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Originally posted by Newc
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And while watching those cartoon channels (CN, Nick, Boomerang, Foxkids and JetX) I noted something interresting. I first noticed it a few years ago when I was really getting into anime series like "Dragonball Z" and I'm noticing it again with series like "Naruto" which I'm currently really getting into. They cut out things which they happily show in other cartoons.
Guns
There's a scene in the "Great Saiyaman saga" of Dragonball Z where Gohan stops a bankrobbery. Where the robbers are armed to the teeth and are shooting the whole interior of the bank to pieces before beginning a fire fight fight against the hopelessly out gunned police force. In the US Dubbed version, the whole fire fight was removed with the dialogue of the robbers changed into threatening to start firing. Or in the "Cell saga" when Android 17 and Android 18 are demolishing a city. A survivor, who lost his entire family to the murderous androids, raises his gun and fires at 17 hitting him directly in the face. Unscathed 17 walks up to the man who unsuccesfully fires more rounds at point blank range. 17 pulls out his own gun and with some Cowboy talk tells the man that his time has come. In the US Dubbed version, the whole scene of the guy shooting at 17 was removed and his dialogue was changed into telling 17 "Stop or I'll shoot" and when 17 draws his gun they actually changed the animation cells to remove it from his hands.
BUT
If the censores don't allow guns to be showcased in Dragonball Z, they apparently have no trouble with them appearing in other cartoons. Because Tom from Tom and Jerry, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam are frequently seen brandishing guns. And not only in those old-school toons. Because in the "Powerpuff girls" the PPG frequently face criminals brandishing guns and firing all around
Blood
In a series like Naruto where they ways of the Ninja play a large role, getting a punch in the face is anything but cartoonish. For example when Sasuke faces Rock Lee at the Chunin exams, he gets a foot to his chin when Rock Lee starts his "Dance of the falling leaf" attack. Making him spew blood just after recieving that blow. Or later in that episode when Gai-Sensei appears and he punches Rock Lee in the face to punish him for displaying his secret technique so openly, blood streams from Rock Lee's mouth. In the US Dub the animation cells of both scenes were altered to take away the blood.
So...
...if the people who buy up such a series like Naruto to show on US TV have such an issue with Blood then why are they showing it in so many other cartoons which appear in the same channels? For example in the opening of the Powerpuff girls when Buttercup kicks HIM in the face and he's seen spewing blood and losing teeth in the process. Or in "Ed, Edd N Eddy" where after being beaten up by Kevin, the three Ed's walk away bleeding.
Smoking and Drinking
The most cuts made in "Dragonball Z" were not made to hide exessive violence or sexual innuendo. They were to remove cigarettes from people's mouths and to change the liquid inside the glasses from which they were drinking.
But can anybody explain why
Professor Utonium of the Powerpuff girls can get away with smoking a pipe? Or why nobody complains when Yosemite Sam drinks his bottle of rum?
Death
In Naruto there's an episode in which the past of Naruto's teacher Kakashi is revealed. Kakashi lost his closest friend Obito when the cavern they were breaking out of was demolished by enemy ninja. Obito was squashed under a huge boulder and Kakashi unsuccesfully tried to get him free. Obito then offered kakashi is Sharigen all seeing eye which was then tranfered to him by Lin the medical ninja that was with them before saying his goodbyes because he would be dying soon. This whole scene was removed from the US dub and only shows Kakashi and Lin running out from the cavern, Obito seeimingly having vanished into thin air and with no explination how Kakashi got one of Obito's Sharingan eyes. Or during the "Vegeta saga" in Dragonball Z, when Goku arrives at the battlefield where his friends have fought a valiant but futile battle against Nappa. In the US Dub he looks around and for no apparent reason becomes ever more angry at Nappa before charging at him. In the original version of this scene however, Goku arrives and the first thing he sees is the dead body of Picollo, he walks over and scans his neck finding no pulse, he then looks around and sees the corpse of Tenshinhan which makes him grunt on both shock and anger. And then he also spots the corpse of Yamucha, to which Nappa laughs that they never stood a chance against him and that there was also another one who blew himself to pieces in an effort to take Nappa out. Goku realising that that was Chaotzu becomes furious at his friends' deaths and charges at Nappa.
So given that
Why gets Porgy Pig away with Shooting and Killing Sylvester before all nine ghosts of Sylvester's nine lives begin to haunt him. And why don't they have any problem with Tom from Tom and Jerry blowing up the whole house and killing himself in the process?
Somebody explain why they take out stuff from one cartoon but show that same offending thing in another cartoon?
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