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Answerman - Why Doesn't Anime Have Deleted Scenes?

I can't remember which movie specifically, but I have a Disney movie or two with "deleted scenes", and they're just the storyboards that were dubbed over.

It's like how when you see "deleted scenes" in the DVDs for American animated movies, most of them are at the storyboard level with dialogue superimposed (a bit like the last episode of Evangelion). This was true in the DVD release of The Incredibles, for example: in that particular case, there's one scene (a longer version of the post-crash sequence in which Syndrome's goons fly over them) which has actual animation, but you can see that there's a lot of unfinished touches, particularly that Violet is bald...I read that her hair took so much work to animate that it was always the last thing finished, and it shows in that scene.

Considering how much work goes into 2D animation, I doubt they would make time for deleted scenes. There seems to be barely enough content for regular series animation, so extra animation would waste a lot wouldn't it?

I can see voiceover outtakes being common, but how often are those funny?

Zalis116 wrote:

They can be pretty noticeable in some cases, as they're frequently ultra-racy "too hot for TV" fanservice scenes that're memorable for one reason or another. For instance, the 2003 action/harem series Lime-iro Senkitan goes from moderately ecchi in the TV version to borderline hentai on DVD, thanks to its added scenes.

Which can also be the case with the poster's examples of Robot Chicken and Family Guy, whose "edgy" gags may have tried to push the envelope with Fox and CN, and ended up getting a paper cut.
(Also for time constrictions, commercial time, etc.)

Or in the case of The Lion King, they created a new scene with "The Morning Report" from the musical and called it a "deleted scene". (It's obvious it was made way after the fact, since Simba's voice is different)

For that Batman Beyond story where the original Joker returns, for instance, they knew the censors would not allow Joker to be killed off onscreen under normal circumstances. So they submitted a scene of Joker getting shot with a gun, which is most definitely a no-no. So they replaced it with a scene of Joker getting electrocuted painfully, which was now okay.

Animation in general rarely has deleted scenes, and if the BDs/DVDs have them included, they're only ever gotten to the sketches or maybe a simple animatic whether the movie was analog or 3DCG. The decision to cut always comes before any real time or money is spent, so you're not going to see a fully animated and colored sequence of a Disney film that's been cut.

That was ridiculously STUPID. That electrocution scene scarred my childhood, I am not kidding. I watched violent westerns with my dad all the time back then and saw people get shot up and this disturbed me far more than those ever would.

Lostlorn Forest wrote:

That was ridiculously STUPID. That electrocution scene scarred my childhood, I am not kidding. I watched violent westerns with my dad all the time back then and saw people get shot up and this disturbed me far more than those ever would.

It was partially a middle finger to the censors. Bruce Timm and Paul Dini state in interviews repeatedly that whenever censors called for the removal of a scene, they would try to find a loophole that would produce something even more graphic. (Petty, it is, but this is really commonplace and oftentimes impossible to notice. This is the reason behind the line "I haven't been ****ed like that since elementary school!" in Fight Club, for instance.)

Me, I wasn't too disturbed by it (I grew up watching horror films with my father, so very little truly disturbs me), but I can see that some kids would've been scared.

I think the point of the censor is to put the responsibly of the Joker's death on himself, and be an accident