview with the co-producer of the 4kids Ultraman Tiga English dub confirmed that whole series was dubbed(and they have the unaired ones!) Hopefully different former 4kids workers has the Tama and Friends ones.
Bad news update. The co-producer went to double check what they actually have recently , and they only have dub EP 1, a random unaired dub ep from the middle of the series, and the unaired series finale dub EP (apparently this episode is a combination of Japanese ep 51 and 52.)
You can watch the final episode that's English dub!
@@raveast yes, I hoping more will eventually resurface... Somehow haha.
This is a great one. I hadn't heard much about Tama before but watched it for the first time when Crunchyroll picked it up, it's such a delight. Didn't know 4Kids attempted (or at least boasted) such a big rollout for it considering how lowkey its release was lol.
I'd love to see an episode on the Line Friends' cast across their shows. I've been doing a lot of research on it and been meaning to try and compile it somewhere.
I'm so thankful Crunchyroll subbed the show. It's so relaxing.
@@bluebaron6858 Not all of it, though. That World War II episode was pretty disturbing, as it explicitly showed the casualties and destruction the war brought onto people.
@@sayyestofairness4266 it is what it is
I loved that series it was totally adorable. It was a shame it got shown at such a bad hour where I live and almost no one watched it . I would have loved to have seen the tv series and the merchandise become as popular in America as it is in Japan.
The designs are cute
I'd love to see a new dub for this on Crunchyroll since they already have the original Japanese version with subtitles. I could see a cast from Bang Zoom and Aniplex like this:
Cassandra Lee Morris as *Tama*
Brian Beacock as *Pochi*
Christine Marie Cabanos (Madoka from Madoka Magica) as *Momo*
Cristina Vee as *Tora*
Stephanie Sheh (Sailor Moon) or Sarah Anne Williams as *Koma*
Bryce Papenbrook as *Kuro*
Erica Mendez as *Nora*
Colleen O'Shaughnessey as *Beh*
Johnny Yong Bosch as *Gon*
Patrick Seitz as *Bull*
Zach Aguilar (Tanjiro from Demon Slayer) as *Takeshi Okamoto*
Lauren Landa as *Emi Hanasaki*
@@sayyestofairness4266 I wish there was a redub!
@@bluebaron6858 It's been seeing a resurgence in Japan lately in light of its 40th anniversary. Tama even did a cameo in the City Hunter movie that was released in September.That in itself is exciting, although I do think it would be hilarious if Tama and Friends did a collaboration with Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃). Pochi would look adorable wearing Zenitsu's orange robe. Same thing with Tama wearing Tanjiro's teal and black robe.
@@sayyestofairness4266 Interesting. I still hope a new show comes out and gets dubbed.
The 4kids Flashback podcast recently interviewed musician, John Siegler, about that other Tama and friends opening, but he wasnt 100% sure but thinks the other intro is a version that just didnt get picked as the final version. Apparently a couple versions of a shows theme would get made and then they picked the one they thought was the best.
I'm still hoping someone kept full compelte copies of this dub and also Armen Mazlumian's acting resume lists he did "various voices" for this dub too.
Mobile here did not have an actual WB affiliate at all until fall 2001. WJTC was a primarily UPN affiliate for all 11 years before becoming Independent again. WALA has been a Fox affiliate since 1996 after switching affiliates with WPMI. WFGX, was Independent again at the time aired Tama and Friends but sadly, WFGX wasn't available in the Alabama side of the TV market until summer 2010... 23:17
Syndication lore is interesting. I can't believe the pokemon dub gained monster ratings in those time slots yet Tama, not so much.
@bluebaron6858 Pokémon along with Robocop Alpha Commando didn't air on syndication in the local TV market here (not even on UPN, or Fox station) at all and yes. That was before Kids WB picked up the broadcasting rights.
That's wild, I thought Columbus losing WB for UPN was odd, your area truly is something else.
@@HalKozy WFGX (now MyNetworkTV) was a WB affiliate in the 90s until 2001 and we didn't have the WB affiliate here in Mobile at all despite Comcast and other cable providers in the Alabama side having the consent to carry it but couldn't due to weak signal. According to the local newspaper achieve, there were plans to launch to a new local station that would've brought the WB here but nothing else were never heard. Still no WB affiliate available here until WBPG (now WFNA and CW) was launched and became the primary WB affiliate from the TV market until the WB's closure for the CW.
WFGX wouldn't be available in the Alabama part of the TV market until summer 2010 when they moved the similar to wear the WEAR-TV transmission is at.
@@DerekMcDouglasI watched cartoons all the time and NEVER saw ads for Tama
I honesty never seen Tama and Friends 4kids dub as a kid because we didn't have the show available locally here. I didn't know about it until last decade.
If Tama and Friends were aired on Kids' WB instead of syndication, I would've seen it and remembered it as a kid.
Or toonami
@@dwainsimmons3447only if a higher person forced it on the block haha
I love the new thumbnail!! 🎉
Thank you!
RW:ive never forget this show
How did you watch it first?
I still can't get over that guy having such a huge ego he has a cabbage patch of himself
The cabbage patch story is interesting
Man , I remember getting a stamp kit with these characters from multiple Dollar stores back in the day. ( they were real cheap so I had about 2-3 ish whenever I would inevitably loose parts or the stamp pad didnt work as I was little) I wish I had one now. It came with a Tama figure about 2 centimeters tall and his brown dog friend and they would act as the handle for the stamps. It was incredibly cute. The package it came in though never named it by it's show name.
Was this an American merchandise product?
Yes but it was probably a kknock off.. Havent bee able to find it. @@bluebaron6858
I love the franchise art style @@TheRehabKat
I wish alot of the old NY 4kids VAs still continued voice acting
Me too
They are, but they've defected to California. Poor Rachael Lillis has barely gotten any roles since her move over there.
I wonder how far along the planned home video release of tama got before having it's plug pulled.
I wouldn't be surprised if 4Kids tried to get what was then called Sony Wonder to distribute it on home media. I mean it would have been poetic justice if you think about it, especially since Sony created the franchise as a whole. If you ask me, Tama and Friends was a missed opportunity as well, as the namesake protagonist would have been the perfect mascot for the company - much like Nipper the dog was for RCA. Imagine Tama and Pochi being guinea pigs for popular Sony products like the Walkman and the Trinitron.
@@sayyestofairness4266 ok
One piece of Tama and Friends merchandise released in north America you missed is the Janome sewing machine people released a Tama and Friends themed embroidery cartridge that would let you embroider Tama and Friends and anything you wanted
Do you have an image?
I googled it and are you sure this is a US product?
Do you recall when you first saw this?
I'm digging around about this product and from what I can tell this was not released in America, only manufactured. If it was ever released in America, the copyright date is 1997, predating 4Kids -- the product also has a different logo and doesn't use the same uncanny art style 4Kids used.
17:34 You do actually see Casey's mom's face in the second segment of the 5th episode called "Casey and Friends".
Thank you for pointing that out... God, that's so brief, it makes me wonder why you usually NEVER see her face otherwise.
@@HalKozy You're welcome.
@@BBCTwoIdentFan101interesting
Do you have the episode number of the one(s) where the audio was overridden by another show, my discord buddies and I were laughing so much at that, I wanna see the full episode(s)
Sure thing, I got a laugh, too! It's episode 7A in the English dub.
Hopefully that mini mystery can be solved too.
I remember this show! They usually air it before Kids WB! Alongside that corny Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century cartoon.
My area didn't air it 😢
@@bluebaron6858Same here because former independent station WFGX (now MyNetworkTV) that aired Tama and Friends wasn't available here until July 2010.
The character franchise it's based on just turned 40 earlier this year, and is seeing quite a resurgence in Japan. I personally hope this franchise does a collaboration with either Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃) or Madoka Magica (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ); the latter of which having an upcoming third movie this year while Demon Slayer's Hashira Training arc is being adapted in its next season. It could possibly give Tama and Friends the exposure it deserves in the west.
@@sayyestofairness4266I want more official Tama merchandise in the US!
@@bluebaron6858 Me personally, I think it would be pretty funny seeing him cosplay as Tanjiro Kamado to promote the new Demon Slayer season, don't you think?
Well.
Norman J Grossfeld did say that the theme song is the best sixty second promo for the the product.
Haha, yeah, so you listen to the 4Kids Flashback podcast, too! I loved that interview so much. Absolutely cool guy to listen to.
@@HalKozy definitely.
I'm so glad he cleared up the misinformation about The Pokémon Company International's decision to recast the series. He's a very insightful person and I hope they have him come back for another episode because I would like to know more about the dub of "Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker"
I still hope he does future interviews with others
Huh, I vaguely remember seeing the opening song when it aired once or twice. I was just there for Kirby lol
I feel like Tama was too 'old fashioned' and plain looking compared to the bright and colorful stuff on 4kids other shows. It was definitely from a different era and looked out of place as more shows were going digital. Plus being more aimed at a much younger audience, I think it never stood a chance
Great vid!
I swear most people that even vaguely remember seeing Tama on TV remember it because of its theme song, I thought it was just me!
Thanks for watching!
It was a crazy time the US was still grabbing anime shows that were made in the 90s with cell animation and airing it in the 2000s
i kinda want to see if i can find and watch this show now. it looks very cute.
I HIGHLY recommend watching it in Japanese, not only because the footage is 100x better but you'll get accurate subtitles, the original music, and the correct vignette order. If you are curious to see the English dub, check the description for an archive.org upload of the dub. :)
I wish Kayzie Rogers would do interviews/conventions
I loved watching hamtaro as a kid and I have no doubt I would have loved tama and friends if I ever saw it as a kid
I'm still shocked I never saw any commercials for this on tv and I watched a lot of TV back then.
I would have loved it if WFGX were available on Comcast or on antenna here. WFGX wasn't available here until July 2010.
Since the TAJ website said they dubbed 52 eps of Ultraman Tiga for 4kids, the listing for their Tama and Friends dub leads credence for that being likely true as well OMG!
I first heard of Andrew Rannells in the DiC produced series Archie’s Weird Mysteries. Guess who he voiced in that show.
They were on streets sharks as well
@ jawsome!
Amazing
Thank you!!!
It's a great show!
I do recall at least seeing (and maybe recording?) one or two episodes of this when it was WB 11 in New York. If these episodes still have the credits intact, they might have a clue on how might voice Bengbu; since it could be an unknown actor (since 4Kids also had a tendency not to credit anyone other than the main voice cast since the midway point of their One Piece dub.) or he could've been voiced by either Megan, Rachael or Ted. Bit of a gamble, really.
Also, I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Lobozzo was also known as an impressionist as well?
The Tama dub does not match the voice actors at all in the credits.
@@bluebaron6858 With a "??? as ???"; that I know of. I was mentioning that the names would appear in the credits. I did see that they appear in the credits of the French dub under "Voix originale". (Which is kinda weird, since Kayzie Rogers was credited as "Kaysie Rogers"; and Megan Hollingshead was credited as simply "M. Hollingshead".) I'm just looking to see if the original dub credits exist or not.
@@ottagol1985 there's one dub credits upload on here but it starts past the voice actors credits part
@@bluebaron6858 Ah nuts...
@@ottagol1985im still hoping a nice full hq dub credits sequence shows up one day...
You must do magic Knight rayearth!
Whats the history behind that dub?
@@bluebaron6858 Magic Knight Rayearth is one of CLAMP’s most influential and popular works and one of the most popular magical girl anime of the 90s, but it had many English dubs when it was brought over to America. Let’s go through each one of them.
1. Series (Ocean Test dub): A test pilot dub was produced by TMS and Ocean Productions at some point in the 1990's in an attempt to market the series worldwide. It was an attempt to air the show on Fox Kids during the time. This dub included mandated specific localized character names.
2. Series (Bang Zoom dub): In 1999-2000, Bang Zoom from Los Angeles got the rights to the anime and it was published through Media Blasters from New York. This dub was led by Julie Maddalena as the fiery leader Hikaru Shidou, Wendee Lee of Cowboy Bebop fame as the beautiful but brash Umi Ryuuzaki, and Bridget Hoffman as the shy and intelligent Fuu Hououji.
3. OVA (New York dub): Now this dub will surprise you. In August of 2000, UK anime distributor Manga Entertainment required the license to the OVA series, while its dub was recorded in New York-based studio Skypilot Entertainment. This dub’s 3 main cast was led by three voice actresses from the 4kids dub of Yugioh: Tara Sands (Mokuba Kaiba) as Hikaru Shidou, Amy Birnbaum (Tea Gardner) as Umi Ryuuzaki, and Lisa Ortiz (Serenity Wheeler) as Fuu Hououji.
So, Magic Knight Rayearth’s dub history was a interesting one at best.
Huh a rare Dub
W indeed!
Andrew Rannells was amazing in this role.
I wish Andrew kept copies
I hope another new Tama & Friends show comes out soon
Can't wait for Lupin III (Geneon Dub)/Wolf III (Streamline Pictures Dub)/Rupan III (AnimEigo Dub)/Cliff (Cliffhanger)/Edgar de la Cambriole (French)/Hardyman(German)
I'm so happy is doing okay now in the US.
Honestly, I don't have a problem with the renames in America at all, if you put "Lupin" into a translator and translate it to Japanese, it will come up as "Rupin", also the Italian word for "wolves" is "lupi'. @@bluebaron6858
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Lisa Ortiz also voiced Tony Tony Chopper in the 4Kids dub of "One Piece."
Indeed!🦌
She is great!
@@bluebaron6858 indeed
Can you cover the slayers in one of your future topics?
I wish there was another new slayers anime
Digimon English dub history video would be great
Im amazed at all the different cast changes or who managed to stay for most of it.
Why
@@dwainsimmons3447due to some people retiring, passing away, or just giving characters different voices
Are you gonna do an English Dub History of Super Pig (Tonde Buurin)?
Isn't that English dub mostly lost? How is it supposed to be done?
Just because something's lost doesn't mean it's not worth discussing. If nothing else, doing an episode about something that's lost (such as Super Pig's English dub) can bring attention to the search, who knows, someone may know something or have footage or something else of substance.
@@HalKozy ah ok. I only remember there's only brief clips and there is the dub ending credits sequence that list the voice actors.
Its odd 4kids kept "kids day" in the pokemon dub and but not in Tama
I kind of WISH there was such a thing as a "yearly Sea Festival" widespread in America, though. 4Kids could've taken credit for the idea!
Is it possible that it's Ted Lewis as Bengbu?
I thought the same thing, but he never got back to me. :/
What a mystery 😢
Hey Yui, about the F-Zero dub, it was FULLY DUBBED according to Captain Falcon’s VA in the dub, I remember even hearing that the Falcon Punch at the final episode was dubbed as well, but we may never see it since the dub got pulled so early on.
It was not fully dubbed. The dub script writer Michael Haigney said only one season of 26 eps was made and an international dub based on the 4kids version is 26 eps long.
^ What Baron said. There are conflicting reports, hence I said it's a topic for another day.
@@HalKozyI hope you can solve that mystery too, once and for all.
I don't know why I remember the show but I was born at the very end of millennials 1996 I'm more of a gen Z person on a technicality but I don't know why I remember this show I'm glad somebody finally made a video about it
Cool that you remember this!
Have you seen my tama?!
"Who says cats and dogs don't get along?"
@@HalKozy I really hope there's another new Tama and Friends anime soon. The franchise is so underrated. Also, can you do a video chronicling Sony's history in the anime business?
@@sayyestofairness4266 that topic is beyond the scope of my general content
@@HalKozy Understood. What about Demon Slayer?
@@sayyestofairness4266what about it?
I just want one promo of Tama and friends on Canada treehouse found eventually
I still think it was JCC likely voicing Bengbu. I don't know if they got back to you still, but they mentioned to me recently it could likely be him, but they weren't 100% sure.
Staff and VAs not being able to 100% confirm some things adds to the feeling this dub is from a dream or another universe.
Ok i know commeted before but since this is the first four kids video of one of there obscure and oldest dub are you going to tackle there dub in order. Like what your going with the ghibli stuff or are you just pick Them out randomly
Definitely not going to be in release order. The next dub in the lineup would be Yu-Gi-Oh... And that's incredibly complicated.
Ok thinks but how complicated barring the law suit
There is another dub of Yu-Gi-Oh from Singapore. Even if we JUST cover the 4Kids dub, there's a whole discussion of the prerelease material, the card game itself needs to be discussed (there were some changes between JP and US beyond censorship), 4Kids' many paint edits, 4Kids' many script edits, the short-lived "uncut" dub... There's a ton to go through.
@@HalKozy oh ya i forgot there was a Singapore dub good point well. I guess. That video would be your toughest challenge untill that day come
@@HalKozy there was another lawsuit back in 2000 that was filed against 4kids.
Tokyo godfathers! Coming in December?! Did you know that Jon Avner was in the other dub
But of course! He is one of my favourite VAs! :)
@@HalKozy I just found out that a lot of the New York dubs had Broadway/Disney Renaissance actors in them.
Have you watched that before?
@@HalKozy Woah! You're a fan of Avner, too?
Oh God yeah. Love him in Berserk as Void and Tokyo Godfathers as Gin. Wish he did anime work more often.
You should do a video about the English Dub of Viewiful Joe. (Same company Group TAC).
"HENSHIN-A-GO-GO-BABY!" 📽️ Love Viewtiful Joe!
@YuiHaruhara Also, stay tuned for my thought on this video.
Did you like the viewtiful joe English anime dub from geneon?
Damn I didn't knew that Tama and Friends aired on Treehouse TV in Canada?
Supposedly it only aired for like a month there.
@@bluebaron6858 Intresting
I never see anyone talk about the Tama dub much less from someone from Canada.
@@bluebaron6858Thats Because In October 2001, The Show Was Removed, And It's Monday And Sunday Showings Replaced With Bob The Builder Airings, And It's 2 Saturday Showings We're Replaced With Peter Rabbit And Friends, Percy The Park Keeper, Brambly Hegde And Faeries, There Are Mini Shows In The Saturday Speical Showing's So Yeah That's All It Is
@@sabienschannel3823 right, literally no footage of it anywhere
Why The Heck Does Bengbu's Voice Acting Sound Like It Comes Straight Out Of An Odex Dub
I'm assuming Bengbu is voiced by JCC but they needed the voice to be way different compared to his other roles here.
It's kind of on Halloween!!
Yeah, I couldn't do a proper Halloween episode in time 😅 maybe 2024!
Hey Yui, What's World Masterpiece Theater series
Isn't that Grims fairy tales anime show?
Yes
Ultimate Muscle English Dub History?
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Hopefully eventually!
Oh this one look cute😊
It's a nice and calm series!
Have you heard Andrea Kwan is on two animes on Animax Asia in early-2004
Isnt she in the animax cardcaptor Sakura English dub?
@@bluebaron6858 she did in the animax cardcaptor sakura english dub and also another lost animax english dubs
I wish more people commented
Good video, coming soon do a english dub history of condorito la película, a latin american animated movie based in a popular chilean cómic strip, distrbuied by solamedia, dubbed by track 3 entertainment and with The peculiar title of space chicken
Sure, space chicken is a misnomer. Condorito is just a condor.
Interesting
I know the dub composer for tama was the same one for pokemon but wow does it sound so similar to it like it feels like unused dub pokemon music cues.
One of a few composers of Pokémon.
This op sounds like shin chans dubed op
Say hey shin chan!!
I knew it sounded similar to another dubbed opening!
How many dubs of Tama are there?
If you mean English dubs, it's just the one from New York. I'm surprised there isn't a Hong Kong dub.
Have you watched the show?
I think Nora was renamed Rockney in the dub, because he kinda looks like he could be a member of the rock band, Kiss.
😁
I never thought of this that way. Some times I feel like 4kids name changes were random
Please do saint Seiya knights of the zodiac eventually!
Also for some weird reason I remember this Cardcaptor Sakura and Max Steel
I completely forgot about Max steel! Wow that was a thing back then
heres a request kinnikuman
I have no idea how or why, but you are the first person to ever request Kinnikuman! 💪
What's your opinion on kinnikuman?
You forgot to put berserk on the New York playlist
That's getting a revamp! Stay tuned! :)
What do you mean?
@@bluebaron6858 You'll see~
Hey Yui, What's GKIDS
They are a New York based distributer
Mazinkaiser English dub history?
I got your request the first time, please do not spam it over and over in different videos and posts.
@@HalKozy okay.
Bro guess what Thay made a new Tama game on the switch!!!
It's a simple puzzle game but it's amazing to see some now media of Tama!
@@pawpets2069is it Japan only?
@@bluebaron6858 yeah unfortunately 🥲 the reason I know I have a Japanese on my Nintendo switch cuz I play Japanese games 😅
If you're having trouble finding it I can send you a link to the Japanese Nintendo website having the game
I'm not going to say this video convinced someone in Japan to release new Tama media... But I'm also not going to say it didn't.
I hope there's a new dub from Aniplex soon. Cassandra Lee Morris would be perfect for Tama if that happened. Kyubey, but not creepy.
It'd be odd to see a new dub of such an old show, especially one THIS obscure and not in-demand. I mean, never say never, but I wouldn't expect a new dub unless Tama gets a brand new show.
@@HalKozy Very true... Morris would be perfect as Tama in my opinion - even if the 90's show is as old as it is. If you ask me, if they could get the original Dragon Ball to be dubbed in its entirety two decades after it premiered, then a show like Tama and Friends could surely get an English dub 3 decades after its airing in Japan. And for good measure, I could also see Cristine Marie Cabanos as Momo.
I'm surprised the 2020 series wasn't dubbed
@@bluebaron6858 Me too. People like Aleks Le would've been perfect for Uchitama.
@@sayyestofairness4266 as long as they sound decent
Wow?
I can't believe this show is THAT obscure
Plz do hamtaro
The dub ending theme is amazing!
I have a lot of nostalgia for Hamtaro, so I had fun covering it a bit in this video 🐹
@@HalKozyit kinda freaks me out, I know I watched hamtaro back on Toonami... But I really don't remember about the episodes themselves😮 I do remember the catchy opening and ending still. Little hamster big adventures!!