History Bowdlerise / AnimeAndManga

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Note that many of the anime edits only apply to the television broadcast version of the show[[note]] Reasons for this include network executives' view of cartoons as still being part of the AnimationAgeGhetto and their fear of MoralGuardians (due to their tendency to either start boycotts or, in America's case, lawsuits); also, the government broadcast authorities—FCC et al—usually have very strict regulations on content meant for children. This also gives the anime companies the chance to [[MoneyDearBoy sell uncensored DVDs and Blu-rays]].[[/note]]. The home video version of that same episode will usually be unedited (exceptions include the English-only versions of ''Manga/ZatchBell'' and ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', as well as the entirety of 4Kids's output besides the first nine episodes of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' and two uncut ''Manga/ShamanKing (2001)'' [=DVDs=]).

Note that many of the anime edits only apply to the television broadcast version of the show[[note]] Reasons for this include network executives' view of cartoons as still being part of the AnimationAgeGhetto and their fear of MoralGuardians (due to their tendency to either start boycotts or, in America's case, lawsuits); also, the government broadcast authorities—FCC et al—usually have very strict regulations on content meant for children. This also gives the anime companies the chance to [[MoneyDearBoy sell uncensored DVDs and Blu-rays]].[[/note]]. The home video version of that same episode will usually be unedited (exceptions include the English-only versions of ''Manga/ZatchBell'' and ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', as well as the entirety of 4Kids's output besides the first nine episodes of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' and five uncut ''Manga/ShamanKing (2001)'' [=DVDs=]).

Due to Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment, we're not making comments on if the quality dropped or not when these dub changes occurred.

In general, the anime adaptations of manga are slightly Bowdlerized, cutting down on violence, rude gestures, etc., but not taking too much away from the main story. Of course, there ''are'' times when things are lost in the transition.

* The practice of Bowdlerization is mocked in the ''Anime/KillLaKill'' parody ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55iX64NmUDA Bully La Bully]]'', which, among other things, [[RaceLift gives all of the characters Western names]] (for example, "Ryuko Matoi" becomes "Riley Matthews" and "Senketsu" becomes "Sam Ketchup"), changes Ryuko's backstory so that her father was [[NeverSayDie put in jail rather than murdered]], and changes Ryuko's and Satsuki's {{Stripperific}} Kamui outfits to much more modest hot dog and hamburger suits, which are [[StylisticSuck made to look poorly tacked onto them]].

* One of the earliest 4kids parody fandubs, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UfIRmkv28 Casey and Friends]], does completely bowdlerizes ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''.

** One of the earliest 4kids parody fandubs, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UfIRmkv28 Casey and Friends]], does this to VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi.