The VIZ edited DVD version is lost, but the CN Broadcast isn't.
What makes you think those aren't the same thing? Those DVDs literally have "As Seen on Cartoon Network" and "North American TV edited version" written on the sleeve.
The only episodes missing are the last 10, which CN didn't run, but aired on YTV in Canada.
I also have to say, describing a DVD release that can readily be found on Ebay for <$10/volume as "lost" is a little much to me. Yeah, they're not in print and collecting them all wouldn't be cheap, but they're also not egregiously difficult or expensive to find.
I came across that YouTube channel years ago. Given the Clinton digs and fixation/rare Stan Lee Media clips, I think it might be run by Peter F. Paul. That promo reel had interested me ever since as that looked well beyond what was released for the 7th Portal and Backstreet Project. It's possible SLM had ambitions of developing those into TV shows and those were used to interest investors. I did some digging and found out one of the clips was from a failed Mary J. Blige project.
I hadn't really looked into NIC Entertainment, so I never made that link to John Petrovitz. His Linkedin page has a very extensive work history that'll answer all your questions:
Credits include " Mike, Lu and Og" - 52 half hour TV episodes for Cartoon Network, 1998 -2000; " Tutenstein" -26 half hour TV episodes for Discovery Kids / CBS, 2003 - 2004 (Emmy Award) ; " Deadforce" development for Second Wind Studios, 2003; " Tripping the Rift" the Pilot and 13 half hour TV episodes for Cinegrope (Canada), 2005; " Felix Saves Christmas" animated feature preproduction for Felix the Cat, 2005;" What's with Andy?" 26 half hour TV episodes for Cinegrope (Canada) " 2005; 199 -2000" 7th Portal" Stan Lee Media special, "Backstreet Boys" , "Mary J. Blige" , "Accuser " t, "Drifter" for Stan Lee Media1; " US War Machine " 13 comic books and animated Trailer for MAX Comics ( Marvel), 2004; "V - Force" animated episodes and comic books for SUN Microsystems, 2004;" Day of the Dead" special ,2005; " All Aboard America “special for Bold Eagle Entertainment, 2003;" Itty Bitty Heartbeats" specials for Levy Mann Entertainment, 2005; " Spooctacular " feature development for Felix the Cat Production, 2005; " Superheroes Christmas" development for POW Entertainment, 2005; " Speed Racer " development, Speed Racer Enterprises ,2009 - 2010; " Cool Flame. The Reporter " in preproduction, for NIC Entertainment, 2014 -2016; "Donky " development, 26 TV half hour episodes for CaToKi GmbH (Germany), 2012 -2015; 2014 - 16 - " Velocity Extreme" - TV episodes’ development; 2015 - 16 - " Oolygallies" development, 26 TV episodes and picture book for NIC Entertainment; 2015 - 16 " Journey to Shanghai " - development for Pilgrim Film; 2015 -16 "Virtual Marilyn. Secret Singularity" development and WEBisodes production for Digicon Media; 2016 -17 - "J lem Zero" development for "Eight Square Studio"
Also produced by NIC Entertainment in Europe in 1992-94 were short films "D.A.R.E. Report" for Ravenswood Films , “Past Indefinite" and " Switchcraft" (Grand Prize Annecy "95), " Miracle of Miracles" for ZIS Productions.
0:48 - Mary J. Blige 01:13 - Deadforce 01:26 + 02:52 - U.S. War Marchine 01:49 - Mike, Lu and Og 02:01 - All Aboard America 02:17 + 02:35 - Tripping the Rift, presumably the pilot versus the final show 03:02 - The Santa Claus Brothers
NIC uploaded the same reel onto Vimeo in slightly higher quality. The also put up the pilot for Tripping the Rift alongside the promotional video for U.S. War Machine: vimeo.com/user49330913
Since the Mary J. Blige one caught your eye the most, clips from that were shown at her concerts during the "Mary" tour in the summer of 2000. Stan Lee Media's website seemed to have hosted the entirety of that footage, but it's extremely low resolution and Archive.org didn't perserve the entire video. The announcement for this states they had plans on launching webisodes based on this concept in the fall, but AFAIK, that never happened.
The company had lots of projects that were never completed. They purchased the rights to Conan the Barbarian and planned on making superheros out of motocross athletes like Mike LaRocco, Ben Bostrom and Missy Giove.
I don't have to look through the CRTC's broadcast logs to tell you that this show did not air on Canadian TV. There would've been some kind of coverage on contemporary anime news sites at the time. If it ran on the mainstream Canadian kids' channels (Family, Teletoon, YTV), someone would've noticed. I guess there's an outside chance it could've aired on the digital cable channels few had, but I highly doubt that. Only a handful of those ever aired anime, with channels like IFC, G4, Razer and Superchannel specifically going after teens and adults, not kids. What aired on those channels was also documented ...
@mediamonster That is a production database, not a list of everything that's ever aired on Canadian TV. It's meant to list programs the CRTC has approved as Canadian content. You'll find plenty of things in there that never ran on Canadian TV (or in the case of Ocean's Dragon Ball Kai's dub, were never released in general), but you'll also find things missing. The CRTC does offer free access to broadcast logs, which tell you everything a channel airs. The files are usually several GB in size and can be painful to look through, but in this case, I wouldn't worry. Like I said above, there's no reason to believe Shugo Chara ran on English Canadian TV.
With regards to the Hong Kong dub, it's possible it was never released or Matthew Bailey/Leonhart was mistaken about the channel it aired on. Animax Asia wasn't the channel in the region to air anime at the time.
The only way I can really see this search ending once and for all is by contacting the singer of the caliou theme about this topic or it gets debunked which both seem unlikely
IT GOT DEBUNKED CHECK LOST EDGY FOX CARTOON
That person claims to have only recently turned 13 years old. Timon's account is 5 years old. That means the OP would've been written by a 9 or 10 year old ... I don't think so. A mod can check their IP addresses to confirm they're located in different places. The onus is on the kid lying about the Fox cartoon. If he made this story up, too, he should just be able to login to that account and tell us from that one.
Don't take this as me saying I think this Charlie dub of Caillou is real. I see no reason for this to exist years after the brand's introduction into the U.S., so I'm inclined to believe it's not real. I just don't think these are the same people.
I don't know why Tubi only streams the first 52 episodes of Duel Masters. I went through Hasbro Studios' old sites and I couldn't even find a listing for the original show. They obviously retain the rights to it since they've uploaded clips of it to their YouTube channels. I don't think they dubbed more than those 65 episodes. If they did, they probably would've dumped them onto Monkey Bar TV, which was Hasbro's short-lived streaming portal.
Odds are good Sacred Lands was produced in Japanese. These all come from different production houses, but both Transformers Armada and Zoids Fuzors debuted in English before their Japanese launch. It's highly likely there's a Japanese version of GI Joe: Sigma 6, as well. The dub's credits list a Japanese recording studio, but 4Kids did the show's music in-house. These are all properties Hasbro had a hand in throughout the early/mid-'00s.
(Several years later, Beyblade would get three spinoffs made for the western market. They were all produced in Japanese, but only one saw release in Japan. The Japanese versions of the other two very quietly surfaced on a Chinese streaming site. Just mentioning it as another example of a Hasbro-linked anime property that did something similar.)
Someone asked him that question in the comments last month. His response:
As said in the review, Volume 8 was solicited & got cover art made, but never actually came out. As for the remaining 12 episodes that never saw a home video release, it would be neat if they were found. I did put the 28 episodes that did come out over at Archive.org earlier this year, but it'd be great if all 40 were able to be preserved.
The author of that post alleges volume 8 was never released:
Unfortunately, six months after the show got cancelled on TV, ADV's release of Knights of the Zodiac stopped after seven volumes that collected the first 28 episodes; an eighth DVD & VHS were scheduled for November 16, 2004, but never saw release.
That's interesting. Given the lack of a named distributor (4Kids didn't do home video in-house) I've got to assume that was some kind of promotional release. Maybe as part of a review kit for the GBA game? It is weird there are no markings to indicate that, though.
The more I look into the content 4Kids produced the more surprised I am to see that so much of it was either unreleased or saw such a limited release the majority of it is still missing.
The best example I can think of when it comes to this is the F-Zero GP Legend Dub. I talked to the voice actor of Captain Falcon years ago and he claimed the whole series was dubbed. However there only exists one DVD release that's extremely hard to find and only half of the series was reuploaded to YouTube.
I'm pretty sure some of their One Piece dub is unavailable or hard to find and someone also messaged me a while ago about Viewtiful Joe. The series got plenty of DVD releases in Japan but the English episodes didn't.
I think that's a really difficult piece of 4Kids searches to overcome, it's not a matter of finding DVDs it's a matter of finding out who has the rights to some of these shows and hoping for a complete series rerelease.
F-Zero's likely got lost episodes given only 15 ran in the U.S. The entire show seems a bit much, but I can easily see at least 26 having been recorded. It also ran in New Zealand, but I haven't been able to find TV listings with episode names.
AFAIK, all of their One Piece dub has been accounted for.
What episodes of Viewtiful Joe are missing? KidsWB ran 26 episodes, which is the same amount Geneon (it wasn't a 4Kids title) released on DVD. Those discs aren't penny cheap, but they're not comically expensive either. Has there been something to suggest they dubbed the back half?
I'm kinda shocked they didn't run the CN edits on YTv for GS? Any reason why?
CN produced those edits in-house and likely never shared those masters with Bandai. Even if they did, YTV obviously didn't have much of an issue with the show's content. It was explicitly promoted for a teen audience, not children.