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Adaptation First

383 statements
74 feature instances
7 referencing feature instances

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Adaptation First	label	Adaptation First
Adaptation First	page	AdaptationFirst
Adaptation First	comment	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.
Adaptation First	fetched	2024-04-09T13:46:57Z
Adaptation First	parsed	2024-04-09T13:46:58Z
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Adaptation First	isPartOf	DBTropes
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Adaptation First / int_1246a926	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_124ba1b6	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_124ba1b6	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_133f0a53	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_133f0a53	comment	Kanon
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Adaptation First / int_142657fa	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_142657fa	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_17d4d1a5	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_17d4d1a5	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_18a81596	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_1a0e04af	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_1a0e04af	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_1de0cbd5	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_1de0cbd5	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_1f76648	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_1f76648	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_1fe7db5d	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_1fe7db5d	comment	Ready Jet Go! Space Camp was the first piece of Ready Jet Go! media released in France.
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Adaptation First / int_2192aeb3	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_2192aeb3	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_265df58b	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_265df58b	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_27c361a9	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_27c361a9	comment	Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run was supposed to be a tie-in for the canceled movie.
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Adaptation First / int_2b4ed8de	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_2b4ed8de	comment	In America, the Yo-kai Watch anime came out a month before the video game did.
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Adaptation First / int_2ca6bc78	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_2ca6bc78	comment	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 â€“ they were the only country to get it outside of the United Kingdom.
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Adaptation First / int_2ef7cb74	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_2f203125	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_2f203125	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_338ef4cc	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_338ef4cc	comment	The Shop Around the Corner was based on an obscure Hungarian play that was never translated into English.
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Adaptation First / int_366a284d	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_3aeb1c75	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_3aeb1c75	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_3d24ebc	comment	Oblivion is based off a comic book created by its director, Joseph Kosinski, that never got published.
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Adaptation First / int_43da6f7f	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_43da6f7f	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_4b4a9fd6	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_4b4a9fd6	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_4e502ec5	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_4e502ec5	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry
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Adaptation First / int_5dbbf8fb	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_5dbbf8fb	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_67afc2e4	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_67afc2e4	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_68318e20	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_68318e20	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_698fef57	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_698fef57	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_6d2aec8f	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_6d2aec8f	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_701f0ece	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_701f0ece	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_7343211	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_7343211	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_7385bc4d	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_7385bc4d	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_74aab514	type	Adaptation First
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Adaptation First / int_755fadab	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_755fadab	comment	The Haruhi Suzumiya anime got a global release long before the books it was based onâ€¦ Except in Spain, where it was manga first, then the novels two months later. The anime is still unavailable.
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Adaptation First / int_77b7b587	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_77b7b587	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_796b2fbd	comment	DRAMAtical Murder, though JAST USA finally announced an official English localization in 2018.
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Adaptation First / int_81f5d35d	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_875ef465	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_875ef465	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_8de0a7d5	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_8de0a7d5	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: 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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Adaptation First / int_a0e4a1cb	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_a0e4a1cb	comment	In the Czech Republic, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie was dubbed before the actual series it was based on.
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Adaptation First / int_a28b92ae	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_a6543322	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_a86a1a2a	comment	Uta No Prince-sama
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Adaptation First / int_a877956	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_a877956	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_abb7dcaf	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_b0028436	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Sakura Wars: The first OVA was released in the West long before any of the video games were.
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Adaptation First / int_bdbfba8e	comment	Dr. Who and the Daleks was released in America a good decade before the TV series it was based on.
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Adaptation First / int_c2f89cf2	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_c4282b71	comment	The first official release Japanese audiences saw of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is Gameloft's Licensed Game. The TV seriesâ€“the first 52 episodes of it at any rateâ€“were aired on Japanese television in 2013.
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Adaptation First / int_ce50887e	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_cebeda7b	comment	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 Mangaâ€™s long expired license for the film.
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Adaptation First / int_cfd860dd	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_d22a9a66	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_d8afd410	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_d9e1a051	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_dce9a7a9	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_e0ac1492	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_f9f73e96	type	Adaptation First
Adaptation First / int_f9f73e96	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_fa575b33	comment	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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Adaptation First / int_fcf34eec	comment	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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