All Dragon Warrior Anime Episodes FOUND on YouTube

[Vireo Gilvus]

From 1989 to 1991, an anime loosely based on Dragon Quest 3 aired in Japan. It lasted for 43 episodes. Saban Entertainment (of Power Rangers fame) dubbed the first 13 episodes in English and showed them in the United States sometime in the early '90s. However, the US airings were in odd timeslots (I vaguely remember one of my local channels showing them at five in the morning), so very few people -- even fans of the classic DQ/DW games -- remember this show. My guess was that it was due to executive meddling and disputes over censorship, since the English dub of the show was fairly liberal when it came to depicting violence, alcohol, gambling, and death.

Fortunately, all 13 episodes of Saban's English DW anime dub have been uploaded to YouTube, in this playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw69U7jw8VE&list=PL333AF3E727FFB2E7&index=1

Enjoy! (And give yourself a pat on the back if you recognize all the DQ1-DQ3 music pieces in the soundtrack.)

[Warlock]

I vaguely remember this series existing! I'm pretty sure it was in some weird time slot in my area too- maybe on weekends on a VHF or Cable channel.

- HC