Bowdlerise / Bleach

• Soul Society Arc:
  • Early in the manga, Gin cuts off a giant guard's arm with his Shikai. In the anime, Gin only leaves him with a not particularly deep wound on his arm, which still takes some hard work by Orihime to heal.
  • Kuukaku Shiba is changed from missing her right arm to wearing a prosthetic.
  • Another one: Most of the characters who wear hakama or revealing outfits have their skin covered by white cloth. Most noticeably is Soifon, who has everything except her shoulders covered in the anime, even though in the dialogue she specifically mentions that the clothes have no back.
  • In the manga, Aizen takes a huge chunk out of Ichigo's hip, almost cleaving him in half. The camera panned up to avoid the excessive gore, and when we get a better look at his wounds, the gash was toned down to a simple cut.
• Arrancar Arc:
  • When Yammy splits open an Arrancar nurse's head, he punches her into the wall in the anime, though there's an enormous amount of blood plastered on the wall and the head is covered by a silhouette. In the anime, he grumbles about how he would've punched her through the wall if he was at full strength. Notably, the dub maintains the original line of how he would've split her in half at full strength.
  • Grimmjow kills Luppi by blowing his torso away with a Cero. He impales Luppi's torso clean in the manga, but the camera pans away from that. The flash from the cero obscures the gore, and although his legs fall to the ground, we don't see the upper half.
  • When Szayel uses Gabriel on Nemu. Instead of impregnating her, enlarging her stomach, opening a giant jagged gash in her skin and forcing her to give birth to him, he turns into a pink mist and comes out her mouth, with enlarged cells dividing to recreate his body. She goes from wrinkled and emaciated to pale and sickly, as well.
  • When Chad's arm was crushed into pieces by Yammy, it was replaced with multiple lacerations on his arm.
  • When Ichigo goes through the fight to defeat his Inner Hollow, at one point he fights Kensei in the real world as a Hollow. In the manga, Kensei cuts off Ichigo's left arm, and it grows back as a Hollowfied arm. In the anime, Kensei only slashes the left shoulder, and the wound is then instantly healed by his Hollow side.
  • Also, the next time we see Kensei in the manga (a few chapters later), he has a bloody temple from his fight with Ichigo. In the anime, he's just a little scuffed up.
  • The anime cuts out massive amounts of blood from the Ichigo vs. Hollow Ichigo fight... and turns all the blood black.
  • In the anime, Grimmjow stomps on Loly after bitch slapping her. In the manga, he kicks her in the stomach and tears off her leg before stomping on her.
  • In the manga, Loly punches Orihime and threatens to tear out her fingernails. In the anime, she merely slaps her and doesn't give any specific threat.
  • The second Ichigo vs. Grimmjow had Grimmjow covered in black blood, and then the blood suddenly disappears and becomes a bunch of scratches (as opposed to being covered in blood in the Manga).
  • The Shonen Jump releases sometimes tone down the violence and some of the dialogue regarding Rangiku's breasts, like when she offers to give Orihime a hug instead of absorbing her tears with her breasts. This is another instance where the dub keeps the original line of "my bosom's your pillow~!"
  • In Ichigo's first fight with Ulquiorra, the Manga featured Ichigo having a severely burnt and bloody body; the anime, on the other hand, had his body full of burnt scratches.
  • In the fight with Szayelaporro, Uryu's Seele Schneider goes through Szayel's neck|/chest area in the manga. In the anime, it's silhouetted and the arrow goes through his stomach.
  • In the anime, Szayelaporro turns his henchman into a purple blob before eating it, instead of devouring him whole in the manga.
  • When Szayel uses his voodoo dolls to crush his opponents' innards, the blood they puke in the manga is changed to water in the anime.
  • Some of the subtext between Nnoitra and Orihime was toned down during the transition from manga to anime. For instance, where the manga has him shove his fingers down Orihime’s throat during Ichigo’s fight with Tesra, in the anime he covers her mouth with his hand. This is because the original gesture was an allusion to a then very common kink in hentai artwork.
• Fake Karakura Town Arc:
  • One somewhat clumsily executed example is the treatment of the scene where Harribel's Fraccion cut off and fuse their left arms to create Ayon; they don't quite cut off their arms, but turn them into red energy, and instead of a bloody stump, there's a glowing red sphere where their left arms end. Granted, this does make more sense than the image of the girls severing their arms, throwing the limbs together and the skin magically forming into Ayon.
  • Instead of Ayon ripping Rangiku's entire right side out below the ribs like in the manga, there's merely has her appear badly bruised and with massive internal damage. The anime does have blood spurting in a silhouette after he punched her, though.
  • More manga-to-anime censorship: one infamous example is where Ichigo cuts a guy's arm off; in the anime, Ichigo jumps, and his opponent's arm just falls off — you never see the actual cut. (In the same episode, litres of spit fly from the characters' mouths instead of the blood shown in the manga. What the...?)
  • Harribel's outfit bared nearly all her breasts in the Japanese manga, but in the official U.S. translations, her top extends to cover her whole breasts. In addition, after she takes off the little jacket to show her Espada number, in the anime (at least) her Stripperiffic covering extends to the undersides of her breasts and around her back, too. Some of the other Arrancar also had changes done to their outfits to show less skin, like Mila Rose having a spiked bra instead of a boney claw that looks like it's groping her.
  • Ishida has his forearm off when he goes against Ulquiorra second form in the manga, the anime version he simply just gets what looks like a badly burned and scratched forearm much like what happened to Rangiku a few eps back.
  • In the final Ichigo vs. Ulquiorra fight, instead of the massive amounts of burnt flesh and blood pouring from Ichigo in the Manga, the anime has Ichigo being covered in burnt scratches, again.
  • When Harribel destroys Hitsugaya's ice clone, the manga has the cut bleeding profusely, as if it were real. In the anime, the blood is gone and it goes from way too conveniently convincing to so unconvincing, it's a miracle she bought the decoy. This doubles as an example of Voodoo Shark, since while it solves the problem of how an ice-clone can appear to be bleeding, it then creates a Plot Hole as to exactly why this would fool Harribel considering her accomplished status.
  • When Gin attacks Hiyori, in the manga, she's cut in half just above the waist. In the anime he stabs her but does cut the blade out the rest of the way, leaving her in one piece but still horribly wounded.
• The Lost Agent Arc:
  • There's a scene where Ichigo's Fullbring powers are developing and energy surrounds his hand in the shape of the Manji (the kanji used to write the "ban" part of Bankai); the anime changes the shape slightly so the outline resembles a square. This is curious, since the anime retains the Manji shape on Ichigo's Bankai sword.
  • Tsukishima's bookmarking of Orihime Inoue. In the manga, which you can view on the anime page of Fan Disservice, shows a long yet bloodless cut through her chest. In the anime, the wound is completely obscured by a strategically placed hairlock◊.
  • Also during Ichigo's fight with Tsukishima, where the manga has him cut off the latter's arm, in the anime he simply leaves a gash.
• The Thousand Year Blood War
  • Fortunately, it has been greatly averted in the Thousand Year Blood War, with it being gory and uncensored in regards to violence. But fanservice is still censored.
  • The scene where Tenjirō Kirinji teases Ichigo over seeing Rukia naked is left out of the anime adaptation.
  • The scene where Rukia and Renji recall being ordered to strip naked by Senjumaru Shutara, who threatens to castrate Renji when he refuses to completely undress, is omitted from the anime.
  • The scene where Zaraki says that fighting Unohana turns him on is cut.
  • In the part where Masaki suffers an Out-of-Clothes Experience, she is shown as a glowing silhouette with only her head visible and the scene where Isshin gets flustered over her being naked in her mental world is cut.
  • When Yumichika Ayasegawa misgenders Giselle Gewelle to provoke her into attacking, he doesn't say that she smells of semen or accuse her of getting a hard-on, simply accusing her of being a guy and calling her a pervert.

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