NEWS: Alice in Wonderland Anime Gets DVD Release - Forum (2024)

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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:44 pm

A North American anime release that is dub-only and DVD-only is rare to see in 2024. I can only assume that they got the rights to the old TV Ontario dub for dirt cheap and that they don't have any access to the Japanese audio.

I presume this might be similar to that Little Prince DVD set which I saw a couple of times only in Shoppers Drug Mart of all places circa 2008 or 2009, back when DVD-only releases were still the norm for older anime.

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GeorgH
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:46 pm

Tenchi wrote:

A North American anime release that is dub-only and DVD-only is rare to see in 2024.


They got it through Studio 100 (Germany), sucessor of Apollo Film (Austria).
Tenchi wrote:

I can only assume that they got the rights to the old TV Ontario dub for dirt cheap and that they don't have any access to the Japanese audio.


The story behind the series is complicated - and unlike ANN states: It wasn't completed in 1984, but years later - with episodes 27-52 never released in Japan and no (known) Japanese dub.
So the German dub would be the Original for Eps 27+

English dub is likely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRTXCCvBgY

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-Matthew-
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:53 pm

Finally! It was lost media.

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TheHTRO
Joined: 20 Oct 2005

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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 7:22 pm

-Matthew- wrote:

Finally! It was lost media.

No, it wasn't. The dub has/had been available legally on YouTube for some time. I believe it's also available on Amazon Video as well.

Also, to the one who mentioned TV Ontario, I'm guessing they aired the dub with the theme song that goes:

"Why, she's Alice, Alice in Wonderland
Alice, Alice in Wonderland
Curious friends, and happy adventures too..."

In any case, I'm assuming that that's the version that's being released on DVD. Additionally, from what I can see, I'm guessing it was dubbed by the same people who dubbed the Vicky the Viking anime (Apollo Film, I guess?). Both dubs use the same font for the show's logo.

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tinyirnfist0
Joined: 13 Oct 2021

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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 7:41 pm

The English dub was actually recorded in South Africa; not Canada. They couldn't say it was recorded in South Africa internationally, because the country was under apartheid at the time.

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mdo7

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Joined: 23 May 2007

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Location: Katy, Texas, USA

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 7:51 pm

GeorgH wrote:

Tenchi wrote:

I can only assume that they got the rights to the old TV Ontario dub for dirt cheap and that they don't have any access to the Japanese audio.

The story behind the series is complicated - and unlike ANN states: It wasn't completed in 1984, but years later - with episodes 27-52 never released in Japan and no (known) Japanese dub.
So the German dub would be the Original for Eps 27+

Oh I see, that explain the lack of Japanese dub, and I wondered why Discotek never pick up the license to the series and now I know why (Discotek was able to get the original Japanese version of Grimm's Fairy Tales and other obscure old children anime). Thanks for the clarification.

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-Matthew-
Joined: 12 Mar 2022

Posts: 1512

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2024 5:42 am

TheHTRO wrote:

No, it wasn't. The dub has/had been available legally on YouTube for some time. I believe it's also available on Amazon Video as well.

Also, to the one who mentioned TV Ontario, I'm guessing they aired the dub with the theme song that goes:

"Why, she's Alice, Alice in Wonderland
Alice, Alice in Wonderland
Curious friends, and happy adventures too..."

In any case, I'm assuming that that's the version that's being released on DVD. Additionally, from what I can see, I'm guessing it was dubbed by the same people who dubbed the Vicky the Viking anime (Apollo Film, I guess?). Both dubs use the same font for the show's logo.


You are right, I misunderstood with another similar title.

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Triltaison

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Joined: 03 Jul 2011

Posts: 787

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2024 2:43 pm

Aw, I'm gonna have to get this for sure. I have such a weakness for the 80s/90s fairy tale and book anime adaptations.

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