Alfred J. Kwak (partially lost Japanese dub of Dutch-German-Japanese animated series; 1989-1990)

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Status: Partially found

Comment: 32 episodes found out of 52

Tags: ahiru no quack alfred j kwak Chiisana Ahiru japanese dutch animation


Alfred J. Kwak is a Dutch-German-Japanese anime comedy-drama television series based on a Dutch theatre show by Herman van Veen and was co-produced by VARA, Telecable Benelux B.V., ZDF and TV Tokyo and first shown in 1989. It consists of 52 episodes.

Despite the fact that it was animated in Japan, the only home media related to this anime that was released in Japan was music CD with show's theme song sang by Megumi Hayashibara.

This made Japanese dub much more rare than any European dub show had considering there were DVD's and VHS's produced in many European countries with respectful dub of country in question.

On Oct 13, 2008, YouTube user uploaded Japanese opening of Alfred J. Kwak which seems to be TVRip, proving that recordings out there existed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAd_LZotDg In comment section of video, YouTube user OldClassicGamer asked if it's possible to find episodes of the show in Japanese language. One of the answers stated that long time ago someone did upload all episodes in Japanese on YouTube but that it seems they have been removed at some point most likely due to copyright claims. Nevertheless, the user did say he had some episodes saved before they were removed thus sending OldClassicGamer total number of 32 out of 52 episodes which can now be found for download: https://nyaa.si/view/908205

Given the copyright law in Japan, it is likely possible that quite a few Japanese have this recorded in their private collection but cannot upload it due to constant internet monitoring so unless someone comes forward and says he managed to saved episodes while they were on YouTube, chances of this dub being found unless released for digital streaming are quite low.