History ExecutiveMeddling / AnimeAndManga

** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': There is an episode where a bomb-shaped Digimon called [=BomberNanimon=] attempts to blow up an amusement park by throwing bombs everywhere. When dubbed, its color was changed to orange, [[http://www.duckfeather.net/digimon/index.htm the bombs were turned into ''fruit juice'' and it was re-named "Citramon."]] English producer/writer Jeff Nimoy stated that he had to do this or Creator/{{Disney}} would cut the episode.
** ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure Digimon: The Movie]]'' was created by combining three movies into one. Jeff Nimoy personally didn't care for the idea and would've preferred to only use the first two movies (he wanted the third movie to be shown as a TV special), however the runtime wasn't long enough.

** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'':
*** Crow was supposed to be the BigBad of the final arc, but the Blackwings cards he used started selling like crazy. Konami demanded a protagonist to represent its newest cash cow, so the show was rewritten to allow him to become a good guy.
*** Kiryu was PutOnABus at the end of the Dark Signer arc, but he was abruptly brought back for a six-episode mini-arc that absolved him of all the stuff he did in the series because Konami was releasing a new set of the Infernity cards he used.
*** The anime was supposed to end with the Dark Signers arc, but executives demanded another season due to how well-received the show had been.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' was meant to be a series capturing everyday life for families. But when the fanbase of the franchise was presumably shown to mostly consist of girls, Bandai executives requested that the show crew put in a story arc surrounding the Tama-Hearts, with the inclusion of a human girl (lasting 14 episodes) for the final 2 seasons of the first show. Lovelitchi and Melodytchi were the main focus of most of the marketing. It would continue with ''Yume Kira Dream'' and ''Miracle Friends'', in an attempt to capture the success of ''Franchise/PrettyCure''. They went back to basics with the fourth and final series, ''GO-GO Tamagotchi!'', presumably at the request of the show's director, Joji Shimura.

* ''Anime/Tamagotchi'':
** The show was meant to be a series capturing everyday life for families. But when the fanbase of the franchise was presumably shown to mostly consist of girls, Bandai executives requested that the show crew put in a story arc surrounding the Tama-Hearts, with the inclusion of a human girl (lasting 14 episodes) for the final 2 seasons of the 1st show. Lovelitchi and Melodytchi were the main focus of most of the marketing. It would continue with Yume Kira Dream and Miracle Friends, in an attempt to capture the success of ''Franchise/PrettyCure''. They went back to basics with the 4th and final series, GO-GO Tamagotchi, presumably at the request of the show's director, Joji Shimura.

* ''Anime/Tamagotchi!'':

* ''Anime/Tamagotchi'':

** Studio Khara bullied the US staff at least twice in regards to the dub's script. ADV avoided this by pushing back and doing their own thing, while Netflix buckled and was forced to use a script that was made around 2001 18 years later (and the original ADV cast was forced to sign NDAs to both hide that they were replaced and not reveal what had happened with the script). Not even Funimation was immune to this; after the convention premiere of ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion 3.0'' they were forced to redo ''the entire movie''.

%%** Studio Khara bullied the US staff at least twice in regards to the dub's script. ADV avoided this by pushing back and doing their own thing, while Netflix buckled and was forced to use a script that was made around 2001 18 years later (and the original ADV cast was forced to sign NDAs to both hide that they were replaced and not reveal what had happened with the script). Not even Funimation was immune to this; after the convention premiere of ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion 3.0'' they were forced to redo ''the entire movie''.

** Similary, Executive Meddling led to Creator/RocioGarcel being replaced by Irene Jimenez as Luna, and Irene was initially just a stand-in while Garcel was out of comission due to health issues.

** In the later prints of the manga, Takeuchi added some {{Yonkoma}} at the end of every volume, explaining how she came with some of the ideas that made it into the final version, some of them are about how [[WhatCouldHaveBeen she originally intended things to be drastically different]] until her editor, Fumio Osano, told her to do some changes. For example, the manga was going to be even DarkerAndEdgier than it is, compared to the [[LighterAndSofter anime adaptation]], as she planed to [[KillEmAll get the Sailor Senshi killed]] [[KilledOffForReal permanently]] at the end of the first act, including an early and graphic death for Sailor Mercury. Also, Sailor Mercury was going to be an android or a cyborg, something that was later used for Hotaru/Sailor Saturn.

** Most infamously, ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'' was originally planned to [[spoiler:have Ash ''win'' the Pokemon League for once]], but ended up being veto'd by this trope, with the higher ups reasoning that [[spoiler:Ash winning would result in a drop in viewership thanks to the series long MythArc finally wrapping up.]]

** Most infamously, ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXandY'' was originally planned to [[spoiler:have Ash ''win'' the Pokemon League for once]], but ended up being veto'd by this trope, with the higher ups reasoning that [[spoiler:Ash winning would result in a drop in viewership thanks to the series long MythArc finally wrapping up.]]

** Creator/TakeshiShudo's original intention for the series was one that could be [[DoingItForTheArt enjoyed by both children and adults]]. However, CreativeDifferences with the show's staff saw him forced to include the StrictlyFormula elements which have largely characterized the show. Shudo's blogs reveal the direction he originally had in mind for the series, namely that Ash and Gary's rivalry would be an ongoing StoryArc, and the finale would involve a conflict between humans and Pokémon -- but that meddling from the staff meant the show ended up going on far longer than he'd intended. On a lesser note, [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies/pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei/lord_unknown_tower_entei_mythical_third_movie.html his original idea]] for the third movie (which involved a reanimated TyrannosaurusRex fossil, as well as the mystery of real-world animals in relation to Pokémon) was rejected by the staff because they thought it lacked success potential.

* The manga adaptation of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' skipped Deep Blood arc which features Aisa Himegami as the female deuteragonist [[https://m.imgur.com/a/2A7wmgx due to the Editorial Staff wanting to reach the Science Side and Mikoto-focused story arc (namely Sister arc) quickly]]. Unfortunately, skipping that story arc means sacrificing important character growth for the male lead Touma Kamijou and AdaptationInducedPlothole as well, since Deep Blood arc had never happened in the manga, therefore Himegami's life was never in danger (at least before Daihaseisai), Himegami would have absolutely no reason to transfer school from Kirigaoka Girls Academy (one of the elite schools of Academy City) to Touma's high school (which is just an ordinary school with many Level 0s).

** In the [=DiC=] and Clowerway dub, the lesbian couple Haruka and Michiru was changed into cousins to remove the homosexuality references, though the original dubbers kept the romantic implications the two had for each other.

** While some of the ideas for ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' was scrapped for multiple creative reasons, one concept rejected by the higher ups was to have Cure Sword join the team at the series halfway point. This was because Toei had already decided to include Sword in ''[[Anime/PrettyCureAllStars New Stage 2]]'', so the writers were forced to tack Sword on to the team much earlier than expected.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** Creator/KenAkamatsu wanted to try something new and do a {{Shounen}} series, but the executives wanted to capitalize on the success of ''Manga/LoveHina'' with another UnwantedHarem series. As a result, ''Mahou Sensei Negima!'' starts out like an UnwantedHarem, but starts adding {{Shounen}} elements around volume 3, which [[GenreShift increase in frequency]] until it becomes a {{Shounen}} series with some UnwantedHarem and FanService elements still hanging around.
** Akamatsu rushed the ending due to the threat of losing the rights to the series.

** In ''[[Anime/DragonBallKai Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters]]'', Creator/FUNimation hired members of Creator/TeamFourStar to voice the characters in the SoBadItsGood Cell Games Reenactment in a sequence with many references to ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' and ''DBZ'' memes in general. Creator/ToeiAnimation found out about this thanks to a Toonami promo that used an audio clip from that scene and ordered Funimation to re-edit it, replacing TFS's audio with that from the original dub of ''DBZ''. Fans were not pleased. Then in late 2017, Toei leaned on Funimation to stop hiring members of Team Four Star for their dubs, effectively getting some of them "greylisted".

* The manga adaptation of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' skipped Deep Blood arc which features Aisa Himegami as the female deuteragonist [[https://m.imgur.com/a/2A7wmgx due to the Editorial Staff wanting to reach the Science Side and Mikoto-focused story arc (namely Sister arc) quickly]]. Unfortunately, skipping that story arc means sacrificing important character growth for the male lead Touma Kamijou and AdaptationInducedPlothole as well, since Deep Blood arc never happened and Himegami's life was never in danger before, Himegami would have absolutely no reason to transfer school from Kirigaoka Girls Academy (one of the elite schools of Academy City) to Touma's high school (which is just an ordinary school with many Level 0s).

* The manga adaptation of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' skipped Deep Blood arc which features Aisa Himegami as the female deuteragonist [[https://m.imgur.com/a/2A7wmgx due to the Editorial Staff wanting to reach the Science Side and Mikoto-focused story arc (namely Sister arc) quickly]]. Unfortunately, skipping that story arc means sacrificing important character growth for the male lead Touma Kamijou and AdaptationInducedPlothole as well, since Deep Blood arc never happened and Aisa's life was never in danger before, Himegami would have absolutely no reason to transfer school from Kirigaoka Girls Academy to Touma's high school which is an ordinary school.

* The manga adaptation of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' skipped "Deep Blood arc" which features Aisa Himegami as the female deuteragonist [[https://m.imgur.com/a/2A7wmgx due to the Editorial Staff wanting to reach the Science Side and Mikoto-focused story arc (namely "Sister arc") quickly]]. Unfortunately, skipping that story arc means sacrificing important character growth for Touma Kamijou, the series' male lead.

* ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'': The author was working on a special celebration chapter -- chapter 100 -- which would be the headliner for the phonebook sized ''Ultra Jump'' magazine in Japan. It was around this time that his publisher's legal department approached him with censorship demands for the reprints, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-28/battle-angel-alita/last-order-manga-put-on-hiatus demanding he change a line]] using the word "crazy" as it "may offend people with incurable mental disorders." The suggested changes were "mad" or "angry" instead. He caved in because they also cited a part of his contract stating that if he missed the deadline on chapter 100, they would prohibit all future reprints of ''Gunnm'', effectively ending his career. He later regretted it, especially when he discovered they had made similar changes without his knowledge. He approached them with an ultimatum -- either the legal team apologize to him for overstepping their bounds and [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-18/battle-angel-alita/gunnm/lo-manga-return-planned recall the edited versions]], or he'd switch to a different publisher. They didn't, so [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-08/battle-angel-alita/gunnm/lo-manga-to-resume-in-march he did.]]

** When ''Anime/BleachHellVerse'' was released to DVD, it carried with it a message from Kubo explaining that crediting him with the film was inaccurate. The filmmakers rewrote the script he'd provided at the last minute, with the end product being almost nothing like the original.