There's much more, I don't feel like listing it out so here's a quote:matt0044 wrote:I don't see much censorship. I mean, there's blood, impalement and the like. Plus, death is mentioned plenty of times and there's swearing here in there. Dragon Ball even has fanservice at a T rating. Granted, (the H-word)'s still there but I can look past it. At least, the SJ versions I grew up with since Middle School.Nex Carnifex wrote:I'd say the manga if I could only find a good way to actually read it, I gave up on Viz after reading how much censorship they did and how much the dialogue was changed to make it more lame and child friendly. The H-word? Seriously?
"Gohan was circumcized in DBZ Vol. 2 after changing back from the Great Ape form. The Ginyu Special Corps are playing "Roshambo" when they're actually playing Janken (Viz didn't even probably know what Roshambo was). The term Jinzoningen means "Man-made" or "Artificial Human." They went for the Android route and only explained #17 and #18 as being Cyborgs in the Shonen Jump pages. The characters are now shaking a fist at Cell on a chapter cover page, rather than flipping him the bird. Dialogue has been changed for the worse (Gohan's "What of it?" in regards to Cell demonstrating his full power and asking what he thinks of it was changed to a large font "Whoopee." to fill the word bubble). #17 holding a gun to a man's head was edited so that he no longer held a gun (ala YGO pointing style). Mr. Satan became Hercule. Majin Buu became Boo the Djinn or Djinn Boo. Satan City (which is called Hercule City in the cut dub of the anime) is named Herculopolis."
And going through the uncensored pages online I see a ton of stuff that was definitely censored yet adds so much, like Buu doing his little middle finger dance. In Dragon Ball when Piccolo Daimo is slowely crushing Tenshinhan's head its much less apparent in the viz version as it is uncensored, they changed it around so Goku is answering Piccolo's question instead of reacting to Tenshinhan's torture. Also the translation is downright stupid. Of course they get the basic story across but the change up the dialogue so much like they think somehow the original script wasn't good enough that they could do better or maybe they think little kids wanted something dumbed down, whatever it is it isn't very accurate, the overuse of the word 'phooey' in place of something more appropriate like 'damn' is also annoying in Dragon Ball. Piccolo is a good example, he talks in Shakespearean rhymes for some reason, its stupid and changes his character. Just look at Goku's first line in the manga... Another example is some stupid reference about the Kamehameha being a Hawaiian king or another one is when Bulma shoots Goku he says something different than "my body is stronger than stainless steel". Those are some I remember but its pretty much the entire manga. Then black face is gone, nudity gone, minimal cursing, middle fingers gone, implications missing, everything is dumbed down including language, etc. They took it and tried to make it less edgy, they succeed. I don't understand why they have a T+ rating if they just take a T+ manga and make it all ages, do kids care these days? I know I never did. Viz is lame, that is all.
