Double Standards in cartoon censorship

Sounds like the response the people at Toonami gave when they were airing Outlaw Star and Rorouni Kenshin, where all instances of using "kill" and "death" had to be redubbed while Batman TAS could freely use them.
 
Why is everyone so quick to accuse someone else of hypocrisy just because they're doing something you don't like. Do you even know what "hypocrisy" means? Hypocrisy is identified by patterns of behavior of the type you just claimed didn't exist. I think the word you're grasping for in "inconsistency", which is a somewhat less damning sin than hypocrisy.

And while inconsisteny may be annoying, we should be glad it exists, because it allow creative minds to push the envelope. When the producers of Batman: The Animated Series got a broadcast contract from FOX, they were given a list of everything they couldn't show in the program (sex, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, blood, realistic guns, gunshot wounds, people crashing through windows or other types of glass, depictions of children in mortal peril, and people dying on camera). By the time the show ended production, they had broken just about every one of those taboos.
 
Outlaw Star had instances of kill removed, but Rurouni Kenshin kept them all, except when used against young children.

I believe Williams Street admitted that, considering Rurouni Kenshin's whole stick is Kenshin's notion of not killing, it would be too much work to alter every single instance of the word.

But eventually, WS got way lazy with the RK editing. I really miss that show. They should bring it back and let it air nearly uncut at TV-PG.
 
I still find it funny that both the movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMNT are both rated PG, but the new animated one didn't have a single minor swear in it, while the original live action film had Raph saying "Damn" every five minutes.
 
Actually, looking at it in depth, the violence standards for both 4Kids' One Piece and TMNT are rather consistent, particularly in latter episodes of both. One Piece's second season (Drum-Alabasta) may have taken the blood away and toned some things down, but it still had people getting shot, cut, and killed (Hiruluk, extras, and, until they were revealed to be not dead at all, Pell and Igaram). The same applies to the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of TMNT. The only really notable disparity between the two was guns, and even then it's debatable, since we never saw anyone being shot at with a "real" gun in TMNT.
 
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