Dragon Ball was intended for Japanese children to watch and thus for kids, but in the West if it requires to rate it as PG-13 or higher then so be it. It's a rating so it won't affect the content of the discs whereas censoring it would.Gyt Kaliba wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:44 pmStuff like that has always irked me, especially when we're talking about products made from a particular period in time. It always makes me think back to this DVD of old Mickey Mouse shorts that my fiance has. It has a short (or maybe a few of them, I forget) that would be considered rather racist by today's standards. But they don't censor them. They present them as is, with an introduction by Leonard Maltin, a renowned film critic, explaining why the shorts are the way they are, why they are not okay today and why they weren't really okay then either, but also explaining that to censor them or to hide them away would only serve to hide that they happened, when instead they should be used as a lesson to show WHY they were wrong. I think similar introductions should be placed in front of similarly dated and 'wrong' films from those earlier time periods, and they should be used as exactly that, examples of a less open-minded and unfortunate period in history, like Song from the South (which Disney insists on half pretending doesn't exist, even while still using one of it's most well-known songs on it's music releases...).
...But that's all in regards to stuff like Tom and Jerry or Mickey Mouse, and such. There's not really anything like that in Dragon Ball to speak of (outside of unfortunate cases regarding General Blue and Advisor Black's Japanese name pun), to really require such an intro. In the cases of blood and 'flipping the bird', they should just give the show an appropriate rating, and parents should then be expected to actually do their jobs and decide if they think the material present is appropriate for their kids. And really, in the case of the middle finger at least, I can practically guarantee that any kid that's ridden a public school bus has seen that gesture before, and probably heard worse cursing than anything you'll find in any version of Dragon Ball.
Aside from various characters flipping the bird, there's also those times when Goku & Raditz had bloody holes in their bodies, Cell adsorbed humans, Super Boo turned Chichi to an egg and then crushed it, some bastard killed Mr. Satan & Majin Boo's dog, Freeza impaled Kuririn (the Kai scene is nowhere near as bloody or violent as Z was)... and probably some other moments I'm forgetting but does all of this prove that it deserves a PG-13 or higher rating in the West? As long as it remains uncut, yeah. I watched Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and the Movies and I wasn't traumatized by any of it. Just lots of fear mongering these days which ends up with games, movies and anime series being censored.
For example, DMC5 in the West was censored, in Japan it's uncut. Why, why, why! It's an M-rated/PEGI 18 game for crying out loud.
The Dragon Boxes, The Blu Rays, The Rock The Dragon Set, The Japanese Dragon Boxes, The 2 level sets, Dragon Ball Z Kai all Parts 
. Note: I left off the horrible orange bricks. Blu Rays are my only way to satisfy the nostalgia even though i prefer the Kikuchki score. I am crossing my fingers for that 4:3 release that has both the Faulconer score and Original Japanese Broadcast Audio. That would be amazing. If they could color correct the scenes that would also be nice 
and the Jap Dbox 
