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Does anyone have the US Manga release of the 80s series on VHS?

I'm after a copy of the "next time on Astro" trailers in English (DivX or whatever), and the Manga release is the only one that has them.
I've already bought the Japanese DVDs, the full Siren VHS release and the full Madman DVD release, so I'm not keen on paying a fourth time for what should have been included from the start. :angry:

(happy again!

I recently spotted a lot of those on Amazon. However, I'm not sure whether they're featuring the same english dub as on the Siren/MadMan release.
The only english ep preview I saw so far was the one on the 5th siren tape, at the end of 'The Robot Vikings'.

Related to my addiction of Astro's french summaries.

Yeah, it's the same dub. I have volume 1. It's basically an NTSC version of what Siren released, but in the original English broadcast order (ending with Greatest Robot in the World). At the end of each volume, they also have back-to-back trailers for all the episodes on the next volume. B) They also have 5 or 6 episodes per tape.

I don't mind a low-quality version. I can reconstruct the footage from the Madman DVDs and overlay the audio.

I've collected the following trailers from old broadcast tapes, the 5th Siren tape, and the 1st Manga tape:

Robot Circus
Save The Classmate
Astro's First Love
Save The Carolina 3
The Baby Elephant Pook
Astro Fights Aliens
The White Planet
The Transformation Robot
Atlas Lives Again
The Crystal of the Desert
Frankenstein
Uran The Tomboy
Speeding Through The Storm
The Rainbow Comet
The Great Meltdown
A Robot President
Uran's Quest
The World of Odin
The Robot Stuntman
The Light Ray Robot
The Return of Queen Cleopatra
Goliath's Head
Atlas Forever
The Death Balloon
The Greatest Robot In The World (part 1)
The Greatest Robot In The World (part 2)

I'm missing the trailers for:

16. The Runaway Subway Train
17. The Monster of Clarken
18. The Genie From Outer Space
19. The Robots Nobody Wanted
20. The Girl From Alsoar
21. Robot Land
22. The Robot Vikings
24. Lily on Peligro Island
25. The Snow Leopard
26. The Human Faced Rock
27. Uran's Twin
28. Outer Spaceport R45
29. The Red Cat
30. The Wreck of the Titan
36. The Time Machine
37. The Man-Made Solar Sphere
38. Uran Falls In Love
39. The Hijacked Airship
40. The Secret of the Mayas
41. The Anti-Proton Gun
42. The Secret of Bee City
43. The Liar Robot
44. Robio and Robiette
45. Blackie Young

I have most, but some are out of print now so I lack two and can't complete the picture spine. Ohh well that pic is on the first Japanese dvd box anyway, though smaller and reversed.

Yeah, I notice Amazon have no stock.

Do you have the gear to capture video?
And the inclination to do so?

Originally posted by DrFrag@May 14 2005, 05:53 AM
(happy again!

You better be happy...

I only wish I had any version I could watch on TV. Yesterday I went to the mall and, having free time, I went into a DVD shop. I found a lot of cartoons from my childhood that I didn't event think would ever be released on DVD, but of course no 80 Astro (not that I was searching for it since I already knew it can't be found here). I also found the 2003 Astro Boy series, but in English only - and we are in a French area, but of course they'd never bother about putting the French version on it (not that it really matters to me because I don't want to buy it anyway, but I still wish the companies would care more about us in general).

And then IF someday the 80s series came out here on DVD, I really wonder what I'd get. The French version is the one I grew up with and I think it's really well done, but then I'd miss about 3 minutes per episode (2 and a half hour in total, that's awful!!! . Or maybe I'd get some English Canadian version, which would mean that after getting used to Caudrine, Ochanomizu, O'Shay and Elefun, I'd end up with Peabody!

You are so lucky... I'm jealous!

Seriously though, just being able to watch the 80s episodes on my computer sent me to heaven! :wahah: I didn't think I'd ever be able to see them again!

Originally posted by Astro forever@May 14 2005, 08:12 PM
Yesterday I went to the mall and, having free time, I went into a DVD shop. I found a lot of cartoons from my childhood that I didn't event think would ever be released on DVD, but of course no 80 Astro (not that I was searching for it since I already knew it can't be found here).

Same in our country. 7 years ago I went to our local comic store which has had a large manga/anime section. I asked the main seller about a manga book called 'Astroboy', and the guy went like "what's that? Never heard from."
:angry: "Never heard from? You're running a large manga section and you never had heard anything of Astroboy?" I left the store quite puzzled and avoided visiting it again for 3 years.
Astroboy hasn't reached our mainstream comic market yet, here it's still regarded as a part of an unknown culture.

Wouldn't it have been for the internet, I guess I still might be waiting for my Astroholism to be resurrected.

Or maybe I'd get some English Canadian version, which would mean that after getting used to Caudrine, Ochanomizu, O'Shay and Elefun, I'd end up with Peabody!

Don't forget about Dr. Tea Water, his translated japanese name.
He has quite a large selection of names, our big-nosed doc.

Originally posted by Strange Wings@May 14 2005, 03:32 PM
Same in our country. 7 years ago I went to our local comic store which has had a large manga/anime section. I asked the main seller about a manga book called 'Astroboy', and the guy went like "what's that? Never heard from."
:angry: "Never heard from? You're running a large manga section and you never had heard anything of Astroboy?" I left the store quite puzzled and avoided visiting it again for 3 years.
Astroboy hasn't reached our mainstream comic market yet, here it's still regarded as a part of an unknown culture.

You live in the US?

As for the manga, I found them at a book fair. I never looked for them but that was the first time I ever saw an Astro manga! I bought only the first one (in French), but reading the threads here makes me really curious about the other ones!

Wouldn't it have been for the internet, I guess I still might be waiting for my Astroholism to be resurrected.

Same here. I'd also be without anybody to share some of my other interests too! I have unique interests, I guess...

Don't forget about Dr. Tea Water, his translated japanese name.
He has quite a large selection of names, our big-nosed doc.

You mean that's what Ochanomizu really means? LOL! Where does that name appear?

Originally posted by Astro forever@May 15 2005, 03:28 PM

You live in the US?

As for the manga, I found them at a book fair. I never looked for them but that was the first time I ever saw an Astro manga! I bought only the first one (in French), but reading the threads here makes me really curious about the other ones!

I'm from Switzerland/Europe.
The several mangas I bought were also in french, distributed by the french publisher Glénat. However they seem to have stopped the publishing of those some time ago.

I have unique interests, I guess...

Not anymore.

You mean that's what Ochanomizu really means? LOL! Where does that name appear?

In some pirated DVDs' poor subs of the original japanese 80's/'03 versions.
Sometimes he's even called as 'Dr. Charles O'. :wacko: