The Great Purge

The Great Purge refers to the great purge of the Cybersix copyrighted content on YouTube by TMS Anime.

The Great Purge
On February 25, 2020, the Cybersix Fandom YouTube channel would receive their first copyright takedown notice and thus their first copyright strike. This would be the first of many emails they would receive until eventually it culminated in the termination of their account and thus the deletion of all of their Cybersix videos, which included many lost media.

And as it turns out, this was only a sign of the times to come. Many other channels were also handed the copyright takedowns by TMS Anime. Along with the Fox Kids lost episodes, other content that was deleted were vocal covers of the opening theme song, the theme song itself, and entire episodes of different dubs.

There were hopeful and happy news, however. On February 24, 2020, TMS had uploaded onto their YouTube channel "Anime! on TMS Official Channel" the first of six episodes of Cybersix. It advertised the fact that it was now available to legally stream online on Amazon Prime. The series was later available in even more platforms such as RetroCrush and Midnight Pulp. This renewed interest in the series was a great welcome, if not surprising.

Around this time the DVDs also sold out and were out of stock, at the time of writing (August 2020), there is limited availability.

If there was anything bad to say about this whole event, it would be that TMS has set their YouTube videos to be viewable only to an American audience, and Cybersix can only be watched with an American Amazon Prime. Canadians were sadly left out :( The captions on Amazon Prime were a neat surprise, albeit they were rife with errors. And there is only the English and Latin American Spanish dub available for streaming, the rest of the dubs have been made sure to disappear and still not enjoy any official releases (except for French).

Conclusion
There was a great purge of copyrighted content pertaining to the Cybersix animated series, which gave us a hint that TMS had plans for Cybersix, which they thankfully did. Cybersix had not been legally available to stream since 2013 on Hulu, and now in 2020 it is now available to watch on three different platforms. The future of the series was looking a little bit brighter.