Wio
Senior Member

Again the key word is ONLINE. That means it is the PARENT'S responsibility to make sure their kids are not accessing inappropriate stuff online in the first place. If the kids have unhindered access to the net because their parents are being too neglectful in terms of knowing what their child is doing, then looking at the unedited version of the hentai I edited is the LEAST of their worries. There's dozens of porn sites online that even on the title page have explicit images of REAL people, and you don't even have to pay money to see these "sample" pictures. And you DEFINITELY don't need torrent software (you need torrent software to download the hentai anime in question). Also, some porn websites are COMPLETELY free (no paying to see "premium" pictures) user submission based sites similar to Photobucket, but unlike Photobucket are meant SPECIFICALLY for pornographic images.

Well that all depends on the kid. First of all the plot (which is mentioned and implied, even after my edits) has to do with rape as a penalty for losing the match. I just removed the specific scenes that were explicit. So I'd still rate it PG-13. So the "kid" shouldn't be watching it until he/she is at least 13 anyway. It's not like 4KidsTV where they literally try to edit it to be G rated or at worst a very mild PG rating. Mine would be PG-13 and I'm not trying to hide that. Secondly if someone younger than 13 sees it, it's not like it would be different than some other anime. For example, if a 6yo is watching the DiC edited version of Sailor Moon season 1, and later they go online and watch the unedited version of the final episode of season 5 of Sailor Moon they are gonna see TONS of nudity. The thing here is how they did it. The key word is ONLINE. If a person under 18 find the unedited copy of the hentai I edited, they will also be finding that ONLINE.

Yes this was dubbed in English (one of the few hentai animes I know that actually saw a US release). If it wasn't dubbed I wouldn't have been able to so accurately edit it. It is almost as important to know what characters are saying as it is to see what they are doing.

Also the not-dirty parts of the scene right after the match (like the badguys taking the STILL CLOTHED girl and dragging her off somewhere) I left in. I did though COMPLETELY delete all of the actual rape scenes. 2 other random sex scenes were not part of the plot, and were completely deleted. Also in dialog this one guy who at first I thought had this one girl as his girlfriend, turns out she was his sister. So due to the "more than sibling love" implied (romantic love) between siblings which seems to condone incest, I removed all scenes and verbal indications that implied his feelings were anything more than simple sibling love.

If the scenes are absolutely important to the plot, then it can't be edited, and I don't bother with it. However I actually cut a hentai (no not just some transformation nude scene, but OUTRIGHT HENTAI!) down to a PG-13 rating once. It was VG Neo. I liked the aspect of it being a martial arts competition with use of magic powers. So right from the start I realized if I could edit it it would be awesome. I decided to try to edit it. I managed to do just that. Because of the nature of the bad scenes being actually PART OF the plot, that the losing waitress (yes the competitors were all waitresses) had to be raped as a penalty for losing the match, I realize I'd have to leave SOME spoken or implied references that the bad scenes DID happen, but not show them. I managed to do this by leaving in spoken dialog where the rules of the match were clearly spelled out. In one scene, a guy says that the penalty will "strip a woman of her dignity and virtue".

And no I'm not thinking of becoming a distributer in the conventional sense. You may have heard of fan-subbers. I'm going to be fan-editor. I don't normally like piracy, but there are cases when it must be done for the good of the people. I tend to edit animes to be appropriate for kids and Christians, and then plan to send out torrents of the edited versions. This way many Americans other than hardcore otakus will be able to watch many NEVER BEFORE CENSORED animes without the feeling of guilt that comes with watching an anime girl stripped naked (some of which NEVER were even sold in the US because censoring companies didn't consider it worth the time it would take to censor, yet didn't want to air it on TV especially on a kids show time segment without editing, and felt that the DVDs wouldn't do well if it hadn't first been on TV).

Then somewhere in the middle is the average anime fan (not the ultra otaku, or the casual animated TV show viewer who could watch either Gundam or X-Men, and quite frankly don't care where they came from). The average anime fan may be glad the nudity is removed, or at least will understand why it was, but will be angered by the unneeded edits like turning sushi into a chocolate chip cookie.

And of course the only pirates are the "otakus" who quite frankly have no moral qualms about nudity (or stealing), so they actually WANT to get it in original form (despite the presnse of nudity). All the normal non-pirating Americans will not care that the lack of nudity is different from the original, and will be glad actually that the nudity was removed, because not they can watch it without feeling dirty and guilty that they watched it (where as otherwise they'd have to go against their values in order to watch it, due to the nudity). Most Americans would have no problem with the other actually UNNEEDED edits, because they wouldn't have seen the original to compare it to to know that is was different.

This forces American distributers of anime to censor the anime to a level many will consider appropriate, BEFORE airing the anime on TV. While this takes the burden off the Japanese to make an less dirty anime to start with, it puts enough burden on American companies that they might just say "forget it, editing this anime will be too hard" and will not buy the distribution rights from the Japanese company. If the anime in question was planned from the start to eventually be sold in the US, then that refusal of American companies to buy it up will actually monetarily HURT the Japanese animation studio. So in the end it was actually DUMB business decision to put nudity in the anime.

While animes that are never released in the US depend entirely on Japanese purchases (and only very slightly on imports bought by hardcore anime fans), animes that are intended to be released in the US (though released in Japan first) will only do well financially if enough Americans buy them. So from a business point of view, taking magical girl animes that are planned for eventual US release, and putting in content that will make many Americans NOT watch them, seems to be very stupid business practice.