Future Boy Conan

Future Boy Conan
Original Title	未来少年コナン (Mirai Shōnen Konan)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio 2	Ocean Productions
Voice Director 2	Karl Willems
Translation & Adaptation	Paul Baldwin Daniel Younger
Recorded	2000's 2021
Dub Country 1	Hong Kong
Dub Country 2	Canada
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	26
Year	1978

Future Boy Conan (未来少年コナン, Mirai Shōnen Konan) is an anime that premiered in Japan in 1978, being broadcast between April 4 and October 31 of the that same year by NHK. This series was directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the current director of Studio Ghibli. The series consists of a single season that contains 26 episodes of approximately 30 minutes each.

It has been regularly broadcast across Japan on the anime satellite television network Animax, who have also translated and dubbed the series into English for broadcast across its respective English-language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

On July 8, 2021, it was announced GKIDS picked up the distribution rights for Future Boy Conan and would be releasing the anime in North America. The anime was restored in 4K resolution and had a new English dub recorded in Vancouver. The dub was released on November 16, 2021.

Synopsis The story takes place in the 21st century, 20 years after World War 3. The world as we know it has been destroyed, and 12 year old Conan lives on an island with his grandfather, believing they are the only two survivors of the war. But one day Conan discovers an unconscious girl on the beach. She is 11 year old Lana, and she's fleeing from the evil rulers of Industria, who want to kidnap her and use her as a bait to convince her grandfather (who has fled from Industria himself) to give up the lost secret of solar energy, which would allow Industria to rule over the world. After Lana is kidnapped from the island, Conan decides to rescue her and sets sail to Industria.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Conan	Noriko Ohara	Sabrina Pitre
	Lana	Mieko Nobusawa	Lili Beaudoin
	Jimsy	Kazuyo Aoki	Erin Mathews
	Lepka	Iemasa Kayumi	Alex Zahara
	Dr. Briac Lao	Masato Yamanouchi	Hiro Kanagawa
	Monsley	Rihoko Yoshida	Kazumi Evans
	Dyce	Ichirō Nagai	Aaron Chapman
	Luke	Hideyuki Tanaka	Giles Panton
	Orlo	Hiroya Ishimaru	Vincent Tong
	Tera	Noriko Tsukase	Diana Kaarina
	Gucchi	Hiroshi Masuoka	Michael Dobson
	Saku	Yoku Shioya	David A. Kaye
	Kuzuu	Tetsuo Mizutori	Ian Hanlin
	Mayor Oiton		Ron Halder
	Tarcos	Keisuke Yamashita	Brent Miller
	Grandpa	Masato Yamanouchi	John Innes
	Dongoros	Takuzō Kamiyama	Michael Adamthwaite
	Narration	Masatō Ibu

Animax Dub

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Conan	Noriko Ohara	Andrea Kwan

Intersound Test Dub (ep. 23)

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Conan	Noriko Ohara	Tony Oliver
	Dyce	Ichirō Nagai	Mike Reynolds

Notes

The only clip of the Lost Future Boy Conan English Dub (198?) Read the Description for more Info.

• A test dub of episode 23 was made by Intersound, Inc. in the United States in the early 1980's. The dub was produced by Steve Kramer, while the English script was written by Bob Barron. Two clips of the dub can be seen on the Conan Digital Library game for the Panasonic Japan 3DO. The clips feature Tony Oliver as the voice of Conan, and Mike Reynolds as the voice of Captain Dyce. The dub was never released for unknown reasons, though it's long rumored that it was a cease-and-desist order from the estate of Alexander Key that caused it to be scrapped. It was also rumored Streamline Pictures attempted to distribute the series, but similar reasons halted them from doing so. The two clips from the Conan Digital Library game are the only clips of the Intersound dub that have surfaced online.

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Shout! Factory	2021		The Complete Series	A DVB-T	United States
			4 Discs
Anime Ltd.	2022		The Complete Series	B DVB-T	United Kingdom
			2 Volumes
			The Complete Series
			4 Discs

External Links

• Future Boy Conan (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Future Boy Conan at the Internet Movie Database