History MissingEpisode / AnimeAndManga

* 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 Quar'an in the ''Stardust Cruaders'' 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.

** The first handful of episodes of the Hungarian ''Anime/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.

* Sometime in the mid 2000's an English dub of ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'' was aired on an unknown Asian Cartoon Network channel. The English version was called "My Melody's Magical Adventure". A clip of one episode was shown on Youtube in poor quality but is currently removed from the site.

* Chapter 83, the infamous "lost chapter" of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' in which [[spoiler:Guts meets the Idea of Evil]], was never reprinted due to the author believing it gave away too much of the plot too soon.

** The ''Black Jack'' manga has a number of "sealed chapters" that were cut from the collected volumes for being too morbid, [[TooSoon too controversial]], or just [[OldShame not very good]].

** 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 TooSoon 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 TooSoon 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.

** Several episodes of ''Robots in Disguise'' were only aired once in the US or not at all due to [[TooSoon September 11th]].

* 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'', ''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 Creator/SabanBrands dub of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', ''Glitter Force'', removed three episodes from the first half of the series, episodes 10, 17, 19. Episodes 10 and 17 were most likely cut due to culture references that would go over most kids' heads while 19 involved Yayoi's DisappearedDad, as death is still something of a taboo subject for Saban.

** A total of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190917122346/http://crashinsti.shikisokuzekuu.net/zeitschrift.html 10 stories released during the very beginning of the series' serialization in Manga Action]][[note]] Stories 1-3, 6-7, 11-14, and 17. [[/note]] haven't been reprinted in Japan, nor released internationally. This is because series creator Yoshito Usui supposedly felt OldShame about their rather controversial content [[note]] For example, the first story has a scene in which a bashful Shin-chan hides under Yoshinaga's dress and does something that gets her sexually aroused. This leads her to hit the former's head with a hammer so hard that it bleeds. [[/note]] and requested for those stories to never be seen again in any shape or form. None of them have been uploaded anywhere online, so these missing stories can only be found in old September 4-December 25 1990 issues of Manga Action, which are very rare.

* Out of the 104 episodes produced for the 1966 anime of ''Robotan'', very, ''very'' few of them survive. This is because Daiko Advertising threw out the film reels several years ago. The episodes that did survive ended up as collector's items and the film reels to two of them (with no audio) were sold on Yahoo Japan's auction service back in 2010.

** In what could be one of the most egregrious examples in the history of mankind, the ''[[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Glitter Force Doki Doki]]'' dub had the entire Blood Ring arc removed, which meant that the episodes where the Cures developed new powers were also gone. The main problem with this decision was that the Cures uses their new powers for the final two episodes, so without the context from the Blood Ring arc, these new abilities may seem like complete [[AssPull Ass Pulls]] to the average viewer.

** "[[Recap/PokemonS1E18BeautyAndTheBeach Beauty and the Beach]]" was a BeachEpisode, for one, but it really got itself banned for the scene where James cross dresses to enter the swimsuit contest with fake breasts, and then taunts Misty that his boobs are larger ''while inflating them''. Also, excluding Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny who don't appear in this episode, every main character in the series so far (including Professor Oak, Gary and his cheerleaders, and even Ash's mother, Delia) is seen in a swimsuit. A clip from this episode where Ash gives Delia the swimsuit contest trophy (Which he was given for saving the contest from Team Rocket, but he had engraved to Delia) on the beach actually appears in flashback form in the later episode "Hypno's Naptime", confusing viewers for years. A heavily-edited version aired three years later in 2000, but even that one was deemed so sexist it was never shown again. This caused severe dialogue changes in the next episode, which featured a twin (actually cousin) of one of the characters from this episode that in the original vehemently objected to confusion with her twin. Of course...

* 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 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).

** An ''X & Y'' episode 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.

** "Beauty And The Beach" was a BeachEpisode, for one, but it really got itself banned for the scene where James cross dresses to enter the swimsuit contest with fake breasts, and then taunts Misty that his boobs are larger ''while inflating them''. Also, excluding Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny who don't appear in this episode, every main character in the series so far (including Professor Oak, Gary and his cheerleaders, and even Ash's mother, Delia) is seen in a swimsuit. A clip from this episode where Ash gives Delia the swimsuit contest trophy (Which he was given for saving the contest from Team Rocket, but he had engraved to Delia) on the beach actually appears in flashback form in the later episode "Hypno's Naptime", confusing viewers for years. A heavily-edited version aired three years later in 2000, but even that one was deemed so sexist it was never shown again. This caused severe dialogue changes in the next episode, which featured a twin (actually cousin) of one of the characters from this episode that in the original vehemently objected to confusion with her twin. Of course...
** That next episode was "Tentacool and Tentacruel". It aired just fine then and years afterward, until 9/11. It was taken out of rotation as TooSoon 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.
** "Tower of Terror" was banned as TooSoon 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.
** "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.]]
** "Cyber 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 delay caused by ''Electric Soldier Porygon'' caused two episodes to be delayed and run as specials (''Holiday Hi-Jynx''[[note]]which, oddly enough, was ''also'' pulled from rotation after a single viewing in America due to racist allegations, and in 2013 was retconned out of existence by The Pokémon Company International along with two other episodes for the same reason (all three are still online though)[[/note]] and ''Snow Way Out!''), five episodes were rescheduled, and one was canceled altogether (a New Year's Eve episode).

** In South Korea, "Challenge of the Samurai" was because of [[UsefulNotes/KoreansInJapan tensions between it and Japan at the time]], and five other episodes were banned because the Korean {{Media Watchdog}}s knew that those episodes would discriminate their culture.

** The ''Sun & Moon'' episode "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]].

*** 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.

** [=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 episode) were adapted into Scholastic's junior novels.

* ''Anime/SonicX'' had an entire season produced, yet it never aired in Japan. The series had actually been canceled after the first series (first and second season) due to low ratings in Japan, but thanks to the show's popularity in international markets, Creator/TMSEntertainment was commissioned by France to produce a second series (third season) with 26 additional episodes. The third season could only be seen in Japan through rental streaming services, and a DVD release for that season is still unavailable there to this day.

* ''Anime/SonicX'' had an entire season produced, yet it never aired in Japan. The series had actually been canceled in its second season due to low ratings in Japan, but the English dubbers, Creator/FourKidsEntertainment, pressured studio Creator/TMSEntertainment to produce a third season as the dub proved more popular in North America. The third season could only be seen in Japan through rental streaming services, and a DVD release for that season is still unavailable there to this day.

** After the broadcasting rights to ''DB Z'' 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.

*** ''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).

* Chapter 83, the infamous "lost chapter" of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', was never reprinted due to the author believing it gave away too much of the plot too soon.
* 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 93 ("Shodō de Kokoro o no ni suru zo" / "Kotatsu o katadzukeru zo" / "Buriburi eiga shōkai da zo" [[note]] This is a live-action segment promoting the then upcoming movie "Crayon Shin-chan: The Hidden Treasure of the Buri Buri Kingdom". [[/note]]) of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' hasn't been re-released since its initial broadcast in Japan, and is known to have been skipped in the show's Spanish, Korean, and Chinese dubs. Even the [[https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/shinchan/storylog/list/1994.html official Japanese episode list]] doesn't list any of the 3 segments of the episode. TV Asahi hasn't publicly stated a reason for any of these situations. Although the first segment can easily be read in volume 8 of the manga, episode 93 in anime form is very rare, and fan recordings of the initial broadcast only exist in private fan circulations.
** A total of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190917122346/http://crashinsti.shikisokuzekuu.net/zeitschrift.html 10 stories released during the very beginning of the series' serialization in Manga Action]][[note]] Stories 1-3, 6-7, 11-14, and 17. [[/note]] haven't been reprinted in Japan, nor released internationally. This is because series creator Yoshito Usui supposedly felt OldShame about their rather controversial content [[note]] For example, the first story has a scene in which a bashful Shin-chan hides under Yoshinaga's dress and does something that gets her sexually aroused. This leads her to hit the former in the head with a hammer so hard that he starts bleeding. [[/note]] and requested for those stories to never be seen again in any shape or form. None of them have been uploaded anywhere online, so the only way to read these missing stories is to track down old September 4-December 25 1990 issues of Manga Action, which are very rare.

* Episode 93 of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' hasn't been re-released since its initial broadcast in Japan, and is known to have been skipped in the show's Spanish, Korean, and Chinese dubs. TV Asahi hasn't publicly stated a reason for both of these situations. Although the first segment, "Shodō de Kokoro o no ni suru zo", can easily be tracked down in its original manga form, the entirety of episode 93 is very rare and fan recordings of the initial broadcast only exist in private fan circulations.

** "Cyber 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. The episode can be found on Website/YouTube, where it can (reputedly) be watched safely due to the lower frame rate. In fact, anime had been like this for years and it wasn't until the Porygon episode that this kind of thing stopped.

* Episode 93 of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' hasn't been re-released since its initial broadcast in Japan, and is known to have been skipped in the show's Spanish, Korean, and Chinese dubs. TV Asahi hasn't publicly given a reason for both of these situations. Although the first segment, "Shodō de Kokoro o no ni suru zo" (書道で心をのにするゾ), can easily be tracked down in its original manga form, the entirety of episode 93 is very rare and fan recordings of the initial broadcast only exist in private fan circulations.

* Episode 93 of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' hasn't been re-released since its initial broadcast in Japan, and is known to have been skipped in the show's Spanish, Korean, and Chinese dubs. The reason for both of these are completely unknown.
** At least episode 93A survives in manga form.

** 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/{{Beyblade}}'' and ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'' have never been shown, despite that some of these had indeed been dubbed.

** [=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.

** Korea had a lot of Doremi episodes skipped in their dub. Episodes 22, 27, 29, 30, 33, 41 and 47 of Season 1 were skipped, episodes 10, 11, 13, 14, 24, 29, 35, 39 and 45 of Sharp were skipped, episodes 8, 9, 13, 15, 29, 33, 40, 41 and 46 of Motto were skipped, and episodes 19, 23 and 29 of Dokkan were skipped. The only season which din't skip any episodes was Na~i~sho.