This seems like an elaborate hoax. Notice he never said what channel he saw it on or what market it was supposed to air in? That could very easily be pinned down via researching old TV schedules (scans from newspapers and TV Guides).
Alaska has a handful of TV markets (most of it was served by repeaters, at least before the analog shutdown) so it would be very easy to track any of it down.
I noticed that too, but the odd thing is, there have been cases where we don't know what TV channels or stations some dubs have aired in, but we (seemingly) do have footage of the dubs in question. It's quite a strange phenomenon that is surprisingly more widespread than you'd expect.
None of this really implies that the Cosma the Invader Girl dub is real, but considering this bizarre phenomenon, it could have existed, probably not in Alaska, but MAYBE the Philippines of all places.
Yeah, but something like an anime dub would have had production companies behind it, even if it's just a bunch of otaku working at the University at Fairbanks or whatever. You list a bunch of foreign language dubs that have paperwork behind them, you'd be able to find out what they were. (One citation: we know Doraemon became Albert and Sidney and was aired in Barbados, of all places, thanks to paperwork.) If it was something like Urusei Yatsura there'd be a lot more behind it, even if it was something like how Nippon Golden Network wasn't *supposed* to air certain content but did it anyway. Also then, the poster... didn't say what TV market he lived in. If it's shithole village in the Bush, they would have had newspapers, a TV listing in the local newspaper. Some place like Fairbanks, Anchorage, or Juneau would have their own TV Guide editions. There is *no* information as to where in Alaska he was, which makes it very suspicious in my mind.
Oddly enough there are a lot of lost ENG dubs that were Philippine only but we don't have much if any video of it. Macross, anyone?
Also (related to your other post) fun fact: the Swedish dub of Sailor Moon was produced using damaged Betamax tapes. They couldn't even get broadcast-quality copies.
I noticed that too, but the odd thing is, there have been cases where we don't know what TV channels or stations some dubs have aired in, but we (seemingly) do have footage of the dubs in question. It's quite a strange phenomenon that is surprisingly more widespread than you'd expect.
None of this really implies that the Cosma the Invader Girl dub is real, but considering this bizarre phenomenon, it could have existed, probably not in Alaska, but MAYBE the Philippines of all places.
Yeah, but something like an anime dub would have had production companies behind it, even if it's just a bunch of otaku working at the University at Fairbanks or whatever. You list a bunch of foreign language dubs that have paperwork behind them, you'd be able to find out what they were. (One citation: we know Doraemon became Albert and Sidney and was aired in Barbados, of all places, thanks to paperwork.) If it was something like Urusei Yatsura there'd be a lot more behind it, even if it was something like how Nippon Golden Network wasn't *supposed* to air certain content but did it anyway. Also then, the poster... didn't say what TV market he lived in. If it's shithole village in the Bush, they would have had newspapers, a TV listing in the local newspaper. Some place like Fairbanks, Anchorage, or Juneau would have their own TV Guide editions. There is *no* information as to where in Alaska he was, which makes it very suspicious in my mind.
Oddly enough there are a lot of lost ENG dubs that were Philippine only but we don't have much if any video of it. Macross, anyone?
Also (related to your other post) fun fact: the Swedish dub of Sailor Moon was produced using damaged Betamax tapes. They couldn't even get broadcast-quality copies.
Again, REALLY reminds me of that whole Norwegian Sailor Moon dub thing I debunked a few days ago.
Post by extremewreck2000 on Nov 8, 2022 16:29:28 GMT
Odd thing is, had it said that it was a dub of like, some cartoon from like the Netherlands, Norway or Denmark(that had a similar premise to that of Urusei Yatsura, except the actual cartoon itself is probably a lot more strange, like "this MUST'VE came from the USSR!" kind of strange), maybe it would be more believable considering how likely some of those would be almost completely undocumented & unheard of, not even having an IMDB page. Still doesn't make it sound very real, but the thought does come to mind. I mean, for all we know, one of those 3 countries could very well be where The Haunted Pork Burns Unit or as I like to call it, The Haunted Pork Beans Unit, came from: www.resetera.com/threads/most-obscure-cartoon-youve-ever-watched.64713/page-2#post-11949360
I definitely have the idea that there may've been the rare Dutch/Danish/Norwegian cartoon that existed & was... well, it was really bizarre, feeling like something from the USSR almost, but with an art style somewhat reminiscentofthoseweb animeparodies, but with strange poses the characters would do sometimes, plus bizarre looking backgrounds that resemble a combination of Adam Tyner'slatergames & Dobriy Eeh. And not to mention the animation in of itself would be like those Zelda CDi games, so combined with the constantly otherwordly poses & well... yeah, really hard to imagine what the result would look like. I'm not saying that this is what Cosma the Invader Girl could actually be, it's just that, again, the thought does come to mind.