Post by lammyvox on Dec 6, 2017 6:55:09 GMT
I was looking through the wikia and came across the article on an anime called Idaten Jump(韋駄天翔 a.k.a IDATEN翔 ) It’s odd that there has never been any official release in Japanese or English of this anime. This anime had several dubs but I’m not sure yet if it was as popular as other shonen anime that involved sports/tournaments, like Beyblade etc. Idaten Jump was adapted from a 4 volume manga series(which was release in America by Tokyopop) into 52 episodes by Aniplex, the story focused around the sport of BMX/MTB (mountain biking), so I suppose that meant the series had international appeal, so it’s surprising that it’s never been release on DVD or anything that I can find. Apparently, like many other dubs of it’s kind, Idaten Jump had episodes edited together in the dub, so it’s unknown if all of the original 52 Japanese episodes were dubbed in English or not.
Here’s the anime news network page about this, unfortunately none of the official sites about this anime seem to work: www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6495
Apparently, the dub was considered by many viewers to be, so bad that it was good; here’s a forum thread about how laughably self aware the dub script’s jokes were: www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=35490
What I’ve Found so far:
The first episode of the dub can be found on the wikia page, but I haven’t had a chance to watch all of it yet. If anyone else finds anything about this show or would like to join and search through their tapes (it aired on Cartoon Network, YTV, Animax Asia, Animax India in English.)
Thanks for checking out this thread, and I hope we can find out more about this lost anime series.
Here’s the anime news network page about this, unfortunately none of the official sites about this anime seem to work: www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6495
Apparently, the dub was considered by many viewers to be, so bad that it was good; here’s a forum thread about how laughably self aware the dub script’s jokes were: www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=35490
What I’ve Found so far:
- Japanese openings 1 & 2
#1: "RED ZONE!!!" by Tsubame Sketch (ツバメスケッチ), #2: "Your World" by Ketchup mania (けちゃっぷmania): www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm651689www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm651689 - This video has some of the dialogue from the Japanese dub:
- www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16412950www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16412950
- The Soundtrack of the Japanese exclusive Nintendo DS game, with some stills I can’t find any actual footage or a trailer for it yet:www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14055311www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14055311
The first episode of the dub can be found on the wikia page, but I haven’t had a chance to watch all of it yet. If anyone else finds anything about this show or would like to join and search through their tapes (it aired on Cartoon Network, YTV, Animax Asia, Animax India in English.)
Thanks for checking out this thread, and I hope we can find out more about this lost anime series.
