Originally a part of Nippon Animation's Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics series, this anime version of the story was brought to us in English by Saban. phelous.com / phelous
Actually considering this was made in the 80's should it be consider a ripoff? It's more of a another adaptation of an already establish story albeit not a particularly special one.
Actually...to be fair Maria and the beast have more believable chemistry than any other of the Beauty And the Beast knock off couples. Even if its only on screen for maybe less than 10 minutes.
The anime is actually based on a Brother Grimm fairy tale called "The Summer and Winter Garden". It was pretty much a watered down version of The Beauty and the Beast (many of the plot points the anime glosses over, were also glossed over in the story), which is why the Grimm Brothers decided to remove the tle fro their book from the second edition onward.
Personally, I don't think this one version was that bad. It's definitely the best one he's looked at so far. It showed their relationship grow over time, and it kept the more stylized fairy-tale style of storytelling (the quick pace, the narration, etc) and so its quirks seem to fit much better than in the other, longer versions (save for the Disney one, of course).
Well, the series, in general, was decent. I remember really liking some of their versions of the tales. I really liked the one about a goblin witch in the woods and Snow White. I also liked Cinderella. It was sweet and updated for a modern audience with the prince recognizing her by face. I say a modern audience because the story does make sense in a historical setting(candlelight, clothing and make-up, her shoes being made to-an-inch her size since there were no standardized mass production sizes). and this Beauty and the Beast is kinda nice with the sisters not being total jerks like they are in a lot of other stories. The animation is also better than Golden Films and Good Times. It has this nostalgic anime style you find in Sailor Moon or Inuyasha.
the english dub ruined this, i'm pretty sure that opening song wasn't in the original japanese dub, also they might have added stuff like the narrator and such, also seing how it was rescored, it's likely the original score was leagues better, kinda like DBZ. (and since this is the composer of the OCEAN dub and not Falcouner, i can say that without causing a Kikuchi vs Falcouner flame war)
Since you want more versions of this story to give special meaning to the rose... I want to see a version where the Beast breeds and cultivates flowers, and he finally has the PERFECT rose to show in the upcoming competition, and that's why he's mad when Beauty's father takes it!
That's pretty much a plot-point in the live action Dennis the Menace mpvie from 1994, of all things. Mr Wilson is the guy with the perfect flower and Dennis is the one that fucks it up.
StarlightPrism In one of short Witcher stories, he meets this world's equivalent of the Beast, and he actually had many daughters stay at his pallace and grew close to them, because he heard true love's kiss would break his curse. Unfortunetly it didn't work, but the ladies had some fun and were very into his beasty appearence. The roses was just the pretext. In the end a monster vampire thingy, who came a lot to meet with him, turned out to be the one to truly love him, even though she pretty much slaughtered everything else, but she did give him a kiss after he impaled her to save Geralt. True love can sometimes be fucked up.
Once upon a time, a reviewer lived in a little boy's toy room. Although he had every collectible his heart desired, he wanted more. What more did he want ? I don't know. But one day, an old hag came to his door and offered him a terrible Disney Beauty and the Beast knock-off. The reviewer turned the old hag away. But the hag begged him to take it, for she wanted to rid herself of the knock-off movie. But when he dismissed her again. The old hag turned into enchantress who was a former customer for Disney knock-off movies. The woman saw that the reviewer had no love for Disney knock-off movies. As a cruel joke she cursed him to review terrible Disney knock-offs. If he found and reviewed the worst Disney knock-off, then the spell would be broken. If not he would be doomed to review Disney knock-offs for all time. As the months past, the reviewer fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever review the worst Disney knock-off.
little film. it's a piece of garbage. Story beats, like the one before. little film, full of Beatuy's fathers, telling theiiiiiiiir dumb kids... you're useless you're useless you're useless. you're useless. you're useless!
(Maria cries on the food) (Beauty's Father) :She's gotten the food all wet!! It's completely useless now!!" (Food turns to ashes) (Beauty's Father): HYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
If that was always his mindset how'd he ever get with his wife and have children in the first place? *On their wedding night:* (Beauty's Father): She's gotten all wet, she's useless now! (Beauty's Mother): Wait no, that's actually a goo- *turns to ash* *End credits* Wait nevermind, I can see how this was never a problem. That's probably why the mother left.
This anime mini version of "Beauty and the Beast" seems rather entertaining and adorable to me. If I owned the episode I'd probably watch it every now and then.
GummiMuffins these adaptation are pretty good they fill some of the holes the Disney version sorta left ( dou still had it's own plot holes) and it's better than other versions
I think Nippon Animation Studios also animated for Mondo World at one point (before Mondo World was owned by Italians and had North Korean animators). I think their version of the Jungle Book is actually better than the Disney version so far (haven't finished watching it yet; need to get caught up).
Senior Moustache: Marie, Marie, Marie...I'm your real father! Marie: NO! NO! NOT SENIOR MOUSTACHE! He's not nearly as popular as old man! Best moment ever!!😂
@@megatron6713 played Skyrim and Oblivion and I have to say I prefer Skyrim more just because I don’t like how saturated and ugly the characters are. Sure the magic may be more “deep” in oblivion but like a puddle as deep as the ocean. I don’t want to dive in something like that.
1:45 - I only found out recently, but it was technically adapted from 'The Winter Rose', which is the Brother Grimm's version of Beauty and The Beast, and it does feature things that were shown in the anime, such as the garden being half covered in snow, while the other was warm and green, beast actually coming to take beauty by force, beauty's father dying, and beauty's sisters not being mean. I known this is an old video, but I thought it would be nice clear up some things.
Phelous could easily make an animated sitcom about all the Fathers in these Beauty and the Beast adaptations, dubbing over all of it, and I would totally watch it.
That reverse color piano is a Harpsichord. This Beast probably wanted to do something to set himself apart from the other Beasts, so he bought the Harpsichord to stand out.
The brothers Grimm actually did have several Beauty and the Beast-ish stories. There was The Singing Springing Lark and The Winter Rose just off the top of my head.
Old Man is my favorite anime character. I love his speeches about how he'll become the king of the pirates. His catchphrase, "Yare yare daze" always sends chills throughout my body. The fact that every time he fights someone, he wins with one punch, makes me smile every time I watch it unfold. He's just so great.
I love that this was played as an elaborate prank war between Maria and her father. They are stone cold! "Maria knew that even though her father was no longer here, that somewhere he knew that she had gotten the final laugh." Lmao
Only verbally. He at least tried to keep the beast away from her, and didn't try to guilt her into dying for him like Old Man did. Plus Maria's dad didn't vandalize anything other than one rose.
In all fairness, he's actually better than Old Man and the G2 version. He didn't trespass the house, didn't steal food, didn't open an exchange offer of his daughter to save his ass, and he did put a fight against the Beast when he tried to enter their house. ....well, except for the dildo.
Actually, it's the other way around. The younger they look, the older they are. Look at Jotaro Kujo for example, when he was in high school, he looks like he's 30..when part 6 rolls around and his daughter is like in her late teens to early 20's...he looked like he's in high school.
You know, I never understood how in the Disney classic Belle acted like the Beast was a hideous monster while actually he looked kind of majestic. But here..? Fuck if I were 'Maria' I would've jumped out of a window by now.
Can someone please explain why in every Beauty and the Beast story, the Beast has to have a bitch fit over a rose? At least the Disney version gave us a reason why the rose was important. Anything from the original story?
I think that in the original story, the roses all represented the amount of days left in Beast's life. So whenever one was picked, it would shorten his life by a day. You'd think that they could take two seconds to mention this in the movies though.
Yeah that one too, though I can imagine when the subject of a daughter comes up and the person doesn't have any the beast is like " oh, never mind then. Be on your way" 😅
That is sweet. Very cute style. It shows their relationship growing. Having her be called Maria is good. It doesn't pile on the angst as much as some, with nasty family. That's a good version. Don't worry on the age part. She's adult. It's older anime. They didn't do that wierd age thing in the 1980s as much or at all. The women looked the age they were or close.
@@fightingmedialounge519 people can look younger than they actually are. Please move on 😅 You have failed to actually understand my comment or the top comment by repeating that she looks 13. People can look younger than they really are. Accept it and MOVE ON
@@fightingmedialounge519 zip it troll. You clearly can’t read because it is relevant 🤦♀️ just stop commenting altogether, you’re ANNOYING. You’re a hypocrite 😑 I’m convinced you’re blind to not notice the OBVIOUS 😬 Also don’t but into conversations you are not part of god you are so STUPID 🤦♀️ Please leave the Internet. You’re a terrible person and a condescending’teacher’ who sucks at their job
13:22 "Reverse-color-key piano"? It's actually a _harpsichord_. Most harpsichords have swapped key colors, and the sounds they make are quite different from pianos because the strings are plucked rather than struck. You can even hear it if you listen to the scene in question. (Cue the "The More You Know" rainbow)
Maria?..... but the beast was looking for Mary. Have you seen her? -Didn't you say she died? Oh yea... three years ago. But he got a letter from her! Said she was waiting....
Oh man, I loved Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics when I was a kid. I think it was my first real exposure to anime, haha. Nickelodeon had quite a few english dubbed Japanese cartoons back in the 80's. :) Thanks for reviewing it!
Jaymz Bernard same i found these anime adaptation to be my favorite versions just because I liked anime because of them the Disney version was good but these will always have a place in my childhood
15:10 Actually, in my experience, it's more often the other way around. the amount of anime girls I've seen that look like they're 10, but are actually like, 500 year old vampires, or a witch or some such... xD
Believe it or not, Brothers Grimm DID work on a variant of Beauty and the Beast from part of their collection called "The Winter and Summer Garden" where the youngest daughter asks for a rose in the middle of winter and finds one in a garden that's half eternal winter and half eternal summer. After making the deal with the Beast, he doesn't tell his daughters about anything that happened. 8 days later, the Beast appears and takes the youngest daughter away. When she returns home, her father is ill as she can't save him, which he dies. She stays longer for her dad's funeral and when she returns to see Beast, he's buried beneath a heap of cabbages. (Sounds familiar?) This tale was in the Brothers Grimm's collection's first addition in 1812. But because the story was too similar to it's original French story, they omitted it from later editions.
So Maria can turn things to dust... what a weird power I think Anime age is that a person who is older appears younger than usual... not the opposite. She might be 20 something for all I care.
3:25 That screen is so nostalgic. Brings me back to when I was a kid and watching my Thomas VHS tapes. Video Treasures released a lot of Thomas tapes in the mid-late 90's. BTW, this narrator sounds rather like John Baddeley, but I doubt it is.
4:27... They live in an IHOP? 4:42... "Buy me a beautiful dress", "Buy me shoes, be sure to get the latest style, because we're sick of cosplaying as pilgrims!" 11:53... "The poor Beast was sad." Um, WTF, plummy-voiced narrator guy?!?! By all means, reserve your sympathy for the jerk who forcibly took a girl from her home all because of a rose! Let's just ignore the poor girl who is beside herself with fear and grief! You suck, Narrator Guy! 12:04... "He was startled by his own hideous reflection." So the Beast had a preternatural ability to avoid reflective surfaces? 13:28... "Maria felt so much happiness, that she forgot all about the Beast's repulsive looks, but I'm not going to let you, the viewers, forget, for I am Narrator Guy, and I'm the worst!" 17:50... And with the power of love, the Beast turned back into a Cossack. 19:14... At least the sisters didn't turn into statues like in other versions. 19:21... Snarking aside, that shot is actually quite lovely. I remember the show "Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics" from my childhood, and it was fun to hear Phelous's take on it. Really, it's probably the best version he's reviewed so far in terms of animation quality and the relationship between the titular characters (at least we see their romance really develop, not like Gaspy McAirhead and Warthog/Goomba Hybrid).
Me too although not my first anime. That would be 1975's "Ringing Bell" (Chirin no suzu). It's good watch even today, but it is super depressing. It follows the 'no happy endings in anime' semi-trope.
Am I the only one that finds it funny that all these Beauty and the Beast adaptations that Beauty seems to forget all about the whole trying to murder her father and make it about looks? XD
Well to be fair most of her fathers suck! Like you could just give the rose back. Beauty is supposed to be humble or something right? She can live without a red rose and yet all her fathers in these knockoffs rather just give her away...
1:18 Nippon animation also did the animation for Around the World with Willy Fog, which also had the same narrator, Theodore Lehmann as well as Cam Clarke doing the most terrible French accent you'd ever hear.
I...I think the beast in this was voiced by Dan Woren, because while he's in monster form he sounds uncannily like Zen-Aku from Power Rangers Wild Force. But in his human form he sounds like Caster from Fate/Zero. I...I can't _prove_ it's Dan Woren since there's apparently not a cast list for this movie. But it would track since Dan Woren did work on other Saban shows. Such as more than one season of Power Rangers.
Saban went from producing shows like this, to dubbing anime like digimon or producing power rangers, to now being credited as a studio that's producing live action movies like The Stand-In
God I love the narrator in this. It's like he really needs to piss so he's doing his lines as fast as he possibly can, it comes off as extremely rushed but fucking hilarious at the same time.
Omg, this is such a blast from the past! "Grimm's Fairytale Classics" was a staple of my childhood. I've tried to track the series down since then, but have not had much luck. The fact that you were able to acquire this gives me hope. I wonder if the entire anthology is available somewhere??
I just happened upon this VHS at a Goodwill so I'm not sure how many got a release like this. From what I can tell there was a Volume 1 of some of these episodes put on DVD over here but they never made a vol 2. They might have come out in the UK though.
Same here! I remember this episode vividly from my childhood, how funny to find the review here. There are actually quite a few episodes of the show uploaded to TH-cam. Just type in 'Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics' and you'll find a bunch of them! :)
I'm always surprised how much background information Phelous can pull out of even the most obscure films. It's honestly impressive and very interesting.
The blonde sister sounds like Usagi from the first English adaption of Sailor Moon. Also I watched this on TH-cam and the original for it is The Summer and Winter garden I think. Reply if you saw it or if you didn't you can still reply. So lonely. I kid. Sobs in corner.
A very decent rendition of the fairy tale, in all fairness. Loads better than all the other version Phelous has reviewed. At least, it's pleasant to look at thanks to the artstyle.
Old Man is such a hypocrite. Maria's dad might say violent things (in Phelous's version) but at least he never actually tried to manipulate/ pressure her to sacrifice herself for him like Old Man did. Maria's dad tried to keep the Beast away from her, and sans stealing the rose he didn't do anything close to as obnoxious as what Old Man did in the castle.
I wonder if there are any adaptations of beauty and the beast where it has beauty's sisters kill beauty and a fairy brings beauty back to life than turns her sisters into stone statues and the only way for them to be free is if someone can fall in love them
Nippon Animation, eh? Let's see what they- Holy shit! They did 1975 Maya The Bee, 1974 Vicky the Viking and 1974 Heidi! My childhood! :D I watched German dubs of it in the early 2000s.
Wait a minute, Saban? Hmm, ok, hear me out here... A Power Rangers series centered around a team of Beauty's fathers from every adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. We'd have Clara as the Zordon of the series whilst Clara's sister would basically be the Rita Repulsa only to have her monster (which would be the Beast) be defeated and then she'd be powerless.
I actually liked this version tbh, I grew up with this. Here in South America (or at least in my country) 'Grimm's Fairy tale classics' is a TV show every weekend the kids watch in public channels.
Great video. In case you wondered: the reverse color piano is actually an harpsichord. Pianos were only invented in the 1700's, so they wouldn't exist during the time period the story was set in.
Phealous has enough Beauty Fathers to create a sitcom at this point.
Someone make that a thing
Three old men at the time of this video's release seven old men now
@@agentspaniel4428 we need a show
Called ‘My Terrible Fathers”
@@MoodyScorpio yes
Please never stop the Old Man. These beauty and the beast ripoffs may not be tales as old as time but the old man certainly is
I think "old man" as taken over a part of his subconscious and he can no longer help it, much to our gratitude :)
Actually considering this was made in the 80's should it be consider a ripoff? It's more of a another adaptation of an already establish story albeit not a particularly special one.
the running joke of Old Man is the best
Well he is old.
Now if only he'd review the Bevanfield Beauty and the Beast.
Actually...to be fair Maria and the beast have more believable chemistry than any other of the Beauty And the Beast knock off couples. Even if its only on screen for maybe less than 10 minutes.
The anime is actually based on a Brother Grimm fairy tale called "The Summer and Winter Garden". It was pretty much a watered down version of The Beauty and the Beast (many of the plot points the anime glosses over, were also glossed over in the story), which is why the Grimm Brothers decided to remove the tle fro their book from the second edition onward.
Oh!
I actually think the art style is adorable. And Maria is precious. I dunno, maybe it's just cause I like anime.
I agree with the Maria adorable thing.
Personally, I don't think this one version was that bad. It's definitely the best one he's looked at so far. It showed their relationship grow over time, and it kept the more stylized fairy-tale style of storytelling (the quick pace, the narration, etc) and so its quirks seem to fit much better than in the other, longer versions (save for the Disney one, of course).
The Jean Cocteau one is still my favourite, but it's not animated.
Oh my god! the fightingleaf!! DAAAANG! 0.0
Well, the series, in general, was decent. I remember really liking some of their versions of the tales. I really liked the one about a goblin witch in the woods and Snow White. I also liked Cinderella. It was sweet and updated for a modern audience with the prince recognizing her by face. I say a modern audience because the story does make sense in a historical setting(candlelight, clothing and make-up, her shoes being made to-an-inch her size since there were no standardized mass production sizes). and this Beauty and the Beast is kinda nice with the sisters not being total jerks like they are in a lot of other stories. The animation is also better than Golden Films and Good Times. It has this nostalgic anime style you find in Sailor Moon or Inuyasha.
the english dub ruined this, i'm pretty sure that opening song wasn't in the original japanese dub, also they might have added stuff like the narrator and such, also seing how it was rescored, it's likely the original score was leagues better, kinda like DBZ. (and since this is the composer of the OCEAN dub and not Falcouner, i can say that without causing a Kikuchi vs Falcouner flame war)
@@ninavale. Agreed.
Since you want more versions of this story to give special meaning to the rose... I want to see a version where the Beast breeds and cultivates flowers, and he finally has the PERFECT rose to show in the upcoming competition, and that's why he's mad when Beauty's father takes it!
That'd be great.
That's pretty much a plot-point in the live action Dennis the Menace mpvie from 1994, of all things. Mr Wilson is the guy with the perfect flower and Dennis is the one that fucks it up.
StarlightPrism In one of short Witcher stories, he meets this world's equivalent of the Beast, and he actually had many daughters stay at his pallace and grew close to them, because he heard true love's kiss would break his curse. Unfortunetly it didn't work, but the ladies had some fun and were very into his beasty appearence. The roses was just the pretext. In the end a monster vampire thingy, who came a lot to meet with him, turned out to be the one to truly love him, even though she pretty much slaughtered everything else, but she did give him a kiss after he impaled her to save Geralt. True love can sometimes be fucked up.
StarlightPrism "Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes"
In the original story it was just an excuse to get Belle to live in the castle with him. He had no intentions of actually killing her or her father.
Once upon a time, a reviewer lived in a little boy's toy room. Although he had every collectible his heart desired, he wanted more. What more did he want ? I don't know. But one day, an old hag came to his door and offered him a terrible Disney Beauty and the Beast knock-off. The reviewer turned the old hag away. But the hag begged him to take it, for she wanted to rid herself of the knock-off movie. But when he dismissed her again. The old hag turned into enchantress who was a former customer for Disney knock-off movies. The woman saw that the reviewer had no love for Disney knock-off movies. As a cruel joke she cursed him to review terrible Disney knock-offs. If he found and reviewed the worst Disney knock-off, then the spell would be broken. If not he would be doomed to review Disney knock-offs for all time. As the months past, the reviewer fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever review the worst Disney knock-off.
Goldenrose 438 haha, beautiful.
Goldenrose 438 🤣🤣🤣
little film. it's a piece of garbage. Story beats, like the one before. little film, full of Beatuy's fathers, telling theiiiiiiiir dumb kids...
you're useless
you're useless
you're useless. you're useless. you're useless!
Autobot Productions HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Insert the _Kingdom Hearts_ events just to an excuse for Phelan to fight the Heartless.
I actually liked this version and I thought the Beast’s design was kind of endearing, considering it wasn’t trying to emulate the Disney version.
This actually predates the Disney movie. Their movie came out in 1991 whereas this episode from the anime series was released in 1988.
@@Hylianguy38 yeah I think I TECHNICALLY saw this one first 🤔 cuz we got discs in the daily mirror newspaper
@@Hylianguy38 did you say…series?
@@Hylianguy38 Although, if this did came out in 1991, they would've of.
(Maria cries on the food)
(Beauty's Father) :She's gotten the food all wet!! It's completely useless now!!"
(Food turns to ashes)
(Beauty's Father): HYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
It's a sad, angry, o happy EEEEI?
@@ClaudetteVioletta yes
If that was always his mindset how'd he ever get with his wife and have children in the first place?
*On their wedding night:*
(Beauty's Father): She's gotten all wet, she's useless now!
(Beauty's Mother): Wait no, that's actually a goo- *turns to ash*
*End credits*
Wait nevermind, I can see how this was never a problem. That's probably why the mother left.
This anime mini version of "Beauty and the Beast" seems rather entertaining and adorable to me. If I owned the episode I'd probably watch it every now and then.
GummiMuffins these adaptation are pretty good they fill some of the holes the Disney version sorta left ( dou still had it's own plot holes) and it's better than other versions
It's on TH-cam.
GummiMuffins It is a pretty good version. I liked watching it as a kid along with other episodes from this series.
At least it's better than that stupid Golden Films version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I think Nippon Animation Studios also animated for Mondo World at one point (before Mondo World was owned by Italians and had North Korean animators). I think their version of the Jungle Book is actually better than the Disney version so far (haven't finished watching it yet; need to get caught up).
Senior Moustache: Marie, Marie, Marie...I'm your real father!
Marie: NO! NO! NOT SENIOR MOUSTACHE! He's not nearly as popular as old man!
Best moment ever!!😂
Everytime I see a video featuring Old Man, my conscience is replaced with his voice for a few hours.
Wait how did you write this a week ago
They support me on Patreon so they got to see it early.
oh god me too, this is awesome...
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Wooooooow I remember this from my childhood! My uncle got me this when I was a kid. I remember that funeral scene.
Hey Anime America. surprise nobody comment you.
@@peterang78 yeah, that funeral scene would have made me real sad as a kid
I also had a copy of this movie when I was a kid too.
Bird witnesses will never hold up? Try telling that to the chickens who keep ratting me out to the guards in Skyrim.
or the goat
@@nate567987 Damn that goat. One day goat. One day. ☠️
Morrowind and Oblivion are better than Skyrim imo.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 id say they're equals i love all of them so dammed much
@@megatron6713 played Skyrim and Oblivion and I have to say I prefer Skyrim
more just because I don’t like how saturated and ugly the characters are. Sure the magic may be more “deep” in oblivion but like a puddle as deep as the ocean. I don’t want to dive in something like that.
1:45 - I only found out recently, but it was technically adapted from 'The Winter Rose', which is the Brother Grimm's version of Beauty and The Beast, and it does feature things that were shown in the anime, such as the garden being half covered in snow, while the other was warm and green, beast actually coming to take beauty by force, beauty's father dying, and beauty's sisters not being mean. I known this is an old video, but I thought it would be nice clear up some things.
Phelous could easily make an animated sitcom about all the Fathers in these Beauty and the Beast adaptations, dubbing over all of it, and I would totally watch it.
gRinchY 230490 I agree, I would watch it too.
Me too
"Birds can't be witnesses!" I think Phoenix Wright would like a word with you.
I'm kinda sad that none of these versions had a Gaston... but i guess that's because the original fairy tale didn't.
Imagine anime Gaston.
@@theultimatememelord5494 pSSSSSSST!🤣 *looks at Jean Claude-Gaston guy*
Holy shit, Old Man has freakin standards!
I hope his standards don't get wet, or else they'll be completely useless now.
(air rimshot)
He he heeeeeeeeeeeeee!
You know you have it bad when old man is your conscience.
Eeeeeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
And he leaves because he doesn't want any part in this.
Jack Hedrick no, you know you have it bad when even Old Man QUITS at being your conscience
Let your old man be your guide
14:55 Those roses are completely useless now...
Isnt that only for cloth?
EvilThorn The spices are wet! They're completely useless now... My daughters stood under the rain and got all wet! They're completely useless now...
Isn't the earth filled with water? The world is completely useless now..
*Tosses them onto trash pile*
The Universe is completely useless now...
That reverse color piano is a Harpsichord. This Beast probably wanted to do something to set himself apart from the other Beasts, so he bought the Harpsichord to stand out.
Am I the only one that wishes that there was a gender-reversed version of Beauty and the Beast?
I always wanted to see a gender reversed phantom of the opera, so it not that weird.
I would watch that lol
I would love a gay musical version
There has to be one, right? Because if not...then I haven't my work cut out for me.
there was one on stage and it sucked
The brothers Grimm actually did have several Beauty and the Beast-ish stories. There was The Singing Springing Lark and The Winter Rose just off the top of my head.
Old Man is my favorite anime character.
I love his speeches about how he'll become the king of the pirates. His catchphrase, "Yare yare daze" always sends chills throughout my body. The fact that every time he fights someone, he wins with one punch, makes me smile every time I watch it unfold.
He's just so great.
I love that this was played as an elaborate prank war between Maria and her father. They are stone cold!
"Maria knew that even though her father was no longer here, that somewhere he knew that she had gotten the final laugh." Lmao
I love Phelous' interpretation of the relationship between Maria and her father. That just cracked me up!
I love Old Man. He will never get old to me. :-)
He's completely useless now!
+Rustydog9000!Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I miss his Pastas though. :(
The narrator sounds like he drank a crap ton of caffeinated coffee before reading his lines. He talks so damn fast in this! XD
Blurr would be proud
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." - Beauty and the Red Green
Maria's father is worse than Old Man!
Daeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Only verbally. He at least tried to keep the beast away from her, and didn't try to guilt her into dying for him like Old Man did. Plus Maria's dad didn't vandalize anything other than one rose.
TheLegendaryBlackBeastOf Aaagh I mean Phelous' version.
But is he worse then Senior Moustache?
In all fairness, he's actually better than Old Man and the G2 version. He didn't trespass the house, didn't steal food, didn't open an exchange offer of his daughter to save his ass, and he did put a fight against the Beast when he tried to enter their house.
....well, except for the dildo.
This was really a great version and her dad actually fought for his daughter
TheDeadCobra Agreed unlike...Old man.......heeeeeeeeeeee
Actually, it's the other way around. The younger they look, the older they are. Look at Jotaro Kujo for example, when he was in high school, he looks like he's 30..when part 6 rolls around and his daughter is like in her late teens to early 20's...he looked like he's in high school.
You have got to be kidding me. 0_o
Araki style changed over the years. I prefer Stardust Crusaders Jotaro style but oh well.
Maria: is sad.
Everything within a 2 mile radius: I don't feel so good.
OLD MAN WINS, FATALITY!!!! HUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
tiiiiime traaaaavel
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Akiyata...
17:19 - The moral of the story is never let your window open during a east cost winter storm, kids.
Hey, TFD! I didn't know you were a fan of Phelous =)
Nah I've been following and liking his horror reviews before all this. He just got my attention more when he began trashing knockoff cartoons. ;)
Same here, man.
When the AVGN's Bullshit Man gets his own anime
Holy hell it does look like Bullshit Man, your right!
Beauty and the Bullshit
"Please, I just wanted to get a rose for my daughter..."
"THAT'S BULLSHIT!"
You know what's bullshit? When you just want to get a flower for your daughter, and some jackass tries to kill you!
Sir/Madam, you made my night. 10000 Holy Beers to you!
You know, I never understood how in the Disney classic Belle acted like the Beast was a hideous monster while actually he looked kind of majestic. But here..? Fuck if I were 'Maria' I would've jumped out of a window by now.
Disney was going for a scary appearance rather than an ugly one.
At least Disney's version of the beast looks more beastly. This one on the other hand looks like a demon.
A DEMONIC BEAST!
This beast looks like an ogre.
Can someone please explain why in every Beauty and the Beast story, the Beast has to have a bitch fit over a rose? At least the Disney version gave us a reason why the rose was important. Anything from the original story?
Nope!
No reason!
I think that in the original story, the roses all represented the amount of days left in Beast's life. So whenever one was picked, it would shorten his life by a day. You'd think that they could take two seconds to mention this in the movies though.
I just gathered he was a territorial/over protective arsehole lol
Not sure about the original, but many tales imply he was just looking for an excuse to get a girl in his castle who could break the spell
Yeah that one too, though I can imagine when the subject of a daughter comes up and the person doesn't have any the beast is like " oh, never mind then. Be on your way" 😅
Someone slowly poisoning their father until they die?
I think Dio approves Phelous
That is sweet. Very cute style. It shows their relationship growing. Having her be called Maria is good. It doesn't pile on the angst as much as some, with nasty family.
That's a good version.
Don't worry on the age part. She's adult.
It's older anime. They didn't do that wierd age thing in the 1980s as much or at all. The women looked the age they were or close.
Yeah I thought so😅
Then phelous should still be worried since Maria looks 13.
@@fightingmedialounge519 people can look younger than they actually are. Please move on 😅
You have failed to actually understand my comment or the top comment by repeating that she looks 13. People can look younger than they really are. Accept it and MOVE ON
@@gracekim25 That's irrelevant to the original comment, and maybe you shoud take your own advice
@@fightingmedialounge519 zip it troll. You clearly can’t read because it is relevant 🤦♀️ just stop commenting altogether, you’re ANNOYING. You’re a hypocrite 😑 I’m convinced you’re blind to not notice the OBVIOUS 😬
Also don’t but into conversations you are not part of
god you are so STUPID 🤦♀️
Please leave the Internet. You’re a terrible person and a condescending’teacher’ who sucks at their job
Old man: "I'm not saying it!" That made me laugh harder than it should have!
I love it. Sometimes an unspoken, implied joke is even funnier than if it had been directly spoken. Phelan is a comic genius.
Who else wants Phelous to somehow get an interview with the Old Man VA?
I mean... the art style is beautiful. At least in this regard, it's better than the other adaptations.
I can't believe the beast from xmen got his own anime....
Fascinating.
13:22 "Reverse-color-key piano"? It's actually a _harpsichord_. Most harpsichords have swapped key colors, and the sounds they make are quite different from pianos because the strings are plucked rather than struck. You can even hear it if you listen to the scene in question.
(Cue the "The More You Know" rainbow)
Ah so at least you mentioned it 😜
Maria?..... but the beast was looking for Mary.
Have you seen her?
-Didn't you say she died?
Oh yea... three years ago. But he got a letter from her! Said she was waiting....
The Shadow jokes are killing me.
Also the beast looks like the Grimace.
Oh man, I loved Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics when I was a kid. I think it was my first real exposure to anime, haha. Nickelodeon had quite a few english dubbed Japanese cartoons back in the 80's. :) Thanks for reviewing it!
Jaymz Bernard same i found these anime adaptation to be my favorite versions just because I liked anime because of them the Disney version was good but these will always have a place in my childhood
((Wishes so hard that Dingo made a "Beauty and the Beast")))
Oh gosh no please...I'd HATE to imagine a Beauty and the Beast 'film' by Dingo pictures. Thankfully, it never happened, but still!
Which would be uglier the beauty or the beast?
No contest they'd all be hidious
sure. why the damn hell not?!
Let's launch a kickstarter to fund Dingo to produce one!!! I'm sure they won't need much!!! I'll toss money in!!!
15:10 Actually, in my experience, it's more often the other way around. the amount of anime girls I've seen that look like they're 10, but are actually like, 500 year old vampires, or a witch or some such... xD
Believe it or not, Brothers Grimm DID work on a variant of Beauty and the Beast from part of their collection called "The Winter and Summer Garden" where the youngest daughter asks for a rose in the middle of winter and finds one in a garden that's half eternal winter and half eternal summer. After making the deal with the Beast, he doesn't tell his daughters about anything that happened. 8 days later, the Beast appears and takes the youngest daughter away. When she returns home, her father is ill as she can't save him, which he dies. She stays longer for her dad's funeral and when she returns to see Beast, he's buried beneath a heap of cabbages. (Sounds familiar?)
This tale was in the Brothers Grimm's collection's first addition in 1812. But because the story was too similar to it's original French story, they omitted it from later editions.
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
or funny. A funny dude appearance rate increases with it.
"You're the worst Beauty's father ever!"
"Maria!"
"Who cares!!!"
LOL XD
The "Maria" thing looks quite fitting if you see the Beast as a bootleg version of Shadow The Hedgehog.
So Maria can turn things to dust... what a weird power
I think Anime age is that a person who is older appears younger than usual... not the opposite. She might be 20 something for all I care.
It goes both ways just depends on the show
Lord DIO Oh... Let's just rely on source material then... How old was the Beauty anyway?
Timothy Gauker doesn’t this take place in the renaissance? Was there an age limit back then?
I could see a Beauty and the Beast anime actually working if they got Mamoru Hosoda to direct.
That comment aged like a fine wine.
Look at Belle.
I very recently discovered your stuff & have been marathoning through everything you've ever done on TH-cam, your content is fantastic man!!
Thanks!
+Phelan “Phelous” Porteous ANIME!!!
+Phelan “Phelous” Porteous also good work. you have my blessing
"Reversed colored piano" AKA Harpsichord
This is one of the better ones you’ve reviewed since it actually tried to to build up devolpmemt with the beast and Maria.
The Beast looks like a Pokemon..
A Gastly/Ursaring fusion.
Or a Sableye pumped up on Steroids.
TheArceusftw That too actually.
I'm gonna catch it!
I'll use rock smash!
3:25 That screen is so nostalgic. Brings me back to when I was a kid and watching my Thomas VHS tapes. Video Treasures released a lot of Thomas tapes in the mid-late 90's.
BTW, this narrator sounds rather like John Baddeley, but I doubt it is.
The Hebrew meaning of the name Maria is "bitter" The Latin meaning is "Virgin"
So the name Maria literally means "bitter virgin". LMAO.
So... the average Fortnite player or TikTok user then?
Lol. That manga name.
The beast's voice reminds me of a voice that keeps showing up in Dingo Pictures. That guy who plays the villains, typically.
14:55
Old Man: That...that is so upsetting! Those roses were beautiful too!! they're completely USELESS now!
Has anyone noticed that Phelous’s Beauty voice sounds like Abridged Téa’s voice?
15:31 That line even sounds like something from YGOTAS!
4:27... They live in an IHOP?
4:42... "Buy me a beautiful dress", "Buy me shoes, be sure to get the latest style, because we're sick of cosplaying as pilgrims!"
11:53... "The poor Beast was sad." Um, WTF, plummy-voiced narrator guy?!?! By all means, reserve your sympathy for the jerk who forcibly took a girl from her home all because of a rose! Let's just ignore the poor girl who is beside herself with fear and grief! You suck, Narrator Guy!
12:04... "He was startled by his own hideous reflection." So the Beast had a preternatural ability to avoid reflective surfaces?
13:28... "Maria felt so much happiness, that she forgot all about the Beast's repulsive looks, but I'm not going to let you, the viewers, forget, for I am Narrator Guy, and I'm the worst!"
17:50... And with the power of love, the Beast turned back into a Cossack.
19:14... At least the sisters didn't turn into statues like in other versions.
19:21... Snarking aside, that shot is actually quite lovely.
I remember the show "Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics" from my childhood, and it was fun to hear Phelous's take on it. Really, it's probably the best version he's reviewed so far in terms of animation quality and the relationship between the titular characters (at least we see their romance really develop, not like Gaspy McAirhead and Warthog/Goomba Hybrid).
I actually used to watch Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics all the time as a kid. Technically, it was my very first anime.
Me too although not my first anime. That would be 1975's "Ringing Bell" (Chirin no suzu). It's good watch even today, but it is super depressing. It follows the 'no happy endings in anime' semi-trope.
Same and one where they time traveled to Biblical times. I ain’t joking about the latter one.
Five years later this show get a Bluray release love this episode
Am I the only one that finds it funny that all these Beauty and the Beast adaptations that Beauty seems to forget all about the whole trying to murder her father and make it about looks? XD
Well to be fair most of her fathers suck! Like you could just give the rose back. Beauty is supposed to be humble or something right? She can live without a red rose and yet all her fathers in these knockoffs rather just give her away...
So, in the end, everyone is terrible ^.^
Yeah pretty much
1:18 Nippon animation also did the animation for Around the World with Willy Fog, which also had the same narrator, Theodore Lehmann as well as Cam Clarke doing the most terrible French accent you'd ever hear.
1980s anime has its special charme to it.
I...I think the beast in this was voiced by Dan Woren, because while he's in monster form he sounds uncannily like Zen-Aku from Power Rangers Wild Force. But in his human form he sounds like Caster from Fate/Zero. I...I can't _prove_ it's Dan Woren since there's apparently not a cast list for this movie. But it would track since Dan Woren did work on other Saban shows. Such as more than one season of Power Rangers.
Saban went from producing shows like this, to dubbing anime like digimon or producing power rangers, to now being credited as a studio that's producing live action movies like The Stand-In
I like the opening scene at least. Looks like the love story between a very large Black Mage and a White Mage
God I love the narrator in this. It's like he really needs to piss so he's doing his lines as fast as he possibly can, it comes off as extremely rushed but fucking hilarious at the same time.
These Saban voices bring back so much nostalgia, haha
Mark Sauvie Saban voices also worked on Transformers: Car Robots - Robots In Disguise.
I love these old Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics episodes.
Omg, this is such a blast from the past! "Grimm's Fairytale Classics" was a staple of my childhood. I've tried to track the series down since then, but have not had much luck. The fact that you were able to acquire this gives me hope. I wonder if the entire anthology is available somewhere??
I just happened upon this VHS at a Goodwill so I'm not sure how many got a release like this. From what I can tell there was a Volume 1 of some of these episodes put on DVD over here but they never made a vol 2. They might have come out in the UK though.
Phelan, notice me!
Thanks for the info! I will have to look into that DVD compilation. Too bad the full series wasn't released, but I'll take what I can get, lol.
If you have a video downloader/converter, you can download episodes of this show from TH-cam. Also you can import the original Japanese versions.
Same here! I remember this episode vividly from my childhood, how funny to find the review here. There are actually quite a few episodes of the show uploaded to TH-cam. Just type in 'Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics' and you'll find a bunch of them! :)
I'm always surprised how much background information Phelous can pull out of even the most obscure films. It's honestly impressive and very interesting.
No one is omitted from a terrible anime adaptation like GASTON!!
No one was invented for the Cocteau film and then repeated in later films like Gaston!
The cover art is peter griffin's fursona
The blonde sister sounds like Usagi from the first English adaption of Sailor Moon. Also I watched this on TH-cam and the original for it is The Summer and Winter garden I think. Reply if you saw it or if you didn't you can still reply. So lonely. I kid. Sobs in corner.
Will you ever do the Disney kind-of-sequel to Beauty and the Beast with the evil pipe organ voiced by Tim Curry ?
Oh my word, that reminds me that there is a Russian version of Beauty and the Beast and Tim Curry voices the Beast!
Brooke Smith That would be the ultimate lead up to his review of the kind-of-sequel climax. o-o
This comment has nothing to do with your comment, but I freaking love your profile picture and user name
The Anime Obsessor If that's directed to me... Thank you?
Lord Ghirahim
Yeah, I meant you XD
She actually asked for an out of season flower? That's actually worse than her sisters' requests.
A very decent rendition of the fairy tale, in all fairness. Loads better than all the other version Phelous has reviewed. At least, it's pleasant to look at thanks to the artstyle.
Old Man is such a hypocrite. Maria's dad might say violent things (in Phelous's version) but at least he never actually tried to manipulate/ pressure her to sacrifice herself for him like Old Man did. Maria's dad tried to keep the Beast away from her, and sans stealing the rose he didn't do anything close to as obnoxious as what Old Man did in the castle.
I wonder if there are any adaptations of beauty and the beast where it has beauty's sisters kill beauty and a fairy brings beauty back to life than turns her sisters into stone statues and the only way for them to be free is if someone can fall in love them
I actually really like the song at the beginning. I guess it just feels nostalgic even though I haven't seen this in my childhood.
Saban/Levy music is classic. 👌
First this "Oversized Jawa Beast", then the Bevanfield "Ewok Beast"...
Seems like the Beasts are generally big Star Wars fans.
Nippon Animation, eh? Let's see what they- Holy shit!
They did 1975 Maya The Bee, 1974 Vicky the Viking and 1974 Heidi! My childhood! :D
I watched German dubs of it in the early 2000s.
The more stupid animations Phelous reviews, the more material he gets to use for the next. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
This is one of the better cartoons reviewed by Phelous. It doesn't drag out like some other cartoons and the animators did a great job.
Imagine Crazy Old Man - The Anime! That"d be comedy gold. :)
I recognize the Grimm Fairy Tales anime series 'cause I still have that version of Snow White on VHS.
9:31 - My theory is the Beast gained a heightened sense of smell thanks to his curse that allowed him to track Marie's father back to his home!
Wait a minute, Saban?
Hmm, ok, hear me out here...
A Power Rangers series centered around a team of Beauty's fathers from every adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. We'd have Clara as the Zordon of the series whilst Clara's sister would basically be the Rita Repulsa only to have her monster (which would be the Beast) be defeated and then she'd be powerless.
Or a Transformers series with Optimus Primal in Medival France.
I actually liked this version tbh, I grew up with this. Here in South America (or at least in my country) 'Grimm's Fairy tale classics' is a TV show every weekend the kids watch in public channels.
Great video. In case you wondered: the reverse color piano is actually an harpsichord. Pianos were only invented in the 1700's, so they wouldn't exist during the time period the story was set in.