Thanks so much to GTV for helping out with this video! Be sure to check out his video from 2018 where he showed footage of Super Mario Traffic Safety: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fZqDxM2jXda7Z7w.html

@firedragon7456

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@SMG_Mario

Жыл бұрын

I am a big fan

@Your_Average_Stickman_WasTaken

Жыл бұрын

Vibing

@09goatboy36

Жыл бұрын

Post a raised hand emoji if Thomas’s vids are 10/10 🖐🏻

@popsicIe.

Жыл бұрын

🖐🏻

Don’t worry guys, I’ll become the principal of a Japanese school, rent the video for school, and just copy it. Just give me until like 2038

@EsotericBibleSecrets

Жыл бұрын

It's an ambitious goal, but I'm pretty sure the world will end in 2036 at the height of solar maximum of sun cycle 26.

@The_TK2306

Жыл бұрын

What a hero

@The_mrbob

Жыл бұрын

@@EsotericBibleSecrets 💀💀💀💀

@NitwitsWorld

Жыл бұрын

DO IT

@hadrianadrian

Жыл бұрын

@@EsotericBibleSecrets Yeah, but the dinosaurs might leave a cage on a far-off island and might destroy the world before then.

Mario and Luigi: DONT PLAY WITH FIRE!!! also Mario and Luigi: Hey Luigi! How far you think I can chuck this unstable fireball at that turtle??

@navchinna

Жыл бұрын

Nice profile picture it's Eustace Baggs right

@Rose_Haw

Жыл бұрын

Well they aren't kids

@coinsilver3

Жыл бұрын

@@ArchivedCertainly I think they are twins, just not the identical kind.

@pumpkin6192

Жыл бұрын

Even Luigi talks to himself!

@moosesues8887

Жыл бұрын

@@navchinna he only gets baggs

You’ve captured my likeness perfectly!

@CallmehCat.

Жыл бұрын

Uh oh i smell a patreon member

@mekufar

Жыл бұрын

What

@amigo.albi1

Жыл бұрын

Are you a bot like how tf you be comenting this quick

@SMG_Mario

Жыл бұрын

1D AGO HOW

@amigo.albi1

Жыл бұрын

Ayo

The cool thing is, Studio Junio also happened to work on Sonic CD’s cutscenes. Kind of funny to think they animated his rival years after this.

@notunnamed2

Жыл бұрын

studio junio betrayal for the better

@JLuisJoni

Жыл бұрын

They did frequently collaborate with Toei back then, especially on Dragon Ball.

@sonicfanboy3375

Жыл бұрын

DIC also made both Sonic and Mario cartoons back when they were rivals...

@AnthonyThings

Жыл бұрын

When I heard Toei and Junio I first thought Sonic CD

So nobody's gonna talk about how in these videos Mario has a glare in his pupils but Luigi doesn't? He almost looks soulless because of that lol.

@kndr2094

Жыл бұрын

Thats what I came to the comments for, lol.

@analtaccount667

Жыл бұрын

Now I cant unsee it. Thanks.

@robertpaulson8790

Жыл бұрын

"So nobody's" going to talk about how pathetic it is to start a comment like that? Stop pretending as though your comment has more relevance than it does -

@serixskylark

Жыл бұрын

@@robertpaulson8790 Jesus, man. Calm down. It’s just a KZread comment.

@SuperFlashDriver

Жыл бұрын

That's cell animation for ya, I wouldn't be surprised if the animators didn't have good reference material of how Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Mushroom People/Toads, and the enemies/King Koopa/Bowser looked like in concept art.

I get that copyright laws are more restrictive in Japan than here, but what commercial harm could possibly come from sharing an educational video that they didn't make for profit? Why are they so intent on protecting this one film? There has to be more to the story. They must not have had the rights to animate something that appears in the background of the film, like the logo for a corporation, and they are afraid of lawsuits for the misappropriate use of a registered trademark.

@Awesears

Жыл бұрын

that could be the case, though sometimes corporations dont want this old safety commercial they made for a large company to be shared to the public.

@WeemoG

Жыл бұрын

No Japan is jus weird

@KasumiKenshirou

Жыл бұрын

I doubt is was anything like that. It could have just been a condition of using the Nintendo characters that the film would only be seen in Japanese schools, etc., and not distributed outside of Japan. They never could have imagined that people would be able to share videos on the internet when they made the contracts, so there would be no language in the contract to cover this scenario. So people either aren't allowed to share the film or aren't sure if they can and don't want to risk being sued. This kind of thing happens in America, too. It took DECADES for the 1960s Batman series to be released on Blu-Ray because they had to track down all the heirs of the rights holders and work out a deal, since home video wasn't a thing when the show was created. Before this happened, the show could be reran on TV, but they couldn't release it on home video.

@StevenVillman

Жыл бұрын

@@WeemoG Yeah, most Japanese people and businesses don't care about film preservation! 😑

@Davtwan

Жыл бұрын

@@StevenVillman - They’re even worse when it comes to music.

So when people freaked out about normal looking humans in Odyssey..... it was already done before.

Wow this story was really interesting; normally with media like this you can either find it online in it's lost I've never heard of something like this.

I don't know what scares me more, they're freakishly large heads in proportion to the normal humans or Luigi's soulless eyes....

@KamyAnai03

Жыл бұрын

Luigi looks more like Weegee xD

@mariajimenafigueroa233

Жыл бұрын

Why they give Mario white pulplis on his eyes but not Luigi?

Mario and Luigi being heroes close to real life like being informatives on safety and even being volunteer firemen is super wholesome and makes my heart go boopity boop

Mario and Luigi never cease to perplex me. Are they plumbers? Are they firefighters? Are they just super beings that can do anything possible?

@GmNdWtchr96

Жыл бұрын

They have had many occupations.

@stargamer777

Жыл бұрын

I know very little about Mario but: In the games (the most official source I reckon we have) I believe and your comment suggests that they are supposed to be plumbers. However in other sources they can be whatever the people in charge decide they should be. This seems to be especially true for old sources dating back into the 80's and 90's when Nintendo was less strict about who the characters were and what they were like.

@coolbunny

Жыл бұрын

It got up to the point where Nintendo themselves were like, "Screw it, Mario's not a plumber anymore."

@fivefoxesinatrenchcoat1744

Жыл бұрын

@@GmNdWtchr96 So they’re the gamer version of Barbie

@Neganium

Жыл бұрын

They have had many odd jobs, and likely will continue to pursue odd methods of employment. They're kind of like Barbie, I guess.

Toei really said: *There are no Mario safety cartoons in Ba Sing Se* Reminds me of the story of Izzy's Quest for Olympic Gold, another piece of formerly lost media. For those who don't know, Izzy was the mascot of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta who made his debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. What exactly is Izzy, you might ask...we don't know. He's not an animal, he's not a human figure, nor is he an object. He's...something. His name is actually short for Whatizit. His debut was met with backlash, because you'd think for the CENTENNIAL Olympics, they'd pick a grand mascot...nope. So to counter this backlash, they released a video game (Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings on Sega Genesis and SNES) and a cartoon. For the longest time, people joked that Izzy was so laughably bad that his cartoon about his backstory became lost media. That is, until 2020 when the pandemic changed all that. A guy called James was helping his father clean out his garage where he came across a VHS of it.

@KasumiKenshirou

Жыл бұрын

A prior mascot, Sam the Olympic Eagle, had his own anime in Japan. Only a few episodes have been shared online, while the rest are unavailable.

@morethanfriendsproductions8045

Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I had vague childhood memories of playing a point and click game on my computer featuring an indescribable character searching for hidden medals around various scenes. I had spent a crazy amount of time trying to find it, but I never could. and now, thanks to a random comment on an unrelated video, due to pure happenstance, you have allowed me to FINALLY dust off that neglected shelf of my mind, and relive a part of my history. Thank you thank you thank you

There's something so interesting about finding lost or difficult to view media, no matter how small it may be

Ironic how they aren't letting people share an educational short, even when the point of it is to spread awareness of traffic safety.

There's seriously an official piece of media out there where Mario almost isekais a child

@randomniichan

Жыл бұрын

The chances of being killed by Mario driving a semi are low but never zero

@_amya__

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if the child actually got isekais

1:57 Fun Fact: Studio Junio have also made the cutscenes for the original Sonic CD as well have worked on a lot of interactive games

@RamsesTimeGame

Жыл бұрын

I never knew that

@inactivepleasegoaway

Жыл бұрын

i believe toei also may have worked alongside them as well

@randomcommentog

Жыл бұрын

@@inactivepleasegoaway I’ll be honest Toei probably didn’t do much anything there’s a reason they just gave the project to them seems like most of the work was made by Junio there’s a reason why people call Toei Sonic Junio Sonic now They spent months on low pay to make it and they don’t even get recognized for the work they do until years later and even then most people don’t know

@inactivepleasegoaway

Жыл бұрын

@@randomcommentog thanks, i wasn't very aware of how much work toei did on the animations

@dup4life

Жыл бұрын

just gonna say i’m pretty sure that toei doing little to no work is false. they wouldn’t be credited for it if they didn’t atleast do as much or nearly as much work as Studio Junio.

Imagine a small and fat italian man with his tall brother, scolding a kid and a toddler for lighting fireworks

@longlivedio3498

Жыл бұрын

lol

1:49 this isn't the only time Toei has worked with Junio. They've also worked together on the iconic opening/ending cutscenes for Sonic CD.

Mario: Saves Bowser from getting hit by a car Also Mario: *Throws Bowser into bombs, makes him fall into a pit of lava or just a pit etc.*

2:58 they scold the kids for playing with fire Also Mario: literally throwing around fire balls to MURDER creatures

@kricku

Жыл бұрын

Not playing 🧠

@xdotolotl5366

Жыл бұрын

@@kricku he enjoys it

@breadisyummy_

Жыл бұрын

@@xdotolotl5366 I enjoy reading books, that’s not playing

@xdotolotl5366

Жыл бұрын

@@breadisyummy_ fair point

@_amya__

Жыл бұрын

Maybe Mario is a professional fire thrower or something , idk

Old films like this should be preserved on newer based media. Since even if the media is kept in good hands. Who can say that footage will one day just fade away and be destroyed from the use of it

@coyoteartist

Жыл бұрын

We don't know that they don't have it on newer media. Those older forms may be more friendly for older and smaller communities.

@SuperFlashDriver

Жыл бұрын

@@coyoteartist While old media is nice for local communities, by the time the next century hits, most of old film may have to be re-recorded onto new film or somewhere digital and easily privated for said storage. I believe that yes, things that won't make profit should appear online, but this is the same case that commercials and logos as far back as the late 18th century face as well. All because of copyright laws in many of these countries around the world. Germany and Japan tend to have copyright laws that can be pretty strict on what's allowed online vs. what can't be published.

@coyoteartist

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperFlashDriver If this were a US PSA, I'd see a good reason for it being online as it would aid in distribution, allowing more to learn from it. That model works here. But I don't know the way things are in Japan. I don't know if that model really works there so I can't argue from that stand point. I can understand that with something involving what maybe multiple parties that need to give permission or would have a right to act in regards to any legal issues, that it might be more trouble then it's worth. Preservation for it's own sake even if it's for a historical record, is a luxury. If legally, they feel it better to keep wraps on something that is a working piece and not just an entertainment, then I get that.

It looks weird seeing Mario next to a normal looking person.

5:59 its not a thomas game docs video without a classic zoom in on nintendo hq!

I never thought Mario would ever be voiced by Yamcha

When he hears the fire alarm, Mario is always cool and calm

@paulgilbert5278

Жыл бұрын

Fireman Sam reference

@Joey-jl8cd

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@hedgehoggamer5555

Жыл бұрын

Putting on his overalls and hat, in less than 7 seconds flat!

8:45 So that's where Mario's neutral air came from for Smash Bros.

these seem like completely normal anime safety videos until randomly fucking Mario shows up

@gowildler

Жыл бұрын

Watch your profanity

Fun Fact! Studio Junio made the cutscenes in Sonic CD. And yes, they made the design for Sonic, which would mean that design isn't "Toei Sonic", but rather "Junio Sonic"

Imagine looking at mario like he's a firefighter instead of a plumber.

@nintenbetas

Жыл бұрын

Waterworks either way i guess. XD

@poweroffriendship2.0

Жыл бұрын

If Mario is a firefighter, then he should stop eating the Flower right now.

@ahogammer6895

Жыл бұрын

Maybe he's both.

@supremechaosbeing2696

Жыл бұрын

@@poweroffriendship2.0 he fights WITH fire

@papouligaming9594

Жыл бұрын

Mario has had dozens of jobs throughout the series including Plumber, Doctor, Carpenter, Referee and many others.

I've been wanting to watch Super Mario Traffic Safety for *years!* I hope it gets backed up online some day!

@adultmoshifan87

Жыл бұрын

If someone could get a copy of, and upload, the “Don’t Hide Abuse” instalment of the Spider Man Safety Series (the other 3 instalments are still missing as of when I last checked), I’m sure we’ll get to see Mario Traffic Safety in full in the future! Hopefully a gigaleak will happen so we can see it in Laserdisc quality!

@jeremyriley1238

Жыл бұрын

@@adultmoshifan87 True. With Japan being strict with this sort of media, it will take a gigaleak or a mistake that allowed Super Mario's Fire Safety to be leaked onto the internet to happen.

I never expected two of my favourite Gaming KZreadrs (GTV and Thomas Game Docs) to be in the same video!

@GTV-Japan

Жыл бұрын

Miracles can happen.

Fun Fact: Studio Junio worked on the anime parts of Sonic CD and also worked with Toei make a couple episodes of Dragon Ball.

i love how it seems like a normal educational anime and then just “MARIO AND LUIGI” HAHA

This Mario anime actually looks pretty good. The story might be boring but hey, I think I would like to watch it for myself if I ever go to Japan

@ssjup81

Жыл бұрын

Well it is aimed at young children. I’ve seen the ones that were put out from the 80s only with the Dragon Ball characters. The traffic one with Mario seems almost identical to the Dragon Ball one. For the fire one, I think Bulma’s apartment caught fire…but I do recall an earthquake and a fire starting.

People deciding that they have the right or obligation to withhold media like that really makes me buttmad lol

@joshuasanderson7359

Жыл бұрын

Makes me allmad!

I remember looking for a number of Disney's films to see a lot of the one's that I had watched in a class room weren't on Disney+ for streaming. DVDs and VHS existed in libraries but you couldn't stream or purchase digital copies of these movies.

I guessed Toru Foruya voiced Mario on this because he did it in the animé movie.

Mario kicking bowser is something I want to see in a future game

TGD: you can't watch this mario anime also TGD: shows some clips from this mario anime

@KasumiKenshirou

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, "clips". The whole thing isn't available to the general public. So you literally can't watch it.

@Liggliluff

Жыл бұрын

@@KasumiKenshirou Except GTV Japan did ;)

@KasumiKenshirou

Жыл бұрын

@@Liggliluff He said that *YOU* can't watch it, though, which is accurate.

That's going to be hard to do, unless the expelled audiovisual materials goes to Yahoo auctions.

8:29 when you realize that bowser masked up before covid

Interesting timing, I just got recommended the video of the 'Restored 4K version' of 'Super Mario Bros.: The Search for Princess Peach'!

I wonder if any of these libraries have considered digitizing it under safe conditions, even if they don't intend to lend it out to keep it from being copied, they should at least copy it themselves.

@kelseybarton

Жыл бұрын

yeah it would suck if this gets lost forever

Theater: You cannot record any of the anime we're about to show you! GTV: Oh no! GTV, seeing they're showing Super Mario Traffic Safety and recording: *ANYWAY* We've also done our own traffic safety cartoon if you search for it on YT. Our cartoons are more than just Squirrel & Hedgehog

“You can’t watch this Mario anime” *Are you challenging me?*

@2MKcreations

Жыл бұрын

When I first read it with the thumbnail image, I thought this was a Kenny Lauderdale video.

Hold on, Toei Animation made anime Mario? Now I wish they could've just full send it and made it an actual series.

7:59 i can't be the only one to find the way mario is animated talking funny

Bro the fact that mario is basically teaching kids how to live is crazy

I wonder how hard it would be for a viewer to get a job at one of these libraries, or even just sneak into one of the rooms that they keep these tapes, find it, and upload it sneakily

Fact: there's a couple of characters that Toru Furuya did voice for Pegasus Seiya and Yamcha they're dubbed by Jesus Barrero in the Latin Spanish dubs of those shows, however he didn't voiced Tuxedo Mask but instead he did for Andrew Furuhat, so I guess they didn't match the actors to be equal.

Never expected these kinds of videos from Mario

Kenny Lauderdale is another good channel. He just did a video about film preservation efforts for lost anime that most people have never even heard of. These Mario safety videos seem to be the exception of a film being preserved, unfortunately. Some anime has only survived because people pulled film reels out of the trash when after studios threw them out.

The fact that a guy named Toru Furuya voices the character Amuro Toru in Detective Conan, who is also known as Furuya Rei, is absolutely hilarious to me. There's no way that it wasn't done on purpose; I'll bet that Gosho even had the guy in mind while naming him, because honestly, why else would he have names like that? I know jack all about VAs generally, and I was not expecting this delightful little bit of trivia, but I welcome it all the same.

I would always play with fire when I was younger with friends and we'd get caught numerous times, the thing is I was very very cautious, I was always near a water source and didn't use flammable material like toilet paper or aerosols or any explosive material, just a lighter and a very small pile of leaves and we'd stomp out the fire when we were done

1:25 I just find this audio and video combination funny. "In the late 80's" - where we have computers from the early 2000's (at least 2001 judging by the fact that the computer is running windows xp) And yes I know that's just because he has not found appropriate footage (or just didn't care which is totally fine by me).

It's pretty weird knowing that studio junio and toei both worked on Mario and Sonic animations :/

this was amazing to watch! you’re one of the best researchers out there. i‘ve never heard of these films before, it’s pretty interesting when you talk about 'lost‘ media

Last time, it was that bizarre live Bowser kids show, now educational anime... I wonder what the next obscure Mario paraphernalia will be 😄

People say things like “Mario galaxy has the darkest Mario story” but have you seen Mario run into a burning apartment to rescue a mother and her child

@stargamer777

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty dark - it's almost like education videos are designed to scar children for life. (I've had some experiences with that first hand - I still haven't recovered.)

Man, the old-timey voice acting is super nostalgic. I remember watching the Anpanman public manners and safety video as a kid. For real though, Japan's strict copyright and unwillingness to share their media internationally is frustrating. I don't think they understand how fascinating or fun their shows/movies/music are, and it's such a shame that most of them are unavailable to people living outside of Japan. There are so many ads saying "PWEEEAAASE don't illegally upload our shows online!!!" when they could just, y'know, legally stream it.

Im not saying be gay do crime, but im not NOT saying be gay do crime

Interesting to see Bowser being green in this anime like the western counterpart, King Koopa from SMBSS. Coincidence or not both film even released first at the same year, 1989

I don't comment enough, but I really do enjoy your videos and how you dive into some really obscure stuff that no one else seems to cover. Great job as always.

Excellent ! You always suprise me Thomas.

wow that's interesting. didn't expect the GTV cameo but that's pretty great, haha. (just watched his 2022 remaster of the 'yume kojo' story just last night!) definitely heard of toru furuya big time sailormoon fan from the 90s here! I guess I can only hope they've been able to preserve it digitally in some form? and overall are we really missing that much? there's alawys that full-length anime movie I heard was getting a remastered redub.

The thumbnail made me think this video was a meme, honestly this is better

Hopefully a gigaleak will happen someday, we might even get to see Mario Traffic Safety in Laserdisc quality! If that “Don’t Hide Abuse” Spider Man cartoon could be posted online for us all to see, and a photo was successfully taken of that Miley Cyrus concert where photography wasn’t allowed, hopefully we’ll get to see this in full in the future!

Mario & Luigi being heroes like always.

Staring into Luigi's eyes in the first anime is unsettling because his eyes have no white dot like Mario's.... It's HORRIFYING to me!

So in the fire safety video, Mario and Luigi are fixing their truck, and in the traffic safety video, Mario almost hits the kid with the same truck. That's some continuity right there.

@TheWispGuy

Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment right here. I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.

Your videos are so unique and your ideas for video topics are so creative, tysm for all that you do

Awesome! I've watched some videos from GTV! He does a really good job not just with the editing but his narration is incredible

@GTV-Japan

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support!

Fun Fact:Junio Studios Also Made The Opening And Ending Cutscenes For Sonic CD (1993)

“It’s not available on internet” **Plays Footage Of It**

Love that tohru furuya voices Mario. AMURO, IKIMAAASU!

Mario as Fireman Sam Luigi as Elvis Cridlington Larry Koopa as Norman Price

No joke, I would've killed to see these when I was a kid. I loved Mario when I was younger.

7:58 the truck Mario is driving is a Mercedes-Benz Unimog. Very strange to think this wouldn't be his last time driving a Mercedes.

2:58 Luigi looks weird without his lil eye specks

7:55 Kid almost gets ran over by truck Mario: skill issue

i once saw it, it went just as you said. i never knew it was a lost anime.

Dude your editing is ridiculously good

Love the videos, Thomas. Keep it up!!!

Imagine a Mario cameo in one piece with his fire flower power up or his mega mushroom

Well this anime definitely wouldn’t have helped me cross the road

TGD: you can't watch this Me: I already did. Thanks yt for dubbing it!

Love your videos Thomas!

What's next? WarioWare teaches kids about First Aid?

I would've been the most happy child on earth if they showed me videos like this. I love Mario and Luigi so much. xD

@gowildler

Жыл бұрын

Same! Let’s-a go!

Mario: be safe around fire Also Mario: BURN ALL THE GOOMBAS!!!!

I hope one day we can watch Super Mario's Traffic Safety complete OVA

Fun fact, toei also made the Sonic CD opening.

@bravecast64

Жыл бұрын

Toei outsourced to studio junio to do the animation, they didn't really do it themselves

Bro, you literally did all this work just to show us an old educational anime. Respect 👏

2:56 “We-a get 1 day off-a year and I spend it doing this? I’m-a too damn tired for this. Get your damn-a hands off these fireworks!”

PSAs are sometimes described as your "brain on drugs". I wonder if the Japanese thought the same of these two PSAs. I remember during the very late 2010s, DPadGamer spoke about these two PSAs on his channel.

Hey! Big Dragon Ball fan here. Studio Junio was a regular in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, so it's no surprise that they were the ones animating the first short. I believe the channel Forgotten Relics has a video about that studio.

As someone who has had over 20 jobs, I've seen A LOT of safety videos, and I can definitely say I would have liked them a lot better if they were cartoons with Mario

I wonder if SONIC did his own safety videos…

I think the scene in 7:55 explains why we can't watch it.