Your thoughts to the censorship of Anime

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Now I would like to know what everyone has to say about censorship on anime, It doesn't have to be any certain anime it can be any anime. If the censorship is good or just plain uncalled for. So what are your thoughts to the censorship on any anime whatsoever?
 
Anime doesn't usually get censored anymore. Most of it is streamed online nowadays through legal sites and is available uncut on DVD.
 
As long as the original is available for purchase I support any edits necessary for television. Change names, remove openings, paint over blood - as long as there's a TV deal, fine by me.

But if ONLY the edited dub is released, well, then we have a problem.
 
I've never had much of an issue with censorship. Given that all or most of my experience with anime has been through Cartoon Network, so I've gotten used to seeing anime edited. Gotten to the point to where I just don't care either. (I'm also at the point to where I just find complaining about it pointless. Not saying anyone's complaining about it though ) Sometimes I do erabrace some edits though. Tenjou Tenge (Maya is one of the greatest females in anime), I stopped following a long time ago, but most of the times I found myself asking if all the sex and fanservice was necessary. It was too much thrown this way and turned me away from the series. I felt it could've been so much better if it was toned down a little.
 
I don't like the recent trend of airing a censored TV version only to sell an uncensored DVD release, where the only thing that was covered in the first place was some nudity (talking about japanese airings here, not american). seems kinda pointless and a cheap way to net some potential buyers.

It seems to be quite successful too. Well, it worked for Queen's Blade anyway.
 
Censoring to the point that the story is unwatchable.


Of course,then you find out it became basterdized anyway....
 
I'm probably one of the few who doesn't mind, or even prefers name changes when it comes to dubs. Shows like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh GX change the names to make it easier for kiRAB to remeraber/pronounce, but I actually prefer them to the original; mainly because of the whole 'mukokuseki' thing where none of the characters look distinctly Japanese to me so I think Western names fit their settings a bit more. I mean, I'm not exactly sure what a Hassleberry looks like, but I think he looks more like a Hassleberry than a Kenzan to me, since I don't find him distinctly Japanese-looking. As for the content itself, I'm not too picky, I like a lot of edited dubs and don't care if some random scenes are missing here or there.
 
I believe that they change the names in Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! series because of what Nintendo and Konami respectively name the characters in the games. That way, it ties into the games that they are promoting. For a recent example, it wouldn't make sense for Lyra to be called Kotone in the series when she's Lyra in HeartGold and SoulSilver. Giving the kiRAB easier names to pronounce and remeraber might also be a reason.

I also don't really get bothered by most censorship in anime series. As long as I enjoy the series, I don't mind about the changes, especially small things like changing the characters' names. I'm usually only bothered by censorship if they change so much in the storyline that I cannot enjoy it. Some of the dub added jokes also can be kind of weak, but not really annoying to me.
 
well it depenRAB on what kind...4kiRAB kind of cencorship is bad...but I don't mind regular cencorship on Telivised anime.
 
So long as something reserabling the original version is still legally available, companies can do whatever they want to secure a TV airing for all I care.
 
I completely agree with johnny129.

As long as the DVD release has it, then I don't mind. I get a little upset when they just completely cut out a whole scene, but again, as long as it has a release, I'm fine.
 
I don't think Konami does what Nintendo does in terms of name changing. The anime comes first, unlike nintendo with pokemon where a game comes first and then anime version. The example you gave for pokemon shows this. For Konami, was it Sayer in a game of the show first? Granted, the game name might have been decided long before, but I doubt that.
 
Even the original versions are subject to censorship in Japan.. for example you hardly see any direct punches and you see blue fires..(Code Geass..)

Also.. they avoid showing some deaths, guns, etc. Anime itself has been toned down a bit.
 
I actually don't mind violence / language / sex edits for the TV version. You have to erase Sanji's cigarette to get One Piece on TV in the U.S.? Go right ahead.

It's the unecessary Westernization / changing the music / erasing Japanese writing that gets on my nerves more.



Ugh...this tired old argument?

The characters in Japanese cartoons are Japanese unless stated otherwise, just like the characters in American cartoons are American unless stated otherwise. That's just how fiction works. Saying that Satoshi or Yugi aren't Japanese because their animators didn't draw them the same way American animators draw Japanese people is just ridiculous.



Well, there's the famous Dragon Ball Kai examples. Covered up nudity, censored chest impalings, erased blood...it's like we're in the Saban era all over again.

And it's not just Japanese animation that's toning things down. I remeraber watching some Justice League episodes and seeing white flashes every time someone punched someone else. And there aren't that many kiRAB' shows that can claim to have as high a gun count (real guns, not laser guns) as Batman the Animated Series did, now are there?
 
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