Where to find more about this?

Klonoa7H said:
Hopefully they put up the compilations again, they seem to have been removed...

I wonder if anyone ripped them and if they had captions... Because that would be useful for a fansub release.

Fall said:


From what I've heard, they never seemed to work correctly in the first place. Everyone I've talked to had an issue with them. Also, the Amazon Video releases were only in the English dub that Harmony Gold broadcast in Melbourne, Australia back in 1986-1988; they didn't have the Japanese audio, as far as I'm aware, so they probably wouldn't have the Japanese captions. Although you could argue that the English script is worth looking at, too.

But even obtaining the RAWs for Minky Momo is difficult, to say the least. Well, not so much if you're a Japanese citizen with some pocket change, but for someone who doesn't live in Japan...yeah.

Now that Nyaa.se has been taken down (as well as most of the forks), the full torrents that existed for the show have also disappeared. I didn't look much into that side of things because I'm not into torrenting, but it seems like it's a no-go on the torrenting side.

In honour of the 30th anniversary of Minky Momo, Production Reed reprinted both series again in 2012. Of course, by this point, the only way to obtain an official DVD/Blu-Ray copy of Minky Momo is from third-party sellers. It would cost you around $1200USD to obtain both series in DVD format, and double that if you wanted it in blu-ray format. Both series are split into three boxsets; each one ranges from $100-$250 USD from third-party sellers. If you don't want to spend $5000 on the Minky Momo series buying it from amazon.com, then you're going to want to buy it from amazon.co.jp or someone else. And of course, international orders are naturally not a thing right now, so you're going to need to get it shipped by proxy service. Get out your wallet.

Or, if you live in Japan (and have a Japanese credit card), you could just buy prime and watch both series for extremely cheap (relatively speaking):

The First Series
The Second Series

Sounds like a pretty good deal for 432 yen a month. Good luck bypassing all the restrictions, though. Turns out that Minky Momo is part of the "Dアニメストア", which seems to be some other big company with a bunch of anime titles added to prime; seems to be a separate membership. Anyway, getting a free Prime trial is easy enough; if you already have a .co.jp account, it's as simple as asking for a free trial. Then you can watch some shows already, although other titles say "This title isn't available in your location." Oh well, bound to run into that sooner or later.

But to watch Minky Momo (either of the two series), you need a membership with Dアニメストア. And they need your billing address! And apparently a Japanese credit card, but I don't know about that one, since I was able to get past it despite not being in Japan or having a Japanese credit card.

The billing address problem is easy enough (just pick an address in Japan), though I don't know whether they'll reject you when they ask for actual payment a month later. Now you have to deal with "This title isn't available in your location." Obviously, the first solution I thought of to solve this problem was a VPN. I haven't gotten that far yet, but it seems to work for other people with Prime itself, so I don't see why it wouldn't work here.

And to answer your question about whether anybody has the Minky Momo episodes in full Japanese with captions, there is a sub group currently working on the first series (though at a slow pace); user pinkpuff is the translator. So there is hope for this series to finally be fansubbed in its entirety, 37 years later. The 1991 series...well, we'll see.

Seiya said:


If you're looking for it, all 63 episodes of Minky Momo are available RAW on Nyaa.si right now. It's ripped from the Blu-ray, and is 162.6 GB in size.

Seiya said:
If you're looking for it, all 63 episodes of Minky Momo are available RAW on Nyaa.si right now. It's ripped from the Blu-ray, and is 162.6 GB in size.

Fall said:


Okay, I investigated. Torrents and Nyaa. Nyaa.si is not a site I can visit in Australia because the federal court banned it.

Oh well, back to Amazon Prime Video, I guess.

N3rdieBirdie said:
The whole point is to find a lost piece of history.

Muzussawa said:
It's not lost, you can find it easily on nyaa.si. As for the dub, why would someone want to suffer through that?

N3rdieBirdie said:
As for the copy on nyaa.si, as far as I understand there is no full subtitle on there. It's the Japanese audio only, which I addressed already. So again, your point does not stand.

N3rdieBirdie said:
I already explained. It is a lost piece of media. Much like the lost pilot for Saban Moon, even though we know it is not great, it's good to have archivals.