I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.
I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.
Not crazy but in the 80s France imported a fuckton of anime from Japan without thinking about the original target audience.
Since they wanted to show that to kids, they had to censor a lot of stuff. The most funny was when blood was colored in black everywhere (only a black liquid gushing out of bad guys), or when characters were getting drunk on orange juice.
When 4kids imported anime to the US there are some rather infamous scenes where they censor blood making it white instead. So instead of looking like a bloody mess they look like they did bukake.
There’s a Pokémon episode with guns and they just took the guns out lol.
No, they cut the whole episode. So now American viewers had no context for why Ash suddenly had thirty Tauros.
Maybe it was later idk, there’s a version of the episode where they’re doing finger guns. Yugioh had a similar situation too.
Don’t forget City Hunter and Hokuto no Ken. French dubbing replaced love hotels with vegetarians restaurants, and characters said puns and stupid stuff instead of talking seriously.