Sgt. Frog/Sergeant Keroro (Mostly lost Animax Dub) | Forums - The Lost Media Wiki (2024)

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An anime that I've really gotten into is Sergeant Frog, I know there's an article and some talk about the lost ADV english dub pilot. There's a dub of the show created by Animax, which have dubbed quite a bit of other anime as well. Seems like they ended up dubbing more episodes than Funimation, from what I've heard some commenters on YouTube say, is more accurate to the original Japanese version of the show but still changed some things around.

I couldn't find that much information on how much was exactly dubbed, but I'm assuming at the very least season 1-3 was dubbed and it also seems to pre-date Funimation.

There are several episodes archived on Archive.org, episode 143, 145-154

And several clips that exist from clips of the show along with commercials on YouTube:

Here's the archived Sgt. Frog page on the Animax site, doesn't have a whole lot of information outside of the schedule and synopsis.

Has anybody heard of this dub of the anime or remember watching it? Doesn't seem to be much information or any episodes online other than the ones I listed at Archive, at least to my knowledge.

Feel free to share your comments, it would be cool to see more episodes uploaded or uncovered!

Have an update, I was able to find some sort of trace of the evidence online for most of season 3 and season 4 with a small amount of missing episodes, however here's the thing. They are only via Torrent. I'm a bit iffy on torrents, I don't know a lot about them, and know that a lot of copyright companies in the past have used torrents to catch copyright infringers. I also don't know if it's against the rules to discuss/link torrents or not, so I wanted to make sure on that as well before I mention anything else about it.

Haven't been able to find anything of season 1 and season 2 sadly, reading some comments a good chunk of them used to be on YouTube and I remember for a fact that they removed a TON of Sgt. Frog/Keroro Gunso content from YouTube last year. We're talking videos that have been up since 2009/2010, and more than likely earlier. Leaving what I'm assuming all of those videos to be lost.

I did find more promos for the Animax version!

Thank you so much for the response MediaMonster and for all of the information you've found when you originally looked into it! I've read into it further, and I know that a good chunk of Animax dubs have been lost over time as well, some have been rediscovered. Makes me wonder why these dubs are rarely released and how they were rediscovered if they were lost. I know that Cardcaptor Sakura has an Animax dub that is on Netflix that is available, not sure if anything other than that is currently available for streaming or has ever seen a release though.

Very interesting information that you've shared and discovered yourself while searching for the dub, and I appreciate you sharing that with me! That is a super weird situation and makes me wonder why they were so concerned about that being released as well at that time, especially when you weren't allowed to modify the files to match a higher quality. Wouldn't surprise me if a good chunk of the dub from the first seasons was on YouTube but was now deleted since they removed so much Sgt. Frog content from the site. Not kidding, watched the first episodes of the Funimation dub probably a month or so before they got wiped on YouTube. Makes me wish that I got into the series much earlier than I did!

Hard to say where to look next, but I'm hoping these can be unearthed or found one day! Thanks again for your information!

Edit: Apparently a user on Dailymotion called "luciferspear" uploaded a lot of Animax episodes from the 3rd season, of course none of the videos work and are now removed sadly. Here's a link to the website on Archive.orgI also made an interesting discovery that there are Thai and Spanish dubs of the show that were of season 3.

if anyone knows or doesn't know, there are a lot more episodes archived than you might think. Part of the 3rd season and the whole 4th season have been preserved (apart from the last 3 episodes of 4th season, which were skipped and not dubbed). I have these remains on Google Drive from a link I got from a nice person on discord.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CaDGwOzG6ia-L_8lsvm5IR6AyvINUxVrThe dub in the "Season 3" folder starts with episode 125.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/193ZMyJzZDDkRFsKMCKD8BmKzFSISS8MX

The dub was low budget but not bad (IMO)

In short, I would describe it as "Indian Alternative for Dubs of MediaVox or IZ-Text" (both of these studios were Polish dub studios and were low-budget)

I also got into Keroro recently, haven't watched past episode 52 but it's a really nice show.

This somehow reminds me of another anime Animax dubbed, called Emma: A Victorian Romance (or something like that); I could only find traces of the second season having being dubbed, but nothing about the first season. In fact, there used to be a BitChute channel that was archiving rare Animax dubs (sadly nothing about Keroro) that got terminated, I assume because all of them most likely came from AnimeIndia. I recall they had dubs like GetBackers!, Pretty Rhythm, among others.

But that's a little off topic lol I'm not surprised that seemingly only S3 and S4 got archived, somewhat. Keroro is a very long show, and S3 and S4 aired way more recently than S1 and S2 (which aired in the 2000s); so take that and add the fact that Animax's dubs are already pretty rare by themselves, I wouldn't be surprised at all if S1 and S2 are just gone from the face of the Earth by now, with promos and stuff being all that's left.

I'm also very curious to know if they went as far as to dub the movies. I'm unfamiliar with how Animax utilizes its licenses, but as far as I know, acquiring an anime license means also acquiring OVAs and movies, so there's a chance that the movies also have rare Animax made English dubs floating around somewhere.

Thank you for the episode links!! That's awesome and very much appreciated! I'm glad that most of Season 3-4 was located, that's really good! I watched a good couple of episodes, the dub is definitely interesting, especially hearing the voices compared to the Funimation and Japanese versions. Some choices of the voices for the characters are unfitting, but some do a good job at matching the characters!

It's an awesome show! I just finished both seasons, I think I'm on episode 105 now, start of season 3, one of my favorite anime I would say!

It's really sad that channel got removed, especially for containing such rare finds as those Animax dubs.

I think the chance someone recorded Keroro season 1-2 are very low, considering just the vast amount of episodes both seasons have (103 episodes) and from the dub being around 2008-2009, not only that but you had to watch it live to see it and hopefully record it otherwise anytime after that you are out of luck.

Really?! I would be very interested to know if there was ever a Keroro movie dub or if that was even in the discussion! I would love to see more information surface about the show's dub and if that was

While I didn't find any footage or audio from this dub, I did find an interesting comment about the dub, talking about some of the interesting quirks about this dub from November of 2008. Apparently in episode 18 when Keroro used the dialect changer on Natsumi (in the Funimation version, causing her to swear), in the Animax version apparently they changed it so Natsumi got an Australian accent in this episode. hahaha

mechatalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=10376 (Ryujin's comment on the post.)

Oh wow, the joke is actually a little farther to the original japanese version in the Animax dub then (since iirc Natsumi was making bad old man jokes or something along those lines?), but knowing this now makes me wonder what other quirks did this dub have when it comes to those jokes that need to be adapted to work in other languages. For example, sometimes Keroro changes his way of talking to an Osaka accent, so how would they have adapted that?

(those episodes are part of season 3 and season 3 was already uploaded; however my copies have the Animax broadcast TV rip version which the dubs that someone provided uses a sub but played the Animax dub as the audio) I downloaded from Dailymotion years ago for my YTP Tennis videos. I've actually did have send a link some lost dubs of a obscure hungarian cartoon but I'm not sure if I have the enough space in Google Drive to share the few episodes or not fully sure if I can also put them onto Archive.

The Animax TV rips can be found here: archive.org/details/sergeant-keroro-animax-videos

do you know if these are the only episodes ripped from dailymotion 104 thru 121, and 130?

or are 121 thru 128 part of your personal collection and just aren't in this archive?