oh hey i love this song
something feels off okay this must be like a fan made edit for youtube oh no it just turns out
it's china so let's talk about it censorship in anime i mean let's be honest censorship in anime
is nothing new and in the past few years you have seen me touch on this i think now it's
just become a topic that's gotten that much more spotlight since anime is that much more mainstream
or at least it crosses into the mainstream pretty often it's that huge so i do want to examine some
of these recent anime examples like the dragon maid demon slayer and some surprises too for you
why is this happening more and more now i'll just tell you it's not what you may think oh
and the us and japan are not scot-free in some cases worse than china so let's first look at
kobayashi's dragon mate season 2. if i want to be honest really one of the things that became
the inspiration for this video i mean you might have seen the pictures floating around online
and i'm like no they didn't and to my surprise it was actually hella difficult trying to find
the source so i was thinking did some anime fan just pull a fast one on us but no after more hours
than i do want to actually admit i was actually happy to find the censored chinese dragon made
version so right off the bat let me just point it out there the girls got deflated in china and
it's actually funny because from what i'm saying they're actually calling this quote-unquote family
mid version very appropriately named and if i want to be honest i'm not entirely against this
you'll see why in a second so first off you have one of the edits that left me a little confused
which is the one you saw in the opening of this video all the girls have their chest covered up
by some of the opening graphics the odd thing is that they're not really consistent about it
how kind of them so let's actually turn and talk about the troublesome girl from what i've been
saying it actually turns out that some chinese anime fans did think this particular character
would have been a problem in china that perhaps season 2 wasn't even going to get released due
to this character and i'm just super fascinated by this in china Ilula officially got turned into
a freaking dragon lowly so it looks like the og kinda has some competition and just take a look
at some of this stuff i can't be the only one that sent all watching this like no they didn't
yo yeah they did like irudu meeting kobayashi it doesn't really make sense especially the
scene for trying to seduce kobayashi thinking that kobayashi's a dude meanwhile a few episodes later
when they have a more questionable spicy scene with a little boy take a look this is actually
youtube friendly and i like how they just hold on the still of that little girl in the background
hey in china she basically gets a cameo so what the hell china made me freaking nostalgic for
four kids can you believe that and i know you're probably thinking the same thing i was
these are basic minor changes china's censorship team did this like in a day or two but no look at
this even when they're fighting the first fight in the season 2 episode which by the way i guess
undies are a-okay it's stuff like this that really shows that even the anime studio kyoto animation
was on board helping it's kind of funny thinking if they just put the internet on this task
and after saying this i can't be the only one thinking i'm not entirely against this as long
as we actually have the choice this version might actually be the perfect one to show your little
screecher and i don't know if there's enough stuff here for a full in that video but let me
know if you want to see that potentially in the future from my experience youtube is always iffy
about this type of stuff so i don't even think i'm gonna try to monetize this video otherwise youtube
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love it or you hate it demon slayer it'll be funny that one's anime of the year again even china
couldn't suppress it but they did try and let's see if this is a hot take because i don't disagree
with the changes so let's bring in the wonderful demon idea for video on Daki obviously the way
she's dressed is super spicy so take a look at what china did what is that they put the demon
in yoga pens i mean it doesn't fit the time period whatsoever but hey i dig it and maybe i'm alone on
this but it doesn't look bad at all i'm actually even more impressed that your photo bo did this
since wrecking Daki is involved in so many fights throughout this mini arc it's not like in the
previous anime where you just gotta hide the booba let's take a look at adult Nezuko want to take a
guess at what they changed oh yes i'm seeing a theme could you imagine the worker trying to
censor donkey and freaking Nezuko all at once when they're fighting each other if that even counts as
a fight and then the third notable chain so you got all of Tengen's wives are they girlfriends
you got the original version where they have their chests chest open up full on display
oh my god which is pretty much non-existent in japan demonstrator is so popular here in japan
you see the elementary school kids in the morning with Demon Slayer items they're humming the
demonstrator opening at skull you have that one elementary cosplayer a little japanese girl that
was freaking cosplaying as Daki thankfully not the awakened version and then i realized i'm like
oh yeah my american point of view at the end of the day this is still japan a place where you got
people seeing each other naked from very young so so far we've determined if your body is 69 bubba
that's not good for china but then the interesting part is that poly gamer is gotcha and if you don't
live in japan you may not have you been heard about this but it turns out that even japan is
censoring demons that are within the country since i live in shinjuku i'll pass through
shinjuku station pretty often as happens often for airing anime they had a huge display there
do you spot it interesting and looking back at the pictures i took i didn't notice it at the
time but they also did the same thing for Nezuko and i'm not leaving the us out of this sorry you
got the upcoming series mato seihein no slave the anime adaptation for this actually got announced
quite a while ago and it's actually coming up really soon which means the source material is
getting a translation since those americans are apparently way too sensitive to this
s word yen press officially is titling this the chained soldier if you actually take a look at the
manga cover in japanese it has layer bag and red for anime this of course is not exactly anything
new you have people heavily criticizing the shield hero for using slaves although it's really slaves
the name only pretty recently from Mushoku Tensei you had the anime pretty much skipping a large
part of the world building related to slaying especially with rudy not only being okay with
this stuff but also getting turned on by some am i the only one crazy in thinking this is going
way too far i mean even if you get past the title and the artwork it is a major plot of
the [ __ ] story looking at how the us has handled this in japan also too recently i was like maybe
the stuff that china is doing is not that bad that was until i was really shocked by what else they
did to the dragon maid there is this confession wedding scene at the end in the chinese version
for the final episodes they completely cut out the last three minutes so yes any hints at yuri stuff
denied by china china will be china although as someone that does have an lgeek family member
this really got me against them either way it really goes back to the initial question
is it china's fault i mean clearly the examples from japan and the us recently were not i think
this quote from a japanese anime director really sheds light on it he did reveal that there's times
that japan needs more than japanese viewers to make a profit off of anime that's when they have
to turn to china since china is that big to sell their product it's not the u.s that's number two
in other words it really just comes down to plain old money you gotta make profit which is why
one i don't see this going away and two if anything i am predicting we're gonna see more
and more of this and hopefully i'm gonna be here to examine it since it's very fascinating thanks
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