Lost Japanese Dub of Fighting Foodons | Forums - The Lost Media Wiki (2024)

Fighting Foodons, also known as 格闘料理伝説ビストロレシピ (Kakutō Ryōri Densetsu Bisutoro Reshipi, "Martial Arts Cooking Legend Bistro Recipe") is an anime series that was dubbed by 4Kids from 2001-2002. It was animated by the now defunct company Group TAC. It was based on a manga which was based on a game of the same name.

I heard of it through a video by Billiam, and also because I'm interested in hobbyani type shows (ex: Pokémon, beyblade, etc.) On account of it being dubbed by 4kids, it, of course, had an insane amount of changes made to it, included but not limited to cutting scenes, changing names of characters and settings, etc. Of course, I tried to look if somebody had subtitled the Japanese version. I did not find anything. I looked on several websites, such as Nyaa.si for even a raw version of the anime without subtitles. I couldn't find anything beyond a 6-minute clip from episode 1, as well as some low quality clips of the various openings and endings.

6 Minute Clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2qVJF2C-sg
Opening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUT6tMFTq-w
Ending: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXdqBEeYkag

The only other version I could find of the anime was, of course, the english version made by 4kids, and a Chinese dubbed (功夫小食神) version and the Korean dubbed version (요리킹 조리킹), which are both uploaded in less than 480p quality. Additionally, there appears to be a lost Indonesian dub of this anime which I could only find a 1 minute clip of, but this is not the subject of my post.

Korean Version: www.youtube.com/@aziz2641/videos
Chinese Version: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZfxVcWnzmLTuIbWMsAULrQzUJbUwpMS0
Lost Indonesian Dub Clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FTtTFTDxPw&pp=ygUWYmlzdHJvIHJlY2lwZSBzdWIgaW5kbw%3D%3D

My personal guess on why this anime is lost is because of the group that animated it, Studio TAC, going out of business and liquidating all of their assets. So my guess is either this is videotaped by some Japanese person, or some random company has this in its possession.

I've been looking on several Japanese auction sites as well, and someone appears to be selling the Japanese scripts for the anime (although they do not have all of them). I'm considering buying them if I ever scratch enough money.

Link: buyee.jp/mercari/item/m55729415735?conversionType=Mercari_DirectSearch

What should be noted is that even though the japanese version never seemed to have gotten some type of VHS/DVD release, the soundtrack appears to be for sale on DVD.
And another thing, the manga for it is is lost as well. I'm currently working on buying a physical copy of it (which has been unsuccesful as listings for them are very expensive, as well as the manga being out of print) and posting rips of it on the internet archive.

I hope this is found soon.

have you looked on anime pirate streaming websites, private Japanese language torrent trackers or private anime trackers? If you haven't then look there.

EDIT: I have seen people say this is partially lost so do you happen to know which episodes are found of the Japanese original?

Believe me, I’ve looked through EVERYTHING. Also I’ve attached the only found bit in the original post, which is a few minutes of episode one

are you a part of private anime and Japanese language torrent trackers?

Somewhat? But I’ve looked through a few different torrent trackers such as Nyaa, and I’ve found nothing. If you could send me some websites that would be appreciated

private ones you need to be invited to. You sure you are in some private ones that are not open to the public?

Then no, I’m not in private ones. I’ve only used public sites. But I’m pretty sure the pickings are slim as this anime is very obscure and didn’t even have an English dvd release until 15 years after it aired. Literally all the recordings besides the English DVD is in 480p, so I dunno what they’d have to offer me

I am in a Japanese music private tracker none public group and they have rare only 1k copy cd music in there. You will never know until you try.

Those rental VHS releases are probably almost as rare as Red Sea Crossingon Atari 2600.

For real? How do you know?

Just looked it up & it's real!