Sgt. Frog (ADV Films)

History
ADV Films originally licensed the series for distribution in 2006, with plans to release the series on DVD in February 2007. This didn't come to be, however, as ADV decided to try and negotiate a television deal for the series with the aid of members from the then recently shut down syndication arm of 4Kids Entertainment, The Summit Media Group. The Judy's were commissioned the theme for the show with help from Dan Workman, who played the guitar and mixed the song. But Jeff Walton, a member of The Judy's, has stated on his SoundCloud that only a pilot was ever produced and only refers to this theme song as TV pilot on his webpage. The episode was dubbed three times; an otaku/fan pilot (similar to the FUNimation dub seen today), a mass-market pilot, and a kid-oriented pilot. Cartoon Network liked the mass-market pilot while Nickelodeon liked the kid-oriented pilot. Nickelodeon informed ADV that they would pick up the series if they got the merchandising rights as well.

There were several notable changes in the original dub, mainly characters being renamed. For example, all of the Keronian characters had the third syllable in their names removed; in this case, Keroro became Kero, Tamama became Tama etc. The names of the human characters were also changed; to date, the only confirmed change is Natalie or Nathalie, the English name for Natsumi.

However, due to financial troubles ADV was having at the time leading up to their demise, the rights were transferred over to FUNimation Entertainment in 2008, who instead opted to release the series straight to DVD in America.

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