Dubless Series/Anime

Anime in general is a hit-and-miss when it comes to English dubs. On one hand, if you want an anime to have any chance of a US broadcast on linear TV (*especially* if Disney XD, Cartoon Network (both daytime and Toonami), or Nicktoons are interested), it must have an English dub. However, some anime go without dubs, and if there are foreign dubs, they don't cover the entire series or every language the show is capable of being dubbed in. Additionally, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some shows' simuldubs are being flat-out cancelled, with the dubs overall being delayed.

Some notes:

* Fandubs don't count against this trope. This is why, despite getting *two* English dubs, *Animal Crossing: The Movie* is listed as an example since said dubs were fandubs.
* In order for a TV anime to be an example, it must have aired for at least one cour (or one anime season) without an English dub announcement. This is mainly because simuldubbing does happen for some shows. Likewise, anime that weren't dubbed at first but manage to get dubbed later on are subversions of this trope.

*Weekly Shonen Jump* examples now have their own page.

## General examples

* 4Kids Entertainment is very guilty of this. Not in terms of English dubs (they dubbed everything they licensed, except *Pretty Cure* (which is why that's grouped with Bandai examples instead of these examples) and later seasons of *Ojamajo Doremi*), but *uncut* dubs. Generally, if a media property is handled by 4Kids, rest assured an uncut release will never come (*One Piece* is an exception, but that's because Funimation usurped the license from 4Kids in the late 2000s). But even 4Kids have a tendency to cancel dubs when they feel ratings aren't good enough:
	+ Inversion: Discotek Media's release of *Fighting Foodons* is the only physical release of it in the world, and thus lacks the Japanese version.
	+ *Mew Mew Power* only got 26 episodes into its dub (23 stateside) before 4Kids cancelled it.
	+ 4Kids' English dub of *Ojamajo Doremi*, titled *Magical DoReMi*, only lasted a season. Why? Because 4Kids got their license pulled thanks to the antics of *One Piece*. Thankfully, unlike most other dubs of magical girl series, *DoReMi* managed to finish its plotline-of-the-season before it got the ax, giving a Satisfactory Conclusion without the need for more seasons.
		- Meanwhile, the more faithful translation is impossible to locate, not helped by the anime being banned in Australia.
		- The German dub of the first two seasons is hard-to-find; only very few clips are on YouTube. Ironically, YouTube is the reason why Tropes Fanon changed its previous thoughts that there was *no* German dub whatsoever back in 2020-21.
	+ As popular as *Pokémon* is, few episodes (mostly banned episodes) were never dubbed outside of their original Japanese.
		- Even certain Pokémon voices are left undubbed. Most notably Pikachu (voiced by Ikue Ōtani) since its name was not changed.
	+ *Shaman King*: While the edited 4Kids dub covers the entire series, the uncut dub (the only dub released to DVD, at that!) only covers the first 6 episodes.
	+ Technically averted with *Sonic X* in Japan since a Japanese track does exist, but Japan skipped the final season the first time around.
	+ *Yu-Gi-Oh!*: The Toei series. Everything else has been dubbed.
* Anything licensed by Aniplex USA in North America, unless it either proved popular on Toonami or is related to *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*. Technically, shows they have that were previously licensed by someone else do not count towards this trope, but they're few and far between. Here's a partial list of Aniplex anime that do have dubs:
	+ *Blue Excorist*
	+ *Sword Art Online*
	+ *The Promised Neverland*
	+ *Demon Slayer*
	+ *Durarara!!*
	+ *Rurouni Kenshin*, *R.o.D the TV*, *Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood*, *Baccano!*, and *Gurren Lagann*, all of which got their dub before Aniplex rescued the licenses
	+ *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*
		- *Magia Record*
	+ *Kill la Kill* and *Kiznaiver*, due to them being Studio Trigger anime; see below
	+ Anything *Fate/stay night*-related, such as *Fate/Zero* and *Fate/Apocrypha*
	+ *Your Lie in April*
	+ The first season of *Cells at Work!* as well as its spin-off *Code BLACK*
* Bandai shows that aren't licensed by Funimation (or aren't *Mobile Suit Gundam*-related) tend to get the short end of the stick when it comes to dubbing, *especially* after Bandai Entertainment closed up shop. This includes anime developed by Bandai as well as Sunrise/Bandai Namco Pictures productions.
	+ *Brave Beats*
	+ *Digimon* never got beyond *Digimon Fusion* (sans reboots of *Digimon Adventure*) in terms of an English dub. The Italian dub also skips *Data Squad*, and Germany skips everything beyond *Fusion* (again, sans *Tri*).
	+ *Inuyasha* never finished its Hungarian dub. This, in turn, makes it unlikely *Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon* will ever release in Hungary.
	+ *Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama* was never dubbed into any European-originated language. German being one of the excluded languages is obvious given the almost-exact similarities between Germany's anime dubbing market and the United States anime dubbing market (far more anime series came out stateside sub-only than in Germany). English? Not so much since its predecessor *Tamagotchi!* got an English dub.
		- *Tamagotchi!* itself ended up with no German dub, and the only English dub released stateside are *3-minute clips* from later episodes.
	+ The English dub of *Pretty Cure* only covers the first season, *Smile*, and *Doki Doki*. The former's dub didn't even reach the US due to any US streams of the anime being sub-only.
	+ Less than half of *Sgt. Frog* was dubbed into English, with only 78 episodes out of 358. The other episodes are coming out sub-only via Discotek Media. The sequel, *Keroro*, hasn't been dubbed *at all*.
	+ Thanks to being released right in the middle of Bandai Entertainment's financial problems, *Tales of the Abyss* was released sub-only.
* If Discotek Media grabs an anime that hasn't already been dubbed, there's a good chance it will be this. They recently have some exceptions. Otherwise, if an anime does have a dub, they *will* include it... and will try to get *all* English dubs for the release. Sometimes, even the existence of a dub isn't a guarantee it will happen, as *Mon Colle Knights* (documented below) has the possibility of being released sub-only.
* Funimation is guilty of this, often only dubbing shows that are at least *slightly* popular or are simuldubbed, in addition to not releasing shows in Latin America. Specific examples:
	+ *Afro Samurai* lacks a *Japanese* dub, creating Funimation's only anime inversion in history. (Their later co-productions, such as *Dimension W* and *Fire Force*, at least have audio tracks dubbed in both Japanese *and* English.)
	+ None of the *Crayon Shin-chan* movies were dubbed into English. In fact, the Funimation dub of the TV anime (which ended at 78 episodes) even lampshaded that the movies may never come to the US.
	+ *Dimension W* does not have a Latin American Spanish dub: Funimation was in the production committee and they don't sub-license to non-English-speaking regions. The end result? The only parts of North America that got it are the US and Canada.
	+ Fairy Tail's Animax dub has been cancelled due to Animax's shift to sub-only programming (either that, or North American English dubs, whichever they can get their hands on). However, the Funimation dub covers the entire series, even the episodes that didn't receive an alternate Animax dub.
	+ *Fire Force* doesn't have a Latin American Spanish dub, which is common for titles Funimation licensed for Latin America. However, Funimation, rather than block it from Latin America, decided to sub-license it, making this trope doubly-straight in Latin America. That said, this is obviously averted in English-speaking territories; after all, Toonami wouldn't want to air it if it isn't dubbed.
		- The anime *was* dubbed into French and German according to Anime News Network.
	+ Only the first episode of *Interspecies Reviewers* was ever dubbed into English due to Funimation somehow forgetting the anime was more explicit than the manga.
	+ Only the first half of *Kodocha* was ever dubbed into English (and even *then*, it was hit with a bunch of licensing issues preventing Funimation from using "7 O'Clock News" or even *re-scoring* it for the overseas release). When Discotek Media rescued it, it was revealed that the second half of the show will be sub-only, but at least they managed to avoid the entire "7 O'Clock News" licensing mess that plagued Funi's release.
		- That said, it was also dubbed into Italian. No word on whether any of the music was cleared for that dub (though considering it aired on Italia 1, it's safe to assume all music was replaced in the Italian dub, not just the first opening), but it's still the only foreign dub of *Kodocha* besides the English dub according to Anime News Network.
	+ It took over a year after its release for *Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou* to receive an English dub by Funimation. No dubs in other European-originated languages exist either, thanks to bilibili not releasing it in most territories.
	+ Thanks to it being a WWII-era propaganda film (those tend to remain undubbed in all languages besides its native tongue), *Momotaro*, *full stop*. Not even Funimation was willing to dub the movie when they put it out. Not helping was bad publicity of the film nowadays; mention it to anyone in Japan who knows basic knowledge about World War II, and they will cringe.
		- Though interestingly, some of the film was *voiced* in English. Not dubbed, but those lines were *in the original script*. Now how was this possible, at a time when Japan was at war with every English-speaking country except for Ireland?
	+ *Nichijou* suffered through this the first time around; Bandai Entertainment was set to dub it, but ceased operations before releasing it *at all*. Five years later, Funimation stepped in, gave it a sub-only release, and after high sales, dubbed it for Blu-ray.
* Most works by Gonzo have no Spanish dub due to Funimation's reluctance to release any of their non-*Dragon Ball Z* titles in Latin America. If you're wondering why, Gonzo and Funimation have a partnership as of this writing.
* A bizarre, messy legal pile-up of rights issues between Harmony Gold, Big West, Studio Nue, and Tatsunoko prevented any *Macross* show aside from whatever was incorporated into *Robotech* from being dubbed in *any* language outside of Japanese. (For clarification, the only other mainstream anime that isn't allowed to have a dub due to legal issues is *Sazae-san*- more on that in the "Individual works" section.) While the legal issues not involving Japanese music companies were resolved in April 2021, it led to the following:
	+ *Zero*, *7*, and *Frontier* not only didn't get dubbed, but they were also prevented from overseas release- or even translation, even for Japanese markets. In the latter's case, Japanese music companies had a say about it and didn't want their music available outside of Japan.
	+ Inversion: *Do You Remember Love?* was only released with an edited dub in the US. Unsurprisingly, it's out-of-print due to the legal mess.
	+ Same goes for *Macross Delta*; thankfully, this time it received an English-subtitled version for the Japanese Blu-ray release. However, it doesn't help any since the Blu-rays are notoriously expensive.
	+ Averted for *Macross Plus* and *Macross II*, likely because they were picked up during a time where Harmony Gold couldn't do anything about them.
	+ As stated above, this can potentially be averted in the future, depending on who has the license for which *Macross* series in the West.
* Magical girl anime in general. The genre just isn't interesting to North America (or Germany), apparently.
	+ *Cardcaptor Sakura*: The Nelvana dub apparently dubbed all of the episodes, but a good chunk of them are hard-to-find. The Animax dub- the only one of theirs released on physical media in North America, no less!- is much easier to find, though rips of the Nelvana dub are showing up on YouTube.
	+ *Corrector Yui* only has 18 English-dubbed episodes. All can be bought second-hand on the cheap, though.
		- The anime was also never dubbed into German.
	+ While *Lilpri* was able to be released in North America (fans in the Anglosphere have Crunchyroll to thank for getting the show licensed there in the first place), it does not come with an English dub. Looking at its Anime News Network article, its only dubs were in Italian and Serbian, and it's unknown whether the Serbian dub was official or not.
	+ The English dub of *Lyrical Nanoha* ends right at the end of *A's*. Not helping was that this was one of the Geneon shows that received a really cheap dub; no one aside from the voice actors have been credited for English production.
	+ *Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch* *did* get an English dub, but it never got a release because the Japanese licensors *required* the show air on American TV. Not even 4Kids, who managed to work out TV deals for other magical girl anime (they aired them exclusively on their Saturday-morning block, with Doremi also getting a DVD of episode four), wanted it.
	+ *Powerpuff Girls Z*: Besides its original Japanese, the series was only dubbed into the following major languages: Mandarin (specific to Taiwan), Spanish, Korean, and English. The English dub is notable since it aired everywhere except North America and the UK.
		- The United States release as seen on Cartoon Network Latin America (because PPGZ is based on a Cartoon Cartoon, it averts Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon by design... except in Japan, and even then TV Tokyo won't qualify for the trope) only contains the Latin American Spanish dub.
	+ Despite 153 episodes of the *Pretty Series* (the entirety of *Idol Time PriPara*, season 1 of *Kiratto Pri Chan*, and the entirety of *Waccha PriMagi!*) getting licensed stateside, none of the installments came over dubbed.
	+ The edited English dub of *Sailor Moon* ends at the end of *SuperS*. It took until 2019 for Viz to release a dub of *Sailor Stars* to DVD.
		- Likewise, outside of Asia, the only *Sailor Stars* dubs were in Spanish, English (Viz' dub being the only English dub of the season in existence), and French.
		- Outside their original Japanese, the only dubs the shorts got were in Italian and English. And even then, the English dubs for them weren't made until Viz licensed them and gave the entire franchise a redub.
	+ Barring fandubs, *Shugo Chara!* has no English dubs yet. Physical releases are also out of the question. It's on Crunchyroll, though.
	+ *Ultra Maniac*. It's been dubbed into English, Spanish, and Italian... and that was it. Not even a German dub. It was also one of the DVD-exclusive magical girl anime outside of Asia, and that series went out-of-print due to the closure of Geneon; it took until 2017 for the home media rights to be rescue-licensed, even.
* Anime adapted from the Manga Time Kirara would have to *not* be licensed by either Sentai or Aniplex in order to obtain a dub. For example, *K-On!* only got an English dub since Bandai got the license the first time around; Sentai even dubbed season two of it. And not being a Sentai or Aniplex license still doesn't guarantee that a *Manga Time Kirara*-based anime will be dubbed, as shown with *Doujin Work*, which was licensed by Media Blasters' AnimeWorks label. It took until *Asteroid in Love* for another *Manga Time Kirara*-based anime to get a dub for English-speaking territories (this time courtesy of Funimation), though the dub *was* delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Similarly, anime based off a manga from the Monthly Comic Gene tend to not get dubs. The only *Monthly Comic Gene* anime based off of manga and/or other print media originating in one of the publishers' magazines that do have dubs? *Servamp*, *Angels of Death*, and *Mahou Sensou*, aka *Magical Warfare* (though the latter started off as a light novel). In the case of *Kagerou Daze*, Aniplex USA has the license and won't produce many non-action dubs.
	+ The *Servamp* movie hasn't been dubbed.
* Noitamina, especially during their Amazon partnership. Even though some Noitamina anime got English dubs sooner or later, some aren't so lucky. Additionally, Nodame Cantabile also has an English dub... by Animax, who usually do not release their dubs on physical media.
* PonyCan USA releases. Only few titles from them, season 1 of *Yuki Yuna is a Hero* included, got a dub.
* Sanrio is guilty of this trope, often combining it with Obscurity, much?:
	+ The 2016 Aggretsuko anime. The Netflix series averts this in the markets where Netflix is available.
	+ *Cinnamoroll: The Movie*
	+ *Jewelpet* was never dubbed into German. This, unfortunately, is because of the market- The German anime dubbing market is almost the exact same as the US anime dubbing market (barring a DVD release of *Attack No. 1* on the German side and a TV airing of *Doraemon* on the US side).
		- An English dub was produced, but it's exclusive to Southeast Asia.
		- The French dub only covers the first season and *Twinkle*, South Korea skipped *Happiness* (and stopped after *Lady*), Greece and Italy stopped their dubs one season in, and the only non-Japanese language *Magical Change* got dubbed in (barring fandubs) is Cantonese.
	+ The only episode of *Mewkledreamy* released in the US was the ultimately-undubbed fifth episode. And even then, the episode was mainly a *licensing pitch* for a potential dub. So far, every licensor in the Anglosphere passed on it.
	+ *Onegai My Melody*: Has the same problems as *Jewelpet* above, except beyond an English dub specific for Southeast Asia and an Italian dub based on said English dub, the anime was never dubbed into any European-originated language. It also does not help that the anime's English dub is lost outside of Southeast Asia.
	+ Unlike its spiritual predecessor, *Rilu Rilu Fairilu* was never dubbed into *any* European-originated language. Then again, this is due to *Jewelpet* being dropped in most of Europe after the *Twinkle* season.
	+ *Sanrio Boys* was never dubbed outside of Japanese. That PonyCan USA doesn't directly produce dubs anymore does not help.
	+ *Show by Rock!!* has no Latin American Spanish dub thanks to Funimation, who usually does not sub-license titles to Latin America.
* Section23 Films and its predecessor ADV Films sometimes go into this:
	+ *Chance Pop Session*: Aside from an English dub (which is often standard for ADV Films), the anime was never dubbed into any European-originated language. Nor will it ever be, since the anime's over ten years old and the cheapest Region 1 DVD version is the out-of-print thinpak boxset.
	+ *Dynamic Chord*, likely due to it being an anime adaptation of an otome game; with few exceptions, anime based on otome games rarely get dubbed.
	+ *Gintama*: When Sentai had the rights, they never bothered to release *any* of the show with a dub, and the one part they *did* dub was a *Gintama* film. Crunchyroll later averted this when Sentai's license expired.
	+ *Hataraki Man*, for multiple reasons; not only was it not licensed until 2018, but when it *did* get licensed, it was sub-only.
	+ Most *Manga Time Kirara* anime licensed by Sentai, with *K-On!* being an exception, are *guaranteed* a sub-only release in North America. *Manga Time Kirara* itself has a reputation for many of their anime adaptations being sub-only (see above).
	+ *Super Milk Chan*: The only languages besides its original Japanese that *Milk Chan* got dubbed in are Spanish (once seen in Latin America on Animax), Portuguese (though that dub is most likely lost), and English (the latter with *two* dubs, one being the direct dub, and one being an Americanized version). This also applies to the original shorts.
	+ *When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace* (as per the course for any Studio Trigger anime) managed to get an English dub. If you're looking for other dubs, you may be out of luck as non-English dubs of anime are becoming less common outside of Netflix.
* Anime about anime/manga production, pure and simple. The only exceptions? *Bakuman* (and even then they only managed one volume's worth of dubbed episodes) and *Shirobako* (though the dub took a long time to be confirmed).
* Anime films are required to be dubbed into Spanish in order to have *any* hope of a release in Mexico. Which leads to some problems:
	+ *Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion* was never released in Mexico because Aniplex only wanted to produce *one* dub (that being the English dub).
	+ *Rebuild of Evangelion* managed to play this straight because the distributor had the films screened as art films... which ironically never cover DVD releases. Again, this was averted in English-speaking markets.

## Individual works

* Animal Crossing's movie, *full stop*. The only English dubs that exist are merely fandubs as the movie was never licensed out, not helped by newer games coming out.
* Animal Yokocho: Aside from an English dub for Southeast Asia, no dubs in European-originated languages exist. And even then, the dub is lost outside of Southeast Asia, and the majority of search results are for fandubs.
* Anpanman (at least the TV series) has no dub for any European-originated language, except English. Too bad the dub only aired in India.
* Probably due to sitting at Level 3 of the Cartoon Appropriateness Scale (the anime is easily an adult-oriented Animal World), the *Arashi no Yoru ni* movie has only seen one English (fan)dub. No official dub in any European-originated language exists.
* The 1960s *Astro Boy* dub stopped around episode 104. Episode 193 *was* released almost 50 years later... albeit subbed. The other *Astro Boy* series were dubbed in full.
	+ Blame the rise of color television and Astro Boy being black-and-white. The heads of NBC were looking to transition all their programs to color. Since Osamu Tezuka produced the anime in black-and-white, NBC cancelled the dub.
* Besides its original Japanese, *Azumanga Daioh: The Animation* has only been dubbed fully into three languages (several other foreign-language dubs were cancelled): English (of which there are two dubs: the Animax dub and the ADV dub), French, and German.
* *Bakugan*:
	+ The fourth season did get a Japanese dub, but has yet to be released in Japan. Japanese markets first adapted *Zoobles* and *BakuTech*, then skipped to *Battle Planet*.
	+ South Korea stopped their dub after *Gundalian Invaders*, likely because of *Mechtanium Surge* not being shown in Japan. Like Japan, they *also* skipped straight to *Battle Planet*.
	+ *Bakugan: Battle Planet*:
		- Most dubs of the reboot continuity outside of Japan, save for the English, Korean, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese dubs stopped after the first season.
		- According to Anime News Network, South Korea stopped their dub after *Armored Alliance*, and the Spanish and Portuguese dubs stopped after *Geogan Rising*. As of this writing, it's too early to say for *Legends*.
* Despite *Beyblade* being a popular franchise around the world, *Beyblade: Burst* suffered this trope *hard* (at least, outside of its native Japan as well as English-speaking territories):
	+ The Arabic dub only covers the first season.
	+ The Italian dub stopped after *Evolution*.
	+ The German dub so far covers up to *QuadDrive*. As of this writing, it's too early to say whether *QuadStrike* would be dubbed.
* Aside from *Chi's Sweet Adventure*, no *Chi's Sweet Home* installments were ever dubbed into English. Even if you work through *that*, you'll find that only the first two series from 2008 and 2009 are on physical media in North America courtesy of Discotek Media.
* *Chibi Maruko-chan*: Despite the many English dubs (including, but not limited to, dubs for Animax and Nickelodeon India), finding dubs in most other European-originated languages may be flat-out impossible since the show is rarely licensed outside of Asia.
	+ Even the many English dubs do not cover the entire series. When Animax Asia and Nickelodeon India stopped carrying the show, it took a while for any episodes to appear in dubbed form.
	+ The show did get a German dub at one point (a rarity for shoujo that isn't popular in North America, let alone Germany), but it's most likely lost compared to some English dubs.
* The 1980s OVA *Cipher the Video* is most likely the *only* OVA to invert this, having an English track but was never dubbed into the language of its country of origin. To make it more complicated, the anime was produced in English for authenticity reasons, not to mention it's the only language the OVA was ever dubbed in. This wasn't the last time an anime inverted this in general, though.
* *Crush Gear Turbo*: Despite the first series getting multiple dubs (including a complete English dub for Southeast Asia and Australia), the sequel series *Nitro* was never dubbed outside of Asia. This is because fans of the series would likely find it jarring to see that the first series' lead protagonist, Kouya Marino, is nowhere to be found in *Nitro*.
	+ In fact, for episode 23-68 (for now), this is even inverted in English as the series' English *fansubs* stop at episode 22.
	+ Despite that the entire original series was dubbed for German-speaking markets, the German dub stops following the *Turbo* finale, leaving *Nitro* with no German dub.
* *Di Gi Charat* gets hit with this sometimes. The original series, *Nyo!*, the *Leave it to Piyoko* OVAs, and *Panyo Panyo* in particular were never dubbed into any European-originated language, except English.
	+ *Nyo!* in turn had its English dub stop at around 72 episodes. This wasn't the first time Bandai Entertainment stopped dubbing an anime before finishing its releases.
	+ None of the OVAs or films (with the exception of *Leave it to Piyoko*) were dubbed into English.
* *Doraemon*: Despite being very popular around the world, there are tons of episodes that didn't see a dub. Specifically, the anime was never dubbed into German, likely due to the almost-exact similarities between the German anime market and the US anime market. Ironically, 52 half-hours of the 2005 anime saw a North American English dub... and that was it, due to complaints about changes to the episodes.
	+ Anime based off Fujiko Fujio's other work has also never seen non-English dubs in other European-originated languages. *The Laughing Salesman* in particular wasn't dubbed *period*.
* The English dub of *Galaxy Angel* ends at episode 8 of *X*, with episodes 9-26 being released sub-only. No other European-originated language has been accounted for, either.
* *Hamtaro*: The English dub stopped at around 105 episodes; the Halloween episode aired as a special in America. Anything past the first series has also never been dubbed into any European-originated language.
* *Idaten Jump* was one of the shows where all its non-Japanese dubs are entirely lost to time, aside from two English dubs (one that aired on Animax Asia and India's Nickelodeon feed, the other on YTV and Cartoon Network).
* *Mahoraba: Heartful Days* was never dubbed into any language outside the original Japanese as it's so obscure, it never aired on television outside of Japan, and was never licensed by any Western distributor aside from US-based Discotek Media.
* The second (and final) season of *Maple Town* has only been dubbed into Japanese and Italian.
* Subversion: in June 2020, Discotek Media rescue-licensed *Mon Colle Knights*. Japanese audio with English subs only. Less than two years later, they received masters for the dub.
* This unfortunately was true for fans of *Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei* when it was first licensed out to the West. Fans were left in as much despair as the anime's protagonist after they found out about this. Despite Nozomi seemingly announcing an English dub, it never happened since the series took longer to translate then most people thought.
* This is an enforced trope for *Sazae-san*, not because of licensing bans- the creator of the manga didn't want it released to home video, hence why it had to be on here.
* *The Story of Saiunkoku*: Since Geneon never bothered to release it before their financial troubles (they only released *two volumes* before they outsourced the boxset to Funimation), only the first season was ever dubbed.
* Due to being referred to as "the savior of anime" in the West, virtually all of Studio Trigger's TV anime have seen a dub within a year or two of coming out, as shown above and below.
* *Transformers*: Up until *Robots in Disguise (2001)*, none of the Japanese-produced installments received a North American English dub. The Japanese continuity, created after Japan skipped *The Rebirth*, got English dubs specific for Southeast Asia that also aired in the UK. However, aside from that and an Italian dub, said continuity was never dubbed into other European-originated languages (especially those of countries who decided to import *The Rebirth* instead of the Japanese continuity). When the US *eventually* got those series, the releases also lacked the Southeast Asian dub.
* *Urusei Yatsura* has been dubbed into English multiple times (there were specific dubs for the US releases and the UK airings). Yet it's the only Takahashi series whose dub does not cover the entire series (only the first few episodes and the movies are accounted for).
* *The Wonderful Adventures of Nils*: Even when Discotek Media's boxset was the anime's first ever release in the US, it was never dubbed in English.
* *Yo-kai Watch* has been translated into many languages. However, the anime's English dub stopped just before the third season came to a close (the writing was on the wall beginning in February 2017), and the *Shadowside* and reboot seasons were never dubbed outside their original Japanese. The German dub (seen on their Nickelodeon feed) stopped after the first series as well, due to the decline of the series outside of Japan.
* *Zatch Bell!*: Any of the movies. The English dub also stops at episode 104 (most other non-Japanese dubs stopped before or around that episode).
	+ Blame the fallout between the original mangaka and the Japanese publisher. The mangaka was eventually nice enough to allow the anime to be released in the west again, but not through Viz.
		- Similarly, due to said fallout, anything beyond episode 104 has never been dubbed into any European-originated language (nor any language besides Japanese, for that matter).