Censorship of nudity in animation

No. it seems like Japan's got some new decency laws reguarding that sort of thing. While I can't call it a "preschool show" (essentially, it's for kids up to the fifth grade or so), I think the change might be just with younger audience shows. But then again, I would need more evidence than just the 20 something newer 2006 episodes of Doraemon I've seen. Plus, I'd need to see if it was evident in other shows as well.
 
Are we just talking about kids or adult shows? Because Elfen Lied and Gantz (in the case of Kishimoto) showed a lot.



Hey, don't worry, the dub's gender neutral! :p
 
Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 got away with female nudity. Sailor Moon in particular with the infamous "Naked Amy" episode.

But none of that even compares to one particular scene of Hajime no Ippo. It's so graphic I don't think I can even mention it here without breaking the rules.
 
Also, in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode where Professor Frink won the Nobel Prize and went to Stockholm, a naked woman was shown from behind (she was directing traffic).
 
When I lived in Mexico, they would show anime uncut. Anime was also aired during normal hours in the afternoon and they would also show little kids anime in the mornings also uncut. The only censorship I can think of was Ranma 1/2 which apparently they would cut out some nudity (though here was still plenty) of course Ranma aired at 8:30 on weekdays in a kid/teen aimed channel.

Counting most of Latin America would just air the Mexican Spanish dubs at least a few years ago they were very lenient on nudity. That may have changed, from what I've heard now that anime hit it big in the US, they just dub the US version of the dub :/ which would mean censorship.

That Doraemon clip is from Spain who I am also certain are open to nudity as many European countries.
 
You know, this reminds me of something.

Tokyo Mew Mew's japanese broadcast was censored in the way, that the girl's chests and what not where obscured by a bright light from the transformation. But on the R2 Japanese DVD release, the bright light surrounding their bodies is gone, and you can see their chest outline and what not.

What I find most ironic about the whole thing, is Pierrot instead of sending the TV Masters, sent 4Kids the DVD masters, which gave them more reason to be "Scissor happy". :sweat:
 
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