While doing a recent article about All-Might being anime Superman I came upon an intro for the Japanese dub of Filmation’s The New Adventures Of Superman. Of course I already did the original in a previous installment, and if I had found other Superman shows with Japanese intros I probably wouldn’t have done this article. Even when I did the Transformers intros I stuck to the native country because running so many intros for every country would be a lot of work.
So why make the exception here? Because this is the only Japanese show intro for Superman I could find outside of fan works, and it has original animation. I found out Batman and Scooby-Doo also have intros so I may cover those in their respective article series. Right now, however, it’s Superman.
Filmation did bring a few of their shows to Japan, just as Japanese studios allowed or brought their work to the US. It’s an exchange of ideas, and for Japanese people at the time probably their first exposure to America’s greatest superhero. (Not to be confused with The Greatest American Hero, which was also a superhero.) So what changes did they bring? An original intro and original animation on top of the Filmation clips. Check this out.
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