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Originally Posted by Hannah
Has anyone ever heard of/seen this? It's a Wizard of Oz anime from the 80s. Apparently HBO bought it and stripped it of everything Japanese (even not giving credit to the animators) and sold it on VHS and DVD, but only sold it in sets with major plotpoints cut to make them into movies.
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Ah yes, the old 1980's "We can dub a Japanese show and sell it to America on cheap VHS" Trick. A very common practice at the time. I remember owning a Gumby VHS that had random anime previews at the end of it... Candy Candy, Captain Future, and a Japanese version of Little Lulu... all with impossibly bad rerecorded theme songs.
Now here's a question... anyone ever hear of "The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz?" It was okay, but the dub was beyond amateurish. Worse than the cheapest fansub I've ever seen, and no one could act in it. I think its available on one of those 1 dollar DVD's you find in the bad dollar stores (you know, the kind with cheap bootlegged items instead of licensed stuff?)