Obscurity, much?/TV Tokyo

Despite being one of the most recognizable channels from Japan, TV Tokyo still has some pretty obscure TV anime.

A few restrictions for this page (and related subpages):

* Just because it was pulled from streaming (be it Amazon, Funimation, Hulu, Crunchyroll, Netflix, etc.) doesn't make a show an automatic candidate for this trope. There needs to be evidence that the series garnered low viewership during its time on the service.
* With the exception of legacy examples (documented before January 1st, 2023) and anime/manga that haven't been exported (in which they can be documented 3 months after their Japanese premieres), only ended/cancelled anime and manga can be documented.
	+ If an anime without much of an audience ends before the manga it's based on, the example should almost exclusively be about the anime until the manga itself comes to an end.

Examples from the *Pokémon* and *Jewelpet* anime, as well as other Sanrio-based anime, are on their own pages. Further, Weekly Shonen Jump-based TV Tokyo anime are on WSJ's own page as well.

* Bakugan is fairly obscure in its country of origin, but is really popular among anime fans, *especially* in Canada and the United States.
	+ It got to the point where the final season of the original series only aired in international markets.
	+ *Battle Planet* premiered in Canada and the States before Japan got it.
* Beyblade's current season was, as of October 2016, fairly obscure in the US. Then Disney XD picked up the rights. The anime's gotten fairly popular since.
* Chance Pop Session in the United States. Once ADV went bankrupt, no one else wanted it and it fell out-of-print. Why? Because it was a shoujo that wasn't one of the most popular- ADV only dubbed and released it because they were only interested in DVD releases for series with its genre (the *same* reason why Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch did not get a DVD release). This, despite its overall premise and the tragedy elements scattered throughout the anime. If you're wanting the individual volumes on Region 1 DVD, get ready to shell out big sums of cash just to get the whole series. The thinpak boxset can be picked up secondhand on the cheap, though...
* In America, more people know about the Chi's Sweet Home anime than the original manga, despite the series being a seinen (those proved to sell well in America in recent years). The fact that the first print run of Vertical's translation of said manga may have long gone out of print does not help the manga's case. As for the anime, only one season (the 2016 anime) was ever dubbed, and the only physical releases are of the 2008 anime and *Chi's New Address* courtesy of Discotek Media. After all of *that*, the only way to get merchandise based off the show in America is via online sites (most notably eBay and Amazon) or anime/comic conventions.
	+ The anime is also completely obscure in the UK. Post-*New Address*, this can also apply in Australia.
* The lowering ratings of *Cowboy Bebop* on Toonami may be for the following: A.) the anime's becoming obscure, or B.) the series is readily available on physical media and streaming courtesy of Funimation. People tend to pick the latter because *Cowboy Bebop* is still known to the American public, just not in pop culture anymore.
* Digimon Universe: Applimonsters, despite coming from a long line of anime previously dubbed into English, is this outside of Japan and Europe.
* *Doki Doki School Hours* is (once again) a show Geneon licensed before they went bust. It hasn't been rescue-licensed since.
* Fancy Lala is another case hit by the closure of Bandai Entertainment: America isn't big on magical girl shows, and its anime fans prefer deconstructive magical girls to the traditional magical girl formula (outside Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura). It's not hard to find individual volumes on the cheap, but as for the complete collection...
* Zig-zagged with *Galaxy Angel*. While the Madhouse anime remained enough of a cult hit for Nozomi to give it a rescue, *Rune* only got four volumes of DVDs by Bandai Visual USA (in cooperation with Geneon, no less) before they were folded into Bandai Entertainment. Unsurprisingly, copies are now available on RightStuf for cheap (which makes Volume 1 even *more* worth it then when it originally came out, as it only contained one episode)... but only the first three volumes. The fourth? Good luck, and even if you find one, you'll pay a large amount of money for said volume.
* GoLion within its native Japan, though it's well-known as Voltron outside Japan.
* *Hamtaro*: Anything beyond the first series outside of Japan. Most non-Japanese fanart based on *Hamtaro* happens to be based off the one installment of it that was exported to the US. The same goes for merchandise- if it isn't based off the 2000 anime designs, it most certainly will be completely obscure in America.
	+ Its Region 1 DVDs (well, what little DVD releases the show got there anyways) fell out-of-print.
	+ And if you thought that was as obscure as *Hamtaro* can go, the original children's light novels themselves are also completely obscure- and outside of Japan, almost completely forgotten.
	+ And of course, the run on Cartoon Network's morning block was this as well, contrasted to the Toonami (not the Adult Swim version, the original) run. Same with its run on Fox Kids/Jetix in the UK.
* *Jimoto ga Japan*, aka *I'm From Japan*, is one of Weekly Shonen Jump's most obscure manga stateside. So much so, that its anime is, so-far, Japan-only. See here on how this happened.
* Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama is almost completely forgotten outside of Japan and parts of Asia and the Arab World, especially if you're into the toys. There's no way to (legally) see the anime in North America unless you get the Region A Blu-ray from Japan (and even then get ready to shell out big sums of cash. After all of *that*, don't expect it to be subbed). As for the toys? While in Japan Cocotama has almost as much presence as Pokémon, elsewhere merch is nonexistent (or at least not as widely-seen as Pokémon merch). Your only choices are importing straight from Japan, and sometimes not even then.
* *Kirby: Right Back at Ya!*: The FoxBox must have wanted this show obscured, meaning only *25* episodes ever saw DVD releases, and they're all out-of-print.
* *Medabots* zig-zagged this. Despite being popular enough to run for a respectable 91 episodes (52 for the original two seasons, plus the 39-episode *Spirits*), the third and final season suffered this for a while. In fact, it's gotten to the point that Discotek Media's release will mark the first time the dub of the season has ever been available on physical media. And that's *still* just a footnote in this trope compared to the original Japanese version...
* *Mon Colle Knights*: After its initial Fox Kids/Jetix airings, the anime became completely obscure (and completely forgotten in the fansub community for a while) with no one picking it up until June 2020, when the entire series was made available (subtitled) on Crunchyroll courtesy of Discotek Media.
	+ As of this writing, this is also the reason Discotek have had no luck in finding the dub masters.
* Powerpuff Girls Z is semi-obscure in the United States. If you missed it when it aired on the Latin American Cartoon Network feed (albeit in Spanish), or wanted it in English, you would need to search the internet.
* This is possibly one of the reasons why the Shugo Chara! anime never got an official English dub, despite getting an official North American release and the manga having an official English translation.
* Soul Eater Not! is less popular than the original manga. Despite this, Funimation stepped in and gave it an English dub, just like the original *Soul Eater* anime.
* *Tamagotchi* has famously averted this since its introduction in the 90s. Even the movie, while out-of-print, remains a cult hit in the United States. The 2009 TV anime, on the other hand, is fairly obscure in the US, with the episodes that *were* released becoming a cult hit *at best*.
* *When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace*, as per the course of Trigger anime, was popular enough to get a dub. However, as seen on the general anime/manga page, it wasn't enough to get the manga released (the light novels were released *years* after the anime).
* *Zoobles* in anime form. While Zoobles itself became a meme among *Bakugan* fans (due to Marucho brawling with a Wontu, which looks like a Zooble), good luck finding anyone outside Japan who knows that a *Zoobles* anime exists.