Whether a work is an adaptation has nothing to do with censorship (original works and adaptations can both be censored or un-censored), so no, that status of the work doesn't affect the trope.
Anyhow, that example looks like Frothy Mugs of Water being played with.
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There is a lot of examples where a character censors themselves when telling a story, such as How I Met Your Mother and the use of sandwiches as a stand-in for weed ("The dean is coming! Put out your sandwich!" followed by hiding the sandwich and spraying the room with air freshener).
So short answer, no, as it can be about changes in a story as it is being told In-Universe and not specifically about adaptations made in Real Life.
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The examples being mentioned are ones that do not involve in-universe self-censorship. The story is written with the censorship inherent in the original work, not a change imposed by anyone, and the definition specifies adaptations.
In-universe self-censorship is still an adaptation of "real" events, not an original work.
I'm looking at the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs example, specifically, which should be Parental Bonus instead.
edited 14th Jul '14 6:00:16 AM by crazysamaritan
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
So we have three examples now, which I distinguish below:
- How I Met Your Mother example: In-universe narrator self-censors in-universe fact.
- Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun example: Creator converses and lampshades self-censorship in his fictional work.
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Self-censored in original work, without any discussion.
The first example must fit crazysamaritan's definition of in-universe adaptation censorship. In the second example, censorship was done in-universe, but towards an original in-universe work. The third example is a censorship done in Real Life in an original work.
Scientia et Libertas | Per Aspera ad Astra Nova
I originally asked in Lost And Found for the application Frothy Mugs of Water and No Smoking over a specific example what involves shoddy alcohol/tobacco censorship in the original work, which I will list at the end of this post. Turns out the people there cannot agree on the issue, so I want to bring it here. The questions are:
Example in issue:
. The assistant found such censorship overly shoddy.
Scientia et Libertas | Per Aspera ad Astra NovaIn Chapter 2 of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, a mangaka conversed to his assistant that since they draw for a sub-18 demographic (Shōjo Demographic), they cannot show tobacco or alcohol use. Should drinking and smoking among Japanese Delinquents considered necessary in context, on-frame notes should be provided to clarify they're chocolate or juice