Do you know of any anime that have been lost, banned or unaired/released?
The only one that I know is Shoujo Tsubaki, a movie funded and animated by one person over 5 years, which contained some scenes that were illegal at the time of creation, and were seized by the police.
underrated thread
>>118439527
mhhh this thread has potential
>I have to find my edge.
Good idea for a thread. The only thing that comes to mind is the Jojo movie which I think eventually was leaked so I can't contribute much.
>>118439527
Pokemon has a ton of banned episodes
the most recent of which being a huge two parter that got banned due to the 2011 tsunami
>>118439527
Have you heard of Kizumonogatari?
>>118441612
>no speedwagon
It was so shitty that it's better off lost forever
>>118441612
just part of the movie from what I've seen, which miraculously survived Araki's one-man assault on the studio after finding out what they did with his story.
There isn't really that much banned anime. I'm sure there's a fuck load of pilots that never made it outside the pitching phase to executives.
Only thing I can think of right now is Pupa. Not exactly banned but god did it get fucked over hard when they tried airing the thing. First of all the shows content caused it to lose its budget, making them have to go with 5 minute episodes. Then they couldn't find a station willing to air it uncensored so it was delayed for months until they caved and let it air censored.
The final result was an unwatchable mess. It's a shame.
>>118439527
I hear that there's a movie based in 1001 nights who is lost, not the 99's 1001 nights
>>118441655
>Pokemon has a ton of banned episodes
Which ones? I know about the US censorships and the famous Porygon one which killed hundred of children.
>>118442455
Was it originally gonna be 20 minute episodes?
That could have made it my AOTS
>>118441829
>>118442543
It just sent a few hundreds of kids to the hospital with epileptic seizures.
>>118442455
Shit premise, shit publisher, shit studio, shit fanbase.
>>118442455
What makes it so different from any other gore/controversial anime that aired?
![[HorribleSubs] Pupa - 05 [720p].mkv_snapshot_01.52_[2014.02.06_18.31.17].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4is4hqf.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Pupa - 05 [720p].mkv_snapshot_01.52_[2014.02.06_18.31.17].jpg")
>>118442658
>fanbase
What fanbase? I've never seen a single person who actually likes Pupa.
>>118442678
facebook 'otaku' likes it
>>118442662
None ever got fucked over quite as hard as Pupa. After all TerraFormars got hit quite hard but they eventually managed to stream the episodes uncensored.
>>118442715
I find that surprising. Even on MAL, it's the lowest rated TV series on the entire site IIRC.
>>118442678
This, also there was no hope for this shit to be good because of terrible source material anyway.
>>118442662
Nothing in particular, so it's a little strange. Might be that their initial plans to make it uncensored is what caused them to be fucked over so badly.
>>118442715
>going on facebook
>>118442678
Because of the manga, some people were actually expecting a "good" anime adaptation.
>>118442772
>also there was no hope for this shit to be good
Irrelevant to the topic at hand.
>>118442354
The only reason we even got to see footage of this movie was because some animation student asked his teacher to use his connections and fetch it for him to study.
>DEEN
why am I not fucking surprised? Jesus christ that studio literally never made anything good besides kenshin and higurashi and they still fucked up that one. How can they even still exist.
>>118439527
Excel Saga had that Going Too Far episode.
>>118442772
I don't know about facebook/MAL, but some people on /a/ who liked the manga were looking forward to the adaptation when the PVs appeared (of course, most of them criticised DEEN and stuff, and ended up being disappointed even before it aired).
>>118442896
>Not including Yatsura
anon, don't do this to me.
>>118442990
Wasn't Yatsura by pierrot though?
>>118439527
Not strictly banned, but every now and then a show will get a Nice Boat.
>>118443046
Half pierrot, half deen.
>>118443109
Then you can be thankful to pierrot for not fucking it up and keeping deen on leash.
>>118443142
Deen did nothing wrong though.
Also, pierrot stopped working on Yatsura after deen took over.
How about Chikara to Onna no Yononaka?
According towikipediaIts considered a lost film
All right guys, DEEN a shit but lets get back to the topic at hand.
I'm not sure if this counts but Mitsudomoe planned to have a full second season, but because the first season sold so poorly they only got the goahead to make like, 7 or 8 episodes.
It's weird, I thought Mitsudomoe would've been Japans kinda thing, I guess I don't understand moe like they do.
>>118443506
>I guess I don't understand moe like they do.
>>118443506
If that counts then there was supposed to be two more episodes of Bastard.
>>118439527
Of the unfinished variety.;_;
>>118443506
>>118443591
>>118443604
That's not lost! I'm sure Madhouse will get back to work on it eventually, I mean... they wouldn't lie to a dying Satoshi Kon, right?;_;
Weren't a few Code Geass episodes postponed and edited because of some mud-slide accident in China?
>>118443506
Maybe its not lost, but I couldn't find the sub version of gamba no bouken. It should be considered as a lost media?
>>118443661
Every time I check for updates, it says some version of "They hope to finish it by [current year + 1]"
>>118439527
Shoujo Tsubaki was adapted by Hiroshi Harada from a Suehiro Maruo manga, released in Fnglish titled "Mr Harashi's Amazing Freakshow", (as I imagine you know OP from your Maruo pic,) and got released with English subs "Midori".
I don't really know off hand about a lot of other stuff like that that either was never released or got a western release but no Japanese one, or a delayed Japanese one.
I've recently been really into reading old Suehiro Maruo manga though, and manga from other gekiga artists. If you're into stuff like that check out the old magazine called GARO, (I don't think it's related to the current show and live-action franchise), sometimes you can find old copies in the vintage section on Mandarake and there are scans and translations of some stuff available too if you google around.
Great Thread.
>>118442662
Gore is fairly OK in Japan. Incest is A-OK in Japan. But Pupa wasn't just a gore show, and it wasn't just an incest show. It was straight up Preteen Incest Cannibals: The Animated Series. There's no way you could air that shit uncensored.
>>118443715
Mauro
>>118443853
Cannibalism in Japan is a big Taboo, it's no wonder why Pupa got fucked over as hard as it did.
>>118442455
>dat censored knife in Pupa
>>118442472
Seen it. It's weird as fuck.
>>118443715
I didn't understand the ending. Did she just go crazy?
>>118439527
Is this the one with the scene of the small girl killing the puppy? Shit's fucked yo
>>118443715
we had a pretty great thread about Midori some month ago.
for some reason 4chan reads the vimeo link of interview with the director as spam, you can find it googling hiroshi harada interview.
he basically did all the fucking movie alone. he put so much love in making it, I think its right to consider it artistically superior to the original, or at least a work with a high degree of indipendent value
>>118444044
yup. btw that was a dude dressed as a girl
Discounting episodes that get delayed by current events, really not that many things get banned over in Moonland.
Apparently Barefoot Gen's manga was removed from some school libraries. (The usual "Rape of Nanking never happened" mess).
>>118444044
>girl
Seems relevant now that Type Moon adaptations seem to be the in thing right now.
Tsukihime was supposed to get an anime adaptation by JC Staff that followed Arcueid's route. They released some promo artwork here and there and screens from the episodes eventually leaked onto the internet. However the show itself never aired, it's as if the Tsukihime anime never existed at all.
>>118444114
>>118444137
Guess the guy who made it wanted to go balls to the walls for fucked up/non-normal. I have a morbid fascination to watch it
>>118444122
This
Gen got removed from my high school library because it was too graphic.
>>118444222
go for it bro. i think it's pretty good.
>>118443708
Wow this actually looks good. It's like the weasel is an evil american who is proud of being white and the little mice are the brave nips.
>>118444233
>manga in highschool library
Do you live in japan?
>>118444296
And there's references to it in in Junrui specials
>>118444304
Mine had a few as well. Bleach, Naruto, and FMA
>>118444106
Oh cool I'll have to check out that interview. The film is definitely amazing in its own right and while based on Maruo's manga totally deserves its own credit for sure.
>>118444304
A ton of public libraries in the US have manga sections these days, though I wouldn't know about highschool libraries.
This scene was aired in murrican DB? it was fun as fuck
>>118443895
>Mauro
No, it's Maruo.
I had to make two threads the first one like 3 months ago and the second one like 2 months ago about Midori trying to get /a/ attention about this work so we could discuss it. Glad it's paying off
>>118444433
>A ton of public libraries in the US have manga sections
>in the US
This is Japanese highschool we're talking about. No manga there, mainly textbooks to study from.
>>118444469
Mauricio
>>118444502
The Barefoot Gen ban I was talking about was Japanese school libraries, though.
>>118444474
We had a similar thread like this one about a month ago.
>>118444474
Op here. I knew about this anime since 2009.
>>118444433
Well I guess things changed since I finished highschool. manga in school outside us is still probably impossible though.
lucky burgers
>>118444449
It was, on some channel. Dragonball was fun, I need to get around to rewatching/finishing it.
>>118444433
Don't libraries in burgerland have videogames too?
>>118444502
>>118444543
My bad, the article mentions primary school libraries, not high school.
http://japandailypress.com/anti-war-manga-barefoot-gen-removed-from-school-libraries-1934115/
>>118444628Yes.
A tree of palm.
the thing they lost is the sanity and the career of the director.
>>118439527
You know it's on YouTube, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxME8pxrKyQ
>>118444628
I don't live in America, but I remember they used to have ps1 games at my library. I haven't been to a library in about 14 years.
>>118444671
I watched that on TV the other day was ok I guess, did weird animu Pinocchio did that much damage to the guy?
>>118444690
Certain parts with illegal content are lost though.
>>118444671
I don't know much about that movie nor about the director, but if this is to be trusted, then the director is doing alright.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16580
>>118444759
What specifically was lost? It's still pretty fucked up as it is.
>>118444690
Doesn't look that shocking
Don't know of any examples of anime that have truly been lost, but this thread made me think of Despera - a highly anticipated project that was well-along in the planning phase until the intended director (Ryuutarou Nakamura) developed pancreatic cancer. Nakamura passed in 2013 but the project has still never been officially cancelled... is it lost forever or will ABe and Konaka find someone else to direct it?
>>118445098
Lain was shit, who cares
>>118444508
"Silly-hero Monroe" I believe is the correct pronunciation.
>>118445098
Abe is busy drawing Kancolles
>>118442543
The Porygon episode is the only one I can think of, but maybe he knew of others.
I know in the US two episodes were banned, one where a Tentacruel tore through a city (which was odd because a scene from that episode made it into the opening which probably confused a lot of people trying to figure out just when that happened) and an episode where James crossdressed in a bikini (because I guess they couldn't edit it out of the episode so they just cut the whole thing).
>>118445213
She is pretty cute, you have to admit.
>>118445275
>one where a Tentacruel tore through a city
I remember trying to find out where that was from when I was a kid, it always looked so cool in the OP
>>118445275
>James crossdressed in a bikini
With an outstanding pair of tits, don't forget.
Then I think there was at least one episode with a gun that didn't air stateside.
>>118445213
Absolutely disgraceful
>>118444628
My library has computer games but I don't think they understand how they work. My local library had modern Blizzard games (including even WoW) in the games section, which is pointless because the discs are useless, it's the key you want and that's only good for the first person to check it out.
I played a shitload of Rise of Nations though thanks to my library. That was years ago though when you could still do that with PC games.
Anime Tenchou x Touhou Project
http://myanimelist.net/anime/9875/Anime_Tenchou_x_Touhou_Project
ZUN doesn't allowed it to be aired.
>>118445275
I actually had the Tentacruel episode on VCR. It didn't come with the crossdressing James though. IIRC, the Tentacruel got big by radioactive waste then controlled Meowth in order to talk. The rest is foggy in my mind.
>>118445335
Yeah, it did, I being really confused as a kid wondering when in the series that was supposed to happen.
The episode was scheduled to air really recently after 9/11 I believe, and that's why they cut it (because a bunch of buildings getting demolished would be in poor taste).
Where can I even get Midori-ko? I want to watch that.
>>118445409
What a faggot.
>>118445416
>>118445464
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a subbed version of pokemon would still have all this shit in, right?
>>118445509
Of course. Just search around and you'll eventually find it.
>>118445509
Yeah. They're not hard to find, unless it's the 90s and you're ten years old, of course.
>>118445275
>one where a Tentacruel tore through a city
haha, I heard that one got banned because of 9/11.
>>118445465
Specifically, I'm talking about this and not Shoujo Tsubaki: http://myanimelist.net/anime/9990/Midori-ko
>>118445541
I haven't seen anything Pokemon related since the late 90s, so I've never seen the original versions. I guess now that I'm a big boy I can see all the scenes that were too hot for TV.
>>118445612
Burgerland also banned an episode because its name was "the tower of terror" or something
>>118445275
There is an episode where Whiscash or Barboach use Earthquake and causes a tsunami to happen. This was going to air after an actual earthquake struck Japan, but they didn't because it was inappropriate at the time.
>>118444919
I'll second this, I'm interested to know what exactly was too disturbing to keep in the film
>>118445701
I'm a burger and I saw tower of terror as a kid, but then again I'm pretty sure that aired in the 90s.
>>118445701
Why not just rename it? seems like an easy fix.
>>118445509
The Tentacruel episode was just temporarily banned. Apparently they've aired that episode dubbed on Boomerang. Also apparently they now air Pokemon on Boomerang. I remember when that shit was relegated to Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, now it's probably airing shit from when I was a kid.
>>118445733
Probably because they'd already sent out the episode to broadcasters and couldn't change the title card.
What >>118445753 said about the Tentacruel episode also applies to the Tower of Terror.
>>118445701
tower of terror was temporarily banned, I'm pretty sure the one in the safari zone was completely banned because there's a gun in it, and almost everything with jinx was banned because it looked like a nigger
Fuck, that was my favorite episode.
>>118445753
>I remember when that shit was relegated to Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, now it's probably airing shit from when I was a kid.
Flintstones and Scooby-Doo WAS what was airing when I was a kid.
>>118445826
Didn't they changed jinx's color to purple in some episodes?
>>118445843
Go to bed grandpa.
>>118445701
i just remembered I lost my tape that had that episode on it
goddamn it i loved that episode
>>118445843
Fucking hell, you've really lost control of your life.
>>118445843
It still aired reruns on CN proper when I was a kid, but I'm talking about shit that originally aired when I was a kid.
Unless you're in your 50s or something, in which case why are you on /v/?
>>118445933
>/v/
>>118445933
>that freudian slip
Go back
>>118445933
>>118445953
>>118445954
>/v/
Sorry, was talking about Rise of Nations earlier in this thread so I got confused.
/a/
>>118445864
I'm not sure about Jynx, but censoring "blackface" is common. In fact if this thread was just about international censorship, it would be full already.
>>118445843
How the hell does a geezer like you get into a hobby made up of nerdy white guys in their 20s?
>>118443591
>>118443637
It took me a while to realize that this was by Yoshitoshi Abe?
>>118446048
I didn't think any country but the US censored things that niggers would get mad over
>>118445981I liked Rise of Legends
>>118446048
Looks like it was made on paint
Mamoru Nagano's Gothicmade took years to finish, had a short run in just a few theaters and still hasn't come out in home video. Now the guy retconned Gothicmade into the FSS universe or something.
>>118445475
Wrong, wrong.
Maybe he just hates secondaries as much as I do; Never met a single one who wasn't a prick.
>>118445864
They changed Jinx's color overall. The games have her as purple as well.
>>118439527
Censored American release Angel Cop. I remember /pol/ found an uncensored version, but it wasn't encoded and it was like 20GB.
>>118446168
It was 11gb and it's because they were .ISOs
>>118445213
Oh, boy...
Come on, enough with with censorship. Show me the pilots and unaired stuff,
>>118446168
Mine is 1.35gb. Got it a few months ago.
>>118446168
>>118446201
Yeah they were just the DVDs.
There was a conspiracy theory that nyaa was shut down at the time because Angel Cop by /pol/ got released.
>>118446253
>spoonfeed me please!
But seriously, at most I've only own unaired american pilots.
>>118446168
Only the subtitle text was censored, you can hear them talking of jews as the masterminds in the subtitled version
>>118445275
Are you sure the Tentacruel one was banned?
Because I remember that one. In retrospe ctive, it felt like a tribute to one of those old Godzilla movies.
>>118446253
The thing is not much of that stuff exists. Or rather it does exist except nobody knows anything about them as they never got a release of any sort.
>>118446275
The original release by /pol/ had the manga scans too, yours is a different one.
>>118445409
This.
I was going to mention one anime, Otaku no Video, which is kind of a documentary and anime about making anime and anime fans in the late 80s early 90s. It's not anything lost, but I remember one part where it talks about thieves who steal art from studios and sell them in communities.
>>118445843
Don't worry, 33 here
I still remember when I watched Ogon Bat as kid
>>118445275
>an episode where James crossdressed in a bikini
That one eventually aired as "the lost episode"
>>118446455
I think they still do that.
>>118446142So did I
>>118446312
>>spoonfeed me please!
Haha, I can't believe someone would even do this on something that's impossible to watch anyway.
>>118442543
Not banned persay, but in the US the episode with Lorelei is missing from Netflix (along with any involving Black Jynx) and the official site's episode guide.
Is Lorelei still really making that many kids pop their first boner?
Well Berserk has the lost Idea chapter that was removed in the tank and only has the magazine issue
>>118446716
Loreli is the most underrated pokegirl.
>>118446716
Jynx I can understand, but Lorelei? Really? Besides being a perfect cake why would they ban her episode?
>>118446716
>>118446792
Yeah, I don't remember Kanna being part of the anime at all. I guess I just don't remember here.
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>>118443591
>Yoshinen second-highest
I concur.
>>118444502
Nearly every Japanese school has Barefoot Gen. And bilingual Doraemon.
>>118445213
What a fucking waste.
>>118442543
There have been a few incidents where episodes of Pokemon happen too close to natural disasters, so they have to be pulled before they air. The first instance was an episode about a Wishcash making earthquakes that was supposed to air the same week that Japan had a major earthquake. As a result, the episode's never aired anywhere.
A more recent example was an episode about a sunken ship that was going to air the same week that the Korean boat sank earlier this year. They finally got around to airing it last week. (it might have been lost forever like the Wishcash episode otherwise)
Not really lost, but Daicon III and IV never got released outside of laserdisc due to copyrights.
>>118447114
Please tell me the sunken ship was the S.S. Anne.
If it wasn't that was wasted potential on their part.
There's the infamous JJBA Phantom Blood movie that was so poorly received that it was never released outside of Japanese theaters.
>>118447170
They're in Poke-France right now, while the SS Anne sank in Poke-Japan.
>>118447259
Undersea currents and shit.
Hell, they set it up in Pokemon 2000 that there were super-powerful currents that wrapped around the globe.
>>118447215
"Never released outside of Japanese Theaters" makes it sound like it got a nation wide theatrical release. It was shown once in one JoJo event and Araki hated it so much he demanded that it never come out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeVGKPehS-U
This song was made for the movie though, so at least this bit of Jojo history survived the Phantom Blood movie disaster.
>>118447114
I read on /vp/ a long time ago that Earthquake is no longer used in the anime after the Wishcash episode. I stopped following the anime, so I don't know if it's true.
>>118444155
nigga, i watched that anime, wtf are you sayin?
>>118447366
I always thought it was something that came out in a few theaters, I didn't know Araki shut it down before it even got to that stage.
>>118447469
Are you the same retard that made a thread yesterday or today talking about how you watched the Tsukihime anime?
>>118447215
They forgot the ever-useful Speedwagon.
>>118447401
Yeah, Earthquake and Magnitude were banned, making Ash's Torterra a worthless jobber that never won a single battle since it had to make do with Rock Climb instead. They're able to get around it by using the move Bulldoze instead nowadays, though.
>>118447401
It's true. Japan has so many damn Earthquakes that they don't want to have to skip another episode due to bad timing.
Hell, back in the BW era, Japan had a huge Tsunami that caused two pivotal story episodes to get skipped (they were the episodes that were supposed to introduce Team Plasma, the villains of the season). As a result, Team Plasma ended up being written out of the season completely, so the show became even more directionless than usual. The funniest part is that Pokemon was actually attempting to do an on-going story that season up until that point.
