English Naruto Volume 36 is EDITED!

Sorry guys, when you're a fan of a series that is targeted towarRAB teens and tweens, this is going to happen. You can't expect them to leave it in, have it piss off parents (potentially in large nurabers) and then get in PR or legal hot water. It's not worth it to them.

They love the 18 and up audience money, but bottom line is Naruto is a youth readers series in the states, and it's going to be edited accordingly.
 
I'll have to check this out for myself this weekend, after I get around to finally reading volumes 33-35 first of course xD.

I'm so far behind, it's the fault of the internet, gaming, and anime lol.
 
Ironically, they did this same thing in the anime. So now Shikamaru has some weird lighter obsession. And that I can understand, since Japan has laws against actual animated underage characters smoking (yet they did have a problem with the 13 year old Rock Lee underage drinking, go figure).

But I guess Viz doesn't have the money to have Kishimoto basically redo all the chapters where Shikamaru smokes for one audience, so I guess its understandable.
 
viz edits the shonen jump manga but advanced is usually uncut.

And I can see a kid trying to imatate Shikamaru. He is a pretty cool character so kid can just see him smoking and well say " That looks pretty cool. Maybe I should try that"
 
While I don't really like edits like this,I can understand why it'd be done (the whole "fear of imitated behavior" thing)....I haven't seen any of the new volumes out yet,though (went to Borders today,and all they had was up to volume 33,but they did have the March issue of Shonen Jump)....
 
yeah, it has syrabolism.
Shika misses his teacher. Apparently he stops after a few pages.

With this edit, it seems Shika is just imitating "Smoking" but not actually doing it.
So in an odd way, it works. Invisible Cig
 
Luckily there's this thing called the internet where you can find import stores and buy the original Japanese version of the product in question and read that.
 
No kidding. If the kid was that much of a genius, he'd know not to start smoking. This isn't character development, it's derailment.
 
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