"And this confirms that there was more than one character in this show" Well thank goodness we aren't just looking for 8-22 minutes of a single guy posing dramatically
I don't know. That theme song is good enough to support that. Especially if they do the dramatic "raising his head up shown from both straight-on as well as in profile at the same time" before walking towards the camera.
I know that line seems silly, but it's actually good science: he's confirming what *can be* confirmed, without conjecture. It's technically more information than he had going in.
Hey, Marty's translator for this article dropping by^^ Translating this tiny snippet was wild, trying to find any info to confirm name westernisations of companies etc. The ultra low res パ from panmedia became バ given the pixelation of dakuten/handakuten leading me to believe it was banmedia. Was a nice lesson learned in translation archeology. Big thanks for making this video. Lavithunder deserves better.
Ah, the maruten/dakuten thing drives me CRAZY when I'm trying to read something in Japanese! It's often hard to tell on a screen; I guess native Japanese speakers are usually able to tell from the context, but... I don't think I've ever seen someone mention it before.
@@Hakajin it's usually easier nowadays ^^ scans of a low-res 40yo magazine are honestly some archeological passion stuff ^^' Also context of nowadays and the past differs a lot>
They say that the lord of animators can only be summoned back to this plane with the sacrifice of ratgirl effigy while performing the sacred ritual under a full moon, the same ritual described in code in the final chapter of The Book of Five Rings only when holding it up to a mirror.
I found a review from pre-production materials of 1987 of producers from this show. Masked Warrior Levithunder (13 episodes or 6 OVA depending on audience response) : The forces of Rashka invades from another dimension the peaceful country of Lestand. Silya, a young woman whose family was tragically killed by Rashka's warriors goes on a journey to find somebody that could put a stop to the onslaught that is being unleashed by these invaders. After a perilous journey where she was being chased by some monsters, she is saved by a young warrior by the name of Keith. He saves Silya and heard her story along with the elder of Keith's tribe. The elder mentions that is time to one young man to awaken the power of the "Levistone" A mysterious sword that has been kept by the tribe for thousands of years as a relic. The sword recently has started to shine due to the dimensional portals where Rashka came from and they came searching for the Levistone. Keith finds the sword and becomes the amazing hero of legend, the masked warrior Levithunder!! He can use the power of lightning and along with the powerful sword and secret powers, he also gains an ally in the form of Volk, a spirit wolf that will guide Keith into unlocking the ancient secret powers of the Levistone. Keith, Sylia and Volk begin a journey to defeat Raksha and his minions and restore the peace in the land.
A lot of hours from a number of people went into making that and it totally vanished until you managed to dig it back up, more archaeology than history it seems like!
Its truly faacinating, specially because its not like trying to uncover the mystery of some thousand year old ceramic. Its a recent piece of art, something whose people involved might still be alive, and yet it needs so much work to uncover its secrets
@@AndreLuis-gw5ox Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone who worked on Lavithunder know what happened to it. Worst case scenario, whatever production material made for it was scrapped when the company went under, or it burned up in a fire. But the possibility remains that animation stills or a promo reel might be in the basement of some production assistant, or else in a warehouse belonging to a publishing company or distributor.
The worst part is you know theres a box in a warehouse or a pile of old reels/ vhs tapes in some forgotten building or room SOMEWHERE, where the clips of this exist still and are on the road to slow decay if they arent found or just thrown out. And THAT is truely sad, like many pieces of history it will be lost to time with nothing but this video to really go off of.
Personally when I hear "Road Warrior anime" I think of Fist of the North Star. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if this was going to be released to cash in the success of that series.
The same way how Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (Ronin Warriors) and Tenkuu Senki Shurato did try to cash on the success of the Saint Seiya. ...I still wish Shurato would recieve more popularity.
"I read this magazine article... later on, I got a guy to get a guy to translate it". His Japanese ability matches the characters in that terrible Pop Japan Travel comic
I absolutely love how every subject you talk about on this channel eventually circles back to Chargeman Ken at some point. There is no escape, there is only Chargeman Ken.
Lavithunder is not the only series that was supposed to get an anime, but only got an LP release. Hariken Ryu's Gekisatsu! Uchuuken was supposed to get an animation too, but all it got was an LP with some music and audio drama. At least the comic got fully published.
Lavithunder was at least PARTIALLY produced though, if those screenshots are any indication. Hariken Ryu's Gekisatsu! is one more level down the rabbit hole. Did that even get to the pre-production stage?
@@kennylauderdale_en It might have been a publicity stunt for the singer with an "anime" pitch attatched to it. There have been other similar examples, like Teddy Boy Blues (in this case, a videogame was attached to it) or the Valis for Famicom short. I remember I've stumbled upon a few records on VGMdb that were soundtracks for manga or books that had singles released for the theme song and even some commercials and TV and radio anthems have also been released as singles, it seems it's a common practice in Japan to launch the career of a pop singer or actor with other media attached that never get beyond some animated commercial or ilustrations in the album cover or booklet.
It looks like it would have been the most stereotypical 80s fantasy cartoon rivaling He-man itself. Like I look at that art and can hear a plethora of synth bass and drum that I have never heard before.
As an Italian, I'm pretty amused by the fact that many animes that are still obscure in America (like Oh Family, or Golden Bat from some episodes ago) have been broadcasted during the 80's and are still kinda famous to this day in Italy!
That's because the US didn't really go about dubbing a lot of anime at the time. What we did get would be a baby sized handful of syndicated shows, maybe something direct to video based on an entire series crushed into a less than 90 minute narrative film. And not for the lack of trying, either. Harmony Gold tried to get out Dragon Ball, Time Bokan, Dr. Slump, and (bafflingly) Muteking, but failed to get beyond some test dubs. Some of which became the basis for international dubs. In the US at the time, we were deeply into either Transformers/G.I. Joe or Care Bears/Rainbow Brite toy based series. That probably explains why they tried to develop the "Doozybots" SD Gundam series here. A safe, non-violent, or toned down to the extreme barely violent version of a series they could sell toys of.
@@mightyfilm transformers itself was technically an anime, with having 3 seperate, un-aired on the USA, tv shows and 1 ova. some of the American episodes were also produced by Toei
Transformers is actually quite confusing. It's an American property based off a Japanese toyline that in a roundabout way was based off of an American toy line, and the show and toy line were technically a co-production of America and Japan. That's a subject of the last video, sure, but it's to note that while the US market wasn't dubbing Japanese series much at the time, they were a major outsource for animation. Transformers, being produced by Marvel who already had a history with Toei did use them as a primary animation firm. As they did with a couple Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, most G.I. Joes, and the first 2 and a half seasons of Muppet Babies. And even after the initial series, only a handful of Transformers shows were animated and produced outside of Japan. Both Beast era series, Cyberverse, and both Rescue Bots series. But make no mistake, even though there were 8 or 9 anime (4 that we got dubs of), Transformers is primarily an American brand, and the original series was written to conform to American broadcast standards for American kids to buy toys.
Also considering they did try just cold releasing Diaclone over here, but it wasn't successful. Just inventing a mythos and all the world building they did turned something that could have been a 3-4 year fad into Hasbro's biggest entertainment brand. As a Western/Eastern brand, there was a lot of coproduction over the years, be it the cartoons or the toys. So there's a massive blurred line right there. Given the fact that anime really wasn't a major thing the US got in the 80's, the only way they could have sold anything outside dubbed Nickelodeon filler probably would have been a toyline. Thing is, anything that could have been one would have been too violent for mainstream American television. That's why we got M.U.S.C.L.E. toys, but not Kinnikuman. The anime consumption in the US at the time was regulated to college clubs that somehow knew a guy who could sneak in a bootleg from a Japanese import grocer. Maybe some filler stuff on fledgling Nickelodeon and to fill out the burgeoning home video market. Europe seemed to just get more import stuff from all over the world. Not saying they didn't have their own produced animation, just not to the production output the US or Japan was at the time.
I love that there are people who manage to record commercials and old shows fro the 80's but also the idea that a lot of things that were NOT recorded are now lost in time
In the early 90s a family friend from the US 🇺🇸 lent us a VHS 📼 tape. It contained recorded music videos mostly Whitney Houston and some Gloria Estefan from VH1. During the break there was a promo for a Phil Collins NY concert. And some ads from my country in 1993 which I now miss. Eventually they asked for the tape back 🙄😂
I would like to imagine we are getting glimpses of an anime that did get released on another universe and became a huge all time classic and whenever you try to type for a rare show you heard up named "Kamen Rider" the search gets flooded with Kamen Senshi Lavithunder results making you question if it's even real or not.
As someone who regularly tries to google obscure animated & children's shows from my 1990's Australian childhood only to get zero results. I can relate.
Shows I'm trying to find. "Turnabout" from the 1970's. Aired on American public broadcasting (PBS) either close to the same time as "Big Blue Marble" or perhaps Turnabout was just a segment of BBM. It's intro was simple, two curved arrows in a circle, one red, one blue, slowly rotating while a voiceover said "Turnabout". It taught things like critical thinking, opportunity cost etc. One episode I clearly remember was about some boys that wanted to build a banked turn and a hump on a go-kart track. They needed one of their dads to use his pickup to get the free wood for the job but it'd take two trips, and he wanted to watch a football game. So how what's the opportunity cost of each party to get all the wood or half the wood or none of the wood? Dad misses all the game but the boys get all the wood to build both track features. Dad watches all the game and the boys get none of the wood. Or dad misses the first half of the game and the boys get half the wood to build one track feature. As a kid I found the show very interesting and educational - and nobody else remembers it, not even the guy who was in charge of program scheduling during the 70s at the PBS station that broadcast what I watched. He did remember Big Blue Marble, an environmental show minus the whacky nuttery. Another show is newer, from the 1990's. It was on Discovery Channel as a companion to their "Wings" show where each episode was on a single aircraft. The name of it was "Straight Up", and similar to "Wings" each episode was about a single helicopter, company, or influential person in the history of helicopters.
8:40 "It stars a tomboy with blond hair who is constantly being mistaken for a guy" This video should have been about O family from the very beginning.
@@cantbejawsome so the fact that he gets confused by a girl is because he looks like that on purpose? Or is he annoyed because he is a top? Maybe doesn't like to be hit by heterosexual men? Why I keep questioning more about this anime?
@@0Raik I've only seen one episode, but I don't think he finds being mistaken as a girl to be a problem. He likes looking feminine, so he doesn't really mind. His tomboy sister is the one who's bothered by it.
Kenny's power level just keeps growing. at this rate hes going to start willing old anime into existence through sheer force of will that he will attempt to pass of as real lost media.
There's a lot of loose ends when it comes to old anime series. Take God Mazinger. It was a 23 episode show from 1984, but it was supposed to be 24 episodes. The final episode was in an advanced state of production when they learned there would be a scheduling conflict with the Olympics, so the show was wrapped up at Episode 23. Episode 24 was supposed to be an epilogue episode where the characters reflect on their journey and God Mazinger sinks beneath the waves to await being needed again in the future. Due to ending at Episode 23 the show has a very jarring conclusion. However, a month before the show concluded a God Mazinger Audio Drama was released on vinyl. Due to the time lag between when an anime episode is made and when it is aired, this could be the audio drama version of that final episode. Why else would they release an audio drama of an unpopular show one month before it finished airing? It doesn't make sense. Alas, from everything I've seen, I don't think the audio drama album is the final episode. I think it's just a self contained story where God Mazinger fights dinosaurs like a lot of the episodes of the show. But, I may never know.
@@BJGvideos From what I deduce of the companies of that time period, 90s and back all the to 10s, the executives didn't really watched their shows, specially animations. They just "OK-ed" things and gave money and expected money to come to their pockets. And money came, like a lot. Therefore, something so complicated like continuity, storytelling, run the episodes in the order they were supposed to, or even wait a week was out of their minds.
Animation by nature is super hard, especially back then. Imagine all those hardworks drawing it frame-by-frame and almost nobody knows it's very existence is just so sad
Judging by the imagery from the magazine (particularly the barbarian looking dude with a wolf) I think it would have been rather interesting to watch. I picture an action adventure series starring a wild masked man and his wolf.
NGL, impressive level of dedication to this. You basically did the horror movie scene where they go to the library and look up film reel pictures to get the story on a destroyed building where the creepy ghost lives.
I really empathize with all this, I too end up down rabbit holes where its 2:30 AM and I am am using wayback machine to look at an long dead tripod site that had a hosted images of and out of print small publish gaming magazine just so I can find an AD from inside to find an ISBN number for a book that has been out of print since the 90's...
This is interesting AF ngl. I love the character design and what little we can see of the art direction, though! I wish it was made. I would've watched the heck out of this.
Now here's a question: does anyone own the rights to Lavithunder's character? Or is it public domain? We could revive the character, if not the anime itself.
IMO, the 80s was the golden age of anime. A high-budget OVA or movie (Nausicaa, Macross DYRL, Bubblegum Crisis, etc) looks better than any anime made in the last 20 years.
There is something just so nostalgic and charming about going back in time to see what regular people in the past thought. like that section on this show wondering if it would become something or not. This video was very entertaining and informative. Subbed
Are we sure Kenny isn't actually an SCP that generates proof of non existent "lost media", or one that's merging the history of anime with some alternate time line.
@@timmyman9677 So far. Some of those things are assumed to be safe for years until one day an imprudent researcher does something dumb and bam, keter class. He's probably an euclid tho.
@@axelprino Minky Momo is a Keter-class that must either be: 1.) Never aired again, or 2.) Once aired, must be broadcast continuously for as long as possible, Because every single time it airs a "final episode," Japan gets hit by progressively worse disasters
i consider myself as an anime fan, with over 1500 titles watched, but next to you and your level of obsession and knowledge of a very-very obscure and rare animations - i feel myself like a clueless toddler. Hats off. That was an intresting video.
Many anime are produced by a "production committee" something like a shell company to limit financial risk from studios and TV stations involved with the series. The album release could have been a last-ditch effort to recoup some money by the production committee on a series that was clearly going nowhere due to lack of investment or break down of contract negotiations. It is also possible that this was a convoluted 'scam' to release an album while having a third party foot the bill. You don't generally start a show by producing a theme song and then stop. I suspect one of these two is the answer.... but I am just guessing based largely on business experience and articles I have read about failed productions.
Selling music was a pillar of 1980s anime. Is it possible the physical album was produced at the same time as the studio was working on the animation? Then they had a warehouse filled with LPs when the show was cancelled so the record label just released it to market to make back some of their costs.
Yo I just wanna thank you for putting that anime vinyl person in the description- they are very epic and I’m loving all of these old city pop vibe songs I’m like in heaven right now man this is so awesome
Goddamnit I was expecting some Japanese dude in the comments to just say "Oh yeah that, I think I saw it on the air as a kid. Strange that there's no VHS for this." or something, and this case would be blown open right away.
I really enjoy the story of your detective work to find these obscure shows. It's interesting to see what clues you are able to discern and where they lead.
You weren't supposed to uncover this! Lavithunder lost almost all of his power. But now that more people know of him, his power grows. I can't fight him again at my age. You've doomed us all!
History became legend, legend became myth and for five a half decades, the Record passed out of all knowledge until, when chance came, it ensnared a new weeb
I admire your level of dedication to anime research. I wish I was that dedicated to anything. Portrait art is my biggest passion, but even that I’d need to study lighting, anatomy and clothing to improve, and I’m lazy about that, so my improvement is pretty slow.
Oh my god, thanks so much for finding that magazine article! The theme song is a banger and its providence has been bothering me for ages. I knew I was right to ask you about it! I wonder if a bounty on 2ch could encourage someone to find the 30 second promo. That said, American Sailor Moon was not produced by Saban. It was developed by Toon Makers/Renaissance Atlantic. (I think someone from TM may have been in the room with us when Allen Hastings showed the infamous promo reel, but I can't be certain. He must have been sitting where Allen glanced uncomfortably at the end.)
The more I think about that series, the more I remember how Saban was not involved. Saban was notorious at the time for grabbing any cheap anime license to dub. I don't think they had any connections to Toei animation, but they certainly had someone that had Tatsunoko on speed dial. I'd think their version of Sailor Moon would have just been a dub with wacky music and wacky, pun filled dialogue (think Samurai Pizza Cats) that every country in the world BUT the US would have got but based off their English dub. And I certainly think if they were to do a live action/cartoon hybrid Power Rangers type show, they certainly would NOT have commissioned new animation, dubbing the old footage instead.
So a month or so ago I found out that Minky Momo is part of the story of a mysterious death. This guy in Japan goes hiking way back when and goes missing. They eventually find his body and one of the things he had on him was the soundtrack to Minky Momo.
Really interesting deep dive! Seeing the various ways you searched for it (I never would have thought to examine the commercials for simultanously airing anime) broadened my view of how to find these sorts of things.
I clicked on this video and didn't expect to know that Oh!Family was adapted into an anime a long time ago (and made by the same studio with Chargeman Ken). I never thought any work of Watanabe Taeko had been adapted into anime before omg. What a surprise. I don't know about manga publishing in your country but my country actually published Oh!Family a long time ago (and it had been re-published again if I remember correctly) so I know about it lol.
Hey just a stranger on the internet, watching the video triggered my memory. Space Family Carlvinson is a wonderful & fun anime I really really enjoyed as kid. Thank you for helping me recover something this deep in my memory.
Never in my life would I have expected this video to identify the Wizard of Oz anime that has haunted my dreams these past 25 years. I have been looking for the name of it for literally decades. My parents got a bootleg vhs of it back when I was a kid in a box of other tapes. Amazing. Thank you.
Kenny has briefly made contact with Aliens, but stopped when he found out only Humans make anime. Kenny is literally two steps away from looking for Anime in other dimensions. Kenny's channel one day is going to stop all activity for, like, 3-5 years, before returning to regular uploads about anime he's discovered in neighboring fantasy realms that he received from Dragons.
Love your anime coverage, with its massive scope. And to top it off, you play the best background music. BREATH OF FIRE III, overworld theme....simply sublime.
It was sold 700 Yen in 1986. So, it is rare because it had limited prints, more likely. Which would support my theory of the alternate cover of a single which did well. Indeed, a popular singer's single being so rare makes little sense to me.
Your dedication and focus is the stuff of legend! I swear by old-school anime, but I'd never be able to put in the work to uncover something THIS obscure!
"the final screenshot that we have is just the main character walking towards the screen, with a wolf on his side and a sword on his back." aye, he went out in a blaze of glory...being as aggressively cool as any anime protagonist can be. i'll never forget you, masked warrior lavithunder...you and your kickass wolf and sword
The greatest historical discoveries were found by chance. Seems like Kenny in particular is just fated to discover lost media like he was blessed by some divine beings of whom he's actually their lost son with naturally-gifted yet hidden away powers of unearthing those lost to time.
Upon searching both 'Family!' and 'Lavithunder' in Japanese, I did find a page that, while it mostly just reiterates what we already know, does say that the 30-second promo aired specifically 'early December 1986'. If someone out there happened to have a recording of Family! from December 1st or 8th (Mondays), that had all the commercials etc, we might just be able to find this promo - although at this point, if even Kenny can't find it, it might indeed truly be lost. Still, if someone was able to find him the second Hana no Asuka-gumi OVA, it's not impossible this exists. (I did wonder months ago if animation cels for this thing may have survived, but I've not been able to find any of those either...)
This is a really in-depth look at a sadly unreleased piece of anime history. I definitely would have watched Lavithunder, it seems very interesting from the pictures and music alone. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in researching this lost gem.
In google (and other search engines) you can add a " - " in front of a term (without a space) to exclude it from search. This is very useful if you're getting the wrong result in your search. Prevent 1:42 google "Refine web searches" for other useful operators. edit: also quotes around the search and/or exclude term can help a lot.
Fun fact: Tommy Snyder (the composer for the B-side "Winner"') is Shanti Snyder's father. Small world! [edit: for clarity, Shanti is known for many her Yoko Kanno collaborations (Escaflowne, GITS:SAC, Shimotsuma Monogatari, Maaya Sakamoto), and she wrote and sang for several GrandFunk, inc. CMs, wrote lyrics for Crystal Kay’s debut, and has several solo albums. Tommy himself is a well-established session musician from France, plays drums in Godiego, and performed tunes for Lupin III and Marine Express. It was wild to see his name pop up in this video.]
The pure detective work put into this really excites me. The dedication and effort are very apparent. All I can do is offer you my thanks (because I've already subscribed). On another note, the moment you said Mitsuko Horie's name I knew the song should sound great even if I've never heard more than what was in this video. Also, quite interesting OUT magazine has Leina, Elpeo Ple and Sayla on the front. Was this particular volume after ZZ aired? I know ZZ Gundam characters ranked within the top 10 of Animage's Male and Female character lists (Judau for male and Haman and (I think) Puru for female) that year.
I wanna thank you for the coverage you did on Carlvinson! A group started to translate the manga a while after you covered it previously and it's been a very nice read, and I'm absolutely sure it wouldn't have been picked up if you didn't make it relevant again!
This is the impact that kenny's videos have. Lavithunder has been known for years among niche circles, but, thanks to kenny, it now has a visibility that will make it possible to unearth more information with the added people that are aware of it, just like the Lensman TV anime. Same with the Nora and Twinkle Nora manga scanlated in English.
Somehow it reminds me of a dream I once had. So the dream was pretty simple, you had a guy with his blue alien dog, named Blue, they traveled the world, working as mercenaries, and yes the dog was fully sentient, just didn't have means to communicate with speech. It was a mix of Sci Fi and Steampunk.
So in theory there's a 30 second commercial of this cancelled anime lost out there, or even that wasn't ever released? It's kinda poetic if it's the latter.
Clearly they produced *something*. I doubt those few screenshots are the only frames ever made. What probably exists are the promo plus some incomplete episodes that were mid-production when it was canceled.
I heard the theme song on one of gundober's mix-tape videos and became obsessed with finding it. But not as obsessed as you! At least you actually found something. I take my hat off to you, sir.
I don’t even watch anime I just love lost media content and the way you make your videos. Oh and because of your INCREDIBLE determination and effort that you put into finding information about lost media.
Like to spread awareness. I want someone to find this on a VHS tape in their attic.
Wow! 54 minutes ago lol!
Somewhere out there is a broken hearted animator that feels appreciated.
*Guts Theme intensifies with transcendent joy & aura
RIP Kentaro Miura
@@Claymann71 ok
if he can find this unlisted youtube video...
Indeed
Yes! Yes! Yes! Indeed!
Imagine: the record IS the anime, and every frame is in spectrogram form
That’s actually what I thought this video was going to be about
I thought thats what the vid was gonna be about
That’s what I thought this was lol
I think that was the clickbait
@Sisyphean Taskmaster its still hella different format tho and being a disk which is read by the stylus is pretty much the only thing it has in common
There's lost media and then there's media that barely even existed. No one could ever question your dedication to the search Kenny!
Schrödinger's anime
Kenny is the man! The anime man
@@zainmudassir2964 the old school anime professor
I found all the same results as this guy within the first google page, it's not that hard of an investigation lol
@@zachrion And you're sure those were there before this video was uploaded?
"And this confirms that there was more than one character in this show"
Well thank goodness we aren't just looking for 8-22 minutes of a single guy posing dramatically
I don't know. That theme song is good enough to support that. Especially if they do the dramatic "raising his head up shown from both straight-on as well as in profile at the same time" before walking towards the camera.
I know that line seems silly, but it's actually good science: he's confirming what *can be* confirmed, without conjecture. It's technically more information than he had going in.
Anime hero roen mail-in apocalypse poses dramatically in the future-past wasteland seems like a good show
@@michaelcross4112 ah yes every shonen ever.
I would like 8-22 minutes of someone posing dramatically, please.
"Lost anime found on a vinyl record that seemingly doesn't exist" sounds like a horror story setup, goddamn. Lost media in general is rad.
seriously, this could have easily been an SCP. i know i've read a few about vinyl records with mysterious contents.
@@dia8183 This is the point where we realise Ken was playing the long game, and this entire channel is actually part of Marble Hornets.
Eh, I was gonna read those magazines anyway.
"...And then a photorealistic shot of the protagonist appeared with unsettling, eerie, disturbing background music..."
Don't forget the hyper realistic blood
Hey, Marty's translator for this article dropping by^^
Translating this tiny snippet was wild, trying to find any info to confirm name westernisations of companies etc. The ultra low res パ from panmedia became バ given the pixelation of dakuten/handakuten leading me to believe it was banmedia. Was a nice lesson learned in translation archeology.
Big thanks for making this video. Lavithunder deserves better.
Ah, the maruten/dakuten thing drives me CRAZY when I'm trying to read something in Japanese! It's often hard to tell on a screen; I guess native Japanese speakers are usually able to tell from the context, but... I don't think I've ever seen someone mention it before.
@@Hakajin it's usually easier nowadays ^^ scans of a low-res 40yo magazine are honestly some archeological passion stuff ^^'
Also context of nowadays and the past differs a lot>
Thank you!
Kenny Lauderdale, 2021: does this anime actually exist?
Out! magazine, 1987: does this anime actually exist?
I guess it's like poetry.
@@SammEater more like pottery.
Heh
We'll check out for developments in another 34 years.
...2060 TH-camrs: Did this old channel exist?
Next video: "I discovered lost anime that only existed as a concept by holding a seance and summoning Osamu Tezuka's spirit."
XD
Yes, would watch.
They say that the lord of animators can only be summoned back to this plane with the sacrifice of ratgirl effigy while performing the sacred ritual under a full moon, the same ritual described in code in the final chapter of The Book of Five Rings only when holding it up to a mirror.
still waiting on that Phoenix series that was supposed to come out in the 2000s
@@ChibiKami I feel so crazy when I remember this show was supposed to happen.
Am I weird for wanting to do a cosplay of Lavithunder just because no one will know what the hell I'm from
Yes
And ...
Yes
People often ask me who I am cosplaying as, and I don't even know!
That would be dope thou
I would know
But sir, we're just forgotten anime
Kenny: Not to me.
Damn.
😢😢😢
Is this a Clone wars reference!?
@@dadandadandan yep that’s a clone wars reference
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I was the 667th like. No need to thank me for saving you ;D
I found a review from pre-production materials of 1987 of producers from this show.
Masked Warrior Levithunder (13 episodes or 6 OVA depending on audience response) :
The forces of Rashka invades from another dimension the peaceful country of Lestand. Silya, a young woman whose family was tragically killed by Rashka's warriors goes on a journey to find somebody that could put a stop to the onslaught that is being unleashed by these invaders. After a perilous journey where she was being chased by some monsters, she is saved by a young warrior by the name of Keith. He saves Silya and heard her story along with the elder of Keith's tribe. The elder mentions that is time to one young man to awaken the power of the "Levistone" A mysterious sword that has been kept by the tribe for thousands of years as a relic. The sword recently has started to shine due to the dimensional portals where Rashka came from and they came searching for the Levistone.
Keith finds the sword and becomes the amazing hero of legend, the masked warrior Levithunder!! He can use the power of lightning and along with the powerful sword and secret powers, he also gains an ally in the form of Volk, a spirit wolf that will guide Keith into unlocking the ancient secret powers of the Levistone. Keith, Sylia and Volk begin a journey to defeat Raksha and his minions and restore the peace in the land.
What's your source? I would love to look into this.
Answer doko?
Yo wow 👀
@@Dragzilla66 "source:'trust me bro'" -OP probably
Please post source.
A lot of hours from a number of people went into making that and it totally vanished until you managed to dig it back up, more archaeology than history it seems like!
Its truly faacinating, specially because its not like trying to uncover the mystery of some thousand year old ceramic. Its a recent piece of art, something whose people involved might still be alive, and yet it needs so much work to uncover its secrets
@@AndreLuis-gw5ox Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone who worked on Lavithunder know what happened to it. Worst case scenario, whatever production material made for it was scrapped when the company went under, or it burned up in a fire. But the possibility remains that animation stills or a promo reel might be in the basement of some production assistant, or else in a warehouse belonging to a publishing company or distributor.
The worst part is you know theres a box in a warehouse or a pile of old reels/ vhs tapes in some forgotten building or room SOMEWHERE, where the clips of this exist still and are on the road to slow decay if they arent found or just thrown out.
And THAT is truely sad, like many pieces of history it will be lost to time with nothing but this video to really go off of.
If you can find out the words to the song I bet you could figure out what the anime is about
@@omnipotent9515 Merry Christmas th-cam.com/video/Bj4kDMZHNVc/w-d-xo.html
I't sounds like some sort of Trigun/Mad Max style anime, but with swords.
Personally when I hear "Road Warrior anime" I think of Fist of the North Star. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if this was going to be released to cash in the success of that series.
Oh hey, digby!
The design is very similar
Oh, it's you.
The same way how Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (Ronin Warriors) and Tenkuu Senki Shurato did try to cash on the success of the Saint Seiya.
...I still wish Shurato would recieve more popularity.
I literally cannot imagine how old Kenny is. He is so well-informed about old anime but he doesn't sound 30+.
Ageless cryptid, this man is
Every new obscure anime he finds makes him 1 year younger.
@@fattiger6957 then this video alone extended his lifespan by about 5 years
SCP 340-0098 Is approximately 178 years ols
"I read this magazine article... later on, I got a guy to get a guy to translate it".
His Japanese ability matches the characters in that terrible Pop Japan Travel comic
There’s an anime styled picture of Kenny in his attic that gets older with every video released.
I absolutely love how every subject you talk about on this channel eventually circles back to Chargeman Ken at some point. There is no escape, there is only Chargeman Ken.
The constants:
-Chargeman Ken
-Delinquent schoolgirls
-Minky Momo
@@TheSecondVersion
Don't forget Golden Bat
"There is no escape, there is only Chargeman Ken."
It's rare that a TH-cam comment can genuinely make me laugh out loud. 😆😆😆
You can't stop Changeman Ken
...you can only hope to put up with him.
Lavithunder is not the only series that was supposed to get an anime, but only got an LP release. Hariken Ryu's Gekisatsu! Uchuuken was supposed to get an animation too, but all it got was an LP with some music and audio drama. At least the comic got fully published.
Lavithunder was at least PARTIALLY produced though, if those screenshots are any indication. Hariken Ryu's Gekisatsu! is one more level down the rabbit hole. Did that even get to the pre-production stage?
The Special Magic of Herself the Elf has episodes on record after the 3 company deal owning the cartoon broke down.
@@kennylauderdale_en It might have been a publicity stunt for the singer with an "anime" pitch attatched to it. There have been other similar examples, like Teddy Boy Blues (in this case, a videogame was attached to it) or the Valis for Famicom short.
I remember I've stumbled upon a few records on VGMdb that were soundtracks for manga or books that had singles released for the theme song and even some commercials and TV and radio anthems have also been released as singles, it seems it's a common practice in Japan to launch the career of a pop singer or actor with other media attached that never get beyond some animated commercial or ilustrations in the album cover or booklet.
Well where is it
I always wondered, was there ever any anime that was purely for commercial purposes but was willed into a full fledged series?
It looks like it would have been the most stereotypical 80s fantasy cartoon rivaling He-man itself. Like I look at that art and can hear a plethora of synth bass and drum that I have never heard before.
I never thought of that before.
As an Italian, I'm pretty amused by the fact that many animes that are still obscure in America (like Oh Family, or Golden Bat from some episodes ago) have been broadcasted during the 80's and are still kinda famous to this day in Italy!
That's because the US didn't really go about dubbing a lot of anime at the time. What we did get would be a baby sized handful of syndicated shows, maybe something direct to video based on an entire series crushed into a less than 90 minute narrative film. And not for the lack of trying, either. Harmony Gold tried to get out Dragon Ball, Time Bokan, Dr. Slump, and (bafflingly) Muteking, but failed to get beyond some test dubs. Some of which became the basis for international dubs. In the US at the time, we were deeply into either Transformers/G.I. Joe or Care Bears/Rainbow Brite toy based series. That probably explains why they tried to develop the "Doozybots" SD Gundam series here. A safe, non-violent, or toned down to the extreme barely violent version of a series they could sell toys of.
@@mightyfilm transformers itself was technically an anime, with having 3 seperate, un-aired on the USA, tv shows and 1 ova. some of the American episodes were also produced by Toei
Transformers is actually quite confusing. It's an American property based off a Japanese toyline that in a roundabout way was based off of an American toy line, and the show and toy line were technically a co-production of America and Japan. That's a subject of the last video, sure, but it's to note that while the US market wasn't dubbing Japanese series much at the time, they were a major outsource for animation. Transformers, being produced by Marvel who already had a history with Toei did use them as a primary animation firm. As they did with a couple Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, most G.I. Joes, and the first 2 and a half seasons of Muppet Babies. And even after the initial series, only a handful of Transformers shows were animated and produced outside of Japan. Both Beast era series, Cyberverse, and both Rescue Bots series. But make no mistake, even though there were 8 or 9 anime (4 that we got dubs of), Transformers is primarily an American brand, and the original series was written to conform to American broadcast standards for American kids to buy toys.
@@mightyfilm oh of course. the whole Diaclone and Microman stuff makes transformers a really weird line
Also considering they did try just cold releasing Diaclone over here, but it wasn't successful. Just inventing a mythos and all the world building they did turned something that could have been a 3-4 year fad into Hasbro's biggest entertainment brand. As a Western/Eastern brand, there was a lot of coproduction over the years, be it the cartoons or the toys. So there's a massive blurred line right there. Given the fact that anime really wasn't a major thing the US got in the 80's, the only way they could have sold anything outside dubbed Nickelodeon filler probably would have been a toyline. Thing is, anything that could have been one would have been too violent for mainstream American television. That's why we got M.U.S.C.L.E. toys, but not Kinnikuman. The anime consumption in the US at the time was regulated to college clubs that somehow knew a guy who could sneak in a bootleg from a Japanese import grocer. Maybe some filler stuff on fledgling Nickelodeon and to fill out the burgeoning home video market. Europe seemed to just get more import stuff from all over the world. Not saying they didn't have their own produced animation, just not to the production output the US or Japan was at the time.
I love that there are people who manage to record commercials and old shows fro the 80's but also the idea that a lot of things that were NOT recorded are now lost in time
In the early 90s a family friend from the US 🇺🇸 lent us a VHS 📼 tape. It contained recorded music videos mostly Whitney Houston and some Gloria Estefan from VH1. During the break there was a promo for a Phil Collins NY concert. And some ads from my country in 1993 which I now miss. Eventually they asked for the tape back 🙄😂
Kenny does it again. This man is a lost media preserving hero.
Yes a true hero indeed.
[Places last card at foundation pile]
Quantum Croupier: ...Always satisfying when you make it to the end.
The Fighter / Kamen Senshi Lavinthunder Nov 21, 1986.
Kenny's detective skills are something that should be saved for future generations
I would like to imagine we are getting glimpses of an anime that did get released on another universe and became a huge all time classic and whenever you try to type for a rare show you heard up named "Kamen Rider" the search gets flooded with Kamen Senshi Lavithunder results making you question if it's even real or not.
hmm interesting
Kekw
As a kamen rider fan, that both fascinates and terrifies me lol
"The fighter" really evokes bonnie tyler's "holding out for a hero". Even trying to sing it with the lyrics from the latter still kind of fits.
As someone who regularly tries to google obscure animated & children's shows from my 1990's Australian childhood only to get zero results. I can relate.
Same here for the 1970s.
what were they? this might be the next clockman
@@Game_Hero I can't even remember the titles any more. :(
Shows I'm trying to find. "Turnabout" from the 1970's. Aired on American public broadcasting (PBS) either close to the same time as "Big Blue Marble" or perhaps Turnabout was just a segment of BBM. It's intro was simple, two curved arrows in a circle, one red, one blue, slowly rotating while a voiceover said "Turnabout". It taught things like critical thinking, opportunity cost etc. One episode I clearly remember was about some boys that wanted to build a banked turn and a hump on a go-kart track. They needed one of their dads to use his pickup to get the free wood for the job but it'd take two trips, and he wanted to watch a football game. So how what's the opportunity cost of each party to get all the wood or half the wood or none of the wood? Dad misses all the game but the boys get all the wood to build both track features. Dad watches all the game and the boys get none of the wood. Or dad misses the first half of the game and the boys get half the wood to build one track feature. As a kid I found the show very interesting and educational - and nobody else remembers it, not even the guy who was in charge of program scheduling during the 70s at the PBS station that broadcast what I watched. He did remember Big Blue Marble, an environmental show minus the whacky nuttery.
Another show is newer, from the 1990's. It was on Discovery Channel as a companion to their "Wings" show where each episode was on a single aircraft. The name of it was "Straight Up", and similar to "Wings" each episode was about a single helicopter, company, or influential person in the history of helicopters.
@@greggv8 you actually talked to a PBS broadcaster?
Suddenly, there's a reason my channel has more visitors. I only found this song... Thank you for visiting. :) 사랑해요 Kenny ♡
8:40
"It stars a tomboy with blond hair who is constantly being mistaken for a guy"
This video should have been about O family from the very beginning.
A tomboy and a femboy. Everyone should watch this anime!
I would watch a video about O Family if Kenny made one.
The brother is also canonically gay, which is kinda wild for 1986?
@@cantbejawsome so the fact that he gets confused by a girl is because he looks like that on purpose? Or is he annoyed because he is a top? Maybe doesn't like to be hit by heterosexual men? Why I keep questioning more about this anime?
@@0Raik I've only seen one episode, but I don't think he finds being mistaken as a girl to be a problem. He likes looking feminine, so he doesn't really mind. His tomboy sister is the one who's bothered by it.
It's strange that even the most obscure and budget anime, they don't cheap out on their OP music.
Next Kenny episode:
"Yo I found this anime thats pretty bang, but I think its an SCP or something. Anyway all hail scarlet king bye"
"Hey everyone, so I found this *[REDACTED]"*
There is a joke SCP that they literally used anime to wore it away.
This is definitely the kinda thing that's hiding a Pattern Screamer or something.
... Wait a minute, a narrative that doesn't exist but there is media about it... fuck... FUCK! The Anafabula! SCP 2747!
@@Cblack456
Nah man... It's just Fate/ Prototype...
Kenny's power level just keeps growing. at this rate hes going to start willing old anime into existence through sheer force of will that he will attempt to pass of as real lost media.
LOL!!!
Everyone approved of this
The next Indiana Jones movie is about the search for a legendary lost Anime in the dark wilderness of Tokyo.
I take that over the skull kingdom trash they made years ago.
I just remembered Dark Angel made an episode about a lost Star Wars episode 7 movie 🙄
Look at this modern digital archaeologist, finding anime that don't even exist. That's a flex you can be proud of.
There's a lot of loose ends when it comes to old anime series. Take God Mazinger. It was a 23 episode show from 1984, but it was supposed to be 24 episodes. The final episode was in an advanced state of production when they learned there would be a scheduling conflict with the Olympics, so the show was wrapped up at Episode 23. Episode 24 was supposed to be an epilogue episode where the characters reflect on their journey and God Mazinger sinks beneath the waves to await being needed again in the future. Due to ending at Episode 23 the show has a very jarring conclusion. However, a month before the show concluded a God Mazinger Audio Drama was released on vinyl. Due to the time lag between when an anime episode is made and when it is aired, this could be the audio drama version of that final episode. Why else would they release an audio drama of an unpopular show one month before it finished airing? It doesn't make sense. Alas, from everything I've seen, I don't think the audio drama album is the final episode. I think it's just a self contained story where God Mazinger fights dinosaurs like a lot of the episodes of the show. But, I may never know.
Wait they couldn't just delay it a week?
@@BJGvideos
From what I deduce of the companies of that time period, 90s and back all the to 10s, the executives didn't really watched their shows, specially animations.
They just "OK-ed" things and gave money and expected money to come to their pockets. And money came, like a lot.
Therefore, something so complicated like continuity, storytelling, run the episodes in the order they were supposed to, or even wait a week was out of their minds.
Animation by nature is super hard, especially back then. Imagine all those hardworks drawing it frame-by-frame and almost nobody knows it's very existence is just so sad
Right? Imagine how much the unused cells from the incomplete anime are worth! How much history each frame hold!
It’s sad that it got canceled, but at least we can live with the fantasy stories we create in our mind
I used to listen to the soundtrack to Masked Warrior Lavithunder when I got the high score playing Polybius at the arcade!
I used to do the same thing after I watched the Shazam movie with Sinbad.
Dude, i remember this anime! It used to play right after Candle Cove
I remember I listened to song on vacation in Taured
I did the same thing with my friend at the time, I think his name was Dan Cooper but we called him DB.
Huh
Judging by the imagery from the magazine (particularly the barbarian looking dude with a wolf) I think it would have been rather interesting to watch. I picture an action adventure series starring a wild masked man and his wolf.
Not only do you have a knack for finding lost anime media, this lost anime even connects back to Chargeman Ken! What an incredible find!
NGL, impressive level of dedication to this. You basically did the horror movie scene where they go to the library and look up film reel pictures to get the story on a destroyed building where the creepy ghost lives.
I really empathize with all this, I too end up down rabbit holes where its 2:30 AM and I am am using wayback machine to look at an long dead tripod site that had a hosted images of and out of print small publish gaming magazine just so I can find an AD from inside to find an ISBN number for a book that has been out of print since the 90's...
Have you found it?
Plot twist: This was made by college students that decided to press it on vinyl and decided to sell it several years later
Yoshiji kagami is the creator lol
"I found a lost anime on a vinyl record."
This ends with Kenny finding those ghosts from Pulse.
Quick, find the red electrical tape!
hopefully its the good japanese and not the American ones...*shakes in disgust*
*A GHOST OF A RECORD PLAYER?!?*
Tasukete...
Which "Pulse" are you referencing? 🤔
The fact that you looked through a bunch of magazines is truly dedication. You earned yourself a sub, a follower, and my respect.
This is interesting AF ngl. I love the character design and what little we can see of the art direction, though! I wish it was made. I would've watched the heck out of this.
Right? It looks like it would have been amazing.
Now here's a question: does anyone own the rights to Lavithunder's character? Or is it public domain? We could revive the character, if not the anime itself.
@@Bluecho4 One way to find out: Try! :D
@@Bluecho4 Make something that'd piss off people into wanting a lawsuit, and then maybe we'd get the release of the anime (':
Jesus, just when I think Kenny can't get any more obscure he goes and does this, the absolute legend!
Eyyy, Kenny's dedication to 70's/80's anime is best taste. 80's anime especially has so much character oozing out of it.
IMO, the 80s was the golden age of anime. A high-budget OVA or movie (Nausicaa, Macross DYRL, Bubblegum Crisis, etc) looks better than any anime made in the last 20 years.
@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte Doesn't need a plot. Has style, great music and 1980's anime mechanical design.
@@fattiger6957 Sorry but as someone who sat through a lot of crappy OVAs from that decade, I'm gonna have to call BS on that
There is something just so nostalgic and charming about going back in time to see what regular people in the past thought. like that section on this show wondering if it would become something or not.
This video was very entertaining and informative. Subbed
Are we sure Kenny isn't actually an SCP that generates proof of non existent "lost media", or one that's merging the history of anime with some alternate time line.
I don't think these episodes and lost pieces of media are getting progressively more fucked up like typical SCP's of its type.
@@timmyman9677 So far. Some of those things are assumed to be safe for years until one day an imprudent researcher does something dumb and bam, keter class.
He's probably an euclid tho.
...🙁🤔
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@@axelprino nah, he’s like the many Adam SCPs except Adam wasn’t the right name, it was Kenny all along.
@@axelprino Minky Momo is a Keter-class that must either be:
1.) Never aired again, or
2.) Once aired, must be broadcast continuously for as long as possible,
Because every single time it airs a "final episode," Japan gets hit by progressively worse disasters
i consider myself as an anime fan, with over 1500 titles watched, but next to you and your level of obsession and knowledge of a very-very obscure and rare animations - i feel myself like a clueless toddler. Hats off. That was an intresting video.
Many anime are produced by a "production committee" something like a shell company to limit financial risk from studios and TV stations involved with the series. The album release could have been a last-ditch effort to recoup some money by the production committee on a series that was clearly going nowhere due to lack of investment or break down of contract negotiations. It is also possible that this was a convoluted 'scam' to release an album while having a third party foot the bill. You don't generally start a show by producing a theme song and then stop. I suspect one of these two is the answer.... but I am just guessing based largely on business experience and articles I have read about failed productions.
Selling music was a pillar of 1980s anime. Is it possible the physical album was produced at the same time as the studio was working on the animation? Then they had a warehouse filled with LPs when the show was cancelled so the record label just released it to market to make back some of their costs.
Production committees started in the 90s with Gainax projects.
Lmao I'm impressed about yall searching about that kind of business
Yo I just wanna thank you for putting that anime vinyl person in the description- they are very epic and I’m loving all of these old city pop vibe songs I’m like in heaven right now man this is so awesome
"No views" are really poetic in this case.
For real.
A shame it never showed. I love that art style in anime. Beautiful. I usually end up loving anime like that.
See now, THIS is the sort of excellent detective work into obscure TV that I come here for. It's literally inspiring to me.
watch someone who worked on the anime find this video and be like "oh hey, yeah we have 12 unreleased episodes, you want?"
Goddamnit I was expecting some Japanese dude in the comments to just say "Oh yeah that, I think I saw it on the air as a kid. Strange that there's no VHS for this." or something, and this case would be blown open right away.
oh no, the last thing we need is more Mandela effect anime from the Berenstein universe.
@@ChibiKami And then comes Tom the Friendly Dinosaur.
This is #TheWillOfSteinsGate
I really enjoy the story of your detective work to find these obscure shows. It's interesting to see what clues you are able to discern and where they lead.
Kenny: An anime with barely any info, might not even exist
Ah, so another normal monday
Your profile pic indicates that you have good taste
@@gartenofbanana youre cool too
@@_Claus_ Who’s your pfp and where are they from?
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 Oh, its Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho. Hes the main character
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 it's a great anime totally recomend it👌
You weren't supposed to uncover this! Lavithunder lost almost all of his power. But now that more people know of him, his power grows. I can't fight him again at my age. You've doomed us all!
took care of it for ya.
I appreciate the B-roll footage of Japanese guys making vinyls.
I clicked because i'm like . . ."WTF, you can put video onto a vinyl record?!"
History became legend, legend became myth and for five a half decades, the Record passed out of all knowledge until, when chance came, it ensnared a new weeb
Kenny's gonna turn into Gollum? Oh, no!
I admire your level of dedication to anime research. I wish I was that dedicated to anything. Portrait art is my biggest passion, but even that I’d need to study lighting, anatomy and clothing to improve, and I’m lazy about that, so my improvement is pretty slow.
Oh my god, thanks so much for finding that magazine article! The theme song is a banger and its providence has been bothering me for ages. I knew I was right to ask you about it! I wonder if a bounty on 2ch could encourage someone to find the 30 second promo.
That said, American Sailor Moon was not produced by Saban. It was developed by Toon Makers/Renaissance Atlantic. (I think someone from TM may have been in the room with us when Allen Hastings showed the infamous promo reel, but I can't be certain. He must have been sitting where Allen glanced uncomfortably at the end.)
The more I think about that series, the more I remember how Saban was not involved. Saban was notorious at the time for grabbing any cheap anime license to dub. I don't think they had any connections to Toei animation, but they certainly had someone that had Tatsunoko on speed dial. I'd think their version of Sailor Moon would have just been a dub with wacky music and wacky, pun filled dialogue (think Samurai Pizza Cats) that every country in the world BUT the US would have got but based off their English dub. And I certainly think if they were to do a live action/cartoon hybrid Power Rangers type show, they certainly would NOT have commissioned new animation, dubbing the old footage instead.
The title made me think, that by some unexplained magic, you have managed to exctract an anime from a vinyl record lmao
So a month or so ago I found out that Minky Momo is part of the story of a mysterious death. This guy in Japan goes hiking way back when and goes missing. They eventually find his body and one of the things he had on him was the soundtrack to Minky Momo.
What? Is there any more info on this?
Edit: Found it on wikipedia. "Mount Asahidake SOS Incident". Crazy stuff.
Really interesting deep dive! Seeing the various ways you searched for it (I never would have thought to examine the commercials for simultanously airing anime) broadened my view of how to find these sorts of things.
I clicked on this video and didn't expect to know that Oh!Family was adapted into an anime a long time ago (and made by the same studio with Chargeman Ken). I never thought any work of Watanabe Taeko had been adapted into anime before omg. What a surprise.
I don't know about manga publishing in your country but my country actually published Oh!Family a long time ago (and it had been re-published again if I remember correctly) so I know about it lol.
Hey just a stranger on the internet, watching the video triggered my memory. Space Family Carlvinson is a wonderful & fun anime I really really enjoyed as kid.
Thank you for helping me recover something this deep in my memory.
Kenny Lauderdale: Animecheologist.
Kenny: *IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!*
Nice
Never in my life would I have expected this video to identify the Wizard of Oz anime that has haunted my dreams these past 25 years. I have been looking for the name of it for literally decades. My parents got a bootleg vhs of it back when I was a kid in a box of other tapes. Amazing. Thank you.
Kenny has briefly made contact with Aliens, but stopped when he found out only Humans make anime.
Kenny is literally two steps away from looking for Anime in other dimensions.
Kenny's channel one day is going to stop all activity for, like, 3-5 years, before returning to regular uploads about anime he's discovered in neighboring fantasy realms that he received from Dragons.
Or maybe he's just going to visit the earths where those animes take place. If that's the case Kenny please take people with you.
Love your anime coverage, with its massive scope. And to top it off, you play the best background music. BREATH OF FIRE III, overworld theme....simply sublime.
If an anime falls over in the woods, did it make a sound?
So glad I found your channel. I am loving the content
Hey, how rare is this media?
Kenny: Yes.
It was sold 700 Yen in 1986. So, it is rare because it had limited prints, more likely. Which would support my theory of the alternate cover of a single which did well. Indeed, a popular singer's single being so rare makes little sense to me.
@@nozoto some popular stuff can go pretty unnoticed and rare during the time it was released
Is this media?
Kenny: (fades out I'd existence)
Oh...
Your dedication and focus is the stuff of legend! I swear by old-school anime, but I'd never be able to put in the work to uncover something THIS obscure!
"the final screenshot that we have is just the main character walking towards the screen, with a wolf on his side and a sword on his back."
aye, he went out in a blaze of glory...being as aggressively cool as any anime protagonist can be. i'll never forget you, masked warrior lavithunder...you and your kickass wolf and sword
Unreleased American version of Sailor Moon: Exists
Me: Oh my god, MY EYES! IT BURNS!!
The greatest historical discoveries were found by chance. Seems like Kenny in particular is just fated to discover lost media like he was blessed by some divine beings of whom he's actually their lost son with naturally-gifted yet hidden away powers of unearthing those lost to time.
Upon searching both 'Family!' and 'Lavithunder' in Japanese, I did find a page that, while it mostly just reiterates what we already know, does say that the 30-second promo aired specifically 'early December 1986'. If someone out there happened to have a recording of Family! from December 1st or 8th (Mondays), that had all the commercials etc, we might just be able to find this promo - although at this point, if even Kenny can't find it, it might indeed truly be lost. Still, if someone was able to find him the second Hana no Asuka-gumi OVA, it's not impossible this exists.
(I did wonder months ago if animation cels for this thing may have survived, but I've not been able to find any of those either...)
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This is a really in-depth look at a sadly unreleased piece of anime history. I definitely would have watched Lavithunder, it seems very interesting from the pictures and music alone. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in researching this lost gem.
In google (and other search engines) you can add a " - " in front of a term (without a space) to exclude it from search.
This is very useful if you're getting the wrong result in your search. Prevent 1:42
google "Refine web searches" for other useful operators.
edit: also quotes around the search and/or exclude term can help a lot.
Lost media with great research. Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing. Stay safe and warm.
Fun fact: Tommy Snyder (the composer for the B-side "Winner"') is Shanti Snyder's father. Small world!
[edit: for clarity, Shanti is known for many her Yoko Kanno collaborations (Escaflowne, GITS:SAC, Shimotsuma Monogatari, Maaya Sakamoto), and she wrote and sang for several GrandFunk, inc. CMs, wrote lyrics for Crystal Kay’s debut, and has several solo albums. Tommy himself is a well-established session musician from France, plays drums in Godiego, and performed tunes for Lupin III and Marine Express. It was wild to see his name pop up in this video.]
This is literally my favourite channel. You are helping to preserve art that was going to be forgotten if you didnt
If this goes on Kenny will find the entire cursed 1973 Doraemon.
Why is doraemon 1973 cursed?
Because it bombed miserably in Japan!
The pure detective work put into this really excites me. The dedication and effort are very apparent. All I can do is offer you my thanks (because I've already subscribed).
On another note, the moment you said Mitsuko Horie's name I knew the song should sound great even if I've never heard more than what was in this video. Also, quite interesting OUT magazine has Leina, Elpeo Ple and Sayla on the front. Was this particular volume after ZZ aired? I know ZZ Gundam characters ranked within the top 10 of Animage's Male and Female character lists (Judau for male and Haman and (I think) Puru for female) that year.
Shame this was never made, looks like it would have been a great fantasy anime.
Keep up the good work kenny!
I wanna thank you for the coverage you did on Carlvinson! A group started to translate the manga a while after you covered it previously and it's been a very nice read, and I'm absolutely sure it wouldn't have been picked up if you didn't make it relevant again!
This is the impact that kenny's videos have. Lavithunder has been known for years among niche circles, but, thanks to kenny, it now has a visibility that will make it possible to unearth more information with the added people that are aware of it, just like the Lensman TV anime. Same with the Nora and Twinkle Nora manga scanlated in English.
damn it, really? now I hope he talks about Ai to makoto.
Somehow it reminds me of a dream I once had.
So the dream was pretty simple, you had a guy with his blue alien dog, named Blue, they traveled the world, working as mercenaries, and yes the dog was fully sentient, just didn't have means to communicate with speech. It was a mix of Sci Fi and Steampunk.
So in theory there's a 30 second commercial of this cancelled anime lost out there, or even that wasn't ever released?
It's kinda poetic if it's the latter.
Clearly they produced *something*. I doubt those few screenshots are the only frames ever made. What probably exists are the promo plus some incomplete episodes that were mid-production when it was canceled.
I heard the theme song on one of gundober's mix-tape videos and became obsessed with finding it.
But not as obsessed as you! At least you actually found something. I take my hat off to you, sir.
The only thing more amazing than finding this lost anime is the sheer dedication to searching it out, and rescuing it from obscurity. Hats off to you!
I don’t even watch anime I just love lost media content and the way you make your videos. Oh and because of your INCREDIBLE determination and effort that you put into finding information about lost media.
Ah yes, Bankruptcy. The death of all creativity
Amazing detective work as always! This one is wild.
Always sad when a team works long and hard on a project or series that goes nowhere.
Lavithunder kinda looks like He-Man's lost Japanese cousin,
Yo but he is badass, he took of skeletors face and wears it as a mask now!