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minakichan





PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:16 pm Reply with quote
*watches everyone screaming at Viz*

Um, regarding I"s...If I recall correctly, those "breast stars" were actually in the original manga. It WAS a porno picture...

so Viz didn't really censor anything in it, I don't think...

*slinks away nervously*
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Izlude



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:20 pm Reply with quote
minakichan wrote:
*watches everyone screaming at Viz*

Um, regarding I"s...If I recall correctly, those "breast stars" were actually in the original manga. It WAS a porno picture...

so Viz didn't really censor anything in it, I don't think...

*slinks away nervously*


You sure about that? O_O

I'll have to look into this as well, I am the manga ninja afterall.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:32 pm Reply with quote
If it's volume 1, on page 65 there's a part where Ichitaka sees a fake topless Iori and her nipples are there. They're barely EVEN there, because Katsura draws them so lightly, and stars would just draw MORE attention to them. You barely even notice the nipples. They aren't dark or anything. x_x; If this is what they edited, then that's just really stupid. The entire first volume has lots of panty shots and dirty images although the girls are always at least in underwear (aside from that shot of Iori in Ichitaka's mind)... They should've just shrinkwrapped it.

At least it might help me sell my Japanese volume 1 when I do sell it, since I can talk about how it's the "uncensored original"~ Anime hyper


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Godaistudios



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:42 pm Reply with quote
minakichan wrote:
*watches everyone screaming at Viz*

Um, regarding I"s...If I recall correctly, those "breast stars" were actually in the original manga. It WAS a porno picture...

so Viz didn't really censor anything in it, I don't think...

*slinks away nervously*


they played off a context joke that happens in volume 3(IIRC) where there are stars that occour - but not like this, not here.
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animalia555



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:31 pm Reply with quote
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and the FCC recently announced its intentions to make stricter guidelines and expand their powers to cable and satellite systems? Have we all conveniently forgotten what happened in Georgia?
s_j do you have alink to the news article about the FCC? and I hate to sound stupid but what do you mean by "happened in Georgia?"[/quote]
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:40 pm Reply with quote
I believe it was in Georgia where a new law on books being sold was put into effect that if they werent suitable for children, they had to be sold behind a curtain or something >_>
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:26 pm Reply with quote
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s_j do you have alink to the news article about the FCC? and I hate to sound stupid but what do you mean by "happened in Georgia?"


Extrapolated from Kevin Martin's own mission statement when he was named chairman of FCC. You should be able to find it easily on any major news site.

To paraphrase, he has stated that he feels current indecency rules are too lax, and intends to broaden rules and enforce them with the threat of harsher punishments, such as revocation of broadcast licenses. He has also threatened the cable and satellite TV industry with regulation, even though this clearly would not pass legal muster.

As for the Georgia case, a retailer was arrested for passing out a comic to a minor that contained nudity, under a law that bans unsolicited distribution of material that contains nudity, which, by their definition, may be a simple cleft of the buttocks. CBLDF.org.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:49 pm Reply with quote
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What gets me is... why a star? If you're going to censor breasts, why not go as far as to draw a bra over it? If you just see stars on someone's chest, you KNOW they're nipples. 13 year old boys KNOW what nipples look like. It's not making it any less scandalous by putting stars. I'm not sure parents would be any happier to find their sons looking at women with stars on their tits, as opposed to a nipple.


Just for laughs I re-edited the image.
Now which one looks more inappropriate to you


even these look slightly better and I whipped them up in under 4 minutes.

Just thank your luck stars (slight pun intended) that it didn't end up like this
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:20 pm Reply with quote
ZELL wrote:
SakechanBD wrote:
What gets me is... why a star? If you're going to censor breasts, why not go as far as to draw a bra over it? If you just see stars on someone's chest, you KNOW they're nipples. 13 year old boys KNOW what nipples look like. It's not making it any less scandalous by putting stars. I'm not sure parents would be any happier to find their sons looking at women with stars on their tits, as opposed to a nipple.


Just for laughs I re-edited the image.
Now which one looks more inappropriate to you


even these look slightly better and I whipped them up in under 4 minutes.

Just thank your luck stars (slight pun intended) that it didn't end up like this


The one on the left.
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keichi san



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:32 pm Reply with quote
i guess the people are viz are blind. its obviously worse with the stars
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Izlude



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:36 pm Reply with quote
Couldnt you at LEAST give her nipples?

Let me show you how to do it like a PRO!


See? THATS how its done! Hah! Viz should hire me for their editing department...actually, Tokyopop is gonna hire me to go back and edit Love Hina, and give all the girls nipples, because Ken Akamatsu omits them.
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keichi san



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:38 pm Reply with quote
looks like somebody is having fun
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:41 pm Reply with quote
Maybe I drew them too small though? I do lil cherries...the guys like STRAWBERRIES!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:45 pm Reply with quote
ooookkk alighty
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minakichan





PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:10 pm Reply with quote
Hmmm, maybe it wasn't volume 1 I was thinking of then...

But there really isn't anything to censor huh. Stupid Viz. It COULD make sense for stars there, as it was a porno pic though rather than "Iori is a stripper"...eh whatever.
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