Adventures on Rainbow Pond (partially found Harmony Gold English dub of "Demetan the Frog" anime series; mid-late 1980s)

Cover art of French DVD.

Status:
Lost (English, full series)
Partially Found (French, full series)
Partially Found (Spanish, full series)
Found (English, feature-length adaptation)
Found (Spanish, feature-length adaptation)

Date found:
14 Sep 2014 (English, feature-length adaptation)
14 Jul 2016 (French/Spanish, full series)
18 Jul 2024 (Spanish, feature-length adaptation)

Found by:
AriesArtist (English, The Brave Frog)
Neil Nadelman (English, The Brave Frog's Greatest Adventure)
El rincón del anime (French/Spanish, full series)
Scarlet Vortex (Spanish, feature-length adaptation)

Adventures on Rainbow Pond (also known as The Brave Frog and Demetan Croaker) is an English adaptation of the TV anime Demetan The Frog (けろっこデメタン Kerokko Demetan), produced by Harmony Gold at some point in the mid-to-late '80s (exact year unknown).^[1] It covered approximately 26 episodes of the original 39-episode series^[2]

Harmony Gold had also released the Demetan anime as two compilation films titled "The Brave Frog" (in 1988) and "The Brave Frog's Greatest Adventure" (in 1989).

Availability

While the two compilation film dubs have circulated around and have been widely seen, nothing has surfaced of the Rainbow Pond English incarnation. However, this version was used as the basis for a few international dubs, such as ones aired in Germany, Portugal, and Saudi Arabia.

It has been alleged that there were a few localization differences between this version and the compilation films, with the love interest character (Ranatan) being named "Pookie" in the two films but "Hilary" in the series. The German dub localized the same character's name to "Hildegard" in their version of the TV series, which was based on Harmony Gold's version.

A copyright catalogue of Harmony Gold's titles suggests that the rights to this version were held until at least 1996,^[3] along with The Magical World of Gigi and a dub of Temple the Balloonist that was retitled "Sabrina's Journey".

On September 14th, 2014, the full English version of The Brave Frog was found and uploaded to YouTube by user Григорий Нестеров.

In July of 2016, YouTube user "El rincón del anime" began uploading every episode of the show; the video feed is taken from the French version (known as Démetan, la petite grenouille), but the audio is ripped from VHS tapes of the Spanish version (known as La ranita Demetán). The channel now has a full playlist containing all 39 episodes, plus the intro and the ending of the show.^[4]

On July 18th, 2024, La rana valiente, a Spanish dub of The Brave Frog (this one produced independently from the Spanish dub mentioned above, published by East West DVD Entertainment around 2005) was uploaded in full to the Internet Archive and partially to YouTube by user Scarlet Vortex.^[5]