English Dubs

Currently, at least three English dubs of *Happy Heroes* are known to exist. All were done by different studios named Lookus, Miao Mi and Zoland Animation.

## Lookus dub

This dub covers the first 2 seasons, sharing the same dubbing studio (in the Hong Kong area at BTI Studios) and voice actors from the dub of *Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons* aired by international feeds of Disney Channel. All 104 episodes of this dub were once available for viewing on Lookus English, one of Alpha Group Co., Ltd.'s official YouTube channels; hence the term "Lookus dub" is usually used to refer to it. As of 2021, the official YouTube uploads of this dub are privatized.

In "It's the Birth of Happy S. (Part 1)", all of the Chinese text was translated into English, but in all later episodes the Chinese texts were left unaltered. However, there are also several inconsistencies in the dub. In some early Season 1 episodes, Happy S. calls his attack the "Happy Knight Punch" instead of "Happy S. Punch" as in the later Season 1 and Season 2 episodes. In some dubbed Season 2 episodes, for unknown reasons, the background music appears to be remixed.

It also has unfaithful translation moments too; for example, the English title of Season 1 episode 33 "The Treasure Map" might be a example of this.

The dub also aired in Africa on the separate channel StarTimes Kids.

## Miao Mi dub

This dub covers Season 7 and Season 8 in their entirety. All 92 episodes are available to watch along with their original Chinese versions on Miao Mi, an educational website that aims to teach Mandarin Chinese to young children; however, you have to sign up for the service to watch them in any language.

This dub has inconsistent character names - Happy S. is referred to as either "Happy Superman" or "Happy" depending on the episode, for instance - and has several pronunciation errors in the spoken dialogue (for example, in S8E12, "The Magic Pen", Little M. pronounces "sunflowers" as "sun-FLOW-ers").

Miao Mi also exists as a television channel in certain parts of Asia, such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia. The English dub, along with the original Chinese dub, presumably airs on an English feed of the channel as well.

The Indonesian feed of the Miao Mi television channel airs an Indonesian dub of these two seasons. It is unknown if they have dubbed them into other languages besides English and Indonesian.

Despite never being dubbed, clips of the movie *Happy Heroes 2: The Battle of Planet Qiyuan* as well as episodes from earlier seasons appear intact on televisions in Huang Weiming's office in the episode "Big Monster Sleepwalking Studio" (S8E36). In fact, Season 1 and 2 were already dubbed by Lookus, but not redubbed by Miao Mi yet.

## Zoland dub

This dub covers at least two seasons (Season 10 and *Happy Heroes and the Magical Lab*), but it has not surfaced in its entirety if all the episodes of the seasons have been dubbed. At least one or two English episodes of Season 10 were on the official YouTube channel for *Happy Heroes*, albeit unlisted for unknown reasons, before being removed. Two English episodes of *Magical Lab* have been uploaded to Vimeo by Zoland Animation.

## References

1. ↑ Online conversation with Michael C. Pizzuto, the dub's voice actor for Careless S.