Darkwing Duck Japanese Dub

These ones on YouTube are likely fan made. The quality between the subtitles and the video quality seems too different, and the fact that the intros had all been dubbed instead subbed. It would be very strange for Disney to not give Darkwing Duck one despite other Disney Afternoon cartoons getting one, regardless of their popularity. Same goes for another footage of the end credits which contains the English end credits which would contradict the documentations of the dub's existence. It should be dismissed as more of a recreation than the real footage.

Shouldn't this go into lesser known media due to being a non-english dub and not the original dub of the series? I thought those are considered non-notable generally.

Try contacting the people who wrote those articles and see if they still know where they found the information about the voice actors or if they know of copies available of the series. Another thing you could do is look for Japanese torrents, Japanese file sharing sites, fan forums and ask or contact the voice actors themself.

I jut flagged this as a possible move candidate. We'll see what the mods decide.

I’ve been searching all over for anything about the Darkwing Duck Japanese dub VHS or DVD releases and I can’t find any evidence that there was ever an official VHS or Dvd released with the Japanese dub.


In my search I did chance upon a VHS rip of the Japanese dub of an episodes of The Adventures of the Gummi bears: www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3337212

Here’s another video that I found my search. Is anyone else able to play this video? www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16184201 I’m using firefox and for some reason this video won’t play for me.

On japanese Yahoo Answers someone asked what Disney series they'd want to be rebroadcasted, and two people said "Darkwing Duck" detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1470094439?__ysp=44Kv44Ov44OD44Kv44O744OR44OD44Kv

So, I think that confirms that the dub actually exists...?

Honestly, it's really odd that series like Ducktales, Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers or Quack Pack have episodes online but there's none of Darkwing Duck

Either this show never received a japanese dub or...

Well, the only thing that occurs to me about why this dub is missing is that, it indeed exists but for someone reason the audio is damaged. Because of this, Disney didn't want to released it on vhs/dvd, (because of professionalism)

This reminds me about those episodes from El Chavo del 8 that hasn't been broadcasted since a long ago for exactly the same reason, according to rumors

In Japan has happened things like this before, there are series not too old in which the audio is damaged/sounds poorly

For example, there's the reason why Dragon Ball Z japanese dub sounds so bad, when originally it had high quality audio. Basically, Toei animation trashed the original audio tapes after its original broadcast. They were too big and hard to stock, so the anime kept the optical audio only, and for that reason the anime sounds like it does

What I'm trying to say is that this kind of things could happen

My other "theory" is that probably this series never was too popular in Japan, so Disney never was interested in release it on vhs/dvd. But even in that case, someone has to have at least one episode recorded from tv...