🌏 Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 1 months free here ➼ nordvpn.com/raymona It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ Hey yall, two quick things!: The video currently says its got 0 views and also some mobile users have noted not being able to hear sound. Since sound should be universal then im going to guess KZread is experiencing issues right now, so if the app is silent it may work on desktop! I'll give it a bit and if I see the issue persists I may have to reupload. Otherwise, ty for your patience!!

Omg thank you so much for using and crediting my site!!! I haven’t finished the video yet, but do wanna give a shoutout to my friend @orangebratz who helped find those wallpapers featured on the site! I wish I had known sooner about the feature because I’m now friends with the owner of Bratz Mania and he gave me some insight about the Japanese site, but I haven’t had a chance to update those pages since there’s huge renovations happening on the site. 😅 I am still working on piecing some things together, but I may have found a few extra things to throw into the pile of CoooolTV evidence! I also was in the very early stages of potentially getting footage of the show, but it never panned out. 😢 I’m hoping we can get even more info on the series in the future! I’ve done so many deep dives and searches for crumbs of info! Can’t wait to finish the video and really appreciate you shouting out the site! And if any your viewers are using it, just wanna say there are HUGE updates happening very soon! 💜

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow thats amazing and thank you! Also your website is so cool and was such a helpful resource for this doc!!😭❤❤

@GenerationNextNextNext

6 ай бұрын

Hey Lookin' Bratz!

@alisonmcgregor2002

Ай бұрын

hi dom!!

The mere thought of Cloe exclaiming "JESUS!" cracks me up 😭

Screamin at Sasha and Jade's character bios- NOT JADE WANTING GORE

@roxassora2706

8 ай бұрын

And Sasha being anti-establishment. Wtf.

heyyy BoA is actually a south korean singer-songwriter under SM Entertainment, it's common for k-pop idols to make japanese tracks especially for animes/television. (she also still makes music to this day!)

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

ooo i grew up listening to BoA and somehow forgot she was when i worked on this xD

@Daythinking

Жыл бұрын

@@RayMona she's awesome! it's amazing how she expanded into Japanese markets so early into her career and how she was one of the first k-pop idols to branch into the U.S. market! love the video 💖

@Morphix93

Жыл бұрын

BoA’s music never disappoints

@adamsmoberly

Жыл бұрын

@@RayMonaShe’s just as big in Japan as she is in her home country. She actually quit school and focused on the Japanese market after releasing music there. So she’s definitely got a big fan base there, she’s just not considered a J-Pop idol, because it’s not her main focus nor is her main company there.

@thedrewster0408

Жыл бұрын

⁠​⁠@@adamsmoberlyBoA was also one of the first K-Pop artists to break barriers of being a popular Korean artist in Japan. Namely she started her career in 2000, which was around the time that South Korea was lifting bans on Japanese cultural products that were implemented after World War II and fully lifting that ban in 2004.

Wow, something I can help with, slightly. (No, sadly I have no recordings.) So, back in 2003 I was a 20 year old, recently married, and about to have my first son, but I still kept in contact with a lot of my Japanese friends thanks to this new fangled "internet" thing. My friend (whom has requested anonymity, sorry) was (and is) a huge doll person, like myself. Basically these episodes were like weekly bumpers played on (oddly) late night MTV. The Bratz were essentially American tourists doing Japanese things. Hence the Zen temple (where, yes, most of the girls prayed to be thinner, it was the early 2000's...) the swimming pool in the blue school swimsuit (anyone who's watched any anime knows exactly the one I'm talking about) and the music video, which I believe got the most replay due to being attached to BOA. So, the weird late night slot and early cancellation thing: Parent groups. Essentially a PTA, but on steroids. Japanese trad-moms HATED these dolls, and heavily petitioned against anything that had to do with them in fairly intense letter writing campaigns. They didn't want "foreigner" dolls "mocking" Japanese traditions. Japan did not need to be "cool". Yes, really. I don't think the rickshaw episode ever aired, but to be fair I was kind of giving birth back in the States at the time (my son was born on the 10th that September). So, despite forcing the channel to play the bumpers on late night TV, that didn't stop older kids (and some adult men) from recording and sharing them on said new fangled internet. These "concerned parents" weren't happy about that. The show was canceled, links containing the episodes were copyright struck, and the website was just sort of allowed to die. And no, I'm not saying any of this in a "Japan is bad" sort of way. I love Japan and I can't wait to visit my friends again in hopefully a couple more years (we try to meet up every 10 years or so). Just remember, every country has intolerant people and sadly the Bratz' Coool TV bumpers were just one of their casualties. (If you'd like some funny insight into these "campaigns" you should watch Gintama. The actors regularly break the fourth wall to bitch about these parents harassing the Sunrise studio.) Not MUCH help, I know, but at least I can confirm they're real and that I've seen 3 of them. As for the missing VA I think she may have been voiced by a guest every week, but don't quote me on that, it has been 20 years and it possible she was just swapped out for a different actress after episode 2. Great work as always, Raymona! 🤗

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

This is amazing, thank you for the insight!!! Also, that makes a lot of sense haha in the 90s we had a lot of kids cartoons (both american made and dubbed) get censored for similar parental concerns. When the game super smash bros came out, angry parents tried to petition to have the commercials and game removed. Very bizarre time xD

@ligeiasiren4290

Жыл бұрын

NOT them praying to be thiner, LMAO, problematic queens 💅

@lucapeyrefitte6899

Жыл бұрын

Wow this is really cool, sad they let it die like that

@GenerationNextNextNext

6 ай бұрын

I was around on the Bratz World community during that time, but could never find the episodes. Thanks for this! I remember Dana was supposed to be Mexican American and Yasmin was Spanish American. Dana's family was directly from Mexico.

8:40 BoA is actually South Korean but was very popular in Japan!

The "confusion" as to why many Bratz fans are unsure if the stop-motion has anything to do with Coool TV comes from the fact many old Bratz fans remember (including myself) the video appearing on the official American website a few months before Bratz launched in Japan. The video could be seen on a Bratz Cinema section of the website, listed as a "game". Back in that time, the Website was set up to show a little Bratz World with games. If you won the Cinema game, you got to see the video. It was just a promo video that was launched globally, honestly, from the USA website. This is why some Bratz fans aren't sure if it was promo. It may have inspired the Japanese series, though.

something about Cloe's favorite phrase being "JESUS" is just so funny to me

@rune2O2O

Жыл бұрын

Miss Ohio is sending me

27:09 that mumble after Sasha's description😏

That’s a criminally low view count for such a high quality video & that intro had me shook, nice work

27:10 I thought I was tripping when I started reading this?? I started crackin up when you were mumbling under your breath 😭. Another great video from you Ray!! I hope you are able to uncover this case. I remember seeing something about this a few months back and the person talking about it mentioned the singers who made songs for it and I was like "CHRISTINA MILLIAN?? BOA???? BACKSTREET BOYS???"

What's funny is that Takara and Tomy would merge in 2005, so MGA technically worked with the same company😂!

Why does lost media discussion videos always make me feel a underlying dread despite the subject matter

27:10 girl what did you sayyyyy😭😭

@dreamingwitch7543

Жыл бұрын

"____ ____ ____ fucking racist" I think 😭

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

​@@dreamingwitch7543😂😂😂

Gosh, I had NO idea BoA made music for the Bratz dolls!! What an insightful and well-made video (as usual!) Definitely took me on a journey! Had a great time providing my voice a bit as well! 💚

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

I know right?!?! BoA is an icon😭😭😭Thank you again!!!💕❤💕❤💕

@yellowstar3335

Жыл бұрын

what BOA i am i big fan now i got to watch

Holy shit that Sasha description! My ribs hurt from the reaction

@nanotunes

Жыл бұрын

Imagine what they would write about Mona: "immediately & instinctively immersed in investigations" 🙃

Thank you for using the Bratz Wiki 💚 It's been a long time since anyone edited that page and we are a small team so keeping it up to date has been a struggle. I will work on adding sources for the rest of the images on the page. I do have them all bookmarked as well as some more information I need to upload.

I love it whenever Ray Mona uploads a new lost media video.

Oh my god, the amount of research done on this video is absolutely incredible! Well done, Raven!! CoooolTV is one of my personal holy grails when it comes to lost media. I had never heard of it until a few years ago, when I saw a section on Lookin' Bratz about it! I'm really hoping it will be found soon, and with this documentary, that might happen eventually. Also, Cloe being a former Miss Ohio contestant is so trippy to me as an Ohioan myself😆

Years ago I discovered the existence of "Bratz cool TV" and I'm excited, I've been listening to K pop since I was 11 years old and I've been collecting dolls since I was 18, knowing that the episodes were inaccessible intrigued me a lot and he took me to investigate in Nico Nico douga (the so-called Japanese YT) I didn't find anything about Bratz, I just found out that a Japanese Pop rock band by the name "Brats on B" existed in the 90s, I think that would explain why the dolls were called "Cool Bratz" and not just Bratz how in the West and the rest of the world

I literally dropped everything I was doing when I got the notification. New Ray Mona Day is a good day 💪🏾

Please please please do one of these investigations into the Bratz Boyz Twiins dolls! I know it’s not media, but these dolls are literally impossible and I mean impossible to find anywhere even in used conditions. And there’s so much mystery as to when and where they were released or if they even were released. I seriously need to know and no one can ever give me a definite answer. If there’s anyone who can find out it’s you!

the doll community thanks you

This isn't about cool tv but I really love all the transitions between sections in your videos. I watch longer videos in chunks so the transitions always put me in the right mood to watch.

I've been hyperfixating on dolls this past while so IM SO GLAD youre making a video on bratz lost media, your upload are always what i wait for

I just wanted to add one more note, as I don't remember if its mentioned in the vid, but the single by BOA was used as the title screen music for Bratz Rock Angelz on the GBA. Also, interesting that there's allegedly a Japanese dub of the 2004 series. This is news to me, and I've never heard of any refrence of this till now. I'm guessing this is also lost media..

@GenerationNextNextNext

6 ай бұрын

Which 2004 series? The series coinciding with Rock Angelz came out in 2005. Was there another series?

Im so glad that you covered this lost media! Its really good to see the lengths you go too for research and information. As a long time Bratz fan you did an awesome job!!!

It should've been ブラッツ: ハングアウトに行きましょう! (Bratz: Let's Go Hangout!)

I've been blasting Show Me What You Got (Boa, Bratz, and Howie from Backstreet Boys) waiting for this

OMG I can't even believe that she read my comment and made a video about it! 😮🎉❤

Please do a video on the lost Winx Club pilot from 1999 called Magic Bloom!! I’ve never seen anyone search for it and you’d be the perfect person to try!! Plus I love Winx AND your channel :)😊

@lylajean100

Жыл бұрын

And you could collab with Unicorn of War, the winx club expert on youtube - or me, LOL

8:40 BoA is a **South Korean** singer 9:44 This show first aired in 2005

I always loved Bratz and J-pop, so when I was younger and found out that BoA/Bratz had a collab always had me baffled since I thought it was so random, so to find out that it was part of a whole campaign push for the Bratz in Japan is a new revelation. Now when can we get Show me what you got on streaming! That song is a bop!

@NicolasPetrosLanning

5 ай бұрын

BoA is actually K-Pop, she’s Korean

Just passing by to say thanks for passing by my French coverage of your amazing discoveriues, you belong in a museum yourself !

@RayMona

11 ай бұрын

🙏😊

Not you single-handedly rejuvenated lost media lmfao

Her voice, HER VOICE, ❤❤❤ my ears are in heaven.

@honeyspygirlmyworld

Жыл бұрын

If the voice in my head sounded like that, I'd start thinking ❤

It was very interesting to see the research you conducted. Congratulations on another good job.

The best way to start talking about lost media : quoting 18th century french philosophers. Never change, Mona :D

(This comment is not hate! I loved the video and just wanted to be of help as someone who is knowledgeable about Japanese culture) A helpful tip for this investigation and for future investigations that might lead you to Japanese individuals. Japanese seiyuu (voice actor) culture is completely different from the Western industry. Seiyuu very rarely speak individually to their fans, or respond to inquiries such as yours. The goal is to keep all fans feeling equal with each other, in order to maintain that personal relationship with the fan base, as fans become very territorial over the celebrities. While many agencies allow fan letters to be sent to the voice actors, this is a one way communication. It's frowned upon for them to speak directly to individual fans on social media as well. Similarly, copyright law and the Japanese equivalent of an nda are extremely strict in Japan, so many individuals will not speak about their past projects in unofficial ways, such as to a youtuber or journalist such as yourself. I feel for you, as this is a hard topic to research, especially going into another culture. If you run into issues with the language barrier again, I recommend reaching out to the lost media community, or even your own subscribers. Many people who speak Japanese and English would probably be willing to help you.

I swear, everytime you upload I get a high that lasts for an entire week. Thank you so much for all of the hardwork and effort you put in your documentaries. We needed someone like you in the lost media community , girls media isn't talked about enough

@optiquemusic6204

11 ай бұрын

First off, I was in High School at a time where Bratz was big and any-one who wasn't a pre-teen or teenage girl saw it as nothing more than shallow, vapid rubbish. To have been influenced by Bratz was to be pitied. Tho, the one good thing to come from that Bratz movie was the Bratman dub. I will concede that, without Bratz, we may not have gotten Monster High, Rainbow High, Equestria Girls or DC Super Hero Girls (the latter being guilty pleasures). So, despite Bratz being sem-popular but not all that well-liked, it's fascinating to see all the details you dug up on at an attempt to bring them to Japan and Korea.

BOA is korean btw, not japanese! just a small correction

That intro music always bops

IMMEDIATELY clearing my schedule for this as we speak!

Hey Ray! Do you think you'd ever do an episode on the Wonder Woman and the Star Riders cartoon? It was a cancelled TV special, but I've seen some character guides and screenshots floating around and I've been wondering how much animation from the project was actually finished...

As I recently watched a huge deep dive into Bratz you come out with this

I've known about this for about a year, but didn't bother to find it myself. I'm glad you're covering this! I was really hardcore into Bratz as a kid so this means quite a lot to me!

Another masterpiece 🍿

Brilliant job!! I’m so glad someone did investigation for this lost media. Shame it underperformed, however, I think, besides aggressive campaigns, MGA should released Japan exclusive dolls specially designed with a Japanese consumer in mind similarly what Barbie had done in the past for that market.

ooh brats of the lost nebula reference🫶😭

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

YOU GET 10000000000000 POINTS

So glad ur talking about this!! I’ve been intrigued by it ever since I discovered it existed!

Excellent as usual, Ray! I can't wait for the next part. 😊

I always get so excited when I see a new Ray Mona video has been released! Thank you for the sparks of joy that you bring to our lives!

Your documentaries are always so fun, well researched and just incredibly well edited I always look forward to everything you put out! Thank you so much for all the hard work you do!

Yes! A new Ray Mona video to cheer my day up!

Another great one Ray! This is so fascinating. Had no idea Bratz were even released in Japan!

It's always a treat when Ray Mona uploads ✨

Your work is amazing! Your videos are sooo good and thanks for getting more attention to this lost Bratz show! Hopefully we'll be able to see full episodes in the future! :)

Your investigation is amazing, I really like your videos ☆

this channel is fastly becoming my fave 😊

Godddddddd this is so high quality!!! You are no doubt going to become huge one day. Good work. ♥

i want to say thank you so for putting so much effort into this & helping to archive this precious information that so many don't give af about i watched this so happily think about all the time & savvy that provided us with this & again want to thank you i have a bunch of fun ideas now , when i get the line of dolls they used to promote in japan or duplicates of things like funk 'n glow i can treat them as multiverse bratz who didn't stay in stilesville but decided to go abroad to japan as a j-pop act & you've taught me so much about researching for things i would absolutely love like using the wayback machine to find pristine images of all the niche things i like that aren't documented like photoshoots , stock photos , album cover arts i saw you post this on twitter & saved it immediately & now that it popped up on my reccomended i knew it was time hehe , i didn't know you were the great detective that brought us the lost saban moon pilot & i finally will now tune in for that since that's another beloved media of mine again but i have to thank you one more time for making this video i care so much about dolls & the lost history that many don't think twice about to archive & i wish you the absolute best

I love your lost media video series. Watching this I can't help but feel the footage must be out there somewhere maybe even hidden in plain sight in an old tv bumper/commercial compilation video. Hopefully, Japanese fans will have something and we'll have a part 2 very soon!

As a bratz fan, this makes me so happy. I loved the retellings

I think there is always hope 🙏💕

Ray Mona you have done it again you have found another lost media

I know for the English cartoons, movies? Tia or Tamera from Sister Sister did voice one of the characters I saw on a VH1 where are they now. I don't think neither of them were involved in the Japanese version. Good luck with the reaserch though.

@Sipertopic

6 ай бұрын

If this has nothing to do with Japanese then why did you comment this? Like everything you just said everyone knows.. you aren’t helping

The bratz series actually premiered in 2005!

YAY RAY'S BACK!!!

Rayray is back 😊

morning musume and BOA yes! my favorite 😄

Your video never disappoints! I still own the Bratz albums (guilty)

that chocolate bar with Bratz as an ad looks really yummy

AAAAAAAAA I’m mainly a Bratz collector, and is more interested in art and doll collecting in general. But lost media is definitely a guilty pleasure for me! It’s so nice to see a combination of two of my favorite things merged together! ^^

Finally got the time to spare for this Lost Media vid! And man, such an interesting thing to know about. Never got the appeal of Bratz (obviously b/c Imma dude) but good on them for becoming a big contender for dolls next to Barbie. Never knew Japan tried to get in on the market with this toyline, let alone a stop-motion show.

Honey get up a new Ray Mona Video is up!!

oh i am SEATED BABE, LETS GO FOR THE DOLLS!!

I had one of the plush foxes they put out. It was the blue one with the black paws and tail tip. I really need to get one again.

and when we needed her most, she returned…

I love that BoA and Verbal were featured on separate tracks. The two of them have collaborated multiple times with Verbal’s group m-flo.

This was an interesting video, and I was wondering if you tried contacting that email that was on the Bratz website?

Was so fun to watch/listen to while working tonight! Just finished and wow!!! I really hope some more info can come forth soon from other sources :D

thought BoA was South Korean. I used to see her appear a lot on 2 different Korean Top 10 music video shows in the late 90s & early 00s.

@Hellokittylol

Жыл бұрын

She is Korean 😊

@GenerationNextNextNext

6 ай бұрын

She is South Korean, but she debuted in Japan during a diplomatic exchange between the company. She's been huge in Japan ever since.

I am huge fan of Bratz since I was younger

Ooh Mindsweeper that's a vintage reference!

With how Bratz are a big deal again, I feel it's only a matter of time before more information comes out about coool TV! Great job Mona 💕

BABE WAKE UP NEW RAY MONA VID JUST DROPPED

SHE IS UNSTOPPABLE!!!

Ah. The queen of finding lost media has returned

41:14 "Beauty is only for a moment." Indeed it is. I guess I learned something from a Bratz doll? A confirmation of what's known? Oddly enough, I don't know. Either way, I wasn't expecting to hear something like that from a fashion doll cartoon. I mean, we don't really know if she really says that in the show, but it would be weird if she did say that.

Once again loving your lost media videos! Your investigations are always super thorough and your video editing is top notch. I’m not a fan of dolls but I’m always all for lost media being found, so here’s hoping this will kickstart some new discoveries!

Sounds like there was a lot of pandering to the Japanese market with this cartoon series. I doubt it would have been something they'd bother translating for the overseas market. Reminds me of the TMNT 87 episodes where they went to various locations in Europe specifically to pander to those markets, except those were made in English first to later be part of the American series broadcasts. Just several years later on a cable network. Anyway, it sounds like these were short episodes that SHOULD have been put directly on a Japanese webpage advertising the dolls instead or along side of the TV airings. Had a mainstream, KZread like video page existed back then, that would have been the place to put it to get the eyeballs they needed. Not that it couldn't still effectively become lost, but the odd timeslots did doom the series and a secondary viewing space would have at least garnered more recollections.

was about to go to sleep not anymore

that sasha description oouuh... 😭

"Bratz of the Lost Media". I feel like that's a reference to a forgotten Jim Henson puppet show called "Bratz of the Lost Nebula". Only those who watch YTV in Canada in the late 90's such as yourself would get that. If it is, Awesome. You would be one of very few people like myself who would remember that show.

@CodenameSailorEarth

Жыл бұрын

I loved that show!

You changed your username and I've been missing out on your content 😭

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

😭❤❤❤ i hope you enjoy binging the videos!!💕

Morning Musume is my favorite Idol group

I'm not sure if it's something wrong with my end but I'm not getting any sound! I'm so excited for this tho!! Bratz!!!

@RayMona

Жыл бұрын

For some reason there is no audio on mobile, but i am told it works on desktop!

@TiaBelle123

Жыл бұрын

@@RayMona I got it to work on mobile finally thank you!

I. AM. SUPRISED THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO TACKLE THIS TOPIC RAY- and personally I feel like this is impossible since the first ever tv series of bratz (cooooltv) being set in japan which is notorious for causing lost media back then and probably now.. but I really hope everything goes well for you in your journey though!! I'm not sure if you would make it since I didn't fully watched the video rn bit Goodluck out there ray! GO QUEEN 👑✨

YAAAY