Akazukin ChaCha

***Akazukin ChaCha*** is a 1994 anime series based off the 1991 manga series of the same name. It's about a girl named ChaCha who trains on magic. She lives with her magic teacher, Seravy. ChaCha has many friends(Riiya, & Shiine being the most important of them), & goes to Urara School with them. During the first 50 episodes, it also has a plot about Diamou, an evil lord who is willing to stop Seravy on account of his flunky, Sorges, to do the job. Diamou realises that ChaCha can turn into Magical Princess Holy-Up, something that only exists within the anime, when 3 magical items, each one held by ChaCha, & her two friends, Riiya, & Shiine. He eventually decides to have Sorges stop ChaCha from ruining his evil plans.

The anime originally aired on TV Tokyo for 3 seasons from 1994 to 1995, with the 4th & final season coming out as OVAs, with only 3 episodes made of said 4th season.

## Akazukin ChaCha

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Not much of the Cantonese dub has been documented online throughout the years, but most episodes of it have survived thanks to VHS recordings. The dub aired on ATV in Hong Kong sometime in the late 1990s. most of the episodes were available on Billibilli for a while, episodes 13, 21-23, 35-38, & 41-43 haven't been found. Eventually those rips were deleted & now only the transformation sequence remains as it was preserved by Don Hi.

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A Chinese Mandarin is known to have aired on Momo sometime around the mid 2000s & is not known to have aired anywhere else before or since then. Only 20 episodes have surfaced going up to 22, with episodes 12 & 18 being lost.

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A Taiwanese Mandarin dub aired on Cartoon Network in Southeast Asia in 1998 up until 2000 & Wuhan TV in Mainland China around the late 1990s. It was one of 4 audio tracks available on Cartoon Network Southeast Asia's airing of the anime, including the original Japanese. It's unknown as to which dubbing studio was responsible for the dub, but 2 episodes have been found, being episodes 1 & 32, being recorded from Cartoon Network & Wuhan TV respectively.

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Reportedly an English dub of the anime aired on AXN in Hong Kong sometime ago, possibly in the early 2000s. No footage of the dub has been found as of 2022 & it's unknown as to who produced the dub.

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Reportedly an English dub aired on Channel i in Singapore, replacing the AXN & Creative Products dubs that came before it. Like with the AXN dub, no footage has been found & it's unknown as to who produced the dub.

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The earliest dub known to have been produced of the anime, it was recorded in 1996 by Filipino studio Creative Products, who also did Filipino English dubs of *Dragon Ball* & *Dragon Ball Z*. However though, it seemingly didn't air until a year later in 1997 on Cartoon Network's Philippines feed & then their Southeast Asian feed in 1998 alongside 3 other audio tracks. The dub notably changes the name of characters like Orin to Suzu alongside the names of Magical Princess's weapons being changed from Beauty Serene Arrow, Wing Kris & Bird Shield to Magical Selene Arrow, Wing Sword of the Phoenix & Ban Shield respectively. For a long time, only small clips of it surfaced of the dub through fan sites such as Stellaris' site & Fortune City, with those clips being uploaded onto YouTube by Nymphe Theotokoi, LindenHikari & JumpOnEarth167.

On March 28th 2020, YouTube user ZPBander uploaded a preview of the English dub & 2 days later, the user uploaded the first episode. Later on, ZPBander posted a reply saying that they don't have the 2nd episode, but instead has episodes 15. Eventually, he would upload the 15th episode, alongside episodes 53, 59, 64, 67, 72, & 73. In addition, a comment from pacer1705 claimed that they aired half-day/all-day marathons in June & December during the school holidays. Reportedly, Cartoon Network aired them out of order, but this has yet to be confirmed. Currently, the only voice actor in this dub to have been confirmed has been Doinks Seiba, the voice actor for ChaCha.

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In Indonesia, the anime aired on RCTI from 2002-2004 & was rerun on Spacetoon Indonesia in the mid 2010s. 2 videos of the Indonesian dub are known to exist, one being a trailer for it airing on Spacetoon Indonesia & another being a VHS recording of the intro sequence. Currently no other footage of it exists online outside of possibly the ending sequence.

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When the show first aired on ABS-CBN in the Philippines in 1998, a different dub done by Creative Products was aired. This one featured a dubbed version of the Japanese OP, sung by a female & in a different pitch to both versions of the Japanese OP song. For a while, it was long lost for many years with only the 2007 Tagalog dub surfacing on the internet. Eventually said intro & a 3 minute clip of episode 15 of the dub appeared on the internet in 2022. In 2007, a different Tagalog dub, albeit with some returning voice actors, aired on Hero TV, suggesting that either the original dub masters have been lost in some shuffle or they wanted to make a more accurate dub compared to the original dub, though neither situation has been confirmed.

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A Thai dub is known to have aired on Cartoon Network in Southeast Asia from 1998 to 2000. It was one of 4 audio tracks available on Cartoon Network Southeast Asia's airing of the anime, including the original Japanese. It's unknown as to what dubbing studio was behind this dub or who voiced the characters, but a small clip of episode 1 is known to have existed on Facebook & was uploaded to YouTube by Shiine (VHF CH. 10) on July 15th, 2002.

## See Also

* *Akazukin ChaCha* on The Dubbing Database

## References

1. ↑ The Lost Media Wiki page on the English dub