You can't watch this Mario anime
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- From Mario's long history, there exists one anime featuring Nintendo's character that you CAN'T watch. The video isn't lost - it's actually safely stored in libraries across Japan. But these libraries only lend the Mario anime to people from a specific group. And if you're not in the group, then you can't watch this Mario anime!
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SOURCES
- • スーパーマリオ交通安全 (teaser) (Trailer for Traffic Safety)
- • Lost Super Mario Bros.... (GTV Japan’s video about trying to record the anime)
- www.nintendolife.com/news/201... (GTV Japan’s writeup of the experience)
- famicoms.net/blog-entry-2464.... (Japanese game historian’s perspective)
- / 1278661752658378752 (Pictures of the two anime boxes)
- www.city.ibara.okayama.jp/sho... (A Japanese library listing for the video)
CREDITS
- / 2 (Goku’s Traffic Safety images)
- www.flaticon.com/free-icon/sp... (Car icon)
- www.flaticon.com/free-icon/fi... (Fire icon)
- www.flaticon.com/free-icon/ph... (Camera icon) - Ігри
Thanks so much to GTV for helping out with this video! Be sure to check out his video from 2018 where he showed footage of Super Mario Traffic Safety: ua-cam.com/video/KfObkj-sU7Y/v-deo.html
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Mario and Luigi: DONT PLAY WITH FIRE!!!
also Mario and Luigi: Hey Luigi! How far you think I can chuck this unstable fireball at that turtle??
Nice profile picture it's Eustace Baggs right
Well they aren't kids
@@ArchivedCertainly I think they are twins, just not the identical kind.
Even Luigi talks to himself!
@@navchinna he only gets baggs
The cool thing is, Studio Junio also happened to work on Sonic CD’s cutscenes. Kind of funny to think they animated his rival years after this.
studio junio betrayal
for the better
They did frequently collaborate with Toei back then, especially on Dragon Ball.
DIC also made both Sonic and Mario cartoons back when they were rivals...
When I heard Toei and Junio I first thought Sonic CD
You’ve captured my likeness perfectly!
Uh oh i smell a patreon member
What
Are you a bot like how tf you be comenting this quick
1D AGO HOW
Ayo
Don’t worry guys, I’ll become the principal of a Japanese school, rent the video for school, and just copy it. Just give me until like 2038
It's an ambitious goal, but I'm pretty sure the world will end in 2036 at the height of solar maximum of sun cycle 26.
What a hero
@@EsotericBibleSecrets 💀💀💀💀
DO IT
@@EsotericBibleSecrets Yeah, but the dinosaurs might leave a cage on a far-off island and might destroy the world before then.
So nobody's gonna talk about how in these videos Mario has a glare in his pupils but Luigi doesn't? He almost looks soulless because of that lol.
Thats what I came to the comments for, lol.
Now I cant unsee it. Thanks.
"So nobody's" going to talk about how pathetic it is to start a comment like that? Stop pretending as though your comment has more relevance than it does -
@@robertpaulson8790 Jesus, man. Calm down. It’s just a UA-cam comment.
That's cell animation for ya, I wouldn't be surprised if the animators didn't have good reference material of how Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Mushroom People/Toads, and the enemies/King Koopa/Bowser looked like in concept art.
I get that copyright laws are more restrictive in Japan than here, but what commercial harm could possibly come from sharing an educational video that they didn't make for profit? Why are they so intent on protecting this one film? There has to be more to the story. They must not have had the rights to animate something that appears in the background of the film, like the logo for a corporation, and they are afraid of lawsuits for the misappropriate use of a registered trademark.
that could be the case, though sometimes corporations dont want this old safety commercial they made for a large company to be shared to the public.
No Japan is jus weird
I doubt is was anything like that. It could have just been a condition of using the Nintendo characters that the film would only be seen in Japanese schools, etc., and not distributed outside of Japan. They never could have imagined that people would be able to share videos on the internet when they made the contracts, so there would be no language in the contract to cover this scenario. So people either aren't allowed to share the film or aren't sure if they can and don't want to risk being sued.
This kind of thing happens in America, too. It took DECADES for the 1960s Batman series to be released on Blu-Ray because they had to track down all the heirs of the rights holders and work out a deal, since home video wasn't a thing when the show was created. Before this happened, the show could be reran on TV, but they couldn't release it on home video.
@@WeemoG Yeah, most Japanese people and businesses don't care about film preservation! 😑
@@StevenVillman - They’re even worse when it comes to music.
Mario and Luigi being heroes close to real life like being informatives on safety and even being volunteer firemen is super wholesome and makes my heart go boopity boop
1:57 Fun Fact: Studio Junio have also made the cutscenes for the original Sonic CD as well have worked on a lot of interactive games
I never knew that
i believe toei also may have worked alongside them as well
@@inactivepleasegoaway I’ll be honest Toei probably didn’t do much anything there’s a reason they just gave the project to them seems like most of the work was made by Junio there’s a reason why people call Toei Sonic Junio Sonic now They spent months on low pay to make it and they don’t even get recognized for the work they do until years later and even then most people don’t know
@@randomcommentog thanks, i wasn't very aware of how much work toei did on the animations
just gonna say i’m pretty sure that toei doing little to no work is false. they wouldn’t be credited for it if they didn’t atleast do as much or nearly as much work as Studio Junio.
I don't know what scares me more, they're freakishly large heads in proportion to the normal humans or Luigi's soulless eyes....
Luigi looks more like Weegee xD
Why they give Mario white pulplis on his eyes but not Luigi?
Toei really said: *There are no Mario safety cartoons in Ba Sing Se*
Reminds me of the story of Izzy's Quest for Olympic Gold, another piece of formerly lost media. For those who don't know, Izzy was the mascot of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta who made his debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. What exactly is Izzy, you might ask...we don't know. He's not an animal, he's not a human figure, nor is he an object. He's...something. His name is actually short for Whatizit. His debut was met with backlash, because you'd think for the CENTENNIAL Olympics, they'd pick a grand mascot...nope. So to counter this backlash, they released a video game (Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings on Sega Genesis and SNES) and a cartoon. For the longest time, people joked that Izzy was so laughably bad that his cartoon about his backstory became lost media. That is, until 2020 when the pandemic changed all that. A guy called James was helping his father clean out his garage where he came across a VHS of it.
A prior mascot, Sam the Olympic Eagle, had his own anime in Japan. Only a few episodes have been shared online, while the rest are unavailable.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I had vague childhood memories of playing a point and click game on my computer featuring an indescribable character searching for hidden medals around various scenes. I had spent a crazy amount of time trying to find it, but I never could. and now, thanks to a random comment on an unrelated video, due to pure happenstance, you have allowed me to FINALLY dust off that neglected shelf of my mind, and relive a part of my history.
Thank you thank you thank you
So when people freaked out about normal looking humans in Odyssey..... it was already done before.
Mario and Luigi never cease to perplex me. Are they plumbers? Are they firefighters? Are they just super beings that can do anything possible?
They have had many occupations.
I know very little about Mario but:
In the games (the most official source I reckon we have) I believe and your comment suggests that they are supposed to be plumbers.
However in other sources they can be whatever the people in charge decide they should be. This seems to be especially true for old sources dating back into the 80's and 90's when Nintendo was less strict about who the characters were and what they were like.
It got up to the point where Nintendo themselves were like, "Screw it, Mario's not a plumber anymore."
@@GmNdWtchr96 So they’re the gamer version of Barbie
They have had many odd jobs, and likely will continue to pursue odd methods of employment. They're kind of like Barbie, I guess.
Wow this story was really interesting; normally with media like this you can either find it online in it's lost I've never heard of something like this.
There's something so interesting about finding lost or difficult to view media, no matter how small it may be
Old films like this should be preserved on newer based media. Since even if the media is kept in good hands. Who can say that footage will one day just fade away and be destroyed from the use of it
We don't know that they don't have it on newer media. Those older forms may be more friendly for older and smaller communities.
@@coyoteartist While old media is nice for local communities, by the time the next century hits, most of old film may have to be re-recorded onto new film or somewhere digital and easily privated for said storage. I believe that yes, things that won't make profit should appear online, but this is the same case that commercials and logos as far back as the late 18th century face as well. All because of copyright laws in many of these countries around the world. Germany and Japan tend to have copyright laws that can be pretty strict on what's allowed online vs. what can't be published.
@@SuperFlashDriver If this were a US PSA, I'd see a good reason for it being online as it would aid in distribution, allowing more to learn from it. That model works here. But I don't know the way things are in Japan. I don't know if that model really works there so I can't argue from that stand point. I can understand that with something involving what maybe multiple parties that need to give permission or would have a right to act in regards to any legal issues, that it might be more trouble then it's worth. Preservation for it's own sake even if it's for a historical record, is a luxury. If legally, they feel it better to keep wraps on something that is a working piece and not just an entertainment, then I get that.
There's seriously an official piece of media out there where Mario almost isekais a child
The chances of being killed by Mario driving a semi are low
but never zero
Imagine if the child actually got isekais
Imagine a small and fat italian man with his tall brother, scolding a kid and a toddler for lighting fireworks
lol
Mario: Saves Bowser from getting hit by a car
Also Mario: *Throws Bowser into bombs, makes him fall into a pit of lava or just a pit etc.*
2:58 they scold the kids for playing with fire
Also Mario: literally throwing around fire balls to MURDER creatures
Not playing 🧠
@@kricku he enjoys it
@@xdotolotl5366 I enjoy reading books, that’s not playing
@@breadisyummy_ fair point
Maybe Mario is a professional fire thrower or something , idk
Ironic how they aren't letting people share an educational short, even when the point of it is to spread awareness of traffic safety.
1:49 this isn't the only time Toei has worked with Junio. They've also worked together on the iconic opening/ending cutscenes for Sonic CD.
Imagine looking at mario like he's a firefighter instead of a plumber.
Waterworks either way i guess. XD
If Mario is a firefighter, then he should stop eating the Flower right now.
Maybe he's both.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 he fights WITH fire
Mario has had dozens of jobs throughout the series including Plumber, Doctor, Carpenter, Referee and many others.
When he hears the fire alarm, Mario is always cool and calm
Fireman Sam reference
Thank you
Putting on his overalls and hat, in less than 7 seconds flat!
I never thought Mario would ever be voiced by Yamcha
these seem like completely normal anime safety videos
until randomly fucking Mario shows up
Watch your profanity
I never expected two of my favourite Gaming UA-camrs (GTV and Thomas Game Docs) to be in the same video!
Miracles can happen.
It looks weird seeing Mario next to a normal looking person.
5:59 its not a thomas game docs video without a classic zoom in on nintendo hq!
I've been wanting to watch Super Mario Traffic Safety for *years!*
I hope it gets backed up online some day!
If someone could get a copy of, and upload, the “Don’t Hide Abuse” instalment of the Spider Man Safety Series (the other 3 instalments are still missing as of when I last checked), I’m sure we’ll get to see Mario Traffic Safety in full in the future! Hopefully a gigaleak will happen so we can see it in Laserdisc quality!
@@adultmoshifan87 True. With Japan being strict with this sort of media, it will take a gigaleak or a mistake that allowed Super Mario's Fire Safety to be leaked onto the internet to happen.
8:45 So that's where Mario's neutral air came from for Smash Bros.
Fun Fact! Studio Junio made the cutscenes in Sonic CD. And yes, they made the design for Sonic, which would mean that design isn't "Toei Sonic", but rather "Junio Sonic"
i love how it seems like a normal educational anime and then just “MARIO AND LUIGI” HAHA
“You can’t watch this Mario anime”
*Are you challenging me?*
When I first read it with the thumbnail image, I thought this was a Kenny Lauderdale video.
Fun Fact: Studio Junio worked on the anime parts of Sonic CD and also worked with Toei make a couple episodes of Dragon Ball.
This Mario anime actually looks pretty good. The story might be boring but hey, I think I would like to watch it for myself if I ever go to Japan
Well it is aimed at young children. I’ve seen the ones that were put out from the 80s only with the Dragon Ball characters. The traffic one with Mario seems almost identical to the Dragon Ball one. For the fire one, I think Bulma’s apartment caught fire…but I do recall an earthquake and a fire starting.
Theater: You cannot record any of the anime we're about to show you!
GTV: Oh no!
GTV, seeing they're showing Super Mario Traffic Safety and recording: *ANYWAY*
We've also done our own traffic safety cartoon if you search for it on YT. Our cartoons are more than just Squirrel & Hedgehog
I remember looking for a number of Disney's films to see a lot of the one's that I had watched in a class room weren't on Disney+ for streaming. DVDs and VHS existed in libraries but you couldn't stream or purchase digital copies of these movies.
I wonder if any of these libraries have considered digitizing it under safe conditions, even if they don't intend to lend it out to keep it from being copied, they should at least copy it themselves.
yeah it would suck if this gets lost forever
TGD: you can't watch this mario anime
also TGD: shows some clips from this mario anime
Yeah, "clips". The whole thing isn't available to the general public. So you literally can't watch it.
@@KasumiKenshirou Except GTV Japan did ;)
@@Liggliluff He said that *YOU* can't watch it, though, which is accurate.
That's going to be hard to do, unless the expelled audiovisual materials goes to Yahoo auctions.
I guessed Toru Foruya voiced Mario on this because he did it in the animé movie.
Interesting timing, I just got recommended the video of the 'Restored 4K version' of 'Super Mario Bros.: The Search for Princess Peach'!
Mario kicking bowser is something I want to see in a future game
8:29 when you realize that bowser masked up before covid
Fact: there's a couple of characters that Toru Furuya did voice for Pegasus Seiya and Yamcha they're dubbed by Jesus Barrero in the Latin Spanish dubs of those shows, however he didn't voiced Tuxedo Mask but instead he did for Andrew Furuhat, so I guess they didn't match the actors to be equal.
People deciding that they have the right or obligation to withhold media like that really makes me buttmad lol
Makes me allmad!
I wonder how hard it would be for a viewer to get a job at one of these libraries, or even just sneak into one of the rooms that they keep these tapes, find it, and upload it sneakily
Never expected these kinds of videos from Mario
Kenny Lauderdale is another good channel. He just did a video about film preservation efforts for lost anime that most people have never even heard of. These Mario safety videos seem to be the exception of a film being preserved, unfortunately. Some anime has only survived because people pulled film reels out of the trash when after studios threw them out.
this was amazing to watch! you’re one of the best researchers out there. i‘ve never heard of these films before, it’s pretty interesting when you talk about 'lost‘ media
7:59 i can't be the only one to find the way mario is animated talking funny
People say things like “Mario galaxy has the darkest Mario story” but have you seen Mario run into a burning apartment to rescue a mother and her child
Yeah, pretty dark - it's almost like education videos are designed to scar children for life. (I've had some experiences with that first hand - I still haven't recovered.)
The fact that a guy named Toru Furuya voices the character Amuro Toru in Detective Conan, who is also known as Furuya Rei, is absolutely hilarious to me. There's no way that it wasn't done on purpose; I'll bet that Gosho even had the guy in mind while naming him, because honestly, why else would he have names like that?
I know jack all about VAs generally, and I was not expecting this delightful little bit of trivia, but I welcome it all the same.
Hold on, Toei Animation made anime Mario?
Now I wish they could've just full send it and made it an actual series.
I would always play with fire when I was younger with friends and we'd get caught numerous times, the thing is I was very very cautious, I was always near a water source and didn't use flammable material like toilet paper or aerosols or any explosive material, just a lighter and a very small pile of leaves and we'd stomp out the fire when we were done
Bro the fact that mario is basically teaching kids how to live is crazy
Man, the old-timey voice acting is super nostalgic. I remember watching the Anpanman public manners and safety video as a kid.
For real though, Japan's strict copyright and unwillingness to share their media internationally is frustrating. I don't think they understand how fascinating or fun their shows/movies/music are, and it's such a shame that most of them are unavailable to people living outside of Japan. There are so many ads saying "PWEEEAAASE don't illegally upload our shows online!!!" when they could just, y'know, legally stream it.
1:25
I just find this audio and video combination funny.
"In the late 80's" - where we have computers from the early 2000's (at least 2001 judging by the fact that the computer is running windows xp)
And yes I know that's just because he has not found appropriate footage (or just didn't care which is totally fine by me).
Last time, it was that bizarre live Bowser kids show, now educational anime... I wonder what the next obscure Mario paraphernalia will be 😄
I don't comment enough, but I really do enjoy your videos and how you dive into some really obscure stuff that no one else seems to cover.
Great job as always.
It's pretty weird knowing that studio junio and toei both worked on Mario and Sonic animations :/
Hopefully a gigaleak will happen someday, we might even get to see Mario Traffic Safety in Laserdisc quality! If that “Don’t Hide Abuse” Spider Man cartoon could be posted online for us all to see, and a photo was successfully taken of that Miley Cyrus concert where photography wasn’t allowed, hopefully we’ll get to see this in full in the future!
wow that's interesting. didn't expect the GTV cameo but that's pretty great, haha. (just watched his 2022 remaster of the 'yume kojo' story just last night!) definitely heard of toru furuya big time sailormoon fan from the 90s here! I guess I can only hope they've been able to preserve it digitally in some form? and overall are we really missing that much? there's alawys that full-length anime movie I heard was getting a remastered redub.
Excellent ! You always suprise me Thomas.
Awesome! I've watched some videos from GTV! He does a really good job not just with the editing but his narration is incredible
Thanks for the support!
Fun Fact:Junio Studios Also Made The Opening And Ending Cutscenes For Sonic CD (1993)
“It’s not available on internet” **Plays Footage Of It**
Interesting to see Bowser being green in this anime like the western counterpart, King Koopa from SMBSS. Coincidence or not both film even released first at the same year, 1989
Your videos are so unique and your ideas for video topics are so creative, tysm for all that you do
Staring into Luigi's eyes in the first anime is unsettling because his eyes have no white dot like Mario's.... It's HORRIFYING to me!
Im not saying be gay do crime, but im not NOT saying be gay do crime
The thumbnail made me think this video was a meme, honestly this is better
Mario & Luigi being heroes like always.
7:58 the truck Mario is driving is a Mercedes-Benz Unimog. Very strange to think this wouldn't be his last time driving a Mercedes.
i once saw it, it went just as you said. i never knew it was a lost anime.
No joke, I would've killed to see these when I was a kid. I loved Mario when I was younger.
Dude your editing is ridiculously good
Well this anime definitely wouldn’t have helped me cross the road
7:55
Kid almost gets ran over by truck
Mario: skill issue
So in the fire safety video, Mario and Luigi are fixing their truck, and in the traffic safety video, Mario almost hits the kid with the same truck. That's some continuity right there.
Underrated comment right here. I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.
Imagine a Mario cameo in one piece with his fire flower power up or his mega mushroom
Love the videos, Thomas. Keep it up!!!
PSAs are sometimes described as your "brain on drugs". I wonder if the Japanese thought the same of these two PSAs. I remember during the very late 2010s, DPadGamer spoke about these two PSAs on his channel.
As someone who has had over 20 jobs, I've seen A LOT of safety videos, and I can definitely say I would have liked them a lot better if they were cartoons with Mario
Love your videos Thomas!
Mario as Fireman Sam
Luigi as Elvis Cridlington
Larry Koopa as Norman Price
2:58 Luigi looks weird without his lil eye specks
2:56
“We-a get 1 day off-a year and I spend it doing this? I’m-a too damn tired for this. Get your damn-a hands off these fireworks!”
Bro, you literally did all this work just to show us an old educational anime. Respect 👏
I would've been the most happy child on earth if they showed me videos like this. I love Mario and Luigi so much. xD
Same! Let’s-a go!
Love that tohru furuya voices Mario. AMURO, IKIMAAASU!
Mario: be safe around fire
Also Mario: BURN ALL THE GOOMBAS!!!!
I hope one day we can watch Super Mario's Traffic Safety complete OVA
Your voiceover of the Mario fire story is on point.
I think the scene in 7:55 explains why we can't watch it.
My guy has been avoiding luigi like this is supposed to be the mario bros and besides we want to know luigi's voice actor
What's next? WarioWare teaches kids about First Aid?
I wonder if SONIC did his own safety videos…
Argh, I know this frustration each time I try to get old texture CDs.
I just want specific ones from ImageCels (ImageTects originally) and Marlin Studios mostly, and althought I have managed to slowly download some from abandoned torrent sites, most are unfortunately lost to time or hidden in very specific libraries around the world.