Kenya Boy dubbing comparison

Kenya Boy 

Japanese (少年ケニヤ), English, Korean (소년타잔), Portuguese (Jungle Boy: O Menino Da Selva/Jungle Boy: O Garoto Da Selva), Swedish (Djungel Pojken), Norwegian (Jungel Gutten), Mandarin Chinese, Dutch (Jungle Boy), Finnish (Viidakopoika), German (Jungle Boy Kenia), Arabic, Greek (Το Παιδί της Ζούγκλας/Παιδί της Ζούγκλας), Turkish (Ormanlar Çocuğu) 

Considering that the anime film adaptation of Kenya Boy has a bit more success outside of Japan than any other incarnation so far (with the occasional exceptions of the classic Sankei edition and Kyuuta Ishikawa’s same name manga), it’s long been misleadingly marketed as Jungle Boy (not quite true, even though the jungle indeed is a recurring location), Jungle God (surely because he is mistaken for one), Tarzan Boy (still not true, even though the titular protagonist does scream like Tarzan, as said title is used in South Korea), or Bush Boy (which is the most accurate International title, although it’s largely been used in the Arab world).

There are two very different dubs of the film in Arabic, but both are named Bush Boy. There are two different dub variants of the film in Dutch, but both share the same cast and are thus named Jungle Boy. 

For the forgotten Brazilian Portuguese dub, only its own VHS cover is considered found media, at least in online spaces. Something similar can be said for both the South Korean dub and the Turkish dub. 

The rest are only found in Japan, with the odd exceptions of the Classic Sankei edition of Souji Yamakawa’s Emonogatari (which has a heavily abridged unofficial remake for the South Korean market) and Kyuuta Ishikawa’s manga variant of the same (which has a heavily Woolseyfied unofficial remake for the Taiwanese market!). 

All of the thirteen other Kenya Boy dubs are simply hard to find, while the original Japanese version remains the main exception since it not only had been physically released on Betamax and VHS, but also on Laserdisc, VHD, VCD, DVD and Blu Ray. Its own soundtrack, despite only being released in Japan, is also an exception, since it’s been physically released on vinyl LP, compact audio cassette and CD.