History MissingEpisode / AnimeAndManga

* The South Korean dub of the 2007 ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'' anime is currently lost with [[https://blog.naver.com/psyke47/220657361526 the only remaining footage being from a Korean website]] that shows the [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong Korean dub's theme song.]] South Korean was the only country that was able to dub the anime, [[NoExportForYou since it never got dubbed to other parts of the world.]]

** The Creator/DiCEntertainment dub threw out six episodes entirely: 2, 5, 6, 20, 42, and 67. Most of these were not seen (legally) in the US until the uncensored, subtitled [[Creator/ADVFilms ADV]] release in 2003. Even that did not include episode 67, from the ''R'' season (a BeachEpisode with no relation to anything else in the show, featuring unexplained plesiosaur-like animals in the modern day). It was claimed by an ADV representative that Creator/NaokoTakeuchi despised that episode (as did the director), and that Toei refused to license it, although the episode showed up in other countries' adaptations. (Referenced in [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/SMMiniMangas/SMARTEnglishDubEpisode64Omitted01.html this fanart here]].) Later, it was clarified that ADV had obtained its masters from [=DiC=], whose materials lacked the episode. It wasn't seen legally in the US until 2015 when it was included in Viz's simulcast of the original anime, and later in their dub.
** [=DiC=] supposedly skipped over Episodes 2 because of a scene with Umino lifting up the teacher's skirt (made fun of in this fanart [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/ArtworkJAFanarts/SMARTEnglishDubOmitted2ndEpisodea.jpg here]]), a scene of possessed students throwing rocks into the school building, and themes involving fortune telling. Episode 5 was supposedly skipped because of a scene with Shingo kicking Luna, (referenced in this fanart [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/ArtworkJAFanarts/SMARTEnglishDubOmitted5thEpisode.jpg here]]), and Episode 6 was possibly skipped because of a sequence where Usagi disguises herself as an "adult" (a skimpy outfit with an exposed midriff) in order to infiltrate an adults-only jazz club. However, other than one or two scenes with easily-editable objectionable content, these were most likely skipped due to [=DiC=] wanting to burn through "solo Sailor Moon" episodes as quickly as possible. Episodes 20 and 67 were both beach filler episodes and skipped because they contributed nothing to the plot. Episode 42 on the other hand was a flashback episode that revealed Minako/Sailor Venus's past, and was likely skipped because it gave the rest of the Sailor Scouts little-to-no screentime, even if it was still an important episode to Venus' character arc. Some of these episodes (such as the Fortune Teller and the Haunted Beach episode) were adapted into Scholastic's junior novels.

* ''Anime/SaintSeiya'' had a really rough time in the USA as it had the misfortune of not getting dubbed until after anime it had inspired like ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' had already aired to high ratings, resulting in the SeinfeldIsUnfunny effect of being labeled as a rip-off and the first English dub by "DiC" "Knights of the Zodiac" doing poorly in the ratings on CN's new SVES(Saturday Video Entertainment System) block. CN didn't help matters by banishing the show to the graveyard slot of 12:30 AM after only 8 episodes, resulting in even worse ratings, as a result only 32 of the 40 dubbed episodes aired on CN(with only 28 being released on DVD by ADV, an 8th volume was scheduled to come out on November 2004 but cancelled at the last minute)with the remaining eight dubbed episodes only airing in Canada in YTV, 33-36 only aired twice and 37-40 only ever aired once(it's possible they also aired overseas in Australia as there were region 4 DVD releases of the dub)even the uncut direct-to-DVD dub by ADV was hit by this, with only 60 episodes being licensed to DVD with the rest being cancelled due to very poor sales. It wasn't until nearly 2 decades later that all 114 episodes would finally be fully dubbed into English.

* ''Anime/SaintSeiya'' had a really rough time in the USA as it had the misfortune of not getting dubbed until after anime it had inspired like ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' had already aired to high ratings, resulting in the SeinfeldIsUnfunny effect of being labeled as a rip-off and the first English dub by DiC "Knights of the Zodiac" doing poorly in the ratings on CN's new SVES(Saturday Video Entertainment System) block. CN didn't help matters by banishing the show to the graveyard slot of 12:30 AM after only 8 episodes, resulting in even worse ratings, as a result only 32 of the 40 dubbed episodes aired on CN(with only 28 being released on DVD by ADV, an 8th volume was scheduled to come out on November 2004 but cancelled at the last minute)with the remaining eight dubbed episodes only airing in Canada in YTV, 33-36 only aired twice and 37-40 only ever aired once(it's possible they also aired overseas in Australia as there were region 4 DVD releases of the dub)even the uncut direct-to-DVD dub by ADV was hit by this, with only 60 episodes being licensed to DVD with the rest being cancelled due to very poor sales. It wasn't until nearly 2 decades later that all 114 episodes would finally be fully dubbed into English.

*** This is the only episode from the Pokémon franchise that OLM refuse to export anywhere, even in other Asian countries, because of this incident. Some reports even state that the episode was banned by the ''Japanese government''. However, according to Creator/MaddieBlaustein, Meowth's voice actress at the time, 4Kids had actually dubbed the episode, but the producers demanded the episode be withdrawn regardless, likely due to the controversy (or at least the fear of controversy) that even ''airing'' the episode would cause. The incident also forced OLM to go back and dim the flashing effects in earlier episodes.

** More material was cut out of the edited version of the first two seasons. At that moment, ''fifteen'' episodes' worth of material were edited out, including most of the first episode and Tenshinhan's Z-era introduction to name a few. In addition to that, an episode created for the edited broadcast (Episode 10: "Escape From Piccolo", edited down from the uncut episodes 9 and 10) was skipped over in '96 due to objectionable content and only reinstated on the home release and on television in '98 after making the jump from syndication to Cartoon Network.

** The real reason is that those episodes of ''GT'' were lighthearted comedy in the vein of the original ''Manga/DragonBall'', which wasn't nearly as popular in the West. Creator/{{FUNimation}} chose to skip these in favor of the more action-packed, ''DBZ''-style episodes, clearly knowing their audience. Of course, this was also the era when ''GT'' had a ThemeTuneRap.

** And the two-part episodes in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'' series that would finally introduce Team Plasma. According to some previews and WordOfGod, a lot of scenes showed a city being severely damaged. Then the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Japan earthquake]] happened, and you have to take these episodes off of the grill. The ''Black and White'' series was run to its conclusion without the two-parter ever airing, and TV Tokyo maintains that they will air the episodes only when scheduling permits it in the future, which could be a ''long'' time given how intricate and specific to marketing scheduling around this franchise is.

*** Ironically, the fallout from this episode, with very short exceptions, caused Porygon and its evolutions to effectively cease to exist as far as the anime was concerned, [[MisBlamed even though it was Pikachu's attacks that caused the seizures]].

*** If you bother to look into it, you will find that no children in Japan actually had a seizure after watching this episode. Overprotective parents rushed over 200 kids to the hospital after assuming their kids MUST have had seizures from it. After which, none of said kids were actually diagnosed with epilepsy.

* The English Dub of ''Anime/AThousandAndOneNights'' once existed back in 1969 (which cut out about 20 minutes), but it only played in very few theaters, where it bombed and is now lost to time.

** The ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'' episode "Return! Our Scorponok" was never dubbed into English for some strange reason. The episode is important to the plot most notable in how it cements the rivalry between Hot Shot and Scorponok, and there's nothing particularly objectionable about it, so its absence is a complete mystery. The fact that it was featured in an online listing for the dub (named "Scorponok's Scars") makes it even more strange.

** "[[Recap/PokemonS1E38ElectricSoldierPorygon Electric Soldier Porygon]]", the infamous episode that gave viewers epileptic seizures. It was only aired once in Japan, where the strobe effect employed caused seizures in some Japanese kids. And then a whole lot more Japanese people got sick when the news reported on it by ''[[WhatAnIdiot showing the clip that was giving people seizures!]]'' This wasn't the only episode where the effect was employed, but while the previous episodes had the strobe effect removed, this episode was simply pulled. As such, the episode is extremely rare to find, with copies being taken off of video-sharing websites like Website/YouTube. In fact, anime had been like this for years and it wasn't until the Porygon episode that this kind of thing stopped.

* The english translations of ''creator/JunjiIto'', have a bad habit of doing this. For example, the first officially translated story featuring Souichi, a popular recurring character, was "The Mystery of the Haunted House", the character's last canon appearance.
** The Junji Ito Collection, an anime compiling some of his most iconic stories, suffers from this even more. Only chapter 5 of his "Hallucinations" series, "The Ongoing Tale of Oshikiri", is adapted. Out of all 29 "Tomie" chapters, only chapter 1 and 9 are adapted, and out of order at that.

* The ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'' episode "Scorponok's Scars" was not only never shown in the west, but never even dubbed into English. The episode is important to the plot, and there's nothing particularly objectionable about it, so its absence is a complete mystery.
** The fact that "Scorponok's Scars" is the ''English'' title of the episode "Return! Our Scorponok" just makes it that much more confusing.
** The Japanese version of the kinda-sorta sequel series ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' originally had a two-parter opening episode, but for the English broadcast these where heavily cut down and combined into one. The full version of the second episode did eventually air as a bonus once the series finished, but the actual first episode has never gotten an English release.
** Several episodes of ''Robots in Disguise'' were only aired once in the US or not at all due to [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents September 11th]].
*** The series premiere was three days before 9/11. The actual episode has not been re-run since due to a scene of Megatron smashing through a skyscraper... though in his Giant Hand mode instead of his Jet mode.

* The Hungarian, Romanian and Polish broadcast of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' was all about this. For starters, the pilot episode was out-right omitted from the start. The series went on until about episode 16, after which the whole thing was constantly repeated multiple times. ''Finally'', Creator/CartoonNetwork got a hold of the rest of the series, and it aired further, before all of a sudden stopping at some point during the final arc. It went on to be repeated again, this time including the pilot. However when only a handful of episodes were left, guess what? The 1 year run of the show had come to an end, meaning it had to be pulled off the screen with only the last few episodes missing. The show was never re-aired ''or'' released on DVD.
** At least with regards to Hungary, the show has been picked up again by another cartoon station and has aired beginning from April '14. So after almost a decade, those remaining episodes have seen the light of day, even if with a new dub.
* Again from Hungary, both ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Manga/InuYasha'' have had a very troubled past, as originally neither series got to be aired in their entirety, nor have they been released fully on VHS tapes or DVD's. The reasons for this are difficult to decipher, and tons of UrbanLegends have come into being because of them. However the real reason goes along the following lines: one of the country's main commercial TV stations, RTL Klub, had exclusive rights to airing the shows. Due to their violent nature, however, they were forced to push up the rating to the whopping [[SameContentDifferentRating 18+]] (changed to 16+ in 2002, to no effect) age-range. The channel started protesting, which eventually lead to a lawsuit. Long story short, RTL decided to just cancel the shows, as a late night time-slot would have destroyed the ratings. The regular ''DB Z'' schedule was cut off after episode 121, but the late night airings didn't work out, and the series was canceled after that. Eps 122-137 came out on VHS some time later, but that was it. Animax also held broadcast rights for ''Manga/InuYasha'', but only for episodes that had already been shown on RTL. And, as their luck would have it, the final 63 episodes have never been aired.
** After the broadcasting rights to ''DBZ'' had expired, a fan undertaking purchased almost the entire dub, which then got leaked to the internet -- granted, it was based on the badly translated and censored French version, but that's better than nothing. Only episodes 227-231 were still missing. Further, in 2012, another channel called [=Viasat6=] picked up the series again, so after a 14 year wait, the post-121 episodes have finally been shown on TV for the first time, including the five "lost" episode dubs which haven't been seen anywhere priorly. The same can't be said for ''[=InuYasha=]'' -- all episodes of the base-series were dubbed, but the missing ones have never been released anywhere.
** Many other series got either ScrewedByTheNetwork or hit with NoExportForYou in the same manner. Episodes 44-192 of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'', seasons 2-5 of ''Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters'', seasons 2-4 of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', and about 80% of ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' and ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'' have never been shown, despite that some of these had indeed been dubbed.
*** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has started airing in February '14, again courtesy of [=Viasat6=] [[DuelingDubs and their new dub]]. This time, it got canceled after two seasons, though allegedly rights have been secured for the entire series (or at least its shortened American version).
** The first handful of episodes of the Hungarian ''Manga/DragonBall'' have allegedly been lost for good since their broadcast in the late '90s. The dubbing company did not archive the series and the rest of the dub only exists [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes thanks to TV recordings]]. Whether the show's old TV network or any distributors happen to have the missing dubs, they haven't shown interest in revealing it for over three decades.

* A borderline case exists with the manga ''Manga/KuniGaMoeru''. The manga, which chronicled a Japanese family in Manchuria from the late Taisho era on through the end of World War Two, included a chapter dealing with the [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar Nanking Massacre]]. A group of... [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment concerned citizens?]] complained that the reference photos that the artist used for depictions of the incident were inaccurate and in their opinion forgeries. This same group further... um... [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory disputes the historical accounts of the Massacre]]... and so put pressure on Shueisha, the publisher, to suspend the manga (it was later reinstated and allowed to finish) and remove the offending 21 pages from all but the original serial magazine run. If you can't find a original copy of the issue of ''Young Jump'' the uncensored version ran in or find the few pages posted on the net here or there, it is pretty much a lost episode.

** "[[Recap/PokemonS1E38ElectricSoldierPorygon Electric Soldier Porygon]]", the infamous episode that gave viewers epileptic seizures. It was only aired once in Japan, where the strobe effect employed caused seizures in some Japanese kids. And then a whole lot more Japanese people got sick when the news reported on it by ''[[WhatAnIdiot showing the clip that was giving people seizures!]]'' This wasn't the only episode where the effect was employed, but while the previous episodes had the strobe effect removed, this episode was simply pulled. As such, the episode is extremely rare to find, with copies being taken off of video-sharing websites like Website/Youtube. In fact, anime had been like this for years and it wasn't until the Porygon episode that this kind of thing stopped.

* Sometime in the mid 2000's an English dub of Creator/{{Sanrio}}'s ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'' was aired on an unknown Asian Creator/CartoonNetwork channel. The English version was called [[MarketBasedTitle "My Melody's Magical Adventure"]]. A clip of one episode was uploaded to Youtube in poor quality but was deleted at an unknown time.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':

* Because parodies are not explicitly protected under Japanese copyright law, the first episode of ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' (which featured spoofs of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'', ''Anime/UtaNoPrinceSama'', ''Anime/LoveLive'', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', among others) was pulled from streaming sites and the show's DVD release. This happened again in Episode 3, where one skit was a parody of ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'', which caught the attention of a network executive who is a childhood fan of ''Anpanman'' and forcibly removed it henceforth.

* The third episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket'', "To Be or Nazi Be",[[note]]"Hitler's Legacy"[[/note]] was not broadcast by Creator/AdultSwim (even though the next-ep preview at the end of episode 2 still mentioned it), and had its release delayed until the fifth DVD volume, due to adventures and humor involving ThoseWackyNazis. This is especially odd for Adult Swim as they've aired uncut episodes of [[Creator/BobClampett The Bob Clampett Show]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} The Popeye Show]] which featured racial depictions of Nazis before. This made preexisting ''Lupin III'' fans '''extremely''' unhappy, and may have contributed to the show's poor performance in America, thus becoming a small-scale FranchiseKiller (nothing was licensed for a few more years afterwards, and those new licenses that have come up afterwards were sporadic and typically picked up by a smaller company called Creator/DiscotekMedia, who made Lupin their main franchise).

* The 2007 film adaptation of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'' could only be watched during its brief theatrical run in Japan. The film's theatrical release was cut short due to negative reactions from fans and Creator/HirohikoAraki himself, and any chances of it being released on home video were shattered after A.P.P.P. got themselves into hot water due to a scene of DIO reading the Qur'an in the ''Stardust Crusaders'' OVA. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUDdJRvn2Q a university student was able to get a hold of the first 16 minutes of the film]] from an art professor who had connections to the studio, and it is the only way to watch the film. However, there is no voice acting, and most of it is in animatic form. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB66laScBPU the trailer for the film]] is still viewable and features fully animated clips with voice acting.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' is notorious for this among the fan community. Most of these are only missing from non-Asian dubs (all sourced from the English dub), but there are a lot of examples:

** To add to this list, there were four episodes from Pokémon Advanced, one of them being Wattson's Gym battle, where they only aired twice overall. This was after the massive three-month hiatus before the next season began after these episodes aired. Though it's considered "missing" for a [[ScrewedByTheNetwork completely different reason]].
** Similar to the ''Black Jack'' example above, the ''Advanced'' episode "Shaking Island Battle! Barboach vs. Whiscash" was scheduled to air in November 2004 in Japan but never did, as the plot dealt with Whiscash causing earthquakes in an island. A month before its scheduled broadcast, a real earthquake struck Japan's Niigata Prefecture, and after initially postponing the episode, the producers decided to drop the episode entirely. The only trace of its existence is the preview for the episode made before the quake.
** And the two-part episodes in the ''Best Wishes!'' series that would finally introduce Team Plasma. According to some previews and WordOfGod, a lot of scenes showed a city being severely damaged. Then the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Japan earthquake]] happened, and you have to take these episodes off of the grill. The ''Best Wishes!'' series was run to its conclusion without the two-parter ever airing, and TV Tokyo maintains that they will air the episodes only when scheduling permits it in the future, which could be a ''long'' time given how intricate and specific to marketing scheduling around this franchise is.

** An ''X & Y'' episode titled "An Undersea Place to Call Home!", involving a shipwreck, was pulled after the South Korean ferry ''MV Sewol'' capsized. It eventually aired, but in a first for the series, it actually aired first (ironically enough) in South Korea instead of Japan. Because the episode was aired out-of-continuity, for the English dub, the narrator spoke in past-tense.
** The ''Sun & Moon'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS21E21SatoshiAndNagetukesaruTouchdownOfFriendship Ash and Passimian! Touchdown of Friendship!!]]" was flat-out skipped over for English dubbing due to concerns over Ash wearing makeup to look like a Passimian potentially resulting in further accusations of blackface and racism, especially as the Black Lives Matter movement was starting to pick up steam.

** The Japanese version of the kinda-sorta sequel series Anime/TransformersCybertron originally had a two-parter opening episode, but for the English broadcast these where heavily cut down and combined into one. The full version of the second episode did eventually air as a bonus once the series finished, but the actual first episode has never gotten an English release.

** Many other series got either ScrewedByTheNetwork or hit with NoExportForYou in the same manner. Episodes 44-192 of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'''s ''Advanced Generation'' season, seasons 2-5 of ''Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters'', seasons 2-4 of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', and about 80% of ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' and ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'' have never been shown, despite that some of these had indeed been dubbed.

* The third episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket'', "To Be or Nazi Be",[[note]]"Hitler's Legacy"[[/note]] was not broadcast by Creator/AdultSwim (even though the next-ep preview at the end of episode 2 still mentioned it), and had its release delayed until the fifth DVD volume, due to adventures and humor involving ThoseWackyNazis. This is especially odd for Adult Swim as they've aired uncut episodes of [[{{Creator/BobClampett}} The Bob Clampett Show]] and [[{{WesternAnimation/Popeye}} The Popeye Show]] which featured racial depictions of Nazis before. This made preexisting ''Lupin III'' fans '''extremely''' unhappy, and may have contributed to the show's poor performance in America, thus becoming a small-scale FranchiseKiller (nothing was licensed for a few more years afterwards, and those new licenses that have come up afterwards were sporadic and typically picked up by a smaller company called Creator/DiscotekMedia, who made Lupin their main franchise).

* [[Manga/InuYasha InuYasha]] had 11 episodes skipped in Latin America (or, well, at least in Brazil): first were the two-parters "The Woman Who Loved Sesshoumaru" (133-134) and "The Tragic Love Song of Destiny" (147-148); apparently Televix (the company who distributed the anime around those parts) didn't license them due to they being a separate license (that is, they were considered television ''specials'', not episodes). Then the last seven episodes went unaired, for no particular reason, leaving viewers hanging.

** When ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' was first brought Western side by Creator/{{Crunchyroll}}, they ended up starting on Episode 13 (the series had been on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic). It would be a few months before they would get and sub the first twelve episodes.

* The English Dub of Anime/AThousandAndOneNights once existed back in 1969 (which cut out about 20 minutes), but it only played in very few theaters, where it bombed and is now lost to time.

** "[[Recap/PokemonS1E23TheTowerOfTerror The Tower of Terror]]" was also DistancedFromCurrentEvents stick after 9/11 solely on the basis of the name, and Cartoon Network couldn't pry the rights for it until late ''2007'', which is an extremely loose definition of "current" (for context, this was well over a year after the channel-hop). It was the middle part of an important three-episode mini-arc, to boot.
** "[[Recap/PokemonS1E35TheLegendOfDratini The Legend of Dratini]]" was banned from the beginning because of a ton of gun play, including two characters getting guns to their heads and one character shooting off about [[BottomlessMagazines a hundred rounds]] at Team Rocket from two revolvers to interrupt their motto. Another reason may have been because of Meowth donning a [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]]-esque mustache for one scene. Extra fun when in later episodes, Ash suddenly has 30 Tauros we never saw him catch, because he caught them here. Also could have been trouble since this is where the gang gets to the Safari Zone they had been searching for for a couple of episodes, but luckily the previous episode just happened to feature a nature preserve that just happened to be right next door to the Safari Zone which is also supposed to be a nature preserve. It was pretty easy to edit dialogue to make ''that'' episode the Safari Zone and actually make things more logical than they were before. This episode has never been available for legal viewing in the US or any country that used the [=4Kids=] adaptation as basis. Further, more detailed reasons are {{discussed}} by [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep035.html Dogasu's Backpack.]]

** That next episode was "[[Recap/PokemonS1E19TentacoolAndTentacruel Tentacool and Tentacruel]]". It aired just fine then and years afterward, until 9/11. It was taken out of rotation as [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents distancing from current events]] for a scene where a giant Tentacruel smashes up a building, even though the building didn't look anything remotely like either of the Twin Towers, and even though that very scene was (and remained) part of the opening titles. There were other reasons, too, with the character Nastina using military style weapons during the fight scenes. It didn't come back until the ChannelHop to Creator/CartoonNetwork a few years later.
** "[[Recap/PokemonS1E23TheTowerOfTerror The Tower of Terror]]" was banned as [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents distancing from current events]] after 9/11 solely on the basis of the name, and Cartoon Network couldn't pry the rights for it until late ''2007'', which is an extremely loose definition of "soon" (for context, this was well over a year after the channel-hop). It was the middle part of an important three-episode mini-arc, to boot.

* In the original run of the edited version of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', two episodes were pulled. One was early on; a filler episode where young Gohan gets lost in a cave during his wilderness training and encounters a grouchy robot, who ends up becoming fond of him and [[spoiler:sacrifices his life to save Gohan]]. The reasons for pulling this episode are unknown. The other occurred on Toonami, after Freeza impales Krillin on his horns; in the first half of the episode, Freeza continually tortures him until he's lost nearly all the blood in his body.

** [=DiC=] supposedly skipped over Episodes 2 because of a scene with Umino lifting up the teacher's skirt (made fun of in this fanart [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/ArtworkJAFanarts/SMARTEnglishDubOmitted2ndEpisodea.jpg here]]), a scene of possessed students throwing rocks into the school building, and themes involving fortune telling. Episode 5 was supposedly skipped because of a scene with Shingo kicking Luna (referenced in thie fanart [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/ArtworkJAFanarts/SMARTEnglishDubOmitted5thEpisode.jpg here]]), and Episode 6 was possibly skipped because of a sequence where Usagi disguises herself as an "adult" (a skimpy outfit with an exposed midriff) in order to infiltrate an adults-only jazz club. However, other than one or two scenes with easily-editable objectionable content, these were most likely skipped due to [=DiC=] wanting to burn through "solo Sailor Moon" episodes as quickly as possible. Episodes 20 and 67 were both beach filler episodes and skipped because they contributed nothing to the plot. Episode 42 on the other hand was a flashback episode that revealed Minako/Sailor Venus's past, and was likely skipped because it gave the rest of the Sailor Scouts little-to-no screentime, even if it was still an important episode to Venus' character development. Some of these episodes (such as the Fortune Teller and the Haunted Beach episode) were adapted into Scholastic's junior novels.

* The original Creator/FourKidsEntertainment dub of ''Franchise/OnePiece'' skipped a number of episodes (read: nearly ''forty'') during its run on Cartoon Network. Part of this was accomplished by cutting slower-paced episodes together, but much of it was due to ''skipping entire story arcs'' to introduce "marketable" characters more quickly, leading to some truly gargantuan [[DubInducedPlotHole plot holes.]] The episodes stopped being "missing" in the US after Toei handed the series to Creator/{{FUNimation}}, who promptly got to work on making an uncut release.

*** This is the only episode from the Pokémon franchise the producers refuse to export anywhere, even in other Asian countries, because of this incident. Some reports even state that the episode was banned by the ''Japanese government''. However, according to Creator/MaddieBlaustein, Meowth's voice actress at the time, 4Kids had actually dubbed the episode, but the producers demanded the episode be withdrawn regardless, likely due to the controversy (or at least the fear of controversy) that even ''airing'' the episode would cause. The incident also forced them to go back and dim the flashing effects in earlier episodes.

** The ''Sun & Moon'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS21E21SatoshiAndNagetukesaruTouchdownOfFriendship Ash and Passimian! Touchdown of Friendship!!]]" was flat-out skipped over for English dubbing due to concerns over [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Ash wearing makeup to look like a Passimian potentially resulting in further accusations of blackface and racism]].

** One episode never aired in Japan at all because series creator Creator/OsamuTezuka hated it so much he had the master destroyed. As it turned out, though, a copy of the master had already been sent to America for dubbing. Only the dubbed version was ever aired, and in the 1990's was even released on VHS as "Astro Boy: The Lost Episode".

** One episode of the 2003 version was not dubbed, due to being centered around ''Peter Pan''. The ''Pan'' stories have copyright issues in the US and UK, so the dubbers created a clip show in its place.

* Creator/YoshiyukiTomino had episode 15 of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' ("Cucuruz Doan's Island") removed from both broadcasts and DVD / Bluray collections. The reasons cited are particularly OffModel animation and an unspecified beef Tomino had with the episode's director (all he'll say on the matter is "He knows what he did.")

* Nippon's "Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics" did have dubs for all of the episodes, but many were unaired in the U.S., or were pulled from reairing:

** The show has only aired most of its episodes once, and never released them to home video. It was due to a request the creator made before her death. But during the 40th anniversary show, they aired some 1970's episodes, which is why it was a special event.

* The third episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket'', "To Be or Nazi Be",[[note]]"Hitler's Legacy"[[/note]] was not broadcast by Creator/AdultSwim (even though the next-ep preview at the end of episode 2 still mentioned it), and had its release delayed until the fifth DVD volume, due to adventures and humor involving ThoseWackyNazis. This is especially odd for Adult Swim as they've aired uncut episodes of [[{{Creator/BobClampett}} The Bob Clampett Show]] and [[{{WesternAnimation/Popeye}} The Popeye Show]] which featured racial depictions of Nazis before. This made preexisting ''Lupin III'' fans '''extremely''' unhappy, and may have contributed to the show's poor performance in America, thus becoming a small-scale FranchiseKiller (nothing was licensed for a few more years afterwards, and those new licenses that have come up afterwards were sporadic and typically picked up by a smaller company called Creator/DiscotekMedia).

* In the English and German dubs of ''Manga/AttackNumberOne'', three episodes were not translated, due to "inappropiate content". These however are included as bonus on the German DVD sets.

* Episode 48 of the English-dubbed 2001'' Manga/{{Cyborg009}}'' series was this for the longest time, until a rip from an Australian Toonami broadcast surfaced. The "Yomi Group" recap and the alternate-universe "God's War" OVA arc were also dubbed, but never aired in the US and remain near-impossible to find, other than fans' accounts of them having aired overseas.

* Out of the 59 episodes produced for ''Big X'', episodes 1 [[note]] Originally, this episode was missing until it was eventually discovered that animation historian, Jerry Beck, owned a copy of it, unaware of its rarity. After Beck and Creator/{{TMS Entertainment}} agreed that he could keep the film reel, he professionally transferred it over to the studio, and thus making the episode survive. [[/note]], 11, and 40-59 survive.

* The Korean dub of the 2007 ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'' anime is currently lost with [[https://blog.naver.com/psyke47/220657361526 the only remaining footage being from a Korean website]] that shows the [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong Korean dub's theme song.]] South Korean was the only country that was able to dub the anime, [[NoExportForYou since it never got dubbed to other parts of the world.]]

* Before its highly successful 1979 anime and still popular 2005 successor, ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' had its first attempt at an anime series back in 1973. Despite it having good ratings and was considered to have new episodes produced, Nippon Television Douga faced financial problems and eventually went bankrupt. After the studio went defunct, the film reels to the series were sold to cover debt. The series briefly reran from July 24 to August 3, 1979, however, it was taken off the air by the request of Shogakukan, who didn't want the 1979 anime to be affected by the predecessor and have kids confused by the two anime being aired simultaneously. After that, the series disappeared for nearly two decades until the surviving episodes were eventually found at Creator/{{Imagica}} in 1995. Whatever few (as in, VERY few) episodes that still remain are sometimes shown at fan conventions, but other than that, there is no 1973 Doraemon anime to speak of. [[NothingIsScarier Kind of creepy to think about.]]