Anime Censoring Compared to the Manga

[Joe]

I should really read the manga. It sounds like the anime left some small stuff out involving the characters parents. Then they added other stuff that wasn't in the manga. Like Kawabara's sister falling for Sakyo.

[Katzztar]

I should really read the manga. It sounds like the anime left some small stuff out involving the characters parents. Then they added other stuff that wasn't in the manga. Like Kawabara's sister falling for Sakyo.

I certainly advise reading it. I'm going to re-read it again.

The anime really changed a lot of stuff. For instance, When Kuwabara talked to Okubo about his powers to sense ghosts near, he described as a chill, in the English version of the anime, it was called a "tingle" ... WTF! A tingle... X__X
Another thing they change is how the others react to him. While Hiei and Kuwabara Kazuma still faught, in the anime Kurama doesn't insult him in Maze Castle as he does in the anime. Again in the English version its worse than the orginal Japanese. After fighting Byako, Kurama asks what Kuwabara is doing. He responds he's resporbing his energy, in the anime they have Kurama say something thats slight condensending, int he English its very obvious that Kurama is being condensending. I can't remember exactly what was said but in the anime its to the affect that gave the impression that Kurama thoughtt hat Kuwabara couldn't tell he already re-asorbed his energy.

[Joe]

Well i always found the english dub more entertaining but even i know without having watched all of the japanese version with subs or reading the manga that majority of the english dub lines are completely different. I can see how it would make fans of the original dub angry.

[Katzztar]

Well i always found the english dub more entertaining but even i know without having watched all of the japanese version with subs or reading the manga that majority of the english dub lines are completely different. I can see how it would make fans of the original dub angry.

That and they use voices that really put some people off. I can't tell you how many immature fans of YYH that bashed Kuwabara simply becasue of the grating English voice he was given, never mind it was nothing like the Japanese version, that was more deeper ...save when he got hyper and greeted "Yuuukiiina-chan!" lol but those cases he was a normal 14-15 yr old boy greeting a crush

[Joe]

Well its not like he looks his proper age anyway. When i first saw the show i thought Yusuke looked too old to be 14.

[pieceluffy]

Its ridiculous how One Piece censorship is growing. At the recent episodes they are removing almost all the blood for example when Hody wants to kill Neptune in the manga he hits him and theres blood on his face and in the ground but in the animes there is NO blood at all and when Luffy kicks Hody in the stomach Hody spits blood but in the anime... nothing. At this rate in 1 or 2 years One Piece will be so childish like Pokemon.
This is just stupid One Piece looks so childish now that im thinking about stop watching it, it is not that awsome show that it used to be im very disapoited.

[Badass SnoCone]

Its ridiculous how One Piece censorship is growing. At the recent episodes they are removing almost all the blood for example when Hody wants to kill Neptune in the manga he hits him and theres blood on his face and in the ground but in the animes there is NO blood at all and when Luffy kicks Hody in the stomach Hody spits blood but in the anime... nothing. At this rate in 1 or 2 years One Piece will be so childish like Pokemon.
This is just stupid One Piece looks so childish now that im thinking about stop watching it, it is not that awsome show that it used to be im very disapoited.

It's not an awesome show anymore....because there's less blood?

[TheCook]

It's not an awesome show anymore....because there's less blood?

16 characters of lol

[worstje]

No, because Toei keeps saving on animation and removing stuff that makes the scenes just that little bit more believable. One Piece has its cheerful comedy moments, and its dark omfg-no moments. Fishman Island as a whole is being sugar-coated left and right. The tension is being dragged out all over. If characters looked seriously messed up rather than this 4kids-style 'oops I was knocked out' sort of stuff, it simply is more enjoyable because the danger actually seems real inside the OP world. As it is, I keep waiting for the Usopp 10,000 Ton Hammer, or the likes of Foxy.

Obviously, I am not pieceluffy, but it is how I feel about the animes handling of this arc. I want to see the grit of Thriller Bark. The destruction of Enies Lobby. The pain of the final battle with Kuma at Sabaody Archipelago.

This is Fishman Island. An arc people have waited for for a long time, with tons of dark history belying it. And Toei does not deliver with that.

[Velguador]

No, because Toei keeps saving on animation and removing stuff that makes the scenes just that little bit more believable. One Piece has its cheerful comedy moments, and its dark omfg-no moments. Fishman Island as a whole is being sugar-coated left and right. The tension is being dragged out all over. If characters looked seriously messed up rather than this 4kids-style 'oops I was knocked out' sort of stuff, it simply is more enjoyable because the danger actually seems real inside the OP world. As it is, I keep waiting for the Usopp 10,000 Ton Hammer, or the likes of Foxy.

Obviously, I am not pieceluffy, but it is how I feel about the animes handling of this arc. I want to see the grit of Thriller Bark. The destruction of Enies Lobby. The pain of the final battle with Kuma at Sabaody Archipelago.

This is Fishman Island. An arc people have waited for for a long time, with tons of dark history belying it. And Toei does not deliver with that.

Neither did Oda.

[SSJLuffy]

I see the problems in both the anime and manga version of this arc, but I'm not going to lie. I'm enjoying the anime version and I enjoyed the manga version of this arc. Guess I'm easy to please.

[LegendarySogeKing]

In this most recent episode (553) the king and the three princes aren't bleeding as much as they were in chapter 633 after getting hit with shark arrows....

I'm starting to become worried about the censoring levels

Before it was bearable but now its starting to feel like there won't be any blood ever again at this rate. Plus I heard punk hazard was really brutal so thats another thing to worry about aswell

[pieceluffy]

No, because Toei keeps saving on animation and removing stuff that makes the scenes just that little bit more believable. One Piece has its cheerful comedy moments, and its dark omfg-no moments. Fishman Island as a whole is being sugar-coated left and right. The tension is being dragged out all over. If characters looked seriously messed up rather than this 4kids-style 'oops I was knocked out' sort of stuff, it simply is more enjoyable because the danger actually seems real inside the OP world. As it is, I keep waiting for the Usopp 10,000 Ton Hammer, or the likes of Foxy.

Obviously, I am not pieceluffy, but it is how I feel about the animes handling of this arc. I want to see the grit of Thriller Bark. The destruction of Enies Lobby. The pain of the final battle with Kuma at Sabaody Archipelago.

This is Fishman Island. An arc people have waited for for a long time, with tons of dark history belying it. And Toei does not deliver with that.

Thats exacly what I wanted to say, One Piece used to be a tv series that mixed comedy and violece and thats what makes One Piece so special because it can be funny as hell but it can also be very dramatic and serious like that scene on thriller bark arc when Zoro took all the pain from Luffy, it was just epic but now One Piece is losing the dramatic and darker part and that makes me feel like im watching a kids show when I watch One Piece. Im pissed of with Toei they are ruining every single mature manga like Toriko and Fairy Tail turnig it into kids crap and now they are ruining One Piece F*CK THEM.

[Galaxy 9000]

Thats exacly what I wanted to say, One Piece used to be a tv series that mixed comedy and violece and thats what makes One Piece so special because it can be funny as hell but it can also be very dramatic and serious like that scene on thriller bark arc when Zoro took all the pain from Luffy, it was just epic but now One Piece is losing the dramatic and darker part and that makes me feel like im watching a kids show when I watch One Piece. Im pissed of with Toei they are ruining every single mature manga like Toriko and Fairy Tail turnig it into kids crap and now they are ruining One Piece F*CK THEM.

First off... Fairy Tail isn't made by Toei. One Piece is also supposed to be a kids show, that is their targeted audience in Japan. While censoring blood does suck, I really don't care about it anymore, because seeing lots of blood is only cool where you're 13 years old.

[LegendarySogeKing]

First off... Fairy Tail isn't made by Toei. One Piece is also supposed to be a kids show, that is their targeted audience in Japan. While censoring blood does suck, I really don't care about it anymore, because seeing lots of blood is only cool where you're 13 years old.

I beg to differ. We don't want blood because it's "cool" or "edgy", its because it can ad a lot of depth to a scene. For instance, when luffy stood up after getting hit by luccis rokuougan, he was physically devastated. The blood really showed this. As he made an effort to stand up we could better see all the pain he was struggling through. Without the blood it probably would have had less of an impact. Imagine if he just had a few cuts and scrapes? The scene would not have been as epic or powerful. Thats just one scene.

What about when zoro took luffys pain? The sheer amount of will and character it took for him to keep standing while dripping with blood was very strong and very well shown. If he was not bloody, the scene would have had less power because the pain he took would have looked less significant.

Blood can really illustrate a characters struggles, or pains so you should think twice before you say something like that. Blood is very important.

[TheCrystalShip]

Wasn't there blood, like, in the episode directly preceding this one? When Hody hit Neptune with an uchimizu?

[pieceluffy]

First off... Fairy Tail isn't made by Toei. One Piece is also supposed to be a kids show, that is their targeted audience in Japan. While censoring blood does suck, I really don't care about it anymore, because seeing lots of blood is only cool where you're 13 years old.

I dont want to see blood because it's cool nobody wants, I want to see blood because it makes the anime more realistic and mature. Actualy when I was 13 years old I watched One Piece and because of the amount of blood they shown back then I thouth it was targeted for teenagers between 14-18 years old but now, specialy since the new world saga began it seems like a kids show. Btw if you don't care about censorship what are you doing here?

[worstje]

Neither did Oda.

The manga version of Fishman Island is like the manga version of Skypiea: slow to deliver. It is a tadbit worse in that the story underperforms in the eyes of many people. However, two things set the manga and anime apart when one compares those arcs:

1) Slow as Skypiea may have been, it was animated quite decently. Even when I rewatched it not too long ago, I had no complaints about it. It sucks me in and has me enjoy it. FI, and MF before that, have so much dragging that it pisses me off. I know what's coming, but the pace is lacking.

2) (Re-)reading a manga chapter takes 5 minutes, maybe 10 minutes tops if you read slow and really admire the images, which I cannot recall ever disappointing me. And even if the pace is slow, it is a pace I myself set; the manga panels properly give off the sense of urgency belonging to the scene. An anime episode however takes 20 minutes. I am fully dependant on Toei for my experience; I cannot speed it up, slow it down, or otherwise enjoy it the way I want to. Thus, their decisions have to be very good even where the manga can make mistakes.

I can re-read the manga of MF and FI, and fully enjoy them. However, neither arc manages to please me in the anime. In comparison, there is Enies Lobby, which was also dragged out because they ran out of manga, and that is an arc I can fully enjoy from begin to end. Slow pacing does not actually kill that arc. Thus, it is possible to stretch things out and have it be enjoyable. But Toei makes the wrong decisions. :(

Edit: Apologies, this post is slightly offtopic as it isn't so much censoring but rather general gripes about the anime in these arcs. Regardless, I do feel blood makes the scenes more realistic. I am not asking for Gantz gore here. I am asking for the same level of blood we used to get, which was never outrageous, and always tastefully done.

[Mr. Luffy]

Sometimes, blood content seems to be shown at pretty random intervals (in comparison to the manga depiction). Maybe some animators hold back on it more than others. Or maybe drawing and animating blood details/wounds is too labor intensive at times and they just cut corners by minimizing it or removing it. There is certainly a TV censorship element to it, but its still widely inconsistent at times.

[Katzztar]

I dont want to see blood because it's cool nobody wants, I want to see blood because it makes the anime more realistic and mature. Actualy when I was 13 years old I watched One Piece and because of the amount of blood they shown back then I thouth it was targeted for teenagers between 14-18 years old but now, specialy since the new world saga began it seems like a kids show. Btw if you don't care about censorship what are you doing here?

I agree. I remember watching when the anime first came out in the USA, I stopped watching it after the fight between Zoro and Mihawk. 4Kids had removed out all the blood and so when Zoro fell I, and many others, were "WTF! he fainted/passed out because his shirt was ripped?" PATHETIC. Even a bit of blood in that scene would say that big cut and it scratched him for so little blood so why the scar? Just a brief glimpse of blood shows how badly he was injured and made it more realistic and explained why he was so injured. And no, I am not a teenager who watches it just for blood. I was already an adult when I tried to watch it.


I still haven't returned to watching full time. So I've not seen reacent issues, if

Spoiler:

they are cutting down on showing blood, how are they handling Mr. Nosebleed moments? And if one thinks showing blood desn't affect the show, think of the ending moments that define the arc ... the lack of blood would/will cheapen the meaning in that moment=
When Luffy has lsot so much blood and needs a transfusion so Jinbe ignores the rule of not giving blood to humans and steps forward.