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Yeah America has some very harsh rating compared to most countries. As far as languages concern there wasn't southpark amounts, but they did use the magic four letter word.

But the violence is defintely up there with R ratings if you ask me.

I live in Canada and I'm watching it on TV. I can definitely say, it is for at least for a 14 year old. It seems to spill close to as much blood as the Rurouni Kenshin OVA's (that sound right to people who have watched the DVD's?).

I had to go with 18+ for this series, I have volume one and it's very violent, love four letter words, and there has been a lot of sexual comments to down right scenes of force sexual acts.

Deltakiral wrote:

Yeah America has some very harsh rating compared to most countries. As far as languages concern there wasn't southpark amounts, but they did use the magic four letter word. But the violence is defintely up there with R ratings if you ask me.

halochief_90 wrote:

I live in Canada and I'm watching it on TV. I can definitely say, it is for at least for a 14 year old. It seems to spill close to as much blood as the Rurouni Kenshin OVA's (that sound right to people who have watched the DVD's?).

Okay, as someone with no life, I know the rating system well (at least within my own province). Now, this is just my humble but Basilisk (IMO) is less violent/gory than Trinity Blood which was 14A here in Canada's most conservitive province (as a liberal, living here is a bit of a neucince. Back onto topic...), of course, that's not to say that Basilisk doesn't deserve a 14A as well, I just think an R (or an 18A for that matter) is a bit high. Then again, while it wasn't rated in my own province, in Ontaio Samurai X was rated R for brutal violence. So by that standerd Basilisk would probably be an 18A.

Edit: I've been meaning to comment on this before but constantly forgot:

Deltakiral wrote:

I had to go with 18+ for this series, I have volume one and it's very violent, love four letter words, and there has been a lot of sexual comments to down right scenes of force sexual acts.

Here, far as I know, sexual inuendo, no matter how strong, will never be enough to merrit any more than a 14+. To merrit an 18+ there needs to have (at the very least) soft-core porn/frontal nudity. Also the only network that seems to have any trouble with dropping the f-bomb on a 14+ show* is Youth Television (YTV) and even they get away with more language than [adult swim] (they can drop the "s-bomb" at will and aired the entire GitS: SAC series with only two edits). As for violence, our standerds ar doubled and across the board so I'm not sure quite what that would earn it but I don't think I've ever seen a show rated 18+ just for violence.

*Note, as far as I know, they can only drop it twice but I only say that because that's the most I've ever heard on a 14+ show.

*Note, as far as I know, they can only drop it twice but I only say that because that's the most I've ever heard on a 14+ show.

Actually, while Trinity Blood, (so far from what I've seen) seems to spill as much blood as Basilisk. It's tone is far less dark, it swears less, and violence is not as frequent.

Have you ever seen The Devil's Advocate (Keeanu Reeves)? Some could argue that movie is so bad it deserves an X rating (lots of nudity, blood, and well, very unholy). Yet it came here under 14+ (I don't know what it got in America, though)! Sometimes I think this country's ratings system is incredibly flawed.

The US got an R rating for this movie, I am not sure if there was an uncut version of the movie for DVD. Wow Canada certainly has some very easy ratings.....make me worry about the folks up north.

Anyways, here's a list of crime rates in major Canadian and American cities:

Crime Rates - Toronto vs. Selected North American Cities
(per 100,000 population)
Cities Homicides Robberies
Baltimore, MD 41.9 673.2
Washington, DC 40.4 660.5
Detroit, MI 39.4 627.0
Atlanta, GA 34.2 858.5
Philadelphia, PA 23.3 642.9
Miami, FL 19.4 767.2
Dallas, TX 18.4 647.0
Chicago, IL 15.6 554.6
Minneapolis, MN 12.1 579.0
San Francisco, CA 8.9 397.0
Boston, MA 6.6 467.8
Vancouver, BC 3.0 150.0
Montreal, QC 2.0 150.0
Toronto, ON 2.0 105.0

And here's a graph:


Please note that the three Canadian cities (one of which is the crime capital of Canada) have the lowest crime rates per 100 000 people. In short, no need to worry about us . Thanks for the thought though.

Beside it's damn cold in Canada can't rob someone if your freezing your A$$ off.
Till next time,

Delta Kiral

Have you ever seen The Devil's Advocate (Keeanu Reeves)? Some could argue that movie is so bad it deserves an X rating (lots of nudity, blood, and well, very unholy). Yet it came here under 14+ (I don't know what it got in America, though)! Sometimes I think this country's ratings system is incredibly flawed.

Nope, havn't seen it. Checking MPAA website...checking...checking...found! Rated R for sexuality, nudity, violence and language. And in Canada....:Rating: 18A, Advisory: Violence; suggestive scenes.

The US got an R rating for this movie, I am not sure if there was an uncut version of the movie for DVD. Wow Canada certainly has some very easy ratings.....make me worry about the folks up north.

I think th 14+ was on TV while the 18A was the DVD rating.

halochief_90 wrote:

Yes, I saw it on TV, but I can hardly imagine they cut anything from it. Unrated DVD or not. That is really weird though, because I'm pretty sure even Case Closed is 14+ on YTV. LOL!

I don't think that Case Closed is 14+ on YTV because I live in Canada and although I've never watched Case Closed on YTV I don't think it's 14+ on YTV because I did watch their showing of Princess Mononoke and they showed the entire movie uncut and only rated it PG.