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Top 5 Anime That Will Never Come to America  
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Over the passed few years, a great deal of Japanese animation has managed to be imported to the United States. It's usually edited and dubbed for easy consumption. Here's some series that are just too Japanese, or just plain too weird to make it to America.

1.	Legend of Galactic Heroes- A space opera epic enough to rival Star Wars. So long (110 episodes!) and expensive to make that Japanese television never even picked it up! That's right, this behemoth of a series was released on DVD one by one from 1988 to 1997. People buying it in high school would later watch the end with their children. Incredible. Ten years after finishing, no American company has show interest in the anime equivalent of War and Peace.
2.	Yawaraka Sangokushi Tsukisase!! Ryofuko-chan- It's about a little girl. A little girl who is actually a legendary Chinese general from the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Romance of the Three Kingdoms styled video games recently made it to America under the guise of the "Dynasty Warriors" series, but can we fathom the idea of the gigantic Lu Bu being trapped in a small, cute and often topless 9-year old body? Oh, that's right, did I mention it's a lolicon series? Lolicon, for those who are blissfully unaware, is the Japanese abbreviation for Lolita Complex. If you like little girls, and you like little girls who are dirty old, violent men, watch Ryofuko-chan. But if you're an American licensing company, stay away!
3.	Ayakashi Classic Japanese Horror- One part pure classic Japanese horror, one part Kabuki. The first story in this series is the Yotsuya Kaidan, a Kabuki play from 1825. It's one of the most famous and over-adapted Japanese horror stories of all time. Most Americans have never heard of it. But in Japan, it's as overdone as Dracula. Why won't we see this here? Because it's just too darn Japanese. It's so Japanese, the Yotsuya Kaidan is based on another famous Japanese story, the 47 Ronin. Kind of like a spin-off.
4.	Baccano!- I have hopes that this will someday be licensed, but I doubt it. Baccano is a fast paced story about gangsters in New York, alchemists, immortality, gangs fighting each other, and a few psychopathic serial killers in between. On a train! It's hilarious, it's wild, it's violent and it's bloody. No single scene lasts over two minutes. But why won't we see it in America? It's just too good.
5.	Moyashimon- A typical story about a boy coming to college for the first time. Right? No. It's an agricultural college, and this boy has the ability to see microbes with his naked eye. Not only is this an agricultural college (the only anime or TV show in the world to be about one), it's a crazy one. This show is great, unique, funny and mature - but weird. Really weird. In between the dominatrix type lab tech, transvestite best friends, and conversing with yeast, this show is actually about brewing sake! Can you imagine this even being sold on DVD here? I can't. Which makes me sad.

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