OZ Cartoon Anime from childhood. ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! BUY IT! Since I was a child I have always thought 'I wish that Oz cartoon would come back on' I loved it as it stayed true to the Frank Baum books which no other Oz production has done.
I bought this despite mixed reviews and it is truley exceptional! It is true it is heavily edited. It is 4 x 90 minute dvds, and the original was something like 52 episodes x 22 minutes = 1144 minutes has been cut to 360 minutes for this dvd set. So 784 minutes is missing.
I would be lying if I said you won't notice because you will. A the first 1 hour mark the Wicked witch of the West is dead... Remember the winkie slaves? Well the fact that winkies are slaves is mentioned ONCE and you don't see ANY winki slaves at all. From memory the winki slaves went on for ages.. well you see none of them! It's like 'hello wicked witch.. oops sorry for spilling water on you''
Dare I say it this is 10000 times better than not having it at all. I almost cried I was so happy to own this item. It still makes sence but yeah its pretty obvious.
In 'Marvellous Land of Oz' Tip and Dorothy escape from Mombi, and the whole bit where Tip goes to the shed to get Jack and tells him about Mombis evil plan is missing!
Instead Dorothy and Tip are half way down the road and Jack just appears.
I have heard that the complete uncut version is available with Japanese audio and english subtitles however I can not find it on any american or asian sites.
I RECCOMEND THIS PRODUCT 9/10 STARS!
Nostalgia Reigns!! I watched this series as a kid every week day after school back in 1987! It was the best, I loved it! The music and characters have long since stayed in my memory, and when I discovered the entire series was out on DVD, well, I just had to add it to our library! And we continue to love it. Now, having a family of my own, my husband and 6 year old daughter sit down and watch it, enthralled by the magic and humor within these wonderful animated films. Ofcourse, it brings back tons of memories too, all good ones. I can only give it the top most rating.
Not Bad: Close But No Cigar These are the movie versions of the Japanese animated series Oz no Maho Tsukai from 1984. The series ran fifty-two episodes in its original format and covers four of the Baum Oz books: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and the Emerald City of Oz. When it was dubbed for the American market its Japanese origin was expunged by the American release company right down to the fact that none of the Japanese animators were listed in the end credits. Yes it has Margot Kidder and a fairly good dub cast, but it is too much to ask that this series be released with the Japanese animators being given the credit they so justly deserved. Not a bad adaption of Baum with some major alterations but none that would make me wince . Ironically this series was shown here in America before it was seen in Japan! This series is right up there with another fave of mine a little series called Peter Pan no Boken from 1989. Very good but a release of the episodes in Japanese with English subtitles would be appreciated......yeah and I'm dreaming.
Cant wait This was my favourite show as a kid - i just ordered it - my first purchase of anything over the internet - cant wait!
very good Was a very good treatment and also was quite fast. The conditions of the product were great.
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