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Some piece of fiction is created that doesn't get released outside its home country. But it proves extremely popular inside its home country, and so it is adapted into a movie, TV show, book, comic, or whatever. Due to the pre-existing fanbase, this new adaptation enjoys massive sales upon release, and so the publishers decide to give it a worldwide release. The international release is so successful that the copyright holders decide to give the original an international release as well, based on similar logic to that which persuaded them to make the adaptation. This is, so far, standard practice with anime, since a cartoon tends to be marketable to more demographics than the manga, Light Novel or Visual Novel it was based on. However, now that manga are getting more popular, that tendency is fading somewhat. This also happens a lot to books that are turned into foreign films. Translation of higher-profile works takes priority in fiction, and a film raises the work's profile. Related to Sequel First, Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.", and Novelization First. |
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A lot of countries outside South Korea (ex. Canada and the United States) did not get the PinkAru and Noonbory stationary brand, but they did get the television series that it inspirednote the first season, at least; the follow-up season is still in No Export for You Land. | |
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Little Nemo: The Dream Master was released in 1990 in the U.S. and in 1991 in Europe; the anime feature it was directly based on, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, was not released outside Japan until 1992. | |
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Thunder Force II MD, a port of the Sharp X68000 game Thunder Force II, is the only version of TFII to be released outside of Japan. In fact, outside of Japan, it's simply known as Thunder Force II, minus the "MD" title. | |
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The Tamagotchi anime was the first part of the Tamagotchi franchise to be released in South Korea due to the Japanese cultural products ban. The toys (save for the Tamamori line being released around the time the anime aired) would not see a release there until 2019, with the Tamagotchi Some, their version of the Meets/ON. | |
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While all three Kimba the White Lion TV series have been at least partially dubbed into English (the original 1965-67 one twice), Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor manga has never been officially translated beyond a bilingual edition of the first volume available via Amazon Japan. | |
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Roco Kingdom 2: Wish of the Holy Dragon got a South Korean localization without the country ever getting a translated version of the game it's based on. | |
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The Canadian series Cybersix is based on the Argentinian comic of the same name, which has been officially translated into French and Italian but not English. | |
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Similarly, the original A Certain Magical Index novels were licensed a few years after the North American release of the anime adaptation. Its spin-off manga, A Certain Scientific Railgun, did get a North American release before its own anime adaptation, but still before the license of the Index novels. | |
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Ready Jet Go! Space Camp was the first piece of Ready Jet Go! media released in France. | |
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Fire Emblem: The two-episode OVA of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light was exported to Western shores before Marth debuted in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and also before a game in the Fire Emblem series starring Marth, Shadow Dragon, was be released in the west. | |
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300: Rise of an Empire is loosely based on Frank Miller's sequel to the 300 graphic novel, Xerxes. However, either because of Schedule Slip or simply because the two projects began simultaneously and the comic hit some bumps due to Miller's advanced age, Rise Of an Empire released four years before Xerxes began publication. | |
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Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run was supposed to be a tie-in for the canceled movie. | |
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In America, the Yo-kai Watch anime came out a month before the video game did. | |
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The only way most people outside of the UK and the Commonwealth know about Katharine Tozer's Mumfie is the series Magic Adventures of Mumfie. Italy knew Mumfie first through the puppet series Here Comes Mumfie – they were the only country to get it outside of the United Kingdom. |
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Lyrical Nanoha has been distributed internationally a lot more than its source material. This isn't much of a surprise since the original Nanoha was a mini-scenario of Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever, a hentai game. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei would be another famous example; the franchise began with the novel Digital Devil Story, which was adapted into the original Megami Tensei games for NES, none of which made it outside Japan. The first entry in the franchise to come West was Jack Bros for Virtual Boy, followed by Persona a year later. | |
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The Shop Around the Corner was based on an obscure Hungarian play that was never translated into English. | |
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Fist of the North Star is a bit of a subversion. The original manga was released in America first by Viz Media in 1989, but it only lasted the first two volumes. Viz resumed publication after the cult success of Streamline Pictures' dub of the film, but it only lasted three more volumes before Gutsoon brought the rights to the series. They only published nine volumes before they went out of business. Viz has since re-licensed the title, and is currently publishing it in a hardcover format, but not before Toei Animation themselves had already released all 152 episodes of the TV series on video download and streaming services with English subtitles (Manga Entertainment produced a dub in 1999, but it only covered the first 36 episodes). | |
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Dragon Ball: The anime versions of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were released in North America by Funimation a few years before the manga was translated by Viz Media. Also, Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, the first live-action Dragon Ball movie, was released in the US several years before the anime film it was based off of, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies. |
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Oblivion is based off a comic book created by its director, Joseph Kosinski, that never got published. | |
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Memento is based on the short story "Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan's brother, which would not be published until after the film was released. Because of this, the film did not qualify for a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the Academy Awards (it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay instead). | |
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Before Slumdog Millionaire was made, it was difficult to find a copy of Q & A outside India. Now, the book is an international bestseller. | |
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Show by Rock!! and its sequels were the only part of the series that made it overseas, with the game they were based on region-locked to Japan. | |
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The Night Watch (Series) books were first released in English when the film of the first book proved a surprise hit internationally. | |
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The Noddy Shop was the first Noddy-related work released in most regions outside of Europe (save for Portugal), Asia and the Commonwealth, as the Noddy books never saw a release in those regions. | |
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Pretty Series: The Kiratto Pri☆Chan and Idol Time PriPara anime series were licensed outside of Asia in December 2020 and February 2021 respectively, with Waccha PriMagi! also being licensed for simulcasting by Sentai Filmworks just a few months before its premiere, but the respective arcade games the anime were based on are not available in the West. | |
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Most of the animated Confession Executive Committee adaptations (the first two movies and the two television anime) were shown internationally via streaming, with only a few countries receiving a handful of the light novels they're based on. The series also started out as a collection of songs, but while most of them are available on HoneyWorks' channels, those compilations never made it out to international audiences before the adaptations did. | |
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Despite the announcement of the anime based on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Diamond is Unbreakable and Golden Wind have yet to get full English releases in manga form. | |
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The first work in the Berserk franchise released in English was the Dreamcast game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage in 2000. It would be another two years before the 1997 anime got an official release. Dark Horse published the first volume of the manga a year after that. | |
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ef - a fairy tale of the two.: A peculiar case. The release order is this: the first tale. (first half of the visual novel, released in 2006), a tale of memories. (first season of the anime, released in 2007), then the latter tale. and a tale of melodies. (second half of the visual novel and second season of the anime respectively, both released in 2008). Furthermore, Renji and Chihiro's arc technically came first in a tale of memories. before the latter tale. | |
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Doraemon: German-speaking countries didn't get the franchise until when Doraemon: Story of Seasons came out there in 2019, and German dub of Stand by Me Doraemon series was released in Netflix two years later. | |
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The Haruhi Suzumiya anime got a global release long before the books it was based on… Except in Spain, where it was manga first, then the novels two months later. The anime is still unavailable. | |
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Science Adventure Series: Both the Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate had their anime adaptations localized before the original visual novels. And while Steins;Gate was ultimately localized shortly thereafter, Chaos;Head went without an official localization all the way to 2022. | |
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DRAMAtical Murder, though JAST USA finally announced an official English localization in 2018. | |
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The first appearance of the Kamen Rider franchise in English, predating Saban's Masked Rider by a year, was The Masked Rider, an FMV Game for the Sega CD based on Kamen Rider ZO. | |
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So far, the only officially licensed English appearance of the fantasy mecha series Mashin Hero Wataru was a Macekred translation of a licensed video game for the TurboGrafx-16 which was retitled Keith Courage in Alpha Zones. | |
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The starting lineup of Shonen Jump was half determined by popular anime (Yu-Gi-Oh!, YuYu Hakusho, and Dragon Ball Z). | |
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Pokémon: The franchise started off as a pair of video games, which was adapted into a few manga, and was then adapted into an anime. The anime was the first to be released outside Japan, with the games releasing weeks (in America) to months (in the UK) afterwards. In South Korea, the anime came first due to a ban on Japanese cultural products preventing the game from being imported. |
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In the Czech Republic, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie was dubbed before the actual series it was based on. | |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is based on the fourth book of a wuxia pentalogy by Wang Dulu, none of which have been officially translated into English. Its 2016 sequel Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny is an adaptation of the fifth book, Iron Knight, Silver Vase (which was also the film's original title). | |
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The Touhou Project series has never been released outside Japan, as ZUN wants the games to remain Doujin and fears that any professional translation would be a Macekre (if you want to play them, he recommends piracy). While Double Dealing Character was eventually made available through Playism, only the menus were translated into English, with the player being expected to use a Fan Translation patch to understand the story. However, ZUN would later give his blessing to a number of Touhou fangames to participate in the Play, Doujin! scheme (wherein Sony purchased enhanced remakes of Doujins to be sold on the PS4 as Indie Games). Several of these games later received English releases, where they were retitled to seem like a series and marketed as "the Touhou games". | |
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Uta No Prince-sama | |
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Second adaptation first: The video game The Witcher is better known than the successful Polish literary series that has yet to be fully translated into English. The previous film and TV adaptation were shown to the rest of the world first, but not many saw it. | |
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428: Shibuya Scramble. A peculiar case; while this very text-heavy VN mostly tells its story through photographic images, it had an unlockable extra scenario written by Type-Moon with animesque character designs, which got a sequel through the anime Canaan. Canaan was localized shortly after it was announced, while 428 was localized ten years after its release in Japan. | |
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The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fighting game by Capcom made it to the States years before the manga or the APPP OVA ever did. As a result, many confuse the latter to be adaptations of the former. Due to Crunchyroll and Hulu streaming subs of the David Production anime, Viz Media re-releasing the manga (including the first two story arcs, which were previously subject to No Export for You status), Jonathan and Joseph Joestar being playable in J-Stars Victory VS (which was ported to the States), and the release of two more video games in the series, this is finally changing. | |
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Sakura Wars: The first OVA was released in the West long before any of the video games were. | |
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Ringu was a video-only release in the US that came out six months after the American remake The Ring was released theatrically. | |
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Saya no Uta received an American comic book adaptation in 2010, three years before JAST USA released the original Visual Novel in English. | |
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Dr. Who and the Daleks was released in America a good decade before the TV series it was based on. | |
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Stitch Jam, a tie-in to the Lilo & Stitch anime spin-off series Stitch!, was released in the United States over eighteen months before the show's English dub finally aired there, despite said dub debuting in Australia the year prior. (Even then, the U.S. run of the anime lasted for less than a week with only five episodes.) | |
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The first official release Japanese audiences saw of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is Gameloft's Licensed Game. The TV series–the first 52 episodes of it at any rate–were aired on Japanese television in 2013. | |
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Dragon Ball: Shenlong no Nazo for the NES made it to North America as Dragon Power (with all the names changed and some Bowdlerisation applied) in 1988 before any other Dragon Ball media did. 2 years later it was released in France as well, this time with the Dragon Ball license intact even though neither the manga nor the anime had been released there yet. | |
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Perfect Blue. Loosely based on the popular Japanese novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis, the film was picked up for Western release by Manga Entertainment after its 1997 premiere at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, and got its first theatrical releases just over a year after release in Japan. The novel, on the other hand, would not be picked up until 2018. Seven Seas licensed it just after US distributor GKIDS rescued Manga’s long expired license for the film. | |
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Nasuverse: While the anime adaptations of their works (most notably Fate/stay night and its spin-offs) have been consistently localized for the most part, fans of their original works, particularly the visual novels, had to rely on fan translations for the better part of a decade before Aniplex would finally break the pattern by announcing an official international release for Witch on the Holy Night in 2022, followed by Tsukihime and Fate/stay night in 2024. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Disney only released the show in the Asia-Pacific, while they released the Where's My Water? crossover game worldwide. As such, a bunch of countries only got the game and not the show. | |
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For a period, the only Unico related work to gain an American and international release was the two animated films (The Fantastic Adventures of Unico from, and Unico in the Island of Magic from 1983). The original manga by Osamu Tezuka which ran from 1976-1979 didn't receive an official translation until decades later. Not to mention the first animated appearance of the title character (Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather from 1979) remains exclusive to Japan note The 1979 pilot short was later included as a bonus feature in the Western DVD/Blue-ray release of the 1983 sequel movie. alongside the 2000 animated short Saving Our Fragile Earth: Unico Special Chapter starring the character. The only country that was able to receive all animated works starring Unico (including the 1979 pilot and 2000 animated short) was Mexico and Spain where both gained official Spanish dubs. | |
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The 2001 Fruits Basket anime had been released in its entirety for over a year before Tokyopop was convinced (via a reader poll) to publish the original manga. It even went on to become their best selling title. | |
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Parasite Eve is known to most Americans as a video game series. In Japan, the game was based on a movie, which was based on a book. Both got localized years after the second game was released. | |
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The Variable Geo OVA was dubbed into English, whereas the Advanced V.G. fighting game series it was based on has still never been released outside Japan. The only other part of the franchise that received a Western release was Variable Geo: Neo, an H-series adaptation of the video game of the same name. | |
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Also, Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, the first live-action Dragon Ball movie, was released in the US several years before the anime film it was based off of, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies. | |
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The Mobile Suit Gundam spinoff novels were released around 1990 or so, nearly a full decade before the compilation movies and the TV series were released in the US (and 21 years before the TV series was released in the original Japanese in the US!) | |
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The video game Retro Game Challenge came out in English-speaking countries a good while before the TV series Retro Game Master ever got an official translation — though the show was advertised in the game's instruction manual, so it was clearly being planned when the game came out. | |
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Several big name titles such as Rurouni Kenshin, Fullmetal Alchemist, Trigun, and Case Closed would not be released in North America (or most other places) until after their anime counterparts aired on television. | |
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SHUFFLE! | |
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The original When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace light novels were licensed in North America nine years after the series began; however, the anime adaptation was simulcast by Crunchyroll the season it aired and was eventually given a proper release in the West in 2016, around five years prior to the licensing of the light novels. | |
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Kinnikuman was first exported under the title M.U.S.C.L.E. as a toyline and NES Licensed Game. | |
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Dōkyūsei: ADV Films licensed the first OVA and released it on their SoftCel label in 1998 as End of Summer. The Dating Sim itself didn't get an official localization until 2022. | |
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Wangan Midnight and its sequels have all been released worldwide. The source manga, the original arcade game (Wangan Midnight R and its PS2 port and PSP ports, the PS3 game, and anime, however, remain Japan-only. | |
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The original light novels of Full Metal Panic!, Slayers, and Shakugan no Shana were not translated into English until after their anime adaptations first aired, and the complete novel series has yet to be released for the latter two. Only five of the twelve FMP novels were originally published in America (With 4 and 5, a two part story, being sold as a combined volume). Thankfully, the entire series was eventually (re-)released years later under a new publisher. Only eight of the fifteen Slayers novels have been published in English, and it took an online petition to get Volumes 7 and 8 published, though again, the series is being re-released under a new publisher, with 12 out of 15 released as of November 2023. Only two of the 22 Shana novels have been published in America. | |
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