Is censorship still needed to keep Dragon Ball Relevant to younger people?

[VegettoEX]

Gerard Jones was responsible for the "rewriting" ("punching-up", "smoothing", etc.) of the dialog in Viz's Dragon Ball manga releases upon their original release. He was not the translator. He was not a visual editor. He was not a project manager. I talked a bit about that process with Jason Thompson on Episode #0403 of our podcast (which, for what it's worth, was recorded before Jones was arrested and this all came out).

The reason his credit is still present in later re-releases and adaptations like the chapter books is because of his rewriting from that time that these later items either still directly have or are based on.

[MasenkoHA]

Gerard Jones was responsible for the "rewriting" ("punching-up", "smoothing", etc.) of the dialog in Viz's Dragon Ball manga releases upon their original release. He was not the translator. He was not a visual editor. He was not a project manager. I talked a bit about that process with Jason Thompson on Episode #0403 of our podcast (which, for what it's worth, was recorded before Jones was arrested and this all came out).

The reason his credit is still present in later re-releases and adaptations like the chapter books is because of his rewriting from that time that these later items either still directly have or are based on.

Oh goody, in addition to him being a pedo he’s the reason we got lines like “Hey bro wuzzup?!” and swee trot candy and Piccolo talking like he thinks he’s performing Shakespeare at the park.

[PurestEvil]

Oh goody, in addition to him being a pedo he’s the reason we got lines like “Hey bro wuzzup?!” and swee trot candy and Piccolo talking like he thinks he’s performing Shakespeare at the park.

Indeed, is it not evident that Jones hast a questionable character, long before his child-wench pictures wert revealed?

[Shaddy]

I mean. Yes? There's a pretty fucking big difference between those two things.

[jjgp1112]

We need a sarcasm punctuation mark.

[MasenkoHA]

We need a sarcasm punctuation mark.

Tbf, sometimes it should be obvious.

[jjgp1112]

We need a sarcasm punctuation mark.

Tbf, sometimes it should be obvious.

Oh I very much agree. Honestly I'm better at picking up sarcasm in text then in real life which leaves me astonished when so many people on this board fail to notice it - and are native speakers at that! Are context clues not enough?!

[JulieYBM]

Ableism sucks, please understand that not everyone can pick up on these things, whether via text or verbally.

[PurestEvil]

Ableism sucks, please understand that not everyone can pick up on these things, whether via text or verbally.

It's not even just about ableism, even typical people can't hear voice inflections in text, thus are not likely to easily detect sarcasm.

We need a sarcasm punctuation mark.

great news, there is such a thing
bad news, it never caught on