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The first episode of _Osumatsu San_ is no longer available on Crunchyroll.
Instead, a message on the right of the episode page states:

> Due to a decision by the anime's production committee, episode 1 is no
> longer available.

What drove the anime production committee to make this decision?


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Why was the first episode of Osumatsu San removed from Crunchyroll?


The series has took liberties with the content included in the episode.

The entire first episode is about the sextuplets trying to decide what type of
anime they want to be since they really don't think Showa era anime will work
anymore. So they change their art style and they go through a number of gags
parodying anime from recent years.

Within the first episode we see parodies from _Attack On Titan_ , _Pokemon_ ,
_Sailor Moon_ , _Dragon Ball Z_ , and probably several others I didn't catch.

An example of such:

[![Picture of an example of one of the many parodies shown in episode
1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLHXW.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLHXW.jpg)

In Japan, the [law](http://www.softic.or.jp/en/articles/fordham_sugiyama.html)
sides heavily with the original creator of a work, and provides no legal
protection for parody creators:

> The author shall have the right to preserve the integrity of his work and
> its title against any distortion, mutilation or other modification against
> his will.

Thus making the parodies shown in episode 1 a liability. Part of the joke of
this episode is that they finally figure out what kind of anime they want to
be 23 minutes in, when the episode ends, triggering a third animation style
change.

Anime News Network has put out an
[article](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-04/mr-osomatsu-
episode-1-to-be-pulled-from-home-video-streaming/.95018) about the first
episode. The episode was pulled from all streaming sites and a new first
episode was animated and added to the home video release to replace it.


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