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* There is [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1usgfrG85NCcUZVeVdtVmJScTQ/view a fan edit]] of the entire ''LightNovel/ReZero'' anime which removes all the time loops, giving an outside perspective of how insane Subaru looks when he resets.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}} Redux'' Chapters 1-4, created by by [=ApostleBob=], attempt to combine ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' with footage from ''Anime/Berserk1997'' to create a fan-made "director's cut" that follows the manga more closely while including highlights from both adaptations. ''Berserk Redux'' Chapter 5 aims to similarly "complete" ''Anime/Berserk2016'' by splicing in footage from ''Anime/Berserk1997'', ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'', and * ''VideoGame/BerserkAndTheBandOfTheHawk''.

** Shortly after the poor performance of ''Justice League'', Creator/BenAffleck distanced himself from the role of Batman, putting a halt to the spin-off he had been developing with Creator/MattReeves, which led to a relaunch of the franchise with Creator/RobertPattinson in the role. Fans took to splicing footage of Affleck's existing material as Batman, as well as his ''Film/SuicideSquad'' cameo and some appearances in other non-DC films to try and bring his Batman spin-off to life. Some of these even use fan film footage for the fight scenes with Deathstroke, who was intended to be the antagonist. Footage of the streaming-exclusive series ''Series/{{Titans}}'' is also used to include Dick Grayson.

[[caption-width-right:350:One of many options for those who want to experience the pre-GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion of the [[Franchise/StarWars Original Trilogy]] in HD.]]

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise are among the most fan-edited. There are several good reasons for this: with a fanbase that big and obsessive, you're going to have a few people with the technical knowhow and bags full of ideas, and ''Star Wars'' is ripe for changes. The scope of ''Star Wars'' fan edits ranges far and wide.
** Few will argue that Adywan's [[http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/ Revisited Trilogy]] is the most ambitious fan-powered undertaking you're likely to find. ''Film/ANewHope: Revisited'' was finished in 2008 after over two years of work, and the effort showed. Every single laser and saber was re-rotoscoped, the entire film was color-corrected from the 2004 [=DVDs=] (which looked like the film stock had been soaked in blue Kool-Aid), the entire soundtrack was remixed, irritating [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion special-edition]] slapstick trimmed out as neatly as possible, hundreds of technical errors fixed, believable special effects and brand-new footage shot by the editor integrated, and most importantly, Han shot first. The editor even managed to make the saber duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader kinetic and engaging. In 2017, ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Revisited'' came out, and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Revisited'' is in the works. Adywan also had plans to give this treatment to the Prequel Trilogy (which, by his admission, would have made the films practically unrecognizable), but later decided against it since it would be far too expensive to pull off, he wasn't as invested in those movies as the Original Trilogy, and he felt that giving the ''Revisited'' treatment to three movies on his own was exhausting.
** The Despecialized Editions are a massive project by Harmy which, using multiple sources such as the UsefulNotes/LaserDisc, UsefulNotes/BluRay, 35MM scans, etc. completely reconstructed the original and unaltered theatrical versions in HD for Blu-ray players.
** "Purist" versions of the OT also exist, which are pretty much exactly like they were originally shown in the theaters (i.e., nothing to make them more consistent with the Prequels), plus remastered picture and sound quality.
** ''War of the Stars''. The Man Behind the Mask set out to turn ''A New Hope'' into a grindhouse movie, and the results are hilarious. The less given away about this one, the better.
** Creator/TopherGrace of all people created a fan edit of the Prequel Trilogy that cut it down to a single film. He has no intention of making it available for public viewing, but there were some articles written about what he included, and there have been a few copycat attempts by some fans, such as ''Turn to the Dark Side''.
** Another famous edit is the ''Fall of the Jedi'' Prequel trilogy by Q2, which keeps all Original Trilogy spoilers hidden (especially the Vader/Luke twist) and has Padme survive.
** The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit Phantom Edit]]'' is another high-profile edit of the prequels. Edits of Episode I and Episode II are available, each including commentary tracks explaining the editor's choices.
** More recently, some dedicated fans have been acquiring, scanning and restoring actual 35mm film prints of the original trilogy that were distributed to theaters back in the '70s and 80s. Considering the age and condition of many of these prints, and the quality of the samples that have been released, these fans are working such absolute magic that an official HD release of the unaltered trilogy may soon be redundant. The most notable of these efforts, Project [=4K=], eventually managed to produce and release high-quality restorations of the entire Original Trilogy based on these theatrical prints, both in versions with film grain intact for purist videophiles and with grain digitally removed for those used to that method of restoration.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' is the first film in the franchise without an OpeningCrawl. [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/rogue-one-opening-crawl-makes-feel-more-like-star-wars-958585/ Cue the fans...]]
** Ivan Ortega led a project to edit ''Film/TheLastJedi'' to remove its divisive elements and add in some deleted scenes; it features, among other things, a {{training montage}} for Rey, new soundalike voiceovers for Admiral Ackbar (who [[spoiler:doesn't get [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed off]] but instead pulls a HeroicSacrifice to cripple the First Order's fleet]]) and Luke Skywalker (who [[spoiler:gives Rey his old lightsaber instead of throwing it away, is shown mourning Han's death, is portrayed as having genuinely tried to save [[FaceHeelTurn Ben Solo from becoming Kylo Ren]], and doesn't get killed off at the end after having projected himself through the Force]]), and some flashback scenes to flesh out characters. A full ending duel between [[spoiler:[[OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain Luke and Kylo]]]] is planned, but not finished as of this writing.
** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker: Resurgence'' is notable as the first released Rey Nobody edit of the film, which also has the revelation that [[spoiler:Rey killed her parents replacing the reveal of Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter]]. Also, [[spoiler:Ben Solo]] lives.
** There's at least one "watchable" edit of the infamous ''[[Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial Holiday Special]]''.

* With the ''X-Men'' series, several edits exist that try to sort out the persistent continuity issues with the franchise, while others are made to help try to 'redeem' entries perceived to be flawed. To this end, attempts have been made to merge the plotlines of ''Dark Phoenix'' and ''X-Men: The Last Stand'' to create a new narrative for Jean, where she gains the Phoenix force as a teen and grows with it into an adult.

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* Only two days passed following its premiere before the new series of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' got the fanedit treatment, a cut exists of the first half of the premiere story "Suspended Animation" and episode five's "Good Warner Hunting", combined to form one epic 22 minute story.

* ''M.A.S.K'': The M.A.S.K series finale edit combines the first season episodes 'Assault on Liberty' and 'Eyes of the Skull', cutting out both of the episodes StatusQuoIsGod endings, to create a more fitting high-stakes conclusion to the series.

* Babelcolour is also working on ''The Timeless Doctors'', a full length feature edit that includes footage of all thirteen doctors and cleverly integrates them into different settings by themselves or with each other, with an original story connecting it all. The film will also include appearances from the controversial Morbius Doctors, some of which will be portrayed by their respective 'actors' in newly recorded scenes.

For the VideoGame equivalent, see GameMod.

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' (1992 OAV Series) is recut as a full-length movie removing bothersome stupidity and childish behaviour while focusing much more on the main couple.

* ''[[Manga/DororonEnmaKun Demon Prince Enma]]'' unites four [=OVAs=] in a single feature movie removing excessive pettiness by a female character and removing lot of padding from the 2 latter episodes

* Ah My Goddess!! (1992 OAV Series) is recut as a full-length movie removing bothersome stupidity and childish behaviour while focusing much more on the main couple.
* ''Anime/AngelCop'' received a Movie Recut that focuses exclusively on the main characters, remove lot of cheesiness such as random laught bursts from otherwise down-to-earth characters and cuts the occasional padding.
* Another received a Movie Recut that cuts the teen drama massively making it a much more focused pure psychological horror story.
* ''Manga/Area88'' 2004 anime has a Movie Recut version that removes all footage that did not help with the development of the focus character and story.
* The hlarious Back Street Girls Gokudolls received a Movie Recut that focuses mostly on what develops the main plot, speeding up by cutting padding and removing the grossest bits that at the end led to nowhere.
* Bartender received a Movie Recut that focuses only on the 2 most important and recurring patrons the protagonist tends to, while also swapping the ending for a Christmas Themed one.

* ''Blood C'' the series received the "Blood C Zero - Movie Recut", which cuts a lot of a massive amount of irrelevant to the end high school drama and padding, functioning as a prequel movie to the official one.
* ''Blood Will Tell: Dororo'' received a Duology Movies Recut that cuts anything annoying, unnecessary, padding, stupid and childish while only keeping what helps the main characters to develop and let the story develop without pointless interruptions.

* Corpse Party - The Animation has a "Movie Recut" that unites all the episodes together (including an extra OAV prologue) cutting anything that just slows the pacing to a crawl

* Death Parade has a Movie Recut that includes the plot-important prologue "Death Billiard" and focus exclusively on the main plot point, with the side characters used minimally for world and lore building.

* ''Demon Prince Enma'' unites four OVAs in a single feature movie removing excessive pettiness by a female character and removing lot of padding from the 2 latter episodes
* ''Denpa Teki Na Kanojo'' has a "OAV Recut" that uses and trims footage from the first episode alone to work as a stand-alone introduction to the Light Novel without presenting plot-points left hanging but still stimulating for more.

* ''Devilman - Perdition Of Self'' is a Movie Recut of 3 Devilman [=OVAs=] from the late 1980s and a couple of scene from "Violence Jack - Hell Town" in one single movie that works as a prologue to the "Violence Jack" manga by Go Nagai

* ''[[Manga/DragonBall Dragon Ball Recut]]'' is a rather popular fan edit that attempts to remove as much filler from the 1986-1989 ''Dragon Ball'' anime as possible, similarly to what ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' was to ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. While some filler is still present (mainly scenes that were impossible to remove due to how deeply integrated they were into the main story, such as the Pilaf gang's appearance in episode 1), the edit overall cuts out a significant portion of the anime's extra material. To put things into perspective, the original anime ran for 153 episodes, while the recut lasts only 82. The author of ''Dragon Ball Recut'' is also currently working on a filler-free edit of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and an edit of ''Dragon Ball Kai'' that tries to remove what filler did remain there. No links will be included for obvious legal reasons, but information about ''Dragon Ball Recut'' can be found in [[http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34866 this]] ''Kanzenshuu'' thread.

* ''[[{{VisualNovel/Fate stay night}} DEEN's Fate/stay night - Fate Route Fan Edit]]'' is a fan edit of ''[[{{Creator/Studio DEEN}} Studio DEEN's]]'' Fate route adaptation that removes shoehorned elements from the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' and ''Heaven's Feel'' routes which also removes their major respective spoiler reveals inside of that adaptation. The first two episodes of the ''Fate/stay night's'' anime are replaced with the Prologue and first episode from the ''[[{{Creator/ufotable}} Ufotable's]]'' adaptation of ''Unlimited Blade Works'' except removing the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' logo and the first episode of the anime ends earlier to be faithful to the ''Fate'' route's events. The only remains of the first two episodes of the ''DEEN''[='s=] ''Fate'' route anime adaptation are 3 scenes that are used for some of the later episodes.

* "Flourishing Showa - A Rakugo Double Suicide" has been recut as a short OVA by focusing the story on the redemption of the punk character alone.
* ''Anime/{{Freedom}}'' received a Movie Recut tha speeds up considerably the pace making everything much more gripping, while also omitting a 2 episodes long filler arc.
* The anime version of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' (aka GTO) has received a Movie Recut Edition titled "GTO - Messiah Of Young Souls" that trims everything up to just leaving two hours of footage, removing around 95% of the content by making the movie focusing on Onizuka, the main character teacher, in his quest to help the most problematic students of his (the ones that will become his friends) while enduring the bad pranks and misunderstandings aimed at ruining his loafy but good nature.

* Hakuouki Sekkaro is recut as a feel good samurai themed slice of life movie.
* The 2001 tv anime version of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' has received a Movie Recut called "The Undisclosed File" that changes the plot by making it a side-story of sort to the manga by using the original anime-only footage that does not contradict the canon.
* The 6 episodes long anime "Karas" has received a Movie Recut that streamlines quite lot of time wasting padding.
* Kurozuka has a Movie Recut that streamlines a lot while keeping the core action, pathos and drama intact.
* Mad Bull 34 has a full-length movie recut that makes Daizoburo not a wuss (except at the very beginning), is uncut and uncensored and cuts anything that just steals minutes, working as a much better introduction to the followup manga now

* ''Anime/MezzoForte'' DSA, the direct sequel series to the bloody action with bits of hentai cult classic movie, received a Movie Recut that removes anything unecessary to the main plot, cuts overly long gags down and removes anything that would hint at a further sequel that has never been produced

* Anime/MonsterGirlsDoctor'' has a "Wholesome Movie Recut" that streamlines everything while removing any amount of idiocy and gross\distasteful fanservice, only leaving what really is humorous and heartfelt.

* Onihei has been recut as a samurai themed slice-of-life movie with a more positive, family context ending
* ''[[{{Manga/Naruto}} Naruto Kai]]'' is a fan edit in the same vein as the aforementioned ''Dragon Ball Recut''. This series, however, also adapts ''Shippuden'', and each episode covers the same amount of content that would be found in one volume of the manga[[note]]In order to be directly comparable, ''Dragon Ball Recut'' would have to adapt ''Dragon Ball Z'' as well[[/note]]. As of writing, the series has 70 episodes, and plans to end with 72. For comparison's sake: the first ''Naruto series'' ended with ''220'' episodes, and ''Shipuuden'' ended with 500, for a total of '''[[ArchivePanic 720]]''' episodes, ''ten times'' the number of episodes ''Naruto Kai'' plans to have.

* There is [[http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1usgfrG85NCcUZVeVdtVmJScTQ/view a fan edit]] of the entire ''LightNovel/ReZero'' anime which removes all the time loops, giving an outside perspective of how insane Subaru looks when he resets.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** The series has an edit which consolidates footage from the Orange Island and Johto region finales into one cohesive narrative, Ash secures a Pokémon league victory by besting Gary Oak in a 'tournament final' and eventually parts ways with Misty and Brock, leaving him free to take the next step in the path of a Pokémon master without having to spend decades in real time trying to win the 'big one' (which would eventually happen with the Sun and Moon anime)
** An edit exists that attempts to frame ''Anime/Pokemon2000'' as the SeriesFinale of the franchise, using specially filtered footage borrowed from the original Japanese trailer for ''Mewtwo Strikes Back''.
* Queen Emeraldas recut as "Galaxy Express 999 - Queen Emeraldas" streamlines everything and makes the tone darker
* Rec! received a movie recut that leaves out very little but some moments where the main character gets bashed by somebody he already is intimate with

* Ozma\Ozuma is recut a full-length movie removing padding and excessive childish humour
* Shiki received a Movie Recut Duology that cut away a massive amount of padding and development for minor characters that at the end just brought nothing to the focal plot

* Terraformars received a movie recut that cut a lot of over explaining and focuses exclusively on the most important characters
* Tokko received a Movie Recut that cuts off almost all humor to make it a full-fledged action-horror romp

* Wolf's Rain receveid a Duology Movies Recut that cut so much filler, padding and overtalking now it can be enjoyed in just 4 hours and half (total lenght of both movies combined)

** ''Amazing Spider-Man: New Ways To Die Recut'', again by the same editor, attempts to show how seamless it really is to integrate Spider-Marriage material into a ''Brand New Day'' era Spider-Man story without contradicting continuity.

* A film student made ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut:'' ''[[http://vimeo.com/150483774 Outside Edition]]'', which shows the film's events from outside Riley's mind.

** The Despecialized Editions are a massive project by Harmy which, using multiple sources such as the UsefulNotes/LaserDisc, Blu-Ray, 35MM scans, etc. completely reconstructed the original and unaltered theatrical versions in HD for UsefulNotes/BluRay players.

** The ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit Phantom Edit]]'' is another high-profile edit of the prequels. Edits of Episode I and Episode II are available, each including commentary tracks explaining the editor's choices.

** ''Film/RogueOne'' is the first film in the franchise without an OpeningCrawl. [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rogue-one-opening-crawl-makes-feel-more-like-star-wars-958585 Cue the fans...]]

** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker: Resurgence'' is notable as the first released Rey Nobody edit of the film, which also has the revelation that [[spoiler:Rey killed her parents replacing the reveal of Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter]].

* WebVideo/DarkSimpsons takes the approach of taking unrelated scenes from WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons and editing into short videos that create a simple narrative. They lean towards the BlackComedy angle, and usually involve moments of murder, rape, incest, and suicide. The host site also allows fans to submit their own entries as well. They currently have two youtube channels can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmtv4GfnEBSzxT5DNnOaEQ here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc9brmsJf8eCIeNZ0qh5QNg here]].

[[folder: Comics]]

** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker: Resurgence'' is notable as the first released Rey Nobody edit of the film, which also has the revelation that [[spoiler:Rey killed her parents replacing the Rey Palpatine reveal]].

[[folder: Live-Action TV]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' has the Recobbled Cut, which combines deleted scenes, line art, concept art and audio in an attempt to create the film Creator/RichardWilliams originally envisioned before it was [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled with to death]].

* An edit of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' added some deleted unfinished animation, including Nuka's infamous last line before dying ("I finally got your attention, didn't I?") and Zira committing suicide rather than losing her grip on the ledge, and '''completely''' removes Timon and Pumbaa from the final battle.

* A film student made ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut:'' ''[[http://vimeo.com/150483774 Outside Edition]]'', which shows the film's events from outside Riley's mind.

* LightNovel/ReZero: There is an [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1usgfrG85NCcUZVeVdtVmJScTQ/view edit]] of the entire of the anime that removes all of the loops, giving an outside perspective of how insane Subaru looks when he resets.

* Creator/StephenFry's audiobooks for ''Literature/HarryPotter'' have "Enhanced Editions" by a user who felt the barebones nature of the original audio didn't do the stories justice. The narration is unchanged, but sound effects and music from the [[VideoGame/HarryPotter video games]] and [[Film/Harry Potter films]] are added.

[[folder: Anime & Manga]]

* Blood C the series received the "Blood C Zero - Movie Recut", which cuts a lot of a massive amount of irrilevant to the end high school drama and padding, functioning as a prequel movie to the official one.
* Blood Will Tell: Dororo received a Duology Movies Recut that cuts anything annoying, unnecessary, padding, stupid and childish while only keeping what helps the main characters to develop and let the story develop without pointless interruptions.

* Death Note received a movie recut that streamlines everything, reduces the overly amount of over explaining and over talking and makes the ending much more satisfying and thematically fit.
* Demon Prince Enma unites four OVAs in a single feature movie removing excessive pettiness by a female character and removing lot of padding from the 2 latter episodes
* Denpa Teki Na Kanojo has a "OAV Recut" that uses and trims footage from the first episode alone to work as a stand-alone introduction to the Light Novel without presenting plot-points left hanging but still stimulating for more.

* Devilman - Perdition Of Self is a Movie Recut of 3 Devilman OAVs from the late 1980s and a couple of scene from "Violence Jack - Hell Town" in one single movie that works as a prologue to the "Violence Jack" manga by Go Nagai

* A ''Film/{{Memento}}'' edit rearanges the scenes in chronological order.

[[folder: Live-Action Television]]
* TV doesn't get the fanedit treatment quite as often as movies do, but it's not totally forgotten. ''Series/PrisonBreak'''s first season was trimmed down into a 'movie' trilogy, its open ending tied off to offer closure.
%% The fanedit works of David Kern do the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' series proud

[[folder: Web Animation]]
* Fan edits exist for Volume 4 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', to separate each of the four main characters' arcs into their own mini-volume.
* WebVideo/DarkSimpsons takes the approach of taking unrelated scenes from WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons and editing into short videos that create a simple narrative. They lean towards the BlackComedy angle, and usually involve moments of murder, rape, incest, and suicide. The host site also allows fans to submit their own entries as well. They currently have two youtube channels can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmtv4GfnEBSzxT5DNnOaEQ here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc9brmsJf8eCIeNZ0qh5QNg here]].

[[folder: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'': The KevinSmith produced He-Man sequel series was the subject of a cultural firestorm for it's perceived bait-and-switch tactics and deconstructive characterization. One editor, while impressed with the second half of the series, also felt all of it wasn't exactly necessary and made an edit of episode five which ends the run of the series there and then to demonstrate this. It was accompanied by an edit of episode one which tried to prove the whole thing needn't have existed at all if [[spoiler: Adam had just lived and Teela chose to be more understanding of his secret due to her love for her best friend and hero]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' has a few edits to it's name, two versions of ''Brainiac Attacks'', one feature length, one the standard runtime of an S:TAS episode, which removes the bait-and-switch twist towards the end, allowing Lois to retain knowledge of Clark's duel identity, and an edit of the JL episode 'Heareafter' which uses footage from the movie ''Superman: Doomsday'' to provide more of an insight into Clark and Lois' relationship as well a 'reaction' from Lois to Clark's perceived death.

* MonsterGirlsDoctor'' has a "Wholesome Movie Recut" that streamlines everything while removing any amount of idiocy and gross\distasteful fanservice, only leaving what really is humorous and heartfelt

* Ah My Goddess!! (1992 OAV Series) is recut as a full-length movie removing bothersome stupidity and childish behaviour while focusing much more on the main couple
* ''Anime/AngelCop'' received a Movie Recut that focuses exclusively on the main characters, remove lot of cheesiness such as random laught bursts from otherwise down-to-earth characters and cuts the occasionall padding
* Another received a Movie Recut that cuts the teen drama massively making it a much more focused pure psychological horror story
* ''Manga/Area88'' 2004 anime has a Movie Recut version that removes all footage that did not help with the development of the focus character and story
* The hlarious Back Street Girls Gokudolls received a Movie Recut that focuses mostly on what develops the main plot, speeding up by cutting padding and removing the grossest bits that at the end led to nowhere
* Bartender received a Movie Recut that focuses only on the 2 most important and recurring patrons the protagonist tends to, while also swapping the ending for a Christmas Themed one

* The ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' Season 1 Anime has received a Movie Recut that focuses on the "Chinese Sea\American Army" plot alone with just a couple of secondary adventures before it, removing the "Maid Roberta"'s Arc and a couple of lesser episodes
* Blood C the series received the "Blood C Zero - Movie Recut", which cuts a lot of a massive amount of irrilevant to the end high school drama and padding, functioning as a prequel movie to the official one
* Blood Will Tell: Dororo received a Duology Movies Recut that cuts anything annoying, unnecessary, padding, stupid and childish while only keeping what helps the main characters to develop and let the story develop without pointless interruptions
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' anime has a Movie Recut that puts away all the overly excessive talking between fights, re-arranges the order by placing a flashback arc at the beginning to then start in-media res, covering up to the first half of the manga (as the rest of the anime is mostly original), working as a 1st half to the 2nd half of the manga

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a Movie Recut which focuses only on the bits about the main characters (while leaving some of the footage out to add up to the mistery around them), starts with a build up to then focus on the Vicious plot alone
* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' 1996 OAV Series has recently received a Movie Recut that removes well over one hour and half of filler that does nothing to the plot, focusing the story on Donovan, Anita, Hsien-Ko, Mei-Ling, Dimitri and Morrigan only
* Death Parade has a Movie Recut that includes the plot-important prologue "Death Billiard" and focus exclusively on the main plot point, with the side characters used minimally for world and lore building
* Death Note received a movie recut that streamlines everything, reduces the overly amount of over explaining and over talking and makes the ending much more satisfying and thematically fit

* Denpa Teki Na Kanojo has a "OAV Recut" that uses and trims footage from the first episode alone to work as a stand-alone introduction to the Light Novel without presenting plot-points left hanging but still stimulating for more
* ''Manga/DesertPunk'' the anime received a Movie Recut that focuses only on one single important story arc, cuts the overly done comedy where not necessary and changes the ending
* Devilman - Perdition Of Self is a Movie Recut of 3 Devilaman OAVs from the late 1980s and a couple of scene from "Violene Jack - Hell Town" in one single movie that works as a prologue to the "Violence Jack" manga by Go Nagai
* ''Manga/DevilmanLady'' anime (whose story is more of a reimagining of the OG Devilamn than a sequel to it) has received a Movie Recut that only keeps the essentials, keeps the origins of the real antagonist more mysterious, cuts the padding and velocizes the overall flow

* ''Anime/FinalFantasyLegendOfTheCrystals'' has received a Movie Recut subtitled "No Stupidity Recut" as it removes padding, the excessively presence of unnecessary attempts at humour and some scenes that are too gross for an adventure animated film
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'' has a Movie Recut that cuts over 65% of content that just padded the story and adds web links to the summary of the continuation to the anime story (which is just half of the complete package) in the description of the video file
* "Flourishing Showa - A Rakugo Double Suicide" has been recut as a short OVA by focusing the story on the redemption of the punk character alone
* Freedom received a Movie Recut tha speeds up considerably the pace making everything much more gripping and less snooze inducing while also omitting a 2 episodes long filler arc
* The anime version of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' (aka GTO) has received a Movie Recut Edition titled "GTO - Messiah Of Young Souls" that trims everything up to just leaving two hours of footage, removing around 95% of the content by making the movie focusing on Onizuka, the main character teacher, in his quest to help the most problematic students of his (the ones that will become his friends) while enduring the bad pranks and misunderstandings aimed at ruining his loafy but good nature
* ''Manga/GoldenBoy'' miniseries has been recut into a single movie that makes the main character less annoying, way less gross and much more relatable
* Hakuouki Sekkaro is recut as a feel good samurai themed slice of life movie
* The 2001 tv anime version of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' has received a Movie Recut called "The Undisclosed File" that changes the plot by making it a side-story of sort to the manga by using the original anime-only footage that does not contradict the canon
* The 6 episodes long anime "Karas" has received a Movie Recut that streamlines quite lot of time wasting padding
* Kurozuka has a Movie Recut that streamlines a lot while keeping the core action, pathos and drama intact

* Megaman NT Anime received a movie recut that uses footage from the early season 1 and from the latter part of the season 2 to create a brand new story, removing around 95% of filler content and making the story less childish

* Monster Girls Doctor has a "Wholesome Movie Recut" that streamlines everything while removing any amount of idiocy and gross\distasteful fanservice, only leaving what really is humorous and heartfelt
* Nightsong Of Splendor has been recut as a Feature Movie removing the excessive theatrics such as large ham yells and screams

* Odd Taxi received a Movie Recut that focuses only on what is important and makes some changes so that the most annoying characters get what they deserve without going away scot free
* Please Save My Earth receveived a full-lenght Movie Recut that improves the pacing
* ''Pokemon'' has an edit which consolidates footage from the Orange Island and Johto region finales into one cohesive narrative, Ash secures a Pokemon league victory by besting Gary Oak in a 'tournament final' and eventually parts ways with Misty and Brock, leaving him free to take the next step in the path of a Pokemon master without having to spend decades in real time trying to win the 'big one' (which would eventually happen with the Sun and Moon anime)
** Another edit exists that attempts to frame ''Pokemon 2000: The Power Of One'' as the SeriesFinale of the franchise, using specially filtered footage borrowed from the original Japanese trailer for ''Mewtwo Strikes Back''.

* The ''[[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (pre-''Duel Monsters'') series (aka Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0) has received a Movie Recut that focuses on Yugi obtaining his split personality, the two times where Anzu is really at risk of death and the Seto Kaiba plan to kill Yugi and obtain the marvelous "Blues Eyes Dragon" card through his "Death-T" plan, removing everything unnecessary

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** Ivan Ortega led a project to edit ''Film/TheLastJedi'' to remove its divisive elements and add in some deleted scenes; it features, among other things, a proper {{training montage}} for Rey, new soundalike voiceovers for Admiral Ackbar (who [[spoiler:doesn't get [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed off]] but instead pulls a HeroicSacrifice to cripple the First Order's fleet]]) and Luke Skywalker (who [[spoiler:gives Rey his old lightsaber instead of throwing it away, is actually shown mourning Han's death, is portrayed as having genuinely tried to save [[FaceHeelTurn Ben Solo from becoming Kylo Ren]], and doesn't get killed off at the end after having projected himself through the Force]]), and some flashback scenes to flesh out characters. Apparently, a full ending duel between [[spoiler:[[OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain Luke and Kylo]]]] is planned, but not finished as of this writing.

* ''WesternAnimation/MastersoftheUniverseRevelation'': The KevinSmith produced He-Man sequel series was the subject of a cultural firestorm for it's perceived bait-and-switch tactics and deconstructive characterization. One editor, while impressed with the second half of the series, also felt all of it wasn't exactly necessary and made an edit of episode five which ends the run of the series there and then to demonstrate this. It was accompanied by an edit of episode one which tried to prove the whole thing needn't have existed at all if [[spoiler: Adam had just lived and Teela chose to be more understanding of his secret due to her love for her best friend and hero]]

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a Movie Recut which focuses only on the bits about the main characters (while leaving some of the footage out to add up to the mistery around them), starts with a build up to then focus on the Vicious plot alone

Fan edits (especially film fan edits) are in a legal grey area when it comes to copyright. Sites dedicated to them warn that you shouldn't pick one up unless you own the original movie, which is a good rule of thumb, though it's highly unlikely that someone who doesn't own the film would even be looking at fan edits of it in the first place. There are sources to download them, but due to copyright paranoia, distribution methods are rarely user-friendly. Because of this, it's quite common for people to trade fan edits like concert bootlegs.

* * Hakuouki Sekkaro is recut as a feel good samurai themed slice of life movie

* * The 6 episodes long anime "Karas" has received a Movie Recut that streamlines quite lot of time wasting padding

* * Ozma\Ozuma is recut a full-length movie removing padding and excessive childish humour

* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' 1996 OAV Series has recently received a Movie Recut that removes well over one hour and half of filler that does nothing to the plot,
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a Movie Recut which focuses only on the bits about the main characters (while leaving some of the footage out to add up to the mistery around them), starts with a build up to then focus on the Vicious plot alonefocusing the story on Donovan, Anita, Hsien-Ko, Mei-Ling, Dimitri and Morrigan only

* Angel Cop received a Movie Recut that focuses exclusively on the main characters, remove lot of cheesiness such as random laught bursts from otherwise down-to-earth characters and cuts the occasionall padding