In case you're wondering what this is, it's one of Harmony Gold's many anime "films", made using the first 6 episodes of a Tatsunoko anime called Kerokko Demetan. It has a copyright date of 1985 but for some reason it wasn't released until 10 years later, and it got a "sequel" that aired on Nickelodeon and was only released on home media in the UK. Harmony Gold also did a separate dub of the show in the 90s called Adventures on Rainbow Pond but it's lost.
Basically, I took the raws of this remaster: https://nyaa.si/view/1508728 and edited the video to match a rip I did of a VHS of the dub I found at a thrift store (the only reason I), and I imported the DVD set from Japan for the textless opening + ending to retype the dub credits, and it was all rendered in HD with Vegas Pro 20 with a SoM inspired approach where I made the bitrate slightly higher than the materials used to keep as much quality as possible which is why this is 7 gigs. Due to the way its cut the Japanese audio isn't included because it wouldn't make sense, and I don't have any other dub audio for this. (I did something similar with Saban's dub of Kashi no Ki Mokku aka Pinocchio: The Series, but I need to redo the video with direct encodes of the Blu Ray set in order to do a raw release of it here... plus a majority of the uncut English audio for the dub is lost)
I'd like to do this with the sequel film so its a complete duo but there's no good quality copy available online to my knowledge and I don't have a PAL VCR to warrant importing the tape.
Why did I do all of this for a Harmony Gold dub? I dunno. Nobody else was gonna do it.
A direct download of this can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k1HYzmwBwjpNf_3ntUDFxy90k60XcGpo/view?usp=drive_link because uploading to archive.org is like watching paint dry in the rain. Use it to help seed faster or not.
I originally planned to put this on my YT channel for easy viewing but Tatsunoko cucked the upload because of the footage from episode 3, even though there's more footage from other episodes used that had no impact on the upload.
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[AriesArtist] The Brave Frog (Harmony Gold, 1985) HD Remaster [13EFDC47].mp4 (7.8 GiB)
May I ask what you did to make the vhs audio so clear? I'm been experimenting with another Harmony Gold dub and can't figure out what I should be doing. It may not apply 100%, but I'm hoping I might get an idea of what I could possibly do.
Also, thank you so much for this! I've been interested in Harmony Gold dubs lately so I really appreciate the effort you went through for this. Thank you!
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