No Export for You/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

** The manga went out of print in 2005, according to rumour [[Naoko Takeuchi]] herself didn't really like [[Bowdlerise|what other countries did with her series]], both anime and manga-wise. This apparently meant that the ''Sailor Moon'' manga couldn't be exported to any other country anymore, and Nakayoshi had troubles with the author herself, making the woman almost give up shoujo altogether. Perhaps it has a bit to do with the situation. However...

*** [http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/16792.html NOT SO FAST! Italy will see a rebroadcast and new merchandise to go with it in 2010(!)]

*** VIZ has the rights to the anime, and as of January 2015 the first box set is listed for pre-order in the usual places.

* A brain-breakingly moronic version of this trope is the state of [[Go Nagai]]'s [[Super Robot]] anime ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer|Grendizer]]'' in the French-speaking world. When [[Toei Animation]] exported it to France in [[The Seventies]], they conveniently "forgot" to notify Go Nagai of the fact and proceeded to reap a colossal fortune from merchandising without giving him one aluminum yen in royalties; since the series was only marginally popular in Japan, he only found out '''ten years''' later, which led to a long legal spat between Toei and Dynamic Planning (Nagai's personal publishing company), meaning rebroadcasts and video releases simply couldn't happen after 1985, to the chagrin of millions of fans (yes, it was ''[[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|that big]]''). When they finally reconciled, it seemed that a DVD release would finally see the light of day... and then a French company issued an unauthorized box set, Toei and Dynamic sued the company, [[EBay]], and even ''individual buyers'' for copyright violation, and it's been in limbo ever since. The entire fiasco has the French fanbase in tears.

*** Answer: Oh my yes they do.

** And none of the above paragraphs even begin to cover the ''other'' nasty mess the franchise is known for: music rights. It has been said that clearing all the music rights in ''[[Macross Zero]]'' would cost more than the license fee for the entire rest of the show. This goes double for the even more popular (and pop-heavy) ''[[Macross Frontier]]''. Even ''[[Macross 7]]'' had it too when the fictional [[Show Within a Show|Band within a show]] Fire Bomber got popular in Japan.

* ''[[Gundam]]'', on the other hand is all nice and clean, and free of legal snarls, if only because [[Namco Bandai|Bandai]] owns it lock, stock and barrel. They even have a corporate post with an utterly awesome name of "Chief Gundam Officer", who is THE head producer for the whole franchise and [[Executive Meddling|makes the calls]] where it should go and what should be done with it, and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7029685.stm isn't affiliated with the Japanese Agriculture Ministry.] [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]], while having the say in policy discussions and almost free hand in production, is only a contractor. This is why something like ''[[Dynasty Warriors: Gundam]]'' (a.k.a; ''Gundam Musou'') can see the light of day outside Japan, while something like ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' sees nothing but a few [[Original Generation]] games.

** Not ''entirely''. <s>The original ''Gundam'' has never seen a bilingual DVD release outside of Japan</s> A bilingual release of the original series was announced for 2011. However, there is one [[Missing Episode]] because [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] specifically asked it be removed from circulation (mainly because it's horrendously [[Off-Model]]).

*** It also seems its due to the series premise. It's geared [[Seinen|at men]], yet the covers show a cute anime full of girls (and the protagonist is young) that happens to be a [[Magical Girl]] series. That'd work well in Japan, but in the west that'd make most men put the box back on the shelf.

* Despite the sound novel and manga popularity, along with the popularity of the [[When They Cry|series]] among the anime community as a whole, anything besides the first season of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' doesn't seem to be coming out anytime soon. Even with that, the first season -- another late-era [[Geneon]] release it must be noted -- is becoming increasingly hard to buy or find online.

* While the ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'' TV series have been licensed in the US, the OVA sequels and most of the video games based on the series are not. And the poor sales of the DVD box set in the US and it quietly went out of print ensures that the OVAs will never make it to US shores.

* While Puerto Rico usually averts this, notable anime have not been released there. Notables include ''[[K-On!]]'' (On Blu-Ray), ''[[Durarara!!]]'' (luckily, at least it's on TV) and the third season of ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' (despite releasing the first two seasons without a problem).