Anime has laws in America

There are laws against some of the content of anime in America.

4Kids Entertainment is probably most famous for editing anime. This as most of you know ruins the plots.

American Anime Re-distributors normally censor these Examples.

-Political correctness
-Recreational drugs, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products
-Violence, death, and weapons
-Swearing and profanity
-Nudity and sexuality (this includes Homosexuality)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4Kids_Entertainment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing_of_anime_in_American_distribution

Do you think this helps or hurts people watching anime?
Also do you think this helps the plots in certain cases?

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I personally think that It's not a good thing to censor certain elements of the plots. Certain things need to be censored, but if it causes harm to the plot then you have to create an entirely new plot which is very confusing.


What do you think? (I only used Wikipedia because it had example pictures)

 

It doesn't do the plot any good. Censoring Yu-Gi-Oh! changed the entire plot of Battle City.

 

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Good anime like YuYu Hakusho that aired edited didn't even have edited DVD's. All the DVD's were released uncut. The same with Dragon Ball and DBGT, only GT's English dub still had the English background music, unlike Dragon Ball.

 

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It dosn't help at all. The plot gets ruined, and 4kids already does enough of that.

 

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It hurts not us but the anime itself, if people read the manga and is excited to see the anime but hated it
example my 10 year old sister read the manga of Tokyo Mew Mew and i rented the the series for her and by the time it ended she said she hated the whole thing

 

Cardcaptor Sakura was the worst. Not only did they change the title, like most bad dubs, but the changed the entire demographic. The skipped the first 7 episodes in some area just so that they could introduce the main male character in the first episode. Just because a series is aimed at girls doesn't mean boys can't like it without it being changed! Damn you, Nelvana!... Okay, I'm done.

 

wat are the laws?
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*facepalms* Click the links

 

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man thats stupid
they should put the normal show
they r messing it up for us
why do that?
that sucks

 

They think some stuff isn't "suitable" for American audiences.

 

I say it hurts all around. Taking that stuff out of a plot pretty much ruins any good anime! Grrr, I hate America sometimes.

 

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well, that makes sense

so animes get censored, and most of the content gets messed up.

no wonder, in some animes the plot goes messy.

 

they show it in Japan though

 

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