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A screenshot from the 1987 version of the series.

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Partially Found (1967 anime, manga)
Found (1987 anime)

Oraa Guzura dado (おらぁグズラだど Hey, I'm Guzura!) is a 1967 black and white anime series directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa and produced by Tatsunoko Production. It also had a manga adaptation. In 1987, the series was remade in color.

1967 anime

The original series aired from October 7th, 1967, till September 25th, 1968, and was composed of 104 segments (52 episodes). It was the last black and white anime produced by Tatsunoko Production. Oraa Guzura dado came along during the kaiju boom, a surge of tokusatsu related media that kicked off in the 60s. The series was an international hit, there were a few toys and merchandise produced and the show was exported to other countries, such as Australia, where it recived an english dub with the name "Gazula the Amicable Monster".^[1]

Staff

Chief Director

Hiroshi Sasagawa

Script

Haruya Yamazaki (eps 7-8, 11-12, 19-20, 24, 27-35, 38, 43-44)
Hiroshi Sasagawa (ep 1)
Hisayuki Toriumi (ep 9)
Jinzo Toriumieps (5, 10, 14, 16-17, 25)
Masatsugu Nagai (ep 42)
Motoyoshi Maesato (ep 36)
Osamu Jinnoeps (7, 11, 15-16, 18, 20-23, 25-26, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37-38, 41-42, 44-45, 50)
Rentaro Itai
Satoshi Dezaki (ep 10)
Shinichi Murabayashi (eps 4-5, 27)
Takashi Kusakawa (eps 31-32)
Tsunehisa Itō (eps 6, 14, 17-18, 34)
Yoshiaki Yoshida (eps 19, 40, 47)
Yoshitake Suzuki (eps 2-3, 9, 15, 39-40)
Yūgo Serikawa (ep 4)
Yûsaku Sakamoto (ep 6)

Voice actors

Kei Tomiyama as Papa
Mie Azuma as Bonta
Shigeru Asou as Mama
Toru Ohira as Guzura
Yoshiko Matsuo as Suzuko

Episode Director

Hiroshi Sasagawa
Hisayuki Toriumi
Mineo Fuji
Renzo Kinoshita
Ryousuke Takahashi
Seitarô Hara
Takashi Nishioka

Music

Kousuke Onozaki

Original creator

Hiroshi Sasagawa

Art Director

Mitsuki Nakamura

Animation Director

Jinzo Toriumi

Sound Director

Yasunori Honda

Producer

Tatsuo Yoshida

Animation

Juji Mizumura
Masami Suda
Takashi Saijo

Chief animator

Yûsaku Sakamoto

Planning

Jinzo Toriumi

Sound Effects

Shoji Kato

Status

The series is considered partially lost. It is belived that Tatsunoko Production has every episode, but this claim is uncertain. Most episodes of this series were found via Brazilian airings, either on youtube or bootleg DVDs, but missing their original japanese audio.

Manga

Photo of the original version of the manga

Photo of later chapters of the manga with the new character designs

Onboro Kaijū Kuzura (オンボロ怪獣クズラ Worn-out Monster Kuzura) was a 4 chapter manga series (erroneously referred to as a oneshot in most places on the internet) drawn and written by Hiroshi Sasagawa, serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine from 1966 March 13th to early 1967^[2], which would serve as the foundation for the Oraa Guzura Dado anime series. This manga series has never been republished outside of its original serialization in the magazine, becoming mostly forgotten to time.

Later on, in 1967, a manga adpatation of the anime series would start serialization on Weekly Shōnen Sunday, as well as in children's magazines owned by Shogakukan. Tankōbon volumes compiling the chapters featured in Weekly Shōnen Sunday (Drawn by Rentaro Itai and written by Hiroshi Sasagawa) have been realesed several times, the most recent being 2008, however, the chapters in children's magazines (drawn by Jiro Ota, Hideo Shinoda and Shigeru Matsuyama) have never been republished in any shape or form since their original serialization.

1987 Anime

Aired between October 12th, 1987, and September 20th, 1988, and was composed of 88 segments (44 episodes; 2 segments per episode). This was a color remake of the original series. Most of the scenes were fully redrawn, however they were often drawn over the original frames. This series was exported to multiple other countries, but never recived an english dub, unlike its predecessor.

Status

The series was considered partially lost, with only the footage being avaible via foreign dubs, until around April 2020, when the series was released on Amazon in Japan^[3].

Gallery

Theme song of the second series.

Opening of the first series.

Brazilian dub.

First episode.

First segment of that same episode, colorized 20 years later

Page of the manga (Drawn by Rentaro Itai).
Promotion of the series by Enoki films.

External Link

References

↑ "Mike Toole Presents: A Crash Course in Godzilla Cartoons" by Mike Toole Retrieved 08 Jan '22
↑ "Hiroshi Sasagawa works list" Retrieved 19 Mar '24
↑ 1987 series on Amazon Japan Retrieved 25 Apr '20

[1] "Mike Toole Presents: A Crash Course in Godzilla Cartoons" by Mike Toole Retrieved 08 Jan '22

[2] "Hiroshi Sasagawa works list" Retrieved 19 Mar '24

[3] 1987 series on Amazon Japan Retrieved 25 Apr '20

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-|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
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-'''''Oraa Guzura dado''''' (''おらぁグズラだど'' ''Hey, I'm Guzura!'') is a 1967 black and white anime series directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa and produced by Tatsunoko Productions. It also had a Manga adaptation and some Sonosheets. In 1987, the series was remade in color.
+'''''Oraa Guzura dado''''' (''おらぁグズラだど'' ''Hey, I'm Guzura!'') is a 1967 black and white anime series directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa and produced by Tatsunoko Production. It also had a manga adaptation. In 1987, the series was remade in color.
-==1967 Anime==
+==1967 anime==
 [[File:Oraaguzura.jpg|right|150x150px]]
-The original series aired from October 7th, 1967, till September 25th, 1968, and got 103 segments in 52 episodes. The series was also animated in black and white. It is the last black and white anime produced by Tatsunoko production. It is said that the series was made to cash in on the gag anime boom that started with “Q-Taro the Ghost.” The series was not very successful, and it only got a few toys and merchandise. In 1971, the series got launched in Brazil and was renamed Guzula,<ref> [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5EgK6mBn73iVcjXLYFOI9oy2gkGNVtgW YouTube playlist containing every episode of the Brazillian dub.] Retrieved 23 Oct '19</ref> and there it was still a tiny bit successful, but not as successful as other animes like Perman. There were two Brazilian dubs, one made by Cinecastro and the other made by ACI-SP.
+The original series aired from October 7th, 1967, till September 25th, 1968, and was composed of 104 segments (52 episodes). It was the last black and white anime produced by Tatsunoko Production.
+''Oraa Guzura dado'' came along during the kaiju boom, a surge of tokusatsu related media that kicked off in the 60s. The series was an international hit, there were a few toys and merchandise produced and the show was exported to other countries, such as Australia, where it recived an english dub with the name "Gazula the Amicable Monster".<ref>[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1509 "Mike Toole Presents: A Crash Course in Godzilla Cartoons" by Mike Toole] Retrieved 08 Jan '22</ref>
-The series was very low budget and often had to reuse frames.
+===Staff===
-==Voice Actors==
-*Kei Tomiyama as Papa
-*Mie Azuma as Bonta
-*Shigeru Asou as Mama
+====Chief Director====
+* Hiroshi Sasagawa
-*Yoshiko Matsuo as Tin
-*Toru Ohira as Guzura
+====Script====
+* Haruya Yamazaki (eps 7-8, 11-12, 19-20, 24, 27-35, 38, 43-44)
+* Hiroshi Sasagawa (ep 1)
+* Hisayuki Toriumi (ep 9)
+* Jinzo Toriumieps (5, 10, 14, 16-17, 25)
+* Masatsugu Nagai (ep 42)
+* Motoyoshi Maesato (ep 36)
+* Osamu Jinnoeps (7, 11, 15-16, 18, 20-23, 25-26, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37-38, 41-42, 44-45, 50)
+* Rentaro Itai
+* Satoshi Dezaki (ep 10)
+* Shinichi Murabayashi (eps 4-5, 27)
+* Takashi Kusakawa (eps 31-32)
+* Tsunehisa Itō (eps 6, 14, 17-18, 34)
+* Yoshiaki Yoshida (eps 19, 40, 47)
+* Yoshitake Suzuki (eps 2-3, 9, 15, 39-40)
+* Yūgo Serikawa (ep 4)
+* Yûsaku Sakamoto (ep 6)
-*Emi Azuma as Oshio
-*Yoshiko Matsuo as Suzuko
+====Voice actors====
+* Kei Tomiyama as Papa
+* Mie Azuma as Bonta
+* Shigeru Asou as Mama
+* Toru Ohira as Guzura
+* Yoshiko Matsuo as Suzuko
+====Episode Director====
+* Hiroshi Sasagawa
+* Hisayuki Toriumi
+* Mineo Fuji
+* Renzo Kinoshita
+* Ryousuke Takahashi
+* Seitarô Hara
+* Takashi Nishioka
+====Music====
+* Kousuke Onozaki
+====Original creator====
+* Hiroshi Sasagawa
+====Art Director====
+* Mitsuki Nakamura
+====Animation Director====
+* Jinzo Toriumi
+====Sound Director====
+* Yasunori Honda
+====Producer====
+* Tatsuo Yoshida
+====Animation====
+* Juji Mizumura
+* Masami Suda
+* Takashi Saijo
+====Chief animator====
+* Yûsaku Sakamoto
+====Planning====
+* Jinzo Toriumi
+====Sound Effects====
+* Shoji Kato
-*Mitsuko Aso as Mama
 ===Status===
-[[File:Hqdefault (1444444444444).jpg|right|220x220px]] The series is considered partially lost. Tatsunoko Productions have all the episodes, but has never reaired on Television or shared online. Some episodes are available on DVD but are not known to be available on the internet. Most Episodes of this series were only found via the 1971 Brazilian dub, which has had episodes uploaded to YouTube. but still, there are episodes missing. But recently the Japanese YouTuber mashi posted the first episode of the 1967 series dubbed in Japanese (which he had uploaded before but deleted-it) making it the only available episode in Japanese of ''Oraa Guzura Dado''.
+[[File:Hqdefault (1444444444444).jpg|right|220x220px]] The series is considered partially lost. It is belived that Tatsunoko Production has every episode, but this claim is uncertain. Most episodes of this series were found via Brazilian airings, either on youtube or bootleg DVDs, but missing their original japanese audio.
 ==Manga==
-[[File:0001557529.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|150x150px]]
+[[File:0001161165.png|600px|thumb|left|Photo of the original version of the manga|150x150px]]
-The manga was launched first as '''''Onboro Kaijū kuzura''''' ("オンボロ怪獣クズラ
+[[File:0001557529.jpeg|600px|thumb|right|Photo of later chapters of the manga with the new character designs|150x150px]]
-ズラ" "Wacky Monster Kuzura") on March 13, 1966 in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine, but it's unknown when it ended. Volumes and Re-realeses of the manga are available to buy in amazon and in some Japanese sites despite that no one ever scaned them on the internet. Diffrent users usually post photos of the manga<ref>[https://www.instazu.com/media/1431341844448456503 Photo of a page of the manga]</ref> but as said never take photos of the full manga or scan-it, There are also diffrent versions of the manga that include new chapters with new stories, such as the "Yoko" magazine realese for younger children and the "Hakushon Daimao" realese
+'''''Onboro Kaijū Kuzura''''' (''オンボロ怪獣クズラ Worn-out Monster Kuzura'') was a 4 chapter manga series (erroneously referred to as a oneshot in most places on the internet) drawn and written by Hiroshi Sasagawa, serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine from 1966 March 13th to early 1967<ref>[https://http://www1.megaegg.ne.jp/~natsumantaro/SASAGAWAHIROSHI.htm "Hiroshi Sasagawa works list"] Retrieved 19 Mar '24</ref>, which would serve as the foundation for the ''Oraa Guzura Dado'' anime series. This manga series has never been republished outside of its original serialization in the magazine, becoming mostly forgotten to time.
+Later on, in 1967, a manga adpatation of the anime series would start serialization on Weekly Shōnen Sunday, as well as in children's magazines owned by Shogakukan. Tankōbon volumes compiling the chapters featured in Weekly Shōnen Sunday (Drawn by Rentaro Itai and written by Hiroshi Sasagawa) have been realesed several times, the most recent being 2008, however, the chapters in children's magazines (drawn by Jiro Ota, Hideo Shinoda and Shigeru Matsuyama) have never been republished in any shape or form since their original serialization.
 ==1987 Anime==
-This series aired from October 12th, 1987, till September 20th, 1988, and got 88 segments in 44 episodes. For some reason, not every episode was remade. Because this was only a color remake of the original series they didn't have to make new plots. They fully redrew most of the scenes but some times they just redrew over the original frames, This series was also dubbed in various languages, in Arabic, Italian (1 episode found), French (only a clip found) and Hindi.
+Aired between October 12th, 1987, and September 20th, 1988, and was composed of 88 segments (44 episodes; 2 segments per episode). This was a color remake of the original series. Most of the scenes were fully redrawn, however they were often drawn over the original frames. This series was exported to multiple other countries, but never recived an english dub, unlike its predecessor.
 ===Status===
-Like the other series, the Japanese dub is lost (It was the same dub because the series was only a remake/colorization of the other series) but there is one clip of the dub available on the internet, and almost every episode is available on the internet dubbed in arabic<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCdUIQMpdIR33GAdQpCdq6TbAsP92ohD Every episode in color dubbed in Arabic (except episodes 33 and 36)]</ref>, but episodes 33 and 36 are lost because the Arabic dub didn't include them, probably because of the content, that's likely because one of the segments in those episodes "Guzura and Lucifer!" is said to be about Guzura dying and going to hell but in the end he returns, some people from countries on that episode aired mistook that as the final episode, and majority of dubs are lost
+The series was considered partially lost, with only the footage being avaible via foreign dubs, until around April 2020, when the series was released on Amazon in Japan<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B087CYHZCL 1987 series on Amazon Japan] Retrieved 25 Apr '20</ref>.
 ==Gallery==
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 <gallery mode=packed heights=300px>
-14705080 740471072775711 8526141343968264192 n.jpg|Page of the manga
+14705080 740471072775711 8526141343968264192 n.jpg|Page of the manga (Drawn by Rentaro Itai).
-56749570 382351922364482 7873500554891303253 n.jpg|Promotion of the series by Enoki films
+56749570 382351922364482 7873500554891303253 n.jpg|Promotion of the series by Enoki films.
 </gallery>
 ==External Link==
-*[https://mega.nz/#F!GdRwDSZL!R0JsMNznxOWCf3u-llGDcQ MEGA archive with all found pages of the manga.] Retrieved 23 Oct '19
+*[https://matsuzakiakemi.seesaa.net/article/484448210.html Blogpost showcasing 1966's Weekly Shōnen Sunday No. 10, featuring scans of the first chapter of Onboro Kaijū Kuzura] Retrieved 19 Mar '24
+*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYS51obIgt-GcXzn611s3LiyypyEX7vSM Youtube playlist featuring episodes of the 1967 series, reconstructed using footage from brazillian dubbed episodes and audio from the 1987 colorization] Retrieved 19 Mar '24
 ==References==
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 [[Category:Lost audio]]
+[[Category:Lost animation]]
 [[Category:Lost TV]]
+[[Category:Lost comics]]
+[[Category:Found media]]
+[[Category:Partially found media]]