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| I just dont understand one thing, why do anime distributors outside Japan have to redo the whole anime so that kids in Western countries dont know the anime is from Japan? What's wrong with kids knowing something is from Japan? Is this the ego of the Western world at work? |
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Simple...... The fricking FCC of the UNITED STATES.. they cant show the full versions of anime because its "not" moral. The FCC is evil.. and unconstitutional.. we should find the chairman and hang him for his traitorus crimes on humanity. VIVA FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND NO CENCORSHIP
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freakin' bastards censored every series and make anime look bad. fansubbers kick ass!
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| err... how is it NOT MORAL? Why is letting kids know that Japanese can make great cartoons a bad thing? I actually classify anime into true anime and those that are for kids which are Japanese cartoons. |
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by Aoi Azzura
on 2005-08-21 07:18:35
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Yeah, say no to censorship! 
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well, I'm absolutely agree with cencorship in anime ^^
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You say cos I still got my soul.
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Unfortunately the censorship of anime is one of those "necessary evils" that we live with. Nobody really wants it but without it most anime series and movies wouldn't even be aired and the vast majority of Americans probably wouldn't know that it exsisted. (at least I wouldn't) Also, the amount of censorship depends on the target audience and the inteded time slot. The FCC, who some of you hate, regulates what gets aired and when. I think this all goes back to certain groups of far overzealous people that say we "don't need to ruin the young impressionable minds of children" and thus demand censorship to the utmost degree. They do have a point, there are some things we just don't need to see. However, the FCC has actually done a good job with moderating what gets aired, keeping blood gruesome without letting it get out of control. Basically they have to compromise all the time to apeese those that say there's too little and those that say there's too much. The best solution is still for parents to take control over what their children watch and to give approval after getting all the facts about a series or watching it for themselves first or with their child to keep it entertaining yet safe. Like I said a necessary evil. These opinions are those of this writer and does not denouce or approve any stance concerning the censorship of anime. |
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I still say censorship suck. Ok, if it's like sexual references, nudity, extreme violence and gore then yeah, little kids shouldnt watch it but what's wrong with the characters having Japanese names? And what's wrong with showing the series as the original was shown? How does the names Kaoru or Tomoyo or Iketani or other JP names bad for little kiddies. Some censorship I dont object but these kinda of censorship is BLOODY STUPID. I'm not a fan of sailormoon but they showed the "sailormoon says" version instead of the the actual series and follow up series. And Card Captor Sakura, according to my friend who have watched the actual series, the one shown on Australian TV was way out of order. Like, eps which was shown in 2nd season were mixed with eps from 1st season so the whole plot was out of wacked. And what's wrong with the Japanese opening and endings for anime anways? How is kids listening to songs in Japanese bad? I like the Hong Kong style of censorship on anime. Anime suitable for kids are put into kid's prime time schedule. Anime not suitable for kids put into late night schedule on Sunday. In HK too, the JP anime opening or ending usually isnt changed to an english version but they sometimes do but not often which was ok, but when they do change it I was going "NOOOO~~~~~~~~~". |
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by chizuru_chan
on 2005-08-26 07:02:22
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I don't know much about censorships in other countries...but in my country ...it totally sucked.Like, you can't even see a picture or a scene of two characters kissing , or walking around without a shirt on or something (which is like really common everywhere else).I'm telling you , if kissing's already THAT taboo, then..what happens to the real thing?My country's censorship suck soooo bad...
Life starts simply , why change them?
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i don't think censorship AIN"T that bad, especially with stuff concerning nudity and violence. Just not TOO MUCH censorship that the anime will be cut down to a meaningless piece of crap. Also, the respective authorities should know by now that today's audiences are changing and IMO more mature and open minded to accept things like nudity, death and gay relationship. if anime is openly accepted in japan, why shouldn't the rest of the world accept it as well? |
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| the reason why they change the name of characters with names like tomoyo and kaoru is because that its just easier to pronounce, (especially since some anime, like card captor sakura the anime at least, is aimed at little kids) |
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If they're absolutely going to insist the names must be changed, it should sound a little like their original Japanese names-- Tomoyo could be "Tamara" or something...not "Madison" ><;; I'm not a big fan of all that, though. There's something about name-changing in particular that bothers me a bit, especially when I hear people say something along the lines of "I love Cardcaptors. Madison's the best." It's called "Cardcaptor Sakura". Her name is Tomoyo. Look online if ye don't believe me. >>     |
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| freaking censorship sucks. if they think it's not for kids, dont show it. censorship messes up the whole damn thing. we already have to put with some bad dubbing ... |
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| Nah, today's kids I reckon are quite adapt to learning new pronounciations. I mean, the actors can say the names right, right? I mean, how hard is it to say "Tomoyo"? Is not very hard is it? And once you say it many times, a little kid can hear the name anyway. Personally, I think it's not about the kids not want able to make out the names, it's about the American voice actors who doesnt know crap about Japanese pronounciation so they make their jobs easier by changing the names, and that they dont want little kids to learn words from a 'gook' language that is not western in origin. It's white arrogance I tell you! Today's younger people aint so arrogant though there are some (I mean, if you watch anime in JP mode, you definitely aint one of those people), but those who are in charge of anime censoring are like old people who thinks English is best any other language shouldnt be taught to little kiddies so that they get the impression white culture is so much better. Then these kids grow up thinking in a similar fasion. The effects goes on. |
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| And btw, I read somewhere that the Nervana company originally wanted to change Sakura's name to Nikkie. I mean, how f*#$ would the title be, "Card Captor Nikkie"?! The only thing worth salvaging in CCS english version is the first opening, coz they kept the music but put in English lyrics instead, which btw, the English lyrics was ok, not too bad. At least they didnt do to the opening like what they did to DBZ and DBGT. All they did for the opening was create their own (which sucked crap), added some random crappy music plus some guy saying Dragonball Z over and over again. Even the DBZ movies, the opening was the same as the original but the song like Chala-Head-Chala was taken off and put on instead the same "Dragonball Z" line. I just have to say it but American Anime Distributors is totoall F#$@ up! |
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Well I may be going out on a limb here, but sometimes copyrights need to be observed. There are some companies that actually allow the redistribution of thier product, but withhold the copyrights to the character names, and even the title of the series. Take "Macross Do you Remember Love?" for instance. the company actually witheld the title from the American redistributers, and the lightbulbs upstairs decided to call it "Clash of the Bionoids." They mearly changed the the names of the characters to match the Robotech series characters, at leasr for Rick/Ichigo. Anywho, There are probably more commercial politics going on that we don't know about it. I agree that some things they go too far on, but for many of the instances you people have mentioned, they probably had some sort of feasible reason. Me? well, I have access to original Japanese videos so if something isn't how I want it, I'll ask for it's straight japanese counterpart if I don't already have it. |
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| Well, it's alright and well if you can get hands on fansubs or have the money to buy the original, but it's frustrating for anime fans when anime distributors are now licensing one anime after another and not letting fansubs groups sub the anime. Take Girls Bravo second season for one and Gundam Seed Destiny too, if not for 'rogue fansubs' who sub an anime regardless of licensed or not, people would have to wait til an American version is released and the chance that it would get redone like Initial D is possible. I just dont like that. |
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by HunterKiller
on 2005-09-07 18:10:34
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Japan's military sucks!!! HAHAHAH nice work americans
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Little kids should not be watching adult/teen-oriented anime in the first place. Unfortunately, quite a few of the good anime are oriented towards teens. Therefore, during localization, censorship is necessary to have as wide an audience as possible. My advice? Stick with DVDs or in the case of unlicensed anime, subs.
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If it is somehow inapropiate for kids, DONT F****** AIR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. Same thing with music censorship. If you are going to censor a song because it says "fuck" just forget it and dont even play it.
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