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The percentage of new/airing shows that don't get legal streams in the US somewhere is vanishingly low

Ongaku Shoujo
Bonobono
Layton Mystery Tanteisha

And about Captain Tsubasa, the reason might simply be sports anime never really caught on here in the West. (Disclaimer, I don't watch sports anime, actually i don't watch any sports animated or not. Never could understand what's so fun in watching grown men run after a ball(?)..)

Tsukumogami Kashimasu >> airing on crunchyroll as We Rent Tsukumogami
Shounen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan >> airing on Crunchyroll
Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Gekijou 3rd Season >> airing on Crunchyroll
Shinya! Tensai Bakabon >> airing on Crunchyroll
Neko Neko Nihonshi 3rd Season >> airing on Crunchyroll as Meow Meow Japanese History
Pocket Monsters: Sun and Moon >> airing on Disney
Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100 Nin no Ouji-sama >> on HiDive as 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams
Ongaku Shoujo >> on Crunchyroll as Music Girls

Pocket Monsters: Sun and Moon

-Stuart Smith

Pokémon has run nonstop on American television since 1997, it's currently on Disney X D, has every episode available on Disney's on demand service, select episodes come up on the Pokémon TV app, and episodes on Netflix. Beyblade Burst Evolution and Yokai Watch are also on Disney X D.

LUNI_TUNZ wrote:

Pokémon has run nonstop on American television since 1997, it's currently on Disney X D, has every episode available on Disney's on demand service, select episodes come up on the Pokémon TV app, and episodes on Netflix. Beyblade Burst Evolution and Yokai Watch are also on Disney X D.

When people say legally available streaming I assume they mean the Japanese version, not the heavily edited Americanized dubs. If you wanna watch the uncut Japanese versions of those shows, then yeah, got to put on that peg leg and eye patch.

Nobody, not nobody, is that insistent on watching the "pure, unadulterated" Japanese version of Pokémon

...If we're talking about, say, Power Rangers/Super Sentai, where the editing gets to the extent where you don't even have the same characters or plots in both shows, I would understand your stance (hell, Power Rangers even shoots new footage for the Western stories), but you're talking about Pokémon where the plot is identical in both versions. Your stance is totally unreasonable, against what amounts to name changes and riceballs becoming jelly doughnuts. This isn't Zyuranger/Mighty Morphin', where a character's death was turned into "character disappears, then comes back with a suit from a totally different show". This is "the Miyamoto Musashi pun is replaced with cowboy "Jesse James". The only other examples you could bring up are the "James in the boob suit" and "Ash getting a gun pointed at him", and wouldn't you know it, that was from the first fracking season almost 20 years ago and nothing remotely similar has happened since then.

And hell, even Super Sentai is appearing in the US on subbed DVDs, so even that's out of the water.

Nobody, not nobody, is that insistent on watching the "pure, unadulterated" Japanese version of Pokémon (and these days nothing is edited to the extent you claim anyway.)

Levitz9 wrote:

...If we're talking about, say, Power Rangers/Super Sentai, where the editing gets to the extent where you don't even have the same characters or plots in both shows, I would understand your stance (hell, Power Rangers even shoots new footage for the Western stories), but you're talking about Pokémon where the plot is identical in both versions. Your stance is totally unreasonable, against what amounts to name changes and riceballs becoming jelly doughnuts. This isn't Zyuranger/Mighty Morphin', where a character's death was turned into "character disappears, then comes back with a suit from a totally different show". This is "the Miyamoto Musashi pun is replaced with cowboy "Jesse James". The only other examples you could bring up are the "James in the boob suit" and "Ash getting a gun pointed at him", and wouldn't you know it, that was from the first fracking season almost 20 years ago and nothing remotely similar has happened since then. And hell, even Super Sentai is appearing in the US on subbed DVDs, so even that's out of the water. Nobody, not nobody, is that insistent on watching the "pure, unadulterated" Japanese version of Pokémon (and these days nothing is edited to the extent you claim anyway.)

Uh, okay? I get you don't care, but you're severely underestimating the amount of people who do if you're going to insist 'literally nobody' wants to watch Pokemon in Japanese or cares about the Japanese version, especially when videos on the Japanese version are sitting on YouTube with millions of views and comments. And there's a lot more to changes than just 'jelly donuts' and names. I mean, music and voice-acting alone is reason enough to prefer the original over the dub, but they still do censor, cut out, and skip episodes even to this day in the dub.

A lot of the ones on the list are either child-oriented (Doraemon, Tama and Friends...), are likely to be adapted to Western television (Duel Masters,. Beyblade...), are shorts (Sunohara-sou no Kanrinin-san...), belong to the bigger magical girl franchises which have for some reason much trouble getting over here(?)(Huggto Precure, Kira Kira...) or are simply too weird for Western tastes (Sazae-chan, Uchi no Octopus...).

The Passimiam episode is the first episode that's been banned in 753 episodes, the dub barely edits the show these days, unless you want to count for Who's That Pokémon being a different Pokémon in both versions of the same episode.