Top 10 Animes that Never Got Licensed in the USA
With Anime being more accessible than ever, you'd think we get more diamonds in the roughbut executives love to screw us over by denying us variety like the following
The Adventures of Gamba is cruel fate story, The anime is destined for fandom because of it's Watership Down like story and child like art style but alas it never came stateside
TMS at one point in the early '80s made a test dub but was snubbed at C/FO (Cartoon/Fantasy Organization) because of their fetishistic obsession with mecha/giant robots
Remember how puzzled you were when "Ultimate Muscle" came to T.V. because of continuity errors galore? That's because Ultimate Muscle was actually a sequel to Kinnikuman, an anime that never saw US broadcast but only saw success through the M.U.S.C.L.E toy line
Otherwise known as "Ginga Nagareboshi Gin", Silver Fang is another shamefully unlicensed gem
most likely due to fears of intimidation from PETA
Out of all of Akira Toriyama's work, Dr. Slump is the only series to never see US broadcast
In fact, Harmony Gold tried to bring the anime to the US but failed to do so
Despite the anime Yatterman Nights and the appearance in the cult favorite Wii game "Tatsunoko vs. Capcom", Yatterman (both the 1970s and 2000s versions) never saw US broadcast
NHK's Domo recieve cult status because of the advent of the Internet, Nanami wasn't so lucky
Nanami-chan's anime should've been licensed because of it's pseudo-Ghibli like atmosphere but sadly no licensee cared
(this also applies for it's sequel Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori)
Sunrise hardly got any luck in the US mostly because of Bandai's overdependence of Gundam during the early 2000s
While Sgt. Frog got lucky thanks to ADV and later Funimation, Zorori wasn't so lucky
While Zorori was brought to other countries, Not one anime distributor touched poor Zorori with a 10 foot pole
The GeGeGe no KitarÅ anime, based on the manga series of the same name by Shigeru Mizuki, was produced by Toei Animation and aired on Fuji TV. With anime being more diverse in the US, you'd think this would get licensed or be streamed on Crunchroll - sadly no
While the game on the Gamecube saw US release, The anime (despite cult following) never saw US release