Dragon Ball,Z,GT censorship thread

[eledoremassis02]

I was looking at the Kai censorship threads and thought it would be cool to do a similar thread for the original franchises. Even including the edited VHS/TV edited version of the later Funi dubs of Dragon Ball and Z and TV edits of GT. Anyone can contribute

Here's censorship from episodes 1-13 of FUNi's original Dragon ball dub.

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[Retan]

Lol The Panties changed to panties

[garnetjester]

That's the most hilarious edit to me! Shenron panties!

[jpdbzrulz4sure]

They recolored Bulma's panties, but left her butt crack intact???

Okay, I guess it could be her spine, but it looks like a butt crack to me.

[GarrettCRW]

What astonishes me is that when Yamcha is in his dazed "not Dragon Balls" stupor after getting a good look at Bulma's breasteses, his eyes have nipples for pupils even on the TV version.

[ChahikoDBZ]

I don't understand the last one. Why would they change them into Shenron panties?

[Gaffer Tape]

It was because the idea of him wishing for panties was seen as perverted, and they didn't want that. So Oolong just wished for comfortable underwear. The Shenlong decal was used to cover up the bow and used to imply they were special Eternal Dragon underwear.

When FUNimation redubbed it for Cartoon Network, they did away with that and made it so that the joke was on Oolong. He didn't intentionally want panties but was given them anyway. He has a line where he questions what he got: "Girls' underwear?!"

EDIT: Hey, cool. You're in Florida? Me too!

[bkev]

^Ha! I wish I could remember that, it actually sounds kind of funny. They sure were creative with some of those Toonami edits.

Did they really keep Yamcha looking in on Bulma in the 95 dub? It's been such a long time since I've seen it. Hard to believe that ever made it on network television.

[Gaffer Tape]

Yep, they did. All things considered, the censorship in DB was much less heavy-handed than DBZ was a year later. But I don't see that as too unjustifiable in that Yamucha wasn't actually looking to see her naked. Oolong was actually being lascivious, so they changed that to be him looking for Dragon Balls. But that edit never made sense to me, as, the next comparison shows, Blooma's suddenly sleeping exactly where the Dragon Balls had been. I got so disoriented watching that!

[doomydoomydoom]

I like the stupid 90s CGI "AAAAAAAAH" replacing "GYOE~!!", which is so obvious even from the screen how 90s and cheap it is. Nothing like FUNI's early days of CGI editing.

Oh, and they did good work replacing Bulma with Dragon Balls. LOL!

Hopefully someone has some DBZ screens, unfortunately I have nothing to contribute as I've never seen the edited 90s dub. I've seen the screenshots on the old DBZ Uncensored though, and read the comparisons about a billion times. :/

[kei17]

Goku wears a loincloth in the Blue Water dub.

[eledoremassis02]

Thats pretty awesome! lol *I updated the first post*

I'm using Anime Daisuki for the uncut shots as my Dragon Boxes are in storage.

Here is episodes 1-2 of the orginal FUNimation dub *ocean dub* (Japanese Episodes 1-3)

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[dbboxkaifan]

On Ocean Group's Tree of Might edited film Gohan whenever naked would get a tree appearing in front of his tiny penis which made it obvious the low quality censorship unnecessarily being used.

Now even TOEI censors Dragon Ball (DBK) too so that should be enough but nope, Nicktoons and Toonzai find the need to extra censor it for their audiences.

[TheBlackPaladin]

I'm actually pretty impressed by the still shot of Bulma sleeping being replaced with the Dragon Balls. It looks pretty seamless. Having not seen the Ocean dub of that scene, I can't confirm if it looked good in motion, but just this still frame here looks pretty well-done. As does the shot of Bulma being removed when Yamcha looked through the window.

By the way, that shot of the Japanese writing being changed to English on Roshi's card...is the writing faithfully translated?

[Tanooki Kuribo]

I love comparing TV edited versions to the uncut material. I did it with every episode of DBZK when it aired on Nicktoons.

I made two threads a while ago about the original 1996\97 dub of DBZ. I talked about the dub itself, but I did put up some comparison shots of the censorship...

Episodes 1 - 4: http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... 3056&hilit

Episodes 5 - 7: http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... 6791&hilit

[jpdbzrulz4sure]

By the way, that shot of the Japanese writing being changed to English on Roshi's card...is the writing faithfully translated?

No, not even close.

Across the top, it says "Muten Rōshi", and in the blue box, it says his birthday is "all the time", I guess... (If someone could chime in with a more proper translation of "itsu mo itsu mo tanjōbi", please do so. )

[eledoremassis02]

I love comparing TV edited versions to the uncut material. I did it with every episode of DBZK when it aired on Nicktoons.

I made two threads a while ago about the original 1996\97 dub of DBZ. I talked about the dub itself, but I did put up some comparison shots of the censorship...

Episodes 1 - 4: http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... 3056&hilit

Episodes 5 - 7: http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... 6791&hilit

Awesome! I'll skip those episdoes since you got them all already

[RocktheDragon]

I vividly remember the censorship of DB back when it was airing on Cartoon Network. I remember thinking, even at the time, how obvious the manipulated scenes actually were. It wasn't until I read the manga a couple of years later that I finally figured out what they were actually changing and what not.

[Super Sonic]

Some of the stuff with Z I think had to do with Saban being involved. Remember the big complaints about violence in Power Rangers was still fresh in their memory at the time.

On another note, a thing I remember of DB's 95 version had them cut Yamcha konking Chi-Chi cutting to seeing Puar shocked, and hearing a slap and Chi-Chi shriek to showing her knocked out. This was cut after they showed her decapitate and blow up a t-rex.

[imatu]

Speaking of the Blue Water dub...

They kept Bulma's panties the same.

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They cut out most of the bath scene, but kept the shot of Bulma bathing unedited.

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They cut out the shot in the boat that you chose, but they didn't cut out the entire scene; they edited some underwear onto Goku, but kept the panties in.

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The shot of Yamcha looking into the window was unedited, but Bulma's reaction was cut.

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The shot of Bulma sleeping was also cut, but when Oolong is looking down the staircase, the shot is unedited. They also cut out the "AAAAAH!" shot.

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Roshi's license was edited, but only to include "Martial Arts Master" and "Name: Roshi".

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They also kept Oolong's panties unedited, but they referred to them as just "underwear".

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They also kept in this shot of Oolong's genitals, which I think the 1995 dub did as well.

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