<p>Compared to your other question <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13078/what-japanese-animation-was-the-first-to-be-an-international-success/13126#13126">What Japanese animation was the first to be an international success?</a>, I don't think you can really pinpoint to a specific animation for being the first to be banned. All Japanese (or even all international) media was probably banned in several countries for various reasons.</p>

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<li>Some countries had such a tight regime that no media could get in (or out) from (or to) whatever country, as mentioned by <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin">senshin</a>. <em>If I were better at world history I would have added some examples</em></li>
<li>Some countries had had a grudge against Japan and had banned all Japanese cultural import all together. For example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Japanese_media_in_South_Korea" rel="nofollow noreferrer">South Korea had banned all Japanese media after World War II</a>.</li>
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Peter Raeves
<p>Looking around the banned anime list on <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BannedInChina">TVTropes</a> I noticed that there are quiet a lot of Japanese animation banned in countries outside of Japan. Me being curious as usually couldn't help but wonder.</p>

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<li>Which country was the first to actually ban a Japanese animation or episode and for what reason it was banned?</li>
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does this include shorts or h-anime?
кяαzєя
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@Krazer Yes, I think those can be included.
Dimitri mx
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For a somewhat facetious yet correct answer, I'm sure Astro Boy was banned in North Korea the moment it came out, because North Korea was already a terrifying dystopia by 1963. I'm guessing this isn't actually what you're looking for, though, which suggests that you may want to modify your question in some way.
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Which Japanese animation was the first to be banned and where?
# Which Japanese animation was the first to be banned and where?
Posted by: username_0 on 2014-07-27
Looking around the banned anime list on [TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BannedInChina) I noticed that there are quiet a lot of Japanese animation banned in countries outside of Japan. Me being curious as usually couldn't help but wonder.

* Which country was the first to actually ban a Japanese animation or episode and for what reason it was banned?
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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: does this include shorts or h-anime?  
> **username_0**: @Krazer Yes, I think those can be included.  
> **username_2**: For a somewhat facetious yet correct answer, I'm sure Astro Boy was banned in North Korea the moment it came out, because North Korea was already a terrifying dystopia by 1963. I'm guessing this isn't actually what you're looking for, though, which suggests that you may want to modify your question in some way.  
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### Answer by username_3 on 2014-08-04. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
Compared to your other question [What Japanese animation was the first to be an international success?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13078/what-japanese-animation-was-the-first-to-be-an-international-success/13126#13126), I don't think you can really pinpoint to a specific animation for being the first to be banned. All Japanese (or even all international) media was probably banned in several countries for various reasons.

* Some countries had such a tight regime that no media could get in (or out) from (or to) whatever country, as mentioned by [senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin). *If I were better at world history I would have added some examples*
* Some countries had had a grudge against Japan and had banned all Japanese cultural import all together. For example, [South Korea had banned all Japanese media after World War II](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Japanese_media_in_South_Korea).
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