The Amazing 3 (partially lost English dub of anime series; 1965)

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A still from the show.

Status: Partially Found

The Amazing 3 (Wonder 3 or W3 in Japan) is a 1965 manga series created by legendary manga writer Osamu Tezuka. It focuses on a trio of aliens disguised as a duck, horse, and a rabbit who befriend a human. The trio go on various adventures on Earth and learns more about humanity and life on earth. An anime adaptation of the manga started airing on Japanese and American television in 1965. All 52 episodes where dubbed.

It aired 1967 through 1970 on KCOP-TV (Channel 13) in Los Angeles, California and on WPIX-TV (Channel 11) in New York, New York. It would also air on the Nine Network in Australia in 1969-1970. The last time the English dub of the anime was ever aired and seen on American Television was during the 1970s on Kcop-TV as reruns. A few episodes of the English dub were uploaded to YouTube sometime in 2013 or 2014 but later got removed most likely due to copyright infringement.

For a long time it was rumored that the english dub was destroyed or lost, the only known evidence of the English Dub's existence was a video that was uploaded to Youtube on January 13, 2013 titled "Captain Bunny's Greetings" uploaded by Youtube user "unclesporkums". The video contained a two second audio clip of the character Bokko (Called Bunny aka "Captain Bunny" in the English dub) giving a greeting to the viewer ("Hi, this is Captain Bunny."). The audio itself is from an unknown old website that might no longer exists according to the uploader. The video description did mention that it might be an unknown impersonator of Corrine Orr (English voice of Bokko) but is difficult to tell due to the poor audio quality. The video later got deleted at an unknown time. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/tezukas-amazing-three-5410.html


Cast

Character Original Name Seiyū Dub Actor
Bonni Bokko Fuyumi Shiraishi Bobbie Byers
Ronnie Nokko Yasuo Kojima Neil Patrick
Zero Pukko Shinsuke Chikaishi Paul Brown
Kenny Carter Shinichi Hoshi Kazuko Sawada Kurt Nagel
Randy Carter Koichi Hoshi Yoshio Kaneuchi Kurt Nagel
Narrator Jerry Berke

Notes

12 episodes on original film negatives were found in the KCOP vault and were sold on eBay for $24,000 a few years ago. [1]

YouTube user Peter Vasiliou uploaded 2 and 1/2 episodes in English (not the best quality) he says he will try uploading more when he has time.

In early 2019, a Youtube channel called "Rare TezukaVids" uploaded 16 episodes of the English Dub in cleaner quality. The video were uploaded between March 31, 2019 and November 14, 2019.

Gallery

First episode in full.

Episode "Ringo" part 1.

Episode "Ringo" part 2.

Episode "end bit" part 1.

See Also

Extended Link

References

  1. Article. Retrieved 18 April '20.