@gugugal1211 there is a song that sounds like the opening credits one which is a German song and then there is one that sounded like the emerald city theme song which is an Irish song but I can only link you the latter because the first one is a midi file on the pc and I can't remember the name of it. Urgh. It should be on a disk. If I can find it I'll let you know but right now idk how to access stuff on my CD backup disks because of lack of a CD rom player
i popped out me mom that year! too disoriented to remember this. i remember the english dub wmt nippon anime that i only learned it was japanese after looking for heidi.... probably did see it though.
This was actually my introduction to Oz when i was a kid in the 90's. Still have nostalgic appreciation for this movie, and the song at the start has lived rent-free in my head for decades at this point.
🥹I TOTOLLY was looking for this movie! It was my 1st movie along w/ my 1st TV it came with/ a VCR! My dad bought one for me & my sister for our Xmas present!📺🎁 I’m literally in tears! 😭 Nostalgic memories! TY for this!🫶🏼
I love that Dorothy's aim when throwing the water and the Witch was simply to have her fall down a flight of stairs and die in the conventional sense. 😂
I much prefer this version of the story to the one with Judy Garland. The one thing I wish is that this version was available on DVD. Does anyone know if it is somewhere?
I guess but I like seeing different takes on a story like they do in this movie though I am aware that a lot of things were changed from the original story including the color of the shoes
My favorite one was the hello kitty wizard of oz from hello kitty’s fairy tale theater when I was little which was based on the 1939 movie and ended with her waking up. I also saw a different cartoon of wizard of oz that wasn’t this but also ended with Dorothy running back to her family in Kansas and I didn’t like it because of that. I preferred the ending with her waking up from a dream, but then later I found out in the book it wasn’t a dream
Wow now I understand why Ariana loves Glinda so much! "I'll take good care of her" she definitely made Dorothy the happiest reuniting with her Aunt and Uncle YES💛☀💫YES💛☀💫YES💛☀💫
My siblings and I watched this version so many times when we were younger. I just shared it to one of them and asked if he remembers this version! He was excited about it! And is now showing his kiddos. ❤
Magic, excitement, enchantments, wonders, imagination, music, action, fantasy, thrills, and adventures. Wow, this is wonderful and amazing. The Wizard of Oz (1982), I love it. An anime version of L. Frank's Baum classic story. That's the very first time I've ever watched it this evening in 2025. Kansas, Dorothy, Toto, Aunt Em (Emily), Uncle Henry, Oz, the wicked witch of the east, the good witch of the north, the munchkins, the yellow brick road, the scarecrow, the tin man, the cowardly lion, Emerald City, winkies, flying monkeys, the wicked witch of the west, the wizard of Oz, and Glinda the good witch of the south. Somewhere over the rainbow, follow the yellow brick road and we're off to see the wonderful wizard of Oz. I have never seen this one in years until now. Nothing ceases to amaze me with magic. I never give up believing in fairies and magic with all my heart because I still refuse to grow up, and forget about the precious things I know, especially those from my childhood. No growing up, yuck! I am like Peter Pan and have his youthful spirit. My inner child. My one and only wish is to keep the magic alive for all time and I also wish to be a fairy to stay strong, childlike, young, and beautiful forever and ever like Tinker Bell, and the other fair folks. Fantasy rules and reality sucks! Magical things happen, but only if you're young at heart. Think happy thoughts to make you fly. All it takes is faith, trust and pixie dust. Fairy tales are immortalized and they never get old and die. Nothing is impossible. I, Heran Fatima Gertraud Mouada, am a lover of fantasy, adventures, fun, magic, and creatures. Master and guardian of imagination. Keeper of secrets and treasures. Fan of Walt Disney. I am a child within, the child of God and the fair folks. Nothing is more important than imagination and magic. I may be short-tempered, insecure, shy, and autistic, but fun-loving, adventurous, creative, high-spirited, athletic, free-spirited, artistic, and sometimes a little mischievous. Live our childhood and carefree life as before and escape adulthood. The real world I'm living in just gets too much for me to take. When I find too many troubles on my mind, it feels just like there's no escape. Come away and dream away. Let imagination light your way to take you as far as your heart can see. Dream away to a place where hope is shining and find your silver lining. Deep down inside me, I am an elf fairy trapped in a mortal's body, waiting to have eternal youth and beauty, and open my delicate wings to fly. When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. Believe in fairies and magic and never grow up.
Wow, what a find! Thanks for posting. I watched the opening and agree that theme is catchy. Just a PS: At 1:17 the image is an homage to "The Angelus," a famous 19th C. painting by Jean-Francois Millet that once was ubiquitous in pre-Vatican II Catholic homes. I'm gonna come back and watch the whole thing. The 1939 classic will be hard to beat...
I am Japanese. I'm familiar with the fairy tale "The Wizard of Oz," but this is the first time I've seen this animated version. I like the scarecrow character design. 16:12 I wish I could see the Japanese version of this anime...
This is unlike the original 1939 version this is more like the book minus a few things but this one is pretty fair... My favorite character is the Cowardly Lion 🦁 I can relate to him I don't have much courage like he has
@@garycarpenter6433 That doesn't make any difference; the 1910 one was still the original. And you're missing out; some of the best movies in the world are silent, like _Metropolis_ from 1927 and _The Artist_ from 2011. By the way, L. Frank Baum made two Oz movies of his own in 1914: _The Patchwork Girl of Oz_ and _His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz._ 🙂
They also make more changes, slippers aren't red in the book , glinda and North witch aren't sisters neither witch of the west and east. , winged monkeys can be used only three times with golden cap.scarcrow tinman and are not go to witch's castle. They are destroyed.
So back in 2023, I found out this movie syncs with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon Album, so you can try this out to by making sure the album loops and muting the audio of this video.
@@MaskedMan66 oh really I never knew that I've not read the books only seen the movie and return to oz and this cartoon version but thanks for letting me know...as people say you learn something new everyday 😊
@@krystalgorman86 As the Cowardly Lion said, "Ain't it the truth, ain't it the truuuth?' :-3 L. Frank Baum never gave much of a physical description of Dorothy except to describe her hands as "chubby" on one occasion. W.W. Denslow did the illustrations for the first book, and tinted some of them different colors, but again didn't give Dorothy a definable hair color. When John R. Neill took over the art from the second book onward, he definitely drew Dorothy as a short-haired blonde, and Ruth Plumly Thompson, who took over the authorship after Baum passed away, explicitly described Dorothy as a "golden-haired child" in one of her books. 🙂
@@krystalgorman86 But I do recommend the Oz books; Baum wrote fourteen, and the contributions by other authors eventually brought the Oz canon to what's now called The Famous Forty. 🙂
No, it wasn't. Some college prof in the 1960's superimposed his ideas on the story to try to liven up his lecture, and too many people took him seriously.
The opening credits theme still gets stuck in my head to this day
There's another song similar if you wanna hear it
Same 🥹❤️
@@magicmoonart seiko matsuda
@@magicmoonartwhat is it
@gugugal1211 there is a song that sounds like the opening credits one which is a German song and then there is one that sounded like the emerald city theme song which is an Irish song but I can only link you the latter because the first one is a midi file on the pc and I can't remember the name of it. Urgh. It should be on a disk. If I can find it I'll let you know but right now idk how to access stuff on my CD backup disks because of lack of a CD rom player
Who else grew up watching this???
i popped out me mom that year! too disoriented to remember this. i remember the english dub wmt nippon anime that i only learned it was japanese after looking for heidi.... probably did see it though.
Yes I grew up with this. I think grandma gave it to me. So magical I thought
Me me me
I did it was awesome growing up with movies like this.
Meeeeeeeee!! .
Memories 😢😢
Same ❤️🥹
Me three. It’s ok. You can still be a kid.
This was actually my introduction to Oz when i was a kid in the 90's. Still have nostalgic appreciation for this movie, and the song at the start has lived rent-free in my head for decades at this point.
Omg same! I just don’t remember the words, I knew the tune but this brings back so many memories for me as a kid 😊
I grew up on this version and am so Thankful to see it looking good again! Thank you!
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🥹I TOTOLLY was looking for this movie! It was my 1st movie along w/ my 1st TV it came with/ a VCR! My dad bought one for me & my sister for our Xmas present!📺🎁 I’m literally in tears! 😭 Nostalgic memories! TY for this!🫶🏼
It took me so long to find this version because I used to watch it as a child all the time. Def my first anime 🤙🏽
Same
This and Kiki’s deliver service no wonder why I have an obsession with witches
My dad showed me this as a child sometime around 04
I love this version ❤ wish I could watch else where, had the tape as a child
i have that tape i did the opening to that one two years ago
28:10 I was not prepared for Dorothy to throw hands! 😂
I love that Dorothy's aim when throwing the water and the Witch was simply to have her fall down a flight of stairs and die in the conventional sense. 😂
R.I.P. Lorne Greene (1915-1987) (The Wizard) and Billy Van (1934-2003) (The Scarecrow).
By contrast, Thick Wilson, who played the Lion, is 95!
This is the first ever version of this that I watches. So this is number 1 to me
Who’s here after WICKED? 😊
Slowly raises hand, after learning this is actually very faithful to the Baum book.
😭 wizard of oz betrayed me Scarecrow Lion Tin man and Dorothy’s friendship is 💔broken💔 Forever now
I much prefer this version of the story to the one with Judy Garland. The one thing I wish is that this version was available on DVD. Does anyone know if it is somewhere?
oof but definitely not superior singing to judy's 😂
@NIGHTGUYRYAN maybe but that I think would be better to put to a vote, also has anyone found a DVD copy of this yet
the original Wizard of Oz is an awesome movie! such a classic!
I guess but I like seeing different takes on a story like they do in this movie though I am aware that a lot of things were changed from the original story including the color of the shoes
My favorite one was the hello kitty wizard of oz from hello kitty’s fairy tale theater when I was little which was based on the 1939 movie and ended with her waking up. I also saw a different cartoon of wizard of oz that wasn’t this but also ended with Dorothy running back to her family in Kansas and I didn’t like it because of that. I preferred the ending with her waking up from a dream, but then later I found out in the book it wasn’t a dream
Wow now I understand why Ariana loves Glinda so much! "I'll take good care of her" she definitely made Dorothy the happiest reuniting with her Aunt and Uncle YES💛☀💫YES💛☀💫YES💛☀💫
My siblings and I watched this version so many times when we were younger. I just shared it to one of them and asked if he remembers this version! He was excited about it! And is now showing his kiddos. ❤
Magic, excitement, enchantments, wonders, imagination, music, action, fantasy, thrills, and adventures. Wow, this is wonderful and amazing. The Wizard of Oz (1982), I love it. An anime version of L. Frank's Baum classic story. That's the very first time I've ever watched it this evening in 2025. Kansas, Dorothy, Toto, Aunt Em (Emily), Uncle Henry, Oz, the wicked witch of the east, the good witch of the north, the munchkins, the yellow brick road, the scarecrow, the tin man, the cowardly lion, Emerald City, winkies, flying monkeys, the wicked witch of the west, the wizard of Oz, and Glinda the good witch of the south. Somewhere over the rainbow, follow the yellow brick road and we're off to see the wonderful wizard of Oz. I have never seen this one in years until now. Nothing ceases to amaze me with magic. I never give up believing in fairies and magic with all my heart because I still refuse to grow up, and forget about the precious things I know, especially those from my childhood. No growing up, yuck! I am like Peter Pan and have his youthful spirit. My inner child. My one and only wish is to keep the magic alive for all time and I also wish to be a fairy to stay strong, childlike, young, and beautiful forever and ever like Tinker Bell, and the other fair folks. Fantasy rules and reality sucks! Magical things happen, but only if you're young at heart. Think happy thoughts to make you fly. All it takes is faith, trust and pixie dust. Fairy tales are immortalized and they never get old and die. Nothing is impossible. I, Heran Fatima Gertraud Mouada, am a lover of fantasy, adventures, fun, magic, and creatures. Master and guardian of imagination. Keeper of secrets and treasures. Fan of Walt Disney. I am a child within, the child of God and the fair folks. Nothing is more important than imagination and magic. I may be short-tempered, insecure, shy, and autistic, but fun-loving, adventurous, creative, high-spirited, athletic, free-spirited, artistic, and sometimes a little mischievous. Live our childhood and carefree life as before and escape adulthood. The real world I'm living in just gets too much for me to take. When I find too many troubles on my mind, it feels just like there's no escape. Come away and dream away. Let imagination light your way to take you as far as your heart can see. Dream away to a place where hope is shining and find your silver lining. Deep down inside me, I am an elf fairy trapped in a mortal's body, waiting to have eternal youth and beauty, and open my delicate wings to fly. When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. Believe in fairies and magic and never grow up.
I love this version so much. A huge part of my childhood. I love this one, the MGM film, and Wicked 😊❤
😂 "Oh, well I understand"😂
This Dorthy looks a lot like Alice in Wonderland.
Voiced by the title character from the Columbia movie adaptation of the musical, Annie!
That’s what I thought when I watched this as a little kid.
The Dorothy Gale of the books-- the "real" Dorothy-- is a blonde, so no, this one looks like Dorothy, not Alice.
@@nickwerner7983 Funnily enough, Broadway's first Annie, Andrea McArdle, once played Judy Garland in a biopic!
@@MaskedMan66 Well Dorthy looked like a brunette in all the TV shows and movies so with that she does look like Alice.
This was the first wizard of oz I ever watched
Wow, what a find! Thanks for posting. I watched the opening and agree that theme is catchy. Just a PS: At 1:17 the image is an homage to "The Angelus," a famous 19th C. painting by Jean-Francois Millet that once was ubiquitous in pre-Vatican II Catholic homes. I'm gonna come back and watch the whole thing. The 1939 classic will be hard to beat...
Aileen Quinn music is everything on here
Aliens worked on this music?? 😮 Figures. It sounds awesome.
Never heard of this version , thanks for sharing
How old are you just curious?
I am Japanese.
I'm familiar with the fairy tale "The Wizard of Oz," but this is the first time I've seen this animated version.
I like the scarecrow character design. 16:12
I wish I could see the Japanese version of this anime...
i remember when i bought this on vhs - the music kept me from giving it away until years later ⚜️
I repeatedly watched this on betamax , until Wicked came along i renewed my interest to find this gem of a movie,thank you for sharing this!!!
I watched this VHS over and over as a kid. Loved it.
7:26
That Dog Looks Like Jock From
“Lady and the Tramp”
But thank you for uploading it 😢
Dorothy Gale: Don’t You Hurt My Dog! 28:09
59:03-That maniacal laugh. Golden. I love it
This is unlike the original 1939 version this is more like the book minus a few things but this one is pretty fair... My favorite character is the Cowardly Lion 🦁 I can relate to him I don't have much courage like he has
The 1939 version isn't the original, it's the third. The first movie version was in 1910, and the second in 1925.
@@MaskedMan66 Those were the silent versions I don't like silent movies 🎥 and never have just about anything with voice is better these days
@@garycarpenter6433 That doesn't make any difference; the 1910 one was still the original. And you're missing out; some of the best movies in the world are silent, like _Metropolis_ from 1927 and _The Artist_ from 2011.
By the way, L. Frank Baum made two Oz movies of his own in 1914: _The Patchwork Girl of Oz_ and _His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz._ 🙂
Interesting thing about this movie. The English dub actually released first.
Just subbed to your channel
They got the wolves and the crows, but they skipped the swarm of black bees. That's a shame. But not surprising.
They also make more changes, slippers aren't red in the book , glinda and North witch aren't sisters neither witch of the west and east. , winged monkeys can be used only three times with golden cap.scarcrow tinman and are not go to witch's castle. They are destroyed.
@НиколаСтаменковић
Even so, the inclusion of the wolves and crows makes the lack of bees stand out.
Love how it is in the English language with Japanese credits!
Originally in Japanese but dubbed in English
I remember renting the VHS from Hollywood video all the time.
7:59 Toto, come here this minute!
🌪 🏠 👠 👠 🧙
I actually prefer this over the 1939 version by MGM.
And yeah slippers are red in the book their silver shoes
When I was 5 years old, I actually thought this was from Studio Ghibli.
Topcraft (who animated the movie) actually became a part of Studio Ghibli so you aren’t really wrong
These are the jams
Aileen Quinn as Dorthey Lorne Greene as The Wizard of oz Billy Van as the Scarecrow John Stocker as the Tin Man Thick Wilson as The Lion
Never heard of comma's???
I loved and sull do the wizard of Oz is my favorite book/movie 😁
I had a VHS of this in the mid 90s
i have it as well i did the opening to that tape two years ago
So back in 2023, I found out this movie syncs with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon Album, so you can try this out to by making sure the album loops and muting the audio of this video.
Surprised that Discotek hasn't picked this up seeing as they are currently reissuing any and all Japanese animation related to "The Wizard of Oz"
Songs: “It’s Strictly Up To You”
“I Dream Of Home”
“Wizard For A Day”
Performed by Aileen Quinn
😅😅😅well information good show 😅
All I hear is Annie singing
"Kah! Kah! Kah! Kah! Kah! KALIDAHS!!!!"
2024
I kind of wish that in this version they made the house go through a bumpy ride in the actual tornado
1:17:43 Paramount Home Video
Is the voice actress for Dorothy Aileen Quinn?
Yep!
1:17:37 *_-Alan Enterprises_* theme song!
This is the version that the great L. Frank Baum himself enjoyed the most. Thank you.
L. Frank Baum died in 1919, 63 years before this version was released.
The Cowardly Lion sounds a little bit like Cookie Monster
Ah yes Alice in Oz. Don't get me wrong I love this but that's what I thought it was when I was a kid
Dorothy Gale is blonde in the books.
This is THE VERSION.
Anime story of The Wizard of Oz with some friends of Oz Scarecrow, Tin-man and Cowardly Lion! Just like Alice in Wonderland!
No, just like "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Way Dorothy blonde hair she was baronet in pictures
Because she’s blonde in the books
Oh my god, are Auntie Em and Uncle Henry doing Millet's "Angelus"? @1:16
Very definitely! The animators, or maybe the storyboard artist, obviously like that painting.
@@MaskedMan66 or maybe somehow Dalí was involved in this production.
@@טסרקט Dali? How do you figure?
54:53-How did that WORK? What did he even do? 🤨
So is this version true to the book
Except for the ending. After the wizard leaves in his balloon Dorothy travels to Quadling Country to Glinda’s castle and then is sent home
The witch just kinda shrunk like clothes in a hot dryer
Who else thinks Dorothy looks like alice from alice in wonderland but couple years older 😂😂
Nope. She looks like Dorothy Gale, who was always a blonde in the books.
@@MaskedMan66 oh really I never knew that I've not read the books only seen the movie and return to oz and this cartoon version but thanks for letting me know...as people say you learn something new everyday 😊
@@krystalgorman86 As the Cowardly Lion said, "Ain't it the truth, ain't it the truuuth?' :-3
L. Frank Baum never gave much of a physical description of Dorothy except to describe her hands as "chubby" on one occasion. W.W. Denslow did the illustrations for the first book, and tinted some of them different colors, but again didn't give Dorothy a definable hair color. When John R. Neill took over the art from the second book onward, he definitely drew Dorothy as a short-haired blonde, and Ruth Plumly Thompson, who took over the authorship after Baum passed away, explicitly described Dorothy as a "golden-haired child" in one of her books. 🙂
@@krystalgorman86 But I do recommend the Oz books; Baum wrote fourteen, and the contributions by other authors eventually brought the Oz canon to what's now called The Famous Forty. 🙂
@@MaskedMan66 I'll give it some thought 🤔💭 😊
46:42 that guy is a big meanie!
28:10 Annie slaps the Lion
47:13 😭😭😭
Dorothy.
@@MaskedMan66 She’s voiced by the title character of the musical based Columbia Pictures movie.
@@nickwerner7983 *eyeroll* I know. But she's not playing Annie here.
I found it!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
❤❤
This version of Dorothy Gale kind of looks like belle from Beauty and the Beast
Belle wasn't a blonde child.
Oh, right.
Dorothy kinda looks alice 😂😂❤
This is not like Dorothy because the hair in original brunette in long hair no blonde
dorothy is blond in the books, before mgm decides to make her brunette in the wizard of oz movie
Kalidahs!!! 😭
I was here
Isn't this a Japanese cartoon?
yes
This is a great version of the wizard of oz. Aileen Quinn is very good if only she could sing.
She can. You just happen not to like the way she sings.
Dude... That's Annie you're saying can't sing
Why the Wicked Witch of West looks like man?
It's sad to think your most viewed video is someone else's work... Not really a flex
Although Glinda lives with three other men, she's not easy
The Lion isn't a man. And as anyone knows who's read the books, each one of them gets a kingdom to rule over.
@@MaskedMan66 calm down, I was making a joke and referencing schreck
@@m.a.packer5450 Was calm to start with. Pretty obscure line.
Did anyone else here know that the original story in the book was a political satire much like a political cartoon
Silver shoes on a Gold road into a Green ILLUSION
Oh lawd, you're one of those. Didn't you ever learn from people like Freud: "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. 😂@@369frequencyandvibration
I’ve heard that.
@@369frequencyandvibration The road is yellow, not gold.
No, it wasn't. Some college prof in the 1960's superimposed his ideas on the story to try to liven up his lecture, and too many people took him seriously.
Wizard of Oz = MK Ultra Program!!!
Nope.
Nope
How?