I remember this obscure kids "anime" called Zenryoku Rabbits airing abroad in Asia. To my surprise, there was a 2008 English language trailer via TMS. But the actual show itself seems to have never left East Asia. Pretty interesting. I think I mentioned in another thread that in 2024 I would love to find the original English dubbed version of Sgt Frog (which apparently Nickelodeon liked) and Mermaid Melody (which never got formally licensed outside of the manga here in the states).
Anyone here know any similar stories of shows/movies that were clearly meant to get an English localization and dub (or a first English dub) and never did? Note: I put anime in quotes because I wasn't sure Rabbits would qualify or not.
Oh!! TMS made a TON of these pitch pilots. They used to be on their website years ago IIRC, and Toei had something similar on their European website. Most of them are just someone narrating over some footage, but there's some with actual spoken dialogue here and there. Here's a whole playlist of them.
Thankfully, most of these trailers have been archived, but some of them aren't. (or are, at the very least, they're really hard to find)... off the top of my head, I haven't been able to find the "Lady Georgie" one.
What’s the general consensus on doujin anime/films? Is there any interest in them? For anyone unfamiliar: a doujin film is essentially a Japanese independent fan film. I’m very interested in documenting and archiving ones from the 1980s/1990s, as they tend to be the most obscure. This topic is pretty niche, but is there anyone else interested in this specific section of media archiving?
I got scared when I saw the word "doujin" lmao
Yeah 😭 I get that a lot, don't worry. Not all doujin work is NSFW, but I can understand why it has that connotation. I really enjoy archiving doujinshis that compile information on a particular subject, but saying that I "archive doujinshis" gets strong reactions out of people, lol.
What’s the general consensus on doujin anime/films? Is there any interest in them? For anyone unfamiliar: a doujin film is essentially a Japanese independent fan film. I’m very interested in documenting and archiving ones from the 1980s/1990s, as they tend to be the most obscure. This topic is pretty niche, but is there anyone else interested in this specific section of media archiving?
I don't want this thread to turn into a flame war, but "The Feast of the Fallen Angels" is not lost, nor do I not recommend searching for it. The above user was a bit too kind when they described it as a "grimdark hentai": The film was advertised in magazines next to things like "Faces of Death". It's filth.
Tbh, the fact it's filth is precisely why I like it.
You're talking to someone who watched Hellraiser unedited when they were in kindergarten and loved every minute of it. I'll admit that I'm a huge fan of ghastly nightmarish trashy stuff like Faces of Death, Cannibal Ferox, The Last House on The Left, Urotsukidoji, etc.
I admit it's not for everyone and I won't even say it's for most people. But if you're like me and you're an adult who not only knows the difference between fiction and reality but also enjoys unabashed filth, then why not?
That said, Feast of the Fallen Angels is a very extreme hentai even by the standards of 80's and 90's hentai OVA's where depictions of extreme violence and gore was more normalized and yeah, it's not for the faint of heart and makes Bible Black look like Barney.
Viewer discretion is STRONGLY advised with that one!
Damn, that’s crazy. I used to wonder in the past why people would want to find a film about a bunch of girls dying in a bathroom, but I think you just answered my question.
Despite the fuckery of certain trolls and bad actors, I genuinely do believe that Go For A Punch is real BUT with a very specific caveat.
Saki/Go For A Punch is probably a misremembering of the 1985 grimdark hentai OVA called "The Feast Of The Fallen Angels". That's not lost, but it is obscure. Especially back in 2011 when the actual 4chan poster says he saw it.
My personal theory is that the ACTUAL 4chan OP (not the Redditor who said he was "Saki OP" and he made it up, I think that guy was just a troll) probably saw that OVA on a pirated anime site or even a porn site where it was uploaded under the name "Go For A Punch" and he misremembered the whole thing.
Most of the full-length hentai OVA's that were commonly circulating on porn sites or pirate sites back in the late 2000's and very early 2010's were usually the more popular stuff from the 2000's and stuff from the 80's and 90's were more rare. Most of the time if you saw full-length 80's or early 90's hentai on regular porn sites, it was usually the more well-known stuff like La Blue Girl, Demon Beast Invasion, Magical Twilight, the Cream Lemon series, or the Urotsukidoji series.
IIRC, Feast of the Fallen Angels was never officially licensed in the US. Any subtitled versions are likely fansubs and I know for a fact it was never dubbed.
So yeah, I'm of the opinion that Saki Sanobashi/Go For A Punch is simultaneously real and not real.
TLDR - The original 4chan poster probably saw footage of "The Feast of the Fallen Angels" back in 2011, got creeped out by it and misremembered some of the details when recalling it in 2015.
This sounds like a much more endearing search. Can we get a thread going for this instead?
I don't want this thread to turn into a flame war, but "The Feast of the Fallen Angels" is not lost, nor do I not recommend searching for it. The above user was a bit too kind when they described it as a "grimdark hentai": The film was advertised in magazines next to things like "Faces of Death". It's filth.
So you prefer to find a dumb ass spongebob promo where he drinks fucking milk instead of finding a lost 1980s anime that nobody knows about? Real mature
Even if it's not saki sanobashi that still doesn't mean that I found a 1980s anime that's not known at all
The clip with the feathers has an hanime watermark, so it's by no means lost. It's unidentified. I don't think you found anything new.
It's 100% a DanDee plush. DanDee doesn't really "name" their plushes though, so I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for. I recommend checking a site like Worthpoint that archives eBay listings if you're looking for this exact one though.
I have tried entering that ghostarchive link for that before, but it doesnt seem to work (at least for me)
Yeah :/ I've had a couple of people test it, and it seems to always buffer before eventually directing to a 404 page. I tried contacting the owner of the site a couple weeks ago, but they haven't gotten back to me yet.
This is an extremely well researched thread. I appreciate you sharing the YouTube Crawl datasets, as this will help with some of my own research.
I'm not sure if this is of any help, (and I haven't been keeping up with the search, so I don't know if this has been reported already) but when I put the original "big star secret" URL into the YouTube Video Finder website (here: findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/), it states that it's available on GhostArchive. When you click on the link though, it keeps buffering until it eventually leads to a 404... so I'm not quite sure if it's any help.
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