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* Formerly one of the most popular and biggest dubbing companies in America, Creator/FourKidsEntertainment is now primarily remembered for two things: their ''heavily'' {{Bowdlerise}}d English dubs that frequently bordered on straight-up {{Macekre}} (most infamously, [[NeverSayDie awkwardly writing around if not outirght removing]]), combined with the dubs themselves making questionable writing changes and [[{{Americanization}} removing any traces of Japanese culture]] from their source materials, and the lawsuit filed out by Creator/TVTokyo for using unlicensed footage of ''Franchise/YuGiOh'', which helped descend the company into bankruptcy.[[note]]The company actually remerged in 2012, but filed for ''another'' bankruptcy in 2016 before shutting down entirely a year afterwards.[[/note]]
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* Formerly one of the most popular and biggest dubbing companies in America, Creator/FourKidsEntertainment is now primarily remembered for two things: their ''heavily'' {{Bowdlerise}}d English dubs that frequently bordered on straight-up {{Macekre}} (most infamously, [[NeverSayDie awkwardly writing around if not outirght removing]]), outright removing death]]), combined with the dubs themselves making questionable writing changes and [[{{Americanization}} removing any traces of Japanese culture]] from their source materials, and the lawsuit filed out by Creator/TVTokyo for using unlicensed footage of ''Franchise/YuGiOh'', which helped descend the company into bankruptcy.[[note]]The company actually remerged in 2012, but filed for ''another'' bankruptcy in 2016 before shutting down entirely a year afterwards.[[/note]]
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* ''Anime/EagleRider'' was a dub of ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'''s two sequel series, ''Gatchaman II'', and ''Gatchaman Fighter'', produced by Creator/SabanEntertainment. Almost all discussions of the series typically revolved around the numerous changes made to the show's story, resulting in several DubInducedPlotHoles. The most infamous revolves around [[TheDragon Gel Sadra]], or [[DubNameChange Mallanox]], who was initially referred to as a [[GenderFlip male]] creation of Cybercon (Leader X), then was abruptly changed into being the son of Lukan (Berg Katse), then had her original backstory of being the artificially aged daughter of Dr. Francine Aikens (Dr. Sylvie Pandora) reinstated... only to ''then'' have her death scene be completely rewritten into Cybercon further altering her into Happy Boy (Count Egobossler, a [[CompositeCharacter separate character]] in the original version).
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* ''Anime/EagleRider'' ''Anime/EagleRiders'' was a dub of ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'''s two sequel series, ''Gatchaman II'', and ''Gatchaman Fighter'', produced by Creator/SabanEntertainment. Almost all discussions of the series typically revolved around the numerous changes made to the show's story, resulting in several DubInducedPlotHoles.DubInducedPlotHole. The most infamous revolves around [[TheDragon Gel Sadra]], or [[DubNameChange Mallanox]], who was initially referred to as a [[GenderFlip male]] creation of Cybercon (Leader X), then was abruptly changed into being the son of Lukan (Berg Katse), then had her original backstory of being the artificially aged daughter of Dr. Francine Aikens (Dr. Sylvie Pandora) reinstated... only to ''then'' have her death scene be completely rewritten into Cybercon further altering her into Happy Boy (Count Egobossler, a [[CompositeCharacter separate character]] in the original version).
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** ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' was ''just'' reaching the end of its initial run when accusations of plagiarism concerning Kenji Yamamoto's soundtrack struck, and all of said music had to be taken out in every re-run and re-release and replaced with pieces from Shunsuke Kikuchi's score for [[Anime/DragonBallZ the original series]]. While Yamamoto's soundtrack for the series was already divisive, its legally obligated censorship only made things worse, with a new base emerging to try and [[SympathyForTheDevil defend]] Yamamoto's plagiarism.
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** ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' was ''just'' reaching the end of its initial run when accusations of plagiarism concerning Kenji Yamamoto's soundtrack struck, and all of said music had to be taken out in every re-run and re-release and replaced with pieces from Shunsuke Kikuchi's score for [[Anime/DragonBallZ the original series]]. While Yamamoto's soundtrack for the series was already divisive, its legally obligated censorship only made things worse, with a new base emerging to try and [[SympathyForTheDevil defend]] defend Yamamoto's plagiarism.
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** The 2015 ''Adventures in the Orange Islands'' DVD is remembered for being infamous for VIZ Media (under orders from TPCI) cutting out two episodes that featured Jynx with her original controversial coloring, one of which was the episode Lorelei (called Prima) appeared in. Making matters worse was the fact that the DVD was billed as a [[VeryFalseAdvertising "complete collection"]] despite the missing episodes.
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* If you weren't a reader of ''Manga/ActAge'' during its serialization in ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]'', you most likely only know it as that one manga that was swiftly CutShort, [[{{Unperson}} scrubbed off]] from ''Shonen Jump'' corporate history and [[BuryYourArt withdrawn from circulation]] worldwide in August 2020 after its writer, Tatsuya Matsuki, was arrested for groping middle school girls.
* The manga ''Manga/TheBeautifulSkiesOfHououHigh'' barely made a blip in the U.S. and is generally despised both by fans and its own English publishers. Why? Because it's a manga that takes the CureYourGays route ''far'' too seriously, bringing along with it a whole mountain of ValuesDissonance regarding lesbianism and gender roles. The English publishers treat it as an OldShame and don't ever bring it up anymore.
* ''Manga/BunnyDrop'' started out as an innocent story about a young man taking in what he thought was his illegitimate half-aunt after his grandfather died and learning how to be a responsible parent to an abandoned child. Then the TimeSkip happened where [[spoiler:a now grown up Rin realizes she has feelings for Daikichi, the father figure who raised her, which he reciprocates]]. Chapter 54 would handwave this issue [[spoiler:by having Rin's deadbeat mother reveal to Rin that she was ''adopted'' by Daikichi's grandfather and they really aren't blood relatives]]. As a result, many fans insist that the post-timeskip never happened, while the anime and {{Live Action Adaptation|}}s would omit it entirely. It's to a point that the term [[MemeticMutation "Usagi Dropped"]] was born to refer and warn people in case another series ended the same way as ''Bunny Drop'' did.
* ''Manga/CheatSlayer'' is infamous not just because of its immensely violent, sexual, and problematic content, but in how [[ShortRunners it got cancelled after a single published chapter]] due to accusations of ShallowParody that are closer to straight-up plagiarism of other [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] protagonists, who are portrayed exclusively as horrible, monstrous people that are nothing like their original counterparts, than any of the manga's actual story merits.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' was ''just'' reaching the end of its initial run when accusations of plagiarism concerning Kenji Yamamoto's soundtrack struck, and all of said music had to be taken out in every re-run and re-release and replaced with pieces from Shunsuke Kikuchi's score for [[Anime/DragonBallZ the original series]]. While Yamamoto's soundtrack for the series was already divisive, its legally obligated censorship only made things worse, with a new base emerging to try and [[SympathyForTheDevil defend]] Yamamoto's plagiarism.
** In Latin America, ''Kai'' tends to be best remembered for the ''very'' negative reception its original run had due to massive censorship[[note]]Creator/{{Toei|Animation}} used the censored version commissioned by Creator/{{Funimation}} for Creator/{{Nicktoons}}, instead of the original Japanese version like the one used for the Latin American Spanish dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.[[/note]] and, more importantly, the fact that almost all of the original cast, whose work reached cult status in the region, [[TheOtherDarrin were replaced]]. The fallout from this led Toei to restructure their Latin American division and make it so that, in ''The Final Chapters'', where possible, all characters were voiced by their [[TheOriginalDarrin original voice actors]].[[note]]The few exceptions were either due to retirement or death.[[/note]]
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' was hit with this early on, thanks to the decision of making the first two sagas adaptations of the two canon ''Dragon Ball Z'' movies, which was seen as very repetitive and invoking ItWasHisSled, especially since they had been released very recently at the time of ''Super'''s debut, and the [[OffModel notoriously awful]] animation early on, ''especially'' with Episode 5, ended up overshadowing any of the content. The series later improved, but the whole "rehashing the movies" and quality early on remains a stain.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' gets a lot of scrutiny from American videophiles because of the DigitalDestruction that has plagued all home video releases since the mid-2000s, including, among other things, cropping the whole series to 16:9. Even the first 4:3 release in a long while, made from film elements Funimation happened to still have, got flack for excessive DVNR. It's gotten to the point where videophiles have gone on record as wanting to seek out the seven Dragon Balls to wish that Funimation would simply import and upscale the far superior-looking Dragon Box DVD releases issued by Toei.
* The ecchi manga and [=OVA=] ''Eiken'' was near-universally despised by viewers and critics, and has made virtually no impact otherwise... well, except for the fact that the girl with the largest breasts in an already exaggerated WorldOfBuxom is only ''11 years old''.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' tells a story of an evolutionary species from humanity called Diclonii, the persecution they endure from humans, and their murderous vendetta against humans. However, it is ''far'' more known for its excessive use of gore and nudity, far more than is necessary for such a story.
* ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'' happens to be subject to this from ''Franchise/TheIdolmaster'' fandom because, rather than it be about idols like its source material, it was instead a mecha anime. Most of the cast being subject to AdaptationalPersonalityChange as well as the ''major'' AdaptationalVillainy given to Chihaya ([[spoiler:and to a lesser extent, Yukiho]]) left a bad taste in the mouths of fans of the franchise. While the anime itself has been VindicatedByHistory, fans would rather not treat it as part of the ''Idolmaster'' franchise.
* ''Manga/IThinkITurnedMyChildhoodFriendIntoAGirl'' is a fairly straightforward [[YaoiGenre BL]] {{Otokonoko|Genre}} manga, but what is it most known for? A particularly disastrous TranslationWithAnAgenda on the part of Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment that [[ShesAManInJapan changed the gender identity of Hiura, one of the main characters, from a cis boy to a trans girl]], leading to accusations of perpetuating the stereotype that feminine men are automatically trans and sparking serious debate amongst readers about whether the original Japanese text supported interpretations of Hiura as UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} to begin with. Even after a more accurate translation was quickly released in response to the backlash, the stigma of the initial translation still remains to this day.
* ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' is mainly known nowadays by the TroubledProduction its second season endured, including the director being pushed out and the blame for everything being shunted over to the voice cast, who had next to nothing to do with the trouble, among other things. The backlash to this, including the harassment of Tomason's staff by disgruntled fans (including an incident where the animation director's name was used to fraudulently sign the studio on for multiple paid online services, resulting in getting swamped with emails and phone calls asking for info) and the ''massive'' dislike bombing every episode got on Niconico in protest, is likely not to be forgotten as well.
* If anybody in the West who isn't a big anime fan brings up ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'', chances are it's to talk about the many accusations that ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' plagiarized the story.
* ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' is best known for the controversy surrounding the character Brocken Jr., who is a good guy with a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi-themed outfit]], complete with swastikas. Due to this character, the series was pulled from broadcast in France shortly after he debuted.
* ''Kodomo no Jikan'' (''A Child's Time''), proposed English title ''[[Literature/{{Lolita}} Nymphet]]'', was licensed by publisher Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment but never released in America due to its {{lolicon|and Shotacon}} overtones. They had only seen the first book, which isn't too bad in terms of content. Then the controversy erupted. Initially, Seven Seas defended the title, but a combination of major book chains refusing to stock it and their reading the later volumes, which come very close to violating the PROTECT Act, caused them to change their mind and drop it.
* ''Manga/KoiKaze'' is well known for being about an AgeGapRomance between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl, who are also [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] who were separated at a young age. Even though the series covers the topic more maturely and realistically than one might expect, it's still controversial due to the premise.
* Ask anyone who has heard of the anime adaptation of ''Literature/KokoroConnect'', and you'll hear it be associated with Creator/MitsuhiroIchiki's controversial treatment during the promotional phase. He was tricked into giving a fake audition for a character that didn't exist, embarrassed himself on TV, and the producer said he didn't regret any of it. This angered many people, including some voice actors.
* Creator/KosukeFujishima is well known for creating ''Anime/AhMyGoddess'' and being the character designer for ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' and ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''. However in 2017, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-11-09/newlywed-oh-my-goddess-creator-faces-lawsuit-from-reported-former-fiance/.123717 his divorce with his first wife]] and later engagement to a much younger woman ended up overshadowing his work. It wouldn't be until 2020 with ''VideoGame/TalesOfCrestoria'' until he was back to doing character designs.
* ''Kuni Ga Moeru'', a series dealing with a family caught up in the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar and later the WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific. The series is best known, however, for its lost chapter, dealing with one of the main characters having to witness the Nanking Massacre after being drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. The mangaka, Hiroshi Motomiya, pulled exactly zero punches in depicting the event. This caused massive backlash when the chapter was published in ''Weekly Young Jump''. Much of the controversy centered on the illustration of a photo, based on a genuine (though its ''veracity'' is disputed) photograph, allegedly depicting a Japanese soldier posing by a Chinese woman he had just raped. Due to liberties taken by the artist, as well as criticism concerning the provenance and veracity of the photograph, Motomiya was accused by elements from the nationalist right of trying to libel the Imperial Japanese Army. Shueisha, the publisher, responded by apologizing and having Motomiya putting the series on hiatus and removing that specific chapter from being republished in ''tankouban'' form. This caused more outrage from the other side who then began accusing Shueisha of whitewashing history and caving to the right wing of the LDP and then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who had resumed Prime Ministerial visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in 2001. It didn't help that said visits had ignited protests and riots in China and South Korea, due to infamous UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo figures being commemorated at the shrine.[[note]]In another evocation of this exact same trope, the shrine was established after the Meiji Restoration to house the ''kami'', or spirits, of Japanese who had fallen in war. In that case, it was merely intended as a spiritual Arlington Cemetary. However, in 1978, in a secret midnight ceremony that even Emperor Hirohito did not know about, the ''kami'' of the executed "Class-A" war criminals including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo were enshrined. Once Hirohito found out, he declared his disapproval and that he would refuse to visit the shrine evermore, a policy his successors have followed to this day.[[/note]]
* ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'' is infamous as the manga that was targeted by domestic terrorists and is at least as well-known for the FanworkBan, which has since been lifted, and removal of merchandise that resulted from the poison threats as it is for its artistic merits and accomplishments. It doesn't help that the terror threats dominated the news in anime circles for over a year. To this day, it's still not known why the suspect who was caught targeted the manga and everyone associating with it even tangentially, or even if he had acted alone in his threats, but it's speculated a personal grudge against author Fujimaki Tadatoshi may have had something to do with it.
* ''Lotte no Omocha!'' (''Lotte's Toy!'') features a female protagonist who is a succubus princess of a fantasy kingdom. Well, OK, nothing bad about it so far until you learn that the female protagonist is also ''10 years old'', she's expected to start creating her own male harem as part of her royal duties, and she will die if she doesn't drink [[UnusualEuphemism Life Essence]] from male beings. It went about as well as you'd expect, and the sheer concentrated [[LoliconAndShotacon lolicon]] on display is all it's known for.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/LoveLab'' is most well-known for a scene in episode 8 where the main characters attempt to pay tribute to black celebrities by dressing in brown makeup and acting out {{affectionate parod|y}}ies of them. While it didn't cause much of a fuss in Japan, the scene caused an uproar in the West thanks to its resemblance to {{blackface}} (complete with large, bright lips) and MinstrelShows. While the intention of the scene is about as well known as its execution, the heavy ValuesDissonance of the latter ensured that it would be far better-known than anything else in the series, to the point where "love lab blackface" and "love lab anime racist" are still popularly-suggested search results on Google in a neutral setting.
* The ''Anime/LoveLive'' franchise is becoming increasingly known for bad press generated by badly-behaving fans. The worst incident was a vandalism incident involving manhole covers bearing the images of the main characters in June 2018, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings which resulted in the manhole covers being pulled indefinitely]].
* The ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise is better known for the sheer amount of legal trouble that it was involved with in the United States. To explain, Big West Advertising, the primary sponsor of the franchise, partnered with Creator/TatsunokoProduction to help secure financial funding for the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', which gave the latter the rights to the international distribution of the series. Tatsunoko would then license ''Macross'', along with two of its own productions, ''Anime/GenesisClimberMOSPEADA'' and ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'', to Harmony Gold [=USA=], who [[{{Frankenslation}} reworked]] all three of them into a single narrative for syndication purposes: ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''. Through this, Harmony Gold would claim all the rights to the ''Macross'' franchise in the United States. This has lead to ''Macross'' producer Studio Nue and the aforementioned Big West to pursue legal action, and has resulted in most of the installments in the franchise [[LateExportForYou never leaving Japan until 2021]], when a deal was finally made with the two parties.
* Perhaps the one thing most people remember about ''Midori (Shōjo Tsubaki)'', the 1992 film adaptation of ''Manga/MrArashisAmazingFreakShow'', is the fact that it was banned by the Japanese government for 14 years because of its graphic depictions of child molestation and animal abuse, rather than being known for its actual plot or the fact that it overtly depicts child molestation and animal abuse in a scathingly negative light.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' became embroiled in controversy when Creator/{{Netflix}} picked it up for streaming in 2019, as it was completely redubbed and retranslated from the ground up at the insistence of Creator/StudioKhara. The announcement of a redub itself was hotly contested by fans of the original Creator/ADVFilms dub, especially since [[TheOtherDarrin none of the original English cast returned]], but the new translation as a whole became an even greater subject of scrutiny when it was discovered that it was far more literal to the extent of {{Bowdleris|e}}ing a number of fan favorite lines from the more {{Woolseyism}}-rich ADV dub -- including toning down the script's hints at a possible romantic connection between Shinji and Kaworu (e.g. changing most instances of "love" to "like" and replacing Kaworu's description of Shinji as "worthy of love" with "worthy of my grace"), which many LGBT+ and allied fans quickly decried as homophobic. Because of this, it's become difficult to discuss ''Evangelion'' in the west without bringing up Khara's stricter handling of it, and [[{{Misblamed}} despite Netflix having nothing to do with the changes]], the controversy surrounding the retranslation is still touted as a microcosm of longstanding issues with their poor treatment of media from outside the Anglosphere.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** The episode "Computer Warrior Porygon"[[note]]more commonly known and referred to as "Electric Soldier Porygon"[[/note]] is known far more for causing nearly 700 seizures in Japan upon its initial airing, and [[BannedEpisode the resulting worldwide ban of the episode]], than the actual content itself. This extends to the Pokémon Porygon itself. [[{{Misblamed}} Despite not being the actual cause of the flashing]],[[note]]it was a missile blowing up[[/note]] it's swept under the rug for no other reason than it being the Pokémon featured in the episode. Even its evolutions have been hit with it, as they've made no major appearances in the series.[[note]]Though they did have a cameo in the [[Anime/PokemonKyuremVsTheSwordOfJustice fifteenth movie's]] intro.[[/note]] After this incident, OLM, the animation studio behind ''Pokémon'', dropped all strobe lights caused by Pikachu's attacks in future episodes of the anime and re-edited the first 37 episodes to eliminate said effects. This even extended to anime as a whole--ever since this snafu, any fast-paced scenes that could conceivably cause seizures have to be darkened for the broadcast version.
** ''Anime/PokemonTheMastermindOfMiragePokemon'' is known less for any of its own merits and more for being associated with the controversy that followed after Pokémon USA, now known as The Pokémon Company International, fired the English voice actors that had been working on the anime since day one [[TheOtherDarrin in favor of newer, cheaper ones]].
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'''s Sinnoh League arc suffered from this due to the character of Tobias, infamous for possessing ''[[OlympusMons Legendary Pokémon]]'' in Darkrai and Latios, which is otherwise usually unheard of in the anime, and curb-stomping every opponent of his with just his Darkrai. When Ash ended up facing him in the semifinals, this lead to Ash suffering a CurbStompBattle from just two of Tobias' Pokémon, made the arc notorious for giving Ash an [[InvincibleVillain invincible opponent]] to [[DiabolusExMachina make sure he lost]], and made Tobias hated by the fandom as a whole.
** ''Anime/PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened'' is mostly remembered for the fan backlash surrounding the inclusion of a second, female Mewtwo and the implied (but eventually debunked) {{retcon}} of Mewtwo's backstory that it created, to the point where it has its own folder on the film's YMMV page.[[note]]Years later, it was revealed that the reason for the film's Mewtwo being different was because the estate of Creator/TakeshiShudo [[ScrewedByTheLawyers held the rights to the Mewtwo from the first movie]], so they opted to instead create a lawyer-friendly version of that Mewtwo.[[/note]] This backlash extended to Mega Mewtwo Y, which debuted in the film as the second Mewtwo's SuperMode and was subsequently "tainted." Only when it was used in the Final Smash of the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' Mewtwo (who is mostly based on the original Mewtwo in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'') was its association with the movie weakened.
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'' became this over Ash losing the Kalos League. [[StatusQuoIsGod Ash losing the regions league is nothing new]] nor is fan backlash, but the unprecedented appeal to older fans of ''XY'', Ash's unprecedented skill and maturity as a trainer, his highly built and hyped up [[SuperMode Ash-Greninja]], the episode's title, promotional materials and other factors[[labelnote:Explanation]]it was the franchise's 20th anniversary, and the next games were seemingly doing away with traditional Leagues[[/labelnote]] all pointed to him finally winning. Ash's losing the Finals to Alain thus caused unprecedented backlash across both sides of the Pacific as invalidating everything praised about ''XY'' by having the seeming payoff of his win never happen and turned the previously well-liked Alain into a fandom pariah. Despite the immediately following Team Flare arc and rest of ''XY'' being seen as the best in ''The Series'' they're still mostly remembered by fans in terms of [[BrokenBase the debate if the Kalos League negated all their good or not]]. [[spoiler:Ash won the next series League in what's seen as damage control and creator apology, but rather than forgive ''XY'', fans changed the issue to debating if his winning Kalos would have been better due to its stronger setup (especially because the Alolan league as a whole was a hot button topic both in the anime and in the games).]]
* In 2017, ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' returned with a new volume after a nearly twenty-year hiatus... just in time for creator Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki to be arrested for possession of child pornography, scuttling the new series almost as soon as it began and retroactively tainting the old one. Not helping was that it hugely undermined the manga's central message about moral improvement: this coming out in the way it did, instead of the author himself admitting it, makes it hard for fans to rewatch the series without feeling hypocritical. And despite Watsuki expressing regret for his actions, paying a fine, and returning to work in April 2018, the damage is already done and fans are mixed whether to support his work or not. There's also the publisher Shueisha letting him continue to work after six months since the charges, which many people felt was too soon, given that the controversy was (and continues to be) still fresh in the people's minds.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** The only thing most know about the [=DiC=]/Cloverway dub is that it made several changes to the original, most infamously changing Haruka and Michiru, [[HideYourLesbians a lesbian couple]], into cousins. However, because a good deal of the romantic subtext wasn't removed, this led many fans to assume that they were not just lesbians, but [[KissingCousins incestuous]] to boot.
** When the anime was airing in Italy, there was a huge controversy in 1997 due to an infamous statement of psychologist Vera Slepoj, who claimed that being a strong fighter is an exclusively manly trait, while a girly/female superheroine is a bad role model for little boys who want to imitate her, making them "sexually confused".[[note]]This happened seven years before ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', an Italian show largely inspired by Sailor Moon.[[/note]] The headline of [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUaEmVyX0AEKWP-?format=jpg&name=medium her article]] was "Kids, don't watch Sailor Moon, it will turn you into sissies", which was considered outrageous even in the '90s and caused so many discussions that the Italian dub of ''Sailor Stars'' (the season that was airing at the time) was ridiculously censored: the [[SuperGenderBender Sailor Starlights]], women who disguise themselves as men and revert to their female form when transformed, were changed into ''real men with twin sisters'' who occasionally take their place.[[note]]The Starlights were voiced by men in their civilian forms, meaning that they couldn't just be made female at all times like in other dubs.[[/note]] This change only applies to episode 188 and you can tell some scenes were redubbed later (in every "twin sisters" scene, Usagi is voiced by Creator/DonatellaFanfani instead of her usual voice actress Creator/ElisabettaSpinelli). This is dropped like a sack of bricks afterward, but it's such a clumsy workaround that it's easily ''the'' most infamous edit from that dub. Not helping matters is that the controversy played a considerable role in Creator/NaokoTakeuchi's infamous [[NoExportForYou international embargo]] that lasted through the better part of the following decade.
* Yuki Suegutsu is chiefly known for two things: her CareerResurrection with ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'' and her earlier career low point with ''Manga/EdenNoHana'' in which she plagiarized Creator/TakehikoInoue's art, putting all manga serialized in the ''Bessatsu Friend'' magazine [[NoExportForYou on an international blacklist]] for over a decade.
* The life and career of Creator/StudioGhibli co-founder Creator/IsaoTakahata was overshadowed in August 2018 by revelations that he was a PrimaDonnaDirector, being so tough to work under that his exacting standards may have led to the untimely passing of up-and-coming Ghibli talent Yoshifumi Kondō, [[note]]Kondō died in 1998 from aortic dissection, which was said by his doctors to have been brought on from being overworked.[[/note]] a theory that fellow Ghibli co-founder Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Takahata himself were willing to believe. Worse, he died without ever having to account for the damage he might have done, leaving his legacy (if not the enjoyability of his works) up in the air. The controversy never made Takahata's movies' reputations radioactive, but it's still an elephant in the room when it comes to discussing Takahata and his works.
* Previously a major hit series in Japan and a cult favorite in the West, since the late 2010s, it's been difficult to discuss ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' without bringing up author Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro's 2002 arrest for soliciting sex from a 16-17-year-old, which resulted in a one-year prison sentence and the cancellation of ''Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi!''. While ''Toriko'' previously served as a CareerResurrection, the arrest of Nobuhiro Watsuki in 2017 brought Shimabukuro's past to public prominence outside of Japan for the first time, generating so much backlash that Shimabukuro's following series ''Build King'' was highly criticized solely for his involvement (it did end up CutShort, but most likely for [[SoOkayItsAverage other reasons]]).
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', being an American toy line created by importing and re-purposing Japanese toys, has had several Japanese media, many of which fall into this:
** ''Transformers Kiss Players'' is undoubtedly best known for its blatantly suggestive imagery involving teenage girls [[OlderThanTheyLook that look prepubescent]]. Western fans were disgusted by this, while Japanese fans were embarrassed and feared it would irrevocably color perceptions of Japanese ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' media in foreign countries.
** ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' is mainly remembered for debuting in the U.S. six months before it debuted in Japan, the animation and translation errors that resulted from it, and the first half focusing almost entirely on finding Mini-Cons.
* In the West at least, ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'' is known less for its actual content and more for the frequent debates among audiences regarding the title character's massive chest, which are considered unusually huge for a mainstream SliceOfLife series and jar with her otherwise [[OlderThanTheyLook looking significantly younger than she actually is]]. While the controversy [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity ultimately boosted the anime adaptation's popularity]] to the forefront of the wider anime fandom, it nonetheless dominated the discussion of both the series and the Summer 2020 anime season as a whole.
* In early February 2018, internet users found the Website/{{Twitter}} account of Kazuyoshi Yaginuma, long-renowned for his work on a number of high-profile anime, most notably his direction of the anime adaptation of ''Manga/RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie'', only to find that [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-02-09/recovery-of-an-mmo-junkie-director-causes-controversy-with-anti-semitic-tweets/.127409 he's a virulent Neo-Nazi]] who had been posting and endorsing anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler content since joining Twitter in 2011. The discovery led to Signal.MD terminating their association with Yaginuma, who proceeded to blame his firing on a nonexistent Jewish conspiracy instead of considering that it had anything to do with him being a Neo-Nazi, and his Twitter account was suspended in the fallout of that. Needless to say, discussions surrounding him revolve less on the merits of his artistic output and more on his beliefs and the ethics of supporting the works he contributed to despite them, with ''MMO Junkie'' being hit the hardest thanks to both his directorship and the adaptation's recency when the controversy broke out.
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* If you weren't a reader of ''Manga/ActAge'' during its serialization in ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]'', you most likely only know it as that one manga that was swiftly CutShort, [[{{Unperson}} scrubbed off]] from ''Shonen Jump'' corporate history and [[BuryYourArt withdrawn from circulation]] worldwide in August 2020 after its writer, Tatsuya Matsuki, was arrested for groping middle school girls.
* The manga ''Manga/TheBeautifulSkiesOfHououHigh'' barely made a blip in the U.S. and is generally despised both by fans and its own English publishers. Why? Because it's a manga that takes the CureYourGays route ''far'' too seriously, bringing along with it a whole mountain of ValuesDissonance regarding lesbianism and gender roles. The English publishers treat it as an OldShame and don't ever bring it up anymore.
* ''Manga/BunnyDrop'' started out as an innocent story about a young man taking in what he thought was his illegitimate half-aunt after his grandfather died and learning how to be a responsible parent to an abandoned child. Then the TimeSkip happened where [[spoiler:a now grown up Rin realizes she has feelings for Daikichi, the father figure who raised her, which he reciprocates]]. Chapter 54 would handwave this issue [[spoiler:by having Rin's deadbeat mother reveal to Rin that she was ''adopted'' by Daikichi's grandfather and they really aren't blood relatives]]. As a result, many fans insist that the post-timeskip never happened, while the anime and {{Live Action Adaptation|}}s would omit it entirely. It's to a point that the term [[MemeticMutation "Usagi Dropped"]] was born to refer and warn people in case another series ended the same way as ''Bunny Drop'' did.
* ''Manga/CheatSlayer'' is infamous not just because of its immensely violent, sexual, and problematic content, but in how [[ShortRunners it got cancelled after a single published chapter]] due to accusations of ShallowParody that are closer to straight-up plagiarism of other [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] protagonists, who are portrayed exclusively as horrible, monstrous people that are nothing like their original counterparts, than any of the manga's actual story merits.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' was ''just'' reaching the end of its initial run when accusations of plagiarism concerning Kenji Yamamoto's soundtrack struck, and all of said music had to be taken out in every re-run and re-release and replaced with pieces from Shunsuke Kikuchi's score for [[Anime/DragonBallZ the original series]]. While Yamamoto's soundtrack for the series was already divisive, its legally obligated censorship only made things worse, with a new base emerging to try and [[SympathyForTheDevil defend]] Yamamoto's plagiarism.
** In Latin America, ''Kai'' tends to be best remembered for the ''very'' negative reception its original run had due to massive censorship[[note]]Creator/{{Toei|Animation}} used the censored version commissioned by Creator/{{Funimation}} for Creator/{{Nicktoons}}, instead of the original Japanese version like the one used for the Latin American Spanish dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.[[/note]] and, more importantly, the fact that almost all of the original cast, whose work reached cult status in the region, [[TheOtherDarrin were replaced]]. The fallout from this led Toei to restructure their Latin American division and make it so that, in ''The Final Chapters'', where possible, all characters were voiced by their [[TheOriginalDarrin original voice actors]].[[note]]The few exceptions were either due to retirement or death.[[/note]]
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' was hit with this early on, thanks to the decision of making the first two sagas adaptations of the two canon ''Dragon Ball Z'' movies, which was seen as very repetitive and invoking ItWasHisSled, especially since they had been released very recently at the time of ''Super'''s debut, and the [[OffModel notoriously awful]] animation early on, ''especially'' with Episode 5, ended up overshadowing any of the content. The series later improved, but the whole "rehashing the movies" and quality early on remains a stain.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' gets a lot of scrutiny from American videophiles because of the DigitalDestruction that has plagued all home video releases since the mid-2000s, including, among other things, cropping the whole series to 16:9. Even the first 4:3 release in a long while, made from film elements Funimation happened to still have, got flack for excessive DVNR. It's gotten to the point where videophiles have gone on record as wanting to seek out the seven Dragon Balls to wish that Funimation would simply import and upscale the far superior-looking Dragon Box DVD releases issued by Toei.
* The ecchi manga and [=OVA=] ''Eiken'' was near-universally despised by viewers and critics, and has made virtually no impact otherwise... well, except for the fact that the girl with the largest breasts in an already exaggerated WorldOfBuxom is only ''11 years old''.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' tells a story of an evolutionary species from humanity called Diclonii, the persecution they endure from humans, and their murderous vendetta against humans. However, it is ''far'' more known for its excessive use of gore and nudity, far more than is necessary for such a story.
* ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'' happens to be subject to this from ''Franchise/TheIdolmaster'' fandom because, rather than it be about idols like its source material, it was instead a mecha anime. Most of the cast being subject to AdaptationalPersonalityChange as well as the ''major'' AdaptationalVillainy given to Chihaya ([[spoiler:and to a lesser extent, Yukiho]]) left a bad taste in the mouths of fans of the franchise. While the anime itself has been VindicatedByHistory, fans would rather not treat it as part of the ''Idolmaster'' franchise.
* ''Manga/IThinkITurnedMyChildhoodFriendIntoAGirl'' is a fairly straightforward [[YaoiGenre BL]] {{Otokonoko|Genre}} manga, but what is it most known for? A particularly disastrous TranslationWithAnAgenda on the part of Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment that [[ShesAManInJapan changed the gender identity of Hiura, one of the main characters, from a cis boy to a trans girl]], leading to accusations of perpetuating the stereotype that feminine men are automatically trans and sparking serious debate amongst readers about whether the original Japanese text supported interpretations of Hiura as UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} to begin with. Even after a more accurate translation was quickly released in response to the backlash, the stigma of the initial translation still remains to this day.
* ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' is mainly known nowadays by the TroubledProduction its second season endured, including the director being pushed out and the blame for everything being shunted over to the voice cast, who had next to nothing to do with the trouble, among other things. The backlash to this, including the harassment of Tomason's staff by disgruntled fans (including an incident where the animation director's name was used to fraudulently sign the studio on for multiple paid online services, resulting in getting swamped with emails and phone calls asking for info) and the ''massive'' dislike bombing every episode got on Niconico in protest, is likely not to be forgotten as well.
* If anybody in the West who isn't a big anime fan brings up ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'', chances are it's to talk about the many accusations that ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' plagiarized the story.
* ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' is best known for the controversy surrounding the character Brocken Jr., who is a good guy with a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi-themed outfit]], complete with swastikas. Due to this character, the series was pulled from broadcast in France shortly after he debuted.
* ''Kodomo no Jikan'' (''A Child's Time''), proposed English title ''[[Literature/{{Lolita}} Nymphet]]'', was licensed by publisher Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment but never released in America due to its {{lolicon|and Shotacon}} overtones. They had only seen the first book, which isn't too bad in terms of content. Then the controversy erupted. Initially, Seven Seas defended the title, but a combination of major book chains refusing to stock it and their reading the later volumes, which come very close to violating the PROTECT Act, caused them to change their mind and drop it.
* ''Manga/KoiKaze'' is well known for being about an AgeGapRomance between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl, who are also [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] who were separated at a young age. Even though the series covers the topic more maturely and realistically than one might expect, it's still controversial due to the premise.
* Ask anyone who has heard of the anime adaptation of ''Literature/KokoroConnect'', and you'll hear it be associated with Creator/MitsuhiroIchiki's controversial treatment during the promotional phase. He was tricked into giving a fake audition for a character that didn't exist, embarrassed himself on TV, and the producer said he didn't regret any of it. This angered many people, including some voice actors.
* Creator/KosukeFujishima is well known for creating ''Anime/AhMyGoddess'' and being the character designer for ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' and ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''. However in 2017, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-11-09/newlywed-oh-my-goddess-creator-faces-lawsuit-from-reported-former-fiance/.123717 his divorce with his first wife]] and later engagement to a much younger woman ended up overshadowing his work. It wouldn't be until 2020 with ''VideoGame/TalesOfCrestoria'' until he was back to doing character designs.
* ''Kuni Ga Moeru'', a series dealing with a family caught up in the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar and later the WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific. The series is best known, however, for its lost chapter, dealing with one of the main characters having to witness the Nanking Massacre after being drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. The mangaka, Hiroshi Motomiya, pulled exactly zero punches in depicting the event. This caused massive backlash when the chapter was published in ''Weekly Young Jump''. Much of the controversy centered on the illustration of a photo, based on a genuine (though its ''veracity'' is disputed) photograph, allegedly depicting a Japanese soldier posing by a Chinese woman he had just raped. Due to liberties taken by the artist, as well as criticism concerning the provenance and veracity of the photograph, Motomiya was accused by elements from the nationalist right of trying to libel the Imperial Japanese Army. Shueisha, the publisher, responded by apologizing and having Motomiya putting the series on hiatus and removing that specific chapter from being republished in ''tankouban'' form. This caused more outrage from the other side who then began accusing Shueisha of whitewashing history and caving to the right wing of the LDP and then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who had resumed Prime Ministerial visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in 2001. It didn't help that said visits had ignited protests and riots in China and South Korea, due to infamous UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo figures being commemorated at the shrine.[[note]]In another evocation of this exact same trope, the shrine was established after the Meiji Restoration to house the ''kami'', or spirits, of Japanese who had fallen in war. In that case, it was merely intended as a spiritual Arlington Cemetary. However, in 1978, in a secret midnight ceremony that even Emperor Hirohito did not know about, the ''kami'' of the executed "Class-A" war criminals including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo were enshrined. Once Hirohito found out, he declared his disapproval and that he would refuse to visit the shrine evermore, a policy his successors have followed to this day.[[/note]]
* ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'' is infamous as the manga that was targeted by domestic terrorists and is at least as well-known for the FanworkBan, which has since been lifted, and removal of merchandise that resulted from the poison threats as it is for its artistic merits and accomplishments. It doesn't help that the terror threats dominated the news in anime circles for over a year. To this day, it's still not known why the suspect who was caught targeted the manga and everyone associating with it even tangentially, or even if he had acted alone in his threats, but it's speculated a personal grudge against author Fujimaki Tadatoshi may have had something to do with it.
* ''Lotte no Omocha!'' (''Lotte's Toy!'') features a female protagonist who is a succubus princess of a fantasy kingdom. Well, OK, nothing bad about it so far until you learn that the female protagonist is also ''10 years old'', she's expected to start creating her own male harem as part of her royal duties, and she will die if she doesn't drink [[UnusualEuphemism Life Essence]] from male beings. It went about as well as you'd expect, and the sheer concentrated [[LoliconAndShotacon lolicon]] on display is all it's known for.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/LoveLab'' is most well-known for a scene in episode 8 where the main characters attempt to pay tribute to black celebrities by dressing in brown makeup and acting out {{affectionate parod|y}}ies of them. While it didn't cause much of a fuss in Japan, the scene caused an uproar in the West thanks to its resemblance to {{blackface}} (complete with large, bright lips) and MinstrelShows. While the intention of the scene is about as well known as its execution, the heavy ValuesDissonance of the latter ensured that it would be far better-known than anything else in the series, to the point where "love lab blackface" and "love lab anime racist" are still popularly-suggested search results on Google in a neutral setting.
* The ''Anime/LoveLive'' franchise is becoming increasingly known for bad press generated by badly-behaving fans. The worst incident was a vandalism incident involving manhole covers bearing the images of the main characters in June 2018, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings which resulted in the manhole covers being pulled indefinitely]].
* The ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise is better known for the sheer amount of legal trouble that it was involved with in the United States. To explain, Big West Advertising, the primary sponsor of the franchise, partnered with Creator/TatsunokoProduction to help secure financial funding for the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', which gave the latter the rights to the international distribution of the series. Tatsunoko would then license ''Macross'', along with two of its own productions, ''Anime/GenesisClimberMOSPEADA'' and ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'', to Harmony Gold [=USA=], who [[{{Frankenslation}} reworked]] all three of them into a single narrative for syndication purposes: ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''. Through this, Harmony Gold would claim all the rights to the ''Macross'' franchise in the United States. This has lead to ''Macross'' producer Studio Nue and the aforementioned Big West to pursue legal action, and has resulted in most of the installments in the franchise [[LateExportForYou never leaving Japan until 2021]], when a deal was finally made with the two parties.
* Perhaps the one thing most people remember about ''Midori (Shōjo Tsubaki)'', the 1992 film adaptation of ''Manga/MrArashisAmazingFreakShow'', is the fact that it was banned by the Japanese government for 14 years because of its graphic depictions of child molestation and animal abuse, rather than being known for its actual plot or the fact that it overtly depicts child molestation and animal abuse in a scathingly negative light.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' became embroiled in controversy when Creator/{{Netflix}} picked it up for streaming in 2019, as it was completely redubbed and retranslated from the ground up at the insistence of Creator/StudioKhara. The announcement of a redub itself was hotly contested by fans of the original Creator/ADVFilms dub, especially since [[TheOtherDarrin none of the original English cast returned]], but the new translation as a whole became an even greater subject of scrutiny when it was discovered that it was far more literal to the extent of {{Bowdleris|e}}ing a number of fan favorite lines from the more {{Woolseyism}}-rich ADV dub -- including toning down the script's hints at a possible romantic connection between Shinji and Kaworu (e.g. changing most instances of "love" to "like" and replacing Kaworu's description of Shinji as "worthy of love" with "worthy of my grace"), which many LGBT+ and allied fans quickly decried as homophobic. Because of this, it's become difficult to discuss ''Evangelion'' in the west without bringing up Khara's stricter handling of it, and [[{{Misblamed}} despite Netflix having nothing to do with the changes]], the controversy surrounding the retranslation is still touted as a microcosm of longstanding issues with their poor treatment of media from outside the Anglosphere.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** The episode "Computer Warrior Porygon"[[note]]more commonly known and referred to as "Electric Soldier Porygon"[[/note]] is known far more for causing nearly 700 seizures in Japan upon its initial airing, and [[BannedEpisode the resulting worldwide ban of the episode]], than the actual content itself. This extends to the Pokémon Porygon itself. [[{{Misblamed}} Despite not being the actual cause of the flashing]],[[note]]it was a missile blowing up[[/note]] it's swept under the rug for no other reason than it being the Pokémon featured in the episode. Even its evolutions have been hit with it, as they've made no major appearances in the series.[[note]]Though they did have a cameo in the [[Anime/PokemonKyuremVsTheSwordOfJustice fifteenth movie's]] intro.[[/note]] After this incident, OLM, the animation studio behind ''Pokémon'', dropped all strobe lights caused by Pikachu's attacks in future episodes of the anime and re-edited the first 37 episodes to eliminate said effects. This even extended to anime as a whole--ever since this snafu, any fast-paced scenes that could conceivably cause seizures have to be darkened for the broadcast version.
** ''Anime/PokemonTheMastermindOfMiragePokemon'' is known less for any of its own merits and more for being associated with the controversy that followed after Pokémon USA, now known as The Pokémon Company International, fired the English voice actors that had been working on the anime since day one [[TheOtherDarrin in favor of newer, cheaper ones]].
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'''s Sinnoh League arc suffered from this due to the character of Tobias, infamous for possessing ''[[OlympusMons Legendary Pokémon]]'' in Darkrai and Latios, which is otherwise usually unheard of in the anime, and curb-stomping every opponent of his with just his Darkrai. When Ash ended up facing him in the semifinals, this lead to Ash suffering a CurbStompBattle from just two of Tobias' Pokémon, made the arc notorious for giving Ash an [[InvincibleVillain invincible opponent]] to [[DiabolusExMachina make sure he lost]], and made Tobias hated by the fandom as a whole.
** ''Anime/PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened'' is mostly remembered for the fan backlash surrounding the inclusion of a second, female Mewtwo and the implied (but eventually debunked) {{retcon}} of Mewtwo's backstory that it created, to the point where it has its own folder on the film's YMMV page.[[note]]Years later, it was revealed that the reason for the film's Mewtwo being different was because the estate of Creator/TakeshiShudo [[ScrewedByTheLawyers held the rights to the Mewtwo from the first movie]], so they opted to instead create a lawyer-friendly version of that Mewtwo.[[/note]] This backlash extended to Mega Mewtwo Y, which debuted in the film as the second Mewtwo's SuperMode and was subsequently "tainted." Only when it was used in the Final Smash of the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' Mewtwo (who is mostly based on the original Mewtwo in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'') was its association with the movie weakened.
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'' became this over Ash losing the Kalos League. [[StatusQuoIsGod Ash losing the regions league is nothing new]] nor is fan backlash, but the unprecedented appeal to older fans of ''XY'', Ash's unprecedented skill and maturity as a trainer, his highly built and hyped up [[SuperMode Ash-Greninja]], the episode's title, promotional materials and other factors[[labelnote:Explanation]]it was the franchise's 20th anniversary, and the next games were seemingly doing away with traditional Leagues[[/labelnote]] all pointed to him finally winning. Ash's losing the Finals to Alain thus caused unprecedented backlash across both sides of the Pacific as invalidating everything praised about ''XY'' by having the seeming payoff of his win never happen and turned the previously well-liked Alain into a fandom pariah. Despite the immediately following Team Flare arc and rest of ''XY'' being seen as the best in ''The Series'' they're still mostly remembered by fans in terms of [[BrokenBase the debate if the Kalos League negated all their good or not]]. [[spoiler:Ash won the next series League in what's seen as damage control and creator apology, but rather than forgive ''XY'', fans changed the issue to debating if his winning Kalos would have been better due to its stronger setup (especially because the Alolan league as a whole was a hot button topic both in the anime and in the games).]]
* In 2017, ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' returned with a new volume after a nearly twenty-year hiatus... just in time for creator Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki to be arrested for possession of child pornography, scuttling the new series almost as soon as it began and retroactively tainting the old one. Not helping was that it hugely undermined the manga's central message about moral improvement: this coming out in the way it did, instead of the author himself admitting it, makes it hard for fans to rewatch the series without feeling hypocritical. And despite Watsuki expressing regret for his actions, paying a fine, and returning to work in April 2018, the damage is already done and fans are mixed whether to support his work or not. There's also the publisher Shueisha letting him continue to work after six months since the charges, which many people felt was too soon, given that the controversy was (and continues to be) still fresh in the people's minds.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** The only thing most know about the [=DiC=]/Cloverway dub is that it made several changes to the original, most infamously changing Haruka and Michiru, [[HideYourLesbians a lesbian couple]], into cousins. However, because a good deal of the romantic subtext wasn't removed, this led many fans to assume that they were not just lesbians, but [[KissingCousins incestuous]] to boot.
** When the anime was airing in Italy, there was a huge controversy in 1997 due to an infamous statement of psychologist Vera Slepoj, who claimed that being a strong fighter is an exclusively manly trait, while a girly/female superheroine is a bad role model for little boys who want to imitate her, making them "sexually confused".[[note]]This happened seven years before ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', an Italian show largely inspired by Sailor Moon.[[/note]] The headline of [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUaEmVyX0AEKWP-?format=jpg&name=medium her article]] was "Kids, don't watch Sailor Moon, it will turn you into sissies", which was considered outrageous even in the '90s and caused so many discussions that the Italian dub of ''Sailor Stars'' (the season that was airing at the time) was ridiculously censored: the [[SuperGenderBender Sailor Starlights]], women who disguise themselves as men and revert to their female form when transformed, were changed into ''real men with twin sisters'' who occasionally take their place.[[note]]The Starlights were voiced by men in their civilian forms, meaning that they couldn't just be made female at all times like in other dubs.[[/note]] This change only applies to episode 188 and you can tell some scenes were redubbed later (in every "twin sisters" scene, Usagi is voiced by Creator/DonatellaFanfani instead of her usual voice actress Creator/ElisabettaSpinelli). This is dropped like a sack of bricks afterward, but it's such a clumsy workaround that it's easily ''the'' most infamous edit from that dub. Not helping matters is that the controversy played a considerable role in Creator/NaokoTakeuchi's infamous [[NoExportForYou international embargo]] that lasted through the better part of the following decade.
* Yuki Suegutsu is chiefly known for two things: her CareerResurrection with ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'' and her earlier career low point with ''Manga/EdenNoHana'' in which she plagiarized Creator/TakehikoInoue's art, putting all manga serialized in the ''Bessatsu Friend'' magazine [[NoExportForYou on an international blacklist]] for over a decade.
* The life and career of Creator/StudioGhibli co-founder Creator/IsaoTakahata was overshadowed in August 2018 by revelations that he was a PrimaDonnaDirector, being so tough to work under that his exacting standards may have led to the untimely passing of up-and-coming Ghibli talent Yoshifumi Kondō, [[note]]Kondō died in 1998 from aortic dissection, which was said by his doctors to have been brought on from being overworked.[[/note]] a theory that fellow Ghibli co-founder Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Takahata himself were willing to believe. Worse, he died without ever having to account for the damage he might have done, leaving his legacy (if not the enjoyability of his works) up in the air. The controversy never made Takahata's movies' reputations radioactive, but it's still an elephant in the room when it comes to discussing Takahata and his works.
* Previously a major hit series in Japan and a cult favorite in the West, since the late 2010s, it's been difficult to discuss ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' without bringing up author Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro's 2002 arrest for soliciting sex from a 16-17-year-old, which resulted in a one-year prison sentence and the cancellation of ''Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi!''. While ''Toriko'' previously served as a CareerResurrection, the arrest of Nobuhiro Watsuki in 2017 brought Shimabukuro's past to public prominence outside of Japan for the first time, generating so much backlash that Shimabukuro's following series ''Build King'' was highly criticized solely for his involvement (it did end up CutShort, but most likely for [[SoOkayItsAverage other reasons]]).
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', being an American toy line created by importing and re-purposing Japanese toys, has had several Japanese media, many of which fall into this:
** ''Transformers Kiss Players'' is undoubtedly best known for its blatantly suggestive imagery involving teenage girls [[OlderThanTheyLook that look prepubescent]]. Western fans were disgusted by this, while Japanese fans were embarrassed and feared it would irrevocably color perceptions of Japanese ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' media in foreign countries.
** ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' is mainly remembered for debuting in the U.S. six months before it debuted in Japan, the animation and translation errors that resulted from it, and the first half focusing almost entirely on finding Mini-Cons.
* In the West at least, ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'' is known less for its actual content and more for the frequent debates among audiences regarding the title character's massive chest, which are considered unusually huge for a mainstream SliceOfLife series and jar with her otherwise [[OlderThanTheyLook looking significantly younger than she actually is]]. While the controversy [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity ultimately boosted the anime adaptation's popularity]] to the forefront of the wider anime fandom, it nonetheless dominated the discussion of both the series and the Summer 2020 anime season as a whole.
* In early February 2018, internet users found the Website/{{Twitter}} account of Kazuyoshi Yaginuma, long-renowned for his work on a number of high-profile anime, most notably his direction of the anime adaptation of ''Manga/RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie'', only to find that [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-02-09/recovery-of-an-mmo-junkie-director-causes-controversy-with-anti-semitic-tweets/.127409 he's a virulent Neo-Nazi]] who had been posting and endorsing anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler content since joining Twitter in 2011. The discovery led to Signal.MD terminating their association with Yaginuma, who proceeded to blame his firing on a nonexistent Jewish conspiracy instead of considering that it had anything to do with him being a Neo-Nazi, and his Twitter account was suspended in the fallout of that. Needless to say, discussions surrounding him revolve less on the merits of his artistic output and more on his beliefs and the ethics of supporting the works he contributed to despite them, with ''MMO Junkie'' being hit the hardest thanks to both his directorship and the adaptation's recency when the controversy broke out.
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