Sailor Moon (partially found unreleased full soundtrack of DiC English dub of anime; mid-1990s)
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Cover art for The Full Moon Collection CD.
Status: Partially Found
During the mid 1990s, two companies, DiC and Toon Makers, were battling for the rights of the anime Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. DiC wanted to localize it for North American syndication, while Toon Makers wanted to rework the anime series entirely, into their live-action/animation Americanized version. In the end, DiC received the rights to the first two seasons of the series.
DiC had altered several things during their tenure with Sailor Moon, such as choosing to replace the already made Japanese soundtrack with their own, in-house work. Although the vocal music including insert songs and the theme song from the show did get three official CD releases. The background soundtrack, including transformation and battle cues, have never been released in their entirety.
On November 12th, 2002 only nine cues from the DiC background soundtrack were released on the "Sailor Moon: The Full Moon Collection" CD.
Between 1998 through 2006, a fandubber by the name of Andrew Dowler operated his own Sailor Moon fandub group called Negavision. Within those years, Andrew, was somehow able to get access to the DiC soundtrack and used some of the cues in his fandub. Regardless, Andrew Dowler had no intent on releasing the DiC soundtrack. Negavision would eventually stop activities in 2006 and there is now way of contacting Andrew Dowler as he hasn't been active online since 2006.
Going as far back to 2013, many fans of the DiC soundtrack have made many attempts to get the soundtrack released including creating petitions to raise awareness and gain attention from record companies who may show interest in releasing the DiC soundtrack but to no avail.
In February 2021, a Youtuber by the name of ThomasFan1945 ProductionsTM, contacted the composers of the DiC background soundtrack Bob Summers and Don Perry to ask them whether they had a copy of the soundtrack which they did not. However in September 2021, the composers did find a CD that was made during the early production of the DiC dub that contains some of the cues including demos and unused tracks to which ThomasFan1945 ProductionsTM uploaded on one of their YouTube channels on September 11th, 2021.
Unfortunately, the entire DiC soundtrack is still lost with only some cues having been found.
The DiC soundtrack is currently owned by a Canadian company Wildbrain.