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Perman (partially lost anime;1967-1968)
Perman is a manga series that ran from 1966-1986 and was authored by Fujiko Fujio (though new chapters were not published from 1968-1983 and Fujiko F. Fujio was the only author from 1983). It focuses on four (five before 1983) children who are one day chosen by Birdman (Superman before 1983) to be fighters of justice. The 1983 anime is the more well-known of the two adaptions, being more recent and much longer with it being dubbed into far more languages, while the first adaption is only known to be dubbed into Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Availability
After the series ceased airing and prior to 2014, virtually the entirety of the 1967 adaption was unavailable to view as it stopped airing before most home recording technology came to existence, with only very rare rebroadcasts of episodes during the 1990s and one of the versions Opening and Ending being available online.
In 2014, the majority of the series was re-released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of TMS Entertainment after being restored over the course of 2 years. This however, excluded most ending sequences which were lost by this time, four segments missing their audio in their entirety, two segments are damaged and two segments unreleased for an undisclosed reason leading to them both still being lost in their original Japanese versions.
In 2024, audio was found for "Perman's Counterattack" and subsequently added to the following Blu-ray release.[1]
Segments with parts missing after 2014
| # | Segment title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 4A | Copy Robot Riot | Partially Lost, missing audio |
| 16A | Where are the Dinosaurs? | Lost, incomplete foreign dub version online |
| 17A | The Story of How I Washed My Pants Down the River | Partially Lost, missing audio |
| 26A | The Story of the Broken Robot | Partially Lost, audio partially damaged |
| 39A | Perman: The King of Toys | Partially Lost, missing audio |
| 45B | Perman's Counterattack | Found |
| 47A | Perman, King of the Jungle | Original Japanese lost, damaged foreign dub version online |
| 51A | Perman's Pinch | Partially Lost, video and audio partially damaged |