Astro boy (1980's) on DVD

[fafner]

Originally posted by DrFrag@May 29 2004, 02:28 AM
Wasn't the French dub fairly heavily edited?

Yes it was heaviliy edited, scenarios have even been modified so they are still (barely) correct.
For example, in Spaceport 41, the scene where the director throws a "corpse" into space have been cut, jeopardizing the "growth problem" of his son replaced by a robot. To correct this, the accident occured a few mounths ago instead of several years.
Only a detail, but I wonder how far they could go. At the first time, I thought I had commpletely misunderstood the English version :angry:

[Shychick]

Hi, I'm Shychick. I'm a new member. Is this true what I heard about the 80s series being released on DVD?? Oh man, that would be so sweet!!! Sadly, I only have Volume 1 of the VHSs, Volume 1 of the manga (and I hope to get both of those later), and I've only only seen the very first ep of the b/w series (I found it fom some site called Dograt, and I'll post it later). Oh yeah, and I hardly ever get to see the new series on YTV because of my dumb job.

Anyway, I'll keep my fingers crossed!!!

BTW- could somebody please explain to me what these cuts are all about? It's funny, because when I first watched "The Birth of Astro Boy" of the 80s version, I remembered that pic of Boynton standing over Toby in the hospital, and Toby had a bandage on his head. Is that from that particular ep? It sucks they cut it out, if so, because I really like touching, sad scenes in cartoons! (And Boynton sure as heck didn't sem all that broken up over Toby's death! :wacko: ) Oh yeah, and they also cut out the very beginning, before the opening song began- you know where this narrator was talking, and it showed "Toby"/Astro being created. All I recall of it is "... a robot, in the form of a child. As Prof. Boynton brings his creation to life, little does he realize he has created more than just a robot. He has created the world's greatest hero- a hero called ASTRO BOY!" Or somethig like that. Anybody fill me in on my questions, puh-leaze?


Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed, but I won't get my hopes up... just in case. But I did hear that they won;t be releasing any DVDs until the movie is released in '05.


Glad to be among ya, fellow AB fans!!!

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by Shychick@May 29 2004, 04:47 PM
Hi, I'm Shychick. I'm a new member. Is this true what I heard about the 80s series being released on DVD?? Oh man, that would be so sweet!!!

Welcome Shychick! Yep, hopefully the DVDs will be out by Christmas according to the company releasing it.

BTW- could somebody please explain to me what these cuts are all about?

When Astroboy was dubbed into English in 1981, the first two episodes had 24 minutes cut and the remnants were joined to make one episode.
The following episodes had the occassional scene cut where there was excessive violence (people on fire, getting shot, etc). We're hoping this doesn't interfere with a Japanese language track on the upcoming DVDs.

It's funny, because when I first watched "The Birth of Astro Boy" of the 80s version, I remembered that pic of Boynton standing over Toby in the hospital, and Toby had a bandage on his head. Is that from that particular ep?

Yeah, that was from episode 1 and it was cut out. From the English dub anyway, I don't know about other languages.

Oh yeah, and they also cut out the very beginning, before the opening song began- you know where this narrator was talking, and it showed "Toby"/Astro being created. All I recall of it is "... a robot, in the form of a child. As Prof. Boynton brings his creation to life, little does he realize he has created more than just a robot. He has created the world's greatest hero- a hero called ASTRO BOY!" Or somethig like that. Anybody fill me in on my questions, puh-leaze?

Neither the English nor Japanese versions contain this, but the French version does. I've heard there was a second English dub broadcast in Canada, it may have appeared in that one but I'm just guessing. So you heard it spoken in English?

Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed, but I won't get my hopes up... just in case. But I did hear that they won;t be releasing any DVDs until the movie is released in '05.

That's probably the 2003 TV series, since Columbia/Sony are doing that one and the movie. It makes sense for them to co-ordinate the release for mamimum exposure and sales.

[snorkyller]

Originally posted by DrFrag@May 29 2004, 10:28 AM
To hear the original voices, to pick up nuances in the subtitles that aren't in the dub, to learn Japanese better, or to hear the lyrics to the incidental music (which are all instrumentals in the English dub). They're my reasons anyway.

Yeah, it's surely interesting to hear the japanese original version...

But I think learning japanese is really too much for me

I'm now able to understand well the english version 'cause I worked hard in the pasts years to learn english... but there's no doubt I can/should be better.. I think I will try japanese later... maybe in many years...

[DrFrag]

About a third of the people in my Japanese class are learning Japanese because of their interest in anime.