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* The various animated ''Franchise/{{Lupin III}}'' productions tend to very loosely (if ''at all'') adapt the [[Manga/{{Lupin III}} original manga]], so a ton of characters were left out. For instance, the manga chapter that was adapted into episode 12 of [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket the first anime]] featured Fujiko and her sister Michi, while the TV version just had Fujiko.
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* The various animated ''Franchise/{{Lupin III}}'' productions tend to very loosely (if ''at all'') adapt the [[Manga/{{Lupin III}} original manga]], so a ton of characters were left out. For instance, the manga chapter that was adapted into episode 12 of [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket the first anime]] featured Fujiko and her sister Michi, while the TV version just had Fujiko. Recurring villain Pycal also had a wife who appeared as the antagonist of one chapter, but the anime adaptation gave her role to a new male villain named Volvo.
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** Urano, the Japanese young woman who reincaranates into Myne, is shown walking home with her CloudcuckoolandersMinder and Only Friend Shuu in the prologue. The prologue was mostly replaced by a FramingDevice involving an IconicSequelCharacter in the anime, resulting in Shuu never showing up.
** The novel has a period during which Myne is left with a babysitter named Greda between the period where she's too sick to leave home and the period during which she helps Otto, the city gate's main paperwork handler. The period during which Myne was left with Greda is cut from the anime. This results in a change in the anime version of the scene in which Myne makes baskets despite the fact nobody in her family taught, as in its novel version, her cover story is that Greda taught her.
** The novel has a period during which Myne is left with a babysitter named Greda between the period where she's too sick to leave home and the period during which she helps Otto, the city gate's main paperwork handler. The period during which Myne was left with Greda is cut from the anime. This results in a change in the anime version of the scene in which Myne makes baskets despite the fact nobody in her family taught, as in its novel version, her cover story is that Greda taught her.
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** Urano, the Japanese young woman who reincaranates into Myne, is shown walking home with her CloudcuckoolandersMinder and Only Friend OnlyFriend Shuu in the prologue. The prologue was mostly replaced by a FramingDevice involving an IconicSequelCharacter in the anime, resulting in Shuu never showing up.
** The novel has a period during which Myne is left with a babysitter named Greda between the period where she's too sick to leave home and the period during which she helps Otto, the city gate's main paperwork handler. The period during which Mynewas is left with Greda is was cut from the anime. This results in a change in the anime version of the scene in which Myne makes baskets despite the fact nobody in her family taught, taught her, as in its novel version, her cover story is that Greda taught her.
** The novel has a period during which Myne is left with a babysitter named Greda between the period where she's too sick to leave home and the period during which she helps Otto, the city gate's main paperwork handler. The period during which Myne
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* The various animated ''Franchise/{{Lupin III}}'' productions tend to very loosely (if ''at all'') adapt the [[Manga/{{Lupin III}} original manga]], so a ton of characters were left out. For instance, the original manga story that was adapted into episode 12 of [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket the first anime]] featured Fujiko and her sister Michi, while the TV version just had Fujiko.
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* The various animated ''Franchise/{{Lupin III}}'' productions tend to very loosely (if ''at all'') adapt the [[Manga/{{Lupin III}} original manga]], so a ton of characters were left out. For instance, the original manga story chapter that was adapted into episode 12 of [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket the first anime]] featured Fujiko and her sister Michi, while the TV version just had Fujiko.
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* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
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* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':The various animated ''Franchise/{{Lupin III}}'' productions tend to very loosely (if ''at all'') adapt the [[Manga/{{Lupin III}} original manga]], so a ton of characters were left out. For instance, the original manga story that was adapted into episode 12 of [[Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket the first anime]] featured Fujiko and her sister Michi, while the TV version just had Fujiko.
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** Freida, the LonelyRichKid Myne eventually befriends, is established to have parents, two older brothers, at least one aunt and at least one uncle. They don't appear in the anime mostly because Freida and her grandfather, around whom she spends a lot of time anyway, are the two only members of the family with any real relevance to the overreaching plot.
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* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Some minor characters from the light novel are absent from the anime adaptation:
** Urano, the Japanese young woman who reincaranates into Myne, is shown walking home with her CloudcuckoolandersMinder and Only Friend Shuu in the prologue. The prologue was mostly replaced by a FramingDevice involving an IconicSequelCharacter in the anime, resulting in Shuu never showing up.
** The novel has a period during which Myne is left with a babysitter named Greda between the period where she's too sick to leave home and the period during which she helps Otto, the city gate's main paperwork handler. The period during which Myne was left with Greda is cut from the anime. This results in a change in the anime version of the scene in which Myne makes baskets despite the fact nobody in her family taught, as in its novel version, her cover story is that Greda taught her.
** Urano, the Japanese young woman who reincaranates into Myne, is shown walking home with her CloudcuckoolandersMinder and Only Friend Shuu in the prologue. The prologue was mostly replaced by a FramingDevice involving an IconicSequelCharacter in the anime, resulting in Shuu never showing up.
** The novel has a period during which Myne is left with a babysitter named Greda between the period where she's too sick to leave home and the period during which she helps Otto, the city gate's main paperwork handler. The period during which Myne was left with Greda is cut from the anime. This results in a change in the anime version of the scene in which Myne makes baskets despite the fact nobody in her family taught, as in its novel version, her cover story is that Greda taught her.
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* The anime for ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' completely cut out Ilulu ([[JustifiedTrope it would have taken several episodes to integrate her into the cast, something a 13 episode series wouldn't be able to afford]]). All of the cameos by other Creator/CoolKyouShinsha characters were also removed (with the exception of Frau Rabbit).
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* The anime for ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' completely cut out Ilulu ([[JustifiedTrope it would have taken several episodes to integrate her into the cast, something a 13 episode series wouldn't be able to afford]]). All all of the cameos by other Creator/CoolKyouShinsha characters were also removed (with the exception of Frau Rabbit).
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** The Survival and Fight Areas in ''Diamond and Pearl'' never showed up in the anime, however the Resort Area and its unusually strong Magikarp made an appearance in the ''Journeys'' anime.
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* In ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', the Mad Planter doesn't appear in the Arcanum arc. Instead of him attacking after Red-Eye is dragged into the depths of the Arcanum prison, and Muhyo deals with the Rain Dog, Muhyo deals with both Red-Eye and the Rain Dog, [[CompositeCharacter the latter of which poisons Biko in the Mad Planter's stead]].
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* In ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', the Mad Planter doesn't appear in the anime version of the Arcanum arc. Instead of him attacking after Red-Eye is dragged into the depths of the Arcanum prison, and Muhyo deals with the Rain Dog, Muhyo deals with both Red-Eye and the Rain Dog, [[CompositeCharacter the latter of which poisons Biko in the Mad Planter's stead]].
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* In ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', the Mad Planter doesn't appear in the Arcanum arc. Instead of him attacking after Red-Eye is dragged into the depths of the Arcanum prison, and Muhyo deals with the Rain Dog, Muhyo deals with both Red-Eye and the Rain Dog, [[CompositeCharacter the latter of which poisons Biko in the Mad Planter's stead]].
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** Leaf,[[note]]From ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Fire Red and Leaf Green]]'',[[/note]] Hilda and Hilbert,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'',[[/note]] Nate and Rosa,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'',[[/note]] Calem,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''[[/note]] and Elio and Selene[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''[[/note]] do not show up at all despite being {{Player Character}}s from some of the games.
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** Leaf,[[note]]From ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Fire Red and Leaf Green]]'',[[/note]] Hilda and Hilbert,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'',[[/note]] Nate and Rosa,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'',[[/note]] Calem,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''[[/note]] and Elio and Selene[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''[[/note]] do not show up at all despite being {{Player Character}}s from some of the games. [[note]]Justifiable since Ash being the main protagonist of the series makes them kinda not there as major characters or protagonists.[[/note]]
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** Koga's daughter (and Gym Leader successor) Janine from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' never makes an appearance. The part of the game she's in requires visiting Kanto to get the region's badges; while Ash ''did'' return to Kanto to face off against the ''Hoenn'' Frontier Brains, he didn't visit the Gyms due to the fact that he'd already gotten the badges. Koga does get a [[CanonForeigner sister named Aya]], who pretty much fills the same role as Janine.
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** Koga's daughter (and Gym Leader successor) Janine Janine,the only sequel Gym Leader, from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' never makes an appearance. The part of the game she's in requires visiting Kanto to get the region's badges; while Ash ''did'' return to Kanto to face off against the ''Hoenn'' Frontier Brains, he didn't visit the Gyms due to the fact that he'd already gotten the badges. Koga does get a [[CanonForeigner sister named Aya]], who pretty much fills the same role as Janine.
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** Cynthia's sister is a minor character who doesn't have a sprite of her own, however she still appears in the games. In the anime, however, only Cynthia and her grandmother appeared.
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** Cynthia's sister is a and grandfather are minor character characters who doesn't have a sprite of her their own, however she they still appears in the games. In the anime, however, only Cynthia and her grandmother appeared.
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** Courtney from Team Magma does not appear in the anime.
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* Makkii-sen, Gigako, and Kyouko are all absent from the ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' anime (though to be fair, their appearances amounted to a single panel each in the chapters that were adapted).
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** The [[Manga/KingdomHeartsI manga adaptation]] left out Deep Jungle, the ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' world, due to rights issues. Also, subsequent games have acted like [[CanonDiscontinuity the world never existed]], leaving a minor plot hole.
** Of the still-legitimate worlds in the series, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]] was also adapted out despite its massive popularity. ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' cuts out all Disney worlds but Agrabah, and ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' excludes [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Atlantica]], [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Port Royal]] and the [[Disney/TheLionKing Pride Lands]].
** Of the still-legitimate worlds in the series, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]] was also adapted out despite its massive popularity. ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' cuts out all Disney worlds but Agrabah, and ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' excludes [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Atlantica]], [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Port Royal]] and the [[Disney/TheLionKing Pride Lands]].
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** The [[Manga/KingdomHeartsI manga adaptation]] left out Deep Jungle, the ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' world, due to rights issues. Also, subsequent games have acted like [[CanonDiscontinuity the world never existed]], leaving a minor plot hole.
** Of the still-legitimate worlds in the series, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]] was also adapted out despite its massive popularity. ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' cuts out all Disney worlds but Agrabah, and ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' excludes[[Disney/TheLittleMermaid [[Franchise/TheLittleMermaid Atlantica]], [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Port Royal]] and the [[Disney/TheLionKing [[Franchise/TheLionKing Pride Lands]].
** Of the still-legitimate worlds in the series, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]] was also adapted out despite its massive popularity. ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' cuts out all Disney worlds but Agrabah, and ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' excludes
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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': The anime version removed Otogi’s dad in favor of making Otogi [[AdaptationPersonalityChange more different.]]
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Yubel was completely absent from the manga adaptation.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Yubel was completely absent from the manga adaptation.
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** History lists that Hurrem and Suleiman had six children together, with Abdullah being their fourth. He was born after Mihrimah, but before Selim, and is assumed to have been Mihrimah's (Irish) twin because their births occured in the same year. However, Abdullah died of disease in 1525. The manga adapts Abdullah out entirely, leading to Selim being the third child Hurrem and Suleiman have.
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** History lists that Hurrem and Suleiman had six children together, with Abdullah being their fourth. He was born after Mihrimah, but before Selim, and is assumed to have been Mihrimah's (Irish) twin because their births occured in the same year. However, Abdullah died of disease at age 3 in 1525. The manga adapts Abdullah out entirely, leading to Selim being the third child Hurrem and Suleiman have.
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* ''Manga/YumeNoShizukuKinNoTorikago'' is based on the reigning years of Suleiman the Magnificent during the 16th century of ancient Turkey. However, certain historical characters have been removed, likely to fit the story.
** Suleiman had two sons before he had Mustafa with Mahidevran Gulbahar, but their deaths in 1521 resulted in Mustafa being the only son that had survived past childhood. The manga adapted them out and made Mustafa the only son Suleiman had, until he had children with Hurrem.
** History lists that Hurrem and Suleiman had six children together, with Abdullah being their fourth. He was born after Mihrimah, but before Selim, and is assumed to have been Mihrimah's (Irish) twin because their births occured in the same year. However, Abdullah died of disease in 1525. The manga adapts Abdullah out entirely, leading to Selim being the third child Hurrem and Suleiman have.
** Suleiman had two sons before he had Mustafa with Mahidevran Gulbahar, but their deaths in 1521 resulted in Mustafa being the only son that had survived past childhood. The manga adapted them out and made Mustafa the only son Suleiman had, until he had children with Hurrem.
** History lists that Hurrem and Suleiman had six children together, with Abdullah being their fourth. He was born after Mihrimah, but before Selim, and is assumed to have been Mihrimah's (Irish) twin because their births occured in the same year. However, Abdullah died of disease in 1525. The manga adapts Abdullah out entirely, leading to Selim being the third child Hurrem and Suleiman have.
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* The manga adaptation of the first ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' movie, ''Tenchi Muyo in Love'' removes a few things from the movie:
** There's a minor plot involving a Galaxy Police officer seeking revenge against BigBad KAIN for destroying Galaxy Police HQ and ends up getting dismembered for his troubles. He doesn't show up, thus suffers a SparedByTheAdaptation by not existing.
** KAIN's OneWingedAngel form and Achika's full powered look is removed entirely. Instead, Achika fires her power into Tenchi's sword, allowing him to kill KAIN.
** There's a minor plot involving a Galaxy Police officer seeking revenge against BigBad KAIN for destroying Galaxy Police HQ and ends up getting dismembered for his troubles. He doesn't show up, thus suffers a SparedByTheAdaptation by not existing.
** KAIN's OneWingedAngel form and Achika's full powered look is removed entirely. Instead, Achika fires her power into Tenchi's sword, allowing him to kill KAIN.
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** The games feature various cellphone-like items, such as the C-Gear, which are [[DemotedToExtra usually ignored]] in the anime. WordOfGod is that that they would make the plots easy to work around (ie, if the plot has character split up then all they'd have to do is call each other). Misty had the original Poké Gear in one episode after her departure, Brock used the one from the remakes as a map throughout the ''Diamond & Pearl'' series, and Dawn had the Poketch.
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** The games feature various cellphone-like items, such as the C-Gear, which are [[DemotedToExtra usually ignored]] in the anime. WordOfGod is that that they would make the plots easy to work around (ie, if the plot has character split up then all they'd have to do is call each other). Misty had the original Poké Gear in one episode after her departure, Brock used the one from the remakes as a map throughout the ''Diamond & Pearl'' series, and Dawn had the Poketch. It wasn't until 2019 that Ash received the [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Rotom Phone]] when he's assigned to do research alongside Go in the new series.
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' and ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation Detonation]]'' cut out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the ''A's'' movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, and Thoma). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' and ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation Detonation]]'' cut out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the ''A's'' movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, Thoma, and Thoma).Lily). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
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** In "The Investigation", which is based on the Looker sidequest in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Mimi deactivates Emma's Expansion Suit, as opposed to Xerosic (who is absent entirely
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** In "The Investigation", which is based on the Looker sidequest in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Mimi deactivates Emma's Expansion Suit, as opposed to Xerosic (who is absent entirely entirely).
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' and ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation Detonation]]'' cut out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the previous movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, and Thoma). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' and ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation Detonation]]'' cut out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the previous ''A's'' movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, and Thoma). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' cuts out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the previous movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, and Thoma). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' cuts and ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation Detonation]]'' cut out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the previous movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, and Thoma). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
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** The bellboy in "Turnabout Sisters" and Penny Nichols from "Turnabout Samurai" are DemotedToExtra big time, and could have been completely written out without altering the plot at all, given that they have no dialogue lines and are only shown for a handful of seconds.
** The Magatama sequences have been cut from the anime, likely to save on time.
** Lotta Hart is completely removed from "Farewell, My Turnabout". Her role in the case is instead given to Larry.
** "Director" Hotti appears neither in "Reunion and Turnabout" nor in "Farewell, My Turnabout".
** Lisa Basil does not appear in "Recipe for Turnabout", as Phoenix and Maya never visit the victim's workplace.
** The Magatama sequences have been cut from the anime, likely to save on time.
** Lotta Hart is completely removed from "Farewell, My Turnabout". Her role in the case is instead given to Larry.
** "Director" Hotti appears neither in "Reunion and Turnabout" nor in "Farewell, My Turnabout".
** Lisa Basil does not appear in "Recipe for Turnabout", as Phoenix and Maya never visit the victim's workplace.
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** The Gatewater Hotel bellboy in "Turnabout Sisters" and Global Studios intern Penny Nichols from "Turnabout Samurai" are DemotedToExtra big time, and could have been completely written out without altering the plot at all, given that they have no dialogue lines and are only shown for a handful of seconds.
** The Magatama sequences have been cut from the anime, likely to save ontime.
time. Psyche-Locks are shown breaking in "Farewell, My Turnabout" when [[spoiler:Matt Engarde reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong]], but there's no in-universe reason for them.
** Photographer Lotta Hart is completely removed from "Farewell, My Turnabout". Her role in the case is instead given toLarry.
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**"Director" Hotti "Director Hotti" (a DirtyOldMan badly impersonating a doctor) appears neither in "Reunion and Turnabout" nor in "Farewell, My Turnabout".
**Lisa Basil does not appear Since Phoenix and Maya never visit the workplace of computer programmer victim Glen Elg in "Recipe for Turnabout", as Phoenix and Maya never visit the victim's workplace.his boss Lisa Basil does not appear.
** The Magatama sequences have been cut from the anime, likely to save on
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* ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' removes almost all of the Great Octoweapons that appear in [[VideoGame/Splatoon the first game]]. The only one to appear in the manga adaptation is Octostomp.
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* ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' removes almost all of the Great Octoweapons that appear in [[VideoGame/Splatoon [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} the first game]]. The only one to appear in the manga adaptation is Octostomp.
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* ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' removes almost all of the Great Octoweapons that appear in [[VideoGame/Splatoon the first game]]. The only one to appear in the manga adaptation is Octostomp.
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', Karen "LLENN" Kohiruimaki is said to have a few siblings, with her oldest sister having a husband and a young daughter. While these characters are sometimes mentioned in the light novels, and Karen's sister and niece appear after her real life meeting with M in Volume 2, they are never even mentioned in the anime.
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* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', Karen "LLENN" Kohiruimaki is said to have a few siblings, with her oldest sister having a husband and a young daughter. While these characters are sometimes mentioned in the light novels, and Karen's sister and niece appear after her real life meeting with M in Volume 2, they are never even mentioned in the anime.
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* In two manga adaptations of the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' games, different characters hqave been cut out:
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** Nyx doesn't appear in the first season, as the producers of the anime seems to run out of episodes for including her (other than a brief cameo), not to mention she's not very important, plot-wise, for the story (despise having a designated voice actress). She appears in the second season for real.
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** Nyx doesn't appear in the first season, as the producers of the anime seems to run out of episodes for including her (other than a brief cameo), not to mention she's not very important, plot-wise, for the story (despise (despite having a designated voice actress). She appears in the second season for real.
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** While she is a crossover character in the ''Queen's Gate Spiral Chaos'' game, [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]] is the only character from her universe who appears, and despise being mentioned in the game and being the main motivation for her for being in the game, Jin Kisaragi doesn't not appear in the game. This is somewhat egregious, as while the events of the game are not canon for the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' universe, both characters are vital for [[spoiler:Hazama aka Yuuki Terumi]] for his plans to work and he's not mentioned anywhere.
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* The [[Anime/AceAttorney 2016 anime adaptation]] of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' uses this trope a lot:
** Case 1-5 is not included, so all the exclusive characters from that case are written out entirely. Subverted in 2-1's case, where it is moved to be the premiere of season 2 instead.
** The bellboy in "Turnabout Sisters" and Penny Nichols from "Turnabout Samurai" are DemotedToExtra big time, and could have been completely written out without altering the plot at all, given that they have no dialogue lines and are only shown for a handful of seconds.
** The Magatama sequences have been cut from the anime, likely to save on time.
** Lotta Hart is completely removed from "Farewell, My Turnabout". Her role in the case is instead given to Larry.
** "Director" Hotti appears neither in "Reunion and Turnabout" nor in "Farewell, My Turnabout".
** Lisa Basil does not appear in "Recipe for Turnabout", as Phoenix and Maya never visit the victim's workplace.
* Several chapters of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' that provide characterization for the supporting classmates were left out of the anime adaptation.
** Maehara's [[ADayInTheLimelight limelight]] chapters (23 and 24) that establishes him as the class casanova seem to have been removed from the anime entirely. One can only imagine it had something to do with the whole "[[spoiler:poisoning your schoolmates]]" thing.
** Sousuke's [[ADayInTheLimelight limelight]] chapter (37), which shows off his artistry, also got skipped.
** Meg's [[ADayInTheLimelight limelight]] chapters (44 and 45) that deals with an issue of a school student abusing Meg's generosity also didn't make the cut.
* ''Anime/Berserk1997'':
** The first episode is a loose adaptation of [[Manga/{{Berserk}} the manga]]'s first chapter with a few elements of the other seven chapters of the Black Swordsman arc: Guts's encounter with a female Apostle is skipped, though she still appears during the Eclipse. Puck is cut because, despite being a major character, the rest of the anime is an arc he doesn't appear in; the girl and her father (here her grandfather) from the manga's second chapter take Puck's place in what was his introductory scene. Instead of getting a Behelit from the Count, Guts gets one from the Snake Baron. Instead of encountering the Godhand in person, Guts sees them in his dream and Griffith is mentioned by two villagers.
** The character Donovan, a mercenary who raped Guts as a child, is cut despite a fair amount of time being devoted to Guts' childhood. This event would lead to Guts' extreme aversion to being touched, which while not completely out of character for him, does seem a bit odd without an explanation.
** The tail end of the Golden Age Arc before the Eclipse is [[CompressedAdaptation significantly cut down]]: A brief tournament Guts participates in, which introduced Silat and the Kushan Empire, is skipped. The Griffith RescueArc is much shorter, leaving out the fights with a squad of Kushan assassin and an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores lead by the Apostle Wyald. Most critically, Skull Knight and any scene where he appears is cut out entirely, [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole leaving no explanation at all]] for how Guts escaped the Eclipse at the anime's end.
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''
** When the protagonists first get in touch with the government, three officers of the Self-Defense Forces greet them. While Seki and Tanaka are present in the anime, and Tanaka is quite significant to the overall plot, Shoji is cut out, resulting in [[CompositeCharacter Seki being the one to point a gun at Koyemshi]].
** In the manga, Masaru "Kodama" Kodaka has two older brothers, while in the anime, he only has one.
** Unlike in the manga, Tanaka does not get married or have a child [[spoiler:after being forced to abandon Jun]].
* The first ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' manga, which adapted [[VideoGame/BreathOfFireI the first game]], omitted the QuirkyMinibossSquad almost entirely (only 1 out of its 4 members appears) despite being the main enemies for a fourth of the game.
* In the ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' VisualNovel, Kappei was actually an important (if late introduced) character with his own ending and everything, but so far has not appeared in any ''Clannad'' anime adaptation ever.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** The direct manga adaptation cuts out the [[HumongousMecha Knightmare Frames]], which reduces the scale of the story overall by taking out a hefty chunk of the military aspect. Also removed are characters like Cornelia, who tied heavily into the military part of the anime.
** ''Suzaku of the Counterattack'' cuts out most of the Ashford Academy characters, and [[CompositeCharacter rolls Shirley, Cecile, and Euphemia up into a new character]].
* The anime version of ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' has multiple differences from the manga. Certain characters like Chaplin were removed.
* The short-lived manga adaptation of ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'' omitted pretty much every major Powerpuff Girls villain except for Mojo Jojo and Princess.
* Ryo Asuka/Satan is left out of the 1972 ''Anime/{{Devilman}}'' anime. Most of Devilman's RoguesGallery is likewise absent, save for Sirene, Psycho Jenny and Xenon (who takes on the BigBad role for Satan).
* In the anime adaption of ''[[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Disgaea]]'', Big Sis Prinny is left out, which is important as [[spoiler:she's Laharl's mother and her death is the reason he's so bitter towards Love]].
* As a blending of the first few arcs of the manga, ''Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower'' cuts out the Pilaf gang in favour of the Red Ribbon Army, from which Colonel Silver, Ninja Murasaki, and Captain Yellow are absent. Also gone are Krillin, the Ox-King, Chi-Chi, Monster Carrot, Tao Pai Pai, Upa, Bora, and Korin.
* Nozomi is absent from the anime adaptation of ''Manga/ElfenLied'', despite being the reason the story is called "Elfen Lied" in the first place.[[note]]It's a song she sings.[[/note]]
* In two manga adaptations of the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' games, different characters hqave been cut out:
** Mitsuki Oosawa manga: Holyn and Beowulf, prospect love interests for Ayra and Raquesis, disappear from the story -- while Ayra [[BelligerentSexualTension hooks up with Lex]] and [[LadyAndKnight Raquesis with Finn.]] (after having her BrotherSisterIncest deal with Eldigan cranked UpToEleven [[spoiler: until he dies]]) This was presumably done to avert DerailingLoveInterests - [[FridgeLogic which doesn't explain]] why Oosawa kept an expy of Eldigan's canon wife Grahnye around [[DieforOurShip and made her a total asshole]], while still capable of making a LoveTriangle between Ferry, Lewyn and Sylvia without derailing the loser (Sylvia, who instead is very sympathetic).
** On the antagonist side, Queen Hilda of Freege also apparently did not appear, and considering that she's one of the worst HateSink of the timeline, it's probably to make the story not too dark, or as seen with other antagonists, Oosawa is known to make otherwise one or two dimensional villains look more sympathetic, but Hilda is just far too evil for Oosawa to salvage, when she actually did include another HateSink, Prince Chagall of Agustria, and made his negative qualities more apparent.
** Nea Fuyuki manga: Sylvia's children Leen and Corple. (And in the meantime, [[spoiler: Leen's love interest Ares has his eyes set on Princess Julia instead]]). Fuyuki allegedly said in author's notes that she ''wanted'' to keep them around, but time restrains didn't allow her to.
* The ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' TV series for the most part, sticks pretty closely to the manga, but a few notable minor characters (such as Jackal's boxer underling and the General who started the nuclear war) were omitted during the adaptation. Most notably, Jakoh's sons Jask and Sheeno were removed from the early episodes of the ''Fist of the North Star 2'' anime and replaced by two renegade Gento Kōken practitioners named Taiga and Boltz, who were originally conceived as {{filler villain}}s before the Jakoh story arc was fully serialized in the manga.
* The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' cut out a lot of the cast who were introduced partway into the original manga (the Xingese characters, the Briggs soldiers, etc.) since the anime OvertookTheManga. Ling appeared in a cameo, but was otherwise excluded.
** ''Anime/FullMetalAlchemistBrotherhood'', in comparaison, has its first half rushed out; meaning that the train miniarc and Bald are excluded.
* Francine, who was one of the main ''VideoGame/GateKeepers'' in the game, was completely omitted in the anime.
* The anime version of ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'' removes any of the human characters that showed up in the manga besides a few character mentioning them.
* In ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'', Madeleine [[spoiler:aka the eldest daughter and White Sheep of the Toulonchamp family]] is written out of the anime.
* The {{OVA}} of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' cut out a bunch of Dio's acolytes, including Gray Fly, Steely Dan, Mannish Boy, Terence T. D'Arby, Captain Tenille, Devo the Cursed, and Pet Shop.
* Makkii-sen, Gigako, and Kyouko are all absent from the ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' anime (though to be fair, their appearances amounted to a single panel each in the chapters that were adapted).
* The featureless player character from ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'', The Admiral, was not made into a leading character or someone with known features in [[Anime/KantaiCollection the Anime]]; he is an unseen figure instead, mentioned offhand by others, taking a different approach from other [[AnimatedAdaptation Anime Adaptations]] of popular works like ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' and ''Anime/SuperSonico'', where The Producer and The Manager were given features and sufficient characterization.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** The [[Manga/KingdomHeartsI manga adaptation]] left out Deep Jungle, the ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' world, due to rights issues. Also, subsequent games have acted like [[CanonDiscontinuity the world never existed]], leaving a minor plot hole.
** Of the still-legitimate worlds in the series, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]] was also adapted out despite its massive popularity. ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' cuts out all Disney worlds but Agrabah, and ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' excludes [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Atlantica]], [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Port Royal]] and the [[Disney/TheLionKing Pride Lands]].
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'':
** The manga adaptation completely omits the sub-plot of Epona getting stolen by Skull Kid, leaving no way for Romani and Cremia to appear in the story. The artist apologizes for this at the end of the book and makes it up by showing an illustration of the two.
** While many of the game's sub-plots are omitted for story reasons (unlike the game, the manga takes place throughout one three day cycle), the Kafei sidequest gets an entire chapter dedicated to it. This results in the Stone Tower Temple and Ikana Valley sequences, which were major to the plot, being resolved in one page (even Twinmold, the boss of the dungeon, is defeated only a few panels after it appears...and only one of them actually makes an appearance).
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 2nd A's]]'' left out Gil Graham and the Liese Twins, who were revealed to be behind the plot of the season. Meta-fictionally speaking, this is because the movie is an in-universe adaptation and their roles in those events were classified.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaInnocent INNOCENT]]'' did this with the entire casts of ''[=ViVid=]'' and ''Force''. In ''[=ViVid=]'s'' case, it'd be difficult to have Vivio running around when her mother is currently 9 in this continuity. With ''Force'', it probably has more to do with the fact that the season as a whole is almost universally ''[[FanonDiscontinuity despised]]''. Everyone related to the Saint Church is also absent which means that Sein, Otto, and Deed never show up, even though all 9 other Numbers (including [[SparedByTheAdaptation Due]]) are present.
*** [[spoiler:Vivio and Einhart do show up later on via time travel.]]
** Subverted with Misato Mikami (Nanoha's paternal aunt, and biological mother of her older sister/cousin Miyuki), who played a role in ''Nanoha'''s [[VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever parent series]] but was completely absent from anything in the various ''Nanoha'' continuities only to make a small cameo 15 years later in the ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection Reflection]]'' supplementary manga.
** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' cuts out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the previous movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, and Thoma). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
* Shizuna Minamoto is absent from Creator/StudioShaft's anime adaptation of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' and Mr. Takahata pretty much takes over her parts in addition to his own. Kotaro Inugami joins the cast in the manga as Negi's best friend; however, he makes no appearance in either anime series.
* The anime version of ''Manga/MidoriDays'' is only 13 episodes long whereas the manga is 85 chapters in all. Because of the difference in length, characters like [[BadassAdorable Nao]] and her father [[MadScientist Shirou]] were left out of the anime, along with [[ForeignExchangeStudent Lucy]].
* The anime for ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' completely cut out Ilulu ([[JustifiedTrope it would have taken several episodes to integrate her into the cast, something a 13 episode series wouldn't be able to afford]]). All of the cameos by other Creator/CoolKyouShinsha characters were also removed (with the exception of Frau Rabbit).
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' ends just before Rin Kiryuin, [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Asahi]]'s [[KidFromTheFuture Grandkid from the Future]], joins the cast[[note]]In fact, it actually ends on the chapter where she first appears, but cuts out her brief (last page) cameo[[/note]], and the episodes that adapted manga chapters where she ''did'' appear simply handed her role over to other characters (primarily [[ClassRepresentative Nagisa Aizawa]]). Since Rin's timeline is a massive driving element for the rest of the series, any subsequent anime adaptations would have to ignore this one and start fresh.
* ''Anime/OnegaiSamiaDon'' is an AnimatedAdaptation of the book Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt, but the eldest daughter Althea isn't included in the series and CanonForeigner Anne Hopkins takes her in-story spot.
* In the manga adaptation ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'', the first form of the FinalBoss does not appear. Once the protagonists reach the end of the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, the boss enters its second form.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Leaf,[[note]]From ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Fire Red and Leaf Green]]'',[[/note]] Hilda and Hilbert,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'',[[/note]] Nate and Rosa,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'',[[/note]] Calem,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''[[/note]] and Elio and Selene[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''[[/note]] do not show up at all despite being {{Player Character}}s from some of the games.
** Gary doesn't have a sister like his game counterpart, since Ash didn't need the Town Map that Daisy provides, nor does he spend much time in Pallet Town, where she resides.
** Game [[TheRival rivals]], Wally[[note]]though Drew has aesthetic similarities and is May's rival, [[DecompositeCharacter while]] Max covers the {{Kid Appeal|Character}}, the student-to-the-Player role, and being close to a Ralts (despite not catching it)[[/note]], and Hugh are completely absent. Silver is mostly absent, but makes a very brief cameo in a special and got an expy in Paul during the ''Diamond and Pearl'' saga.[[note]]For completeness, Brendan and Lucas [[DemotedToExtra also appear only in cameos in the movies]]; as does Ethan for those who don't count [[Anime/TheLegendOfThunder Jimmy]].[[/note]] Cheren didn't appear as a rival but appeared as his Gym Leader incarnation in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''; this means he and Bianca are different ages and don't know each other at all in the anime.
** Koga's daughter (and Gym Leader successor) Janine from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' never makes an appearance. The part of the game she's in requires visiting Kanto to get the region's badges; while Ash ''did'' return to Kanto to face off against the ''Hoenn'' Frontier Brains, he didn't visit the Gyms due to the fact that he'd already gotten the badges. Koga does get a [[CanonForeigner sister named Aya]], who pretty much fills the same role as Janine.
** While their existence is acknowledged, some Elite Four members from Hoenn[[note]]except Drake[[/note]] and Unova[[note]]except Caitlin [[/note]] are never shown. Will and Karen from ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' and Drasna from ''X'' and ''Y'' never appear as well.
** Sinnoh and Johto's Frontier Brains other than Palmer and Caitlin[[note]]albeit in her Unova Elite Four incarnation[[/note]] do not appear.
** Characters from spinoff games rarely appear in the anime. The only ones who do are from ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap''[[note]]Todd actually ''did'' debut in the anime before ''Snap'''s release[[/note]] and the ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' series. The ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'', ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', ''VideoGame/PokemonTrozei'', and ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' characters don't appear. This does not include the one-off ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' specials.
** AZ and the Ultimate Weapon do not play a role in the anime's version of Team Flare's plot.
** While Xerneas and Yveltal appear in ''Anime/PokemonDiancieAndTheCocoonOfDestruction'', they have no role or appearance in the main anime series itself (unlike every mascot legendary before them), with Team Flare's plot instead involving [[AscendedExtra Zygarde]]. The closest thing they get is a side special, but even then it's a flashback.
** Game elements like Technical and Hidden Machines are never used in the anime.
** The postgame in ''X and Y'' features Xerosic being investigated by Agent Looker and finding redemption with the help of a young girl named Emma. Neither of these happen in the anime.[[note]]Instead Xerosic tries to brainwash Clemont, but gets defeated by Ash and the gang and then arrested by Officer Jenny.[[/note]]
** Cynthia's sister is a minor character who doesn't have a sprite of her own, however she still appears in the games. In the anime, however, only Cynthia and her grandmother appeared.
** Mr. Fuji, the old man who takes care of Pokémon in Lavender Town doesn't make any appearance in the anime. Though ''a'' Dr. Fuji creates Mewtwo in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', he's a distinctly different character from Mr. Fuji.
** Porygon's evolutions never appeared in the anime, due to it being associated with [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the infamous episode that caused seizures]], even though [[CommonKnowledge it was actually Pikachu's fault in the scene]]. Their lone appearances have been brief cameos in some of the later movies.
** Zinnia, Lisia, and Aarune from ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire'' haven't made an appearance either.
** The Team Rocket Executives - Proton, Ariana, Petrel, and Archer - have never appeared, either in their original designs or remake designs, despite Team Rocket being such an important aspect of the anime. Unlike Red in the games, Ash has not caused Team Rocket to disband and thus Neo Team Rocket or [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Team Rainbow Rocket]] never came to be.
** The games feature various cellphone-like items, such as the C-Gear, which are [[DemotedToExtra usually ignored]] in the anime. WordOfGod is that that they would make the plots easy to work around (ie, if the plot has character split up then all they'd have to do is call each other). Misty had the original Poké Gear in one episode after her departure, Brock used the one from the remakes as a map throughout the ''Diamond & Pearl'' series, and Dawn had the Poketch.
** For the longest time, Bill was the only PC programmer from the games that has appeared in the anime (and in only one episode at that). Nothing about him being in charge of the Pokemon Storage System is even mentioned since that doesn't appear in the anime either. No appearances have been made from [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Lanette]], [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Bebe]], [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Amanita]], or [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Cassius]]. [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Molayne]] does make an appearance in the ''Sun and Moon'' anime, but again, his role as a PC programmer is not mentioned at all.
** Courtney from Team Magma does not appear in the anime.
** The remake designs of Team Magma and Team Aqua don't appear in the anime because it'd be redundant.
** The Distortion World is the catalyst of ''Platinum'''s plot, but never appeared in the anime. ''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior'' instead used a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute very similar]] (yet noticeably different) area called the "Reverse World".
** The Shadow Triad do not appear in the anime.
** Lentimas Town and Black City are the only towns and cities in the Unova region not to be featured in the anime. Same for White Forest.
** Kiloude City in the Kalos region has never been featured either.
** Necrozma's backstory makes no mention of Ultra Megalopolis, the ancient populace of which were [[AbusivePrecursors the catalyst]] for the Legendary Pokémon's vicious nature and pillaging of light. Instead, Necrozma lost its light when it exhausted its power protecting Poipole and Naganadel's world from a meteor.
** Professor Sycamore's recurring assistants Sina and Dexio didn't appear in the anime, however one of Team Rocket's [[PaperThinDisguise Paper-Thin Disguises]] is inspired by their ''Sun & Moon'' clothing.
** The Game Corners don't appear in the main anime after the slot machines in “The Song of Jigglypuff” because of the gambling issues the ones in the games are feared to cause.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** Orre is never referenced. This means that none of the ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' or ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'' characters cameo in the manga.
** Red in the games has a mother who appears in two different pairs of games (the Kanto and Johto ones) and has an off-screen father. Red in ''Adventures'' however either suffers from a mean case of InvisibleParents or outright ParentalAbandonment. He is one of the only, if not the only, Pokedex holder with no known relatives.
* ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'':
** None of the female player characters make an appearance. Instead, the male protagonists are used -- the one possible exception being "The Scoop", where the Hoenn protagonist is dressed in an all-concealing Magma Suit, making it ambiguous if it's Brendan or May underneath.
** Lucas and Dawn never show up -- in "The New World", Cynthia confronts Team Galactic atop Spear Pillar alone, while "The Magma Stone" only has Looker and Buck present; in both situations in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Platinum]]'', the player was present with them.
** The protagonists of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' are absent in the two episodes focusing on the events of those games. In "The King Returns", instead of Nate/Rosa appearing, [[spoiler:Hilbert from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' appears with Zekrom to aid N]]; something that never happened in ''[=B2/W2=]'''s story.
** In "The Investigation", which is based on the Looker sidequest in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Mimi deactivates Emma's Expansion Suit, as opposed to Xerosic (who is absent entirely
* When ''Popotan'' got its adaptation, some characters disappeared completely. One of them was the main character.
* The animated adaptations of the ''Anime/QueensBlade'' gamebooks took some liberties towards some characters and plot events:
** Hans (Hobby Japan's collective WordOfGod and AuthorAvatar) does not appears in the animated TV series, but he appears in the CD dramas and the videogames, His role is replaced in the anime by [[CanonForeigner The Head Archangel]] instead.
** Nyx doesn't appear in the first season, as the producers of the anime seems to run out of episodes for including her (other than a brief cameo), not to mention she's not very important, plot-wise, for the story (despise having a designated voice actress). She appears in the second season for real.
** Alice, the main protagonist of the ''Queen's Gate'' novels and gamebooks, only appears in the ''Queen's Gate Spiral Chaos'' game and she doesn't appear in the anime. Also, neither her friends nor her family in Europe and her backstory from the novels are mentioned anywhere in the game.
** While she is a crossover character in the ''Queen's Gate Spiral Chaos'' game, [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]] is the only character from her universe who appears, and despise being mentioned in the game and being the main motivation for her for being in the game, Jin Kisaragi doesn't not appear in the game. This is somewhat egregious, as while the events of the game are not canon for the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' universe, both characters are vital for [[spoiler:Hazama aka Yuuki Terumi]] for his plans to work and he's not mentioned anywhere.
** Also, none of the characters from the ''Sword of the Unicorn'' novels appears anywhere, as the events of those novels are not canon, since the novels took some liberties with the already established backstory. (For beginners, there's ''no QB tournament here'')
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Hikaru Gosunkugi, one of Akane's [[HopelessSuitor hopeless suitors]], is largely absent during most of the anime and doesn't make an appearance until much later in the series. Until then, his role was usually given to Sasuke, [[CanonForeigner a character original to the anime]].
** Akari (Ryoga's later girlfriend) and Konatsu (Ukyou's HopelessSuitor) don't show up at all in the anime.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** The following Sailor Guardians don't exist in the anime: [[spoiler:Sailor Ceres, Sailor Pallas, Sailor Juno, Sailor Vesta, and Sailor Cosmos]], albeit the first four still appear as characters (specifically as villains who undergo a HeelFaceTurn) but never become Sailor Guardians. The last one technically appeared as a silhouette.
** Sailor Galaxia lost about half of her minions in the transition. They were Sailors Heavy Metal Papillon, Lethe, Mnemosyne, Phi, and Chi.
** Kotono Sarashina was a classmate and fangirl of Rei's. She was presumably removed due to Koan's role being heavily rewritten.[[note]]Kotono was president of the school's Supernatural Research Club. They had a booth at the SchoolFestival they wanted Rei to be apart of. Koan infiltrated the festival. None of this happens in the anime.[[/note]] Ironically, she was named for Usagi's [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi voice actress]].
** Saphir had two droids, Aquatici and Veneti, that didn't make it. What sealed their removal was droids being completely different in the anime and Saphir himself being DemotedToExtra.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
** The "Sanctuary Chapter" OVA adaptation of the Hades saga removed Harpy Valentine and Radamanthys' PraetorianGuard from the final chapters. This is specially notable for Basilisk Silpheed who returns much later in the 2nd "Inferno Chapter" [=OVA=]s and references a meeting with the Bronze Saints that never happened.
** In the manga, Black Dragon has a blind brother that is able to attack in the darkness, and Shiryu has trouble fighting them until he figures out there are 2 of them, defeats the blind Black Dragon, then the fight continues one on one. In the anime, the entire section featuring the second Black Dragon was omitted, skipping directly to the one on one fight.
** In ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'', the anime left out a small part near the end of season 2 where Hades poses as the Pope and convinces a small group from Athena's army to advance and enter a zone protected by the barrier of his castle, resulting in their deaths. [[spoiler:Salo, the youngest of Taurus Aldebaran's three apprentices, is among the deceased]].
* ''Manga/SchoolLive'':
** The anime removed the other survivors Kei and Miki met in the mall at the start of the ZombieApocalypse. The only one left is the old Christian woman (who became Taroumaru's owner in the anime). In the manga going from living in a group, to only being Miki and her friend Kei, to then just being Miki alone until she was rescued exists to show off Miki's troubles and loneliness, however the anime ignored that element of her character.
** The final episode completely removed the helicopter attempting to rescue the girls. [[spoiler:It avoided a Downer Ending in exchange for a Bittersweet Ending by scrapping the part where it crashes and Yuuri has a breakdown]].
* ''Anime/SonicX'' has appearances by nearly every main character from the games except Metal Sonic.
* ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV'' has almost the entire cast of ''Super Street Fighter II'', with the only ones missing being Dee Jay, T. Hawk, E. Honda, and Blanka. They ''were'' originally going to appear, but plans for the show changed after its episode order was CutShort.
* In the anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'', many characters from the novels (such as some members from the Vatican and Rosenkreuz Orden) do not appear while some have their roles reduced though some of them do appear in the manga.
* Ataru's best friend Kosuke does not appear in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', which gave most of his role and lines to Lum's Stormtroopers.
* Sara Shirabuki from ''Manga/VampireKnight'' never made it into the anime adaptation.
* Masaki, along with the Akasaka ''Manga/WanganMidnight'' story arc he was featured in, was completely gutted out from TV anime.
* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' [[Manga/WarriorCatsManga graphic novel]] trilogy ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' (and bonus manga at the end of [=SkyClan=]'s Destiny) is unique among ''Warriors'' mangas in that they try to make ''all'' [=SkyClan=] cats appear, or at least be ''mentioned''. While almost the entire Clan ''is'' in there, the only ones to not show up or be mentioned at all in either the trilogy or the bonus manga are Sagepaw and Egg, for whatever reason.
* Keiichi didn't show up in the ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' anime. The three main characters of CLAMP School Detectives didn't appear in the anime as well (probably due to copyright reasons since ''Manga/CLAMPSchoolDetectives'' is animated by a different studio), but the chairman of CLAMP School looked similar to Nokoru Inomoyama except he has a PornStache.
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', Karen "LLENN" Kohiruimaki is said to have a few siblings, with her oldest sister having a husband and a young daughter. While these characters are sometimes mentioned in the light novels, and Karen's sister and niece appear after her real life meeting with M in Volume 2, they are never even mentioned in the anime.
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** Case 1-5 is not included, so all the exclusive characters from that case are written out entirely. Subverted in 2-1's case, where it is moved to be the premiere of season 2 instead.
** The bellboy in "Turnabout Sisters" and Penny Nichols from "Turnabout Samurai" are DemotedToExtra big time, and could have been completely written out without altering the plot at all, given that they have no dialogue lines and are only shown for a handful of seconds.
** The Magatama sequences have been cut from the anime, likely to save on time.
** Lotta Hart is completely removed from "Farewell, My Turnabout". Her role in the case is instead given to Larry.
** "Director" Hotti appears neither in "Reunion and Turnabout" nor in "Farewell, My Turnabout".
** Lisa Basil does not appear in "Recipe for Turnabout", as Phoenix and Maya never visit the victim's workplace.
* Several chapters of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' that provide characterization for the supporting classmates were left out of the anime adaptation.
** Maehara's [[ADayInTheLimelight limelight]] chapters (23 and 24) that establishes him as the class casanova seem to have been removed from the anime entirely. One can only imagine it had something to do with the whole "[[spoiler:poisoning your schoolmates]]" thing.
** Sousuke's [[ADayInTheLimelight limelight]] chapter (37), which shows off his artistry, also got skipped.
** Meg's [[ADayInTheLimelight limelight]] chapters (44 and 45) that deals with an issue of a school student abusing Meg's generosity also didn't make the cut.
* ''Anime/Berserk1997'':
** The first episode is a loose adaptation of [[Manga/{{Berserk}} the manga]]'s first chapter with a few elements of the other seven chapters of the Black Swordsman arc: Guts's encounter with a female Apostle is skipped, though she still appears during the Eclipse. Puck is cut because, despite being a major character, the rest of the anime is an arc he doesn't appear in; the girl and her father (here her grandfather) from the manga's second chapter take Puck's place in what was his introductory scene. Instead of getting a Behelit from the Count, Guts gets one from the Snake Baron. Instead of encountering the Godhand in person, Guts sees them in his dream and Griffith is mentioned by two villagers.
** The character Donovan, a mercenary who raped Guts as a child, is cut despite a fair amount of time being devoted to Guts' childhood. This event would lead to Guts' extreme aversion to being touched, which while not completely out of character for him, does seem a bit odd without an explanation.
** The tail end of the Golden Age Arc before the Eclipse is [[CompressedAdaptation significantly cut down]]: A brief tournament Guts participates in, which introduced Silat and the Kushan Empire, is skipped. The Griffith RescueArc is much shorter, leaving out the fights with a squad of Kushan assassin and an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores lead by the Apostle Wyald. Most critically, Skull Knight and any scene where he appears is cut out entirely, [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole leaving no explanation at all]] for how Guts escaped the Eclipse at the anime's end.
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''
** When the protagonists first get in touch with the government, three officers of the Self-Defense Forces greet them. While Seki and Tanaka are present in the anime, and Tanaka is quite significant to the overall plot, Shoji is cut out, resulting in [[CompositeCharacter Seki being the one to point a gun at Koyemshi]].
** In the manga, Masaru "Kodama" Kodaka has two older brothers, while in the anime, he only has one.
** Unlike in the manga, Tanaka does not get married or have a child [[spoiler:after being forced to abandon Jun]].
* The first ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' manga, which adapted [[VideoGame/BreathOfFireI the first game]], omitted the QuirkyMinibossSquad almost entirely (only 1 out of its 4 members appears) despite being the main enemies for a fourth of the game.
* In the ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' VisualNovel, Kappei was actually an important (if late introduced) character with his own ending and everything, but so far has not appeared in any ''Clannad'' anime adaptation ever.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** The direct manga adaptation cuts out the [[HumongousMecha Knightmare Frames]], which reduces the scale of the story overall by taking out a hefty chunk of the military aspect. Also removed are characters like Cornelia, who tied heavily into the military part of the anime.
** ''Suzaku of the Counterattack'' cuts out most of the Ashford Academy characters, and [[CompositeCharacter rolls Shirley, Cecile, and Euphemia up into a new character]].
* The anime version of ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' has multiple differences from the manga. Certain characters like Chaplin were removed.
* The short-lived manga adaptation of ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'' omitted pretty much every major Powerpuff Girls villain except for Mojo Jojo and Princess.
* Ryo Asuka/Satan is left out of the 1972 ''Anime/{{Devilman}}'' anime. Most of Devilman's RoguesGallery is likewise absent, save for Sirene, Psycho Jenny and Xenon (who takes on the BigBad role for Satan).
* In the anime adaption of ''[[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Disgaea]]'', Big Sis Prinny is left out, which is important as [[spoiler:she's Laharl's mother and her death is the reason he's so bitter towards Love]].
* As a blending of the first few arcs of the manga, ''Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower'' cuts out the Pilaf gang in favour of the Red Ribbon Army, from which Colonel Silver, Ninja Murasaki, and Captain Yellow are absent. Also gone are Krillin, the Ox-King, Chi-Chi, Monster Carrot, Tao Pai Pai, Upa, Bora, and Korin.
* Nozomi is absent from the anime adaptation of ''Manga/ElfenLied'', despite being the reason the story is called "Elfen Lied" in the first place.[[note]]It's a song she sings.[[/note]]
* In two manga adaptations of the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' games, different characters hqave been cut out:
** Mitsuki Oosawa manga: Holyn and Beowulf, prospect love interests for Ayra and Raquesis, disappear from the story -- while Ayra [[BelligerentSexualTension hooks up with Lex]] and [[LadyAndKnight Raquesis with Finn.]] (after having her BrotherSisterIncest deal with Eldigan cranked UpToEleven [[spoiler: until he dies]]) This was presumably done to avert DerailingLoveInterests - [[FridgeLogic which doesn't explain]] why Oosawa kept an expy of Eldigan's canon wife Grahnye around [[DieforOurShip and made her a total asshole]], while still capable of making a LoveTriangle between Ferry, Lewyn and Sylvia without derailing the loser (Sylvia, who instead is very sympathetic).
** On the antagonist side, Queen Hilda of Freege also apparently did not appear, and considering that she's one of the worst HateSink of the timeline, it's probably to make the story not too dark, or as seen with other antagonists, Oosawa is known to make otherwise one or two dimensional villains look more sympathetic, but Hilda is just far too evil for Oosawa to salvage, when she actually did include another HateSink, Prince Chagall of Agustria, and made his negative qualities more apparent.
** Nea Fuyuki manga: Sylvia's children Leen and Corple. (And in the meantime, [[spoiler: Leen's love interest Ares has his eyes set on Princess Julia instead]]). Fuyuki allegedly said in author's notes that she ''wanted'' to keep them around, but time restrains didn't allow her to.
* The ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' TV series for the most part, sticks pretty closely to the manga, but a few notable minor characters (such as Jackal's boxer underling and the General who started the nuclear war) were omitted during the adaptation. Most notably, Jakoh's sons Jask and Sheeno were removed from the early episodes of the ''Fist of the North Star 2'' anime and replaced by two renegade Gento Kōken practitioners named Taiga and Boltz, who were originally conceived as {{filler villain}}s before the Jakoh story arc was fully serialized in the manga.
* The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' cut out a lot of the cast who were introduced partway into the original manga (the Xingese characters, the Briggs soldiers, etc.) since the anime OvertookTheManga. Ling appeared in a cameo, but was otherwise excluded.
** ''Anime/FullMetalAlchemistBrotherhood'', in comparaison, has its first half rushed out; meaning that the train miniarc and Bald are excluded.
* Francine, who was one of the main ''VideoGame/GateKeepers'' in the game, was completely omitted in the anime.
* The anime version of ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'' removes any of the human characters that showed up in the manga besides a few character mentioning them.
* In ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'', Madeleine [[spoiler:aka the eldest daughter and White Sheep of the Toulonchamp family]] is written out of the anime.
* The {{OVA}} of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' cut out a bunch of Dio's acolytes, including Gray Fly, Steely Dan, Mannish Boy, Terence T. D'Arby, Captain Tenille, Devo the Cursed, and Pet Shop.
* Makkii-sen, Gigako, and Kyouko are all absent from the ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' anime (though to be fair, their appearances amounted to a single panel each in the chapters that were adapted).
* The featureless player character from ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'', The Admiral, was not made into a leading character or someone with known features in [[Anime/KantaiCollection the Anime]]; he is an unseen figure instead, mentioned offhand by others, taking a different approach from other [[AnimatedAdaptation Anime Adaptations]] of popular works like ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' and ''Anime/SuperSonico'', where The Producer and The Manager were given features and sufficient characterization.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** The [[Manga/KingdomHeartsI manga adaptation]] left out Deep Jungle, the ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' world, due to rights issues. Also, subsequent games have acted like [[CanonDiscontinuity the world never existed]], leaving a minor plot hole.
** Of the still-legitimate worlds in the series, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]] was also adapted out despite its massive popularity. ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' cuts out all Disney worlds but Agrabah, and ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' excludes [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Atlantica]], [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Port Royal]] and the [[Disney/TheLionKing Pride Lands]].
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'':
** The manga adaptation completely omits the sub-plot of Epona getting stolen by Skull Kid, leaving no way for Romani and Cremia to appear in the story. The artist apologizes for this at the end of the book and makes it up by showing an illustration of the two.
** While many of the game's sub-plots are omitted for story reasons (unlike the game, the manga takes place throughout one three day cycle), the Kafei sidequest gets an entire chapter dedicated to it. This results in the Stone Tower Temple and Ikana Valley sequences, which were major to the plot, being resolved in one page (even Twinmold, the boss of the dungeon, is defeated only a few panels after it appears...and only one of them actually makes an appearance).
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 2nd A's]]'' left out Gil Graham and the Liese Twins, who were revealed to be behind the plot of the season. Meta-fictionally speaking, this is because the movie is an in-universe adaptation and their roles in those events were classified.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaInnocent INNOCENT]]'' did this with the entire casts of ''[=ViVid=]'' and ''Force''. In ''[=ViVid=]'s'' case, it'd be difficult to have Vivio running around when her mother is currently 9 in this continuity. With ''Force'', it probably has more to do with the fact that the season as a whole is almost universally ''[[FanonDiscontinuity despised]]''. Everyone related to the Saint Church is also absent which means that Sein, Otto, and Deed never show up, even though all 9 other Numbers (including [[SparedByTheAdaptation Due]]) are present.
*** [[spoiler:Vivio and Einhart do show up later on via time travel.]]
** Subverted with Misato Mikami (Nanoha's paternal aunt, and biological mother of her older sister/cousin Miyuki), who played a role in ''Nanoha'''s [[VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever parent series]] but was completely absent from anything in the various ''Nanoha'' continuities only to make a small cameo 15 years later in the ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection Reflection]]'' supplementary manga.
** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'' cuts out the more fantastic elements (by series standards) from ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'', meaning that it lacks the characters who showed up due to being resurrected as Dark Fragments (Precia and Linith)[[note]]though if one wants to get technical, their LotusEaterMachine counterparts both show up when Fate has a flashback to the previous movie[[/note]] or time traveled (Vivio, Einhart, and Thoma). The Liese twins and Reinforce Eins (who had already been adapted out in the previous movie and SparedByTheAdaptation in the games respectively) are also absent.
* Shizuna Minamoto is absent from Creator/StudioShaft's anime adaptation of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' and Mr. Takahata pretty much takes over her parts in addition to his own. Kotaro Inugami joins the cast in the manga as Negi's best friend; however, he makes no appearance in either anime series.
* The anime version of ''Manga/MidoriDays'' is only 13 episodes long whereas the manga is 85 chapters in all. Because of the difference in length, characters like [[BadassAdorable Nao]] and her father [[MadScientist Shirou]] were left out of the anime, along with [[ForeignExchangeStudent Lucy]].
* The anime for ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' completely cut out Ilulu ([[JustifiedTrope it would have taken several episodes to integrate her into the cast, something a 13 episode series wouldn't be able to afford]]). All of the cameos by other Creator/CoolKyouShinsha characters were also removed (with the exception of Frau Rabbit).
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' ends just before Rin Kiryuin, [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Asahi]]'s [[KidFromTheFuture Grandkid from the Future]], joins the cast[[note]]In fact, it actually ends on the chapter where she first appears, but cuts out her brief (last page) cameo[[/note]], and the episodes that adapted manga chapters where she ''did'' appear simply handed her role over to other characters (primarily [[ClassRepresentative Nagisa Aizawa]]). Since Rin's timeline is a massive driving element for the rest of the series, any subsequent anime adaptations would have to ignore this one and start fresh.
* ''Anime/OnegaiSamiaDon'' is an AnimatedAdaptation of the book Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt, but the eldest daughter Althea isn't included in the series and CanonForeigner Anne Hopkins takes her in-story spot.
* In the manga adaptation ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'', the first form of the FinalBoss does not appear. Once the protagonists reach the end of the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, the boss enters its second form.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Leaf,[[note]]From ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Fire Red and Leaf Green]]'',[[/note]] Hilda and Hilbert,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'',[[/note]] Nate and Rosa,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'',[[/note]] Calem,[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''[[/note]] and Elio and Selene[[note]]from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''[[/note]] do not show up at all despite being {{Player Character}}s from some of the games.
** Gary doesn't have a sister like his game counterpart, since Ash didn't need the Town Map that Daisy provides, nor does he spend much time in Pallet Town, where she resides.
** Game [[TheRival rivals]], Wally[[note]]though Drew has aesthetic similarities and is May's rival, [[DecompositeCharacter while]] Max covers the {{Kid Appeal|Character}}, the student-to-the-Player role, and being close to a Ralts (despite not catching it)[[/note]], and Hugh are completely absent. Silver is mostly absent, but makes a very brief cameo in a special and got an expy in Paul during the ''Diamond and Pearl'' saga.[[note]]For completeness, Brendan and Lucas [[DemotedToExtra also appear only in cameos in the movies]]; as does Ethan for those who don't count [[Anime/TheLegendOfThunder Jimmy]].[[/note]] Cheren didn't appear as a rival but appeared as his Gym Leader incarnation in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''; this means he and Bianca are different ages and don't know each other at all in the anime.
** Koga's daughter (and Gym Leader successor) Janine from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' never makes an appearance. The part of the game she's in requires visiting Kanto to get the region's badges; while Ash ''did'' return to Kanto to face off against the ''Hoenn'' Frontier Brains, he didn't visit the Gyms due to the fact that he'd already gotten the badges. Koga does get a [[CanonForeigner sister named Aya]], who pretty much fills the same role as Janine.
** While their existence is acknowledged, some Elite Four members from Hoenn[[note]]except Drake[[/note]] and Unova[[note]]except Caitlin [[/note]] are never shown. Will and Karen from ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' and Drasna from ''X'' and ''Y'' never appear as well.
** Sinnoh and Johto's Frontier Brains other than Palmer and Caitlin[[note]]albeit in her Unova Elite Four incarnation[[/note]] do not appear.
** Characters from spinoff games rarely appear in the anime. The only ones who do are from ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap''[[note]]Todd actually ''did'' debut in the anime before ''Snap'''s release[[/note]] and the ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' series. The ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'', ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', ''VideoGame/PokemonTrozei'', and ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' characters don't appear. This does not include the one-off ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' specials.
** AZ and the Ultimate Weapon do not play a role in the anime's version of Team Flare's plot.
** While Xerneas and Yveltal appear in ''Anime/PokemonDiancieAndTheCocoonOfDestruction'', they have no role or appearance in the main anime series itself (unlike every mascot legendary before them), with Team Flare's plot instead involving [[AscendedExtra Zygarde]]. The closest thing they get is a side special, but even then it's a flashback.
** Game elements like Technical and Hidden Machines are never used in the anime.
** The postgame in ''X and Y'' features Xerosic being investigated by Agent Looker and finding redemption with the help of a young girl named Emma. Neither of these happen in the anime.[[note]]Instead Xerosic tries to brainwash Clemont, but gets defeated by Ash and the gang and then arrested by Officer Jenny.[[/note]]
** Cynthia's sister is a minor character who doesn't have a sprite of her own, however she still appears in the games. In the anime, however, only Cynthia and her grandmother appeared.
** Mr. Fuji, the old man who takes care of Pokémon in Lavender Town doesn't make any appearance in the anime. Though ''a'' Dr. Fuji creates Mewtwo in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', he's a distinctly different character from Mr. Fuji.
** Porygon's evolutions never appeared in the anime, due to it being associated with [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the infamous episode that caused seizures]], even though [[CommonKnowledge it was actually Pikachu's fault in the scene]]. Their lone appearances have been brief cameos in some of the later movies.
** Zinnia, Lisia, and Aarune from ''Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire'' haven't made an appearance either.
** The Team Rocket Executives - Proton, Ariana, Petrel, and Archer - have never appeared, either in their original designs or remake designs, despite Team Rocket being such an important aspect of the anime. Unlike Red in the games, Ash has not caused Team Rocket to disband and thus Neo Team Rocket or [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Team Rainbow Rocket]] never came to be.
** The games feature various cellphone-like items, such as the C-Gear, which are [[DemotedToExtra usually ignored]] in the anime. WordOfGod is that that they would make the plots easy to work around (ie, if the plot has character split up then all they'd have to do is call each other). Misty had the original Poké Gear in one episode after her departure, Brock used the one from the remakes as a map throughout the ''Diamond & Pearl'' series, and Dawn had the Poketch.
** For the longest time, Bill was the only PC programmer from the games that has appeared in the anime (and in only one episode at that). Nothing about him being in charge of the Pokemon Storage System is even mentioned since that doesn't appear in the anime either. No appearances have been made from [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Lanette]], [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Bebe]], [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Amanita]], or [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Cassius]]. [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Molayne]] does make an appearance in the ''Sun and Moon'' anime, but again, his role as a PC programmer is not mentioned at all.
** Courtney from Team Magma does not appear in the anime.
** The remake designs of Team Magma and Team Aqua don't appear in the anime because it'd be redundant.
** The Distortion World is the catalyst of ''Platinum'''s plot, but never appeared in the anime. ''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior'' instead used a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute very similar]] (yet noticeably different) area called the "Reverse World".
** The Shadow Triad do not appear in the anime.
** Lentimas Town and Black City are the only towns and cities in the Unova region not to be featured in the anime. Same for White Forest.
** Kiloude City in the Kalos region has never been featured either.
** Necrozma's backstory makes no mention of Ultra Megalopolis, the ancient populace of which were [[AbusivePrecursors the catalyst]] for the Legendary Pokémon's vicious nature and pillaging of light. Instead, Necrozma lost its light when it exhausted its power protecting Poipole and Naganadel's world from a meteor.
** Professor Sycamore's recurring assistants Sina and Dexio didn't appear in the anime, however one of Team Rocket's [[PaperThinDisguise Paper-Thin Disguises]] is inspired by their ''Sun & Moon'' clothing.
** The Game Corners don't appear in the main anime after the slot machines in “The Song of Jigglypuff” because of the gambling issues the ones in the games are feared to cause.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** Orre is never referenced. This means that none of the ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' or ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'' characters cameo in the manga.
** Red in the games has a mother who appears in two different pairs of games (the Kanto and Johto ones) and has an off-screen father. Red in ''Adventures'' however either suffers from a mean case of InvisibleParents or outright ParentalAbandonment. He is one of the only, if not the only, Pokedex holder with no known relatives.
* ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'':
** None of the female player characters make an appearance. Instead, the male protagonists are used -- the one possible exception being "The Scoop", where the Hoenn protagonist is dressed in an all-concealing Magma Suit, making it ambiguous if it's Brendan or May underneath.
** Lucas and Dawn never show up -- in "The New World", Cynthia confronts Team Galactic atop Spear Pillar alone, while "The Magma Stone" only has Looker and Buck present; in both situations in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Platinum]]'', the player was present with them.
** The protagonists of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' are absent in the two episodes focusing on the events of those games. In "The King Returns", instead of Nate/Rosa appearing, [[spoiler:Hilbert from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' appears with Zekrom to aid N]]; something that never happened in ''[=B2/W2=]'''s story.
** In "The Investigation", which is based on the Looker sidequest in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Mimi deactivates Emma's Expansion Suit, as opposed to Xerosic (who is absent entirely
* When ''Popotan'' got its adaptation, some characters disappeared completely. One of them was the main character.
* The animated adaptations of the ''Anime/QueensBlade'' gamebooks took some liberties towards some characters and plot events:
** Hans (Hobby Japan's collective WordOfGod and AuthorAvatar) does not appears in the animated TV series, but he appears in the CD dramas and the videogames, His role is replaced in the anime by [[CanonForeigner The Head Archangel]] instead.
** Nyx doesn't appear in the first season, as the producers of the anime seems to run out of episodes for including her (other than a brief cameo), not to mention she's not very important, plot-wise, for the story (despise having a designated voice actress). She appears in the second season for real.
** Alice, the main protagonist of the ''Queen's Gate'' novels and gamebooks, only appears in the ''Queen's Gate Spiral Chaos'' game and she doesn't appear in the anime. Also, neither her friends nor her family in Europe and her backstory from the novels are mentioned anywhere in the game.
** While she is a crossover character in the ''Queen's Gate Spiral Chaos'' game, [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]] is the only character from her universe who appears, and despise being mentioned in the game and being the main motivation for her for being in the game, Jin Kisaragi doesn't not appear in the game. This is somewhat egregious, as while the events of the game are not canon for the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' universe, both characters are vital for [[spoiler:Hazama aka Yuuki Terumi]] for his plans to work and he's not mentioned anywhere.
** Also, none of the characters from the ''Sword of the Unicorn'' novels appears anywhere, as the events of those novels are not canon, since the novels took some liberties with the already established backstory. (For beginners, there's ''no QB tournament here'')
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Hikaru Gosunkugi, one of Akane's [[HopelessSuitor hopeless suitors]], is largely absent during most of the anime and doesn't make an appearance until much later in the series. Until then, his role was usually given to Sasuke, [[CanonForeigner a character original to the anime]].
** Akari (Ryoga's later girlfriend) and Konatsu (Ukyou's HopelessSuitor) don't show up at all in the anime.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** The following Sailor Guardians don't exist in the anime: [[spoiler:Sailor Ceres, Sailor Pallas, Sailor Juno, Sailor Vesta, and Sailor Cosmos]], albeit the first four still appear as characters (specifically as villains who undergo a HeelFaceTurn) but never become Sailor Guardians. The last one technically appeared as a silhouette.
** Sailor Galaxia lost about half of her minions in the transition. They were Sailors Heavy Metal Papillon, Lethe, Mnemosyne, Phi, and Chi.
** Kotono Sarashina was a classmate and fangirl of Rei's. She was presumably removed due to Koan's role being heavily rewritten.[[note]]Kotono was president of the school's Supernatural Research Club. They had a booth at the SchoolFestival they wanted Rei to be apart of. Koan infiltrated the festival. None of this happens in the anime.[[/note]] Ironically, she was named for Usagi's [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi voice actress]].
** Saphir had two droids, Aquatici and Veneti, that didn't make it. What sealed their removal was droids being completely different in the anime and Saphir himself being DemotedToExtra.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
** The "Sanctuary Chapter" OVA adaptation of the Hades saga removed Harpy Valentine and Radamanthys' PraetorianGuard from the final chapters. This is specially notable for Basilisk Silpheed who returns much later in the 2nd "Inferno Chapter" [=OVA=]s and references a meeting with the Bronze Saints that never happened.
** In the manga, Black Dragon has a blind brother that is able to attack in the darkness, and Shiryu has trouble fighting them until he figures out there are 2 of them, defeats the blind Black Dragon, then the fight continues one on one. In the anime, the entire section featuring the second Black Dragon was omitted, skipping directly to the one on one fight.
** In ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'', the anime left out a small part near the end of season 2 where Hades poses as the Pope and convinces a small group from Athena's army to advance and enter a zone protected by the barrier of his castle, resulting in their deaths. [[spoiler:Salo, the youngest of Taurus Aldebaran's three apprentices, is among the deceased]].
* ''Manga/SchoolLive'':
** The anime removed the other survivors Kei and Miki met in the mall at the start of the ZombieApocalypse. The only one left is the old Christian woman (who became Taroumaru's owner in the anime). In the manga going from living in a group, to only being Miki and her friend Kei, to then just being Miki alone until she was rescued exists to show off Miki's troubles and loneliness, however the anime ignored that element of her character.
** The final episode completely removed the helicopter attempting to rescue the girls. [[spoiler:It avoided a Downer Ending in exchange for a Bittersweet Ending by scrapping the part where it crashes and Yuuri has a breakdown]].
* ''Anime/SonicX'' has appearances by nearly every main character from the games except Metal Sonic.
* ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV'' has almost the entire cast of ''Super Street Fighter II'', with the only ones missing being Dee Jay, T. Hawk, E. Honda, and Blanka. They ''were'' originally going to appear, but plans for the show changed after its episode order was CutShort.
* In the anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'', many characters from the novels (such as some members from the Vatican and Rosenkreuz Orden) do not appear while some have their roles reduced though some of them do appear in the manga.
* Ataru's best friend Kosuke does not appear in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', which gave most of his role and lines to Lum's Stormtroopers.
* Sara Shirabuki from ''Manga/VampireKnight'' never made it into the anime adaptation.
* Masaki, along with the Akasaka ''Manga/WanganMidnight'' story arc he was featured in, was completely gutted out from TV anime.
* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' [[Manga/WarriorCatsManga graphic novel]] trilogy ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger'' (and bonus manga at the end of [=SkyClan=]'s Destiny) is unique among ''Warriors'' mangas in that they try to make ''all'' [=SkyClan=] cats appear, or at least be ''mentioned''. While almost the entire Clan ''is'' in there, the only ones to not show up or be mentioned at all in either the trilogy or the bonus manga are Sagepaw and Egg, for whatever reason.
* Keiichi didn't show up in the ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' anime. The three main characters of CLAMP School Detectives didn't appear in the anime as well (probably due to copyright reasons since ''Manga/CLAMPSchoolDetectives'' is animated by a different studio), but the chairman of CLAMP School looked similar to Nokoru Inomoyama except he has a PornStache.
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', Karen "LLENN" Kohiruimaki is said to have a few siblings, with her oldest sister having a husband and a young daughter. While these characters are sometimes mentioned in the light novels, and Karen's sister and niece appear after her real life meeting with M in Volume 2, they are never even mentioned in the anime.
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