Nope. Heck, even most of Pokémon have different names in Japan: for example, Bulbasaur is Fushigidane(フシギダネ), Meowth is Nyarth(ニャース) and Legendary Birds(Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres) are... Freezer(フリーザー), Thunder(サンダー) and Fire(ファイヤー). No, I'm not kidding.
Hi People Lol!! Or, how about this?! *"WHAAAAAAT?! HOW DARE SHE?! SHE WENT INTO A MALE'S HOUSE?! BUT, SHE'S UNDER CONTRACT. SHE CANNOT BE IN A RELAIONSHIP WITH A MAN!!! No, no, no, no, no!"*
Biotear No shit, Sherlock. 20th Century Fox *REAAALLLY* should not have made that movie in the first place. They should have let the entire film rights expire. Now do you understand why it's a really bad idea to make live-action movies based off of animated properties, U.S. and/or foreign animated properties?!
Technically, it's not necessarily whitewashing. I am not defending that abomination of a movie. What I am saying is that Goku's an alien. He's not asian. He's light skinned and has anime eyes, he could be white or whatever. Goku not being asian was one of the more minor issues with the movie.
@Otaku Lord8 Basically, Dragonball Evolution was a borderline piece of shit movie that immediately flipped off so many die-hard fans and non-anime fans in general because it immediately ignored everything from the source material and why the source material should matter to the audience. Like seriously, calling the Kamehameha wave "airbending" in the movie?! And Goku wanting to go to school just be like everyone and relying on the power of boners just to release the Kamehameha wave?! What the fuck is this shit?!
In most first world countries, children become adults when they are 18. That means they have 17 years to learn how to be a proper adult for the rest of your life. Do people really think censorship helps "protect" children even though they will spend the majority of their lives as an adult? If nothing happens to them, they're adults for roughly 82 years. 17 years to learn how to be an adult and function as a proper citizen of the planet for the next 82 years. Depending on context, can censorship hurt pre-adults in the long run? Whats your opinion?
Obviously you dont want kids, and by that i mean 10 or 11 and under, watching or having access to topics relating to sex, heavy violence, drugs ect., but at a point they need to be educated on these things. Being curious is what can get young people into things like drugs, they might see someone, like a friend doing it and it might make them want to try it too. That of course being a very slippery slope. If they were properly educated on these things, they might be less inclined to get involved with them. The problem has become that people, especially here in the US are so overly sensitive that they think that young people cant handle knowing or learning about these things, just speaking from personal experience, i heard things from my friends in middle school that had my folks known about them, they wouldnt have wanted me going back. so I say all that to say this, would you rather young people learn about these things from friends who could lead them astray, or learn from experianced adults who can properly teach them why they should stay away from drugs or to not jump to violence as a first solution to a problem or other things along those lines. Just somthing to think about.
There is a slight problem with one of your examples in the video, and that is the fact jynx isn't based on any form of racial stereotype at all. It is based an a particular yokai that was believed to be responsible for winter storms in the Japanese mountains. The visual design comes from a classic theatrical depiction of the yokai as an old woman with a face burned black with frostbite and wearing a tattered red and gold kimono. The TH-camr Gaijin Goomba has an in-depth video that gives the details and the proper references.
I just want to repeat what I said before. The way you depicted Korea's grief at Hetialia is mean. they had somewhat legit reason to be upset. For Koreans, Hetalia seems like just another Japanese attempt at nationalism and mocking Korea... which Japan has done for centuries
No, I don't think so. I remember watching some Disney movies that had alcohol and smoking in it. It literally went over my head. I don't think censorship really helps. Don't like? Don't watch. Period the end. WHY IS THAT HARD TO COMPREHEND PPL???
Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are back to being lovers and that's the way I likes it. no hate for straight couples, by the way. EVERYONE deserves to be happy.
winterAmpharosIII for me, it definitely woulda helped me growing knowing I'm a lesbian. seeing the cousins thing even as a kid I knew was creepy. if they kept it as such, I wouldn't have been as upset first coming out. Now I cosplay Neptune as a slight nod to her for such
winterAmpharosIII I have a question. Say that Viz Media does decide to re-dub Sailor Moon Super S, who the hell are they gonna get to voice Fish-eye's character in the new dub?! I mean, I know that he's a cross-dresser and all, but you gotta find someone who's *VEEEERRRY* talented in trying to match Akira Ishida's flamboyant vocals in the Japanese version. Hell, in the Sera Myu musical of Super S, they actually got a woman to play Fish-Eye's character in the play. So...mind telling what that was all about?!
Mindy Auron Good for you. So....I have a question, let's say that Viz Media does decide to re-dub Super S, exactly who are they gonna get to voice Fish-eye's character in the new dub? I mean that person has to be *VEEEERRRY* talented to match Akira Ishida's flamboyant vocals in the original Japanese version.
winterAmpharosIII. I can agree on that but since its against my religion, (not trying to offend anyone, no hate towards anyone), Christianity, I don't support gays but as long as they as they don't go like over the top about it, got no prob that they are gay, les., or whatever so. I am an open minded person but will not or at least try not to, spread hate.
We have ratings systems for a reason, and parents are too lazy to turn blu-ray or dvd covers over to check the rating for the cartoon or anime Little Timmy wants to buy. Censorship seems to only benefit and enable this problem. Aside from that, ever notice how 4Kids would censor some things but leave in violence at some points? In Yugioh the Movie for example, Yami Yugi gets attacked by a monster directly and they show the silhouette of him getting stabbed in the back, with the dagger protruding through his chest. You'll censor guns and exploding buildings but not people getting stabbed?!
The problem is stupid people. Oh yeah, it’s fine to blame movies/games/tv shows for making kid’s parents upset. Last time I checked my mom let me watch CSI and Charmed (adult directed shows) and I can for sure say I’m just as bland as anyone else. Stupid people hide shit that they think will “ruin” their kid, which basically will either make them want it more or teach them that things (expecally mature(as in violence or death)/different/sexual themes are completely bad) and make their children into backwards thinking potatoes. Let kids form their own opinions;besides, we live in the digital age, so they can find their way around their parents to see anything they want.
Yea, I wonder how they would've explained the insanity behind those 3 down to the fact that they're ladies that disguise themselves as dudes and act like assholes.
In terms of censorship in Manga and Anime, I say, let them draw whatever they want as long as it has a clear warning label that parents and younger viewers can see. Also, I'm tired of the Media Slander that say that Japanese Anime and Manga promote child porn and the Mass Media berating the anime community. Watch Anime Man's take on the whole Media Slander side.
Censorship is idiotic. Television, anime, manga, and anime movies have age ratings for a reason. If you feel a certain scene in an amine is too graphic, naughty, etc, then just don't air it on tv. put it on netflix or hulu for the parents to decide and put it in the dvd/blue ray release. A lot of anime is made for adults and are given PG13 / R ratings for a reason. Grow up and look at the rating before your brain says "IT'S ANIMATED SO IT /MUST/ BE APPROPRIATE FOR MY KID!"
That's the problem, I think. Disney has hammered in this idea that animated films should be geared more toward children. That nearly anything animated should be/must be kid friendly (enough). People need to understand that anime and cartoons are _not_ the same thing. Nor are manga and comic books.
Are they though there both animated but America when it comes to adult Animation focuses on satire and anime has epic storytelling but I love both anime and cartoons (I prefer cartoons though 😁)
The generations of kids growing up with DBZ (and Pokemon) were never really exposed to that extreme level of blackface caricature. It would make sense then that they would contextualize it as something else completely; like an alien in a show with lots of other aliens.
America. Where lesbians were bad, but kissing cousins were fine. Gotta love how the Uranus/Neptune change went in a direction that they probably wouldn't want even more.
My problem with Ghost in the Shell isn't its cast, it's the dumbing down of the story-line and complete disregard for the central theme. Major is not supposed to be a unique being like no others before her, that was the whole theme, the philosophical question of whether she was ever human at all and can artificial intelligence create consciousness...
Censorship is outdated. I was watching uncensored anime and hentai by age 11 and none of it ever bothered me. My parents didn't believe in sheltering me. So graphic and controversial themes in anime and other media don't bother me at all.
In my opinion, censorship is absolutely stupid. You've got people in america buying their children games like South Park: The Stick of Truth, which is chock full of sex, adult humor, and gore. But people in anime can't do the same thing and have to be censored? That's not only stupid, it's racist. How come we don't have to censor anything in america, but when anime is brought into american for distribution, we have to censor certain parts of anime violence and gore, or sexualized content? Some of this stuff is actually tame by today's standards, and obviously we have more access to anime that is uncensored. But back then, it was a ridiculous topic to think about. Parents need to learn to either control what their kids watch and not blame the creators for what they want to create, or not bitch & complain when their kids are suddenly dropping F-bombs and telling dirty jokes once they buy them games like South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
It doesn't "have" to be censored. The companies that are importing it choose to change it so they can try to sell it to a wider audience. It is a simple business decision these companies make. Doesn't mean they get it right. Just like how South Park exists. It doesn't try to sell itself to a younger audience, but if parents want to let their children watch it, so be it. Actual censorship is very rare in America. Just as how several countries outright banned certain anime, America does not. That the companies, who had to pay money to acquire a license, and then dub it, market it, and distribute it, chose to change things to try to make sure they could make a profit is not the same thing as censorship.
Yeah. Freaking 8 year olds buying call of duty, which is filled with gore violence, and swearing. But when it's in anime, it's apparently just wrong. You're right.
Let the creators be creative. Just like Robyn said we have ratings and warnings for a reason people. Not only that but if anyone wants to watch certain things that normally would be censored but don't want to watch the censored version they are going to find a way to do so. Determined young people will always find a way. I know I used to be one of them.
Megan Schmon Exactly, it's ridiculous. I mean, c'mon, Parents.... *GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, AND JUST RAISE YOUR KIDS, RIGHT!!!* If you don't like something that you're watching on TV, then don't watch it. But, if it's something that your kids can handle, depending on what the target age demographic is, then let them watch it. Stop being a bunch of dumb-asses.
Japan has SUCH a bad culture with their voice actors and stars. Levi's voice actor is a MILD case. Who can forget that one girl from AKB48 who had to shave her head and apologize publicly for also betraying her fans by...going into a male's house. I'm not even sure if she even had relations with the man. Granted I understand that it was in her contract as an idol that she's not allowed to have a romantic relationship as long as she's in the group or something but uh...for a contract to have such a clause at all says a lot.
poissony Ah yeah, that case. Although I do remember that she did a one night stand with a man which is forbidden according to the contracts that they signed when they first enter. I think it's because they're trying to preserve the image of purity on idols for the fans. They did take her back as an understudy again if I remember the outcome correctly.
I remember seeing a clip of an idol at a meet an greet saying "so who here has a fiancée? Nobody? Oh I guess you're all following the purity clause too :)"
Neo-Xgray87 I can go one further and talk about how Saudi Arabian women literally cannot go on with their daily life unless they are accompanied by men or how Pakistani woman regularly get acid thrown in their faces and yet no one protests for their sake...but I feel like that would be overkill at this point.
Like you said, ratings are there for a reason. Parents need to think before letting their kids watching. Just because it's anime doesn't mean it's kid friendly. Parents, grow a brain and supervise your kids!!!
@@victorhernandez8723 I can also agree with you and also those types form really insane groups like PTC (parents Television Council), 1 Million Moms and other pro censorship groups and aren't really the solution along with other supporting useless and hostile laws and designs along with attacking people that don't fit in their views.
If something isn't targeted towards kids then don't show it to kids, sure that doesn't stop grown men from watching a show with "Friendship is Magic" in the title but that has nothing to do with being "appropriate" in a modern sense and the studio behind the show even wrote the episodes with the adult viewers in mind with references to the Big Lebowski and at one point even several Anime titles (seriously, look it up). When it comes to anything meant to appeal to the adult demographic it is unreasonable to show it to anyone of the pre-pubescent variety (I put it that way because teenagers really like adult media, this's coming from a live example). As for the news stories, as long as legal action doesn't go down the best route is to just make like Saitama and DGAS (Don't Give A Shit), it's their words against literally nobody at all.
for the death note movie I was okay with L because he was portraying him well until they made him not act like L. I had the same problem with the rest of the movie, if you want to give the characters a different race, that's fine but they have to actually portray the characters correctly
Erica Brown my friend mentioned something like this. Not only that but when they have someone of a race different than the original character’s own AND portray them the wrong way (much like L in the Netflix Death Note), then that’s where I feel they’re ignoring the original content
My oppinion on Censorship, Follow the age rating. If it's Rated TV 14, design it so it fits that rating. If it's got the TV equivalent of Rated R on the other hand, The go balls deep if you want. Companies shouldn't be held responsible just because some parents are idiots. Case in point, everyone that took 10 year olds to see deadpool theb bitched becaue it was a Rated R Movie. Same thing with anime, If It's 18 and up, be a parent and dont let your 10 year old watch it.
michael hall Well thats what I'm saying. I like the movie rating system better because its more simple, so as an example A PG-13 movie isnt sensored, It's made intentionally to meet PG-14 guide lines. Rated R is made to meet rated R, etc. So do the same with TV. If it's a show recomended for 17+, put the rating on it, air it at an aptopriate time, then tell the parents to shut up when they dont ise the parental controls
It boils down to parents not being mindful of what their kids watch and expect technology to baby-sit for them. Rather taking responsibility for not paying attention to what their kids are doing or watching, and teach them why you shouldn't do something because the TV showed it, they look for a scapegoat.
About the Deadpool thing... hoo boy, I lost count of how many face and palm replacements I got whenever I heard that another stupid parent didn't check the rating. I mean, Ryan Reynolds warned people numerous times that this movie was not for young children, and some of the R-rated material was even in the trailers! HOW COULD THEY HAVE POSSIBLY MISSED THAT?! >.< *pant pant* sorry, rant over
Parents : Omg anime is the worst thing and this is a kid show Me : then why did you let your kid see it Parents : I thought it was a kid show Me : did you even check the show before letting your kids see it Parents : well either way its has alot of pervy things and are incredibly burtal and gory Me : well that's true but in Japan they have more freedom to do as they want in anime Parents : then there fucked up Me : it's fucked up to know that you let your kids watch it then Parents : ..........
Netflix somehow rated Naruto 7+ so that's the age i started watching it Didn't really get far tho Edit: also it's so fucking easy to check if an anime is kid friendly or not, even by just looking at the title. ie Death note
I knew they were rice balls too...because I'm Japanese American. Growing up watching Pokemon and a bit of Sailor Moon, I noticed that bullshit quite quickly and was kind of mad about it.
What I don't understand is why people harass the voice actors for what happens in a series (the netflix voltron series is great example of this) the only people that have less control over where the story is going is the dozen or so nameless animators. Take it up with the actual writers if you got problems don't harass these angels of acting!
As Always People who can't differentiate between reality & fantasy shouldn't be watching any form of media to begin with... If you know lil Jimmie takes video games as reality, then it's probably not a good idea to allow him anywhere near any games other than like Tetris, that way, the worst he can do is try to move the furniture & boxes around... The same thing goes for what he's allowed to watch on TV, &/or what books he's allowed to read, &/or what music he's allowed to listen to... Maybe I'm just not suggestible enough for me to be influenced by media, thinking that what just happened on screen is completely real, & I should do something to "save" my favorite characters... I've met voice actors a few times, & only came across one that seemed afraid, though his "handler" so to speak, told us about an issue, so we could get autographs, but no pictures... When I met Vic (I'm not even going to attempt to spell his last name, I always spell it wrong, but he has done quite a few characters, he did the voice for Edward on Fullmetal Alchemist), he told us about people sliding yaoi drawings of Ed & Mustang, under the door of his hotel room, laughed about it, then said that he wouldn't sign anything like that, Troy Baker threw a ball at him because he was done signing autographs, & Vic still had a line out the door, I caught Troy a few hours later, I didn't get an autograph, as neither of us had a writing utensil, but he did take a picture with me... Anyway, I agree with you, personal responsibility should ALWAYS be a factor, I don't care how young nor how old one is, I think that all should be held accountable for their own actions...But, that'll never happen as long as they can just blame it on an external source... If I killed your entire family, would me saying that I was abused make you sympathetic to the fact that I killed your family?... I should hope NOT!!!... But, there are those who would view it as my being abused should result in clemency for me, because my abused psyche was unable to differentiate between reality, so I clearly believed that it was completely acceptable to do the things I did... Or, if I raped someone you loved, would my saying that I watched too much hentai, & in hentai, the girls, even when they fight it at first, they usually end up enjoying it, so I thought that was how real people reacted to being raped, or if I said that I took naked pictures of them to blackmail them into doing what I wanted, because in hentai, any time a guy threatens to expose a girl with naked pictures, she does exactly what he wants, & when the person you love wouldn't, that's why I raped her, would that make you feel warm fuzzy feelings towards my inability to differentiate between reality & fantasy?... WHAT?!?... NO?!?... 🤔Hmmm... That can't be true... I thought we were all allowed to use stuff like that as our defense for all the deplorable acts we commit... How dare you hit me in the face & knock me on my derriere with the fist of reality!!!...0_0 This here is, POPPYCOCK, POPPYCOCK I SAY!!!... How dare you expect me to actually expect me to treat my fellow earthlings with respect & dignity!!!... I'll not stand for such a travesty of injustice!!!... Good day to you sir or madam!!!... *Walks away in a huff...*😏
My take on censorship is that we need to reconsider what "child freindly" is.Just today I saw what must have been a 7 year old play a shooting game (I'm guessing payday or GTA, couldn't tell) without any adults in a multimedia store.Seriously, times have changed. I feel like some pepole don't get/don't want to admit that this is what's happening.
To be fair, at least Guillermo del Toro acknowledges that he took inspiration from a lot of anime, and doesn't try to pretend like "I had no idea this other thing existed!"
Also I would say that there is a fine line between ripping something off, and taking inspiration from something. I would say that Pacific Rim is more of an example of taking inspiration from something rather than blatantly ripping of Evangelion, since there are still quite a few changes in the movie to differentiate from Evangelion.
Remember the Age of consent in Japan isn't a flat 13, it has age bands like US Romeo-Juliet laws that allow 16 yo to have sex just not with were over 18 when they started the relationship
I don't think anime should be censored because of one fact anime is most definitely NOT for kids or at least a great majority isn't. I think that if it's showen in Japan we should be able to see it here in America.
My tiny piece: That Jesus/Buddha anime is really, funny and interesting? I found the take on the 'modern' life they lead and how the things ascribed to them by their religions unique. I also thought it a good lens for examining my own religion [Christianity] as the bible emphasizes many times that Jesus is 'God and man' but mostly we focus on the God aspect and not his day to day living. I can see how it might be offensive to either religion, but I found it really, cute?
I found it cute too! In my opinion, it highlighted the message of love very well, and from an entertainment point of view, it's nearly impossible to dislike Jesus and Buddha, they're such positive and inspiring figures. I can see why some people might find Jesus' character... maybe... too comedic and ideologically vague for His more serious image in the Bible, but personally I was never offended by it, though I was raised Catholic. In the manga, I just saw a deity doing His best to spread goodwill to all, regardless of their background.
Personally i was born Christian but my parents made sure that i followed my own path and not let anyone else decide what i do with my life for me. They were even okay with me being bi. I'm probably going to check out this anime for myself if only because i find the idea hilarious
I hate the idea of censoring creative media in any form. It's a way of expressing and exploring ideas, concepts and worlds we wouldn't normally be exposed to. There are some things that should be censored from kids but nothing from adults. I am an adult. That means I should be able to decide for myself what ideas I want to be exposed to. I find it incredibly insulting and potentially oppressive to be told that I either can't handle or can't be trusted experiencing some sort of creative work.
You said it and some people that really fit the profile of Mrs. Helen Lovejoy's, " Think of the Children!" only more ludicrous, nuts beyond compare and exist in real life are groups like PTC (Parents Television Council) and 1 Million Moms which are way hypocritical and really you can't believe what these groups attack just Google them up for wanting in the know and this may only be the tip there's a lot of others these types of groups attack.
get ready a big new ones coming up feminists claiming unrealistic female bodys(anyone who isnt overweight) are harmful to children even if there in adult content
Yeah that's 1 possibility and also speaking of ridiculous and happening right now those whack jobs of 1 Million Moms is attacking TV shows and commercials on things like ED (erectile Dysfunction), Claws, Liquid Plumr, Kraft Mac & Cheese and many others. Also that other group losing it's marbles PTC (Parents Television Council) is losing their minds over another show named The Carmichael Show. Yeah really losing it here.
Naoko Takeuchi was not impressed with the original animated Sailor Stars. In the original manga, the Stars are just cross-dressing girls. They dress as men and each adopt the name Kou meaning "Light" as it's easier to find their princess that way. :-) However they are female throughout. Takeuchi was appalled by the way her characters were treated by the animators and writers, turning them into men that became women to fight.
I always found it funny when nobody had a problem with reverse white washing. Like the live action Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist and Black Butler films.
So minority washing. I never understood why that's ok. Also it's been my experience that the people complaining about the lack of racial diversity happen to be white, wealthy, or westerners. Why is it when the original or targeted group sees nothing wrong or it's a different culture, we in the west (mostly america) feel the need to police the world on morality and educate others. Sound a bit pretentious to me.
It's "okay" because only white people can be racist. It's impossible to be racist against white people; that'd be "reverse racism" which is silly and obviously doesn't exist. /s
My country is only in the manga (Portugal), and I want more of him!!! :( I mean, he was just 3 chapters!) It's a European country with a lot of history for god's sake! >:[ What country are you from I Am Bread ? ^v^
I Am Bread I looked for your country on the internet (I heard about it but I'm gonna be honest, I didn't know anything about it) and you have 6+billion people, so the country don't have a lot of population, but I guess that have some tourism, no? :) The first thing that appears when you write "Lao" is "Lao. tourism" hehe. I like to look for new countries that I don't know anything about, so looking for you country was funny! ( ´∀｀)
The sailormoon thing kills me. I am a lady who as a young teen had a huge huge crush on on Sailor Mars to know the level of like mindedness I missed out is painful. Also their age of consent is HOW old!??? 😮
Personally, I just don't like live action adaptations in general. Every live action adaptation I've seen seems to never get the story right. Still hoping for one that actually follows the story.
Kiriay Troust unfortunately, a lot of them CAN'T follow the stories, as they think that they won't test well with audiences, even when they just animate what was on the page, something almost always gets left out, other times, they assume that the show &/or movie will be a hit, figuring that they're going to have more time to add in other stuff (I'm looking at you The Last Airbender, in terms of live action adaptations of animated works), & others, after filming the scenes, think that they seem too "fake" &/or "unnatural", so the scenes get cut... Fandom is a fickle mistress, as you can't please everyone, & even attempting usually means that you end up pleasing no one...😁
Though you have to admit that there are some good ones out there. It's just that the bad out weigh the good like the Rurouni Kenshin live action movie which was pretty good and faithful. I did recall the Anime Man or Gaijin Goomba once said how most live action adaptations failed because it does not keep the spirit of the original. Take Voltron: Legendary Defenders which was a very different take on Voltron, but it worked because it is not only done better, but it does feel like it is Voltron. Then you got Dragonball Evolution which failed because the story and setting does not feel like it's from Dragonball.
Jynx was actually inspired by the mythical Yamauba, a yokai taking the form of a dark-skinned, light-hair old woman wearing a red dress and is said to control snow on mountains. I'm pretty sure it was accidental...
Artpathie The controversy started from a letter to the creators from a journalist who happened to be an African American who explained that the character looked reminiscent of blackface minstrels, so they changed Jynx.
Saint Young Men (the anime about Jesus and Buddha) is a fantastic OVA TBH. Best part about being agnostic is being more open-minded to material like that. It was a fun ride and I loved the characterization of these guys!
Yes we can think of the children. But some of these animes aren't for children ! parents just have to be careful with what their kids are watching. Let the adults have fun with their animes and waifus !
Actually Robin I did some research on Kimba, apparently the writer of Kimba took inspiration from Walt Disney's Bambi! The writer of Kimba was a huge fan of Disney so in the long run even if Disney did copy Kimba they more or less copied off themselves. The more you know! xD
Actually Kimba was one of those franchises, like the Simpsons, where the show had pretty much everything a lion could do. This is due to Kimba had multiple tv shows and movies. So, it’s impossible to have Simba do something that Kimba hasn’t already did. As for the more popular belief about this copying, is a Kimba movie that supposedly was in production before Lion King was thought of. It turns out that there isn’t any evidence of this being the case, but there was evidences of it being in production after the Lion King was released, based on a YT video that went into a lot of detail about Lion King copying Kimba. Lastly the Simba sounds too similar to Kimba thing, in reality Simba means lion in Swahili, along with the rest of the Lion King crew having Swahili terms as their names.
no, everyone focused on l being black because all the people who were going on about "whitewashing" and telling movie makers how to make there movies, were then praising there choice to replace l with a black guy, i garente you almost everyone who actually loves the source material, understands why a movie made in a majority white country has white actors for a lot of roles. the people who were actually upset where a very vocal few that have been yelling about this stuff for years :/ claiming everyone is racist its not really that controversial its just news organizations propping it up, trust me. if you disagree plz tell me why... i will only accept answers from people that dont talk about opression, racism, institutional anything or represintation. because those things dont exist or dont matter to the story.
In my opinion, i don't really care who plays a character, sure it would be cool of the actor's nationality matched that of the character, but it's not required to make it good.
Sir Dante the Dank I honestly do not care about who plays a character, especially if they’re bi-racial, like L. The reason I hated the live action death note movie is that it actively trampled on the series that got me into anime in the first place, and is one of my favorite anime’s that I’ve watched so far. I couldn’t care less if the character from an anime is played by a white person cause almost all characters in anime look like their white already (or is that just me?).
No... remember that those censorship things took place 30 years ago.. and have little to no bearing on current standards. because 30 years ago, zombies werent on tv either... and the closest things were to "sexy" was Daisy Duke's cut off shorts... and that was on after 9pm. as was Baywatch, 10 years later. Cant really compare the 80's and 90's to current standards.. there's plenty of adult based animation on tv now, and it too is on later at night... but rarely censored.
Ugh, censorship is bullshit. It's getting to the point that it's becoming suffocating for artists and creators. :/ RATINGS matter more than censorship.
Preach. Censorship should not be so controlling. Instead, parents should be more responsible. If you don't think little Timmy should be watching something, it doesn't have to be censored. Just don't let him watch it. This was a major problem when tons of parents were upset by all the adult themes when they took their kids to see Deadpool. IT'S AN R-RATED MOVIE! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!
Wow it's cool to see you talk about Precure. i'd love if you did precure vids, unless you're not that into it also, the current Precure season has a dark skinned character who is Mexican/Japanese so that's good
Screw Censorship! Art should be open. The only thing we should have is ratings so that some people can make an informed decision as to what they would like to be exposed to and what they would prefer to stay away from. Personal responsibility for the individual and the parent.
i can,t believe how senitive or how literally people take anime its just ridickulous. i mean anime is a media entertaiment type to sit down to and enjoy a good show. not to nit pick at every god damn story element that dosen,t work out the way you want it to. seriously people cut it out here i am trying to enjoy a good show and instead bloody trolls or over sensitive people have to ruin it for me.
Piracy: As long as official streams refuse to show me all shows while I pay them money, I'm not paying them. Or if official subs are worse than fan ones.
One big controversy that I can think of happened in an early Pokemon episode. Specifically, the Porygon episode. What made it so controversial is the fact that the cyber explosion special effects that they used strobed so badly that they caused a lot of people, especially children, to go into seizures. They quickly took that episode off the air and have never shown the episode or re-released it ever again, not even in digitally remastered versions.
That's a common urban legend. The age of consent in Japan is 18 (16 in some prefectures). CNN is obviously trying to spin a story for views, but the age of consent isn't thirteen.
well going by that in the USA for content viewing the age is 18+ or 13+ with an adult with you while in the USA normally the age of consent to sex is 13 with a person who is not related to them and +/- 2 yrs of them until that person is over 18 to which that will be rape between the couple even if they have been together for years and one side is 17 with the other being 18 thus why it is normally termed 18+ to get around all the conditions for the younger ages than that It is weird how you can term stuff to mean what you want IF you do not say the terms and conditions for it to which is why everyone should read the ToS agreements to everything though by you just bein gable to comment here you personal data is probably already sold over 400 times to 4,000 different corporations around the world
@@thedragong yeah, you're not even allowed to wear rainbows. Actually one time 7 LGBT+ people dressed up in the pride colors (One guy wore all red, the next wore all orange, etc) and the police couldn't do shit
In defense of Pacific Rim, haven't the creators actually said, that the movie is a hommage on japanese Kaiju and Mecha movies/series. Also, isn't Prism Ilya actual borderline childpornography?
Pacific Rim is a tribute to the Mecha genre. So it having the basic structure of almost every Mecha Anime ever is not about copying but showing love and appreciation for the genre. Also, I don't think that copying is such big of a deal. Sure, it can be ridiculous but sometimes it's the best way to tell a story to a different audience that would have never heard of it normally or even create something new and interesting along the way. But nice video as a whole.
michael hall light regardless of where you stood on the argument I just thought that was disrespectful as hell to the original creators work. this isn't like Marvel Comics with lapsing ownerships and what not. --- more often than not that Creator is still alive to see someone else misappropriate their work for their own message.
Depending on who you listen to: GamerGate: A movement that started after Zoe Quinn was caught in a conflict of interest with her BF, Nathan Grayson Anti-GG: A movement that started as a harassment campaign towards Zoe Quinn because her ex-BF got mad at her. Look at all the evidence and make your own conclusions, but IMO, I believe the first story.
gamergate was a consumer led revolt against the blatantly corrupt games journalism industry it would go on to be slandered and labeled as a rape happy hate group by the likes of sarkesian and her ilk
I am very anti censorship for a number of reasons. 1. the creator of a piece of media should have total creative control over their product. 2. age ratings exist for a reason. 3. parents just want a reason to complain. I can on and on about how I hate censorship, but you get my point.
Seriously, how do all these anime fans keep missing the fact that JINX ISN'T A RACIST REPRESENTATION! It's the myth of the Yama-uba, a part of Japanese folklore, not freaking blackface! It baffles me how often this is overlooked just because Pokemon caved in to the pressure over it. So many people just assume that "Oh, they apologized, that means they must have meant it to be blackface!" when it's a friggin case of poor cultural translation. This after the whole localization bit kills me, because no attempt was made to learn the culture, it just got thrown under the bus. I had hoped a friggin anime channel would at least get that.
Paladin585, I get what you're saying and I agree that people initially flipped out about it, like when every parent in the country lost their minds when they saw what they presumed to be swastika on a Pokemon card. But I do feel the need to also bring up the infamous Christmas Special where all of Santa's helpers are Jinx(jinxes, jinxi?) which uncomfortably parallels a very racist Christmas story/explanation.
Paladin585 Unfortunately, the reason why most people didn't take the time to find out what was really going on with Jinx is because of things that came before... People (especially in America) are reminded of the things that appeared just fifty or sixty years ago, when it was completely acceptable to use certain forms of so-called representation to depict non-white characters, so now, people consider anything that even comes close to resembling that, to be that, regardless of wit actually is... Example: Kim Kardashian was basically just trying to sell some cosmetics, I could see that she was trying to show what they could do, but literally millions of people took offense, & started saying that she was trying to pretend that she's black, & calling her advertisement, blackface... There's a lady who was the chairwoman of a chapter of the NAACP over in Spokane, WA (at least I think it was Spokane), & people completely flipped when they found out that she wasn't actually black, I think they called it "cultural appropriation" or something like that, & to be fair, she had claimed in many different occasions that she was black, though to be fair to that, her biological brothers were black, so how could anyone but her parents know that she herself wasn't black, just like if I had grew up with white siblings, I'd probably believe that I had white in me as well (though to be fair to me, there are white people who are actually related to me by blood, but still...), & a lot of people actually seemed happy that not only did this lady lose her status as chairwoman, she was borderline destitute because no one else would hire her... Granted, her claiming that she was black for years, probably didn't help her at all, but I think she was more identifying with the things that black people have been through, especially since, looking at her pictures, she does look like she could actually have black in her DNA, though if that's due to her tanning too much or something like that, or if it's "natural", I am not sure... She probably saw what her brothers went through back when they were all younger, & thought (like a few people do), "that's just appalling, what can I do to help stop this from happening?"... & joining the NAACP is a good place to start... & it's not like she's an idiot who wouldn't have had a future unless she lied about being black... Well anyway, I'm sure that you got what I meant after the first few sentences, so now this just seems like rambling incoherent nothingness... Enjoy the rest of your week!!!...😁
Dude, listen to your own words, and please calm down. The translation is correct, however it can mean "burn-black look" or "dark tanning". It is understandable that Jynx was taken the wrong way, as Japanese culture tends to be a bit blind to other cultures, and I'm sure the possibility of that translation didn't help matters. But the translation is a descriptor, not a term referring to the infamous black-face. And be serious, Santa using Jynx as helpers more likely has to do with them being ice type than a cultural connection to an Austrian legend. Even so, Zwarte Piet's only connection to black-face is that actors used to use make-up to approximate Spanish or Moorish features for the legend. Please do not misunderstand me, I'm not defending the racist representation known as black-face in the least, I agree it needs to stop. But trampling another culture because it looks like something from our culture (assuming we're of the same culture), isn't right either.
Ratings exist for a reason. While parents do need to be careful about what their kids are watching, keep in mind that graphic shows and video games are very mainstream. Most kids in America, at least where I live, have been allowed to play violent video games. While the age does depend on parents, most of those kids have been playing violent games since they were 9 or 10. Censorship doesn't accomplish much at this point, and restricting what creators can write/show is even worse. As someone who wants to grow up to write horror novels some day, just the idea of not being able to write what I'm best at and enjoy writing is terrible.
Anime is art, it should go without question the mangakas and animators are entitled to artistic freedom to draw and create whatever they want. Ratings do exist, if kids find inappropriate things its the parents fault not the creators.
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@@nickzipp3660 Overlord season 3 because of Ainz's full turn to the dark side which caused fans to rage quit and FLCL Progressive because of how much fans hated it
On Dragon Ball Evolution, to be fair, Goku is an alien. So, can't really hit on that bit too hard. And one of the very, VERY few things I am NOT angry with that film about. There's plenty of other things in that film to be pissed about anyway.
International representation? or also lack of? look at Hetalia, I don't think there's a single black character or even atleast based off an African country
Nintendo Console Cuba is hispanic not black, and also that's the only Latin American country they've shown, so they forgot 2 whole continents, South America & Africa
FlyingVioletBunny I've seen the seychelles but that's just a small archipeloago of islands and a minute fraction of the rest of the african continent, also they along with Camoroon and egypt are not black, they make up a small minority in case you didnt know
What really makes me mad is the same-sex relationships, as well as the harassments and death threats Also, I was wondering why I could never find that season of Sailor Moon when I was kid. Guess I know now!
Personally i prefer anime subbed, but that doesn't mean that all anime dubs are bad, i watched my hero academia and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood both subbed and dubbed and i honestly can't decide wich one is better.
Whitewashing: It's more of an issue of when a liberty is given with race, the default is someone white and or which takes away from jobs from different actors as well as producers and directors not even looking for an actor of a different race. This has a big example with the movie the last airbender with not only Katara and Sokka but also having someone dark skin playing zuko which continues the stereotype of a dark skin character being the evil villain and the light skin characters being on the side of good. As for the Japanese that were okay with it...that's just showing one-side from a 'mono-culture' country when the question should had been asked to Japanese-Americans who have to see a lack of representation in media that isn't nerdy, techy or sexualized.Also then comes the issue of the effort put into the movies. How many anime live action have done well in the box office or with the audience. Not too many. Lazy writing, graphics etc. They just shrug it off and make the excuses that people didn't want to watch anime based movies. Similar to how Marvel was blaming diversity for low sales. Instead of bad writing or drawings. Too many in media assume that different races, genders or sexual preference as the main character aren't an interest in the public eye and go the cookie cutter routes.
You can call The Last Airbender movie many things, but racists isn’t really one of them. M. Night Shyamalan, the director of the movie, is an Indian man and he gave arguably the best characters in the series, Zuko and Iroh, to Indian actors. Culturally incorrect, yes, since the Fire Nation is more based off of the Japanese culture while the Water Tribe is based of the Eskimo culture. Racist, I don’t think so.
Yama-uba was said have dark skin, gold hair, a red kimono, and known for her dancing skills. All things Jynx is know for. Also, she lived on a snow mountain and Jynx is an ice type Pokémon.
for fandom harassment, look no further than the new voltron fandom! Enough glorified ship wars and redundant morality crusades to make you vomit your guts!!
btamamura it started out as a misunderstanding since a fan managed to get a tour of the studio and posted the pics online. apparently that was illegal and so she and others endeavoured to delete the existing material. 3 people refused to give up easily, one because she felt there was no point since it already out, the remaining 2 were new blogs that said they wouldn't delete it if the studio didn't make klance and trans girl Pidge canon (some people claim they were trolls, with how people like them have acted we have our doubts). Long story short, both blogs deleted their stuff & some idiots showed their true colours by actually of approving of blackmail since it was "for the sake of representation!11!!!!". I hate this fandom so much it hurts, the stupidity is also amusing though
Especially with the shipping war. After The Blade Of Marmora was released, all of the Klance shippers were bragging to the Sheith shippers and were saying Sheith isn't canon, and I'm like "Whoa calm down. It wasn't canon in the first place." I'm so glad I'm both a Klance and Sheith shipper so I wouldn't be a part of that stupid war.
I love Pokémon and have been with it since Kanto, and I have equated Jynx with that! I always thought she was supposed to be humanoid but not a representative of any human
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Mark Twain once said that "Censorship is like telling a man he can't have steak because a baby can't eat it."
That is hilariously accurate
He REALLY said that????
@@alexsmith6347 According to multiple sources, yes he did.
@@emperornox8744 Hmm... interesting.
Wait! ASH'S NAME ISN'T ASH?!!!
James wasn't named James either! His name was Kojiro and Jessie was Musashi!
Nope. Heck, even most of Pokémon have different names in Japan: for example, Bulbasaur is Fushigidane(フシギダネ), Meowth is Nyarth(ニャース) and Legendary Birds(Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres) are... Freezer(フリーザー), Thunder(サンダー) and Fire(ファイヤー). No, I'm not kidding.
Charizard is Lizardon
Something_Skyes Ash's name in the Japanese Version is Satoshi witch translates to Ash
Oh, and let's not forget Sandshrew and Haunter's original Japanese names: Sand and Ghost...
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Robyn, whitewashing isn't even the problem with Dragonball Evolution. The problem is that movie exists.
Biotear No shit, Sherlock. 20th Century Fox *REAAALLLY* should not have made that movie in the first place. They should have let the entire film rights expire. Now do you understand why it's a really bad idea to make live-action movies based off of animated properties, U.S. and/or foreign animated properties?!
Technically, it's not necessarily whitewashing. I am not defending that abomination of a movie. What I am saying is that Goku's an alien. He's not asian. He's light skinned and has anime eyes, he could be white or whatever. Goku not being asian was one of the more minor issues with the movie.
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@Otaku Lord8 Basically, Dragonball Evolution was a borderline piece of shit movie that immediately flipped off so many die-hard fans and non-anime fans in general because it immediately ignored everything from the source material and why the source material should matter to the audience. Like seriously, calling the Kamehameha wave "airbending" in the movie?! And Goku wanting to go to school just be like everyone and relying on the power of boners just to release the Kamehameha wave?! What the fuck is this shit?!
Ugh I have seen the pussy of that bitch who played Bulma in Shameless one time too many.....its boring
No censorship. Make the parents be responsible. I'm a parent and I do it until I feel there old enough to see it. Tell then I get to watch it.
David Barton
Preach it, man! Preach it!
I agree
I agree. No censorship, because it sucks
Good for you man! You are a true parent!
Now that’s great parenting skills, good for you
In most first world countries, children become adults when they are 18. That means they have 17 years to learn how to be a proper adult for the rest of your life. Do people really think censorship helps "protect" children even though they will spend the majority of their lives as an adult? If nothing happens to them, they're adults for roughly 82 years. 17 years to learn how to be an adult and function as a proper citizen of the planet for the next 82 years. Depending on context, can censorship hurt pre-adults in the long run? Whats your opinion?
Do you not even know the sensitive history between Korea and Japan?
Obviously you dont want kids, and by that i mean 10 or 11 and under, watching or having access to topics relating to sex, heavy violence, drugs ect., but at a point they need to be educated on these things. Being curious is what can get young people into things like drugs, they might see someone, like a friend doing it and it might make them want to try it too. That of course being a very slippery slope. If they were properly educated on these things, they might be less inclined to get involved with them. The problem has become that people, especially here in the US are so overly sensitive that they think that young people cant handle knowing or learning about these things, just speaking from personal experience, i heard things from my friends in middle school that had my folks known about them, they wouldnt have wanted me going back. so I say all that to say this, would you rather young people learn about these things from friends who could lead them astray, or learn from experianced adults who can properly teach them why they should stay away from drugs or to not jump to violence as a first solution to a problem or other things along those lines. Just somthing to think about.
There is a slight problem with one of your examples in the video, and that is the fact jynx isn't based on any form of racial stereotype at all. It is based an a particular yokai that was believed to be responsible for winter storms in the Japanese mountains. The visual design comes from a classic theatrical depiction of the yokai as an old woman with a face burned black with frostbite and wearing a tattered red and gold kimono. The TH-camr Gaijin Goomba has an in-depth video that gives the details and the proper references.
I just want to repeat what I said before. The way you depicted Korea's grief at Hetialia is mean. they had somewhat legit reason to be upset. For Koreans, Hetalia seems like just another Japanese attempt at nationalism and mocking Korea... which Japan has done for centuries
No, I don't think so. I remember watching some Disney movies that had alcohol and smoking in it. It literally went over my head. I don't think censorship really helps. Don't like? Don't watch. Period the end. WHY IS THAT HARD TO COMPREHEND PPL???
"an episode where children were sent into hospital due to eplipsy."
shows ash saying to pickachu "you did it pikachu"
America censoring guns in anime is... amazing levels of irony.
In yugioh they replace the regular guns with finger guns
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Agreed! Considering it’s America we’re talking about
Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are back to being lovers and that's the way I likes it.
no hate for straight couples, by the way. EVERYONE deserves to be happy.
winterAmpharosIII for me, it definitely woulda helped me growing knowing I'm a lesbian. seeing the cousins thing even as a kid I knew was creepy. if they kept it as such, I wouldn't have been as upset first coming out. Now I cosplay Neptune as a slight nod to her for such
winterAmpharosIII I have a question. Say that Viz Media does decide to re-dub Sailor Moon Super S, who the hell are they gonna get to voice Fish-eye's character in the new dub?! I mean, I know that he's a cross-dresser and all, but you gotta find someone who's *VEEEERRRY* talented in trying to match Akira Ishida's flamboyant vocals in the Japanese version. Hell, in the Sera Myu musical of Super S, they actually got a woman to play Fish-Eye's character in the play. So...mind telling what that was all about?!
Mindy Auron Good for you. So....I have a question, let's say that Viz Media does decide to re-dub Super S, exactly who are they gonna get to voice Fish-eye's character in the new dub? I mean that person has to be *VEEEERRRY* talented to match Akira Ishida's flamboyant vocals in the original Japanese version.
Neo-Xgray87 I can't tell you cos I haven't seen it yet. you'll just have to find out for yourself.
winterAmpharosIII. I can agree on that but since its against my religion, (not trying to offend anyone, no hate towards anyone), Christianity, I don't support gays but as long as they as they don't go like over the top about it, got no prob that they are gay, les., or whatever so. I am an open minded person but will not or at least try not to, spread hate.
We have ratings systems for a reason, and parents are too lazy to turn blu-ray or dvd covers over to check the rating for the cartoon or anime Little Timmy wants to buy. Censorship seems to only benefit and enable this problem.
Aside from that, ever notice how 4Kids would censor some things but leave in violence at some points? In Yugioh the Movie for example, Yami Yugi gets attacked by a monster directly and they show the silhouette of him getting stabbed in the back, with the dagger protruding through his chest. You'll censor guns and exploding buildings but not people getting stabbed?!
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You know! 4Kids!
The problem is stupid people. Oh yeah, it’s fine to blame movies/games/tv shows for making kid’s parents upset. Last time I checked my mom let me watch CSI and Charmed (adult directed shows) and I can for sure say I’m just as bland as anyone else. Stupid people hide shit that they think will “ruin” their kid, which basically will either make them want it more or teach them that things (expecally mature(as in violence or death)/different/sexual themes are completely bad) and make their children into backwards thinking potatoes. Let kids form their own opinions;besides, we live in the digital age, so they can find their way around their parents to see anything they want.
If you think that's bad, try seeing the censorships in Israel. They literally censor Japanese words
Then again the people at 4kids were massive hypocrites to begin with.
@@mixedmango2870 So they censor the word "kawaii"?
"Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!?"
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Love it...
"Any one else?" *Shows Sailor Star Lights*
"Yeah... were going to band that season all together."
You mean the Galaxia season? Well It came out in my country. Later than the original, but it happened.
Yea, I wonder how they would've explained the insanity behind those 3 down to the fact that they're ladies that disguise themselves as dudes and act like assholes.
In terms of censorship in Manga and Anime, I say, let them draw whatever they want as long as it has a clear warning label that parents and younger viewers can see. Also, I'm tired of the Media Slander that say that Japanese Anime and Manga promote child porn and the Mass Media berating the anime community. Watch Anime Man's take on the whole Media Slander side.
Zero Ryoko i getting pretty sick of the media to your not the only one.
Just feed the naysayers on a steady diet of ideological bread and water and eventually they'll learn their lesson. 😑
Zero Ryoko i agree man. But the thing is the law in Japan is much, much different than America. In Japan the age of consent is 12.
Zero Ryoko agreed
@@gamerguy2746 *NO IT ISN'T!* It's 14 at minimum but 16-18 in many parts
Censorship is idiotic. Television, anime, manga, and anime movies have age ratings for a reason. If you feel a certain scene in an amine is too graphic, naughty, etc, then just don't air it on tv. put it on netflix or hulu for the parents to decide and put it in the dvd/blue ray release. A lot of anime is made for adults and are given PG13 / R ratings for a reason. Grow up and look at the rating before your brain says "IT'S ANIMATED SO IT /MUST/ BE APPROPRIATE FOR MY KID!"
Amen!
I agree
That's the problem, I think. Disney has hammered in this idea that animated films should be geared more toward children. That nearly anything animated should be/must be kid friendly (enough). People need to understand that anime and cartoons are _not_ the same thing. Nor are manga and comic books.
Are they though there both animated but America when it comes to adult Animation focuses on satire and anime has epic storytelling but I love both anime and cartoons (I prefer cartoons though 😁)
But I have to admit that sometimes it can be disturbing
Anyone else always thought Mr. Popo was not even a human?
when I first saw Mr. Popo as a kid I literally thought he was an alien of some kind. The later mentioned blue skin only affirmed that.
The generations of kids growing up with DBZ (and Pokemon) were never really exposed to that extreme level of blackface caricature. It would make sense then that they would contextualize it as something else completely; like an alien in a show with lots of other aliens.
HORRIOR Mr. Black existed in DragonBall and actual black character so their is a difference hence why Popo still remains.
Exactly!
I thought he was just some other alien like the Namekians, or the Saiyans!
He isn't, he is darkness itself. There is proof he is stronger than Beerus. He created a new fucking Sun for the solar system after it was blown up.
America. Where lesbians were bad, but kissing cousins were fine. Gotta love how the Uranus/Neptune change went in a direction that they probably wouldn't want even more.
My problem with Ghost in the Shell isn't its cast, it's the dumbing down of the story-line and complete disregard for the central theme. Major is not supposed to be a unique being like no others before her, that was the whole theme, the philosophical question of whether she was ever human at all and can artificial intelligence create consciousness...
Censorship is outdated. I was watching uncensored anime and hentai by age 11 and none of it ever bothered me. My parents didn't believe in sheltering me. So graphic and controversial themes in anime and other media don't bother me at all.
Acid Blade21 Amen
Must have good parents
In my opinion, censorship is absolutely stupid. You've got people in america buying their children games like South Park: The Stick of Truth, which is chock full of sex, adult humor, and gore. But people in anime can't do the same thing and have to be censored? That's not only stupid, it's racist. How come we don't have to censor anything in america, but when anime is brought into american for distribution, we have to censor certain parts of anime violence and gore, or sexualized content?
Some of this stuff is actually tame by today's standards, and obviously we have more access to anime that is uncensored. But back then, it was a ridiculous topic to think about. Parents need to learn to either control what their kids watch and not blame the creators for what they want to create, or not bitch & complain when their kids are suddenly dropping F-bombs and telling dirty jokes once they buy them games like South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
It doesn't "have" to be censored. The companies that are importing it choose to change it so they can try to sell it to a wider audience. It is a simple business decision these companies make. Doesn't mean they get it right.
Just like how South Park exists. It doesn't try to sell itself to a younger audience, but if parents want to let their children watch it, so be it.
Actual censorship is very rare in America. Just as how several countries outright banned certain anime, America does not. That the companies, who had to pay money to acquire a license, and then dub it, market it, and distribute it, chose to change things to try to make sure they could make a profit is not the same thing as censorship.
When you're twelve and have played the game Corpse Party and watched the (shitty) anime adaptation.... heh
Yeah. Freaking 8 year olds buying call of duty, which is filled with gore violence, and swearing. But when it's in anime, it's apparently just wrong. You're right.
Let the creators be creative. Just like Robyn said we have ratings and warnings for a reason people. Not only that but if anyone wants to watch certain things that normally would be censored but don't want to watch the censored version they are going to find a way to do so. Determined young people will always find a way. I know I used to be one of them.
Megan Schmon Exactly, it's ridiculous. I mean, c'mon, Parents....
*GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, AND JUST RAISE YOUR KIDS, RIGHT!!!*
If you don't like something that you're watching on TV, then don't watch it. But, if it's something that your kids can handle, depending on what the target age demographic is, then let them watch it. Stop being a bunch of dumb-asses.
Exactly!
Japan has SUCH a bad culture with their voice actors and stars. Levi's voice actor is a MILD case. Who can forget that one girl from AKB48 who had to shave her head and apologize publicly for also betraying her fans by...going into a male's house. I'm not even sure if she even had relations with the man. Granted I understand that it was in her contract as an idol that she's not allowed to have a romantic relationship as long as she's in the group or something but uh...for a contract to have such a clause at all says a lot.
poissony Ah yeah, that case. Although I do remember that she did a one night stand with a man which is forbidden according to the contracts that they signed when they first enter. I think it's because they're trying to preserve the image of purity on idols for the fans. They did take her back as an understudy again if I remember the outcome correctly.
I remember seeing a clip of an idol at a meet an greet saying "so who here has a fiancée? Nobody? Oh I guess you're all following the purity clause too :)"
Huh, evidently human rights has a long way to go in Japan too.
poissony And yet, we Americans are complaining about why women aren't equally paid as much as men are in our own country or some shit like that?!
Neo-Xgray87 I can go one further and talk about how Saudi Arabian women literally cannot go on with their daily life unless they are accompanied by men or how Pakistani woman regularly get acid thrown in their faces and yet no one protests for their sake...but I feel like that would be overkill at this point.
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🍙🍙🎶🎶nothing better than a jelly filled donut! 🎶🎶🍙🍙
Supergameralex Dansou Someone asked similarly about this at a con and Eric Stuart joked that the "donuts" were made of Treeko 😂😂😂
Like you said, ratings are there for a reason. Parents need to think before letting their kids watching. Just because it's anime doesn't mean it's kid friendly. Parents, grow a brain and supervise your kids!!!
Amen!
@@victorhernandez8723 I can also agree with you and also those types form really insane groups like PTC (parents Television Council), 1 Million Moms and other pro censorship groups and aren't really the solution along with other supporting useless and hostile laws and designs along with attacking people that don't fit in their views.
If something isn't targeted towards kids then don't show it to kids, sure that doesn't stop grown men from watching a show with "Friendship is Magic" in the title but that has nothing to do with being "appropriate" in a modern sense and the studio behind the show even wrote the episodes with the adult viewers in mind with references to the Big Lebowski and at one point even several Anime titles (seriously, look it up). When it comes to anything meant to appeal to the adult demographic it is unreasonable to show it to anyone of the pre-pubescent variety (I put it that way because teenagers really like adult media, this's coming from a live example).
As for the news stories, as long as legal action doesn't go down the best route is to just make like Saitama and DGAS (Don't Give A Shit), it's their words against literally nobody at all.
"Think of the children!" 😂😂😂 I love that scene
It’s really think of the children, so we don’t have to.
for the death note movie I was okay with L because he was portraying him well until they made him not act like L. I had the same problem with the rest of the movie, if you want to give the characters a different race, that's fine but they have to actually portray the characters correctly
Erica Brown my friend mentioned something like this.
Not only that but when they have someone of a race different than the original character’s own AND portray them the wrong way (much like L in the Netflix Death Note), then that’s where I feel they’re ignoring the original content
As an Idea for another Countdown (or 2):
- Top 10 Moments that made (Robyn) rage
- Top 10 Betrayals ins Anime
Shou Tucker would be in both of em
Maybe the Japanese should send "No Cuts" Katanas to every animation studio. Followed by "No Politics" Katanas.
Devilsblight86 followed by “No Censorship”
I'd like a katana with the recipe for the steel written on it.
For some reason I read the title as "Top 10 Crossovers in Anime" and looking at the thumbnail with Sailor Scouts and Jynx... I was immensly confused
My oppinion on Censorship, Follow the age rating. If it's Rated TV 14, design it so it fits that rating. If it's got the TV equivalent of Rated R on the other hand, The go balls deep if you want. Companies shouldn't be held responsible just because some parents are idiots.
Case in point, everyone that took 10 year olds to see deadpool theb bitched becaue it was a Rated R Movie. Same thing with anime, If It's 18 and up, be a parent and dont let your 10 year old watch it.
michael hall Well thats what I'm saying. I like the movie rating system better because its more simple, so as an example A PG-13 movie isnt sensored, It's made intentionally to meet PG-14 guide lines. Rated R is made to meet rated R, etc.
So do the same with TV. If it's a show recomended for 17+, put the rating on it, air it at an aptopriate time, then tell the parents to shut up when they dont ise the parental controls
It boils down to parents not being mindful of what their kids watch and expect technology to baby-sit for them. Rather taking responsibility for not paying attention to what their kids are doing or watching, and teach them why you shouldn't do something because the TV showed it, they look for a scapegoat.
eh the ratings system is flawed though thats more the idiots rating things
MR. J its also the idiots that need them. So it kinda works.
About the Deadpool thing... hoo boy, I lost count of how many face and palm replacements I got whenever I heard that another stupid parent didn't check the rating. I mean, Ryan Reynolds warned people numerous times that this movie was not for young children, and some of the R-rated material was even in the trailers! HOW COULD THEY HAVE POSSIBLY MISSED THAT?! >.<
*pant pant* sorry, rant over
Parents : Omg anime is the worst thing and this is a kid show
Me : then why did you let your kid see it
Parents : I thought it was a kid show
Me : did you even check the show before letting your kids see it
Parents : well either way its has alot of pervy things and are incredibly burtal and gory
Me : well that's true but in Japan they have more freedom to do as they want in anime
Parents : then there fucked up
Me : it's fucked up to know that you let your kids watch it then
Parents : ..........
Savage
A true sign of "Bad Parenting!"
That was my mom's reaction when 6 year old me somehow ended up watching berserk
Netflix somehow rated Naruto 7+ so that's the age i started watching it
Didn't really get far tho
Edit: also it's so fucking easy to check if an anime is kid friendly or not, even by just looking at the title.
ie Death note
@@dragonarchive7443 That's just as Dumb as giving movies like Frozen, Kung Fu Panda and Elf Bowling the PG Rating!
lets not forget the invisable guns
Apparently the german dub of Naruto just straight up got rid of the sword blades so everyone just has the handle and nothing else
I love donuts, jelly-filled are my favorite! NOTHING BEATS A JELLY FILLED DOUNUT!!!!!!!!! 🍙🍙🍙🍙🍙🍙🍙
EDIT: Holy shit! So many likes! I feel so loved ^v^
FireheartWarriorlove even when I was a child, I knew they were rice balls. Not sure how but I still knew
That's not a donut! XD
I knew they were rice balls too...because I'm Japanese American. Growing up watching Pokemon and a bit of Sailor Moon, I noticed that bullshit quite quickly and was kind of mad about it.
That scene will forever hunt me...
it is
What I don't understand is why people harass the voice actors for what happens in a series (the netflix voltron series is great example of this) the only people that have less control over where the story is going is the dozen or so nameless animators. Take it up with the actual writers if you got problems don't harass these angels of acting!
Some [but not all] fans start seeing the actor and character as one and the same person and get the allusion that their actions can be controlled.
Well those who do better knock that shit off.
As Always People who can't differentiate between reality & fantasy shouldn't be watching any form of media to begin with... If you know lil Jimmie takes video games as reality, then it's probably not a good idea to allow him anywhere near any games other than like Tetris, that way, the worst he can do is try to move the furniture & boxes around... The same thing goes for what he's allowed to watch on TV, &/or what books he's allowed to read, &/or what music he's allowed to listen to... Maybe I'm just not suggestible enough for me to be influenced by media, thinking that what just happened on screen is completely real, & I should do something to "save" my favorite characters... I've met voice actors a few times, & only came across one that seemed afraid, though his "handler" so to speak, told us about an issue, so we could get autographs, but no pictures... When I met Vic (I'm not even going to attempt to spell his last name, I always spell it wrong, but he has done quite a few characters, he did the voice for Edward on Fullmetal Alchemist), he told us about people sliding yaoi drawings of Ed & Mustang, under the door of his hotel room, laughed about it, then said that he wouldn't sign anything like that, Troy Baker threw a ball at him because he was done signing autographs, & Vic still had a line out the door, I caught Troy a few hours later, I didn't get an autograph, as neither of us had a writing utensil, but he did take a picture with me...
Anyway, I agree with you, personal responsibility should ALWAYS be a factor, I don't care how young nor how old one is, I think that all should be held accountable for their own actions...But, that'll never happen as long as they can just blame it on an external source... If I killed your entire family, would me saying that I was abused make you sympathetic to the fact that I killed your family?... I should hope NOT!!!... But, there are those who would view it as my being abused should result in clemency for me, because my abused psyche was unable to differentiate between reality, so I clearly believed that it was completely acceptable to do the things I did... Or, if I raped someone you loved, would my saying that I watched too much hentai, & in hentai, the girls, even when they fight it at first, they usually end up enjoying it, so I thought that was how real people reacted to being raped, or if I said that I took naked pictures of them to blackmail them into doing what I wanted, because in hentai, any time a guy threatens to expose a girl with naked pictures, she does exactly what he wants, & when the person you love wouldn't, that's why I raped her, would that make you feel warm fuzzy feelings towards my inability to differentiate between reality & fantasy?... WHAT?!?... NO?!?... 🤔Hmmm... That can't be true... I thought we were all allowed to use stuff like that as our defense for all the deplorable acts we commit... How dare you hit me in the face & knock me on my derriere with the fist of reality!!!...0_0
This here is, POPPYCOCK, POPPYCOCK I SAY!!!... How dare you expect me to actually expect me to treat my fellow earthlings with respect & dignity!!!... I'll not stand for such a travesty of injustice!!!... Good day to you sir or madam!!!...
*Walks away in a huff...*😏
I'm not even going to bother reading all that but I'll assume it's horribly off topic.
Emma Polcyn ii
Anime America: This is the most controversial subject in all of anime
Also Anime America: Please talk about this in the comments
My take on censorship is that we need to reconsider what "child freindly" is.Just today I saw what must have been a 7 year old play a shooting game (I'm guessing payday or GTA, couldn't tell) without any adults in a multimedia store.Seriously, times have changed. I feel like some pepole don't get/don't want to admit that this is what's happening.
It's the reason I want to move someday from the States. People seem to be less whiney everywhere else.
"Pacific Rim took many elements from NGE."
Isn't that kind of the point?
Yes, yes it is.
Just one example,she's just pointing out how MANY titles do it.
To be fair, at least Guillermo del Toro acknowledges that he took inspiration from a lot of anime, and doesn't try to pretend like "I had no idea this other thing existed!"
Also I would say that there is a fine line between ripping something off, and taking inspiration from something. I would say that Pacific Rim is more of an example of taking inspiration from something rather than blatantly ripping of Evangelion, since there are still quite a few changes in the movie to differentiate from Evangelion.
3:39 My mom actually believed the POKÉMON DEVIL WORSHIPING THING 😂😂😁
And so did my dad , except it was in Saudi Arabia .
Well to be fair it is an anime about exploiting Creation for personal amusement.
thankfully my mom was fine with me and my brother getting into pokemon.
The Age of Consent: Just because its legal doesnt mean it isnt predatory.
Sassy Gay Justice who's denying being one?
A FAIRLY large amount of anime fandom and geeks in general.
Remember the Age of consent in Japan isn't a flat 13, it has age bands like US Romeo-Juliet laws that allow 16 yo to have sex just not with were over 18 when they started the relationship
If you actually read Japan's age of consent policy into more detail, it gets pretty disturbing.
Quit oppressing other cultures you ethnocentric bitch!
All of those anime worrying about controversies and Gintama just shows them a middle finger and does whatever the hell it wants YOLO style xD
Gintama's awesome.
I don't think anime should be censored because of one fact anime is most definitely NOT for kids or at least a great majority isn't. I think that if it's showen in Japan we should be able to see it here in America.
You could tilt your satellite dish.
My tiny piece: That Jesus/Buddha anime is really, funny and interesting? I found the take on the 'modern' life they lead and how the things ascribed to them by their religions unique. I also thought it a good lens for examining my own religion [Christianity] as the bible emphasizes many times that Jesus is 'God and man' but mostly we focus on the God aspect and not his day to day living. I can see how it might be offensive to either religion, but I found it really, cute?
I found it cute too! In my opinion, it highlighted the message of love very well, and from an entertainment point of view, it's nearly impossible to dislike Jesus and Buddha, they're such positive and inspiring figures. I can see why some people might find Jesus' character... maybe... too comedic and ideologically vague for His more serious image in the Bible, but personally I was never offended by it, though I was raised Catholic. In the manga, I just saw a deity doing His best to spread goodwill to all, regardless of their background.
Personally i was born Christian but my parents made sure that i followed my own path and not let anyone else decide what i do with my life for me. They were even okay with me being bi.
I'm probably going to check out this anime for myself if only because i find the idea hilarious
@@aurea. what's the name of it
I'll use this frying pain... as a drying Pan
Also what about people saying that every person who likes anime or manga is a weeaboo
+An Old Time Friend People who say bullshit like that just pisses me off. As well as the people who talk shit about people who like anime in general.
Those people... can rot in hell!
Those people... can rot in hell!
The Man-Witch of the West. You mean HFIL (Home For Infinite Losers), mate.
Those people need to look up what a weeaboo is
I hate the idea of censoring creative media in any form. It's a way of expressing and exploring ideas, concepts and worlds we wouldn't normally be exposed to. There are some things that should be censored from kids but nothing from adults.
I am an adult. That means I should be able to decide for myself what ideas I want to be exposed to. I find it incredibly insulting and potentially oppressive to be told that I either can't handle or can't be trusted experiencing some sort of creative work.
As a British citizen I heavily apologise for accusations on anime being child porn
Oliver Cane it's not your fault it's the people who actually believe it
Well it's no secret that England is filled with idiots nowadays
Crazy Platinum nice name
Oliver Cane I know *cough* brexit *cough*
awesome happywinks Brexit , scarier than higurashi
Considering what year we live in, practically _everything_ is a controversy these days.
Rio Kamichika I guess, URI Geller could make a buck like he tried in 2000 with Kadabra
You said it and some people that really fit the profile of Mrs. Helen Lovejoy's, " Think of the Children!" only more ludicrous, nuts beyond compare and exist in real life are groups like PTC (Parents Television Council) and 1 Million Moms which are way hypocritical and really you can't believe what these groups attack just Google them up for wanting in the know and this may only be the tip there's a lot of others these types of groups attack.
get ready a big new ones coming up feminists claiming unrealistic female bodys(anyone who isnt overweight) are harmful to children even if there in adult content
Yeah that's 1 possibility and also speaking of ridiculous and happening right now those whack jobs of 1 Million Moms is attacking TV shows and commercials on things like ED (erectile Dysfunction), Claws, Liquid Plumr, Kraft Mac & Cheese and many others. Also that other group losing it's marbles PTC (Parents Television Council) is losing their minds over another show named The Carmichael Show. Yeah really losing it here.
Rio Kamichika yeah like the lgbtidgaf! "emphasis on the idgaf part"
Naoko Takeuchi was not impressed with the original animated Sailor Stars. In the original manga, the Stars are just cross-dressing girls. They dress as men and each adopt the name Kou meaning "Light" as it's easier to find their princess that way. :-) However they are female throughout.
Takeuchi was appalled by the way her characters were treated by the animators and writers, turning them into men that became women to fight.
Cosmos is coming up
I always found it funny when nobody had a problem with reverse white washing. Like the live action Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist and Black Butler films.
So minority washing.
I never understood why that's ok. Also it's been my experience that the people complaining about the lack of racial diversity happen to be white, wealthy, or westerners. Why is it when the original or targeted group sees nothing wrong or it's a different culture, we in the west (mostly america) feel the need to police the world on morality and educate others. Sound a bit pretentious to me.
It's "okay" because only white people can be racist. It's impossible to be racist against white people; that'd be "reverse racism" which is silly and obviously doesn't exist. /s
... Your joking, right?
saljpal3 But those are Japanese films released in Japan, they aren't gonna call white actors to learn Japanese to be in those films.
I'm not saying it's good or bad to have all whites in movies, but it's kinda hard to have many white actors in Japanese movies.
Honestly, censorship is kinda stupid. Ratings are a thing, people!! Also, South Korea was the only country to ban Hetalia...? *dies from laughter*
Good seriously or bad seriously?
We love Hetalia in Denmark, since our representation just has a massive badass battleaxe xD
Oh, LOL. Denmark is great, isn't he?? Meanwhile, there's America... *sigh* And Cronssi, YES!! It's kind of sad...
My country is only in the manga (Portugal), and I want more of him!!! :( I mean, he was just 3 chapters!) It's a European country with a lot of history for god's sake! >:[
What country are you from I Am Bread ? ^v^
I Am Bread I looked for your country on the internet (I heard about it but I'm gonna be honest, I didn't know anything about it) and you have 6+billion people, so the country don't have a lot of population, but I guess that have some tourism, no? :) The first thing that appears when you write "Lao" is "Lao. tourism" hehe.
I like to look for new countries that I don't know anything about, so looking for you country was funny! ( ´∀｀)
The sailormoon thing kills me. I am a lady who as a young teen had a huge huge crush on on Sailor Mars to know the level of like mindedness I missed out is painful. Also their age of consent is HOW old!??? 😮
We got the Viz dub it was better
Personally, I just don't like live action adaptations in general. Every live action adaptation I've seen seems to never get the story right. Still hoping for one that actually follows the story.
Kiriay Troust unfortunately, a lot of them CAN'T follow the stories, as they think that they won't test well with audiences, even when they just animate what was on the page, something almost always gets left out, other times, they assume that the show &/or movie will be a hit, figuring that they're going to have more time to add in other stuff (I'm looking at you The Last Airbender, in terms of live action adaptations of animated works), & others, after filming the scenes, think that they seem too "fake" &/or "unnatural", so the scenes get cut...
Fandom is a fickle mistress, as you can't please everyone, & even attempting usually means that you end up pleasing no one...😁
DjDragonblade Too true man. Too true.
Though you have to admit that there are some good ones out there. It's just that the bad out weigh the good like the Rurouni Kenshin live action movie which was pretty good and faithful. I did recall the Anime Man or Gaijin Goomba once said how most live action adaptations failed because it does not keep the spirit of the original.
Take Voltron: Legendary Defenders which was a very different take on Voltron, but it worked because it is not only done better, but it does feel like it is Voltron. Then you got Dragonball Evolution which failed because the story and setting does not feel like it's from Dragonball.
Jynx was actually inspired by the mythical Yamauba, a yokai taking the form of a dark-skinned, light-hair old woman wearing a red dress and is said to control snow on mountains.
I'm pretty sure it was accidental...
Artpathie What about the big lips and the red dress with the bra. Probably inspired by women at the beach.
Artpathie The controversy started from a letter to the creators from a journalist who happened to be an African American who explained that the character looked reminiscent of blackface minstrels, so they changed Jynx.
Artpathie oh cool, I didn't know that.. That's awsome but thanks to America the senative Jinx are now purple...which is stupid
Welp, that's a mistake.
Saint Young Men (the anime about Jesus and Buddha) is a fantastic OVA TBH. Best part about being agnostic is being more open-minded to material like that. It was a fun ride and I loved the characterization of these guys!
Yes we can think of the children. But some of these animes aren't for children !
parents just have to be careful with what their kids are watching.
Let the adults have fun with their animes and waifus !
Actually Robin I did some research on Kimba, apparently the writer of Kimba took inspiration from Walt Disney's Bambi! The writer of Kimba was a huge fan of Disney so in the long run even if Disney did copy Kimba they more or less copied off themselves. The more you know! xD
I'm betting the author probably thought it was an honor.
Actually Kimba was one of those franchises, like the Simpsons, where the show had pretty much everything a lion could do. This is due to Kimba had multiple tv shows and movies. So, it’s impossible to have Simba do something that Kimba hasn’t already did.
As for the more popular belief about this copying, is a Kimba movie that supposedly was in production before Lion King was thought of. It turns out that there isn’t any evidence of this being the case, but there was evidences of it being in production after the Lion King was released, based on a YT video that went into a lot of detail about Lion King copying Kimba.
Lastly the Simba sounds too similar to Kimba thing, in reality Simba means lion in Swahili, along with the rest of the Lion King crew having Swahili terms as their names.
That's quite the effort! I'm sure you went through similar research as YMS, but that's just me.
A Lion Manganime inspired by a DEER…
*wow*
XD
no, everyone focused on l being black because all the people who were going on about "whitewashing" and telling movie makers how to make there movies, were then praising there choice to replace l with a black guy, i garente you almost everyone who actually loves the source material, understands why a movie made in a majority white country has white actors for a lot of roles. the people who were actually upset where a very vocal few that have been yelling about this stuff for years :/ claiming everyone is racist
its not really that controversial its just news organizations propping it up, trust me. if you disagree plz tell me why... i will only accept answers from people that dont talk about opression, racism, institutional anything or represintation. because those things dont exist or dont matter to the story.
In my opinion, i don't really care who plays a character, sure it would be cool of the actor's nationality matched that of the character, but it's not required to make it good.
Sir Dante the Dank I honestly do not care about who plays a character, especially if they’re bi-racial, like L. The reason I hated the live action death note movie is that it actively trampled on the series that got me into anime in the first place, and is one of my favorite anime’s that I’ve watched so far. I couldn’t care less if the character from an anime is played by a white person cause almost all characters in anime look like their white already (or is that just me?).
I believe artists can make any type of story they want. It's their story they should be free to do whatever they want to do.
michael hall Within reason. People will take it too far, ::points to video for Japanese example:: And you too Ren Seeks Help!
Within basic reason
Number one should have been '4kids'
Codey Wynne in a way it is
Codey Wynne they're kinda the same
YOU KNOW!
4KIDS!!😄👍🏻
Just to be off topic a bit, but if your sandwich gets eaten by an Ivysaur, it's just unlucky, but at least the Ivysaur was satisfied
So America can allow zombie gore on tv but not rice balls??
BIG DADDY CHOCO 😑 true
No... remember that those censorship things took place 30 years ago.. and have little to no bearing on current standards. because 30 years ago, zombies werent on tv either... and the closest things were to "sexy" was Daisy Duke's cut off shorts... and that was on after 9pm. as was Baywatch, 10 years later. Cant really compare the 80's and 90's to current standards.. there's plenty of adult based animation on tv now, and it too is on later at night... but rarely censored.
Ugh, censorship is bullshit. It's getting to the point that it's becoming suffocating for artists and creators. :/ RATINGS matter more than censorship.
They destroy the art itself bc they should "think of the children" it's not fair to the creators
I agree. My mother does not believe in censorship. Neither do I, mainly because it's bullshit.
Preach. Censorship should not be so controlling. Instead, parents should be more responsible. If you don't think little Timmy should be watching something, it doesn't have to be censored. Just don't let him watch it. This was a major problem when tons of parents were upset by all the adult themes when they took their kids to see Deadpool. IT'S AN R-RATED MOVIE! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!
Wow it's cool to see you talk about Precure. i'd love if you did precure vids, unless you're not that into it
also, the current Precure season has a dark skinned character who is Mexican/Japanese so that's good
Screw Censorship! Art should be open. The only thing we should have is ratings so that some people can make an informed decision as to what they would like to be exposed to and what they would prefer to stay away from. Personal responsibility for the individual and the parent.
i can,t believe how senitive or how literally people take anime its just ridickulous. i mean anime is a media entertaiment type to sit down to and enjoy a good show. not to nit pick at every god damn story element that dosen,t work out the way you want it to. seriously people cut it out here i am trying to enjoy a good show and instead bloody trolls or over sensitive people have to ruin it for me.
Amen to that sister
To quote Mark Twain "censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
I'm suprised the rape scene(s) from "Berserk" didnt make it on here. One of the few times in my life I have been thoroughly disturbed.
ValleyKnight People are more easy towards Berserk since it's marketed as a very mature dark fantasy and was published in a seinen (18+) magazine.
Piracy: As long as official streams refuse to show me all shows while I pay them money, I'm not paying them.
Or if official subs are worse than fan ones.
Honestly I'd much rather just pay for Japanese TV.
One big controversy that I can think of happened in an early Pokemon episode. Specifically, the Porygon episode. What made it so controversial is the fact that the cyber explosion special effects that they used strobed so badly that they caused a lot of people, especially children, to go into seizures. They quickly took that episode off the air and have never shown the episode or re-released it ever again, not even in digitally remastered versions.
BBC forgot to mention the Age of Consent in japan is 13.
That's because they're pretty ignorant to other cultures.
That's a common urban legend. The age of consent in Japan is 18 (16 in some prefectures). CNN is obviously trying to spin a story for views, but the age of consent isn't thirteen.
kotori minami have you even tried to type "japan age of consent" on google? literally 5 sec research '-'
well going by that in the USA for content viewing the age is 18+ or 13+ with an adult with you
while in the USA normally the age of consent to sex is 13 with a person who is not related to them and +/- 2 yrs of them until that person is over 18 to which that will be rape between the couple even if they have been together for years and one side is 17 with the other being 18 thus why it is normally termed 18+ to get around all the conditions for the younger ages than that
It is weird how you can term stuff to mean what you want IF you do not say the terms and conditions for it to which is why everyone should read the ToS agreements to everything though by you just bein gable to comment here you personal data is probably already sold over 400 times to 4,000 different corporations around the world
This is the 5th time I'm asking Robyn senpai. Please top 10 siblings in anime
Equestrian Warrior no contest. Simon and Kamina
Equestrian Warrior
Well, Ed and Al from Fullmetal Alchemists Brotherhood would be in the Top 3.
how about top 1o best unrelatted sibling(one) in anime and put Tsuna on it(I just want a list with Katekyo Hitman Reborn on it)
how about top 10 brother's then top 10 sisters
If it's the 5th time, I'm pretty sure she may have already seen at least one of them.
16:50 I think the actual problem with Mr. Poppo and Jinx is that they look like someone wearing blackface.
11:46 Russia did it better. They made Sailor Saturn a dude.
Instinct Bros Gaming Why????
Ghost Lover because they hate homosexual relationships. look up Russia's anti-gay laws they a f up dude.
@@thedragong yeah, you're not even allowed to wear rainbows.
Actually one time 7 LGBT+ people dressed up in the pride colors
(One guy wore all red, the next wore all orange, etc) and the police couldn't do shit
In defense of Pacific Rim, haven't the creators actually said, that the movie is a hommage on japanese Kaiju and Mecha movies/series.
Also, isn't Prism Ilya actual borderline childpornography?
So is Boko no Pico but no one addresses that as being child porn.
Sure you can explain james having breasts. Jessie and James are Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny clones brainwashed by team Rocket.
Pacific Rim is a tribute to the Mecha genre. So it having the basic structure of almost every Mecha Anime ever is not about copying but showing love and appreciation for the genre.
Also, I don't think that copying is such big of a deal. Sure, it can be ridiculous but sometimes it's the best way to tell a story to a different audience that would have never heard of it normally or even create something new and interesting along the way.
But nice video as a whole.
thank you for calling out the gamergate bullshit.
michael hall light regardless of where you stood on the argument I just thought that was disrespectful as hell to the original creators work. this isn't like Marvel Comics with lapsing ownerships and what not. --- more often than not that Creator is still alive to see someone else misappropriate their work for their own message.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is the gamergate BS?
Depending on who you listen to:
GamerGate: A movement that started after Zoe Quinn was caught in a conflict of interest with her BF, Nathan Grayson
Anti-GG: A movement that started as a harassment campaign towards Zoe Quinn because her ex-BF got mad at her.
Look at all the evidence and make your own conclusions, but IMO, I believe the first story.
gamergate was a consumer led revolt against the blatantly corrupt games journalism industry it would go on to be slandered and labeled as a rape happy hate group by the likes of sarkesian and her ilk
QbrotherSoulStar When?
I am very anti censorship for a number of reasons.
1. the creator of a piece of media should have total creative control over their product.
2. age ratings exist for a reason.
3. parents just want a reason to complain.
I can on and on about how I hate censorship, but you get my point.
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Seriously, how do all these anime fans keep missing the fact that JINX ISN'T A RACIST REPRESENTATION! It's the myth of the Yama-uba, a part of Japanese folklore, not freaking blackface! It baffles me how often this is overlooked just because Pokemon caved in to the pressure over it. So many people just assume that "Oh, they apologized, that means they must have meant it to be blackface!" when it's a friggin case of poor cultural translation. This after the whole localization bit kills me, because no attempt was made to learn the culture, it just got thrown under the bus. I had hoped a friggin anime channel would at least get that.
I thought Jynx was actually a parody of the Ganguro fashion popular around the time Pokemon came out..
Paladin585, I get what you're saying and I agree that people initially flipped out about it, like when every parent in the country lost their minds when they saw what they presumed to be swastika on a Pokemon card. But I do feel the need to also bring up the infamous Christmas Special where all of Santa's helpers are Jinx(jinxes, jinxi?) which uncomfortably parallels a very racist Christmas story/explanation.
Paladin585 Unfortunately, the reason why most people didn't take the time to find out what was really going on with Jinx is because of things that came before... People (especially in America) are reminded of the things that appeared just fifty or sixty years ago, when it was completely acceptable to use certain forms of so-called representation to depict non-white characters, so now, people consider anything that even comes close to resembling that, to be that, regardless of wit actually is... Example: Kim Kardashian was basically just trying to sell some cosmetics, I could see that she was trying to show what they could do, but literally millions of people took offense, & started saying that she was trying to pretend that she's black, & calling her advertisement, blackface... There's a lady who was the chairwoman of a chapter of the NAACP over in Spokane, WA (at least I think it was Spokane), & people completely flipped when they found out that she wasn't actually black, I think they called it "cultural appropriation" or something like that, & to be fair, she had claimed in many different occasions that she was black, though to be fair to that, her biological brothers were black, so how could anyone but her parents know that she herself wasn't black, just like if I had grew up with white siblings, I'd probably believe that I had white in me as well (though to be fair to me, there are white people who are actually related to me by blood, but still...), & a lot of people actually seemed happy that not only did this lady lose her status as chairwoman, she was borderline destitute because no one else would hire her... Granted, her claiming that she was black for years, probably didn't help her at all, but I think she was more identifying with the things that black people have been through, especially since, looking at her pictures, she does look like she could actually have black in her DNA, though if that's due to her tanning too much or something like that, or if it's "natural", I am not sure...
She probably saw what her brothers went through back when they were all younger, & thought (like a few people do), "that's just appalling, what can I do to help stop this from happening?"... & joining the NAACP is a good place to start... & it's not like she's an idiot who wouldn't have had a future unless she lied about being black...
Well anyway, I'm sure that you got what I meant after the first few sentences, so now this just seems like rambling incoherent nothingness... Enjoy the rest of your week!!!...😁
Dude, listen to your own words, and please calm down. The translation is correct, however it can mean "burn-black look" or "dark tanning". It is understandable that Jynx was taken the wrong way, as Japanese culture tends to be a bit blind to other cultures, and I'm sure the possibility of that translation didn't help matters. But the translation is a descriptor, not a term referring to the infamous black-face. And be serious, Santa using Jynx as helpers more likely has to do with them being ice type than a cultural connection to an Austrian legend. Even so, Zwarte Piet's only connection to black-face is that actors used to use make-up to approximate Spanish or Moorish features for the legend. Please do not misunderstand me, I'm not defending the racist representation known as black-face in the least, I agree it needs to stop. But trampling another culture because it looks like something from our culture (assuming we're of the same culture), isn't right either.
Most people only know anime as Japanese culture.
Ratings exist for a reason. While parents do need to be careful about what their kids are watching, keep in mind that graphic shows and video games are very mainstream. Most kids in America, at least where I live, have been allowed to play violent video games. While the age does depend on parents, most of those kids have been playing violent games since they were 9 or 10. Censorship doesn't accomplish much at this point, and restricting what creators can write/show is even worse. As someone who wants to grow up to write horror novels some day, just the idea of not being able to write what I'm best at and enjoy writing is terrible.
Anime is art, it should go without question the mangakas and animators are entitled to artistic freedom to draw and create whatever they want. Ratings do exist, if kids find inappropriate things its the parents fault not the creators.
Here's a joke:
That anime where that guy loses both loves of his life but somehow goes back in time (forgot the name)
Invader Pikachu I think you're thinking about the ending to Clannad-After Story
+aronthe8bitgamer yup
Invader Pikachu re zero
Newest anime Controversies:
Season 3 of Overlord, Goblin Slayer episode 1, SAO Alicization episode 10, Vic Mignogna situation, FLCL Progressive, Ichigo kissing Hiro in Darling in the Franxx, and so much more to come ladies and gentlemen.
Jordan Fazende How are season 3 of Overlord and FLCL Progressive controversial?
@@nickzipp3660 Overlord season 3 because of Ainz's full turn to the dark side which caused fans to rage quit and FLCL Progressive because of how much fans hated it
On Dragon Ball Evolution, to be fair, Goku is an alien. So, can't really hit on that bit too hard. And one of the very, VERY few things I am NOT angry with that film about. There's plenty of other things in that film to be pissed about anyway.
fromolwyoming I know right like the story the bad acting for starters it would take to long to list everything wrong with Dragon Ball Evolution
fromolwyoming im the only guy dat likes the film
To each their own, White Darkness.
Reminds me of Team Four Star's DBS skit with Goku Black.
Goku's all "you're not black; you're white, or asian, or whatever we are".
You can't be mad at the fact that he's the "wrong" ethnicity. However, you can be mad at the fact that his acting was horrible.
"Go speed racist, speed racist, speed racist go!!!" - Cyanide and happiness [I thing episode is named Speed racist, but I am not sure]
I remember this!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA go back to Africa! lol
"Harassment and death threats" vol...tron?
"I am a master gender bender" Oh, so you're tumblr then?
Deviantart be like:
*That cute*
rex wort so very true my friend. so very true.
International representation? or also lack of? look at Hetalia, I don't think there's a single black character or even atleast based off an African country
You're only half right. There isn't a representation of an African country but there is a black character (Cuba).
Actually hetalia has the representations of Egypt, Cameroon and Seychelles, which in case you do not know ...
They are African countries!!
Nintendo Console Cuba is hispanic not black, and also that's the only Latin American country they've shown, so they forgot 2 whole continents, South America & Africa
FlyingVioletBunny I've seen the seychelles but that's just a small archipeloago of islands and a minute fraction of the rest of the african continent, also they along with Camoroon and egypt are not black, they make up a small minority in case you didnt know
Jason Yanes and there was a black soldier when America and England were in an army camp
What really makes me mad is the same-sex relationships, as well as the harassments and death threats
Also, I was wondering why I could never find that season of Sailor Moon when I was kid. Guess I know now!
Top 10 same sex couples in anime maybe?
Yes!
Last time I checked I've watched anime for 17 years and never done anything to anyone. Oh god this means I'm going to do evil things one day noooo!
One thing that keeps coming up with the people that I know is DUBBING! You can't be a real anime fan if you watch your animes dubbed.
Personally i prefer anime subbed, but that doesn't mean that all anime dubs are bad, i watched my hero academia and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood both subbed and dubbed and i honestly can't decide wich one is better.
Whitewashing: It's more of an issue of when a liberty is given with race, the default is someone white and or which takes away from jobs from different actors as well as producers and directors not even looking for an actor of a different race. This has a big example with the movie the last airbender with not only Katara and Sokka but also having someone dark skin playing zuko which continues the stereotype of a dark skin character being the evil villain and the light skin characters being on the side of good. As for the Japanese that were okay with it...that's just showing one-side from a 'mono-culture' country when the question should had been asked to Japanese-Americans who have to see a lack of representation in media that isn't nerdy, techy or sexualized.Also then comes the issue of the effort put into the movies. How many anime live action have done well in the box office or with the audience. Not too many. Lazy writing, graphics etc. They just shrug it off and make the excuses that people didn't want to watch anime based movies. Similar to how Marvel was blaming diversity for low sales. Instead of bad writing or drawings. Too many in media assume that different races, genders or sexual preference as the main character aren't an interest in the public eye and go the cookie cutter routes.
ThaOddGurl Well, that's something I never really thought about, until now.
You can call The Last Airbender movie many things, but racists isn’t really one of them. M. Night Shyamalan, the director of the movie, is an Indian man and he gave arguably the best characters in the series, Zuko and Iroh, to Indian actors. Culturally incorrect, yes, since the Fire Nation is more based off of the Japanese culture while the Water Tribe is based of the Eskimo culture. Racist, I don’t think so.
My only hope is y'all get a lot views so y'all can get some money. Or how ever it works.
CMG Coolcg2020 It works with ads and views.
And sponsorships.
17:40 YOU mention precure!!!!!!!! (especially happiness charge, well I know that)
thing is tho jinx is based on an old japanese yokai that has literal black skin....
Yama-uba was said have dark skin, gold hair, a red kimono, and known for her dancing skills. All things Jynx is know for. Also, she lived on a snow mountain and Jynx is an ice type Pokémon.
for fandom harassment, look no further than the new voltron fandom! Enough glorified ship wars and redundant morality crusades to make you vomit your guts!!
btamamura it started out as a misunderstanding since a fan managed to get a tour of the studio and posted the pics online. apparently that was illegal and so she and others endeavoured to delete the existing material. 3 people refused to give up easily, one because she felt there was no point since it already out, the remaining 2 were new blogs that said they wouldn't delete it if the studio didn't make klance and trans girl Pidge canon (some people claim they were trolls, with how people like them have acted we have our doubts). Long story short, both blogs deleted their stuff & some idiots showed their true colours by actually of approving of blackmail since it was "for the sake of representation!11!!!!". I hate this fandom so much it hurts, the stupidity is also amusing though
btamamura and of course there was the shoe discourse from recently, but that's on its own league of stupidity
Right? I love Voltron just as much as the next person, but I just hate the fandom sometimes because they do the dumbest things.
athena christine-dorsey I'm coming to hate internet fandom more and more these days tbh, but voltron discourse is just it's own level of tiring
Especially with the shipping war. After The Blade Of Marmora was released, all of the Klance shippers were bragging to the Sheith shippers and were saying Sheith isn't canon, and I'm like "Whoa calm down. It wasn't canon in the first place." I'm so glad I'm both a Klance and Sheith shipper so I wouldn't be a part of that stupid war.
I love Pokémon and have been with it since Kanto, and I have equated Jynx with that! I always thought she was supposed to be humanoid but not a representative of any human
Anime Shouldn't Be Censored!
Nothing should be censored!