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Tenjho Tenge manga to remain edited

Tenjho Tenge Manga Remains Edited (04:10 PM EDT): Despite numerous protests, letters, emails and columns across the internet and newspapers calling DC Comics out on their editing of the Tenjho Tenge series, it appears it's made zero impact with them. According to the latest solicitation from DC Comics, they're continuing to market it to a 13/teen audience as well as including this lovely little tidbit: "Retailers please note: This title has been edited for U.S. release."

With the previous tactics having not worked, all that can be done at this point is to continue to actively tell people to not buy it and to stand by those words for everyone else. Other than mentioning any news related to the release, this series will not be reviewed here.

Anybody know where to find scanlations for the series past volume 10?




Yeah, I don't normally advocate fansubs & scanlations over the official domestic release, but Toei and now DC Comics have made my Shit List. Not even 4Kids managed to sink that low.

Come on now, you know it's against the rules.

It's setting a bad example for everyone else.

darkhunter wrote:

Come on now, you know it's against the rules.

Of course, and were this a proper release I'd have DC's back like I often do with ADV, FUNimation, 4Kids, Bandai, Geneon, etc.

darkhunter wrote:

It's setting a bad example for everyone else.

Protesting an unacceptable release by encouraging people to hit DC where they'll feel it most (their pockets) doesn't seem like a "bad" example necessarily. This isn't 1998, this shouldn't be happening, and we shouldn't have to put up with it.

Why? What happened in 1998?

kusanagi-sama wrote:

Why? What happened in 1998?

The "dark age" of American-published manga.

darkhunter wrote:

Come on now, you know it's against the rules.

Of course, and were this a proper release I'd have DC's back like I often do with ADV, FUNimation, 4Kids, Bandai, Geneon, etc. But this isn't like ADV offering an uncut property at 2 episodes per disc at below regular MSRP, and this isn't like 4Kids taking a children's show and cleaning it up to match the same demographic. This is blatant censorship that the existing fanbase was never made aware of until the day of release. This is the sort of shit we had to put up with nearly a decade ago, and the domestic industry SHOULD have long grown out of it. We don't need to put up with one company doing things ass-backwards anymore.

darkhunter wrote:

It's setting a bad example for everyone else.

Protesting an unacceptable release by encouraging people to hit DC where they'll feel it most (their pockets) doesn't seem like a "bad" example necessarily. This isn't 1998, this shouldn't be happening, and we shouldn't have to put up with it.

Because of this, they still have that mindset that even if it is a manga, it should only be marketed to kids, like the mindset that animation is for kids.

There is a time and place for everything, and due to the type of society we live in, this is sometimes necessary.

Don't get it wrong here, I don't support them for what they are doing to Tenjho Tenge. If fact I don't believe in censorship because it is others telling us how to think and not think for ourselves (and oddly enough, I'm a fundamental independant Baptist).

Even if I was interested in the Tenjho Tenge manga, I would never purchase it if it is as heavily edited as you guys say. I would learn how to read Japanese and purchase the original manga if I was really that fanatical over the series.

The only manga I care about being licensed and unedited is the rest of Shadow Star: Narutaru. I am doubtful that this manga series will be unedited even if some company does decide to license it, which even that is highly unlikely. I don't even know for sure if it is even legal to purchase this series while I'm living in the U.S.

Series not recommended due to art edits:

The English version of this series doesn't have page numbers or chapter numbers for whatever reason

-Volume 2, main character is redrawn with a towel over her naked body

-Volume 6, during a sex scene a character has panties drawn where there wasn't any before

A few other scenes of graphic violence and rape have been edited as well. I'm told they were edited by the manga-ka himself at the request of Dark Horse. Some of the edits look too proffessional and larger-scale to simply have been done by Dark Horse.

and from a poster on AnimeOnDVD:

Quote:

Series not recommended due to art edits: The English version of this series doesn't have page numbers or chapter numbers for whatever reason -Volume 2, main character is redrawn with a towel over her naked body -Volume 6, during a sex scene a character has panties drawn where there wasn't any before A few other scenes of graphic violence and rape have been edited as well. I'm told they were edited by the manga-ka himself at the request of Dark Horse. Some of the edits look too proffessional and larger-scale to simply have been done by Dark Horse.

You can always (quite legally I may add) import the original Japanese manga instead...