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** The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' manga suffers the same fate as the anime, as it had to rush its ending to make room for ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal|Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal]]'''s manga, despite how well the GX manga series has been received by the fans.
** At the beginning, ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' wasn't about the infamous card games, but since the game was quite popular (not to mention conveniently marketable), Kazuki Takahashi had to continue with the card games.
* The translators working on ''[[Initial D]]'' originally wanted a straight translation, but [[Tokyo Pop]] executives demanded various changes, resulting in the translators writing an [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
** The big, big beef was the "Fast and the Furious"-ization. You can see it in the hip-hop dialogue and cheesy nicknames (gradually done away with in the later volumes). Given the Love It Or Hate It nature of FaF, this is understandable (although still a bit extreme). Strangely enough, without this executive meddling, it's unlikely that any American manga company would've taken a chance on a title as unusual as Initial D at all.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' suffered this from Day 1. [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]] initially had little to no faith in the show because of director Goro Taniguchi<ref>Reports variously blaming his being relatively new and untested or his perfectionism</ref>, giving him 25 episodes rather than the originally requested 50 and severely limiting the staff's resources, forcing them to piggy-back off of other Sunrise shows being made at the same time. After it became a runaway success, Sunrise gave the staff more leeway, but still interfered in other ways.
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* [[Executive Meddling]] gave ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Macross]]'' its name. Originally to be called ''Megaroad'' (or, to give the sponsor-imposed tag, ''Super Dimension Fortress Megaroad''), one of the producers from Big West suggested changing the title to [[Macbeth]], as he was a huge Shakespeare fan. Kawamori and the rest of the staff weren't keen on the name, but didn't feel they could really outright oppose the man who authorized the checks for production money. So, instead, they suggested a compromise name -- Macross. [[And The Rest Is History]].
* ''[[Warrior Cats]]'': ''Graystripe's Adventure'' was originally meant to be a single volume manga called ''The Lost Warrior''. Then somebody had the idea to release it on the same day as ''The Sight''. The artist was only a third of the way done, so it ended up being split into three volumes, and further manga in the series have followed suit.
* ''[[Gunnm]]'' / ''[[Gunnm|Battle Angel Alita]]'': The author was working on a special celebration chapter -- chapter 100 -- which would be the headliner for the phonebook sized ''Ultra Jump'' magazine in Japan. It was around this time that his publisher's legal department approached him with censorship demands for the reprints, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
* A fourth anime season of ''[[Slayers]]'' was due to follow immediately from the third, ''Slayers TRY'' back in [[The Nineties]], but [[Megumi Hayashibara]], the actress for the female lead, was bogged down with work, making everyone else virtually lose all interest. It wasn't until [[Uncancelled|eleven years later]] that a new television series was actually released. Now there are no hopes for a new season due to the fourth and fifth season's mediocre ratings.
** Speaking of the third season, the [[Light Novel]] writer pretty much deemed it [[Canon Discontinuity]] because he disliked how it came out (not that it stops its popularity with the fans, though)
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