History Main / LateExportForYou

* ''Franchise/DragonQuest''
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'' in its original Playstation release took one year and two months to be released in the USA. Which is nothing compared to the Nintendo 3DS port, which took three years and seven months to be released in the West.

* ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'' was imported in Italy in 2016, 5 years after the start of the series. Ditto for the card game.

* LateExportForYou: Even though every other release made it to America at more or less the same time as other regions, the ''New Play Control!'' version of ''Pikmin 2'' for the Wii was released in every region ''except'' America in 2009, and America didn't get it until ''2012''. This was likely because Nintendo of America didn't renew their deals with the owners of the many trademarks in the game.

* ''Manga/WanderingSon'' began in 2002 but didn't get an English manga release until 2011, a few months after the anime aired. The anime adaptation is outright NoExportForYou. It's available on Crunchyroll but has no physical releases, subbed or dubbed.

* The first game in the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' series was never localized and released in the US until [[SequelFirst after its sequel]] was released westward, [[DubNameChange where it was called]] ''VideoGame/EarthBound''. It was only in 2015 that the game was finally [[RemadeForTheExport ported to the Wii U]] under the title ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' for the Famicom, released in 1988, saw its Playstation update release alongside the updated ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' as part of Final Fantasy Origins 14 years later.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' took the longest of any; the original was released in 1990 for the Famicom. There was a remake planned for the Wonderswan that never came to fruition, and as such, unlike the first two games that were remade for the system and were the source for the ports that ended up on the Playstation Origins compilation, no such release would be possible without doing another ground-up remake elsewhere. Square Enix would take advantage of the burgeoning success of the Nintendo DS a couple years later and develop a 3d remake for the system, which would arrive in 2006 in both Japan and North America (elsewhere in the following year), a whopping 16 (!) years after the original.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', originally released in 1992 for the Super Famicom, took the least time, owing to all three of the mainline games on the system being ported to the Playstation a few years later, and a localization of the script that was abandoned when original plans to release the game stateside were scuttled. It was coupled with the port of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' as part of Final Fantasy Anthology in 1999, 7 years after the original. (It arrived in Europe 2 1/2 years later in early 2002.)

* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} was released in English however its DistaffCounterpart was skipped over. ''Harvest Moon: More Friends for Mineral Town'', which is essentially a remake of the game for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, was translated. ''Back to Nature'' and ''Back to Nature: For Girl'' were both rereleased on the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable as ''Harvest Moon: Boy and Girl''.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' reached Europe after three years, well within the [=GameBoy=] Color era, which made it look incredibly dated compared to "older"[[note]]but not really[[/note]] games like ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening DX''.

* Various ''Franchise/TalesSeries'' have been released within a the minimum in five months except for the US releases for ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', which was released in the same month, and the ones that [[NoExportForYou weren't released at all]]. Special mention goes to ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' which was released a decade later.

* The first game in the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' series was never localized and released in the US until after its sequel was released westward, [[DubNameChange where it was called]] ''VideoGame/EarthBound''. It was only in 2015 that the game was finally [[RemadeForTheExport ported to the Wii U]] under the title ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''.

* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' was a big success in Japan in the 90s, but was more recognizable in Western during the TurnOfTheMillennium thanks to Cartoon Network that subbed the anime for its anime section Creator/{{Toonami}} to other countries apart of US, like Latin America, which the series was transmitted for first time in 2003.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' is one of ''the'' signature anime in Japan. It has had success in a few other areas but has never been popular in English-speaking countries. A few attempts have been made at dubbing it, however all were very obscure and no episodes are circulating online. The 2005 series ended up being aired on Creator/{{Disney XD}} in 2015.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' is one of the main Japanese {{Cash Cow Franchise}}s of the 2000s and 2010s anime. Despite its popularity in Japan, it [[AmericansHateTingle isn't so popular]] outside of Japan, aside from the MagicalGirl fandom and a few countries. It has had a few dubs however most of the series' are stuck in Japan. MagicalGirl series have rarely gotten dubbed since the boom in the early-to-mid 2000s, and the ones that do are usually DarkerAndEdgier ones. The 2012 series ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' received a Netflix-exclusive English dub, ''Glitter Force'', in 2015.

* ''Super Mario-kun'' is a long-running ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' manga that began in 1991. It didn't have any localizations until 2015. France localized it as ''Super Mario: Manga Adventures'' and the following year a Spanish translation was releazed. The manga is a wacky gag manga with [[AdaptationPersonalityChange off personalities for the characters]] so that's likely the reason why it hasn't been released outside of Japan.

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' is one of the main Japanese {{Cash Cow Franchise}}s of the 2000s and 2010s anime. Despite its popularity in Japan, it [[AmericansHateTingle isn't so popular]] outside of Japan aside from the MagicalGirl fandom. It's had a few dubs however most of the series' are stuck in Japan. MagicalGirl series have rarely gotten dubbed since the boom in the early-to-mid 2000s, and the ones that do are usually DarkerAndEdgier ones. The 2012 series ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' received a Netflix-exclusive English dub, ''Glitter Force'', in 2015.

* Various ''Franchise/TalesSeries'' have been released within a the minimum in five months except for the US releases for ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', which was released in the same month, and the ones that [[NoExportForYou weren't released at all]]. Special mention goes to ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' which was released a decade later.

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* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' is one of ''the'' signature anime in Japan. It has had success in a few other areas but has never been popular in English-speaking countries. A few attempts have been made at dubbing it, however all were very obscure and no episodes are available circulate online. The 2005 series ended up being aired on Creator/{{Disney XD}} in 2015.

* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' was released in English however its DistaffCounterpart was skipped over. ''Harvest Moon: More Friends for Mineral Town'', which is essentially a remake of the game for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, was translated. ''Back to Nature'' and ''Back to Nature: For Girl'' were both rereleased on the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable as ''Harvest Moon: Boy and Girl''.

-->-- '''Geoff Thew''' of ''WebVideo/MothersBasement'' (who doesn't like ''Sword Art Online'' very much)[[note]]https://youtu.be/yeCNkm7gzfc[[/note]]

* Various Franchise/TalesSeries have been released within a the minimum in five months except for the US releases for ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', which was released in the same month, and the ones that [[NoExportForYou weren't released at all]]. Special mention goes to ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' which was released a decade later.

* A general example is about TheNineties, where many series have recognization outside Japan were released years (and even decades) after in other countries thanks to worldwide channels like Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/Animax as well local channels that dubbed the series independently.
** The most notable example is ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', which was a big success in Japan in the 90s, but was more recognizable in Western during the TurnOfTheMillennium thanks to Cartoon Network that subbed the anime for its anime section Toonami to other countries apart of US, like Latin America, which the series was transmitted for first time in 2003.
** Also in Latin America, various countries imported series to be dubbed and transmitted in local TV channels and cable, producing the massive fad for anime in TheNineties, mostly Chile and Argentina (by the cable channel Locomotion) that even created their own dubbing studios to get Japanese successes as ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' and ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

->''"I have waited a whole goddamn year to catch Anime/YourName in a Canadian theater - but while '''the best selling anime of all time''' takes a goddamn eternity to finally come out in Canada, we get LightNovel/SwordArtOnline: Ordinal Scale a month after its Japanese release. Needless to say, I'm not happy."''
-->-- '''Geoff Thew of WebVideo/MothersBasement (who doesn't like Sword Art Online very much)[[note]]https://youtu.be/yeCNkm7gzfc[[/note]]'''

* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' was an Italian-produced remake of Akira Kurosawa's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''... which, unfortunately, was down without Kurosawa's permission (and copied a lot of the plot verbatim). The resulting lawsuit (which Kurosawa won) came with an order that the film could not be showcased on the United States until three years after it was initially released.

* ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' was originally scheduled to release in the US in September of 1999 after having come out in July of 1998 in the UK, but Scholastic [[http://www.infoplease.com/spot/harrypottertimeline.html released it in June]] instead after finding that people were importing it instead of submitting to the wait.

* Various TalesSeries have been released within a the minimum in five months except for the US releases for VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia, which was released in the same month and the ones that [[NoExportForYou weren't released at all]]. Special mention goes to VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny which was released a decade later.

** The fact that new Atlus games are continuously announced in Japan with no word

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* Most ''Franchise/Yakuza'' games aside from ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'' were released abroad six to eight months later. However, ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' and ''[[VideoGame/Yakuza6 6]]'' were released three and two years later respectively.

* Most ''Franchise/Yakuza'' games aside from ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'' were released abroad six to eight months later. However, ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' and ''[[VideoGame/Yakuza6 6]] were released three and two years later respectively.

* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' was an Italian-produced remake of Akira Kurosawa's ''Film/Yojimbo''... which, unfortunately, was down without Kurosawa's permission (and copied a lot of the plot verbatim). The resulting lawsuit (which Kurosawa won) came with an order that the film could not be showcased on the United States until three years after it was initially released.

When a work from another country or region is released in that region, fans elsewhere are aware of it (usually through the internet) and, either due to an arduously long wait for localization, money/licensing, and/or simply laziness on the part of the creators/distributors, it takes several months or even years to reach other shores. Since there almost always is ''some'' waiting time involved in an overseas release, examples are limited to when the process takes an abnormally long time and/or gets people annoyed by the wait or importing from the country of origin.

When a work from another country or region is released in that region, fans elsewhere are aware of it (usually through the internet) and, either due to an arduously long wait for localization, money/licensing, and/or simply laziness on the part of the creators/distributors, it takes several months or even years to reach other shores. Since there almost always is ''some'' waiting time involved in an overseas release, examples are limited to when the process takes an abnormally long time, enough to get people annoyed by the wait or to resort to importing from the country of origin.

* WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute was produced in 1976, but was not shown in the United States until 1983, when it was released to capitalize on the success of the Hanna-Barbera series.

* Film/AFistfulOfDollars was an Italian-produced remake of Akira Kurosawa's Film/Yojimbo... which, unfortunately, was down without Kurosawa's permission (and copied a lot of the plot verbatim). The resulting lawsuit (which Kurosawa won) came with an order that the film could not be showcased on the United States until three years after it was initially released.

* The first game in the VideoGame/{{MOTHER}} series was never localized and released in the US until after its sequel was released westward, [[DubNameChange where it was called]] VideoGame/EarthBound. It was only in 2015 that the game was finally [[RemadeForTheExport ported to the Wii U]] under the title VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings.

This is different from NoExportForYou, when the creators don't plan on releasing it overseas at all, and BadExportForYou, when the resultant export is bad. However, cases of this may overlap. This can often go hand in hand with RemadeForTheExport.