No Home Release for You

The pinnacle of Obscurity, much? and a trope that signals that the studio hates the work so much they never bother releasing it to physical media. Likewise, a physical release *was* planned, but got cancelled. Often the fate of many a Dubless Series.

Not to be confused with "Why Don't We Have That" under Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon.

On the other trope-focused wiki, this is known as Keep Circulating the Tapes, but that also applies to shows that are simply out-of-print as well as shows whose streaming rights/DVD rights expired. "No Home Release for You" is specific to series without physical releases (or whose physical releases do not cover everything released in the region).

*Note*: In order for a title to qualify, it *must* have been released in a DVD region via other means besides physical media, or that the physical release only covers part of the series. It also must have been around when/after physical media began to take off (namely, LaserDisc/VHS).

As of 2020, this trope will also only be played straight if either it wasn't released to the current home media formats (DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD) or it wasn't released to *any* home media format.

Shows still being released on physical media (ex. *Boruto: Naruto Next Generations*) are also best not documented, unless it's clear the shows' physical releases are slowing down (ex. *Yo-kai Watch*).

It's also important to note that, if you happen to have a DVD copy of a show on the below list and you know the show isn't available on physical media of any kind in your country, it's probably a bootleg. Tropes Fanon will not link to any sites selling bootleg anime on this page or any other.

Now has a page to play with the trope.

## Examples

### General

* As a general rule of thumb, any series released on an older format but not a successive format can escalate to "No *Future* Home Release for You". Inversely, a show released only on Blu-ray is a case of "No DVD for You" (VHS has long been discontinued as of this writing).
* Every abridged series ever, due to copyright issues in many cases. In the cases of *Dragon Ball Z Abridged* and similar series, they actually tell you to support the official release of whatever was being abridged.
* A downplayed version is what is known on the other trope-focused wiki as a Vanilla Edition, where there are no special features- maybe not even a *menu*. But hey, at least this is better than a title playing this completely straight...
* Several of Dingo Pictures' films have never been released to physical media in their native Germany. Considering they're a mockbuster studio, it's probably for the best.
* Most Netflix originals never get a home release. Sometimes, you'll get lucky and another company will pick up the home media rights (as what happened when *7Seeds* got picked up by Sentai Filmworks) but most of the time, it's exclusive to streaming (and sometimes linear syndication) forever. *Pokémon* only averted this since it's *always* been released to home video.
* As far as major movie studios (with the exception of Disney) were concerned in the 1950s-80s, home media was not worth selling, and Disney only released their movies to home media if said movies were old enough. That said, Disney also put movies in the Disney Vault sometimes, that was until the launch of Disney+.
* Is your show extremely niche? If it is, a physical release is out of the question. In even worse cases, it might not even be streamed legally.
* Every mobile application ever, for good reason- there's no reason to shell out money for a physical release of a specific app that is offered for free digitally.
* Par for the course if the masters were destroyed. After all, you can't release a show to physical media if it doesn't exist anymore, correct?

### Commercials

* In a sense, almost every commercial aside from a select few will never see a DVD release. Unless you're referring to trailers, of course, but even *those* go out-of-print.
* The very first American *Pokémon* commercial hasn't been re-released since its first appearance on VHS, likely because the franchise made it big in America and is still going strong in *2020*.

### Anime

#### General

* Animax dubs, especially outside of Southeast Asia. It's impossible to list an Animax dub that *wasn't* *Cardcaptor Sakura* and got a DVD release, because *Sakura* was the only Animax dub legally available on physical media in North America.
	+ That said, the Animax dub of *Cardcaptor Sakura* still plays this straight in Australia and New Zealand because it was too financially taxing on Madman.
* Many, *many* series streamed on Crunchyroll. If Crunchyroll is a licensor, rest assured that, short of Funimation, Viz, Discotek, or Sentai picking up home media rights, a home media release will *never* come. This got even *worse* come 2022, as Funimation got merged into Crunchyroll. In fact, most people believe that Crunchyroll only continue to be in the home video game to clean out the Funimation catalog awaiting Blu-rays.
* *Every single anime* licensed by 4Kids Entertainment aside from *Sonic X* never got a complete home release before 4Kids went bankrupt in 2011; *Pokémon* was still in production and was already revoked from 4Kids, and Funimation also usurped *One Piece* from them by that point. It wouldn't be until the later 2010s and early 2020s that some of those former shows got rescued and re-released.
	+ In fact, as shown below, the only 4Kids series that got released to at least one DVD (in North America) when the company was still around were *Shaman King* (and even then it was only the uncut version), *One Piece*, *Magical DoReMi*, *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)*, *Sonic X*, *Pokémon* (sans *Chronicles*), *Winx Club*, *Yu-Gi-Oh!*, *Kirby: Right Back at Ya!*, *Ultimate Muscle*, and *Dinosaur King*. It took until *2017* for *Fighting Foodons* to be released to DVD, and only in North America, at that.
* This is why many, many anime titles licensed for the US anime market are straight-to-video in the US and Canada, if it's not streamed anywhere at all. After all, if *every* anime ever licensed in the US were broadcast on television, it would overflood the market with competing anime channels.

#### Individual series

* *B-Daman* never got a DVD release in North America, not even for the installments that *were* exported there.
* *Bakugan*: The fourth season was never released to DVD in North America despite Bakugan's popularity there because the season was never released in Japan.
	+ Only the first 13 half-hours (of 50) of *Bakugan Battle Planet* were released to physical media thus far. The fact that Cartoon Network co-produces *Battle Planet* does not help.
* *Bakuman* only got one DVD volume, containing the only episodes of the dub ever released. Averted for Regions 2 and 4, however.
* *Beyblade*: Physical releases of the anime portion of the franchise, with the exception of season boxsets, tend not to cover the entire season. *V-Force* in particular never got a physical release outside of Japan *at all* until Discotek stepped in and gave it a Blu-ray.
	+ The *Metal Saga* is especially bad about this trope. While the main saga and *Shogun Steel* saw a DVD release, the same can't be said for *BeyWheelz* or *BeyWarriors: BeyRaiderz*. (*BeyWarriors: Cyborg* never got a US release, so this trope doesn't count for that series.)
		- It was even worse when you collect the individual volumes rather than the season sets. Only four volumes of *Metal Fusion* were released (and yes, we took the fact a season set exists into account). The other three seasons of the *Metal Saga* on DVD? Best to get the season sets...
	+ *Beyblade: Burst*: The first season, *Evolution*, and *Turbo* have been released to physical media in the US thus far. No word on whether *Rise* and *Surge* will receive this treatment, but it's a start.
* *D.Gray-Man Hollow* was supposed to avert this in Japan, but due to various circumstances, it's played completely straight over there. Funimation eventually averted this in North America.
* *Digimon*: Only the original four seasons, *Data Squad*, *Fusion*, and the anniversary movies *Digimon Adventure Tri* and *Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna* have been released to home media in North America.
* *Fighting Foodons* played this completely straight across the world for years until Discotek announced a DVD release. After said release happened, the show started inverting this trope, as the American physical release by Discotek Media is the show's *only* physical release in the world. Due to this, the release only contains the English dub.
* *Galaxy Angel* averted this, despite stopping the dub at episode 8 of *X*; Bandai Entertainment just simply released the remaining *X* episodes sub-only.
* For *decades*, *Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics* has had *no* physical release in Region 1 whatsoever, that was until Discotek Media came to the rescue, with both the Japanese audio and whatever of the dub they could find.
* *Hataraki Man*: The physical release is Blu-ray only in North America (it didn't help it was a Maiden Japan release- their recent releases tend to have only a Blu-ray release when it comes to physical media), but elsewhere outside of Japan, this is played completely straight.
* As of this writing, *Inazuma Eleven Ares* only has *one* DVD volume in the US, and it's of the first 7-8 episodes of the dub.
* *Interspecies Reviewers* averted this by pure luck due to a last-minute rescue by Right Stuf.
* In Japan, you'll be lucky if the series is released in its entirety. *Not* the case with *Kira Deco*, the fourth *Jewelpet* season, which only got a few Blu-ray volumes.
	+ That example, however, is nothing compared to the foreign countries that *did* get the anime. So far, it seems no country outside of Japan even *bothered* to release this show on physical media.
* *Kirby: Right Back at Ya!*: Only a *quarter* of the 100-episode series has seen a DVD release in the US.
* *Magical DoReMi* got some DVDs in North America, but they were packaged with Bandai's dolls of the characters. And according to some sources, they only contained *one* episode (the fourth).
* *Maple Town* was never re-released in the US beyond a few VHS tapes.
* *Medabots*: All three distributors have released season one, but Shout! Factory never released season two (despite ADV and Discotek releasing it). Likewise, *Spirits* was never released to physical media at all until Discotek found acceptable masters.
* *Mew Mew Power* never got a Region 1 DVD. Then again, the second half wasn't dubbed for the US, either.
* During the time that it was licensed by Saban (not to be confused with Saban Brands), *Mon Colle Knights* was never released to DVD outside of Japan or Europe (Saban being sold to Disney not too long after the show began broadcast on Fox Kids didn't help either). When it was eventually announced that the show would be released to Blu-ray, it was revealed to be a sub-only Blu-ray *for this exact reason* (plus Disney apparently owned the dub masters).
* *Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit*: After Geneon went bankrupt after only releasing half the series, did they outsource a boxset to Funimation? No. Instead, they decided not to bother (Funi were already dealing with several other Geneon sub-licenses)... then Media Blasters (and eventually Viz and Sentai) came to the rescue and put out the whole thing on physical media.
* *Pokémon*:
	+ *Chronicles* was never released to DVD in the USA, unlike the main series.
	+ It's rare for the anime to receive any DVDs in its native Japan. There's a reason the page image is of a release from the *Get Pokémon* line- the line only released *eight* *Diamond & Pearl* episodes to DVD.
* *Any* of the *Pretty Cure* installments outside of Japan. The magical girl community was *not* pleased.
* *Sailor Moon*:
	+ Both ADV and Geneon dumped random episodes of the show to DVD. When ADV released the first two seasons to DVD boxsets, it was sub-only and used the materials provided by DiC. Geneon, on the other hand, released random DVD volumes of *S* and *SuperS* before they too released sub-only boxsets. The edited dub never received boxsets of any kind. And the kicker? This was just the *first* time Sailor Moon was released in the US.
	+ Eventually averted when Viz Media released *everything*- the previously-unlicensed *Sailor Stars* included- to physical media, complete with a new English dub (and in the case of *Stars*, its *only* English dub in existence).
* This is enforced for *Sazae-san* due to the creator's wishes, a big reason why, until Amazon came to the rescue, it was never released outside of broadcast TV even in its native Japan.
* *Shaman King* has it two ways:
	+ In the United States, the 2001 series only got *two* DVD volumes, and it didn't help it was of the uncut version. The edited dub played this completely straight... until Discotek re-licensed the entire show in 2021, with both the edited and uncut versions (and in the edited dub's case, its first ever physical release in the US). Averted in Europe, which got the edited dub on DVD.
	+ The 2021 series, however, will play this completely straight, at least for a few years, since Netflix got the rights to it.
* *Shugo Chara!* never got a Region 1 release, being exclusive to streaming since *2008*.
* *Sonic X*: Only the first two seasons were released to physical media in its native Japan. The third season (the Metarex Saga) *did* get released to physical media in North America, but not in its native Japan (where the third season wasn't even released through other means until *2020*). Considering *Sonic the Hedgehog* being more popular in the West than in Japan, this is justified.
* *The Story of Saiunkoku* just *barely* averted it. Only two volumes were released before Funimation picked up distribution rights.
* Not even *Transformers* is safe from this trope. While every other *Transformers* series released in the US avert this trope at one point or another, there is one series that *didn't*: the 2001 *Transformers: Robots in Disguise*, all because the show wasn't licensed to Hasbro; it was licensed to Saban, which was later sold to Disney, and Disney are notorious for not releasing shows to *any* sort of physical media.
* *Ultimate Muscle* only got 1 DVD volume of four episodes in the US before being sat on for a few decades. Discotek Media would later release every single episode to standard-definition Blu-ray. As for Europe and Australia, this is played completely straight.
* *Yo-kai Watch*: So far, only two volumes' worth of the first season, as well as the one movie the US got, have been released to physical media in North America. That said, this is nothing compared to the Australian release. According to Wikipedia, Australia only got *one* volume. And yet that's *still* nothing compared to the show's treatment in Europe, where the show plays this completely straight.
	+ The US has a case of "Late Home Release for You" in regards to the show- it took at least *four* years after the show premiered in the US for a physical release to happen.

TBA.

### Live-action shows

* Ironically enough, *Seinfeld*, the same show that inspired the trope name (which is a pun on the Soup Nazi's "No soup for you" remark), averts this, having all its episodes released to DVD. And this is a show about making a show about nothing.
* Many episodes of *Doctor Who*, mostly the lost episodes (there are a lot from the classic era) have never been released to physical media, and in some cases, they *couldn't* be even if the BBC wanted to, due to Junking Tapes being a real thing back then.

### Western animation

* Many Cartoon Network series have not seen a complete US DVD release. Specifically, with the exception of *Transformers: Animated* (which got a complete series boxset thanks to Hasbro owning half the copyright), *Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends* (released to DVD around the time of Cartoon Network's 30th anniversary celebration), and *Ben 10* and its sequels (a major cash cow for 2000s Cartoon Network in general), every CN original show that started between 2004 and 2009 usually went without a complete home video release, if they even have *any* home releases to begin with. At least many of the shows coming out during that time got at least one DVD volume, *Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi* included. But *Class of 3000*, *Megas XLR* (for good reason in its case), *Sunday Pants* and *The Life and Times of Juniper Lee*? *Nothing*.
* Almost every single official Nicktoon *ever* has at least one episode put onto home video (at least, in the United States), *KaBlam!* included. However, *KaBlam!* only got *one episode* released to home media, and that was because of a sponsorship with Tombstone Pizza.
	+ *Avatar: The Last Airbender* was a rare aversion for Nickelodeon when it was released to DVD. If there *were* no DVDs, people would be very confused with the plot, so Nick ended up releasing it to the format anyways.
* Disney is *notorious* for not releasing their TV catalog to DVD. Only few series from Disney have been released to DVD, while *Phineas and Ferb* only got their Christmas movie, *Across the 2nd Dimension*, and presumably a few random episodes on the same format.
	+ Speaking of Disney, this is also prevalent for *every* 90s Playhouse Disney original show save for *Bear in the Big Blue House*, and even *that* only got some VHS tapes.
	+ Most Disney XD original series with the exception of *Gravity Falls* often go without a complete DVD release, if there's even a DVD release to begin with.
* *Ketchup: Cats Who Cook* was only released on VHS back in the late 90s-early 2000s. Is it any surprise that, thanks to the discontinuation of VHS, it's out-of-print? Oh, and to make matters worse, it was the *only* legal release in America as of 2020.
* *Cybersix* hasn't been released to DVD until Discotek Media picked it up; its only appearance beforehand was on Fox Kids/Teletoon.
* *Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!* only got *very few episodes* released to DVD. It's a Disney show, so that's not surprising in this case.
* *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*: Home releases of this show- the same show that got popular due to the bronies, no less- are a game of roulette outside of North America. Either a country gets at least *one* home release of this show, or it plays this completely straight.
* Justified with *The Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa*. Considering the special is infamously bad, is it any wonder there's no physical release of this?
	+ The special also falling into the public domain (because everyone who worked on it forfeited their copyright) also didn't help.
* Most Saturday-morning cartoons (before the 1990s, of course) usually never receive *any* home video release, with Hanna-Barbera cartoons being among the few exceptions, even if a home release came late.
	+ That said, even after the 1990s, most original Fox Kids shows save for *Bobby's World* usually never receive a complete home video release, if they even get released to physical media in the US *at all*.
* A myriad of legal issues prevent *Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue* from avoiding this trope. And it'll probably never subvert it, given no one wants to work together to bring the special on physical media.
* *Pixel Pinkie* outside of its native Australia (Tropes Fanon cannot confirm whether or not it got released to physical media in Australia). Given the show's bad quality, this is probably for the better.
* *X-Ray and Vav*. For that matter, *any* Rooster Teeth show aside from *Red vs. Blue* and *RWBY*.
* *Station X*, and all because of the massive amount of film clips and music they used. And considering the shutdown of Teletoon at Night, it's unlikely anyone would want to release this to physical media in the first place. And this show's already obscure enough as it is...
* *Daria*: Back when the show was airing, the only parts of the series to see a DVD release were its two movies. Averted by the 2010s, albeit with most of the copyrighted music removed. That said, the show's creator preferred this to TeenNick's editing of the series in reruns (the series started on MTV).
* *Pepper Ann*: As it's a Disney show, this show- you guessed it- never received any home media outside of a *very obscure* VHS release way back when.
* The only parts of *Lilo & Stitch: The Series* released to physical media were the pilot movie, *one episode* of the main show, and the finale movie (that said, the movie it was based on averted this trope). It's telling when Disney treats their movies better in the home video market than their TV series.
* Downplayed with *Weird-Ohs*. While it was released to DVD, you'd have to import it from Canada in order to legally own a copy as the boxset was never released in the USA.
* *Totally Spies!*: Only the first three seasons were released on physical media. The latter half of the show? Best search for the show's official YouTube channel.
* *Wakfu* got a Blu-ray set, with the catch that it was only given to certain backers of the show's English dub. To make matters worse, this was the *only* official physical release of the series in the United States.
* *The Nutshack*. Considering the show's reputation was reduced to little more than a laughingstock meme overnight, is it any wonder that the show only received an uncensored physical release for season 1?
* The only piece of *The Problem Solverz* released to DVD was the *prototype* to it, *Alfe: Gone Cabin Crazy*. Considering the flashing lights and its infamy (it apparently damaged The Mysterious Mr. Enter's eyesight), is this any surprise?
* Of the *Wayside* cartoon, only season 1 and the pilot were ever released to home video.
* If you live outside of North America, *South Park* goes through a game of roulette over this. Not counting cultures that banned the show, many countries never released the show to physical media.
* *Pelswick* had a DVD release planned, but the lack of interest forced Nelvana to cancel it. The planned distributor for the DVDs, Funimation, has since withdrawn from the children's programming market in order to focus exclusively on anime titles, so it's likely the show will continue to play this straight for the foreseeable future.
* *The Cramp Twins*: Only very few DVD releases in the US (including some promoting airings on Cartoon Network and the Fox Box- remember, the show was seen on both Saturday-mornings and on cable television in the US), and this is *before* you took releases on VideoNow into account. With 4Kids filing for bankruptcy in 2011, and the rights reverting to TV Loonland, it's likely this show will not have anymore DVDs in the US for the foreseeable future.