Dubless Series

A Dubless Series is Exactly What It Says- a film or television series released in a foreign country, but only in the language it was originally produced in.

This can happen due to several reasons, but mostly cost (this can be fixed via a cheap dub- this is why no one knows of the English production staff for Lyrical Nanoha save the voice actors) and hard-to-translate words (shows such as Bottle Fairy rewrite certain parts of the scripts for their English dubs).

The following media should not count as an example:

* Short films, animated or otherwise.
* Live-action TV. This is often because roles can be recast for adaptations (for example, House of Anubis, adapted from *Het huis Anubis*).
* Print. Many newspapers are intended only for domestic consumption.
* Silent films and silent media.
* Doujinishi. The anime adaptation of the manga *Doujin Work*, however, does qualify for this trope since it was professionally serialized.

Can overlap with Obscurity, much?, but a dubless series is just as likely to become popular as anything else. Also Do not confuse with Why Don't We Have That, which refers to the work not getting released *at all*.

This happens especially with anime, so those examples have their own page. *Weekly Shonen Jump*-based anime examples have their own page as well.

Now has a page to play with the trope.

## Examples

### Western (non-US) animation

* Nothing produced by the Latin American branch of Cartoon Network ever got an English dub. The only exception, *Villainous*, started off produced in English to begin with (while the pandemic *did* force the creator to switch to Spanish production, the resulting scenes are still dubbed). Notable examples are *Jorel's Brother* and *Santo vs. the Clones*.
* The Fruitties technically did get an English dub, but it's British English and many of the songs are horribly translated from the original Spanish-language dub. Those hoping for an American dub would probably not bother with the show in the first place.
* Spaced Out also got an English dub, but when exported to Canada, it was only released in French.
* Seems to be a common recurrence with French animation. Most French animation post-2005 never seem to get an English dub unless it was lip-synced to the English audio track or intended for English-speaking markets in the first place:
	+ Prior to 2014, *Wakfu* never had a complete English dub. In fact, in order for a complete dub of the first two seasons to be funded, Ankama had to go onto Kickstarter (and saw the goals reached by the end). Season 3's dub, meanwhile, was commissioned directly by Netflix. The OVAs, however, have not been dubbed.
		- The German and Polish dubs only cover the first season.
		- As for the much-more-obscure *Dofus*, not counting the English release of the game, only the TV series was ever dubbed into English.
	+ *Code Lyoko* averted this between French-speaking and English-speaking territories, since the French and English dubs were recorded simultaneously. However, only the first season got dubbed in Welsh.
	+ *Space Goofs*: Only season 1 was released in English.
	+ *Kaeloo*: Its English dub stopped after season one.
	+ *The Sisters* got dubbed in Italian, Polish and French... but not in any other language.
	+ *Miraculous Ladybug*: Despite being broadcast in more than 120 countries around the world, this show lacked dubs in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu until 2019, around four years after it began airing in French and American markets.
	+ *Totally Spies!*: Despite the first two seasons being dubbed in English and seasons 3-5 being lip-synced to the English audio thanks to Teletoon being involved, the sixth season was more or less not legally available in English until Universal Kids picked it up.
* Likewise, Canadian animation tends to go through this:
	+ *Ned's Newt* was dubbed into English, French, and German, with quite possibly a few other dubs, but only the English version can be found in its entirety.
	+ It took until 2017 for the entirety of the English dub for *My Life Me* to be found and put up online. And despite being Fauxnime (and because it's a Canadian series) the series was never dubbed into Japanese.
	+ *Fred's Head* was only dubbed into English and French as the series never left Canada or France.
	+ Many YTV series, including cartoons, never get dubbed into French unless VRAK or Télétoon get involved.
	+ Averted between English and French-speaking Canada in the case of pre-2007 Teletoon shows. As of 2007, this only applies whenever possible, thus there are English Teletoon series without a French dub and French Télétoon series without an English dub.

### United States animation

* A bunch of Hanna-Barbera series never got dubbed into German.
* Similarly, with a lot of Cartoon Network series never being dubbed into Greek.
* Nickelodeon has the same problem in Japanese markets that Jewelpet has in the US; Nickelodeon shows sell terribly in the Japanese market.
* Three Delivery: Accordingly, the show was only dubbed into English (its original language), French, and Spanish.
* *The Problem Solverz* was never dubbed into any language *besides* its original English voice track, due to multiple problems. The Mysterious Mr. Enter points some of these out in his "Time Twister" review.
* Disney are notorious for downplaying this when it comes to Spanish dubs. Until the 1990s, they exported everything to Spain with Latin American Spanish dubs, presumably to save money.
	+ Due to the very Mexican setting of the Disney film *Coco*, an European Spanish dub is also nonexistent; Spain instead gets the Latin American Spanish dub of the film.

### Eastern animation (non-anime)

* YooHoo & Friends had two English dubs: the 2012 dub, and the faithful dub. The 2012 version also had a Spanish dub that aired in Latin America, but that was it.
* Sweet Fairies is only available in Mandarin. No dub, and no subs, fan-subs or otherwise. Contrast this with other Alpha Animation series, some of which received an English dub.
* *Barangay 143*: As of 2023, the show hasn't yet been dubbed outside of Filipino. That said, there *is* some English voice lines in the show, but even *those* were subtitled in Tagalog in the GMA airings.

### Asian animation (Korean, non-anime)

* Pinkfong: Kizclub is only available in English. However, there are subs in all sorts of different languages, so that it can air globally.

### Videogames

* Pixel Chix: Dubbed into relatively few languages, French and its original English being among them. This is mostly due to Pixel Chix being mostly confined to the Anglosphere since most girls' toys don't sell well outside its country of origin (in Pixel Chix' case, the United States).
* *Jump Force* was never dubbed, all because it's a crossover of popular *Weekly Shonen Jump* anime. In the case of characters from shows that were licensed stateside, it's because the shows featured have so many different licensees it's impossible to bring their US VAs back without getting in trouble with labor unions. Likewise, characters from *Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai* didn't have English voices to begin with, and Kenshiro's English VA most likely retired from the voice acting industry. Is it even *possible* to have a dub for this?
* Pick a *Mario* game. Any game. Preferably a game from the Nintendo 64 era onward. Surprised that there's no Japanese dub? Good thing it's just grunts and little dialogue... *then* came *Super Mario Sunshine*, the only Mario game thus far to attempt voice acting (unless you count Wario's spin-off game *WarioWare Gold*).
* Likewise, the original *Sin and Punishment* only got an English dub. It's a Nintendo thing.
* Every single *Kingdom Hearts* videogame that got an overseas release got an English dub. However, for some of the franchise's games it's the only non-Japanese dub the game would ever get.