Post #2488153
2026-05-05 09:15 UTC
They're also known for highly sanitizing translations. Captain Smoker got localized as "Chaser" because "we can't have kids knowing about smoking". They also replaced Sanji's cigarettes with lollipops. A whole Pokemon episode was entirely cut because it has a gun in it, and the Pokemon he catches in that episode are simply just...handwaved away. Every time you see a "guard" or "heavy" character doing a finger gun at someone in Yu-Gi-Oh, they had an actual gun edited out.
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@FatVegan@leminal.space 2026-05-05 09:36
Don't forget the shadow realm, because americans are such snowflakes, they can't handle people dying.
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@MimicJar@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 18:33
>A whole Pokemon episode was entirely cut because it has a gun in it Just to be fair, it's not just that it "has a gun", and more that the gun is pointed directly at the protagonist.  Yes it's largely done for comedic effect and I think the whole removal of the episode is ridiculous, but pointing guns at people is 100% going to cause bad publicity in gun filled US of A. But they could have easily just cut a few scenes and extended the Pokerap for this episode.