Withanimemore popular than ever, guidelines are becoming more strict to ensure the shows don’t offend anyone.
Pokemonis known for having countless banned episodes, so many that this list could only be made up ofPokemonepisodes.
The episode follows Ash as he tries to mediate the growing conflict between two territorial groups of Passimian.
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While pretty unassuming, thisPokemon episode was banned because of blackface, an issuePokemonhas previously encountered.
Spike Spiegel is one such bounty hunter who works with his crew to clean up the streets.
But Wild Horses isn’t even the only bannedCowboy Bebopepisode, with this list diving into that later.
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The focus is on episode 19, which was banned because it depicts the Columbia Space Shuttle crashing.
However,the episode coincidentally aired before the real-life tragedy, causing a temporary U.S. ban when it happened.
The cut content severely hurt the anime, and it eventually stopped airing, never fully completed in America.
5’Ghost Stories' (2000)
Episode N/A: Am I Beautiful?
LikeScooby-Doo, each episode involves a new mystery with a different ghastly entity.
While most of these episodes were banned from other countries, this episode never even aired in Japan.
Cowboy Bebop - Wild Horses - 1999
While Toonami would air these episodes at later dates,they were temporarily banned.
3’Osomatsu-San' (2015)
Episode 1: Osomatsu-kun Returns!
The popular kid’s showOsomatsu-Kunfollowed the antics of sextuplets, causing adorable chaos wherever they went.
The anime thought it would be funny to have the characters worry about their relevance decades after their popularity.
To combat that, they referenced countless popular shows such asAttack on TitanandNaruto.
The episode wasbanned from TV and DVD in Japan and subsequently the world.
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The anime follows Excel and Hyatt, two underlings whose evil boss tasks them with destroying a small town.
However, the two are horrible at their job and always seem to mess up.
Fittingly titled Going Too Far,the director deliberately made the episode get banned.
He certainly achieved it asExcel Saga’s final episode became one of themost infamous episodes banned from TV.
However, everyone knows the reason for Electric Soldier Porygon’s ban.
When a missile was launched at the team, Pikachu used an attack to detonate it.
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The anime went on a four-month hiatus, with this episode beingpermanently banned from ever airing on TV again.
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In Escaflowne: The Movie, Hitomi Kanzaki, a disillusioned teenager, is transported to the mystical world of Gaea. There, she embarks on a journey to find her place while becoming entangled in a conflict involving the enigmatic warrior Van and a massive mechanical armor known as Escaflowne.
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