This one in particular is a super rare find - despite being available on ED's XDCC for many years, nobody seems to have shared it for whatever reason. Supposedly, a total of 104 EPs were dubbed, but as far as DVD quality EPs are concerned, we're 4 EPs short. Anyway, enjoy - and remember to reseed and redistribute!
Kametsu put together a release of this, exclusive to their XDCC IIRC. It probably had more fanciful filtering than anything E-D would put out. I can't remember if they finished it or not, they might have only done half the show. I remember the blogpost expressed dismay at their own work and hoped to put out a V2 someday, which never happened.
Kametsu did not finish their release. They got up to EP52 before they quit. ED has the more complete release, which is why I'm sharing their encode instead.
Thanks. Side note from MyAnimeList 150 ep plus 2 OVa's. The English release of the series under the name Zatch Bell! was edited, removing things like blood and nudity with Gash (Zatch in the English version) wearing boxers instead of being fully naked. The uncut Japanese version of the series has never seen an official English release.
VIZ Media licensed and dubbed the first 104 episodes of Konjiki no Gash Bell!! under the name Zatch Bell!, but only released the first 52 episodes on DVD. In December 2013, Flatiron Film Company later released the first 104 episodes on DVD.
Wrong. There are two MOVIES in addition to 150 EPs - you are also incorrect that the English dub of EPs 101-104 were released on DVD.
Source:
http://www.newvideo.com/flatiron-film-company/zatch-bell-complete-seasons-1-2/
Please don't start spouting incorrect side notes if you haven't fact checked.
Hi, super Zatch enthusiast here. If there's any need for it, a long time ago when Zatch Bell! was available on crunchyroll at one point they added ep 101-104 for some reason.
FAIK that was the only time those episodes have seen a non-tv release, what's more interesting to me is that 104 has a preview of 105 where you can hear Coral-Q's dubbed voice.
This was too valuable and I thought that once CR drops it who knows when the next chance to see those episodes will be?
So I grabbed them, I hoped I wasn't the only one, but if anyone wants them let me know. They are x264 23.976 fps 720x480 aac, ~100MB two-pass encode. I believe I also have the newer CRF encodes somewhere but they're only a few MB less and probably don't look as good.
I also have the 12 disc release of 1-100, I planned to make for personal use good quality encodes with the Closed Captions in Advanced SubStation format to preserve positions, as well as include Latin Spanish audio for the first 52 episodes, unfortunately the Spanish audio has longer gaps between the breaks so syncing is a lot of work, I have dropped the project for now.
I also have the two discotek movies on dvd, the first one I compiled a list of grammar mistakes(and weird changes) and ocr'd the subtitles to make "perfect" subs. Running short on time has prevented me from doing the same with Mecha-Vulcan but I'll get there eventually. I'd like to avoid releasing this for a while, I highly recommend supporting the releases, who knows if discotek might be the ones to give us season 3 with better subtitles.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/zatch_bell_ccg/regarding-blu-ray-release-of-the-movies-t8.html
Looking back now, the first mistake I mark is correct in American English, whoops. But... "My color of my magical book!" ?? Geez.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/kiuliahbcd14gsw/Zatch_Bell%2521_-_101_-_A_New_Menace_-_The_Boy_that_Speaks_to_the_Wind%2521.mkv/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/r884676c68vxzqg/Zatch_Bell%2521_-_102_-_The_Beginning_of_a_Friendship%252C_and_the_End_of_a_Spell.mkv/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ifzvit6xz63ruy3/Zatch_Bell%2521_-_103_-_Ted%2527s_Blues_-_The_Girl_in_the_Wind.mkv/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/t2k1qab8kixuyxy/Zatch_Bell%2521_-_104_-_The_Idol_vs._the_Schoolgirl%2521.mkv/file
All are 576 kbps and 96 kbps audio.
Oh I remembered wrong, the series on crunchyroll was 720x480(1:1 PAR, so it looked stretched), the extra four episodes were only 640x480 for some reason.
For the English Dub, there were 100 episodes released on DVD while episodes 101-104 released on Crunchyroll.
The two movies were released on Blu-ray, but subtitled only.
There were also two TV Specials that were dubbed in English and aired on Cartoon Network. dummy and cartoon-palace capped them:
Zatch Bell - Special 01 - Zatch and Kiyo's Odyssey [TV] [dummy] (Dub).avi
Zatch Bell - Special 02 - Friends Getting Stronger [TV] {C_P} (Dub).avi
Not the greatest of quality, but unfortunately it's the only known available source for them.
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