dubbed toku in the 80s

[TransformingNinja]

The majority of English Dubs in fact come from Malaysia, more so than the Philippines or Singapore. The Kamen Rider Black RX dub is Malaysian, not Filipino, The Files online for this dub originate from the Malaysian VCD set. Jetman was English dubbed in Malaysia and is available on VCD there (along with Cyber Cop! and many other 80s & 90s shows, Im sure more waiting to be discovered!).

 

[kuroihikari]

The majority of English Dubs in fact come from Malaysia, more so than the Philippines or Singapore. The Kamen Rider Black RX dub is Malaysian, not Filipino, The Files online for this dub originate from the Malaysian VCD set. Jetman was English dubbed in Malaysia and is available on VCD there (along with Cyber Cop! and many other 80s & 90s shows, Im sure more waiting to be discovered!).

Possibly. The last real quality English-dubbed toku in the Philippines was Bioman, IIRC.

Though I'm not sure if that's so true about Singapore. I think CN SEA is Singapore-based, and that's where you'll find a lot of English-dubbed toku, especially recent ones.

 

[Black Ranger RX]

Cyber Cop has an English Dub from Malaysia and the complete Dubbed series is available on VCD in that country. Heres what they look like:

DAMN!! I wish I knew where I could buy some of these VCDs!!

Sure the quality of the dub may not be brilliant but hey, it'll be a nice addition to my collection!!

 

[TransformingNinja]

DAMN!! I wish I knew where I could buy some of these VCDs!!

Sure the quality of the dub may not be brilliant but hey, it'll be a nice addition to my collection!!

Unfortunately they are long out of print and narily impossible to find online. I can point you in the direction of somebody selling copies of the first few episodes from this VCD set, but thats about it. I believe theres about 16 VCDs in total in the set, completing the series.

 

[Vitor]

Cyber Cop has an English Dub from Malaysia and the complete Dubbed series is available on VCD in that country. Heres what they look like:

What's VCD exactly?

 

[Zerrock Crisis]

^A VCD is basically a VHS tape in CD form and most VCD cases come with at least two discs.

 

[Vitor]

^A VCD is basically a VHS tape in CD form and most VCD cases come with at least two discs.

Guessing the overall quality is fairly rough then huh? Well I guess if the Cybercop ones ever come into my posession, I could always just rip the audio and put it on top of one of the DVD raws

 

[UkiyaSeed]

A few years ago, we have VCD copies of the Sazer X and Granzazer English subs. Planning to buy some a few years ago but the copies didn't start with volume 1 (One volume has at least 4 episodes), so I decided not to buy a copy. Just last year, I decided to check my local video store still has it, and it is now out of print.

 

[Tom Constantine]

A few years ago, we have VCD copies of the Sazer X and Granzazer English subs. Planning to buy some a few years ago but the copies didn't start with volume 1 (One volume has at least 4 episodes), so I decided not to buy a copy. Just last year, I decided to check my local video store still has it, and it is now out of print.

A lot of these subbed sets are either HK or just plain ripped from fansubs. One of my proudest moments ever was walking into a DVD shop to find my fansub of Lion Maru G on the shelf. I even bought it.

 

[Black Ranger RX]

What's VCD exactly?

VCD stands for Video CD.

Before DVDs, they were popular in Asian countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong and India (to name a few), but they never really took off in the Western world.

Some cool things about VCDs include that you can play them on some DVD players (the PlayStation 2 and XBox not being included sadly), they are not region coded, and some Anime and Toku VCDs have optional language dialogue so if you wanted to you could choose whether to watch it in Japanese or Chinese or whatever's on offer. Unfortunately when you play the VCD, the 2 languages will play automatically, so you'll have to set the languages manually. I own a Kamen Rider Kuuga VCD set imported from Taiwan, it comes in Japanese and Chinese, and what's really inconvenient is the Chinese audio is louder than the Japanese. It also comes with Chinese subtitles that you cannot remove. Also you'll have to consider that the video quality of VCDs are not as good as DVDs (it's a bit pixelly). Let's say that if you're used to watching High Definition movies you'll find VCD quality absolute ****.

Also there was LaserDiscs, which were like DVDs of it's time. The concept is the same, except the physical size of LaserDiscs were the same as Vynil Records. Yes, we're talking like GIANT CD'S!!!! The video quality was better than that of VCDs, but they were really expensive from what I heard.